Mythical Creatures and Monsters of Africa

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Mythical Creatures and Monsters of African folklore.
A glimpse into the diverse and captivating myths of the African continent.
The creatures and monsters encountered in this video:
Tikoloshe - Zulu and Xhosa folklore
Dingonek - East African folklore (near Lake Victoria)
Mokèlé-Mbèmbé - Pygmy tribes mythology (Congo Basin, Africa)
Popobawa - Swahili folklore (East Africa, Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Mami Wata - Folklore of Nigeria, Ghana, and Cameroon
Gbahali - Mandinka mythology (West Africa, Liberia, Gambia)
Impundulu (Lightning Bird) - Zulu mythology (South Africa)
Ammit - Ancient Egyptian mythology
Grootslang - San and Khoi-Khoi folklore (South Africa)
Yumboes (Yoruba fairies) - Yoruba folklore (Nigeria and West Africa)
Inkanyamba - Zulu and Xhosa folklore (South Africa)
Kalanoro - Madagascar folklore
Kongamato - Folklore of Zambia and Congo
Ninki Nanka - West African folklore (Gambia and Senegal)
Jengu - Sawa folklore (Cameroon)
Anansi - Ashanti folklore (Ghana and other Akan-speaking groups)
Kishi - Angola folklore
Bouda - Folklore of Morocco and North Africa
Mngwa - Swahili folklore (East Africa)
Adze - Ewe mythology (Ghana and Togo)
Asanbosam - Akan mythology (Ghana)
Abada (Emela-ntouka) - Pygmy tribes mythology (Congo Basin, Africa)
Aigamuxa - Khoikhoi folklore (South Africa)
Ga-Gorib - San folklore (Southern Africa)
Kianda - Luhya folklore (Kenya)
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@MythosTheHistorian Год назад

What's your favorite creature from African Folklore and why?

@CuteDwarf11 Год назад

I like the Impundulu since they remind me of the Native American Thunderbirds; they're totally badass.

@nicobakang9631 11 месяцев назад

Little correction the bouda or boudai are not creatures or cryptids from Morocco but from Ethiopia. Besides great video , I was expecting to here about the eloko but its ok ... Keep up

@nicobakang9631 11 месяцев назад

From ur video its the Bouda but my favourite is the Eloko

@johnboats9075 10 месяцев назад

Ananasi

@roxanneweichinger9318 10 месяцев назад

🙂The Jengu water spirit, I think mermaids are pretty cool.

@tsnophaljakarax9963 Год назад

You know what would be cool? An open-world game based on African mythology. Not just with the monsters, but the amazing wildlife as well.

@ladykoiwolfe Год назад

It would be cool if we could also learn about actual African cultures as well.

@Lion_Heart_33 11 месяцев назад

I agree. Our wildlife and folklore beings need to be learnt about in the West and the rest of the world.

@corneliusfarrell8673 11 месяцев назад

Starring T'challa/Black Panther, Shuri, Nakia and Okoye

@ladykoiwolfe 11 месяцев назад

@@corneliusfarrell8673 we said Actual African Culture. Wakanda is cool, but it's not real.

@corneliusfarrell8673 11 месяцев назад

@@ladykoiwolfe ik im just using it for fiction

@naeptae Год назад

it is interesting how the majority of spirit water mentioned are mermaid like creatures, a very few considered to be part of the good guys. It's so rich the mythology, hope one day you can make a videos with whole tales of these guys :D

@MythosTheHistorian Год назад

some of them will have definitely their own video sin the future :)

@ladykoiwolfe Год назад

It might have to do with dangerous creatures living in those life giving waters. It's a dichotomy that has given rise to water creatures around the world known for either blessing or harming on seeming whim.

@joejett5084 10 месяцев назад

I like Lupe fiasco song concept wav files about the long chains which are the spirits of people who jumped off of slave ships during the trans Atlantic slave trade and gained supernatural powers and then sunk other slave ships within the Atlantic. I think that story needs to be developed more and needs to add Mami Wata.

@Nyctophora 10 месяцев назад

Fascinating, thank you! Good to see the Mngwa :)

@Mexican00b 10 месяцев назад

54 countries in the african continent... i think this is too "summarized"

@jimstrange3475 9 месяцев назад

The scariest one of all is the dreaded job application.

@goatboy150 10 месяцев назад

LMAO so many clever references to the same familiar parasite.

@cloneofethan 6 месяцев назад

Imagine going to a remote part of North Africa and trying to explain to someone with broken English, that Buddha is not Bouda

@lewisdu-pont1651 6 месяцев назад

the name you looking for is KHOSA which is a clan and not "corsa"

@jayexotic7908 9 месяцев назад

God of war sequel?

