Miscellaneous Myths: Animal Brides
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"My first girlfriend turned into a fox."
"That's rough buddy."
Darian wuz here better then the moon
Insert: "I understood that reference"
I mean, that's the only thing you CAN say in that situation.
Yeah, but at least the second one was a kickass warrior.
Zack V Poor Sokka
Headcanon that the fox wife story actually ends with the two reconciling because that was the only wholesome one damnit.
The fox passes by the hunter's hut one day and smells the stew she would always make for him, and she realizes how much he misses her.
Edited to improve grammar
On rewatch, I think there is actually some deeper meaning about relationship dynamics there. He never did anything to "deserve" his doting fox wife, she chose him for whatever spontaneous reason and he just went along with it. And that means she can be just as fickle and impulsive about leaving him again. Just like real people may fall in love with the idea of a person in their head, that love will shatter quickly for seemingly minor causes because that's when you're forced to reconcile this idea with the fact that there's a real person that may be drastically different from what you saw in them.
Mind if I steal that concept for a myth I’m working on for my fantasy AU pantheon?
@@olenickel6013 Makes some sense. Foxes are typically seen as fickle and capricious anyway, so that behavior falls in line with the general characterization.
I find it a bit weird that everyone calls the home invading fox lady wholesome...
Lesson 1: Don't kidnap your wife and start a relationship under false pretenses.
Lesson 2: Don't kidnap your wife, force her to marry you, and then murder her family because she escaped.
Lesson 3: Don't say that she smells.
All in all, good life lessons.
True. But if you need to be taught the first two...
@@nunosilva6574 Yeah, you'd think they'd be self-evident.
...
(Sips from a jug of iced tea, Kermit style.)
I’d like to say that the third is most applicable.
You’ll die either way :D
@Revenante the PseudoBrit Well now I can't stop reading your comment in Kermit's voice :D
There's a surprisingly wholesome Maine/Nova Scotia version I heard where the fisherman finds a Selkie's skin, and takes it home without knowing what it is. That night, she knocks on his door, explains what it is, and that she can't return to the water without it. The fisherman makes to return it, but before he can, the selkie admits she's sort of taken with him, and admits that if he gives it back, she'll be compelled to return to the sea. They spend a few weeks together, and are getting along great, but the fisherman notices she's spending more and more time pining and staring out at the sea, and is growing increasingly unhappy. He decides it's better for her to return to the sea, he returns the skin, and she thanks him before going into the ocean.
Cut to a few years later. The guy's married to a totally unrelated woman who doesn't know about his fling, and has a daughter. The wife and daughter are taking his boat out into the bay for a quick tour around, but a sudden, nasty squall pops up. The boat capsizes, but the wife and daughter are dragged ashore by a small group of seals. As they're dumped onto the beach, and left behind, the last seal turns around, and quietly says "Some kinds of love can never be taken back." before going back into the sea.
That is both cute and heart warming
Bitch kidnapped him
One one hand awwwwws on the other oh dear the seal just kidnapped someone that’s messed up
Sweet, the selkie saves the family of the man she loves from drowning.
Where does it say he was kidnapped? The wife and daughter were on the boat, not him
In Finland it's the reverse. A woman turns into a fish to avoid getting married to the hero of the story.
Yeah, the drowning analogy isn't very subtle.
I initially misread this comment as “hetero if the story” and I was like yeah that makes sense why she wouldn’t want that I suppose good for her
There was a celtic myth about a migrating tribe who lost all their men, so the sole surviving guy looks all the women, jumps into the sea and turns into an immortal fish.
Honestly, same.
Wait, there's an analogy? I thought she literally just drowned herself.
The Kalevala is a fun read. Another gem from it is when a smith made a waifu out of gold, but then realized how pathetic he looked with a metallic sex doll in his house and tried to pawn it off on his friend (the same guy who caused the lady to turn into a fish).
"hey that's an odd smell is everything ok"
"honey im getting a divorce"
"why"
"because you insulted my fur"
Still ended better that the other two relationships.
Btw, we didn't got the reason why the fox lady decided to be the dude's wife in the first place.
She was lonely? Or the guy just was a good hunter and that alone made him top grade mate material by fox standards?
Don't tell your waifu she smelly cause she leave you if you do
Technically it was the natural musk smell...
*Still a better love story than twilight*
Heccin furrys
That fox is amazingly bold to just stroll into someone's house and go "I'm your wife now." Like that is the kind of self confidence you only hear stories about.
To be fair that's sorta what foxes do in the wild too. They kinda meet up. If they like each other they start screaming like "YAS TRU LOVE BITCHES" Then have Cubs XD;.
I guess a human fox was the same way.
@@ChasehaWing I think I like that even more, that fox culture is just proposing to someone on the spot if you think they're cute.
Can confirm. That's how my fox deity parents got together, back in my home universe.
Can you imagine if humans did this though? They just break into their crush's house and asserts themself
Senko-San
Okay, turns out this video was made almost a year ago, but here I go anyway: I recently heard that the (potential) reason why there's so many myths in so many cultures of fishermen finding and taking a magical female sea creature's magical sea creature clothes that they use to turn into a sea creature, and the wife eventually leaving, is a way to explain to children where their mother is gone after the mother has died. It's a way to help children cope with death. 'Your mother isn't dead, she just returned to the sea. If you go down to the sea and look closely, you might see her in her animal form.' A lot of these stories are problematic, but that origin makes sense and is super sweet. It also explains why SO many cultures have essentially the same story.
This reminds me of a book called The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulix. It's about this guy who's family is from Newfoundland, moving back to Newfoundland after his abusive wife dies in a car crash. One of the main conflicts of the story is one of his daughters not understanding her mother is dead and gone, since he kinda botches telling her about it. It's a great book.
This reminds me of a movie called Song of the Sea, it was a movie about a girl named Saoirse who was a selkie, she inherited it from her mother who was also a selkie and had to return to the sea. It was such a beautiful movie, I definitely reccomend it
@MV Ace The theory is that the purpose of the myth drifted with multiple retellings, so the kidnapping bit is an addition to a much older and less structured story.
Totally makes sense considering how common it was for a mother to die during child birth or shortly after due to complications.
you're breaking my heart
The reason why the focus this time is Animal "Bride" because we all know that ZEUS is the quintessential Animal Husband.
Mc Jethro Pov Tee There are quite a few animal groom stories that don’t involve Zeus.
animal rapist...wait, he's a rapist who TURNS into animals not that he rapes animals (although this is Zeus we're talking about)
Dont talk about hera like that
Poseidon also belongs in this group
@@lunatickgeo He also likes turning his victims into animals whenever Hera pops up.
Read into that what you will.
‘If your wife smells a little funny, don’t say anything.’ -> moral of the fox bride story
Out of all of these stories the 3rd was my favorite, Why you ask?
Because the wedding was CONSENSUAL.
Definitely more consensual, was I the only one a little wierded out that fox lady just kinda... decided to marry a guy and basically stalked him, invading his home and then decreed herself his wife?
I mean he didn't _disagree..._
And I for one wouldn't mind the smell, cause my nose is pretty dead
@@adityasundaram3602 ditto, I go noseblind pretty easily too
@@justjoking5252 Well I suppose you gotta take whatever life throws at you.
