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Are Vamps and Werewolves too overdone?
fivestyle:
Just this morning I was thinking about how almost all the real famous monsters have their beginig mythos tale. For instance Vampires have Dracula and zombies/undead have Frankenstein. But Werewolves don't really have one.
So on the way to work I was contemplating how one could create a begining to the Vampire legend.
So far the best I've come up with is sort of build off of Jim's examples of werewolves in Fool Moon and more so on Norse mythology. Where the story takes place about a Viking (said to be son of odin)having a run in with Fenresiflr(sp?) and killing him. Loki distraught over his sons death curses the viking to walk the earth bearing the mark of the wolf which causes the soul of Fenresiflr to posses the vikings body at each full moon.
Cyclone Jack:
--- Quote from: fivestyle on September 25, 2007, 04:40:07 PM ---Just this morning I was thinking about how almost all the real famous monsters have their beginig mythos tale. For instance Vampires have Dracula and zombies/undead have Frankenstein. But Werewolves don't really have one.
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Actually, vampires and the undead predate those Victorian novels by hundreds of years. Thousands in the case of African folklore.
Werewolves have just as long a historical/folklore tradition. The beserkers of Viking lore, the Romanian varcolak, similar beasts in almost every European tradition. Lycanthropy is a Greek word, and comes from the legend of Lycaon -- a man cursed with becoming a wolf after indulging in cannabalism.
Ms Duck:
Speaking of greek, although modern vampires and eastern vampires have been done to death, how about the tradional vampires, the Lamia and the Vrykolas?
Lamia: Female vampire/ demon, ancient meditaranain.. lots of stories, many of them conflicting. A vampire that turned to a shadow by day? Or sucked blood thru the soles of men's feet as the walked over her grave?
Vrykolas: A 'temporary' vampire, could be called from the grave, was someone who died leaving a major promise unkept. Could be called forth by the promised one, and forced to fullfill the oath..
The oldest stories ussually involve a young man promising to care for a younger sister, only to be killed and the girl kidnapped. the elderly granmother forces the man to rise from the grave to find his sister...
Cyclone Jack:
--- Quote from: mslinsenmayer on September 25, 2007, 06:46:03 PM ---Speaking of greek, although modern vampires and eastern vampires have been done to death, how about the tradional vampires, the Lamia and the Vrykolas?
Lamia: Female vampire/ demon, ancient meditaranain.. lots of stories, many of them conflicting. A vampire that turned to a shadow by day? Or sucked blood thru the soles of men's feet as the walked over her grave?
Vrykolas: A 'temporary' vampire, could be called from the grave, was someone who died leaving a major promise unkept. Could be called forth by the promised one, and forced to fullfill the oath..
The oldest stories ussually involve a young man promising to care for a younger sister, only to be killed and the girl kidnapped. the elderly granmother forces the man to rise from the grave to find his sister...
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Good stuff, ms! Far more interesting than the beat-to-death 'I am the sensual doomed Euro-boy. Fear my angsty hunger!' :P
Ms Duck:
A couple of yers agao I came up with a 'is it a vampire test' for Ad&d.. went kinda like this..
Does:
He/She speak french?
Wear Black?
Have hair impossibly long?
Obviously Bisexual?
Sigh with angst on uneccacary occasions?
Cant tell if he/she is a he/she or it? Double points for answer c: all of the above.
In a modern setting, have ridulous ammounts of firearms, or know someone who does?
Are they related to a well known historical figure?
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