@malikjohnson4799 3 месяца назад

Yumboes come from Wolof mythology, not Yorùbá. Specifically, they come from a Wolof subgroup, the Lebou people. The closest mythology Yorùbá culture has that is akin to fairies are the Iwin, also sometimes called ọ̀rọ̀.

@bradonbyrd8061 Год назад

Oh ho oh

@InstigatorDJ 9 месяцев назад

Its spelled "Tokoloshe"

@anniesossa 10 месяцев назад

I really love the effort and research u put into these videos but I’m from Africa and ur not pronouncing most of those names correctly. Please even in future videos on any mythological beings like Native American ones for eg make sure ur pronouncing the names correctly 😩once again thanks for these types of videos especially on Africa just find out how to say them properly pls pls pls😩

@casualobserver5466 9 месяцев назад

They had no written language or mathematics 😂

@sophiagrace6361 9 месяцев назад

Yes they did..? 😂

@gussybobbler3676 9 месяцев назад

Imagine giving billions of aid to a continent that can’t even figure out how to obtain clean water lol. Birthplace of civilization my ASS 😂

@n0n4me77 9 месяцев назад

Tf you on about?

@jordanwilliams3768 3 месяца назад

@@n0n4me77he's onto nothing 🗣🗣🗣

@goodorusty 10 месяцев назад

It seems like every culture in the world share similar folkloric creatures. The ones that seem almost universal are water spirits, mischievious imp/goblin-like creatures, terrifying vampiric creatures, boogeyman-like creatures, and some kind of serpentine/dragon-like creature. This was an interesting video.

@King_kami36 10 месяцев назад

Interesting fact….if you seclude a population for 1000 years with no contact with society or knowledge of things before hand it’s 100% guaranteed they will have a myth or legend of dragons that links almost directly with at least one culture from the outside world

@talkingdomination1928 9 месяцев назад

Even spiders. No matter where in the world, you just can’t escape spiders

@culture4519 9 месяцев назад

@@talkingdomination1928Antarctica is safe

@ottdeon 8 месяцев назад

well when u take into account that they are also considered "Spirits"...." lucifer took 1/3 of the angels with him.

@Bitchslapper316 8 месяцев назад

Also powerful being descending from the sky

@kitsunekimchi118 Год назад

Ahhh, there's that African Folklore vid I've been waiting for. Thanks, mate. You did my country's legends proud

@trollmastermike52845 10 месяцев назад

You could make a banger of a film like clash of the titans with this lore. Just needs to be done right because you can easily fall into a politically correct trash film category. Honestly, you could do a lion king concept where the heir hoes into exile fights different beasts from legends and returns to save the kingdom from corruption. Lion king/lord of the ring returns of the king.

@bonganimkhatshwa-ks2zp Год назад

Did you know the description of a nkanyamba is exactly the same as that of kukulkan the feather serpent god of the maya. It’s said the serpent uses it’s feathers to hypnotise it’s victims by producing a whistling sound

@ericpavlat5121 10 месяцев назад

Inkanyamba’s also kind of a storm god, apparently.

@eSh.. Год назад

Holy hell. I want to hear THESE stories. But not told by Hollywood writers.

@CuteDwarf11 Год назад

Impundulu makes me think of Thunderbirds from Native American Folklore .

@MythosTheHistorian Год назад

Yes! They are quite similar!

@CuteDwarf11 Год назад

@@MythosTheHistorian You definitely don't want to get on their bad side...

@montanachristeson5364 10 месяцев назад

This is what I was kinda thinking

@Lion_Heart_33 11 месяцев назад

Epic video. I loved it. Thank you. One powerful being that was left out is the Nyami-Nyami from the Zambezi River and Lake Kariba between my country of Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and Zambia 🇿🇲 ( where I live as a wildlife conservationist ). He is a River God in the form of a Serpent who protects the land and people in times of hardship and trouble. During the '50s, when the Kariba dam wall was being built, huge stroms and floods pounded the construction with some lives being lost in the process. The Tonga people of whom he helps say it was his wrath against the disrespect of the river and Kariba Gorge. Since then, sightings of a serpetine being have been seen ( similar to the Loch Ness Monster ). What makes it more fascinating is the fact my father, who is a game ranger, saw a set of three humps speeding rapidly away from one of the islands. Being a wildlife expert, he said it couldn't have been elephants playing in the water nor a pid of hippos. He also said it was too large to be a python or sanke of any known kind.

