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Hello everyone, I'm Fish! I started translating since I had a lot of time and wanted to share these lovely stories. I hope I can provide you guys with enjoyable reads, and if you want, you can support my reading addiction by donating (but of course, you should prioritise yourself first!).
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He is in this instance~
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Jiang is a worker, in addition to basically being blacklisted by the higher-ups, he is not allowed to be in contact with paper, books and so on.
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谷城 – Gǔ Chéng, not the same as Gu Cheng from the fourth instance, Isolated Island
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The Korean equivalent of a rich second generation. More specifically, it refers to affluent families who own large conglomerates. They are very powerful economically, politically and socially. If you watch any Kdramas with chaebols (tho I’m sure there are some decent humans among them), those Kdrama scenarios do be happening in real life too (all over the world)…… you humans are scary QAQ
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学阀 – a person who controls and monopolises the educational and academic circles by virtue of his influence.
Gakubatsu/Xuéfá (both Japanese kanji and Chinese characters are the same) – the literal translation is ‘school clique’
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A synopsis from a Fish who has not seen the movie but has heard a lot about it:
The movie centres around a guy whose life, from birth to adulthood, is secretly being rigged and filmed for a television show. In the movie, the guy slowly learns that his entire life is a lie, and in the end, he walks off the set.
I think what A Fei is getting at is that despite how primitive everyone in the ‘ant nest’ is living, some characteristics hint at a more advanced civilisation, making the entire ant nest feel like one extensive movie set. Kind of like Marie Antoinette’s Hameau de la Reine, but unlike the ant nest, the people there were aware that the whole thing was fake.
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后羿: Hòu Yì – Houyi, mythological Chinese archer whose wife was Chang’e
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嫦娥: Cháng’é – Chang’e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology)
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大禹: Dà Yǔ – Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods
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神农: Shén Nóng – Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, and creator of agriculture
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(After a quick Google search) Caste: A system in India that divides Hindus into categories from birth, the main four being: Brahmins (priests, teachers), Kshatriyas (rulers, warriors), Vaishyas (landowners, merchants) and Sudras (servants), and the 5th group is the group of the untouchables (bottom class), called Dalits
I can’t remember much, but I still know that I loved the saga The Pied Piper of Hamelin as a little child. Heard it the first time in dunno… 1-3 grade of school. If I know any legends or myths from here…. if yes, I can’t remember anymore. But I know that many of them are bloody lol You know Grimm Brothers and all the other stuff. (My parents didn’t tell me any of these D:)
Thank you for the chapter!!
Haha, Fish also started calling him Sandman~
Also, wtf is up with this ant nest — they have electric lights?? Computers??? What comes next, holograms? It’s so strange…
On the note of myths — my family isn’t religious, and our region doesn’t really have any local myths or such. Close to that would be the founding stories of some cities. For example, many cities thrived through the salt trade, and their stories are always that the hunters saw a white animal in the woods, followed it and found that it had rolled in a pond or mud puddle, and that was how they found the white gold — salt.
And as German, I’ve grown up with Grimm’s fairytales. But not the watered down versions; I have no idea why but I’ve always been familiar with the gruesome ones. The little mermaid that turned into sea foam after she couldn’t kill the prince; the prince that wanted to save Rapunzel but was thrown from the tower and blinded by the rose bushes only to wander through a desert for two years; the evil queen that was made to dance till her death in hot iron shoes after poisoning Snow white; Cinderella’s mean step sisters that cut off parts of their feet to fit in the shoe and got their eyes pecked out by doves at the wedding…
Ah, but those are basically nothing compared to the original story of Sleeping Beauty. Or that Belle from the Beauty and the Beast developed Stockholm syndrome. Eh.
Anyway, many thanks for the chapter~
I read the other people’s comments and remembered a myth of my village.
Ahem, first of all, apparently, there was a druid’s hospital about three thousand years ago where my village is located, and many people would come over to get healed and take a bath in the nearby healing (stinky) springs.