There’s one story from Scotland about a man and his brothers discovering Selkie maidens dancing along the night shore. The eldest told him and his second oldest to grab a skin so that they could have a bride of their own. Pressured, he took one and each of them had their own Selkie wife. But the man saw how sad his wife was and how much she missed the sea and since he loved her so much, he couldn’t bear the thought of keeping her away from what she loved. So he gave her back her skin and she returned to the ocean. Meanwhile his brothers also lost their wives, the eldest’s wife found her skin and sneaked into the night and was never seen again, the second eldest tried to burn the skin and his wife chased after it into the flames burning to death. But as the man sat on the beach he heard his wife’s voice calling his name and to his surprise she was next to him and said, “I watched you from the ocean, and I missed you. I’m able to walk on land for only a while until I have to return. Walk with me?” And so the two continued to meet each other whenever she was available to walk on land. I’ve always thought that story had a sweet ending
That's actually really sweet
the story is good aside from the two older ash*le but the last one is good
Saying sorry and taking action to make things right really goes a long way to mending old wounds
The number of diff selkie stories in scotland are so numerous you get all the different animal wife flavors
personally my fave selkie story are the seal hunter/seal king one, specifically the itteration where the Seal hunter gets menaced by an intimedating male selkie for hurting their king.
(Note heavily implied in those versions that selkies hold stable jobs on the surface and commonly have families)
First two stories: Tales of men lying, manipulating, kidnapping, and forcing women into marriage
Final story: a man is mildly uncomfortable with his wife's flatulence....
Clearly the Inuits had different priorities
To be fair it was never said to be a good thing they did that.
@@annieandelsieofarendelle3294 We're also hearing Red recount them, so it's not totally clear whose side the original storytellers would have taken, if any. Of course, in any case her interpretation of the characters definitely seems to be pretty accurate.
I guess he wasn't into it
Ironic, have you even smelt Alaskan native food? lmao
Tru
First story: "The only reason I'm not mutilating you is because you fessed up and gave it back!"
Second story: "... You are a horrible person."
Third story: "How dare you have a minor issue with something about me!"
LuckyOwl well in all fairness, he DID insult her natural musk
I don't know how exactly it's worded in the original story but he could just have noticed there's a stink that's not usually around, wondering what it is.
The mature and measured response would have been to tell him that's her smell and ask him if he's fine with that.
And then he could have been either like "heck no, get out you stinky fox", "let's see if i can get used to this and see how it works out" or "A little musk does not inconvenience me. Losing you, my love, would stink way more!"
Morale of the story: "Don't impulsively divorce because of one thoughtless comment your partner made without knowing what was up but talk things trough"
Or something...
Foxes smell absolutely horrendous. Fox pee is sprayed on trees in the winter so that the smell will deter people illegally cutting them down for free Christmas trees.
Not a minor issue lol...fox musk, and especially fox *urine*, reeks. And most ladies don’t like to be told they stink :p
@@sagesaria this is one of the few stories where nose blind people would benefit
"Don't marry animals" a message humans still have to be regularly reminded of.
Why don't we ask the animals first? What does the fox say? "Hi, I am your wife now."
Bestiality is one helluva drug! *hue hue hue*
Garfield is Awesome oh wow so original a trump joke, it’s even less funny than the Hilary ones, bush jokes tho, those are pretty good
@Garfield is Awesome Why is that relevant again?
These myths seem to imply that some animal marriages lasted for years and went very well
You forgot the Kitsune myths of Japan. My favourite is the fox and the brothel.
There was a wood-cutter who lived in a hit just outside a rather mean village. He did not believe in eating meat so he did no hunting. One day while out in the woods he finds a young vixen ensured in a trap. Being an honest man he can not rob someone of their gains. So he returns to his hut and gets out a silver piece, the result of much saving. He returns to the fox, releasing her from the snare and tying the silver piece in her place as payment.
The vixen follows him home, limping along behind him before dashing off into the bushes. A few days later a beautiful lady wrapped in fine clothes appears at his hut. Thinking that she has merely gotten lost he comes out and prostrates himself before her.
"Rise", she says, "for I am the fox that your humanity set free from the snare the other night. Who's life you purchased with a silver piece."
"I have taken this form so I may repay you as I may. And shall serve you with fealty for as long as you live." The Kitsune says.
"Oh mistress of magic. I am eight times rewarded by this your visit. I am but a poor forester and you a repository of all beauty. I pray you, not make sport of my low condition." The wood-cutter replies.
"Then let me see you recieve riches that you deserve. Tomorrow, dress in your finest clothes and meet me in my true form by the ravine where you saved me and I shall lead you to your reward." The Kitsune replied.
So the man did as she asked and met her at the ravine in the finest clothes the poor man could afford. He followed the fox, the vixen hiding in the underbrush at the sight of other travelers until they came to a small city and to the shrine of Inari.
The fox leapt into the temple and emerged again as a beautiful woman wrapped in the finest of clothes. "Now, take me down to the brothel and sell me to whoever runs it." She bid the wood-cutter.
"No, I cannot sell you to that cruelty." The honest man replied. "It would go against oaths given to harm another so willingly. And the worse for personal gain."
"You need not be worried. For once the deal has been struck and your money recieved I shall go out into the garden and resume my natural form." She replied. "Thus you gain the rewards you justly deserve and evil intent is justly rewarded."
And so he did as the lady bid him. Coming to the most expensive brothel he could find. Where purse-proud princes and lordlings did go. Such was the lady's beauty that they had a trail of admirers as they approached.
There the wood-cutter spun a story about how he had fallen on hard times and now he must sell his only daughter to bondage.
The master of the house offered a high price of 30 gold Ryo and the wood-cutter would have gladly signed. But the fox daughter interrupted him, saying "father while I will obey you in this as I do in all else I would not think I was worth so little." To the greedy master she said "I think that you said 60ryo. For in better times my perfume alone cost more then you are offering."
"Have mercy and take 50" the greedy man replied.
"There is a house down the street father, where a prince that would not find me unattractive is said to frequent. Perhaps we should try there as this is not as good a house as we were led to believe." The fox lady replied.
So the greedy man gave over the 60ryo and set her in the house to be draped in jewels and silks. She was then set at the window where her beauty caused the streets to become blocked as men could not take their eyes of her.
The greedy man through a big feast wherein the Kitsune disguised outshone even the moon. But there the lights suddenly flickered and went out.
The Kitsune cried out. "A man has fumbled me. Quick get a light and we shall see who it is as I have torn off his hat tassel."
For which another man called out "we have all been drinking overmuch, and I bid each of you tear off your hat tassel, for sometimes ignorance is better then knowledge." So that when the light came on there was no way to tell who had taken liberties.
The fox lady cried out that she would not stand for such injustice and see did not wish to live any longer. She threw open the doors to run into the garden. Wherein she stripped herself of all the finary and threw it in the fast moving river. By the time the others had entered the garden she had resumed the shape of a fix and darted out to freedom.
The men liked up and down the river but could not find a body, only the clothes she had been wearing at the time.
The next day the wood-cutter stood outside his hut. And the beautiful fox lady appeared before him again once more clad in the finest clothes and jewels money could imagine. "Have I not kept my fox-word?"
"Yes you had, many times over. Now I have land and a new house is being built." The man replied with a bow.
"Would not you want me as your wife?" The lady asked, as men were known to be greedy. Particularly once they got a taste of the finer things of life.
"Nay," the man said prostrating himself once more. "For such a beautiful woman deserves an equal for a mate."
The lady tilted her head intrigued. She was well aware of her allure and knew the man was not unatracted to her in this form.
"Tomorrow return to the house that you left me and offer to buy me back. As they cannot produce me they will have to pay restitution."
So the man did as he was bid and returned to the brothel the next day.
"Good sir. My fortunes have suddenly returned to me. For my brother has passed leaving all his estates to me. I have come to buy back my beloved daughter with the money you gave me and the legal interest."
