Little correction the bouda or boudai are not creatures or cryptids from Morocco but from Ethiopia. Besides great video , I was expecting to here about the eloko but its ok ... Keep up
It seems like every culture in the world share similar folkloric creatures. The ones that seem almost universal are water spirits, mischievious imp/goblin-like creatures, terrifying vampiric creatures, boogeyman-like creatures, and some kind of serpentine/dragon-like creature. This was an interesting video.
Interesting fact….if you seclude a population for 1000 years with no contact with society or knowledge of things before hand it’s 100% guaranteed they will have a myth or legend of dragons that links almost directly with at least one culture from the outside world
What makes you say that? The patronising mythos of the mysterious dark continent? Sick of it. It's too often packaged as monolithic "African Mythology" and rubs me the wrong way.
@@Talleyhoooo I can guarantee you've misattributed me and read loaded words where none was meant. Touch grass? Pass, it's winter and the time for tales in front of the fire.
Epic video. I loved it. Thank you. One powerful being that was left out is the Nyami-Nyami from the Zambezi River and Lake Kariba between my country of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and Zambia 🇿🇲 ( where I live as a wildlife conservationist ). He is a River God in the form of a Serpent who protects the land and people in times of hardship and trouble. During the '50s, when the Kariba dam wall was being built, huge stroms and floods pounded the construction with some lives being lost in the process. The Tonga people of whom he helps say it was his wrath against the disrespect of the river and Kariba Gorge. Since then, sightings of a serpetine being have been seen ( similar to the Loch Ness Monster ). What makes it more fascinating is the fact my father, who is a game ranger, saw a set of three humps speeding rapidly away from one of the islands. Being a wildlife expert, he said it couldn't have been elephants playing in the water nor a pid of hippos. He also said it was too large to be a python or sanke of any known kind.
You could make a banger of a film like clash of the titans with this lore. Just needs to be done right because you can easily fall into a politically correct trash film category. Honestly, you could do a lion king concept where the heir hoes into exile fights different beasts from legends and returns to save the kingdom from corruption. Lion king/lord of the ring returns of the king.
Did you know the description of a nkanyamba is exactly the same as that of kukulkan the feather serpent god of the maya. It’s said the serpent uses it’s feathers to hypnotise it’s victims by producing a whistling sound
I was absolutely thrilled with how many of these I don't know. I love learning about new creatures and beings from folklore and mythology. And the Abada was absolutely Metall! It's probably one of my favorite unicorns already. I need to go learn more about it.
@@silverking2181 “Rule of the Shadows” basically is where those from African mythology and legends duke it out ruclips.net/video/HYm775LrQh4/видео.htmlsi=suYn7hSHSIU3YD5b
it is interesting how the majority of spirit water mentioned are mermaid like creatures, a very few considered to be part of the good guys. It's so rich the mythology, hope one day you can make a videos with whole tales of these guys :D
It might have to do with dangerous creatures living in those life giving waters. It's a dichotomy that has given rise to water creatures around the world known for either blessing or harming on seeming whim.
I like Lupe fiasco song concept wav files about the long chains which are the spirits of people who jumped off of slave ships during the trans Atlantic slave trade and gained supernatural powers and then sunk other slave ships within the Atlantic. I think that story needs to be developed more and needs to add Mami Wata.
Seeing that a creature like Mami Wata exists, I wonder why this wasn't used for a good movie script. No, we re-color Arielle, an existing northern creature that's white. Africa has such a rich mythology, that should be material for a bunch of movies, games, stories and what not.
People can laugh all they want… but Africa is also the greatest, most amazing continent on earth. The cradle of civilization. I wouldn’t be surprised at how many cryptids turn out to be true in this primordial piece of earth.
Nah everyone knows how majestic the continent is, it's the majority of people who reside there that make it less appealing and prevent people from wanting to visit it lol
@@LeoBlight boy am I glad they didn't leave, thanks to them by the time I got here there was an education system, I can read and write and understand science, I'd much rather get an operation from a qualified doctor, rather than have people do a ritual dance over me to get the evil spirit out lol some people have different outlooks on that kinda stuff.
@@zh2266this is what boomers sound like when they purposely misconstrue what their youngers have to say because they don't wish to understand and would rather pretend they can't.
Kishi/Bouda are more than likely the same entity just given a different name by different cultures and explains the origin of the Hyena looking Dogmen.
