Ohh, I get it!

I'd say it depends on how you hold the snake :p

Don't forget about giant lumberjacks a blue oxen.

Both still sound really cool :P

Well, at least it's better than what we have in the South: a one-legged, dark-skinned imp who smokes a pipe, runs around in whirlwinds and plays pranks on farmers.

Or a headless equine that shoots fire from its windpipe.

It’s true! 🤣

i love him!

That folktale sounds rather TALL to me! ;3

trust me, venezuelan folk tales are waaaaaay weirder

EL CARRETON the black wagon, basically, a phantom guy on a wagon picking up plague corpses, and in his afterlife, hunting people that are on the streets after midnight.

EL SILBON, a guy who were killed cus he had a romance with another guy's wife, and has a dog that always bites him on the calf, forever (the story changes form region to region, but the main thing is, when you hear his whistling close, he is far away, but when you barely hear it, he is behind you, and you are basically dead)

LA BOLA DE FUEGO, the fireball. nuf said

DOCTOR CANOCHE, a german scientist that made experiments in venezuela, he wanted to find a way to preserve corpses and beat decomposing of flesh, apparently, his main goal was to preserve the corpse of his wife. but people started the rumor tat he was actually experimenting with zombie drugs and other stuff, a very creepy story, cus, apparently, the guy dug corpses from cemeteries and stole them from morgues. nothing confirmed, but no reason to doubt it either.

so...yeah. a guy riding a tornado, or a giant dude and his blue bull companion, yeah, i'll take those anyday

Interesting lore there... though if you look deep in any country/culture, I am sure you will find some "weird" stories regardless.

well.
so fa, as long as i have researched, nothing beats japanese folklore. wow, only the yokais are such an amazing acid trip of monsters. i mean...there is a yokai that is literally an umbrella with an eye. epic.

cause merica
also it might become a lasso if you were more rootin and tootin

Well, can't go wrong with planting apple seeds all over the countryside and maybe in the great beyond too !

Heyyyy I wrote kids books here mate
Mine ain’t like that one bit

You did? Or your characters did?

i am working on a anthology

I know. I was talking about folktales, as in stories that were passed down orally before they were written into books.

well to be fair i grew up down south so god the amount of stories i heard through my gramps is astounding on how weird they were.

he was half hispanic half italian so right down the middle of insanity the folk tales he would tell me that...well i guess i adapt now XD

And in the end, it's always Greek mythology that gets all the attention.

Whats next: the idea of a man traveling alongside early trails of the country to plant seeds to help provide free food and shelter to general public?

Eh, I still prefer the Wendigo...

In Europe, you can show sex but not violence.
In the US, you can show violence but not sex.
Ain't it funny?

As funny as putting screen doors on a submarine ^^

I'm glad I don't know the story, then!