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minus-squareRandom_Character_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·3 days agoThere has to be something similar in nordics. Old pagan beliefs are jam packed with little people.
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoI mean, there are a number of cases in mythologies where you can find common elements. I’d buy that in some cases, there might be common elements causing it, but I don’t think that it’d need to be a common hallucinogen. Off-the-cuff, some examples: Dragons “Hybrid” animals that are a conglomeration of different animals. Ghosts Mermaids. House spirits Sun gods
minus-squarediscocactus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoSome native American tribes too. Apache for example.
minus-squareandallthat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoGargamel, The Movie. An old man living alone with his cat is slowly driven to madness by the soup of mushrooms he always boils in his cauldron.
minus-squareeinkorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria
There has to be something similar in nordics. Old pagan beliefs are jam packed with little people.
I mean, there are a number of cases in mythologies where you can find common elements. I’d buy that in some cases, there might be common elements causing it, but I don’t think that it’d need to be a common hallucinogen.
Off-the-cuff, some examples:
Dragons
“Hybrid” animals that are a conglomeration of different animals.
Ghosts
Mermaids.
House spirits
Sun gods
Some native American tribes too. Apache for example.
Also, the Smurfs
Gargamel, The Movie. An old man living alone with his cat is slowly driven to madness by the soup of mushrooms he always boils in his cauldron.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria