Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales and Mythologies from Around the World #1: Exploring the Legends behind the Tales - Page 2

***NikNak*** · 10-02-2013, 09:35 AM

What a great idea for a thread! Cannot wait to see the opening post.

Lutesse · 10-02-2013, 09:43 AM

I'm sifting and sorting ideas and what I want the OP to depict. The thread was actually conceived by Patty's suggestions, so I'm going to pick her brain a bit, too. It will be a fun one to design!

***NikNak*** · 10-02-2013, 09:46 AM

I am sure it will be.

Thanks to you, Patty.

Mysterious Island Girl · 10-02-2013, 11:08 AM

All the Spanish influences here are a nice place for Juliette to slip in and save the day. She was raised in Spain by her grandmother, abuella

Lutesse · 10-02-2013, 11:30 AM

And speaking of Patty .. there she is!

You thought of this thread, sweetie, and I hoped you'd get in yesterday to open it. But since I had to go forward with it, tell me what would you like to see in the OP?

SolveMyMystery · 10-02-2013, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Lutesse (View Post)

From a quick read of the wiki, I'd say Chupacabra is a top candidate for a Grimm creature. Do you know the bogeyman, El Cucuy, Karla .. ?

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Brian, your post raises all sorts of potential discussion! We're talking Raiders of the Lost Ark territory!

I wonder from were the spelling of cuccuy is... because we know it as coco.

Maybe SouthAmerican as Norbeto Barba ( director and producer) is from Argentina.

The cucuy or coco here is really just tale to sent children to sleep, there's a song....

Quote:

Duérmete niño, duérmete ya...

Que viene el Coco y te comerá.

Sleep child, sleep now...
Or else the Coco will come and eat you

Is there a song for the bogey man?

Lutesse · 10-02-2013, 11:52 AM

No song that I know of, maybe someone else would? Unless you count "rockabye baby" which is really quite frightening if you listen to the words!

So what you call the "Coco"

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SolveMyMystery · 10-02-2013, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Lutesse (View Post)

No song that I know of, maybe someone else would? Unless you count "rockabye baby" which is really quite frightening if you listen to the words!

So what you call the "Coco"

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The Coco song is kinda scary but as is a song that they sing to you while they're rocking you is really not frighten at all when you are old enough to understand the words.

Spoiler:

Lutesse · 10-02-2013, 12:32 PM

that's it.

SolveMyMystery · 10-02-2013, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Lutesse (View Post)

that's it.

I never knew that the Jack-o-lantern was the representation of the boogey man and that it was directly related to the Coco

From the link I posted:

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The myth of the Coco originated in Portugal and Galicia. According to the Real Academia Española the word coco derives from the Portuguese côco, which referred to a ghost with a pumpkin head.[2] The word coco is used in colloquial speech to refer to the human head in Portuguese and Spanish.

Lutesse · 10-02-2013, 12:50 PM

So we chatted a bit about La Llorona, and about the Coco

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So what others?

I liked the one about the cannibalistic Wendigo. He was a demonic creature that appeared in the legends of American Indian tribes of the NE US & Canadian Great Lakes region.

As a child, I learned a poem Ogden Nash wrote about him:

The Wendigo,
The Wendigo!
Its eyes are ice and indigo!
Its blood is rank and yellowish!
Its voice is hoarse and bellowish!
Its tentacles are slithery,
And scummy,
Slimy,
Leathery!
Its lips are hungry blubbery,
And smacky,
Sucky,
Rubbery!

The Wendigo,
The Wendigo!
I saw it just a friend ago!
Last night it lurked in Canada;
Tonight, on your veranada!
As you are lolling hammockwise
It contemplates you stomachwise.
You loll,
It contemplates,
It lollops.
The rest is merely gulps and gollops.
~~~

Here's the Grimm version:

Mysterious Island Girl · 10-02-2013, 12:55 PM

Wendigo is a Woodland area Native American spirit. I will have to look that one up more.

My kids used to have a "Boogey man friend" that lived in the basement. He was green and friendly. So they weren't afraid, but I was. LOL
Oppsy, Sherry you said that and much more.

Lutesse · 10-02-2013, 01:02 PM

Did they really, Patty? Darn... I was just looking at a picture of a green monster and now I can't find it. If I do, we'll ask your kids to identify it!

SolveMyMystery · 10-02-2013, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Lutesse (View Post)

So we chatted a bit about La Llorona, and about the Coco

Spoiler:

So what others?

I liked the one about the cannibalistic Wendigo. He was a demonic creature that appeared in the legends of American Indian tribes of the NE US & Canadian Great Lakes region.

As a child, I learned a poem Ogden Nash wrote about him:

The Wendigo,
The Wendigo!
Its eyes are ice and indigo!
Its blood is rank and yellowish!
Its voice is hoarse and bellowish!
Its tentacles are slithery,
And scummy,
Slimy,
Leathery!
Its lips are hungry blubbery,
And smacky,
Sucky,
Rubbery!

The Wendigo,
The Wendigo!
I saw it just a friend ago!
Last night it lurked in Canada;
Tonight, on your veranada!
As you are lolling hammockwise
It contemplates you stomachwise.
You loll,
It contemplates,
It lollops.
The rest is merely gulps and gollops.
~~~

Here's the Grimm version:

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The Grimm Wendigo was really scary looking and the feet soup.

it!

Lutesse · 10-02-2013, 01:09 PM

^ oh, barf! yessss

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