Well Men

9 years ago #9492676          

This seems to me to obviously be a story used to explain people dying from water born diseases after drinking bad well water (like cholera). This also explains why the church can't get rid of wellmen, and why throwing gold into the well gets rid of it (gold has antibacterial properties)

9 years ago #9492494          

Nordic folklore : *Creates a scare creature and leaves some interpretation to them.*
Humon comics: *Draws one with great hair, sexy body and a massive penis.*
I love this comic.

9 years ago #9492576          

@angelofdeath64
That is not my idea of great hair or a sexy body, but whatever floats your boat I suppose.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure that's probably closer to what people imagined at the time. If you look at art of "scary" creatures from the time you'll see people weren't particularly inventive, so they probably just thought it was a relatively normal looking naked man with black skin and red glowing eyes.

7 years ago #9668692          

wise women ey? well what about wise sheep >:u

8 years ago #9514901          

*Mysterious meteorite crashes on the blasted heath outside my house*
*Weird colour inside tries to live in my well*
"oh, didn't realise there was already someone was living here." *Weird glow shuffles out awkwardly and lives in the attic instead*

9 years ago #9493037          

And of course because this is Humon Comics, he has a long, slimy, dangly todger.

9 years ago #9492585          

Another one of your founds that needs to be added to the Pathfinder Beastiary

6 years ago #9780794          

He reminds me of ol' Tommy Rawhead and Bloody Bones

8 years ago #9567496          

What's with folklore and its weird obsession with scaring people away from wells

8 years ago #9517440          

We call him "brunnsgubben" in Sweden. ;)

8 years ago #9514847          

From where are you getting all that information about mythological creatures?