my cultural known horror stories.

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so i live in saudi arabia in the middle east and there we have some popular horror stories that been told by people for years . and i have been interested in them since i was a child so i thought it will be cool to discuss it with people all around the world !

give me your opinion and though about it ! oh and tell me if you got scared that will be cool to know haha

*also don,t be shy yo tell me your own culture known horror stories!

first story :

so one of the most known stories that made people freak out was a story of a creature called "namnam""النمنم"

this story have a lot to be said about it since people suspected that it existed since hundreds of years but the time this story took a serious matters is in the 40s .but let‘s first start with what is this namnam creature anyway? its a creepy looking creature . it have a possibility to take a human look but he always have an animal part in his body like ( horse feet or a tail ) he eat human of all kind didn‘t matter if you are a kid or adult or big or small he eat you the moment he see you ! his way of hunting people is by taking his human shape ( people also say he can take a shape of someone you know ) then knock in people doors . and if you opened the door you are done ... oh and he can be a female and male!

it first come out as a way to scare kids and warning them of opening doors for strangers and going out at night . so parents will say stuff like "dont get out or the namnam will get you!" and it worked a little to will since not only kids starting get scared but also parents . and there it come a big wave of horror hit people . at night the streets are dead . doors are very well locked . people talking everywhere that they have the namnam . even kids refusing to go to school because they are scared of the namnam!

but the weird thing about all that its been known for hundreds of years and yet you can still hear the same story to this days . just with a little changes to fit the needs of parents . but also not dead never .

*its never known if they are real or not

a close picture of what the namnam look like;

numnum?

* idk if this is real or not however this is probably how namnam skull would look like but the animal part is much more less than that ofc ( i barely found any photos soo...)

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forget to say i will make more parts talking about more stories haha . also i dont mind if you ask me anything about this stories i know a lot and a LOT about it .

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hello lazybug

I read ur story and it’s not like any other that i’ve read before.

I was pretty startled when i saw the pic too.

That must be something like shapeshifter/skinwalker type of thing ig? idk but you said that people have been talking about namnam for decades and I believe that people are the ones that give power to these creatures by believing in them and somehow manifesting their powers. I believe that when people talk about a creature that much they attract or as we say in my native language “ndjell” the creature more and more in our direction.

I live in a small balkan country and in my place specifically the urban legends involve fairies or as our elders call them “shtoizavalle”. There are a lot of stories that say when a child nor an adult (mostly children) have seen fairies they have gone mad. People have also gone mad when they have walked at night in the graveyards. There are sayings that when people have walked across graveyards at night they have either gone mad or have lost their lives. A friend of my friend has lost her voice just because she walked across the graveyards at night. It’s not the night stroll at the graveyards that drove them into that state. It’s more at what they stepped to. I never figured what was the thing that our elders said that they stepped to but ig it must be something cursed or idk. We also have a lot of stories that involve jinn and other creatures but i’m leaving those for another time.

Let’s just say that im not that religious but im certainly not an atheist. There are a lot of things out there that haven’t been discovered yet. I believe that not everything that is unknown to us it means that it’s dangerous. On the contrary I find that quite intriguing.

xoxo

-F

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