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Care to share your favorite mythological stories or urban legends?

The Loch Ness monster. I still want it to be real. :C

Me too. And Bigfoot.

The Loch Ness Monster is totally real! But he's been ankle tagged and given a restraining order to keep 400ft away from the Loch Ness Elementary school so he shouldn't cause trouble there anymore. He also has to introduce himself to any new Loch Ness residents so they know who he is.

The Australian aboriginal dreamtime myths are great. I wish I knew what the old abbos were toking when they came up with them though, its like a full on trip in every myth. Aborigine art is pretty cool too.

Are you an Aussie, wamwams? If so, whowuddathunk.

I like Nordic myths. I find Odin particularly fascinating. It's not often in Western myths that the king of the gods is also the god of wisdom, not war. And the price he paid for it means the Vikings must've thought it was a worthy virtue.

I'm also fond of Irish myths. Donn is a personal favorite.

Some might consider the saints myths. I'm Catholic, so I consider them real, but those stories are one of my favorite parts of being Catholic.

When I converted to Catholicism, I was given a Lives of the Saints and really enjoyed reading that. I also love when teaching the mystics to students, the discussion we have about Catherine of Siena and her foreskin wedding ring. LOL And Hildegard is also fun to teach as well.

Hildegard is pretty awesome and a good example of a strong, intelligent woman.

St. Rose of Venerini is one of my favorites. And St. Gabriel. St. Rose's Feast Day is my birthday, and St. Gabriel is the patron Saint of Communication which was my college major. ^.^

That's really cool. :)

I always liked Teresa Liseux "The Little Flower" as well.

I don't know if it's my favourite, but there's a tale out of northern Ohio that an orphanage burned down in the 1800s, killing many children, and their screaming ghosts can still be heard.

What I like about it is that there's so much evidence stacked against it that it couldn't possibly be true, and yet some people hold on to it.

Historians have concluded that Gore Orphanage never actually existed, the legend being a combination of unrelated places, people and events (the name is actually that of a road which traveled along a gore, which is a strip of land a surveyor forgot to attribute to one municipality or another, and was in proximity to an orphange called Light of Hope.) The supposed site of Gore Orphanage is actually that of an old mansion that was built in the 1840s, occupied by a family that practiced seances and lost children to diphtheria, and was largely uninhabited for most of a century except for the occasional brave teenager on a dare before finally burning down in 1923. Combine that with an historic school fire in 1908 near Cleveland that killed 175 people, all but 3 of them children, and a 1910 fire at Light of Hope that claimed the printing building but nobody died, plus the ghostly sounds of trucks crossing an overpass on I-80 a little over a mile away, and you've got the recipe for an urban legend.

It's neat!

Oh man, a lot of mermaid stories. The Enchanted Cap is a good one, so is Nastasia of the Sea. And The Fish Husband. And The Princess of Tung Lake--that's probably my favorite.

Hmmmmmm thinking thinking thinking

IDK I've always been fond of the Rainbow Snake creating the land and the story where it was stabbed to release the people it ate but all that came out were all the birds of the rainbow. It has nice imagery

Urban legends,

I've always had a fondness for stories about aliens and UFOs.

I even bought a book about a sociologist who travelled around America studying the people who study UFOs. (It's called the UFO Diaries; pretty interesting look at the human element of urban legends.)

I love love love Greek/Roman mythology. I generally prefer the stories about the gods as opposed to stories about the mythological heroes.

I lovelove Egyptian mythology, and Norse as well. But Egyptian has always been my favorite, especially when combined with the beautiful ancient artwork.

Also I'm in love with Ghost Photography. I have a book full of famous "ghost photos", some of which are obviously fake, but I still love looking at them.

I've always been partial to stories of death and resurrection, usually expressed through descents into the underworld, but not always. Persephone when she was kidnapped by Hades and Demeter had to negotiate her return, Inanna when she died trying to take the place of her sister and was saved, Osiris when he was murdered by Set and resurrected by Isis, Odinn when he hung from the World Tree to gain knowledge, Christ and the crucifixion and rebirth, and others...I just really love that kind of story for some reason, epitomizing the cycle of death and rebirth.

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