My folks are Ghanian, and growing upI remember my mom would'nt get near bodies of water. Everytime my dad and siblings would play in the ocean or even pools she'd be as far from shore as possible while still being able to see us. Years later shr said she saw Mami Wata growing up. She lived near the coast and it was often used as a boogeyman story to make sure kids came home before nightfall, very similar to La Llorana. I'd completely forgotten about that
You know, so many of these legends would make for an amazing book series or TV show, movies, but you'd have to do it just right. Otherwise you'd lose the whole point of the legends.
Imagine being a 14 yo Zulu kid sitting around board of playing mancala during monsoon season and seeing the lightning and thinking, damn, that would make a bad ass story.....
I wish we had a popular fantasy world based on these creatures and African folklore in general. They sound so cool! Imagine them in a fantasy novel or a movie or a video game. That would be sick. But instead we have hollywood re-filming existing movies with black actors just to pretend they care.
Okay, WOW. I had no idea about most of these. Anyone seeing any major fantasies involving these creatures? Books? Movies? Games? Etc. These would be awesome for a TTRPG, too. Let's get the ball rolling, shall we?
Not that much, even in time without easy information source on internet, people who travelled shared stories and legends frequently. Countless people wrote books which sold and reached all over the world, and even in medieval times you could get books from one continent into another. Europeans travelled to the Himalaya Mountains to see Yeti, and Africans shared stories of mermaids with sailors on the shores of Africa, etc.
Its crazy how things like mermaids, trolls, and others are tales from around the world. It makes me wonder if things like that once existed and the tales are from stories from when humans left africa to colonize more parts of the world.
so the Arielle Remake could have been a "Mami Wata" story which would have brought in something fresh and new but instead they chose to make her a Danish Fairy Tale with a Black Woman.
This is the first time I ever heard the grootslang being capable of shapeshifting, additionally it’s supposed to by a hybrid of Elephant and Serpent. I am going to say that you got some information wrong.
I remember a folklore tale from Africa my mom read to me when I was little. It was about a giant with his heart in his finger & that was the only way to kill him & the hero had to guess. Anyone know this?
Sorry man, but Ga-Gorib is actually a demon or a spirit of evil that lures people into a pit. Also Ga-Gorib can either mean the spotted one or not the spotted one. But let me know if I’m wrong.
indeed Apophis is from Egypt, but is not quite considered a creature / monster. It is more like a symbolic and mythological entity embodying themes of darkness and eternal struggle. Its essence differs from the creatures I discussed in this video.
Egypt could have an entire video all it's own. But, then I'm sure there are a great many more creatures that were left unexplored in this one. Africa is kinda huge.
I can think of such things like rage, depression, indignance, hysteria, numbness, confidence, desire, drive, and such. man, happines, sadness, fear, disgust and anger are only a peice of the puzzle, human are complex ig
What's your favorite creature from African Folklore and why?
I like the Impundulu since they remind me of the Native American Thunderbirds; they're totally badass.
Little correction the bouda or boudai are not creatures or cryptids from Morocco but from Ethiopia. Besides great video , I was expecting to here about the eloko but its ok ... Keep up
From ur video its the Bouda but my favourite is the Eloko
Ananasi
🙂The Jengu water spirit, I think mermaids are pretty cool.
You know what would be cool? An open-world game based on African mythology. Not just with the monsters, but the amazing wildlife as well.
It would be cool if we could also learn about actual African cultures as well.
I agree. Our wildlife and folklore beings need to be learnt about in the West and the rest of the world.
Starring T'challa/Black Panther, Shuri, Nakia and Okoye
@@corneliusfarrell8673 we said Actual African Culture. Wakanda is cool, but it's not real.
@@ladykoiwolfe ik im just using it for fiction
It seems like every culture in the world share similar folkloric creatures. The ones that seem almost universal are water spirits, mischievious imp/goblin-like creatures, terrifying vampiric creatures, boogeyman-like creatures, and some kind of serpentine/dragon-like creature.
This was an interesting video.
Interesting fact….if you seclude a population for 1000 years with no contact with society or knowledge of things before hand it’s 100% guaranteed they will have a myth or legend of dragons that links almost directly with at least one culture from the outside world
Even spiders. No matter where in the world, you just can’t escape spiders
@@talkingdomination1928Antarctica is safe
well when u take into account that they are also considered "Spirits"...."
lucifer took 1/3 of the angels with him.
