Monstrous
Dead... And Not So Dead => The Dead and the Undead => Topic started by: alastor moon on November 03, 2005, 06:00:51 PM
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he supposed to be the celts version of the grim reaper. anyone wanna give me their oppinion?
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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 ~
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I swear to god, all that is holy to anyone and on my life i have seen the ankou.
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What happened??
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my great grandma died. I was in the room with her.
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*blink blink*
Weirdness. Did it see you or talk to you?
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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.)
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So Ill eventually see it in death or do you have to believe in him and be Irish?
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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.
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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.)
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LINK (http://www.storyjohn.freeserve.co.uk/ankou.htm)
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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.
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Thats a very interesting and chilling story DV, yeet it seems so right. I may have to read more into this person.