Then for the neighboring village, the story is that some people wanted to settle down, but the locals didn’t want to move, so they said, “see this raven? wherever it lands is where you can build your village” and then the raven landed on a nearby fence post… And that’s where the village’s church and graveyard are now, right smack-dab in the middle of the little dent that makes the center of the village.
Oh, and there’s a story about some guy agreeing to play with some water sprites and then proceeding to almost drown. Spirits and humans just work differently…
I live in Switzerland and there is a legend about the devil’s bridge, mountain villagers have difficulty getting out of their area and want to build a bridge, however it seems impossible so the devil arrives and offers them a deal he will build the bridge in 3 days and will take the life of the first to cross it. as the last Stone is paused the villagers brought a goat and sent it across the bridge. The devil was very angry and threw a stone to destroy the bridge
Closest thing I have that could be considered a legend from my childhood is that a village I knew had a fox as its mascot. There was a fox on the “Welcome to Village” sign and they even had a fox mascot costume that showed up at local events. The story behind the fox was that apparently the Duke of Village got bite by his friend’s fox but the fox turned out to be rabid and so he died a horrible death. What a way to be remembered.
Thank you for the chapter💜💜
Thanks for the chapter!
Where I live we have a lot of legends about Maui the trickster. He does a lot of things like fishing our islands up from the sea, or sneaking in and out of the afterlife and almost getting caught.
Oh, hey cuz XD
Kia ora!
Kei te pēhea koe?
Kei te pai au, e hoa!
Is it Maui in Moana?
Being an American, most of the myths/legends I learned in my childhood were from other countries… except, I guess, the myth of the first Thanksgiving. Boy, was I shocked when I was ten and learned that’s not what actually happened. I did also like the tall tale of Paul Bunyan.
In my country, our pineapple myth was kinda fucked up?
Basically there’s this girl Piña who couldn’t find stuff and always bugged her mom about it, her mom always replied “Use your eyes, Piña.” Again and again for 3(?) Times. The mom went out for hours, and when she came back their house was not lighted, no noise or anything. She called out to Piña and searched everywhere for her, nothing was amiss! And Piña was the only thing missing. Everything was right where it was except for a new addition to the house. A weird plant(?) With spiked leaves on top and surrounded by bumps that looked like… Eyes?
In my culture we have Rona and the moon. The story goes:
One night a girl named Rona woke up thirsty, so she took a gourd and went to the river to collect water. On her way back the moon went behind a cloud. Rona tripped on a tree root in the dark, spilling her water. Angry, she stared cursing at the moon. The moon heard, came out from behind the cloud, and started to pull her to it in punishment. Rona grabbed onto a ngaio tree to resist, but the moon was too strong. In the end the tree, gourd and Rona were all sucked up and were forced to live forever more.
what happened between fish and mangos….
Oh boy! I was waiting for someone to ask. Let me disgust you all, hahahahaha!
So, Fish got super sick. Fish was so sick that Fish could not eat anything; the food tasted bland, and even if Fish wanted to eat, everything would immediately come up. When Fish felt slightly better, Fish thought eating something sweet would help, so Fish ate some mangos. Fish was able to keep it down for a bit, but after a while, when Fish was washing Fish’s fins after using the toilet, the mango suddenly thought it would be an excellent time to come out. The result was mango + mucus-covered fins and a sink full of chunky yellow mess. The bits of mango clogged the sink, so Fish had to stand there, forced to look down at the forbidden soup……
And after that, Fish had to stay in the hospital for a week, hahaha…… TT
Can’t really eat mangos now without thinking of this incident; Fish would feel like vomiting again.
oooh my god that reminds of something… almost the same thing happened to me but with hot dog 😂😂 at that time i ate super fast and didn’t chew the food enough so i got a big piece of hot dog that got stuck in my oesophagus… i still remember that pain 😭
Hmm- I was never told any myths or legends in childhood, but I do remember this one odd game my family’s kids used to play at birthday parties in the park. I never knew where it came from, but I believe there are adaptations of it around.
