#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

[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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[a-eo-iu]

The red represents the tomato sauce of pizza. The yellow represents the pizza dough of pizza. And also the moon

[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.]

[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

[horsehoedownshowdown]

[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

[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.

[For more creaturely advice, check out Monstrous Agonies on your podcast platform of choice, or visit monstrousproductions.org for more info]

[vintagerpg]

Other Magic II (2020) goes where all great RPG lines wind up eventually: a monster book. Subtitled Monsters of the Americas, it is a collection of unusual creatures from a variety of American folk traditions, all accompanied by Jesse Ephraim’s minimal yet evocative woodcut art.

Some might be familiar to well-read aficionados of monsters from oral traditions. The Raven Mockers, for instance, which I know from their appearance in Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John novel The Old Gods Waken. Over all though, I suspect Other Magic II will be the first time readers encounter most of these creatures, like the headless mule (gouts of fire shoot from the neck of this monster, which is actually a woman cursed to take the form) or the Lagahoo (a man whose head is a coffin topped with three burning candles, who rather reminds me of Pyramid Head, actually).

Most of these monsters are interesting for a couple of mechanical reasons. For starters, they aren’t really good for D&D style combat encounters. Rather, their reasons for being almost all beg for whole, dedicated scenarios (I can easily see these used in spooky games like Vaesen or Call of Cthulhu). This is partly because of another interesting feature: most of the monsters can’t be killed in conventional ways, if at all. The majority of them can only be driven away temporarily. For some, the only strategy is avoidance. Like the magic of the first volume, this implies different modes of play for readers to investigate on their own, which I am more than happy to oblige!

[babyrdie]

is there any mythology you read other than the greek?

Yes! I read some Babylonian poems and I started Irish mythology. I don't talk about Babylonian mythology here simply because I feel like I'm still very ignorant on the subject (i.e. more likely to talk nonsense) and I don't talk about Irish mythology because I've literally just started reading it (like...last week). I also know some VERY, VERY basic things about Egyptian, Chinese and Japanese mythology, but it's so basic that I'm likely to get it wrong if I try to talk about it because I haven't read any serious sources on the subject yet. In other words, I am even more ignorant about these mythologies than I am about Babylonian mythology.

I know stories from my country too, but I didn't think they were anything like our idea of ​​mythology… like, I don't think the headless mule is mythology. Sure, some indigenous peoples have their religious pantheons, but I don't know about those pantheons. I plan to read about them too, but it'll take a while because I'm trying to find a book written by indigenous people. If you consider Bible as mythology, then I also know some things about Christianity because of the way I was raised. Still, I wouldn't volunteer to speak on the subject because I also feel that I lack knowledge in the area.

I intend to read about other mythologies as well. I actually intended to start with Egyptian mythology before Irish mythology, but I didn't because I found a relatively complete book on Irish mythology in my language first. Anyway, I only talk about Greek mythology because it's the one I'm least likely to get some information wrong. Yes, I'm still likely to get it wrong, I'm not an expert, but I'm MUCH more likely to get it wrong with other mythologies. Greek mythology sources are also more accessible in my language (because people are more interested in translating them in comparasion with the others), which is part of the reason why it's easier for me to read them than the others.