#headless mule

[lunnar-phantom2]

Nyehehe

[mogtaki]

Today's Weretober prompt is Mule!

The Headless Mule (Mula Sem Cabeça) from Brazilian folklore is a cursed creature said to had been a willingly sinful woman, but it seems to have evolved over the years to curse more somehow...

Now it can even run on two legs

A creature with eyes of coal and white-hot fangs, it'd be a wonder if you could survive a bite to become one

[thetalkingcow]

cow explains the origin story of the Headless Mule

[horsehoedownshowdown]

[legend-collection]

Headless Mule

The Headless Mule is most popular in the states of Goiás, Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso, but is well known throughout the country. Similar myths (the Muladona and the Almamula) occur in the surrounding Hispanic countries.

Pic by Gusatvo Casagrande

The Mule's appearance varies greatly from region to region. Its color is most commonly given as brown, sometimes as black. It has silver (or iron) horseshoes that produce a hideous trotting, louder than any horse is capable of producing.

Despite being headless, the Mule still neighs (usually very loud), and sometimes it moans like a crying woman. It also has a bridle tied to its non-existent mouth, and spews fire through its non-existent nostrils (or, in some versions, from its severed neck).

According to most reports, the Mule is condemned to gallop over the territory of seven parishes each night (just as the Brazilian version of the werewolf). By some accounts, its trip begins and ends at the parish where the sin was committed.

Transformation usually occurs at a crossroads. Depending on the source the headless mule may have a placeholder head and mane, made of the fire it spews, to which a red-hot iron bridle is tied.

The curse of the Headless Mule cannot be transmitted (unlike the vampiric curse), because it is acquired as a result of a sin committed willfully by the accursed woman.

The transformation can be reversed temporarily by spilling the mule's blood with the prick of a needle or by tying her to a cross. In the first case, transformation will be prevented while the benefactor is alive and lives in the same parish in which his feat was accomplished. In the second case the woman will remain in human form until the sun dawns, but will transform again the next time.

A more stable removal of the curse can be achieved by removing the bridle, in which case the woman will not shape shift again while the benefactor is alive. Tying the bridle back to the woman's mouth will return the curse.

Removal of the curse is a great relief for the woman because the curse includes many trials, so the grateful woman will usually repent her sins and marry the benefactor. In any case, when the mule changes back to human form the accursed woman will be completely naked, sweated, and smelling of sulfur.

A person who encounters the mule should not cross its path, or the mule will follow the offender and trample him down. Instead, one should either be brave enough to remove the bridle or spill its blood, or else just lay face down on the ground, covering teeth and nails (as well as anything that shines) and the mule will hopefully fail to notice the stranger's presence and trot away (because it has poor vision).

There is also a similar folk tale where the curse fell on the sinning priest. In this story, the priest's headless ghost rides through the night on a normal horse, much like the Headless Horseman in Washington Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Indeed, this variant of the myth may well be just a modern import of that 19th century tale.

[gcfyuri]

i read a fic where a character was a headless horseman and i got english mixed up so i thought he would be like the fucking headless mule from the brazilian folklore

i legit thought he would be a headless mule with burning flames coming out of his neck. i did not suspect it one bit. my disappointment when they described the body of a man was pretty big

[jujutsutrash]

Not tiktok showing me a priest geto fanart and making me feel some sort of way. Like fucking hell I'm pretty sure my catholic ancestors gotta be judging me more for the thoughts I'm having now than for me being fucking bisexual. I'm legit THIS CLOSE to writing something for that

[thelastofthebookworms]

The pause wasn't long, uh. Well.

My tag for this series is 'fairy tales'.

[kaleisillustrations]

Brazilian folklore pt.5 🇧🇷

“ 𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑆𝑒𝑚 𝐶𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑐̧𝑎 “

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[trashbunnysblog]

Ooooooo

Heard y’all like horses!

[ID: Illustration of a pale grey horse with a dark smouldering head from which a great deal of smoke erupts. The smoke climbs onto a very dark stormy sky, the colors slowly blending together. The foreground is made up of lots of dried prairie grasses.]

