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There are many type of ghosts. Know your type.

Residual Haunts: the energy and habits of spirits remaining in an area. For example, hearing footsteps in hallways, hearing voices in a room or screaming. They are not aggressive or negative, but rather just energy of the spirits.These energies repeats, almost as if on a repeating film roll.

Interactive Intelligent Apparitions: when it seems that the spirit is aware of its surroundings. These spirits often move small objects, try to talk, touch you. Their main purpose is to try and communicate with you. They are bound to earth because perhaps an emotional bound, or significant event happened there. They can be playful, mischievous, and bothersome.

Poltergeists: Poltergeists are often a spirits that combine different actions over time. They interact by moving objects, throwing objects, screaming, banging objects, and opening or closing objects. These events grow over time with more and more intensity. They can be either somewhat aggressive or negative. Poltergeists also appear and disappear without reason. Some groups believe that poltergeists feed off of the emotions of the people that they surround. 

Demonic Apparitions: inhuman appearances and powers among humans. They are usually strong, forceful and almost super-human. They can attack, injure, appear and speak to people.. They have been thought of being anything from a human like figure to an animal-human combination. They are known to walk, fly, disappear, and whatever they wish. 

Crisis Apparitions: Apparitions of the dying or recently dead (usually less than twelve hours, but as much as 24-48 hours). This category commonly involves one-time visits to someone with the apparition has emotional ties. Though the encounter usually seems to be a type of farewell, sometimes important and useful information is relayed. Though dying is the most common crisis, other life-threatening situations can also trigger apparitional visits.

Apparitions of the Dead:These are apparitions of people who have generally been dead longer than 12-48 hours.  There are two subsets:  Those that make one or several visits to someone (they may not have known this person while alive). The very rare cases of apparitions that linger for months or years around a particular location or person. 

Anonymous said:

Do you have any advice for creating your own mythology/legends for a story?

leventricule said:

Part I: Creating a Religion

Part II: Religious Hierarchies

Part III: Pantheons, Deities, Mythologies, etc.

Part IV: Creating a Deity

Part V: Religious Sects

Part VI: Creation Myths

BONUS: Ceremonies (birth, death, naming, sacrificing, rites of passage)

Myths, Creatures, and Folklore

Mythology Tag

MYTHS, LEGENDS, FOLKLORE, AND URBAN LEGENDS

First, we need to establish the different between myths, legends, folklore/fair tales, and urban legends:

A myth is a symbolic story that often has a religious aspect to it and is used to explain the past or a phenomenon through magical/supernatural/paranormal means. The story of Icarus is an example.

A  legend is more a more historical and realistic version of a myth. Legends often reflect the morals and values of a culture at the time it was written and they tend to follow a family or a hero over long periods of time. Beowulf is an example.

A folktale or a fairy tale has many versions that change from one region to the next and often has morals and magical/supernatural/paranormal elements. They tend to be more whimsical and poetic than legends and myths. Little Red Riding Hood is an example.

An urban legend is like a big rumor that may have a moral. They may or may not contain magical/supernatural/paranormal elements and are often used to frighten audiences.

However, in some places myths, legends, and folktales may blend into one another, may change status, or may be fluid and move between all the categories.

It has seven different endings and can be play for about 2-3 hours. It’s like a picture book - fairy tale motif like. A horror quest type of game.

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some fanart based on Terry Pratchett’s   “Going postal” , “Witches abroad” and  ”Lords and Ladies”