so do you believe in myths or not?

Question

there are so many. i have studied up on what i believe:
vampires, the antichrist, ghosts, unicorns even, the supernatural. it is all so interesting, its all in my yahoo 360 which is the same as my name in here. check it out some time

Answer 1

One time, on a camping trip, it was an especially magickal night. At some point, everyone in the camp noticed that something was missing, including a necklace from around one woman's neck. The area where we were camping was separate from any other areas and so no one came into the area. Suspecting activity of the Fae, everyone put out offerings, except for the woman who lost her necklace. She cursed the fairies. The next morning, everything was returned except the necklace. To this day, the necklace has never been found.

On another camping trip, I put my tent right in the middle of a natural faery ring. When I camp, I always have a flashlight with me at all times. The only place I could have lost it was in my tent, so I searched my tent, and the flashlight was not in there. Then I had two friends search the tent, and they couldn't find the flashlight. I put out offerings to the fae, and the next morning, the flashlight was back in my tent.

Another camp-out, We had a tarp structure in the most wind protected part of a wind protected valley. I've put up a lot of tarp structures, and it was put up very well. I've put up hundreds of tents and tarp structures, and I know what I'm doing. In and around the tarp structure where etched glass tealight holders on stands averaging about 4 feet high (it was beautiful). That night, the structure blew over (in a wind protected area) but when it fell, somehow it completely missed all of the etched glass. About mid way through the day, with no one anywhere near the structure, about half of it spontaneously stood back up.

A friend recently posted in her blog that she had lost a piece off her necklace, and it was no where to be found. One day her husband found it, right where he had been standing barefoot moments earlier, in plain sight, and in a spot where she had vacuumed earlier. There it was, in a place in plain sight where it hadn't been earlier

As a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.

One time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.

One time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.

One time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.

On another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism

My grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."

The myths of Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti describe it as a spiritual creature with hypnotic powers over those it encounters. People these days tend to believe that if they can't capture it and put it in a zoo, then it must not be real. And yet most people are perfectly comfortable believing in angels. It seems to me to be much more consistent with the legends for Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti to be a magickal creature.

Most of what we think about werewolves was invented by Hollywood. The ancient myths involved people donning skins, invoking the spirit of the wolf, and losing their humanity. There's a woman called Lupa who lives in a national park and becomes a wolf nightly. I met her, and I saw her lose herself to the spirit of the wolf

Lupa was at a Pagan festival. She mostly kept to herself, except for at night when she would don the wolf pelt and dance around the fire, invoking the spirit of the wolf, giving up her humanity, losing herself to the spirit of the wolf. She was naked except for the wolf skin, and her body was lean and toned like a wolf. After she was finished dancing, she went off to do I know not what.

I heard that she was nineteen, but her face showed more years. She could speak, but rarely ever did. She might have been a bit feral

I had just gone through a shamanic vision quest to find and merge with my spirit animal, which was far more domesticated, so I was a bit leary of her, however it did give me a much greater insight into what she was doing. She was one of the most fascinating people at the festival, and for a Pagan festival, that's saying something.

One of the most notable figures in werewolf mythology was the Greek king Lycaon. Stories differ on whether Zeus turned him into a wolf as punishment or reward for his sacrifice, but because of the story every year people made sacrifices to Zeus in the hopes of being a wolf for a little while.

But most of the werewolf stuff (getting scratched and turning into a werewolf, silver bullets, only changing on the nights of the full moon, etc.) was invented by Hollywood.

As for Vampires, many people drain those around them of life force, but there are some who can do it purposefully. They have the ability to reach out and drain a person's energy. They say it's better than caffeine.

I have a good friend who can do that. She's the only energy vampire I know who uses her power for good. She takes people's headaches. She also has an amazing ability to sense energies, making her one of the most powerful witches I know (I know a lot of witches who claim to be powerful, but very few who actually are). I have known her for many years and we are very close friends.

One time it was the dead of winter, she was sitting next to a window, and she felt someone looking at her. She looked and there was someone dressed in black with no color in their body sitting across the road, intently looking at her. She looked down for no more than five seconds, looked up again, and he was sitting on her side of the road, still intently looking at her. He was not dressed for the cold, but was not shivering at all. Just intense calm looking at her. She immediately closed the blinds realizing that she had just had an encounter with a real vampire. A real vampire and a kindred spirit. It probably wasn't a vampire like Dracula or what we see from Hollywood, but it was definitely something from outside of our mundane existence.

Answer 2

I believe in Myth and Folklore!! I just love a good story about anything magical! I think that without belief there is little to no room for growing creativity!! How does anyone become a good story teller (of any kind) without belief in what the have not seen? There is so much in this world that we may never see, but that does not mean that it's not there!
Vampires, Witches, Ghosts, Pixies, Fairies, Goblins, Trolls, Mermaids, Mermen, Dragons, Unicorn, Pegasus, Gnomes, Elves, Werewolves, ect....... And the stories about them keep us young at heart and make everday living a little more exciting!!
I think that without belief in these things, life would be very dull!

Answer 3

This can not be answered with yes or no. Myths are based on legends and some are based on factual happenings that are usually handed down from generation to generation.
Some are believable and some are the results of a happy story teller with a good imagination that just loved to spin yarns. Myths are like folklore and you can't always separate truth from fiction. So, in my opinion, there cannot be a yes or no answer.

Answer 4

Good myths have several levels of meaning.

A) A cracking good story for a long winter's night.

B) A way of explaining natural phenomena before science got around to it.

C) A means of expressing a deeply held philosophy or belief about humanity.

D) Another cement for a community's togetherness; sharing beliefs or customs.

E) A memory, suitably embellished for reason of one or more of the above, of an actual event or person or experience.

Answer 5

All myth is rooted in reality. But even if it weren't it is still good to let the mind wander overthe possibilities of a diverse dark and beautiful world in the skies, in the water, in the earth and in the depths of darkness.

"I Do believe in spooks I do I do I do..."

Myths are what makes things interesting.

Answer 6

I totally believe in myths.
The stories have to have come from somewhere.
Unicorns are plausible. They are just like horses without horns. Thats not too unrealistic.
Humans evolved from Apes alledgedly.
And so many people (myself included) have seen ghosts.

Answer 7

Yes. Quite possibly they happened. Ussually most stories, myths and legends are based on things that have happened or that supposedly happened. Though not all.

Answer 8

I believe that they are symbols of certain archetypes and universal themes that humanity has always been fascinated with but I don't believe in them literally.

Answer 9

yes i do