While I recently dug into some Alemannic folklore, I discovered a different spin on the “fairies/spirits drowning people” tale, the Dolden. Essentially these malevolent spirits/ghosts resemble children caught in trees above stretches of water. At night they will call out for help, pretending to be trapped children, but they only wish for the helpful people to approach the tree they sit in and then fall into the water below where they drown. According to the myth, the Dolden were once mortal children who left to drown in a flood and now punish humans.
Did none of them stop to think that killing the people that try to help trapped children might be contributing to the epidemic of people being unwilling to help trapped children?
No good deed, amirite?
Good point. I will mention it to them next time when I drown under one of their trees.
Thank you, that is helpful
Fuck they gonna do if you just…know how to swim?
Pout
Dolden are so short sighted
Specificaly punish the humans that would have helped them, leaving the bad ones alone.
Idiots.
I have a buddy gearing up to run a Vaesen campaign, the Dolden sound like the exact vibe he’s going for. Ah, this campaign is going to be fucked up :)
Well I guess we got revenge with all dumping heavy metals and chemical filth into the waterways lol
Yeah, about redcaps. You should maybe look up the actual lore, it’s similar to the ladies’.
Did you just assume they’re a bloodthirsty serial killer bathing their hats in blood based on appearance?
That’s faecism! You’re worse than my grandpa!
I thought it was a “Nisse” not a redcap.
Redcaps’ cap is bent, Nisses’ isn’t, no?
Yeah got to get your facts right
Is that how they used to explain toddlers back then?
more likely autism.
its the age when they might start showing symptoms. it was easier for them to accept their child was replaced by a monster and the only way to bring them back is by torture and abandoned in the forest, than accepting that their child is not neurotypical
And regular drowning. Now we make up stuff like the smiley face killer or the missing 411 theory that there is someone going around shoving drunk dudes into the river.
Opposite for bichura/archura from Turkic mythology.
The male mimics human sounds to lure people into woods where they tickle the person to death.
Meanwhile the female just lives in your house, feeds chickens if happy, or breaks your plates if mad. Oh also they come out at night to spin.
(Omg that’s so me :3)Doesn’t do it for me; I grew up camping in the deep woods, told tales of wendigos and skinwalkers. I need the creepy-er!
türkiye’de bayçura. Not to be confused with bayça which is more like the “alb”/“alp” spirit.
And steal their underwear for profit!
Steal the nymph water for profit. Extra fucky.
trap a king in a castle underground that can rise to the surface with a song so you can dance with him and turn everyone else in that castle into sheep and wolves
That is so unfair
