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xXRadicalDreamerXx
Registered User
(12/23/05 11:45 am)
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A sinister creature
I've been doing some reading and well i was thinking what are some really evil creatures in myth, fairy tales, and etc. Please post if you know of any creature that seems to bring harm or anything with a negative feeling.
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princessterribel
Registered User
(12/24/05 1:35 pm)
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Re: A sinister creature
Hmmm...good question...erm, wolf in Little red riding hood and the three little pigs.
Beowulf, Thesius and the minatour, Jason and argonauts, medusa, cyclops, sirens.thats all for now.
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avalondeb
Registered User
(12/27/05 10:49 am)
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Re: A sinister creature
Mythology
Grendel
Grendel's Mother
The Golem
Medusa
The Kraken
The Chimera
Talos
The Sirens
The Harpies
Scylla & Charybdis
A huge assortment of Titans
Fenri
Jörmungandr
Loki
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avalondeb
Registered User
(12/27/05 10:53 am)
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Re: A sinister creature
Fairy Tales
The Stepmother (Snow White, Cinderella, The Seven Ravens)
The Sea Witch (The Little Mermaid)
The Wolf (The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood)
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evil little pixie
Registered User
(12/27/05 5:07 pm)
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Sea witch
The sea witch in "The Little Mermaid" doesn't really strike me as evil. She drives a hard bargain, but she sticks to it, and she's upfront with the people she bargains with about what to expect. She doesn't trick them or force them to accept her bargain, and she doesn't interfere or change the terms afterward.
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gigi
Unregistered User
(12/27/05 10:29 pm)
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medusa
medusa isn't inherently evil. She just is bitter. becasue of course she was the one who got punished. if she was really evil why didn't she just stay in greece instead of going to love on an island?
gigi
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Rosemary Lake
Registered User
(12/27/05 11:46 pm)
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Whupppity Stoorie
Some good things could be said about the fairy Whuppity Stoorie, but I don't think anything about promises or laws makes up for the cruelty of wanting to take a baby away from its mother.
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/.../ttt04.htm
Going to the sty one day, she saw, to her distress, the sow ready 'to gi'e up the ghost,' and as she sat down with her bairn and 'grat sairer than ever she did for the loss o' her am goodman,' there came an old woman dressed in green, who asked what she would give her for curing the sow. Then they 'watted thooms' on the bargain, by which the woman promised to give the green fairy anything she liked, and the sow was thereupon made well. To the mother's dismay the fairy then said that she would have the bairn. 'But, said she, 'this I'll let ye to wut, I canna by the law we leeve on take your bairn till the third day after this day; and no' then, if ye can tell me my right name.' [.... The woman learns the name and uses it ....] 'Whuppity Stoorie.' 'Gin a fluff o' gunpouder had come out o' the grund, it couldna hae gart the fairy loup heicher nor she did; syne doun she came again, dump on her shoe-heels, and, whurlin' round, she ran down the brae, scraichin' for rage, like a houlet chased wi' the witches.'
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janeyolen
Registered User
(1/1/06 5:46 am)
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Re: Whupppity Stoorie
The Golem is certainly not evil. He is created to keep the Jewish people safe from attack. But he has no moral center, just does his job. . .a little too well. And at last has to be destroyedby wiping God's name from his forehead. (Or taking God's name written on a small piece of paper from under his tongue.)
Jane
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Richard Parks
Registered User
(1/2/06 8:20 am)
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Re: Whupppity Stoorie
While we're on the subject, Talos certainly wasn't evil either. He was created to guard the island, and that's all he was doing. An antagonist and obstacle, certainly, but not evil.
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DawnReiser
Registered User
(1/6/06 10:14 am)
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Re: A sinister creature
My personal favorites are the wendigo from North American mythology - created by partaking of human flesh - and the Fear Liath More (Grey Man) of Scotland whose presence overwhelms their victims with thoughts of suicide
Truthfully though, if you check out the Crime Library website you'll find enough evil without hunting for monsters.
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