Furries in folklore

[jacojerb]

Strangely, I don't think there's a topic like this yet. A topic about furries in folklore. Especially with our local south-african folklore, or "volksverhale". Saw some books about it today, almost bought it xD the art was good, and the story quite cute

Fox is always the thief. Lion is king of the jungle. All kinds of little things like this that I grew up with... It really is great xD I even wrote my own story like this for an afrikaans essay.

I dono... not much to discuss here... But I figured it's a topic worth talking about

[Leeward]

I'm just going to leave this here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_man_o ... ein_Stadel

[jacojerb]

That's pretty epic!

So furries have been around for 42000 years. I love it xD

[Sticky_Fingers]

(reference this? http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/saft/)

A lot of folklore in Africa is passed orally so its really just up to the few people who take time to write them down. Often its things like: How the zebra got its stripes, why elephants have big ears. Etc. (athropomorphised since animals have basically human-like interactions with each other).

Eg: http://www.worldoftales.com/Old_Hendrik_Tales.html
and: http://www.worldoftales.com/South_Afric ... tales.html

for Afrikaner folklore, I would say that they would have borrowed from European lore or had their own political or pioneer-style tales of adventure and such.

The interesting thing to talk about is how furries have created their own lore borrowing from pretty much ALL related anthropomorphic folklore.

Example (as you said): Lions being the king. Disney has had atleast 3 unique movie franchises with lions as kings (robin hood, lion king(duh), chitti chiity bang bang?) not to mention the cultural influences we have with the 'BIG 5' . But further then that, it seems big cats always tend to have that POWERFUL, INFLUENTIAL role. Look at the story with the lion and the mouse (the one where the lion has a thorn in its paw). Look at the jungle book. ETC.

We as furries turn this into a more streamlined idea. Persons with a lion fursona tend to be REGAL, powerful, in charge, charismatic , etc. This is our own folklore building.

Foxes are exciteable, hyperactive, kinda spaced out or a bunch of airheads, etc.

Bears are big and powerful and either musclebound or big and tubby. They tend to be hearty and pleasant to be around.

Dogs are loyal, they work great in a pack and there is pretty much a dog (or wolf) to suit every personality.

Etc, etc.

As I said, right now , we are making our own oral history. Its rather fascinating.