I believe it was called “Dead Mother”. You needed at least six players, five being the townspeople and one being the Dead Mother. The Dead Mother would lie down in the middle of a circle, while walking around the body, the townspeople would chant: “Dead mother, dead mother, come alive. Come alive, to the town of five. One, two, three, four, five.” And, at the count of five, Dead Mother would rise up. But she cannot see, and the player cannot open their eyes. Their goal is to catch the townspeople. So, the townspeople have to quietly and carefully navigate around without getting touched/caught by the Dead Mother, who would listen for them. I believe the game ends when there’s one townsperson left standing. I.. don’t know who came up with it, or how no one found it at least a little bit off. But! I was pretty good at being the last one standing! Pardon me if it’s irrelevant, but it’s an interesting memory to me nonetheless.
Oh!!!! That sounds like a very interesting game!
I got the non-disturbing version called “Little Blind Hen”. It’s quite similar, a group of kids (not limited to a number) pick someone to be the Little Blind Hen, they cover their eyes with a blindfold or just close them, sing “Little Blind Hen, Little Blind Hen, where are you? Are you sure you’ll find me?” (in the original language it rhymes, but in English it sounds strange hahahahahahah), then everyone playing laughs and scatters, the ‘Little Blind Hen’ spins around three times on theyself and goes off in search of some player to catch. Once they has located someone they will have to try to recognize who it is, just by touch. If they discovers they identity, that person will be the new ‘Little Blind Hen’.
Oh oh! I have many myths from my hometown! The headless horseman, the güijes, the lord of the forest, mother of waters, the lady of the lagoon, the goblin of the lantern, the donkey without a tail ….. There are so many! And they were definitely not suitable to tell to a 5 year old, but I was always the disturbed child hahahahahahahah. I loved those stories.
My great grandmother used to tell me the story that one night, when my great grandfather was returning from work, he stopped with his horse at the river a few miles from his house to rest for a moment, when suddenly a little person with tangled hair appeared in the middle of the river and gave him such a scare that he almost fell head first into the rushing waters (that river is known to be a bit treacherous, with its whirlpools and rushing waters, but we neighborhood kids loved to play and swim in it), his horse got away from him and if not. were it not for a friend of my great-grandfather’s making his rounds nearby, my great-grandfather would have drowned. Until the day he died, my great-grandfather swore and perjured that the little person was a güije.
The story of Johnny Appleseed isn’t a myth, but it is a legend. It’s said that Johnny Appleseed traveled all over the United States to plant apple trees. He’s usually described as walking completely barefoot, wearing threadbare clothing, and being incredibly altruistic. Johnny Appleseed was supposedly good with animals, as he once tamed a wolf. He also decided to sleep in the snow rather than disturb a bear and her cubs.
It’s a classic American legend! I heard about him when I went to an apple farm for a field trip, all the way back in elementary school.
ok so am i missing something …what is this paper that Ren Yifei is glueing to his face? i really dont remember him having this prop (or maybe i forgot😅) and how does it really work? like do others not see the paper or it turns into a mask,what happens? somebody plz help explain
thanks for the chapter❤️
Since there’s a lot of content (which is translated from another language), it’s totally understandable to forget certain things! RYF used paper/papier-mache to shape his face and use it as some sort of a mask to disguise himself by using Phantom Play, which is an illusion skill.
Thank you for the chapter fish!
About your mango history, in my country we have one about guaraná! Well, but I don’t remember it very well, but I’ll look it up! ( being Brazilian, we have a lot of folklore in here, so everything kind of get mixed up ), well, it kind of goes like this: there were a couple of indigenous people (it doesn’t translate so well, sorry), well, they were a couple who wanted a son, so they prayed to their god (the thunder god or something) so they would get a child, the god heard their prayer e soon they had a lovely son. The son grew up and he was really good at finding fruit for his tribe, and being so good brought the envy of a evil spirit of some kind, said spirit transformed into a snake and bit the boy. The thunder god saw it and sent thunder tho alert his parents, but it was too late and he had already died, but the god said to plant his eyes, and then with the tears of the parents, the guaraná plant sprouted, look it up, it really look like eyes.