@theec0median23 10 месяцев назад

Monster Hunter needs to take more inspiration from all these cultures, some of these are bone chillingly amazing

@ghostofaforgottenweedle 10 месяцев назад

Seeing that a creature like Mami Wata exists, I wonder why this wasn't used for a good movie script. No, we re-color Arielle, an existing northern creature that's white. Africa has such a rich mythology, that should be material for a bunch of movies, games, stories and what not.

@Waterseeker_ 9 месяцев назад

Mermaids aren't white, they're fictional.

@chancelorsantos9039 Год назад

As RotS got the likes of 0:20 Tokoloshe 1:54 Popobawa 9:08 Kishi 9:41 Werehyena 10:38 Adze I appreciate u for the new names I could add to the lore 🍪

@silverking2181 7 месяцев назад

What is Rots ?

@chancelorsantos9039 7 месяцев назад

@@silverking2181 “Rule of the Shadows” basically is where those from African mythology and legends duke it out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HYm775LrQh4.htmlsi=suYn7hSHSIU3YD5b

@chancelorsantos9039 6 месяцев назад

@@silverking2181 rule of the shadows

@silverking2181 6 месяцев назад

@@chancelorsantos9039 Thank you !

@lovely1762 Год назад

Thank you for tapping into african culture. 😊

@generaleerelativity9524 Год назад

Kishi/Bouda are more than likely the same entity just given a different name by different cultures and explains the origin of the Hyena looking Dogmen.

@nicobakang9631 11 месяцев назад

Not really kishi a man , in fact a very attractive man who seduces woman and it's done he devours them with the hyena heard at the back of his head

@SagnikBiswas-ec6iy Год назад

African mythology is perhaps the most mysterious, intriguing and interesting.

@bobdrooples 10 месяцев назад

What makes you say that? The patronising mythos of the mysterious dark continent? Sick of it. It's too often packaged as monolithic "African Mythology" and rubs me the wrong way.

@Talleyhoooo 10 месяцев назад

@@bobdrooplesgod you need to touch grass

@bobdrooples 10 месяцев назад

@@Talleyhoooo I can guarantee you've misattributed me and read loaded words where none was meant. Touch grass? Pass, it's winter and the time for tales in front of the fire.

@Talleyhoooo 10 месяцев назад

@@bobdrooples that comment somehow made your original’s even more cringe and stupid than before

@erickchristensen746 10 месяцев назад

@@bobdrooples You need to grow up dude

@Vejur9000 10 месяцев назад

People can laugh all they want… but Africa is also the greatest, most amazing continent on earth. The cradle of civilization. I wouldn’t be surprised at how many cryptids turn out to be true in this primordial piece of earth.

@JessicaD.-vb9ho 10 месяцев назад

Nah everyone knows how majestic the continent is, it's the majority of people who reside there that make it less appealing and prevent people from wanting to visit it lol

@LeoBlight 9 месяцев назад

@@JessicaD.-vb9hoyeah I guess that’s what colonization would do to a place. It’s sad!

@JessicaD.-vb9ho 9 месяцев назад

@@LeoBlight hmmm weird other colonized places aren't in the same state then.

@LeoBlight 9 месяцев назад

@@JessicaD.-vb9ho yeah. I guess that happens when the colonizers don’t actually leave! That is weird.

@JessicaD.-vb9ho 9 месяцев назад

@@LeoBlight boy am I glad they didn't leave, thanks to them by the time I got here there was an education system, I can read and write and understand science, I'd much rather get an operation from a qualified doctor, rather than have people do a ritual dance over me to get the evil spirit out lol some people have different outlooks on that kinda stuff.

@pumirya Год назад

Another interesting and entertaining video. Thanks and keep up the good work.

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq 3 месяца назад

A very rich, interesting tapestry.

@ladykoiwolfe Год назад

I was absolutely thrilled with how many of these I don't know. I love learning about new creatures and beings from folklore and mythology. And the Abada was absolutely Metall! It's probably one of my favorite unicorns already. I need to go learn more about it.

@ETOILEPHANTOME 9 месяцев назад

We also have Mami Wata in Guadeloupe, we call her Manman Dlo (same thing but in creole).

@-RONNIE Год назад

Thank you for sharing the mythology with us

@MythosTheHistorian Год назад

thank you m8 for being our follower!

@-RONNIE Год назад

@@MythosTheHistorian I always liked accurate history and good content

@crencottrell7849 Год назад

8:14 gorgeous, fictional woman 😅

@ladykoiwolfe Год назад

So was that final one.

@donovan5656 10 месяцев назад

I'd recommend the book Black Leopard Red Wolf, a grim dark Afro-fantasy that features several of these monsters.

