The Real Origins of 13 Mythical Creatures
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- Опубліковано 23 лют 2023
- Mermaids, Vampires, and Leprechauns are some of the most widely known mythical creatures, but where did these legendary beings come from?
In this episode of The List Show, Erin McCarthy (@erincmccarthy) walks us through the origins of thirteen mythical beasts.
The Atlantic's fascinating story on the mystery seeds: www.theatlantic.com/science/a...
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Erin has a top-tier evil Queen laugh, and I'm here for it.
When I was a teen, I thought the Elves had transformed themselves into dolphins to escape humans. They were still willing to save us from drowning, though!
How about the Scottish Selkie Fowk (seal folk), who change from seal in the water to man upon land?
I, too, got called a "wild ass" once.
I would have included the Wolpertinger. It's a German creature that's basically a mix of everything that lives in the mountainous forests of Bavaria (most often claimed to have the body of a hare, antlers of a deer, and the wings of a pheasant.
Including the North American variant the Jackalope... the antlers and wings are symptomns of an infections disease called a Papiloma virus causing cancerous growths to appear like horns, tusks, mottled fur etc.
A mythical bird I see referenced in different works of fiction a lot is the Roc, a massive bird of prey in Arabic myth capable of picking up an entire elephant in its talons.
This just reminded me of a book I had as a kid fulled with mythological creatures (Roc was in it). Dang I wish I still had it
he goes by Dwayne now
The problem I have with creatures depicted with forearms AND wings is that wings ARE the firearms of birds.
For other creatures to have both, it would require duplication of muscle groups to move them. And those duplicate muscles never are depicted or referenced.
I've thought about that a lot and it used to be infinitely irksome to me.
But wait.... Six limbs? Centaurs, Pegasus, and griffins must be insects!!
I have never, in my LIFE, heard someone say they are team Riley
Pasting this into Slack for Erin rn
Jiangshi is basically hopping corpse but also classified as a Chinese Vampire.
one book i have-Supernatural Serial Killers-theorizes that some werewolf and vampire folklore may have been actually about serial killers.
I wish I'd grown up with Erin, because she'd be the perfect friend to talk weird mythology with.
15:40 Super funny laughter. I love your humor
Dying! Underworld? Lol, fun times. Then you bring up the OG Buffy....?
"Oh yeah, clap."
I've always thought of Gryphons as being used to guard the treasures of Zeus. They are symbols of Courage and Loyalty. Aspects I strive for daily.
Riley lol. Team Spike all the way!
the little people of the okanagan valley are neat. volcanic cliffs with lots of porous openings are where they stay at. agreements to let them be as they can fight if needed. Nekomata are neat as well with a smug outlook while controlling fire, the dead and shapeshifting in different combinations and timings to create the most chaos among humans. one way for them to spawn is to have a catreach a venerable age with love and care, transforming into the creature with a spliting tail.
I wonder if Erin knows that Björk recorded a song about Jólakötturinn...
Warning - if you, too, have an overactive imagination, maybe don't watch this right before bed, at risk of terribly interesting but also terribly *terrible* nightmares...
TEAM FAITH!!! This is the hill I will die on!
Riley?!?! Lmao 100% faith
My husband is with you.
14:36 please post a link to that griffin image, or name the artist! THANKS! 🙏
Artist for the Griffin picture is Sir John Tenniel. It's from Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. He did amazing illustrations.
@@davidcarmer7216 Sir John Tenniel? "Come on, Robin, to the -Batcave- ArchiveDOTorg. We haven't one moment to lose!"
@@davidcarmer7216 Also...THANKS!
you cant just end the zombie story there. what happened with that guy? who was it? he couldnt have really been "dead" for 20 years surely
Fingers crossed she mentions Blemmyes.
Ever heard of jackalopes?
#TeamRutger; TY for the love !
Riley? I have no words...
Chimera is a mythological creature that cross between a snake and lion. My favorite one. But this most comes from Egypt so far.
Sometimes I think about how wild my imagination would be back in the day with how s*** my eyes are.
It doesn’t make sense to say Spoiler Alert without pausing afterwards to give us a chance to avoid the spoiler. Just say Spoiler and carry on. This is my new pet peeve.
Pet stores don't have a food or supplement isle for peeves. Peeve must also be a mythical beast.
Interesting. Can you do a video on the Pooka? it’s an Irish shape-shifting mythological creature, often portrayed as a winged horse.
What do you want to bet that someday, perhaps in your lifetime, perhaps not, but some day in the future, someone with more brains than sense will use a homebrew version of CRISPR to go all "Island of Dr. Moreau" in a private location and recreate a few of these? That should make for some interesting headlines.
Definitely not Team Spike. At least Riley never committed sexual assault.
Thanks. I'm not worried about any Cat-Sith; I've got a laser pointer. And a Dog-Jedi. ;) tavi.
The Scandinavian butter cat mostly because I discovered it after I started calling my own cat "Butter cat" as she was constantly trying to steal butter and bread just like the folklore cat.
Team Spike
4:50 jumpscare 👻
So sirens are more like DnD's harpies.
Sphynyx
I love the real buddy!
Team: Buffy can do better than either of them
You'd think so be smg married Freddie Prinze Jr. so.......
100% spike!!!!
Manatees, dugongs.. potato, potato :P
Didn’t do Bigfoot, i am disappoint.
I will give you the first 2 Underworld films. Even rise of the Lycans and I would join you on that hill.... but that one with the kid oh man that one is getting close to so bad it's good (unfortunately not quite bad enough to tip the scale)
Croyez-vous des zombies là ?
(des zombies et des loup-garou)
Pishtacos, from folklore from the South American Andes, they are kind of like vampires but suck the fat from their victims.
Team Faith!
I think your narwhal pic at 2:38 is from a video game??
I used to suffer from lycanthropy but I'm alright NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
the minotaur
Angel x Buffy is the OTP
Spike is just a pretender
You forgot about the ALASKAN BULLWORM....I mean Mongolian death worm
The Christian/Islamic/Judeo God is a fairly popular mythological creatute.
I'm team Angel, I will die on this hill.
Team Spike. I know, he's shitty, but he's way more interesting than Angel or Riley
Merpson?
Changing the myth?
The only leprechaun movie I will watch stars Warwick Davis. The remake sucked!!
hey, what do you call a werewolf youtuber?
a lycan-subscribe
I'm surprised there isn't any comment yet.
Hi everyone 💜
Unicorns are very much descriptions of rhinoceroses
How was it rude ?
Riley was garbage. Not a hot take, but still accurate.
I’m Team Riley.
3:57 “ruthlessly lord sailors to untimely deaths”. What CC? Why must you suck so much?
A lot of very logical explanations, but lacking a fairly simple explanation. Our ancestors had imaginations just like us & story telling was a common entertainment including scary stories. And aren't the modern Leprechaun stories just modern Christianised versions of the De Danaan mythology?
Now you just proved that unicorns are not real. I always knew that they were not real. It like the mistaking mermaid for a manatee. Columbus said he, saw mermaids in the water. But the truth was that saw a manatee of a mermaid.
Riley was the worst
I am, in fact, NOT related to a South Asian mythical woman. I hope.
Those bangs are unforgivable.
B.C. Not BCE. Calling it the common era is disingenuous and is simply a way to remove Christ from everything.
Please stop replacing "slave" with "enslaved person." This is stupid.
It's especially offensive to see this done in brackets, [enslaved people], when quoting an academic. 10:02