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thestormtrooper
Since: Nov, 2013
GAN2012
Since: Mar, 2018

I remember so clearly seeing a beautifully illustrated comic with a collection of folklore stories. They were incredibly creepy and came from a culture that doesn't normally get to share its folklore with a wider audience (maaybe a polynesian country but I'm not sure). One of the stories involved being turned into this terrifying wooden sort of scarecrow. Another story, the one I remember most clearly, is about an animal that made a certain creepy noise. An insect I think. And if you stepped on one, the it made the noise and the other insects heard, and there's this big monster that gets you and turns you into the wooden creepy scarecrow (might be two related stories I'm not sure). The creepy noise sounds like wood creaking, and so the person turned to grinning wood makes the same noises as the animal they stepped on. Something like that. Does anyone know what mythology this is? It's so fascinating and I want to do a project on it but I can't find the original comic no matter how hard I search. Maybe someone has seen the original comic?
Edited by GAN2012