@BabluKhan-bt7on Год назад

Amazing bro,thanks for this knowledge

@patrickb1303 9 месяцев назад

So basically all African folklores boil down to “be careful outside the village or you will get eaten by something” seems like pretty good advice.

@lordslive4948 Год назад

You've got ads on your vids now ,good for you ,seems like an infection to us watchers

@thetraveler7368 10 месяцев назад

It’d be awesome to have a connected movie-verse based entirely on African folklore.

@SandMan1998 10 месяцев назад

Monsterverse

@thetraveler7368 10 месяцев назад

@@SandMan1998 except they aren’t monsters, so it’s not really a monsterverse.

@zh2266 9 месяцев назад

It'd be on considered too "woke" but a lot of folk

@thetraveler7368 9 месяцев назад

@@zh2266 not necessarily.

@mango_raider4116 9 месяцев назад

@@zh2266this is what boomers sound like when they purposely misconstrue what their youngers have to say because they don't wish to understand and would rather pretend they can't.

@TheLun4tic 10 месяцев назад

so the Arielle Remake could have been a "Mami Wata" story which would have brought in something fresh and new but instead they chose to make her a Danish Fairy Tale with a Black Woman.

@champcpr 10 месяцев назад

God of war in Africa!!!

@mr.bloodworth6004 10 месяцев назад

anybody else find it interesting that even in the deep jungles of africa they still know what mermaids are?

@Daron7181 10 месяцев назад

Mermaid folklore is in much of the world. In Japanese myth, they’re called Ningyō. However, over there, they are more monstrous in appearance.

@Enkabard 8 месяцев назад

Not that much, even in time without easy information source on internet, people who travelled shared stories and legends frequently. Countless people wrote books which sold and reached all over the world, and even in medieval times you could get books from one continent into another. Europeans travelled to the Himalaya Mountains to see Yeti, and Africans shared stories of mermaids with sailors on the shores of Africa, etc.

@dragowolfraven3806 Год назад

Nice. I have seen some of these in my D&D/Pathfinder books.They need to be in video games and movies.

@lemongreed7916 9 месяцев назад

I wish we had a popular fantasy world based on these creatures and African folklore in general. They sound so cool! Imagine them in a fantasy novel or a movie or a video game. That would be sick. But instead we have hollywood re-filming existing movies with black actors just to pretend they care.

@FireDragonHoard 10 месяцев назад

I like how the big spider is just a goofy guy looking to have a good time

@austrociking4345 10 месяцев назад

We need a Witcher-esc game focussed on different Afro-inspired regions with this lineup and more!

@cloverdog85 8 месяцев назад

Its crazy how things like mermaids, trolls, and others are tales from around the world. It makes me wonder if things like that once existed and the tales are from stories from when humans left africa to colonize more parts of the world.

@raistlinmajere5550 10 месяцев назад

I love how many shapeshifters there are i do wonder exactly why that is

@Pointfiveshiznit 10 месяцев назад

Growing up in Dar es salaam Tanzania, Popobawa was talked about mostly in my circles as a insane huge man with aids who went around rapeing people. and if you misbehaved he'd come to you in the night! that shit was terrifying as five year old🤣

@JessicaD.-vb9ho 10 месяцев назад

Shits terrifying to a grown up lol

@GenesiisDavid 9 месяцев назад

Telling your kids a man with aids is gonna rape them is wild 😂

@EldritchGrimoire 9 месяцев назад

My folks are Ghanian, and growing upI remember my mom would'nt get near bodies of water. Everytime my dad and siblings would play in the ocean or even pools she'd be as far from shore as possible while still being able to see us. Years later shr said she saw Mami Wata growing up. She lived near the coast and it was often used as a boogeyman story to make sure kids came home before nightfall, very similar to La Llorana. I'd completely forgotten about that

@XohjaiSbarkeater 10 месяцев назад

Imagine being a 14 yo Zulu kid sitting around board of playing mancala during monsoon season and seeing the lightning and thinking, damn, that would make a bad ass story.....

@CaseyClouse-qj8ok Год назад

Wow that fuckin rock!!!❤❤❤

@randomdude8202 10 месяцев назад

It is weird how many on these shared among disconnected cultures all around the world.

@trillionaire8886 9 месяцев назад

I remember a folklore tale from Africa my mom read to me when I was little. It was about a giant with his heart in his finger & that was the only way to kill him & the hero had to guess. Anyone know this?

