Showing posts with label Native Fables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native Fables. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 July 2014

Kashmiri Folklore-Bram Bram Chouk








Bram Bram Chouk-  Some narrations state that the Bram Bram Chouk is a wolf like creature who is found in winters carrying a torch on his head and that he causes fires in houses when he is enraged, something like the Naar Mokal. While, others believe that he is a monster with burning eyes which are positioned on the top of his head. Basically. The Bram Bram Chouk is a big old hairy, scary monster. 




Folklore from Kashmir-Bram Bram Chouk


Saturday, 19 July 2014

Kashmiri Folklore-The Raantas

The Raantas or Rantus is another mythical entity. She is your classical run of the mill bollywood ki ‘chudel’. The witch with the feet turned in the opposite direction. The kind of entity who kidnaps men and then takes them to her cave in the mountain. There are many similar female mythical entities in Kashmiri Folklore.
 The 'Rih' is said to be a seductress too, who entices men in order to devour them. Many stories have merged into one, therefore the raantaas and the rih have kind of become one entity.
Then there are others-the 'Dyn' or like she is called in Hindi 'Daien' who is also a female; who too eats out the hearts of men. The Degins and the Degus, according to Vigne, ''seek husbands amongst mortals, but that their attachment is productive of fatal consequences, as its object dies in the course of two or three months.''




Folklore Of Kashmir-Raantas