The greedy man tries to out him off with excuses but was eventually forced to admit the girl had drowned herself. Upon hearing that the man lamented claiming nothing but ill-treatment would have driven her to do so. He said that he would go to the magistrate and have him brought up on charges of murder. So the greedy man rushed to his moneybox and got him the 200ryo as was due.
Another day passed and the Kitsune once more appeared, garbed this tune in nothing but the smooth whiteness of her skin.
The man his his eyes behind his hands, for such beauty he believe was not for him to gaze upon.
"Have I not kept my fox-word?" the lady asked once more.
"You have, and many times over." The wood-cutter replied. "I am now the wealthiest man in these parts."
"Look upon me, would you not possess me as your cocumbine?" The fox lady replied.
And the man despite himself peeped between his fingers. "Forgive me for gazing upon you as such." He cried at his moment of weakness.
The fox smiled at him.
"I can not do as you ask for I am man and you a fox." He said sadly.
"500yeara I had walked this world and not once has merit to not take what they long for." The fox replied.
"Until your death I will remain human. Only upon your death may I regain my original form." She called out asking that he at least would create a place for her family to live whilst separated.
The man agreed and not only built a home for his wife to live in but a shrine to Inari was erected.
And for once the story ends in happily ever after. Though there are variations. Some say they never marry and the Kitsune remains in her fox form to guard family and Descendents until they forget the humility that their forefather showed and become greedy. (Wherefore she either destroyed the family back to its beginnings of a poor man in a hut. Or she alternatively abandons them.)
There's another version wherein upon the wood-cutters death the children become foxes and they and the wife disappear.
There's a few other variations but the core of it remains the same.
Dope story, thanks for sharing
*sniffle* it's so beautiful... i look at this for 5 hours now
Thank you for sharing the lovely story
Thank you for sharing this wonderful tale ❤️
Thank you for taking the time to share this whole story!
And the moral of the story:
Don't tell a woman she stinks, she won't like it.
You should've told me that before my third failed relationship for this exact reason, why didn't I think about this?
Good to Know 👍
Thats just the tip of the ice burg don't say shes fat always mention her hair and never i mean never for get her aniversari because god forbid if you forget her special day 😨
Don't tell red that I ship her and yellow
@@agentmysterious6682 not a word ☺🤐
Inuit Hunter at the other guys in this video: "what the literal hell is WRONG with you!?"
They'd probably respond, "Well at least we didn't say that our wife stinks." And the Inuit Hunter would respond, "That was an innocent mistake! What you did was sociopathic!"
I feel kind of bad for the fox guy, he didn’t mean she smelled, just that his house did, and his wife just left forever because of it, the other two are just strait up monsters
"And you! Seal lover! WTH! You don't just eat your ex's family!"
@@Shins_Jim "First you have to boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew"
@@Shins_Jim you thought you could just leave Brittney
Me: mom I’m in love with a bird
Mom: *sigh* you are a constant shame to this family
Your mom is right bro
Furries in a nutshell
That's enough Hatoful Boyfriend for you, mister.
oh good god
... Tesla, is that you?.
Countries when choosing animals for that format.
Finland: We are going to choose swan! They are incredibly beautiful and one of the symbols of our country!
Norway: We going to choose Seals! They also pretty and they are important to us!
Russia: *FROGS*
There's a lot of them ok.
@@justas423 I don't know why that's so funny to me
as a wise man once said,
"frogs come pre-lubed!"
Ok but frog wife is op
Ireland: "Fish."
Everyone else: "I thought it was-"
Ireland: "IT'S FISH..."
- A fox randomly shows up and cleans a guys house for him -
There's an anime about this
Wait really? Lol
Oh shit
Not just an anime. It stems from the Japanese kitsune myth.
Sounds like a kitsune got really lost and realized that she went to another continent when she's busted.
Yeah and it actually disturbs me, no offense if you love it...but why did Senko have to look like a 12 year old who's staying with this obviously unrelated to her guy and doing all his chores for him for some reason, seriously, couldn't the writers thought of something more child appropriate, dear lord!
There is a Japanese one which is completely different from these called the Crane maiden. It's actually really sad. A farmer finds a crane in a trap and frees it. The crane then goes to him in her human form and marries him. Things go pretty well until the farmer gets sick. They're too poor to get the medicine until the crane wife starts to make beautiful robes and is able to buy him medicine. He starts to get better, but his wife gets sick. He grows ill again and finds her plucking her feathers in crane form to make the clothes to sell. She was using her own fethers to make the clothes to buy her husband's medicine. In the end, they both die. The man from illness and the crane from working herself to death.
Rosebriar42 That’s absolutely depressing in a kinda beautiful way. I’m kinda at a loss for what, if any moral there is though. I guess just don’t get sick.
Remember kids, hygiene, or you’ll die of the plague and your bird wife will tear out her own feathers until she dies. Got it?
Kids: But what if I don’t get married.
Umm... then you’ll cough out your ribs, they’ll turn into flesh eating bugs and feast on your skin.
Kids: *grow up healthy and traumatized*
@@JustinTK416 ruclips.net/video/y0dvRMnmN2w/видео.html
@@JustinTK416 Thoughts: it might be that marriage requires sacrifice, and that might involve you both dying in the end. It's a sad story but it's bittersweet as neither has to grieve the other. Just a thought here. Might not be the intention at all.
woah i've heard this story before but no anime told me it ended like that
I believe another version has it as the crane wife telling her husband not to look behind the screen she hides herself behind when she’s at work, and as these stories go, he looks anyway, sees the wife in her crane form, and she ends up flying away.
Noooooo not the guitar. How else will we hear reds beautiful singing now
@Odi or an ukelele
Big appreciation for how you drew the selkie woman as bigger. It always seems weird how many artists draw selkies as really skinny? Like seals are big, round, and really strong, theres no way their human forms would be all skinny and small how so many people draw them
To be honest, I always interpreted that as the magic of the seal skin, where they put on blubber as a seal, but shedding the skin also takes the blubber with it.
There's similar but slightly different take on this myths in mongolia. The story goes like this:
There was a mother of four whose children were extremely naughty. She does everything for them but gets nothing but rude and naught.
When she falls ill and asks her children to bring water to her ofc the children act like jerk and do nothing for her. Mother then brings out her deel(traditional clothing), wears it and transforms into a cuckoo to fly away.
When the children cries out for her to come back, she only says that it's too late to ask for forgiveness now.
And that's why cuckoos always leave their eggs in different bird's nest.
That's dark... But funny
Dang
and maybe that's why they don't like blondes wearing green or blue tunics
@@synderthmc Ha-ha, true! 👌
Eh, screw those kids
The moral of these stories is that a forced relationship will not hold strong, and more subtly that you shouldn't marry someone without knowing them first no matter how beautiful they are.
And maybe ask a few questions if someone randomly appears in your house, claiming to be married to you now.
Only the seal story had a forced relationship, though. The swan was tricked out of the swan form, but the relationship seemed natural and happy. The fox one also had both parties consenting.
@@lohto3 forced is not only by brute force but also trickery, anyways it ties in nicely with my second point
Moral of the stories:
1. Don't keep secrets
2. Kidnapping = bad
And the most important rule...
3. NEVER question a lady's choice of perfume
plus: when your mom tell you to kidnap someone, ask question.
Don't seduce someone under false pretenses.
and the obvious one. Don’t kidnap/rape a woman just coz u think she’s pretty
When I saw the title, I REALLY hoped this would include the time when Loki was a pregnant horse.
If you want to see a myth about that go on a kind ale wars channel
Hannah Sutter My favorite part is how the original text confirms that, when Loki was walking across the Rainbow Bridge with his eight-legged horse progeny Slepnir & Heimdall gave them both a look, Loki blew a raspberry at him.
