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gather round new cajun culture thread drop
i do this when i want to
ok today is less a word meaning but more about FOLKLORE
so today's word of the day is the ROUGAROU (or rouxgaroux/many other spellings)
pronounced: roo gah roo
simple.
the original french spelling is loup-garou, which means werewolf
he's basically a swamp monster werewolf that roams around various places: swamps, sugar cane, the forest, various places but where he can keep on the downlow yk?
typically just one of those legends that adults would tell kids to scare them into being behaving, because what better way to put children into their place then to tell them this guy will come for them if they're being bad:
very scary!
this is actually my favorite depiction of him if you go on google and search the rest look too serious and muscly like?
no, my guy needs to be a swampy mess and 80 decades past his due thank you
here's some interesting bits that i had no idea about that im taking from the wikipedia just to spread more interesting lore about our cajun creature
en.wikipedia.org
i do this when i want to
ok today is less a word meaning but more about FOLKLORE
so today's word of the day is the ROUGAROU (or rouxgaroux/many other spellings)
pronounced: roo gah roo
simple.
the original french spelling is loup-garou, which means werewolf
he's basically a swamp monster werewolf that roams around various places: swamps, sugar cane, the forest, various places but where he can keep on the downlow yk?
typically just one of those legends that adults would tell kids to scare them into being behaving, because what better way to put children into their place then to tell them this guy will come for them if they're being bad:
very scary!
this is actually my favorite depiction of him if you go on google and search the rest look too serious and muscly like?
no, my guy needs to be a swampy mess and 80 decades past his due thank you
here's some interesting bits that i had no idea about that im taking from the wikipedia just to spread more interesting lore about our cajun creature
Rougarou - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
According to another variation, the wolf-like beast will hunt down and kill Catholics who do not follow the rules of Lent. This coincides with the French Catholic loup-garou stories, according to which the method for turning into a werewolf is to break Lent seven years in a row.
A common blood sucking legend says that the rougarou is under the spell for 101 days. After that time, the curse is transferred from person to person when the rougarou draws another human's blood. During that day the creature returns to human form. Although acting sickly, the human refrains from telling others of the situation for fear of being killed.
weird !!!
my own personal connection when i was a kid i used to think rougarou's strictly lived in dark long driveways w/ trees bc we're im from 90% of driveways look like this (minus the lamp post, like absolutely no lights but ur car lights lmao):
and my mom would say bc its so dark it "looks like the rougarou's gonna come out"
but NO sadly this legend is not tied to dark driveways strictly rip
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while this is all legend stories, there is ONE true fact about the rougarou. they say... he will literally appear before you at night if you dont stream ready or not by cravity so you better get on it unless you want the rougarou to come get ya watch out stay safe