Also powerful being descending from the sky
Thank you for tapping into african culture. 😊
African mythology is perhaps the most mysterious, intriguing and interesting.
What makes you say that?
The patronising mythos of the mysterious dark continent? Sick of it.
It's too often packaged as monolithic "African Mythology" and rubs me the wrong way.
@@bobdrooplesgod you need to touch grass
@@Talleyhoooo I can guarantee you've misattributed me and read loaded words where none was meant.
Touch grass? Pass, it's winter and the time for tales in front of the fire.
@@bobdrooples that comment somehow made your original’s even more cringe and stupid than before
@@bobdrooples You need to grow up dude
Epic video. I loved it. Thank you. One powerful being that was left out is the Nyami-Nyami from the Zambezi River and Lake Kariba between my country of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and Zambia 🇿🇲 ( where I live as a wildlife conservationist ). He is a River God in the form of a Serpent who protects the land and people in times of hardship and trouble. During the '50s, when the Kariba dam wall was being built, huge stroms and floods pounded the construction with some lives being lost in the process. The Tonga people of whom he helps say it was his wrath against the disrespect of the river and Kariba Gorge. Since then, sightings of a serpetine being have been seen ( similar to the Loch Ness Monster ). What makes it more fascinating is the fact my father, who is a game ranger, saw a set of three humps speeding rapidly away from one of the islands. Being a wildlife expert, he said it couldn't have been elephants playing in the water nor a pid of hippos. He also said it was too large to be a python or sanke of any known kind.
Monster Hunter needs to take more inspiration from all these cultures, some of these are bone chillingly amazing
Ahhh, there's that African Folklore vid I've been waiting for. Thanks, mate.
You did my country's legends proud
You could make a banger of a film like clash of the titans with this lore.
Just needs to be done right because you can easily fall into a politically correct trash film category.
Honestly, you could do a lion king concept where the heir hoes into exile fights different beasts from legends and returns to save the kingdom from corruption.
Lion king/lord of the ring returns of the king.
Did you know the description of a nkanyamba is exactly the same as that of kukulkan the feather serpent god of the maya. It’s said the serpent uses it’s feathers to hypnotise it’s victims by producing a whistling sound
Inkanyamba’s also kind of a storm god, apparently.
Thank you for sharing the mythology with us
thank you m8 for being our follower!
@@MythosTheHistorian I always liked accurate history and good content
Impundulu makes me think of Thunderbirds from Native American Folklore .
Yes! They are quite similar!
@@MythosTheHistorian You definitely don't want to get on their bad side...
This is what I was kinda thinking
Amazing bro,thanks for this knowledge
Holy hell. I want to hear THESE stories. But not told by Hollywood writers.
I was absolutely thrilled with how many of these I don't know. I love learning about new creatures and beings from folklore and mythology. And the Abada was absolutely Metall! It's probably one of my favorite unicorns already. I need to go learn more about it.
Another interesting and entertaining video. Thanks and keep up the good work.
A very rich, interesting tapestry.
As RotS got the likes of
0:20 Tokoloshe
1:54 Popobawa
9:08 Kishi
9:41 Werehyena
10:38 Adze
I appreciate u for the new names I could add to the lore 🍪
What is Rots ?
@@silverking2181 “Rule of the Shadows” basically is where those from African mythology and legends duke it out
ruclips.net/video/HYm775LrQh4/видео.htmlsi=suYn7hSHSIU3YD5b
@@silverking2181 rule of the shadows
@@chancelorsantos9039 Thank you !
Cool , finally some Africa
Nice. I have seen some of these in my D&D/Pathfinder books.They need to be in video games and movies.
it is interesting how the majority of spirit water mentioned are mermaid like creatures, a very few considered to be part of the good guys. It's so rich the mythology, hope one day you can make a videos with whole tales of these guys :D
some of them will have definitely their own video sin the future :)
It might have to do with dangerous creatures living in those life giving waters. It's a dichotomy that has given rise to water creatures around the world known for either blessing or harming on seeming whim.
I like Lupe fiasco song concept wav files about the long chains which are the spirits of people who jumped off of slave ships during the trans Atlantic slave trade and gained supernatural powers and then sunk other slave ships within the Atlantic.
I think that story needs to be developed more and needs to add Mami Wata.
Seeing that a creature like Mami Wata exists, I wonder why this wasn't used for a good movie script. No, we re-color Arielle, an existing northern creature that's white.
