an exampl eof a myth made by pepole in southern africa?
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JuJu- if you go to my blog on 360 you will see my own story about it.
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No. The whole thing is a myth. Not even an original one. they just copied off of earlier civilizations myths.
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http://www.mythweb.com/
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No, it is a myth.  But, it's a cool idea.  I'm sure someone will pick it up, write a book about it and make lots of money making people believe it.
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Closest you will get to a proper name is Cryptozoology.\n\nBut this also covers modern myths like Nessie, Bigfoot, Chupacabra etc
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No, check http://www.snopes.com it's on there alone with masses of other Urban Legend's\n\nEnjoy
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No its Bull shi t,its like saying all black dude have huge kn obs,its a crock,the myth is as bout as real as santa claus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Must cultures' myths actually took place in real forests or just refered to generic forests; no made up names.  Since people seem to be focussing on written fiction instead, here's a short list of common made-up forests from AA Milne, L Frank Baum, JRR Tolkein, and Ian Livingstone.\n\nThe Hundred Acre Wood\nThe Great Forest (of Oz)\nThe Forest of Gugu\nBindbole Wood\nChetwood\nDimholt\nDrúadan Forest\nFangorn Forest\nFirien Wood\nLothlórien\nMirkwood\nThe Old Forest (on the Brandywine River)\nTrollshaws\nWoody End\nThe Forest of Doom\n\n\n\n(Sherwood Forest exists, by the way)
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duped by propaganda & blind adhereance to myth. http://www.philipdru.com/gatto_stream.html \nhttp://www.philipdru.com/taylor_stream.html
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I have the perfect site for you to look up the information you  are looking for. It has myths listed from Aboriginal tribes up to the latest urban mythology. I am sure you will find this link most useful for your studies.
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LOL sorry I wasn't aware of that relic. Has it been scientifically studied? Or is it off limits to everyone like the ark in ethiopia?\nHell, we could do that, then implant it in a virgin and bingo, homemade holyman. I guess scientists work in mysterious ways too. LOL
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The belief originates in the system of African-American folk magic known as hoodoo.  Check the link for more info.
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STAR LEGEND\nThe group of stars known to us as the Pleiades gave food for much thought to the aborigines. There are several legends surrounding these heavenly bodies. One is that the Kamilaroys of the North Coast were at enmity with those of the mountains, and a messenger had been sent from group to group with the message-stick calling a council to discuss measures for the protection of the camps. But the messenger had become enamoured of a young woman of one of the groups he had visited, and his affection was returned. However, she proved to be of the same totem, and a marriage was forbidden. Both the young people were very sad, and the man pleaded with the head-man, but all for nothing. He was advised to return to his own people.\n\nThen, like so many other disappointed lovers, he grew resentful, and at last determined to be revenged, and even then, if possible, to secure the lady of his choice.\n\nSo he went away to the enemies of the group, and conspired with them to show them the "pukkan" by which they might steal unseen to the camps of the coast lands. This track belonged to the priest, and led to a sacred spot where the Great Spirit could be communed with by the priest.\n\nNow, the first thing was to drive the people together, or by some subtle means persuade them to congregate on the one place. This was not an easy thing to do. The people were widely separated during the day, for some were in the bush engaged in hunting there or in obtaining those things from it that were needed to fashion all the implements incidental to camp life, others were still in the camp; many were down on the beach either playing there or searching for food, and the whereabouts of still more were always uncertain, for they were roamers.\n\nMany consultations were held; many plans were formulated; many tricks were explained; but at last it was decided that the messenger return to that group and pretend to have given up all thought of marrying the coveted girl.\n\nWhen he was back he sought the confidence of the headman and soon was received without suspicion. Then one day, having prepared and found a chance, he set fire to the bush. He had laid good plans for he knew just where to find the girl. He had seen to it that she was persuaded to go out of the way to get something that she wanted. It was to the pukkan that led to the sacred place. When the fire raged towards them they ran right on to the holy of holies. The only other people who saw them were women who were led by the guardians of young girls. These guardians were watching the girl wanted by the messenger. Now they were all frightened and they all rushed to the clearing. This invasion by women into such a place was against all commandments, and evil was bound to follow.\n\nHeaps of clay left by the priest were seen, and all commenced to smear themselves with it without knowing how to do it properly. They thought it would surely preserve them.\n\nThey were changed into witchetty grubs. They found holes in a moist and rotten log into which, as is the habit of witchetty grubs, they crept. They were shrunken into very small beings compared with the beings they once were.\n\nThe fire came on and on. People ran in all directions and many were destroyed.\n\nThen by the treachery of the messenger the men of the hills came down and they fell upon the rest and the beach group were nearly all killed. Only the denseness of the smoke prevented more of the mountain people from coming down, and those that did come were glad to hasten away to escape it.\n\nOf those that were not killed there was a priest who went to the sacred spot as soon as he could. He sat on the moist and rotten log and mourned for a long time. Then growing hungry he searched for witchetty grubs, for he knew that the log was a favourite place for them. He found first the woman who was the first one to change. He knew that group to be different from those he had seen before and he suspected witchery. He uttered an incanta
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There are a couple like how earth was created (Or WHY)\nWhy roses have thorns\nWhy there is a sun or moon in the sky\nWhy A Tiger has stripes\nHow lions got their manes\nHow Rome was created\nThe floods of the Nile River\nWhy there are deserts on earth\n       Just have fun with it, maybe you can come up with your own myths and legends.
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Hired by a team of scientists investigating suspended animation, Davis was sent to Haiti to discover the truth behind the mysterious Haitian legend of the zombi -- a mindless corpse allegedly reanimated by black magic and forced into servitude through the arts of shady voodoo experts. Shockingly, Davis discovered that the legends contained a large grain of truth, albeit radically misinterpreted by most audiences. According to Davis, zombis did in fact roam the Haitian countryside. However, they weren't technically undead.\n\nThe process began when a voodoo priest (known as a houngan) or some other properly educated individual decides that someone in the community has wronged him, or someone else, and must be punished. Backed by a strong cultural context and the predispositions created by the religious beliefs of the local people, houngan creates a special powdery toxin that sets the stage for zombification.\n\nThe intial dosing contains large amounts of a poison known as tetrodotoxin, aka pufferfish. The pufferfish is a delicacy in Japan, where daring gourmands enjoy preparing the fish very carefully in such a way as to remove its toxic glands. If the preparation is not sufficiently careful, the diner instead goes into a deep paralytic coma that can resemble death. If the preparation is really sloppy, actual death can ensue. The line between coma and death is extremely thin, which is why the fish is suitable for zombification, naturally.\n\nThe upshot of all this, according to Davis, was that the victim appeared to drop dead after being topically exposed to the poison, which he anecdotally heard was scattered on the doorstep of a house where it entered through the victim's feet. After the victim was "dead" and buried, the houngan and his cronies would unearth him or her a few days later in a terrifying ritual enhanced by a second powder containing hallucinogenic drugs.\n\nBetween the trauma of being buried alive, the effects of the first drugging, the trauma of being dragged from the grave in a midnight ritual, the effects of the second drugging, and the cultural expectations of people living in Haiti, the victim's psyche was so royally fucked that they deeply, truly believed they had been transformed into a soulless, will-less undead creature and behaved accordingly -- following orders and shambling a lot. (Some victims eventually recovered their bearings, although they were never quite the same.)
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Try this link:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa
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Grrrrrrrrrrrr! christian mythology is a "myth" and evolution is real. no comparison