But even tho my favorite myth is called bumba meu boi, and it’s about a man whose pregnant wife wanted to eat a cow/bull tongue, the man then picked his boss ( its not boss, they were a couple of newly liberated black people, so they were still treated like slaves of some kind, even tho they were registered as normal civilians), anyway, the man picked the farm owner most cherished bull and cut of its tongue to give to his wife, the owner found out and was really sad with the death of his bull, so he called for priests to resurrect it, and it worked! Well, after this the man asked for forgiveness of the owner, he was forgiven and the was a huge feast celebrating the resurrection of the bull as well as the forgiveness of the worker!
It’s the first time I’m writing a comment, but I really hope you like the folklore of my country!
As an Indian it’s so surreal to see something that has such resemblance to the Dalit people’s situation and that of the cast system in a story that has nothing to do with it lol,,,
I’ve been raised as a Hindu by religious parents so growing up there were a lot of myths and legends but I’d rather prefer to talk about a real, historical person since he actually reminds me a lot of the character ‘Jiang’ A-fei’s portraying. Like Jiang, he was also a from a relatively lower standing in society but he loved reading and learning, not to mention he was quite intelligent. Later in life he’d went on to join the freedom movement and is most widely known for advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits. He also wrote like half of the Indian Constitution. All in all, cool guy.
Ambekar was a chad
There is a story in the place where I grew up that there used to be a church on the site of one of the local schools. The school was built on the graves of monks and sometimes you can find the bones of people or hear church singing and reading prayers right from the basement of the school.
There is also a story that a whole residential area was built on the site of a cemetery, and if you go there, you can still find whole graves next to the houses. A classmate who rented an apartment in that residential area said she saw ghosts in the apartment.
There is also a myth that the library of Ivan the Terrible may be hiding in our city.
I grew up listening to the story of the “bag man” he was an old bearded man who walked around with a big bag he used to steal little children. It’s like adults used to say not to talk to strangers in the old days. But a curious thing is that my father was really almost kidnapped by one, a friend of the family found him blocks away from the house following a gypsy man with a candy in his mouth lol
The version I heard grown up starts with Hou Yi.
In the ancient times of China there was 10 sun’s in the sky and it was too hot so the emperor said he would reward anybody who could stop the sun’s. Hou Yi was an excellent archer and he shot down 9 of the 10 sun’s, the emperor then rewarded him with the immortality elixir.
One day when Hou Yi was out hunting a robber broke into his house and Hou Yi’s wife, Chang’e drank the elixir so they wouldn’t be able to steal it, she then became the moon fairy. (Also idk if they had a pet bunny or something?)
Although I have heard a version where Hou Yi was a bad husband and she had to drink it because of something related to that.
a fun fact: idk about ant but for bee, the queen may look like she in charge, but in actually the worker are in charge, the queen is a glorified incubator, the only reason she got take care of is because she the only one that can reproduce, and as her only purpose, if the worker think the queen is not doing a satisfactory job, they will start to raise a new queen to take over
I’m intrigued to know what will happen next
I really like mythology its fun…in my country there are a lots of myths… there’s myths about a princess who lives in a mountain and is known for the beauty that the king wants to marry her but she makes 7 rules that he must fulfill if he wants to marry her which he can’t… there’s also a myth about two giants who used to be friends but for some reason (i don’t remember the reason) and end up dying and become mountains which become very famous and a tourist attraction mountain… there’s also a story about 2 sister who was sent down by their father from “heaven” to teach the people the way to harvest but because the like the same man they fight each other until they were curse by they father to turn into mountains… there’s a lot more myth but there’s to many🤣🤣 (idk why they like to the mountain so much)
Thanks for the chapter ❤️
Ohhy grammar is badddd🤣🤣
Theory: I wonder if Jiang’s identity is more complicated. Like they were born more noble and then stolen or misplaced. Maybe someone was sent to kill Jiang because they were worried he’d rise again or something.
Thanks for the chapter!
I can only think of scary myths my family would tell to keep us from getting hurt. One was that a monster with a sack full of children wanders the street ready to scoop up any kids that wandered to far from their parents. Then you’d get eaten. Let’s just say it was effective 😅
Also its awesome to read so many stories in the comments. Thanks to everyone for sharing!
Thanks for the chapter.🤗
In my country we have many myths and legends. From the orishas which are yoruba gods, to the father of the yoruba people, we also have a story of 2 wives of the same man who fought all the time, they turned into springs following a nasty fight between them, one cold and one warm, there husband turned into a rock between them.
Since I went to boarding school, we also had alot of stories from 3 trees dancing, pink lady and the one that scared me the most was madam koi koi.
She has different stories but it seems she was a teacher who loved wearing red heels, then she had an accident and lost a shoe, now she roams the dorms looking for her shoe, so the only thing you can hear when she is coming is the sound of her shoe: KOI KOI KOI.
There are so much I can’t remember. Boarding school really scared me with those stories😂
hehe for the Chang’e one, I can’t exactly remember clearly but the story I heard was that there was a goddess who live on the moon with a bunch of rabbits, every mid-autumn festival she would descend from the moon and play with the children or sum idk, but I gotta say the mooncake tastes really good!!!
Thank you so very much for the update!!~♥️
If this happen to Mufeng and Xiao Yu I would've dr
it couldn't be the 2nd host, it must've been the 1
Geez, I got so sucked into the plot (again) that I
I'm just going to think Qi Yu's emphaty for that s
Thanks for the chapter
Yeah, find out more. I’m interested too xD
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
I can’t remember much, but I still know that I loved the saga The Pied Piper of Hamelin as a little child. Heard it the first time in dunno… 1-3 grade of school. If I know any legends or myths from here…. if yes, I can’t remember anymore. But I know that many of them are bloody lol You know Grimm Brothers and all the other stuff. (My parents didn’t tell me any of these D:)
Thank you for the chapter!!
Also, wtf is up with this ant nest — they have electric lights?? Computers??? What comes next, holograms? It’s so strange…
On the note of myths — my family isn’t religious, and our region doesn’t really have any local myths or such. Close to that would be the founding stories of some cities. For example, many cities thrived through the salt trade, and their stories are always that the hunters saw a white animal in the woods, followed it and found that it had rolled in a pond or mud puddle, and that was how they found the white gold — salt.
And as German, I’ve grown up with Grimm’s fairytales. But not the watered down versions; I have no idea why but I’ve always been familiar with the gruesome ones. The little mermaid that turned into sea foam after she couldn’t kill the prince; the prince that wanted to save Rapunzel but was thrown from the tower and blinded by the rose bushes only to wander through a desert for two years; the evil queen that was made to dance till her death in hot iron shoes after poisoning Snow white; Cinderella’s mean step sisters that cut off parts of their feet to fit in the shoe and got their eyes pecked out by doves at the wedding…
Ah, but those are basically nothing compared to the original story of Sleeping Beauty. Or that Belle from the Beauty and the Beast developed Stockholm syndrome. Eh.
Anyway, many thanks for the chapter~
Ahem, first of all, apparently, there was a druid’s hospital about three thousand years ago where my village is located, and many people would come over to get healed and take a bath in the nearby healing (stinky) springs.
Then for the neighboring village, the story is that some people wanted to settle down, but the locals didn’t want to move, so they said, “see this raven? wherever it lands is where you can build your village” and then the raven landed on a nearby fence post… And that’s where the village’s church and graveyard are now, right smack-dab in the middle of the little dent that makes the center of the village.