WHAT?
...i have many questions
@@ireneshelton3661 The short version is : The gods made a bet with a giant that he couldn't build a wall around Asgard in... a year IIRC, he almost manages it thanks to his horse helping him carry bricks, so Loki distracts the horse by turning into a mare and, well, mating with the stallion. Then later he shows up with his new son the eight-legged horse Sleipnir, which becomes Odins steed.
The fox wife story was actually insanely cute and rather wholesome until the end.
Yes, trespassing into someones home and stalking them is definitely "cute and wholesome."
If my dude hadn’t ask about the smell, he would have the “perfect wife”
@@hunterkoons2008 Well, she's a fox a thousand years before the internet. It's not like she can swipe right or something.
Ah yes, when guy steals a woman as a wife it is creepy but when an animal woman enters man's house without his consent and starts living there it is "cute".
@@MrDUneven Well to be fair that's how cats domesticated themselves. They moved into our barns, ate the rats eating our crops, and both parties were happy with the exchange.
The second moral of the story is don't suggest your wife smells bad
Quinn Platzer sound advice
Nah, that's actually the third moral.
The *second* moral is not to kill your ex's family.
You know, he could have avoided pissing her off if he'd just phrased things differently: "Hey, honey, I've noticed that the house is smelling very different since you moved in, are you putting some sort of scented herbs in the fire or something?"
Then she tells him it's her natural musk, cause, you know, Fox-lady who has a totally hot mate and just, damn, she can't help it! Which as an Inuit man he'd totally be aware of, what that means, and he'd be like, "Oh... Cool! Wanna snuggle BAE?" and resolve himself to get used to it and cover himself with that scent all the time in order to help...
And, HAPPY ending...
@@AlexanderRJaruk I'm pretty sure the were-foxes that resulted would be constantly picked on by the were-wolves sired by the Eskimo who lives down the Tundra.
Makes sense
"Don't marry animals."
Xu Xian and the white snake: "are we a joke to you?"
Well... at least Xu didn't kidnap her
context
@@Scourge728 Ehm. It's a Chinese Mythology about the romance between a white snake demon and a human.
There's plenty of video on this story, so if you're interested you can find a nice video pretty quickly.
@It’s Astirck Well, in Chinese mythology, evil beings/monsters/etc are categorized into four "categories".
Yao
Mo
Gui
Guai
The translation based on my knowledge is this.
Demon
Devil
Ghost
Monster
Yao and Mo is kinda interchangeable. But Yao is usually reserved for the more "sneaky"/henchman type monsters, while Mo is usually the big bad.
Yao are also typically used to describe female demons while Mo is for the male one.
Boi I saw a movie based off of that once! Can barely remember a thing but I know they didn't get a happy ending :) (my heart...)
There’s one animal bride story from Okinawa I know that has both a happy ending and actual CONSENT. I don’t remember all of it, but basically a girl is exiled to a deserted island for some reason, and the only one willing to go into exile with her is a dog. Once on the island, the dog regularly brings her food and defends her from the local wildlife. When the girl expresses her desire for human companionship, the dog talks. He takes her to a cave and tells her that if she’ll agree to wait outside the cave for one week, he’ll go into the cave and turn into a human and marry her. The girl agrees, the dog goes into the cave, and a week passes. On the final day, the girl is so excited that she rushes into the cave right at sunrise. Inside, she finds the dog has turned into a handsome man. He shows her his tail (she rushed in before he could finish the transformation) and asks her if she’ll still accept him even though he has a dog’s tail. She says yes, they get married and lead a long and happy life together with lots of kids that all have dog tails.
I like that this story also feels like a weird counterpart to the to Orpheus, but played for heartwarming good feels rather than tragedy or drama.
That seems like it's meant to explain away a certain deformity found in a family or group of people. Like false "tails" that sometimes crop up.
the first furry
Bird-woman: "Caw Caw."
Men in the old days: "Ahh, that's hot."
That's how it was back in the good old days.
Now a man can't marry a woman he loves just because "she's a bird," and "that's bestiality."
Bestiality Schmestiality am I right
The old days? Have you SEEN much art online?
bird woman: my bones feel really heavy in this form, are human bones not hollow?
At least in the Inuit story the fox-woman CHOOSES to be involved with the dude.
Doesn't the swan do too? She's having a panic attack and some guy takes her home and she's like okay, then she marries him?
Then she freaks the fuck out when he has her skin
The guy before him has kids so he is more succesfull
NecroMelodia Their entire relationship was built on a lie. He never gave her the chance to leave, it was either him or being alone in the unfamiliar human world. He crippled her, alienated her, manipulated her, and never let her choose for real even when they married. If there’s no choice then there’s no consent.
@@rascal342 i think i sleep at that part because that wasn't neither told nor showed.
@@alexandrub8786 It;s explicitly said that he stole her skin and kept it hidden from her, only choosing to reveal it after she'd been with him for 7 years. He probably hoped that by that time she'd be too reliant on and in love with him to get rightfully angry. Honestly he's lucky she didn't peck his dick off.
I think the fox wife has a personality similar to certain fey. They're known to be very touchy and while you can marry them, it is very easy to insult them, at which point they'll run away and never return.
@@sonsonthegoddessofconfusio3183 uh
@@sonsonthegoddessofconfusio3183 what a kinky bastard
@@sonsonthegoddessofconfusio3183 *vomiting noises*
@@sonsonthegoddessofconfusio3183 whoa-kay! You're really just gonna come out and say all of those words. Damn dude.
@@sonsonthegoddessofconfusio3183 whoa........ not cool.
The fox one is so genuinely nice. Some fox just decided "i like you, we're married now and i wanna take good care of you."
Personally the last one isn’t weird or creepy both want to be with each other but I think the fox lady jumped the gun
sounds like overreaction TBH, imo.
I guess you could say she had no *fox* left to give.
@@TheMightyBattleSquid leave. immediately.
cobraglatiator no let him stay and grow and see where it goes
@@TRETHEGAMERMAN if we must. it appears i've been outvoted. (aside from giving him a thumbs up myself,but still.)
Her: My diet is mostly bugs
Ancient Swedish peasant: Marry me
NateTheGreat 23. As a Swede I can indeed confirm that we are all crazy, just except that most of us are not crazy in that way.
Swan 1: 'Hey, where's lil' sis?'
Swan 2: 'Eh, don't worry about it. I'm sure she's fine.'
Connor Bingham-Davis little did they know...
_"I'll take the green-eyed fairy and she will be my wife. With her I'll raise my children, with her I'll live my life"_
_"see me now, a ray of light in the moondance_
_hear me now, i can not leave this place"_
This was more of a flower or fae bride story, but still a good example!
“He could not take from the forest what was never meant to leave.”
hell yeah i was waiting for someone to reference this song! :D
I absolutely love this song, and Erutan :D
“my diet is mostly bugs” Honestly in this economy that’s actually quite attractive
@@miraj6419 What's twisted about it? Isn't it just a reference to the narrator of Arabian Nights?
I eat ass and pussy
I read this as “My animal brides” at first and was concerned about you.
Remember kids, don't go furry
@@1lobster Thinking of joining Furry Anonymous
Being a Furry isn't something to be ashamed about. Watch this video...
ruclips.net/video/WhDHx6Cisdg/видео.html
@@MetalHeadManic612
Spoilsport
@@1lobster Note to self: Prepare a sales-pitch for a harem-anime about a selkie, a swan-girl and a fox-girl who all have to live with the same witless guy after he accidentally shrinks all of their animal-skins at the local laundromat.
