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Modern "re-imaginings" of myths and the like that your really dislike?

Discussion in 'General' started by Konradleijon, Aug 14, 2020.

  1. Sinnerlust

    Sinnerlust The bastard

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    I have to rewatch and see how it was said just calling him vlad tepes, is fine, but when used as a family name how it's portrayed in castlevania and highschool dxd is absolutely wrong. Granted castlevania Dracula isn't vlad tepes so it isn't a big deal for him because he could have just named himself that. As for the rape thing he was a hostage alongside his brother radu to the saltan murad II, and to be honest we don't know, alot of his childhood is blank, but there are story's of murad trying to rape radu so it's possible that actually happened.
     
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  2. Morganite

    Morganite Everyone can relax, I found the porn.

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    Since fairies keep coming up, at what point do you just shrug and say that they're entirely different things that just happen to share a similar name? Because really the more Disney-type fairies have a lot more in common with a wide variety of other nature spirits, or maybe some of the depictions of Shinto's minor kami I've seen in a few places, than they do with the Fair Folk. Not to mention there seem to be an assortment of other not-necessarily modern takes on the subject as well...

    -Morgan.
     
  3. hyppolytos

    hyppolytos Getting sticky.

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    Not really, fairy myths are faily unnorganized in regards to these things. Pixies like that come from british stories.
    When talking about faires and shuch, you nees to keep in mind that the mytha come from mostly related but differnt places. Irish, scotish, welsh , more modern britain. All of those fairy myth have as many differences as they have similarities.
     
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  4. Konradleijon

    Konradleijon Not too sore, are you?

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    yeah in Anime their are good kami, bad kami and neutral kami, their not demons by another name. And by that in some Jewish folklore Demons are more fairy like, and not all horribly.
     
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  5. fluffy

    fluffy Not too sore, are you?

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    Actually thats not entirely correct for their names. Vlad III Dracula (or draculea) would be the correct term forAlucard as that means son of the dragon. Vlad Dracul was his father vlad II. Tepes would also work because that was Vlad III other epithet meaning the impaler. This all of course IS pointless as their last name would actually be either Basarab (the original noble house) or Draculesti (the branch family created by Vlad II.

    Edit:just saw the second edit you made.