His whole “Fireside Fairytales” playlist is worth checking out, and I’m not just saying that because he has read a bunch of my translations as of late. 😁
I remember hearing a story from Dungun about how a car that fell off a bridge could not be found until a shaman waded into the crocodile filled waters and appeased the local crocodile spirit.
@ubi@juergen_hubert@raymccarthy@germany@folklore@rorystarr I second that Ubi! Let’s not forget the crocodile shamans in Sarawak who tracked down Bujang Senang (Easygoing Bachelor) the huge saltwater croc famous in the 90s that was terrorising the longhouses.
@raymccarthy @juergen_hubert @germany @folklore
Hope to see more folk stories about these spirits. October being Halloween just makes it prime time to discussion these “things”.
@Ellirahim @raymccarthy @germany @folklore
@rorystarr did a reading about some tales of German water spirits, which you might want to check out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8h7OfWm64
@juergen_hubert @raymccarthy @germany @folklore @rorystarr awesome! I :ablobcatheart:
@Ellirahim @raymccarthy @germany @folklore @rorystarr
His whole “Fireside Fairytales” playlist is worth checking out, and I’m not just saying that because he has read a bunch of my translations as of late. 😁
@juergen_hubert @raymccarthy @germany @folklore @rorystarr Listening to this just strengthens phobia of swimming in lakes, rivers and oceans where I can’t see the bottom. - Strictly land mammal.
@Ellirahim @raymccarthy @germany @folklore @rorystarr
That’s probably the intended effect - scare people (especially children) away from places where they might drown.
@juergen_hubert @raymccarthy @germany @folklore @rorystarr Of course in Malaysia, we don’t need to tell scary stories to keep people away from rivers, lakes and oceans. We have crocodiles that do that effectively. https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/elderly-malaysian-woman-survives-deadly-crocodile-encounter-collecting-prawns-062619781.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFJ3AES5fd805gb98hEMC13IEkbXySO4hS_fX-rF9dDI7v_8U4tlETTMdT2CiG8uycgD7rsex5X0FRPYNM2chSSGiyFFVWXu9tOYaPMd977bZgx7Z9Ugq5O-ew01RSnuWjM6gqczbtN_p-aSwPB7PcLB4p3eg0BePwOy1Mz0tD2Y
@Ellirahim @juergen_hubert @raymccarthy @germany @folklore @rorystarr There are plenty of crocodile spirits and shamans in Malaysia though.
I remember hearing a story from Dungun about how a car that fell off a bridge could not be found until a shaman waded into the crocodile filled waters and appeased the local crocodile spirit.
The Mah Meri also have a moyang buaya.
@ubi @juergen_hubert @raymccarthy @germany @folklore @rorystarr I second that Ubi! Let’s not forget the crocodile shamans in Sarawak who tracked down Bujang Senang (Easygoing Bachelor) the huge saltwater croc famous in the 90s that was terrorising the longhouses.