@kagisotom9468 Год назад

I have been waiting for this thank you 😊

@alirazakyara5676 Год назад

ASANBONSAM is actually SASABONSAM and believe to be a demon from hell👍

@MrOrcshaman 10 месяцев назад

I remember how Disneys gargoyles has Anansi, but as a villain not a hero.

@r.n.holmes5625 9 месяцев назад

You know, so many of these legends would make for an amazing book series or TV show, movies, but you'd have to do it just right. Otherwise you'd lose the whole point of the legends.

@0zero739 7 месяцев назад

Sorry man, but Ga-Gorib is actually a demon or a spirit of evil that lures people into a pit. Also Ga-Gorib can either mean the spotted one or not the spotted one. But let me know if I’m wrong.

@dasmensch2317 10 месяцев назад

Amazing video thank you man

@MythosTheHistorian 10 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it!

@finnover9781 10 месяцев назад

Hang on, the Popobawa's only supposed to have one eye. Also, that thing is associated with *rape* as well.

@lordslive4948 Год назад

Cool , finally some Africa

@chuey2846 9 месяцев назад

This came into my feed and i thought to myself "if the real ones are so dangerous what are the myths like"

@cdau5513 Год назад

Thank you for sharing these, I didn’t even know about some before this video

@Hellsing017 9 месяцев назад

Imagine a soulslike with African mythology

@idiom2805 10 месяцев назад

Bingo time! -Shapeshifter -Crocodile -A woman -Serpent -Vampire -Dinosaur -Slightly altered animal

@Daron7181 10 месяцев назад

🤯 dude.

@FlagWaverFlagBearer 10 месяцев назад

Lol @ a woman

@CountryBoy109945 9 месяцев назад

I love mythology. I took a mythology and anthropology course one time. Awesome time.

@Plotspider 9 месяцев назад

Okay, WOW. I had no idea about most of these. Anyone seeing any major fantasies involving these creatures? Books? Movies? Games? Etc. These would be awesome for a TTRPG, too. Let's get the ball rolling, shall we?

@diracsea4590 10 месяцев назад

Some of these creatures are cool,

@domunicadriaanse4964 Год назад

This is yet to be my favourite ❤️ one

@Irrelevant402 9 месяцев назад

Hm I looked up Ga-Gorib and all I'm finding is a demon that tells people to throw stones at his head only to bounce off and kill.

@apocratos0174 10 месяцев назад

Yep We almost forget that África is an old continent and have its own myths and creeds. Thing is, we are just bombarded with american, european and asian myths that we forget about african myths...

@isaacgarcia8686 4 месяца назад

Tikoloshe sound like forest Gnomes or Duendes.

@michaelmarto69 9 месяцев назад

Groot slang is Dutch for big snake

@DjPaPaChOnGo 10 месяцев назад

I am Grootslang!.....I'll see myself out now lol

@thefrontlineplans7068 10 месяцев назад

Ok, so respect nature, don’t wander around aimlessly, simp for water spirits. I think I’m ready to move to Africa!

@Bonlaws 9 месяцев назад

Grootslang means bigsnake in dutch, which south african is loosely similar to, made me chuckle

@beccaknight5763 Месяц назад

Kianda art looks drop dead gorgeous

@LittleMoose1 9 месяцев назад

What if lake Victoria has a tiny population of of some sort of walrus? The dingoneks description sounds like a walrus to me.

@bobdrooples 10 месяцев назад

The Dark Continent strikes again. Nicely presented though fella. 👍

@balance1619 9 месяцев назад

they should make kratos turn into a mythical creature slayer instead of a god slayer 3-4 games more minimum

@dnmz1885 9 месяцев назад

Grootslang literally means big snake

@SonySteals 9 месяцев назад

Pretty cool! Never thought about african mythology. They seem to like shape-shifting things

@joshelderkin9592 10 месяцев назад

I never knew anansi wasnt just a gaiman creation neat

@thetruecrimeshow6882 10 месяцев назад

Have to wonder if these images are AI generated. I liked them and the narration.

@silvertheelf 3 месяца назад

This is the first time I ever heard the grootslang being capable of shapeshifting, additionally it’s supposed to by a hybrid of Elephant and Serpent. I am going to say that you got some information wrong.

@ajclmt 10 месяцев назад

These pictures are so cool!

@neuberknight575 10 месяцев назад

I think Anansi is real 😵

@adr3naliinx21 9 месяцев назад

The pronunciations are hilarious. Blees you for eternity, my good man!

@yeetusdeletus4239 9 месяцев назад

I can think of such things like rage, depression, indignance, hysteria, numbness, confidence, desire, drive, and such. man, happines, sadness, fear, disgust and anger are only a peice of the puzzle, human are complex ig