Fox cleaned the man's house and declared herself his wife
Wow, I didn't know that Senko San was an Inuit myth
I know right, I thought it's Japanese
I've been looking for this comment
"Inuit " not invit.
Yes, i feel better now
@@fireline4765 fixed
Something about the ice and snow really makes a man want to marry a fox
I remember coming up with a story in which the animals skin is damaged after accidentally getting run over by a humans cart, and the human offers to house them while their injuries heal and figure out a way to repair the skin as compensation. The two bond as time goes on, and depending on if the skin can be repaired at all, the animal either decides to stay and live as a human, or visit the human often as a friend
Did the string really randomly broke in the end? Oh, dude, thats funny!
Sounded like she dropped the guitar :P
And oddly appropriate for the subject at hand.
sounds like the bridge slipped out, which at least happens with cellos from time to time. (not sure about guitars) they make a lot of noise and is usually startling, but don't really do damage to the instrument.
She tweeted about this awhile ago. @OSPyoutube on Twitter.
@@turtle4237 it happens to violins too
"It's like keying your ex's car after they murder your whole family"
Not, y'know, take them to court for homicide.
Come on, be a bit more creative than that
You can do both
Ah yes, because seals can represent themselves in the court of law.
@@etcetera1995 if the myth is well known, they probably can
Nice Byleth pic you got there
Furries have been around since the beginning
Why would you say something so controversial yet true?
Not great.
Does this really surprise anyone?
And this is why we need to purge them all
Nah, there are two different things. Those dudes wanted to fuck a lady who used to be an animal, while furries wanted to fuck with animals with human like features.
story 1: " I'm...really sorry."
Story 2: "Heh. I'm a d*ck!"
Story 3: "Does something smell weird to you?"
Would you consider doing a Miscellaneous Myth about Hestia?? I feel like she’s overlooked so much!
Sadly there's only 3 myths about Hestia and only 1 of them is actually about her specifically.
1st myth being Zeus saves his siblings from Cronus' stomach.
2nd myth in some iterations of the Prometheus myth instead of stealing fire he asks Hestia.
And the 3rd myth some fertility god tries to rape her, she screams and EVERYONE beats the fertility god to a bloody puddle for daring to hurt the precious cinnamon roll.
@@tamahiro7343 That just makes me want to know more about Hestia.
Tamahiro depending on who you ask she’s also in the myth of Persephone and Hades
@@tamahiro7343 so the third myth about hestia is
Some fertil god: *wants to fuck hestia*
The entire universe:so you have chosen death
YES
3:09
HA! She's "flippering" him off!...............Get it?
TheHysteriaMan
This has added two years onto my life span. Thank you.
TheHysteriaMan ‘sighs’...............yeah but I don’t want to
Go sit in the corner
Beautiful, my friend, beautiful! That brought my smile back.
XD
I mean there's like also the reverse right? Human women being cursed into being animals but then also being brides? Fionn Mac Cumhaill's wife for example
Hehehe "haill"
I was thinking of the russian fairy tale where a woman becomes a frog and is found by a prince
Swanlake? Its basically People being cursed to be swans every day by a Wizard and only at Night being human once more. The Curse can only be broken by true Love.
There’s the fairy tale “The White Cat,” which has a more gruesome approach to turning back into a human. The White Cat must find a man who resembles her lost love, get him to love her, and then have him cut her head and tail off and throw them into the fire. And he can’t know what it’s for; it has to be done on trust and love alone.
She already did that
You know the fox story reminds me of cats that basically adopt themselves into a home. While strays are generally wary of humans sometimes they decide to just invite themselves into your home. And I've even heard a couple stories where someone's pet cat decides to rehome themselves because they can't stand the new baby.
Curse an island until enough people drown so they can wrap around it a human chain? *guitar strum* METAL.
Metal as fuck.
I wish I could come up with curses that cool.
@@XescoPicas imagine if that was how they chose to explain why so many people drowned back then...
t h e p r o p h e c y
*guitar string breaks*
There's a Chinese story that I love about a guy sailing at night on a river. He meets a hot chick in a tiny boat and offers her "shelter". In the morning he wakes up to find he didn't spend the night with a beautiful woman but with an old turtle that laughs at him as it slides into the water.
Oh and her boat was just a log.
They should make that the plot of the next hangover film
@@jack8841 Great! some animals are creeps too!
Lmao
xD
Buddy that’s Tormund Giantsbane
Red you skipped over the kelpies take their golden bridle and you have an immortal hot man
Also that if you cry into the sea you can ditch your husband and get a horny seal man.
Frost E Bear
Yes. And they’re kinda scary.
I think you mean selkies.
@@Tenebrio-Morio
No, selkies are the seal people.
@@tobor88 I forgot a bridle was a horse thing, my bad.
I love it when selkies are just *acknowledged*
It's always Mermaid this, Kelpie that, but the seal spirits get no love??? Shame.
Selkies have so many different itterations that you basically get all the diff animal bride stories with them
Man is an asshole
Man's mom tells them to be an asshole
SELKIE'S FATHER PULLS A ZUES AND TELL THE MAN TO BE AN ASSHOLE...
Man is *not* an asshole, and just trying to get by in life before finding out that seal he hurt was a very powerful demigod and a menacing selkie has come to demand he undo the damage... and after redeeming himself, a selkie gal decides to be his wife.
My father: Ahhh, yes the magic fox that cleans the house. I must have one of those already.
My mother: I’m the only one who cleans this house.
My father: That mysterious unseen fox!
I can hear this in homer and marge's voice
Wait a minute, so the fox story is a metaphor for how the house work women do is invisible to men. 🤯
@@cireeeeeX Well, the hunter noticed the housework, but not the woman, so the other way around.
Can't wait for the sequel to the swan one where a guy steals a swan skin and finds out it was ZEUS ALL ALONG!
Shadowofdimentio YES
That's the most horrific thought ever... I NEED IT!
You thought it would be a hot Lady, but it was really me! ZUES!!!
@@kaimagnus5760 Kono Zues da!
And Zeus still goes for him.
The guitar string breaking at the end of the song is exactly what I needed today, thank you
Lol i didnt realize that happens untill i listened to the rest it got a laugh out of me
1:04 but do you know the name of this song?
@@thegreatboyosamurai6147 i think it was 'bonnie tyler total eclipse of the heart'
Red: *string breaks* Oh f-
made me giggle as much as the fox randomly showing up and being like "Hey, we're married"
4:21 something about the inflection just makes me really like this guy. Like, just doing his thing, and he's a little confused, but... "Okay...?"
*_"Animal Brides" deserved to have its own movie adaptation. It has a lot of potential than the upcoming CATS movie._*
That profile picture is gonna be everyone that watches the movie
Dude, even I have more potential than the cats movie
@@bloodstoneore4630 dude even the weakest electric current will have more potential than the cats movie
Personally, I'm just surprised that everyone seems to have forgotten the film adaptation of CATS from 1998. Heck, it was directed by the same guy who made music videos who David Bowie, as well as the film adaptation for Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat!
Swan Lake... That's been adapted a bunch of times and is a classic Animal Bride story
I love how chill the fox marriage was. You could probaly make a sitcom out of it
It’s called Senko-san
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Holy shit, you're right
@@rhymenby Ah I see you are a man of culture as well.
I heard of some Korean show named My Girlfriend Is A Nine-Tailed Fox.
like bewitched or i dream of genie, but with a fox
I've seen a lot of d*ck characters in this channel from the myths and stories, but that seal hunter is probably in the top 5 now. Suddenly that lunatic from a Tell-Tale Heart is sounding like a decent person.