Oh, and there’s a story about some guy agreeing to play with some water sprites and then proceeding to almost drown. Spirits and humans just work differently…
I live in Switzerland and there is a legend about the devil’s bridge, mountain villagers have difficulty getting out of their area and want to build a bridge, however it seems impossible so the devil arrives and offers them a deal he will build the bridge in 3 days and will take the life of the first to cross it. as the last Stone is paused the villagers brought a goat and sent it across the bridge. The devil was very angry and threw a stone to destroy the bridge
but missed.Thanks you for chapter
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Closest thing I have that could be considered a legend from my childhood is that a village I knew had a fox as its mascot. There was a fox on the “Welcome to Village” sign and they even had a fox mascot costume that showed up at local events. The story behind the fox was that apparently the Duke of Village got bite by his friend’s fox but the fox turned out to be rabid and so he died a horrible death. What a way to be remembered.
Thank you for the chapter💜💜
Thanks for the chapter!
Where I live we have a lot of legends about Maui the trickster. He does a lot of things like fishing our islands up from the sea, or sneaking in and out of the afterlife and almost getting caught.
Oh, hey cuz XD
Kia ora!
Kei te pēhea koe?
Kei te pai au, e hoa!
Is it Maui in Moana?
Being an American, most of the myths/legends I learned in my childhood were from other countries… except, I guess, the myth of the first Thanksgiving. Boy, was I shocked when I was ten and learned that’s not what actually happened. I did also like the tall tale of Paul Bunyan.
Basically there’s this girl Piña who couldn’t find stuff and always bugged her mom about it, her mom always replied “Use your eyes, Piña.” Again and again for 3(?) Times. The mom went out for hours, and when she came back their house was not lighted, no noise or anything. She called out to Piña and searched everywhere for her, nothing was amiss! And Piña was the only thing missing. Everything was right where it was except for a new addition to the house. A weird plant(?) With spiked leaves on top and surrounded by bumps that looked like… Eyes?
In my culture we have Rona and the moon. The story goes:
One night a girl named Rona woke up thirsty, so she took a gourd and went to the river to collect water. On her way back the moon went behind a cloud. Rona tripped on a tree root in the dark, spilling her water. Angry, she stared cursing at the moon. The moon heard, came out from behind the cloud, and started to pull her to it in punishment. Rona grabbed onto a ngaio tree to resist, but the moon was too strong. In the end the tree, gourd and Rona were all sucked up and were forced to live forever more.
what happened between fish and mangos….
So, Fish got super sick. Fish was so sick that Fish could not eat anything; the food tasted bland, and even if Fish wanted to eat, everything would immediately come up. When Fish felt slightly better, Fish thought eating something sweet would help, so Fish ate some mangos. Fish was able to keep it down for a bit, but after a while, when Fish was washing Fish’s fins after using the toilet, the mango suddenly thought it would be an excellent time to come out. The result was mango + mucus-covered fins and a sink full of chunky yellow mess. The bits of mango clogged the sink, so Fish had to stand there, forced to look down at the forbidden soup……
And after that, Fish had to stay in the hospital for a week, hahaha…… TT
Can’t really eat mangos now without thinking of this incident; Fish would feel like vomiting again.
oooh my god that reminds of something… almost the same thing happened to me but with hot dog 😂😂 at that time i ate super fast and didn’t chew the food enough so i got a big piece of hot dog that got stuck in my oesophagus… i still remember that pain 😭
I believe it was called “Dead Mother”. You needed at least six players, five being the townspeople and one being the Dead Mother. The Dead Mother would lie down in the middle of a circle, while walking around the body, the townspeople would chant: “Dead mother, dead mother, come alive. Come alive, to the town of five. One, two, three, four, five.” And, at the count of five, Dead Mother would rise up. But she cannot see, and the player cannot open their eyes. Their goal is to catch the townspeople. So, the townspeople have to quietly and carefully navigate around without getting touched/caught by the Dead Mother, who would listen for them. I believe the game ends when there’s one townsperson left standing. I.. don’t know who came up with it, or how no one found it at least a little bit off. But! I was pretty good at being the last one standing! Pardon me if it’s irrelevant, but it’s an interesting memory to me nonetheless.