Africa has such a rich mythology, that should be material for a bunch of movies, games, stories and what not.
Mermaids aren't white, they're fictional.
Kianda art looks drop dead gorgeous
People can laugh all they want…
but Africa is also the greatest, most amazing continent on earth.
The cradle of civilization. I wouldn’t be surprised at how many cryptids turn out to be true in this primordial piece of earth.
Nah everyone knows how majestic the continent is, it's the majority of people who reside there that make it less appealing and prevent people from wanting to visit it lol
@@JessicaD.-vb9hoyeah I guess that’s what colonization would do to a place. It’s sad!
@@LeoBlight hmmm weird other colonized places aren't in the same state then.
@@JessicaD.-vb9ho yeah. I guess that happens when the colonizers don’t actually leave! That is weird.
@@LeoBlight boy am I glad they didn't leave, thanks to them by the time I got here there was an education system, I can read and write and understand science, I'd much rather get an operation from a qualified doctor, rather than have people do a ritual dance over me to get the evil spirit out lol some people have different outlooks on that kinda stuff.
Amazing video thank you man
Glad you liked it!
These pictures are so cool!
I love mythology. I took a mythology and anthropology course one time. Awesome time.
It’d be awesome to have a connected movie-verse based entirely on African folklore.
Monsterverse
@@SandMan1998 except they aren’t monsters, so it’s not really a monsterverse.
It'd be on considered too "woke" but a lot of folk
@@zh2266 not necessarily.
@@zh2266this is what boomers sound like when they purposely misconstrue what their youngers have to say because they don't wish to understand and would rather pretend they can't.
Thank you for sharing these, I didn’t even know about some before this video
This is yet to be my favourite ❤️ one
This was awesome, thanks
I love how many shapeshifters there are i do wonder exactly why that is
I have been waiting for this thank you 😊
Some of these creatures are cool,
Great video its so inspiring for Africans and Black People and the rest world to know African Mythology
We also have Mami Wata in Guadeloupe, we call her Manman Dlo (same thing but in creole).
I'd recommend the book Black Leopard Red Wolf, a grim dark Afro-fantasy that features several of these monsters.
The Dark Continent strikes again.
Nicely presented though fella. 👍
Very interesting
Thank you guys💯💯💯💯💯💯
Kishi/Bouda are more than likely the same entity just given a different name by different cultures and explains the origin of the Hyena looking Dogmen.
Not really kishi a man , in fact a very attractive man who seduces woman and it's done he devours them with the hyena heard at the back of his head
I enjoy this video very much then.
I like how the big spider is just a goofy guy looking to have a good time
Pretty cool! Never thought about african mythology. They seem to like shape-shifting things
We need a Witcher-esc game focussed on different Afro-inspired regions with this lineup and more!
My folks are Ghanian, and growing upI remember my mom would'nt get near bodies of water. Everytime my dad and siblings would play in the ocean or even pools she'd be as far from shore as possible while still being able to see us. Years later shr said she saw Mami Wata growing up. She lived near the coast and it was often used as a boogeyman story to make sure kids came home before nightfall, very similar to La Llorana. I'd completely forgotten about that
You know, so many of these legends would make for an amazing book series or TV show, movies, but you'd have to do it just right. Otherwise you'd lose the whole point of the legends.
Imagine being a 14 yo Zulu kid sitting around board of playing mancala during monsoon season and seeing the lightning and thinking, damn, that would make a bad ass story.....
Beautiful artwork 👌👌👌🔥
So basically all African folklores boil down to “be careful outside the village or you will get eaten by something” seems like pretty good advice.
I wish we had a popular fantasy world based on these creatures and African folklore in general. They sound so cool! Imagine them in a fantasy novel or a movie or a video game. That would be sick. But instead we have hollywood re-filming existing movies with black actors just to pretend they care.
Fascinating, thank you! Good to see the Mngwa :)
Imagine a soulslike with African mythology
Okay, WOW. I had no idea about most of these. Anyone seeing any major fantasies involving these creatures? Books? Movies? Games? Etc. These would be awesome for a TTRPG, too. Let's get the ball rolling, shall we?
The fantasy adventure i can make with these creatures in it can win me several awards.
Anansi, my man!
Speaking as a white Zimbabwean 🇿🇼, thank you for revealing our continents' rich and fascinating folklore and beings to the world.