At least Tell-Tale Heart guy has the excuse of being mentally ill. Seal hunter guy is just an enormous fucking asshole for no reason.
Due to the asterisk in "d*ck" I am forced to assume that you're referring to duck characters. None of the animal brides listed were ducks, but I guess a swan is close enough.
The Tell-Tale Heart always struck me as more of a "He was sick of that guy's shit and went overboard," situation than anything else.
@@MogofWar The guy wasn't shitty though, he just had an eye that looked kinda gross IIRC. And the title of the piece comes from the narrator suffering from auditory hallucinations. Dude was delusional.
Dudelusional? Nevermind.
The guy in the Tell Tale Heart had reasons. Not GOOD reasons, but...reasons.
There's a wholesome story I saw on Tumblr where a selkie asks her girlfriend after several visits "I don't understand, you haven't stolen my skin yet. Don't you want me?" To which the answer is, "that's the kind of love you want? My love is allowing you the space to leave whenever you want, and always have a place here when you want it."
You can always count on Tumblr to take messed-up stuff from mythology and make it wholesome.
Wow… i mean it’s a good a move as not sleeping with your nee friend’s wife
Why would you ever think seals are former humans? They're clearly sea-doggos.
Who want eggs. Now.
I read one book which posited that a possible origin was Inuit people in canoes, as the local people at the time were unfamiliar with their type of enclosed boat it looks like a sort of seal and then bam they get out the boat and transform into a human!
True
Welll not exactly pinepeds came from ancient bears
@Neon Red kill Alright, _NeRd._
5:10
As an Aspie I think the moral is "Be careful what you say around people (or foxes). You might accidentally offend them".
mrmimeisfunny A good moral
Meh. Asking _"Does something smell bad..?"_ shouldn't be that big of a deal.
(I mean..Men will literally laugh when their girlfriend/wife queefs in bed)
You cannot offend anyone. They can only choose to take offense. Only socially retarded people will tell you otherwise.
@@kevinsullivan3448
Careful. You're spitting facts. Stupid peoole will be irrationally upset about how wrong you've made them and undoubtedly lash out at you.
Aspies unite
I'm surprised to see a fox bride outside of Japanese mythology. Though, now that I think about it, Japan has enough animal/non-human brides that it could be it's own video.
Kind of not surprised if you know a bit about migration of humans. Something to note is that the Native Americans possibly have origins from other countries, one of them and deals a lot with Plains Indians are Japanese, and possibly some of the culture might have transferred over since Japanese and Plains Indians do believe in a similar concept of Animism. Which is how everything has a spirit, be it humans, animals, or objects.
And to tie that all in together, it makes sense for similar concepts to occur for these 2 cultures when the local fauna are similar. And as we know, both foxes can be found in both locations.
*coughSenkoSancough*
There's a wholesome selkie story on Pinterest where the protagonist picks up a coat that has fallen off the back of someone's chair and says something like, "Oops, you dropped this." as they hang the coat back on the chair. The person sitting on the chair turns around and looks at them with wide eyes. Because this person is a selkie. And some human just picked up their seal skin. And voluntarily gave it back to them as a kind gesture. Instead of stealing it and using it as leverage to coerce marriage or a favor or something. The protagonist doesn't know that this person is a selkie but does have a passing thought that the person in the chair wildly attractive. The next day, the person with the coat shows up at the protagonist's house with an engagement ring and says something like, "Even by the standards of your culture, we...we're supposed to get married now." But they say it all flustered and shy because they're already in love and they're not sure how to propose. Meanwhile, the protagonist is all, "sdafdsjlgkjgds. What."
Yeah I have to imagine that selkies have Boogeyman-esque stories about douchebag humans
My god the selky story when she appears to the dude w the caption “Just think, all this because you *chose* to torment me” just gives me chills. That line is brutal and powerful and I love it
There's a Brazilian legend about a pink dolphin (not exactly a dolphin but don't know the translation) that can became a human to seduce ppl and then drag then to underwater.
We also have a giant fire snake (Boitata) to protect the forest against fires... He must be sleeping right now...
*Fire snake*
I am assuming the snake is actually not a snake on fire or a snake made of fire.
@@jacobfoxfires9647 *Metal*
Wait, that human dolphin doesn't happen to wear a hat to cover the blow hole does it?
The Boto is a legend that serves solely to the purpose to conceal a pregnancy caused by a rape, usually by a family member.
NonLogicUser, yes it does.
There’s a song I love which is basically the happy version of these types of stories.
A selkie strips off his skin and becomes a hot dude to talk to this girl that lives by the sea. He asks her to marry him and come back to his kingdom in the ocean to be his queen.
But the girl responds with “I’m totally into you and I’d love to do that but us humans can’t breathe under water so that’s not going to work for me.”
The selkie thinks it over then says “okay well if selkies stay on land past midnight in human form we die, but I really want to make this work. If you can’t come down into the ocean I’ll just marry you on shore and we’ll have a fabulous one night together.”
To this the woman says “No. I don’t want to get married to be a widow the next day. Okay here’s what we’re going to do. My grandma has lived beside the sea her entire life. We’re going to go talk to her and see if she knows a way we can be together.”
So they do and the grandma says “well selkies can’t live on shore. Can’t be done. If you stay past midnight you die. But... there’s a magic cloak buried underneath a tree further in land. If a girl were to put that on they’d become a maiden selkie. That sounds like it’d fix your problem.”
So they go further inland, the girl does most of the work digging up the cloak cause it’s getting pretty near midnight and the selkie lord isn’t looking that great. They get back to shore just before midnight. The girl puts on the cloak, becomes a selkie and they descend into the ocean, one would hope for many happy year together at the selkie lord’s palace.
Oh that's actually really cute
I don't know now it just sounds like the selkie is the one pushing the human into a relationship they don't want.
L. T C. The song is called “The Maiden and the Selkie”, you can find it on RUclips. It very much gives the impression that both parties are interested in one another but have to sort out the logistical issues. The girl’s response to being asked to marry him is “I would gladly go and wed you and be lady of your home but I cannot go into the ocean, cannot go into the sea. I would drown beneath the waves, love, if I went along with thee.”
I love that song
@@quinnsinclair7028 It's a great song!! I've got it in my folk music playlist. Also, there's a similar one called "The Maid on the Shore" where a sea captain falls in love with a supernatural woman (either a selkie or a siren) so she goes on his ship and sings him to sleep, then steals all his stuff and leaves.
Here in Brazil we have a story that kind of looks like the Fox one and it's used to explain the Sun and Moon.
There were two native men who were friends and lived together. They were called Sun and Moon. One day, when they were hunting, Sun heard a laugh. The laugh belonged to a boy, who had two macaws with him. The boy offered the macaws to Sun, in exchange for his feather necklace. Sun got the macaws and ran to tell his friend moon what had happened. Moon decided tô adopt one of the birds. As the time passed, the birds, who were really active and happy, became sadder and sadder, not wanting to talk or to learn anything new.
One day, as they came back from hunting, they had two surprises. First, the macaws came to greet them, talking and singing, and second, when they got inside their house, they found two bowls of hot soup for them. They ate and got in their beds, but couldn't sleep. It was a mystery they had to figuere out.
In the next day, It happened again, so, they decided that they would come back earlier in the next night, to figure out the mystery. So they did, sneaking in by the back door. When they came inside the house, they found out that the macaws had turn into two gorgeous ladies, who married the friends. With their new wifes, their house got too small, so they agreed to "share" it. Sun and his wife stayed in the house during the day and Moon and his wife stayed in the house during the night.
