NOAA · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Folklore

Nan Madol

hinzugefügt29. August 20261628

A city of ninety-two artificial islets built off Pohnpei in Micronesia from basalt columns weighing up to fifty tons, stacked like logs without mortar. How they were moved is unknown; local tradition says sorcerers made the stones fly. The city was abandoned around 1628. Pohnpeians consider the place dangerous and say one does not sleep there — a chief who tried, the account goes, was dead by morning.

AnreiseAnfahrt Übernachten Touren

Korrektur vorschlagen

Als Nächstes lesen

Białowieża Forest

The last large stand of primeval lowland forest in Europe, on the Belarus–Poland border — what the whole continent was before the clearances. A wild herd of bison grazes here, rebuilt from some fifty animals after the last free-living one was shot in 1921. The trees reach fifty metres and some of the oaks are older than the Commonwealth. Baltic and Slavic mythology filled such forests with leshys and wood-maidens, and the guides here are happy to keep that going.

Kommentare

Zum Kommentieren anmelden

Noch keine Kommentare. Sei der Erste.

Auf der Karte

6.84194, 158.33222

Madolenihmw In Karten öffnen

Anreise

Buchungslinks können Affiliate-Links sein: Buchst du etwas, erhält die Seite eine kleine Provision. Für dich kostet es nichts extra.

Quellen

Am nächsten auf der Karte

Anomale Zone

Teufelsmeer

Ein Abschnitt des Pazifiks südlich von Japan, bekannt als „Drachendreieck“ — das pazifische Gegenstück zum Bermudadreieck. Seinen Ruf verdankt es Fischerbooten, die Ende der 1940er- und Anfang der 1950er-Jahre verschwanden.

3037 km entfernt

Erfindung

Momo: the sculpture that became a panic

The face that frightened half the world in 2018 and 2019 was never a character. It is Mother Bird, a sculpture by the Japanese artist Keisuke Aisawa of Link Factory, made in the summer of 2016 and exhibited at the Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo. In July 2018 a photograph of it was used in a YouTube video, from there it spread through messaging apps, and by 2019 it had grown into an international panic about a non-existent "challenge" supposedly pushing children towards dangerous tasks. Police forces and child-protection bodies in several countries stated publicly that no confirmed cases were found. The sculpture itself was destroyed by its maker.

3723 km entfernt

Geistererscheinung

Aka Manto: red paper or blue

Another inhabitant of Japanese school toilets, and the cruellest in construction. A voice from the last cubicle asks which paper you want, red or blue. Choosing red means one thing, blue another, and both are bad; refusing to answer, in most versions, does not save you either. The legend is interesting because it is built as a trap with no exit: there is no right answer, and that is the point — it is the shape of a fear of being asked something you cannot answer correctly.

3723 km entfernt

Mehr: Folklore

Folklore

Cropsey

A children's bogeyman with a hook, told on Staten Island for generations — until children began disappearing in the neighbourhood in the 1980s and it emerged that a former orderly from the abandoned Willowbrook school was living beside it. Willowbrook was a real institution, closed after a 1972 investigation exposed appalling conditions. A rare and unpleasant case of a local bogeyman and a documented local history meeting at the same point on the map.

Folklore

Krasue

A flying woman's head with its viscera trailing beneath — one of the most recognisable images in mainland Southeast Asian folklore, known in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos under different names. By day she is an ordinary woman; at night the head detaches and goes looking for food. Her appearance was traditionally linked to night lights over rice paddies and to sickness in livestock. In Thailand she has been the subject of dozens of films and remains a living figure of popular culture rather than a museum entry.

Folklore

The Pontianak

A woman who died in childbirth and came back for revenge — one of the central figures of Malay and Indonesian folklore. Her presence is identified by smell: first the sweetness of frangipani, then the smell of a corpse. She is held to live in banana trees, which is why they are not planted right against a house. The city of Pontianak in Borneo carries her name: by tradition its founder laid out the settlement on the spot where he drove these spirits off.