[vague-humanoid]

A History of Zombies

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In what was supposed to be a 20-minute video, I discuss the ways that zombies (and other revenants) have evolved in folklore, pop culture, and history. What did Zora Neale Hurston, Wade Davis, and William Seabrook find when they visited Haiti? How did other Haitian events-- revolution, stigma about voodoo, American occupation in 1915, dictatorships-- shape beliefs and fuel urban legend? How did zombies go from enslaved workers to bloodthirsty plague carriers?

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0:00-- INTRO

2:02-- Revenants in World History

7:02-- The Haitian Zombi-- Real or Fake?

22:03-- 1960s-70s Zombies

27:17-- 80s Zombies and Thriller

29:08-- 90s-2000s Zombies and Plagues/Terrorism

32:36-- Zombies Go Viral

36:13-- The Walking Dead Phenomenon

41:13-- More Zombies and Conclusion

[sillygoblinantics]

Watched ant’s werewolf video.

(And the transcript)

I applaud the history and mythology section but there’s never mention of the other werewolves!

And to that

I have to grab the sources, More specifically this!

Welcome to my silly hyperfixation sperg!

I love me some mythology and history of these fantastical creatures. I do enjoy the movie approach and filmography of the werewolf history. (Even though you skipped shapeshifters from ❤️💀🤖) but I wanted to add to the cryptozoological side of it even if I’m a bit amateurish of the study.

Let’s dive in

Though early origins to the term of lycanthropy dating back to Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece via Latin language, humans that transform into dog like hybrids is a universal concept that can be found all over the world from Europe to South Asia!

As was our human way to explain what wasn’t yet known scientifically of modern times, for the civilizations who came before us, strangeness in people from neurological to physical abnormalities were thought to be otherworldly!

A rare mutation but oldest documented instance is when the hair on the body grow longer than what is “normal” leading to top to bottom fully covered in hair people: Hypertrichosis. Which is where the image of transformation came from or at least hypothesized to have been the origins of. Then there’s the actual clinically diagnosis of “clinical lycanthropy” which is when someone who has this believes they are in fact a werewolf.

So with the fun science out of the way! Allow me to list off every lycanthrope from around the world!

In alphabetical order of each name:

Airitech

Folklore of the Goidelic Celts.

Alp

Originating in Germany

Anjing Ajak

Indonesia

Azeman

Suriname folklore

Bal-bal

Philippines

Beast of Gevaudin

(Werehyena) France

Budas

Ancient Abyssinia

Buxenwolf

German folklore

Enkidu

Gilgamesh’s “best friend”

Headless mule

Iberian folklore - Portugal and Spain

Karkanxhol

Kolivilor

Albanian mythology

Kornwolf

Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Russia

Lobis-Homem

Ancient Portuguese folklore

Lobishomen

(Female vampire witch werewolf) Brazil

Lobison

Argentina

Loup Garou

French origin and Caribbean island folklore

Luison

Paraguayan folklore

Lupo Mannaro

Italian and ancient Roman folklore

Marrock (Marrok the good knight)

Arthurian folklore

Zmag Ognjeni Vuk

Bosnian folklore (fire breathing werewolf)

I need a minute to catch my breath!

Ok!

As you can tell there’s quite a lot but I feel the need to also mention a morally good lycanthrope

Hailing from the Shetland isles of Scotland: the Wulver

They’d watch over flocks and tend to chores and leave behind fish on the windowsills of homes once they’re done helping. It’s said they’d only act in violence if provoked but other than that they were mostly seen as good!

So that’s my lil sperging about werewolf mythology! Good video Anthony!

I’m shook that no one mentioned the werewolves from the Halloween anthology film “Trick or Treat” or “the wolf among us” which was about the big bad wolf being a detective in a modern setting with fairytales and murder! Or the other red riding hood movie! “Red Riding Hood” (2011); with really good color story of mostly black and white scenery and striking red from our leading lady!

Ohmygod I nearly forgot that Pokémon even has a werewolf pokemon!