And that's why we don't see the Sun and the Moon together.
(forgive my spelling mistakes, as English is not my First lenguage)
Brazilian foolklore needs more love.
Probably best not to hold wives hostage
Wow, best go unlock all my wives then D:
But then Iceland would be empty!
What a revolutionary concept, I better release all the monster and fey wives I keep in my basement.
@@anonymousfellow8879 Damn you have my condolences, some people can be real assholes.
@@anonymousfellow8879 yeah, that's a "cannot block fast enough" type of situation there!
Edit: also, I wouldn't be exactly hesitant to at least let the police know what is going on if you feel it warranted.
But yeah, even just the pedigree thing seems super-wierd outside of whatever subculture where that is normal and throws up red flags for me before we even get to the more overt problems.
Fox: So I'm your wife now.
Hunter: Yeah, okay. That makes sense.
Hunter: oh yeah, that happen to my cousin last week
Hunter: I always wanted a foxy wife.
"...like a very meticulous ghost."
What exactly do I have to do to be haunted by the house-cleaning, dinner-making ghost?
For starters, attractive.
Not European, and busy hunter
Either be a inuit hunter or a japanese salaryman overworked to dead
Live in a house where a sweet old lady use to live and died peacefully but she decided to stay because she doesn’t want the place to be filthy and likes to feed her guest
put yourself out there and also be a decent or better human being
I feel like the obvious moral of the fox wife is "be careful not to insult your wife or she'll leave you and stop doing housework", but, like, silly about it
*Coming back home with my friends*
Friends: *Wow, your house is so tidy and someone cooked you dinner! You must have a really nice wife!*
Me: *But I don't have a wife...*
All of us: *_O K_*
What do you mean by you don't have a wife
@@agentmysterious6682 The Jedi code got in the way... and then there was this Darth Maul thing that cut down the final opportunities with a vengeance...
@@SonsOfLorgar I'm a hedgehog tall and fearless warrior come let's live and learn
@Pan Freeccs
Me, the guy whose house is being cleaned and dinners made to the tune of no cost or courtship: Yeah, let's not. Don't want to ruin a good thing.
@Pan Freeccs I mean, if it's fae.....just putting it out there, best to play -real- safe. Fae are the sort where if you ruin their 'game' they might decide to start breaking your fingers as a new one, after all, they want you to make such -beautiful- music for them :). Alternatively, you could go out of your way to leave polite gifts for them when you're gone (Like...I believe if you're presuming fae...a saucer of milk? If their timing is consistent after all, very easy to predict they'll see it if you leave it obviously enough for them)
Personally, I'd probably be spooked a bit moreso then necessary. I tend to focus on the darker options after all XD
Wait... you mean to tell me that 'Song of the Sea' is actually a sequel good side story of seal bride!?
Song of the sea is actually based on Irish legends of the Selkie, which is indeed a similar story to the seal bride story here only no murder or trolls
Well from what I saw from the movie, they had a pretty good relationship, so I don't think she was forced.
Yep. Pretty much
Some stories say they can only stay in human form for a certain amount of time which would explain why she needed to return to the sea. I mean she seemed regretful that she had to leave. Really he only locked up his daughter's coat out of fear. Notice she was seemingly fine until she put it on.
I feel like these tales were ways of warning children about types of unhealthy relationships (particularly obsessive/posessive ones)
I have legit come home and had somebody I was nice to in passing laying in my bed.
Creepy as hell for me, and I imagine unhealthy for her. 0/10, would not recommend.
Just the last one, I would say. I interpreted the first two as "don't be a dick"
Sorry bro
I didn't mean to leave the dead corpse on the bed next time I leave it on the kitchen table
@@sonsonthegoddessofconfusio3183 Dude, what is wrong with you? The corpse is supposed to go in the bath tub.
@@ccvcharger can't it just be left outside? So unhygenic.
When I was a kid, I read a Finnish story about a mouse bride. The protagonist & his brothers were sent off in random directions to find brides; his direction lead him to a mouse's house. He rolled with it, kept visiting her to get to know her, and avoided telling his family members that his fated fiancé was a mouse. It turned out she was a mouse because of a curse, and when he brought her back to his family so they could get married, her curse broke, and she turned back into a human. It was kind of cute.
(The book it came from also had multiple "dude supernaturally kidnaps a pretty lady to be his bride" stories, which were way less cute.)
Reminds me of the frog bride story i read as a kid. Similar start.
3 brothers shot an arrow each in different directions to choose where they'd look for a bride. 2 got regular women the 3rd was a talking frog.
The family knew, he understandably didn't want to marry her but he and his brothers did set up with the rules of if an unmarried woman finds your arrow you have to marry her.
A family dinner was set up after the weddings and he was sent to go there first by his frog wife with instructions of what to say while she prepared to get there later.
To his and the rest of the family's surprise she showed up as a beautiful woman.
He got home first and saw her frog skin and burned it.
When she got home and found out she explained that she was cursed and if they had lived together married for a year it would have broken but now he's messed up and will have a harder time to try and get her back. She transformed into a bird and had to fly to the troll woman that cursed her.
I don't recall the details of the rest of the story, just that he basically had to go on a quest to win his wife from the troll. Its been almost 15 yrs since i read that story.
"My diet is mostly bugs."
I should read the words more.
That ending tho... rip Red's guitar
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Dulcis and it cracks me up every time… and it’s only been three days since it was uploaded at the time of writing this comment.
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The fox wife story sounds suspiciously like an anime...
It might be. Japanese storytellers have a tendency to basically just take their history and mythology, maybe change some stuff about it to make it fit in their universe and sell it as their own. If not that then they steal character names and basic concepts and make a vague reference to said history and mythology and call it good.
Inuit myths are always either comically wholesome, or absolutely heinous and disturbing. No in between.
Ah yeah, their story about the sea life.... 😓
"I'll show you your true form!"
*Rip's off cloak*
*Turns into a human*
Looking cool, Joker!
So how many animal girls does he add to his harem?
P5R resurrects the hype and no one ever saw it comin'.
@@kiklonio those girls are shapeshifter
@@GlazeBeam At Poe's masquerade
Don't marry animals?
we're all looking at you Zeus
@@Chad_Eldridge WTF LOL!
Well, to be fair, Zeus never actually MARRIED anyone of his "lovers" except Hera, so...
@@Aar1sW He also married Athena's mom, then ate her, so....
Really, Zeus kind of did it in reverse of this - either he was the animal, or the human woman got turned into an animal after the fact.
@@Chad_Eldridge There is a story about Epona (An actual goddess, not Link's horse) was born from a king and a horse because he did not like women.
I am honestly so sad that there was no mention of "The Crane Bride" Japanese folk tale. Mostly because I always thought it was one of the more well known ones under this particular theme umbrella
There's even a very sad song about it.
Hey I know that one! I also immediately thought of it once I saw this video!
What’s the story?
@@the_well-known_stranger2275 So a poor sail weaver goes to the lake one day and sees some beautiful cranes. One day, an injured crane comes up to his door in a thunderstorm and he nurses her back to health. The crane leaves and the next day he gets a knock at the door. There's a woman there who claims to be the crane he helped and the two get happily married. The weaver asks the crane woman if she can weave, and she says yes, but he can't watch her do it. So he's like 'sure, whatever' and she goes to work weaving a sail in a closed room. She doesn't answer him when he asks if she wants rice or anything for the next few days, and after about a week, she comes out of the room holding a white sail. He sells it in the village and gets enough money to last him through a week. There soon is rumors around that the weaver can weave sails that capture the wind itself. The weaver goes back to his crane wife and asks her to make one more sail. The wife begrudgingly agrees and the same deal happens. The wife comes out of the room looking really tired and more frail than last time. The weaver sells the sail in the village and gets enough money to last him a month. At the end of the month, a wealthy sailor docks his ship in the harbor and asks the weaver to make him a sail, and in exchange he'll give him a lifetime's worth of gold. The weaver agrees and asks his wife to make him another sail. The wife complains that it takes out a part of her each time she weaves, but the weaver persuades her to do it just one more time. The wife agrees, but this time she forgets to lock the door. The weaver gets worried about her and opens the door to see her, in her crane form, weaving her own feathers through the loom. The crane wife gets really embarrassed and flies out of the nearest window, and the weaver goes back to being poor. Welp thats what he gets for invading a woman's privacy.
