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Dead... And Not So Dead => The Dead and the Undead => Topic started by: alastor moon on November 03, 2005, 06:00:51 PM

Title: ankou
Post by: alastor moon on November 03, 2005, 06:00:51 PM
he supposed to be the celts version of the grim reaper. anyone wanna give me their oppinion?
Title: ankou
Post by: Devious Viper on November 03, 2005, 06:10:44 PM
He's more French-celtic than Gaelic/British Celtic. He's supposed to ride around the countryside during the night on a cart pulled by four black horses, with two skeleton helpers who throw the souls of the recently dead into the cart. As time wore on, he was "downgraded" in myth a little, and is now thought of as a ghost that guards cemeteries.

~ Viper ~
Title: ankou
Post by: alastor moon on November 03, 2005, 06:26:22 PM
I swear to god, all that is holy to anyone and on my life i have seen the ankou.
Title: ankou
Post by: Devious Viper on November 03, 2005, 06:28:59 PM
What happened??
Title: ankou
Post by: alastor moon on November 03, 2005, 06:46:42 PM
my great grandma died. I was in the room with her.
Title: ankou
Post by: Phantom X on November 03, 2005, 06:50:05 PM
*blink blink*
Weirdness. Did it see you or talk to you?
Title: ankou
Post by: alastor moon on November 03, 2005, 06:53:11 PM
no, apearantly he doesn't care much for the living. just the dead. I couldn't see his face because it was shadowed. bythe way my family is scottish, irshs mix on my moms side(my reat grand ma was her grandma.)
Title: ankou
Post by: Phantom X on November 03, 2005, 06:56:40 PM
So Ill eventually see it in death or do you have to believe in him and be Irish?
Title: ankou
Post by: alastor moon on November 03, 2005, 06:58:25 PM
Quote from: Phantom X
So Ill eventually see it in death or do you have to believe in him and be Irish?
I don't know. i guess if he's "available" at your death you'll see him i guess. i don't know for sure.
Title: ankou
Post by: Phantom X on November 03, 2005, 07:00:01 PM
Is there anywhere special he takes you or do you go to a diffrent kind of hell/heaven? (both containing mass amounts of alchol and irish songs.)
Title: ankou
Post by: Devious Viper on November 03, 2005, 07:03:26 PM
LINK (http://www.storyjohn.freeserve.co.uk/ankou.htm)
Title: ankou
Post by: alastor moon on November 03, 2005, 07:05:37 PM
i guess he takes you to hte land of the dead. i don't know much about him. just some stories my grandpa told me. mainly about ancestors trying to cheat the ankou of their souls. very funny stories actually.
Title: ankou
Post by: Phantom X on November 03, 2005, 07:09:45 PM
Thats a very interesting and chilling story DV, yeet it seems so right. I may have to read more into this person.