this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023

194 points (97.5% liked)

Asklemmy

asklemmy@lemmy.ml

55,192 readers

3,219 active

210 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~~Icon~~ by ~~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~~

founded 7 years ago

moderators

mekhos@lemmy.ml

14specks@lemmy.ml

What's the scary folk lore from your culture? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

100 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Every culture/region has stories and myths about the things existing there. What are the ones you find the most spooky and/or interesting?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not sure how such an outlandish tale captivated so many people for so long, but: Trickle-down economics.

hideshow 4 child comments

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago

😱

parent

[–] Absolutemehperson@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Americans try not american the most irrelevant threads up (IMPOSSIBLE)

parent

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Apologies It's been a lifetime of frustration and sometimes I lash out at people (and threads) who don't deserve it

parent