I got the non-disturbing version called “Little Blind Hen”. It’s quite similar, a group of kids (not limited to a number) pick someone to be the Little Blind Hen, they cover their eyes with a blindfold or just close them, sing “Little Blind Hen, Little Blind Hen, where are you? Are you sure you’ll find me?” (in the original language it rhymes, but in English it sounds strange hahahahahahah), then everyone playing laughs and scatters, the ‘Little Blind Hen’ spins around three times on theyself and goes off in search of some player to catch. Once they has located someone they will have to try to recognize who it is, just by touch. If they discovers they identity, that person will be the new ‘Little Blind Hen’.
My great grandmother used to tell me the story that one night, when my great grandfather was returning from work, he stopped with his horse at the river a few miles from his house to rest for a moment, when suddenly a little person with tangled hair appeared in the middle of the river and gave him such a scare that he almost fell head first into the rushing waters (that river is known to be a bit treacherous, with its whirlpools and rushing waters, but we neighborhood kids loved to play and swim in it), his horse got away from him and if not. were it not for a friend of my great-grandfather’s making his rounds nearby, my great-grandfather would have drowned. Until the day he died, my great-grandfather swore and perjured that the little person was a güije.
The story of Johnny Appleseed isn’t a myth, but it is a legend. It’s said that Johnny Appleseed traveled all over the United States to plant apple trees. He’s usually described as walking completely barefoot, wearing threadbare clothing, and being incredibly altruistic. Johnny Appleseed was supposedly good with animals, as he once tamed a wolf. He also decided to sleep in the snow rather than disturb a bear and her cubs.
It’s a classic American legend! I heard about him when I went to an apple farm for a field trip, all the way back in elementary school.
ok so am i missing something …what is this paper that Ren Yifei is glueing to his face? i really dont remember him having this prop (or maybe i forgot😅) and how does it really work? like do others not see the paper or it turns into a mask,what happens? somebody plz help explain
thanks for the chapter❤️
Since there’s a lot of content (which is translated from another language), it’s totally understandable to forget certain things! RYF used paper/papier-mache to shape his face and use it as some sort of a mask to disguise himself by using Phantom Play, which is an illusion skill.
About your mango history, in my country we have one about guaraná! Well, but I don’t remember it very well, but I’ll look it up! ( being Brazilian, we have a lot of folklore in here, so everything kind of get mixed up ), well, it kind of goes like this: there were a couple of indigenous people (it doesn’t translate so well, sorry), well, they were a couple who wanted a son, so they prayed to their god (the thunder god or something) so they would get a child, the god heard their prayer e soon they had a lovely son. The son grew up and he was really good at finding fruit for his tribe, and being so good brought the envy of a evil spirit of some kind, said spirit transformed into a snake and bit the boy. The thunder god saw it and sent thunder tho alert his parents, but it was too late and he had already died, but the god said to plant his eyes, and then with the tears of the parents, the guaraná plant sprouted, look it up, it really look like eyes.
But even tho my favorite myth is called bumba meu boi, and it’s about a man whose pregnant wife wanted to eat a cow/bull tongue, the man then picked his boss ( its not boss, they were a couple of newly liberated black people, so they were still treated like slaves of some kind, even tho they were registered as normal civilians), anyway, the man picked the farm owner most cherished bull and cut of its tongue to give to his wife, the owner found out and was really sad with the death of his bull, so he called for priests to resurrect it, and it worked! Well, after this the man asked for forgiveness of the owner, he was forgiven and the was a huge feast celebrating the resurrection of the bull as well as the forgiveness of the worker!