But ye I don’t have any better way to end this… other than a silly animation >:3c

[keets-writing-corner]

Brazilian folklore: this is how X came to exist. This is why X phenomena happens :). Snakes. This is why people disappear in the forest. More snakes. This is another reason why people disappear in the forest. YOLO SACI PERERE. Here is another reason why people disappear in the forest. MORE SNAKES

I love folklore so much because depending on the location and era it comes from it's either the most terrifying concept or the dumbest thing you've ever heard

[horsehoedownshowdown]

[domquixotedospobresblog]

Going back a little in time, I remember when I left school to work on a farm on the old Joá road, it was the last one on the street, there was only one way out, a beautiful little road in the woods where I went in the morning and only came back in the afternoon, on that whole street I only found an old man with a hat cleaning the side of the road, as I came at lunchtime I always found him near the bamboo grove, we never spoke, but we always nodded, even because I didn't take my hands off the handlebars of the bicycle, I was still very young, fifteen years old, but I always came to Cabrero because there were many stories about sacis, headless mules, curupiras, caiporas and Iaras mãe d'água in that region, God forbid I come across any ghost, finding that man was a relief to my heart, when I didn't find him it was a struggle to cross the bridge, afraid that Iara would appear and pull me into the river, the fear of the saci then every time I heard a whistle, it was I was tense, but the following year I went back to school and quit my job. The owner sold the farm and didn't want to work with the new owner. On the second day I was returning home and I saw a notice on the post. It was a picture of a man that my son had been looking for for seven years. The same old man I saw every day. I told my father and he called the young man who came right away. I showed him the place and, searching for him, they found a hat that was already all dirty. It was the same as the old man's, but much older, almost falling apart. The man's family came with forest police and dogs to track him down. They say that in one part of the forest they only found the bones of one person, and by the clothes he wore, it was the same man. In my neighborhood there was a legend about the Seven Holes, a man who appeared in several places, always standing still, wearing a hat and black rain gear. Later, the news came that the cause of death was because a jaguar had sunk its teeth into the young man's neck while he was looking for medicinal plants. After that day, I was never afraid of ghosts and monsters again, because they can't kill us. do no harm, that old man gave me comfort on the afternoons when I was most afraid.

Jonas r Cezar

[thenightfolknetwork]

So, I have a bit of a body issue. You see, I fell in love with a priest. I confessed, he felt the same, we did *it*, and... well... I got turned into a headless mule, obviously.

My boyfriend left priesthood to be with me, but he is hesitant to turn our relationship physical again. He says he still loves me, but my new body turns him off. I don't blame him, but I miss the intimacy.

Is there a way we can fix this? Can a headless mule like me ever be attractive to a human? Or should I cut my losses and go looking for someone in my own genus?

I'm afraid there isn't anything you can do to make your boyfriend more attracted to you, reader. Attraction is not something we generally have a great deal of control over, whether we wish to provoke desire or prevent it.

In the same vein, I feel perfectly sure in saying that yes, someone with a body like yours could certainly be attractive to a human – or to a person of any genus.

Some people might desire you specifically for these new features. Others may be attracted to you in other ways and see these parts of yourself as simply an extension of your general being. Still others may be interested in physical intimacy with you because of what it means to you and how it makes you feel rather than any particular desire on their part.

With all that said, there are several ways you might “fix” this problem. Might you consider exploring other ways to be intimate? Cuddling, petting, bathing together – all these might meet your need for physical closeness without the expectation of sexual activity. I hear very good things from several genuses about the profound pleasure of having one's ears scritched.

Alternatively, if you are someone with strong sexual needs, it would be unnecessarily cruel to yourself any sexual outlet at all, and unnecessarily cruel to your boyfriend to expect him to fulfil that role.

There are innumerable models of non-monogamy that might suit, depending on whether you want casual sexual encounters, additional romantic partners, or simply to avail of the services of local sex workers. You'll need to think hard about what it is you want, and discuss with your boyfriend how you can find a solution that works for you both.

If none of these solutions feel right, I'm afraid the course is rather obvious. You have certain needs and desires, and you deserve to have those needs met and desires fulfilled as part of your relationship. If that isn't possible, you need to walk away and give yourself – and your boyfriend – the chance to find a relationship where it is.

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