Hi all, my favorite 'cryptid' is a Church Grimm and I was just looking for any similar creatures. Creatures that guard the dead, or places the dead reside or were buried in. Specifically ones that are more animal than human

Asking because I'm interested in finding it for a writing class so I can draw a proper comparison between two characters and the myth.

PhD Student Research: Fairy Lore Survey

Hello everyone! I hope you're all having a truly spectacular day! I am a first year PhD research student at the University of Aberdeen at the Elphinstone Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. working toward my PhD in Ethnology under the supervision of Dr. Thomas McKean.

My dissertation topic and title are Fae Lore in the 21st Century: Contemporary Society’s Relationship to Fairy Lore, Traditions, Rituals, and Experiences. It is a is 100% social research dissertation and as such a large part of my research involves collecting data and information from people regarding their beliefs in fairies all over the world. Any information and answers collected from this survey will be analysed and may potentially be used in my dissertation and further publications. Because this is a survey being posted on a social media site for PhD student research, it is optional to take the survey and any data/answers collected that are used in my paper will be anonymous. There will be no personal information or names in the dissertation. I am using The Fairy Census and the book connected to it 'Magical Folk: The History of Fairies' by Simon Young and Ceri Houlbrook as the primary text and the framework for my dissertation.

It is a slightly longer survey with questions that require detailed information because I need to collect as much information about people’s belief in fairies as possible.

Anyone who wishes to assist with my research and take the survey can click the link below which will take you to the Google forms survey. It is completely optional to take part, and as stated above, no names will ever be collected nor used should any information from the survey responses be used in my paper. All answers will remain completely anonymous.

Follow the link below to the survey:

https://forms.gle/8KuFRr1rqYid6ZcB7

Thank you to anyone who chooses to take this survey! Your help with my research is very appreciated! Many blessings to you! ❤

In my culture, we have a creature (we don't have a consistent name for it, most people don't even know about it) that crawls on all fours but is pretty much harmless, it hangs out near wineries' basements. It is suspected to be a drunk guy since it was only spotted once and wore clothes.

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We all know the stories about mythical continents and countries, places where it's always summer, where crops grow abundant and rivers of wine and milk run free. But what about the opposite? Lands eternally locked in winter? I've tried looking it up, and the best that I could find was Helheim of Scandinavian mythology. There was also some afterlife from Baltic pre-Christian beliefs, that's described as "a place of eternal cold and darkness, where the souls of the dead forever lie in graves", but I don't remember what it was called, and it was quite long ago that I read about it. But I was actually thinking of places "in this life", places like El Dorado, Utopia, Lemuria, Atlantis, and others, places that supposedly exist or existed, but were never actually seen by anyone.