It’s the first time I’m writing a comment, but I really hope you like the folklore of my country!
I’ve been raised as a Hindu by religious parents so growing up there were a lot of myths and legends but I’d rather prefer to talk about a real, historical person since he actually reminds me a lot of the character ‘Jiang’ A-fei’s portraying. Like Jiang, he was also a from a relatively lower standing in society but he loved reading and learning, not to mention he was quite intelligent. Later in life he’d went on to join the freedom movement and is most widely known for advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits. He also wrote like half of the Indian Constitution. All in all, cool guy.
Ambekar was a chad
There is also a story that a whole residential area was built on the site of a cemetery, and if you go there, you can still find whole graves next to the houses. A classmate who rented an apartment in that residential area said she saw ghosts in the apartment.
There is also a myth that the library of Ivan the Terrible may be hiding in our city.
I grew up listening to the story of the “bag man” he was an old bearded man who walked around with a big bag he used to steal little children. It’s like adults used to say not to talk to strangers in the old days. But a curious thing is that my father was really almost kidnapped by one, a friend of the family found him blocks away from the house following a gypsy man with a candy in his mouth lol
In the ancient times of China there was 10 sun’s in the sky and it was too hot so the emperor said he would reward anybody who could stop the sun’s. Hou Yi was an excellent archer and he shot down 9 of the 10 sun’s, the emperor then rewarded him with the immortality elixir.
One day when Hou Yi was out hunting a robber broke into his house and Hou Yi’s wife, Chang’e drank the elixir so they wouldn’t be able to steal it, she then became the moon fairy. (Also idk if they had a pet bunny or something?)
Although I have heard a version where Hou Yi was a bad husband and she had to drink it because of something related to that.
a fun fact: idk about ant but for bee, the queen may look like she in charge, but in actually the worker are in charge, the queen is a glorified incubator, the only reason she got take care of is because she the only one that can reproduce, and as her only purpose, if the worker think the queen is not doing a satisfactory job, they will start to raise a new queen to take over
I really like mythology its fun…in my country there are a lots of myths… there’s myths about a princess who lives in a mountain and is known for the beauty that the king wants to marry her but she makes 7 rules that he must fulfill if he wants to marry her which he can’t… there’s also a myth about two giants who used to be friends but for some reason (i don’t remember the reason) and end up dying and become mountains which become very famous and a tourist attraction mountain… there’s also a story about 2 sister who was sent down by their father from “heaven” to teach the people the way to harvest but because the like the same man they fight each other until they were curse by they father to turn into mountains… there’s a lot more myth but there’s to many🤣🤣 (idk why they like to the mountain so much)
Thanks for the chapter ❤️
Ohhy grammar is badddd🤣🤣
Thanks for the chapter!
I can only think of scary myths my family would tell to keep us from getting hurt. One was that a monster with a sack full of children wanders the street ready to scoop up any kids that wandered to far from their parents. Then you’d get eaten. Let’s just say it was effective 😅
Also its awesome to read so many stories in the comments. Thanks to everyone for sharing!
In my country we have many myths and legends. From the orishas which are yoruba gods, to the father of the yoruba people, we also have a story of 2 wives of the same man who fought all the time, they turned into springs following a nasty fight between them, one cold and one warm, there husband turned into a rock between them.
Since I went to boarding school, we also had alot of stories from 3 trees dancing, pink lady and the one that scared me the most was madam koi koi.
She has different stories but it seems she was a teacher who loved wearing red heels, then she had an accident and lost a shoe, now she roams the dorms looking for her shoe, so the only thing you can hear when she is coming is the sound of her shoe: KOI KOI KOI.
There are so much I can’t remember. Boarding school really scared me with those stories😂
hehe for the Chang’e one, I can’t exactly remember clearly but the story I heard was that there was a goddess who live on the moon with a bunch of rabbits, every mid-autumn festival she would descend from the moon and play with the children or sum idk, but I gotta say the mooncake tastes really good!!!