You are a white colonizer in Zimbabwe! Not your continent. You come from the caves in Europe, and you have your own folklore
I am Grootslang!.....I'll see myself out now lol
Would be cool to see these monsters in the Monster Verse Kaiju films
Have to wonder if these images are AI generated. I liked them and the narration.
Thx
My favorite is dingonek 🐊🐆
This came into my feed and i thought to myself "if the real ones are so dangerous what are the myths like"
anybody else find it interesting that even in the deep jungles of africa they still know what mermaids are?
Mermaid folklore is in much of the world. In Japanese myth, they’re called Ningyō. However, over there, they are more monstrous in appearance.
Not that much, even in time without easy information source on internet, people who travelled shared stories and legends frequently. Countless people wrote books which sold and reached all over the world, and even in medieval times you could get books from one continent into another. Europeans travelled to the Himalaya Mountains to see Yeti, and Africans shared stories of mermaids with sailors on the shores of Africa, etc.
Bingo time!
-Shapeshifter
-Crocodile
-A woman
-Serpent
-Vampire
-Dinosaur
-Slightly altered animal
🤯 dude.
Lol @ a woman
I remember how Disneys gargoyles has Anansi, but as a villain not a hero.
You've got ads on your vids now ,good for you ,seems like an infection to us watchers
Its crazy how things like mermaids, trolls, and others are tales from around the world. It makes me wonder if things like that once existed and the tales are from stories from when humans left africa to colonize more parts of the world.
I never knew anansi wasnt just a gaiman creation neat
It is weird how many on these shared among disconnected cultures all around the world.
The pronunciations are hilarious. Blees you for eternity, my good man!
Grootslang means bigsnake in dutch, which south african is loosely similar to, made me chuckle
maybe make the video even shorter , like they make the african continent smaller than it is on all globes and almost every map of the world ;)
so the Arielle Remake could have been a "Mami Wata" story which would have brought in something fresh and new but instead they chose to make her a Danish Fairy Tale with a Black Woman.
There are a lot of errors in this, but still nicely done.
This is the first time I ever heard the grootslang being capable of shapeshifting, additionally it’s supposed to by a hybrid of Elephant and Serpent.
I am going to say that you got some information wrong.
I remember a folklore tale from Africa my mom read to me when I was little. It was about a giant with his heart in his finger & that was the only way to kill him & the hero had to guess. Anyone know this?
God of war in Africa!!!
Tikoloshe sound like forest Gnomes or Duendes.
I like how that one is just a Seal , they are aggressive for sure
Groot slang is Dutch for big snake
8:14 gorgeous, fictional woman 😅
So was that final one.
Sorry man, but Ga-Gorib is actually a demon or a spirit of evil that lures people into a pit.
Also Ga-Gorib can either mean the spotted one or not the spotted one.
But let me know if I’m wrong.
Love the video, great source of inspiration!
You forgot to add the most popular of all among all the Nigerians “Ojuju Calaber”.
I like how the last one was tyla if you know you know
I'm seeing a fertile ground for many movies.
God of war sequel?
What if lake Victoria has a tiny population of of some sort of walrus? The dingoneks description sounds like a walrus to me.
Grootslang literally means big snake
Alrighty then, here I go down the African Mythology rabbit hole
Wait! Where’s Apophis? Isn’t that from Egypt too?
indeed Apophis is from Egypt, but is not quite considered a creature / monster. It is more like a symbolic and mythological entity embodying themes of darkness and eternal struggle. Its essence differs from the creatures I discussed in this video.
Egypt could have an entire video all it's own. But, then I'm sure there are a great many more creatures that were left unexplored in this one. Africa is kinda huge.
The scariest one of all is the dreaded job application.
8:38 didn’t expect Anansi to be good deity ngl
Hm I looked up Ga-Gorib and all I'm finding is a demon that tells people to throw stones at his head only to bounce off and kill.
I can think of such things like rage, depression, indignance, hysteria, numbness, confidence, desire, drive, and such. man, happines, sadness, fear, disgust and anger are only a peice of the puzzle, human are complex ig
Persona Game with Africsn folklore or at least Personas featuring those Creatures.
Never knew our people had so many vampires in our mythology
54 countries in the african continent... i think this is too "summarized"
the name you looking for is KHOSA which is a clan and not "corsa"
Isn't Emela ntouka the horned elephant killer.
Tokoloshi and Inkanyamba exist