Butterfly myths?

Question

I was wondering if anyone knew of any butterfly myths or folklore. I know the one about the Japanese think that butterfies are reincarnits and if they enter into your house it's good luck (as long as there aren't to many, then thats a bad omen) but I was wanting to know some more.

Thanks!

Answer 1

to we Native Americans//Red skins there some very powerful mythology surrounding butterfly's!
way to much to answer here so try this link for a starter...
http://www.insects.org/ced4/mythology.html

Answer 2

the belief held by the Blackfeet that dreams are brought to us in sleep by a butterfly. Their sign for a butterfly was a design roughly in the shape of a maltese cross with one arm horizontal and the other verticle. This sign was painted on a lodge to indicate that the style and method of painting the lodge were taught to the lodge owner in a dream. It was also the custom for a Blackfoot woman to embroider the sign of a butterfly on a small peice of buckskin and tie this in her baby's hair when she wishes it to go to sleep. At the same time, she sings to the child a lulaby in which the butterfly is asked to come flying about and put the child to sleep. Grinnell did not learn why or how the butterfly bring sleep and dreams. However, he did note that the Blackfeet stated that the butterfly is soft and pretty and moves gently and that if you look at it for a long time you will go to sleep.

Answer 3

The taoist has a myth concerning moths instead. They believe that those moths that appears during a wake is the spirit of the deceased, coming back for the final look. I had observed on several occasions, unusually large moths that would suddenly appear flying around the wakes, so who knows.

Answer 4

in my culture (indonesian), when butterflies enter our home, it means that some guests will come and visit the house. sometimes it's true, but most of the times not. so i think it's just a superstition.