@@thetapixie6638 wait... didn't the Fate series make a Servant out of this story?... I think it was a female Caster named Ms. Crane?
I wanna see a story about the fox wife where she comes back after realizing she over reacted a little
Low key I feel really bad for that Inuit hunter with the fox. Could the fox not just have gone "yeah sure I'll start sprayin' some febreeze or something"
"sees house all tidied up"
Hunter: what
"Sees woman in house, proposes to him"
Hunter: what
"Asks wife about stink, she goes mad and leaves"
Hunter...
what
Or at least some Inuit Equivalent.
I mean it’s her natural smell, so she probably thought it was good and felt too insulted to work it out with him
I think the moral was that you can't have everything. The guy was blessed with what that culture would consider a perfect spouse, but lost her because he took her for granted.
MrSamulai I like that interpretation that’s a good moral
Lol when Red jamed out a bit to hard at the end I’m dying
*TWANG*
“Oh F***!”
Maybe it's because my standards were lowered by the first two much more kidnap-y myths, but that Inuit guy got really shafted. He seemed like a pleasant dude, and his foxy wife who he didn't seem to even know was a fox got really upset from a normal human response to fox smells.
I've been listening to Celtic music alot lately and their is a few songs with these stories and a few with dryads as well. Same plot but tree vs animal skin. (Btw if you meet a woman in the Forest who says she can't leave with you and is very attached to a tree or plant, Do Not chop it down! She will be dead in under a day)
I thought dryads were a Greco-Roman thing (what you described is specifically a hamadryad)?
Willow Maid?
@@gingermcgingin1733Roman had managed to invade and control parts of England. Im not surprised that some of the greek/roman mythology permeated into celtic mythology.
4:16 Tbh randomly getting a wife that cleans and cooks is now my dream. (I’m a 19 year old female)
Trad waifu? Difficult to maintain in this economy, but everyone should have a chance at doing what makes them happy. Good luck, friend.
I would settle for a roommate that did his own dishes.
I plan to try and become a stay at home wife. Hopefully looking to work from home as a freelance artist maybe
@@wolframglsum4538 you ask for too much
As a 22 year old female, I kinda feel the same * laughs in bisexual *
The Russian "princess frog" (like the princess and the frog but the princess IS the frog) is also an animal bride! Tho she's cursed so thats why
So like the disney movie?
@@whoknows7968 yes and no. Yes beacuse cursed to be frog. No because the Disney version is more influneced by the frog prince fairy tale (and I think a book series based on it) while the Russian frog princess has a different take on the whole frog curse idea and unsurprisingly deals more with Russian folklore and is more inline with the wearing of animal skin
Maryam Khan there’s also a German and French version of this tho in the French one she’s a cat if we’re thinking of the same thing (the French tale is called the white cat)
And that's just the start! I love how there are so many of these folktales all over the world. Like the one about the guy who married a woman he didn't know was a crane and she tore off her own feathers to weave into beautiful fabric to sell because he was so shit at earning a living.
Oh I remember that story from my childhood!
Or the doctor who didn't know he married an white snake until he poisoned (¿accidentally in a way?) His wife. From China.
Or the one about a very persistent bear bride, who wanted to marry a man and then had a murder fest of some hunters. Native American folk tale, forgot which tribe tho
there many different versions to all these folktales ,red just picked the ones that she preferred
here a different version where he was sick it on youtube it called Seasonal Feathers
"Hi, I'm your wife now!"
Me, who's been single for almost 10 years: If only it was that easy =(
It'd be fun, at least. And they wouldn't regret it, I'd do my best to be a good partner.
In fairness, that story was a bit too far on the easy-come-easy-go side, at least for my tastes.
Me, before video: I never heard of stories involving animal brides. . . I wonder why?
Me, after video: Oh. . . that's so messed up. . .
little-earth-star6 The Canadian one wasn’t that bad. All that happened was that a lonely guy got a wife. The poor guy just asked what the smell was and she just stormed off. I would wager that Fox periods are a lot worse compared to human ones
This reminds me of a story I heard when I was little. It's called The pig's tale. An old couple of peasants desires a child but they are unable to conceive one. One day the husband finds a sow with her piglets bathing in mud. The pigs run away scared, but the smallest one remains stuck in the mud. The man takes the piglet home to his wife and they make him their son .
The piglet grows into a pig and one day he starts speaking to his parents who are terrified. They are even more shocked when he says to them that he wants to marry the princess of the kingdom. After the pig insists for several days, the father goes to the king to ask for the hand of the princess in the name of his son. The man is thrown out of the castle . The pig sends his father again to tell the king that the next day his son will personally come on a silver bridge. This time he is almost executed and thrown away.
The next day he and his son walk on a silver bridge that connects their small cottage with the castle's gates . The pig says he has built the bridge last night. The king is scared when he sees them coming and hears the pig asking for his daughter's hand. He gives his daughter to the pig and tells them to go away. The next day they marry and the pig builds a palace for his family . He also builds a golden bridge that connects his palace to the king's castle so that his wife can visit her family anytime.
The girl objected to the marriage but she had no choice ( I understand her, who wants to marry a pig? ) . Although she was less opposed to the marriage when she found out that her husband undresses his pig skin at night. He was a charming prince by night and a pig by day. The wife had become comfortable with her new life, but she was bothered by her husband's behavior ( because he was acting like a pig all day long) .
She wanted him to be a prince always. She tried hiding his skin but he would always find it , so her mother advises her to burn the skin. She throws it in the fire but the skin generates a thick smoke that wakes up the husband. He starts yelling at her for her stupidity . She is surrounded by an iron chain around her waist that won't allow her to give birth and her husband is teleported away.
The pregnant woman sets on an adventure to find her husband to break her chain. I don't remember well this part of the story but she faces a lot of trials and after 7 years she finds her husband and gives birth to their child. Then they go happily to their palace where her husband explains to her that he , his mother and brothers where cursed by an evil witch because none of his brothers wanted to marry the witch's daughters . But it seems the princess managed to break the curse (don't remember how) and now he and his family turned back to humans.
It seems to me that in this type of stories, whether the animal turned into a man or a woman, the female in the relationship suffers the most .
That’s probably due to male-centric storytelling.
Also-she was pregnant for seven years?!
@@BlackCover95 She was, although I am not sure since it was a long time since I heard this story. Because of magic I guess . What is male-centric storytelling? Half the story is about the journey of the pregnant princess (although I don't remember that part very well).
Lol that totally slipped my mind, pregnant for 7 years.
damn that was a trip. thx for sharing
@@Player-re9mo it means it probably had a male author to an audience of men, which can lead to inaccurate information or bad treatment of women.
The person who lives 4 houses down from me is upset about the volume of the "Tainted Love" interludes.
Then you should turn it up so they can hear it better.
The last one probably was more “Don’t insult people’s differences.. and don’t marry animals.” Still, that was my favorite