Lizz Leiser
Friday, March 2, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Creature #20: Nifoloa
A Samoan insect with one sharp tooth the size of a man's finger, the Nifoloa's bite results in death unless medicine is given immediately. No puncture wound is visible but the victim suffers greatly. After the medicine is given, the tooth indentation will show up. The Nifoloa follows lone people walking home. If a wayfarer returns with the shivers and the healer is sent for, the medicine is never referred to by name, but called 'the medicine on the chief's tooth'. Nifoloa is cunning, however, and if he hears that a healer is searching for the right medicine, he will immediately strip the herbs from the ground that grow nearby.
Deadline for all Nifoloa action to be sent to magicalcreaturesproject@
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Creature #18: Krampus
The Krampus is the Winter Goat who goes about in the days between winter solstice and Epiphany (6 January) in the Austrian Perchtenlauf Festival. Elsewhere, the Krampus is known as the companion of St. Nicholas. Throughout the Austrian Tyrol, into Bavaria and parts of Italy, the Krampus is a fertility demon, with a long tail and fur, who carries a chain, a birch branch, and a big black bag. He acts as a foil to St Nicholas, for as the saint gives gifts at Christmas, so the Krampus punishes those who have been bad. Really bad children may even get carried off in his black sack. In Austria, the Krampus is also known as Knecht Rupecht or Black Peter, in Germany he can called Pelzebock, Pelznickel, Han Muff, Bartel, Black Pit, Gunphinkel or Stoppklos. St Nicholas's Eve (5 December) is also known as Krampus Day in some parts of the Austrian Tyrol.
Deadline for all action to be sent to magicalcreaturesproject@gmail.com : Monday, December 19th.
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