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Mythical Human Racesby *humon

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I didn't make these up. Back in the day people came up with all sorts of weird human races and claimed they lived in far away countries. Most of them were said to live in African and the east (expecially India), but some were believed to live up north.

The difference between these human races and, say, nymphs or trolls, was that nobody doubted their existence and they didn't use magic. They were just people who looked or acted funny.

Panots lived from the most northern part of Germany all the way up though Denmark and Scania (Skåne). They had huge ears which they draped around themselves when they went to sleep or when it was cold.

Alongside them lived the hippopodes, a people that looked human except for having horse feet.

Less widespread were the Oeonaes who only lived in northern Germany and Netherlands, and up the west coast of Denmark. They looked perfectly human, but only ate grain and swamp-bird eggs.

These races were all peaceful and lived in harmony with the humans, but further up in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia lived the vicuous kynokefals. They had normal human bodies but the heads of dogs. They understood the languages of the people living there but could only talk in a language made of dog sounds, and were well known for eating humans.

Further east in Russia lived the arimaspus people with only one eye. They were different from cyclops in that they were the size of regular humans and for the most part peaceful. They were a proud race that only ate carnivore meat and fought the griffins that were believed to live in Russia.

I took the liberty of putting them in the clothes of the people living in those countries. Should be noted that kynokefals have never been associated with the sami people. I just gave it sami clothes because they lived in that area.

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~ImmotalisRex May 12, 2013 New member Hobbyist General Artist

This gives me an idea for my story.

~utriv Apr 16, 2013

This is so Kewl!

~Shadowulf1 Mar 7, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I just love how these creatures are finally coming into modern knowledge! Now, since I studied about them before they started becoming popular, I feel all like a hipster.

Cool stuff, really. Well done.

~oosick Dec 28, 2012

i know have a mythical reason to go to scandinavia

~farceur-saxon Nov 18, 2012 Student

And i thought I was a wingnut!

~Pandor17 Nov 2, 2012 Student Artist

Maybe that's where the fairy tale The Little Red Riding Hood came from!

~oosick Dec 28, 2012

there are actually a few stories that sound like modern fairytales, most of them from Germany but i read a norwegian veriation of billy goat gruff a long time ago.

~Niobesnuppa Mar 20, 2013

*Ahem* The "Norwegian variation" of Three Billy Goats Gruff is the original variation, it's a Norwegian fairytale so it's not a new take on it. Just saying.

~oosick Mar 20, 2013

the more you know

~justwhatIdraw Oct 10, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

so, Lovely!

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