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[Moonlight]

I don't know what it is with me and mythology but I love it. I have recently fallen in love with this myth.

It's about this werewolf-like creature named Luison who is lord of death and protector of cemeteries. He lives only in cemeteries and burial grounds. He ate nothing but death and rotting flesh. In the myth he is the Guaraní version of the Grim Reaper – to see him meant death was coming.

I love it

[Lethe]

Moonlight, on 24 January 2010 - 10:36 AM, said:

I don't know what it is with me and mythology but I love it. I have recently fallen in love with this myth.

It's about this werewolf-like creature named Luison who is lord of death and protector of cemeteries. He lives only in cemeteries and burial grounds. He ate nothing but death and rotting flesh. In the myth he is the Guaraní version of the Grim Reaper – to see him meant death was coming.

I love it

+1. This is interesting. I like the Hellhounds and Hounds of God myths too.

[FlamingCrow88]

I'd love to have him around the house. lol.

But it was an intriguing article.

[VeeraSilverfang]

Hell hounds are so different from werewolves though haha This seems more of a hell hound myth to me.

[ravens_veil]

Seven children, and all of them cursed, specially the last, this Luison guy. Don't you think Tau should have realized after the first child or two that someone (Arasy) was angry with him and Kerana and stopped fn around already? That aside, the myth is an interesting one.

Some claim that if Luison passes between a person's legs then that person will turn into Luison. Other versions of the story say that he appears only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights, what a slacker, a Grim Reaper-ish thing should be on call 24/7.

VeeraSilverfang- It's a hell hound-ish myth that is slowly changing to a more strictly werewolf myth as time goes on and seeing as this story was passed by word of mouth and not originally written down it'd be hard to track down the 100% authentic version I'd think.

[wolfsbane92]

VeeraSilverfang, on 22 March 2010 - 12:07 AM, said:

Hell hounds are so different from werewolves though haha This seems more of a hell hound myth to me.

that it does, but even hell hounds are not able to set foot upon hallowed ground.

[Kaddam]

wolfsbane92, on 26 March 2010 - 11:50 AM, said:

that it does, but even hell hounds are not able to set foot upon hallowed ground.

Really even Fernis from the Viking stories?

[Is it possible]

Well its not a bad article, but any reason that the goddess was mad?