CreaturePasta Episode 15 - Lycanthropes - Season 1 FinaleWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  The werewolf is a widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants, which are related by a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying European folklore developed during the medieval period. From the early modern period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Like the witchcraft trials as a whole, the trial of supposed werewolves emerged in what is now Switzerland (especially the Valais and Vaud) in the early 15th century and spread throughout Europe in the 16th, peaking in the 17th and subsiding by the 18th century.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

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Episode 15 - Lycanthropes - CreaturePasta Season 1 Finale

CreaturePasta Episode 14 - Shadow PeopleWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  A number of religions, legends, and belief systems describe shadowy spiritual beings or supernatural entities such as shades of the underworld, and various shadowy creatures have long been a staple of folklore and ghost stories.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 14 - Shadow People - CreaturePasta

CreaturePasta Episode 13 - MutantsWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  In biology and especially genetics, a mutant is an organism or a new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is generally an alteration of the DNA sequence of the genome or chromosome of an organism. It also has a lot of sources throughout media where mutants are depicted as super-human, grotesque, or otherwise somehow enchanced through magical or technological means.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 13 - Mutants - CreaturePasta

CreaturePasta Episode 12 - ReptiliansWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  Reptilians (also called reptoids, lizard people, reptiloids, saurians, Draconians) are purported reptilian humanoids that play a prominent role in fantasy, science fiction, ufology, and conspiracy theories. The idea of reptilians was popularised by David Icke, a conspiracy theorist who claims shape-shifting reptilian aliens control Earth by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate human societies. Icke has claimed on multiple occasions that many of the world leaders are, or are possessed by, so-called reptilians.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 12 - Reptilians - CreaturePasta

CreaturePasta Episode 11 - GoblinsWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages. They are ascribed various and conflicting abilities, temperaments and appearances depending on the story and country of origin. They are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright malicious, and greedy, especially for gold and jewelry. They often have magical abilities similar to a fairy or demon. Similar creatures include brownies, dwarfs, duendes, gnomes, imps, and kobolds.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 11 - Goblins - CreaturePata

CreaturePasta Episode 10 - Cursed ItemsWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  Mythological objects encompass a variety of items (e.g. weapons, armour, clothing) found in mythology, legend, folklore, tall tale, fable, religion, and spirituality from across the world. Cursed items have been around nearly as long as their more legendary counterparts and have served to inspire many great stories and legends throughout history.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 10 - Cursed Items - CreaturePata

CreaturePasta Episode 9 - Black-eyed ChildrenWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  Black-eyed children (or black-eyed kids) are an urban legend of supposed paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of 6 and 16, with pale skin and black eyes, who are reportedly seen hitchhiking or panhandling, or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes. Tales of black-eyed children have existed since the 1950's.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 9 - Black-eyed Children - CreaturePata

CreaturePasta Episode 8 - NecroSleepWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  The following account is the only surviving evidence supporting the existence of Necrosleep.net. The blog data was downloaded by a concerned reader just before it vanished from the internet in 2014. The data was not recovered until 9 years passed. These are the final moments of Reed Murdock, written in his own words.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 8 - NecroSleep - CreaturePasta

CreaturePasta Episode 7 - Russian Sleep ExperimentWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn't kill them, since it was toxic in high concentrations. This was before closed circuit cameras so they had only microphones and five inch thick glass porthole sized windows into the chamber to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with books, cots to sleep on but no bedding, running water and toilet, and enough dried food to last all five for over a month.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 7 - Russian Sleep Experiment - CreaturePasta

CreaturePasta Episode 6 - The KrakenWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  The kraken is a legendary sea monster of giant size that is said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland. Authors over the years have postulated that the legend originated from sightings of giant squids that may grow to 12–15 meters (40–50 feet) in length. The sheer size and fearsome appearance attributed to the kraken have made it a common ocean-dwelling monster in various fictional works. It was first described by the Dane Erik Pontoppidan in 1752–53.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 6 - The Kraken - CreaturePasta

CreaturePasta Episode 5 - Ben DrownedWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  Created by Internet user Alex Hall, or "Jadusable", the story tells of a college student named Matt who bought a used copy of the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask from an elderly man at a yard sale, only to find out that the cartridge is haunted by the ghost of a boy named Ben, who drowned. After deleting Ben's save file, Matt has been presented with disturbing glitches and scary messages usually saying "You shouldn't have done that..." or "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"Ben Drowned on CreepyPasta wikia: http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/BEN_DrownedOther Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 5 - Ben Drowned - CreaturePasta

CreaturePasta Episode 4 - The WendigoWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  In Algonquian folklore, the wendigo or windigo is a mythical cannibal monster or evil spirit native to the northern forests of the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes Region of both the United States and Canada. The wendigo may appear as a monster with some characteristics of a human, or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. It is historically associated with cannibalism, murder, insatiable greed, and the cultural taboos against such behaviours.The legend lends its name to the controversial modern medical term Wendigo psychosis, described by psychiatrists as a culture-bound syndrome with symptoms such as an intense craving for human flesh and a fear of becoming a cannibal. In some Indigenous communities, environmental destruction and insatiable greed are also seen as a manifestation of Wendigo psychosisA horrific creature formed by necessity driven hunger gone mad.In the vast expanses of the Boreal Realms, there exists legends of the indigenous people. Legends to explain ideas greater than themselves. Legends to pass lessons of life from elder to minor. Stories of heroes, and cryptids battling in a never ceasing battles of good and evil.Of these legends, one of the most fearsome of these cryptids is the Dreaded Wendigo. A spirit of cannibalism that possesses the weak of will. When tribesmen are isolated in their homes, trapped by the deep snows and treacherous cold, and the scarcity of food seeps deeper into the soul, the ravenous nature of the Wendigo begins to take hold.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 4 - The Wendigo - CreaturePasta

CreaturePasta Episode 3 - Succubus and IncubusWelcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  This is the third episode of our new show where we're going to talk about various creatures, their origins, and how to use them in your role playing game.A succubus is a Lilin-demon in female form, or supernatural entity in folklore (traced back to medieval legend) that appears in dreams and takes the form of a woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual activity. The male counterpart is the incubus. Religious traditions hold that repeated sexual activity with a succubus may result in the deterioration of health or mental state, or even death.In modern representations, a succubus may or may not appear in dreams and is often depicted as a highly attractive seductress or enchantress; whereas, in the past, succubi were generally depicted as frightening and demonic.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitalanddiceTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.comPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/digitalanddiceDiscord - https://discord.gg/5RHcPVW

Episode 3 - Succubus and Incubus - CreaturePasta

The draugr or draug (Old Norse: draugr, plural draugar; modern Icelandic: draugur, Faroese: dreygur and Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian: draug), also called aptrganga or aptrgangr, literally "again-walker" (Icelandic: afturganga) is an undead creature from Norse mythology.The word draugr can be traced to a Proto-Indo European stem *dʰrowgʰos "phantom", from *dʰrewgʰ- "deceive". The Old Norse meaning of the word is a revenant.The will appears to be strong, strong enough to draw the hugr [animate will] back to one's body. These reanimated individuals were known as draugar. However, though the dead might live again, they could also die again. Draugar die a "second death" as Chester Gould calls it, when their bodies decay, are burned, dismembered or otherwise destroyed.Draugar live in their graves, often guarding treasure buried with them in their burial mound. They are animated corpses—unlike ghosts they have a corporeal body with similar physical abilities as in life. Older literature makes clear distinctions between sea-draugar and land-draugar.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaldicepodcastTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.com

Episode 2 - Draugr - CreaturePasta

The Slender Man (also known as Slenderman) is a fictional supernatural character that originated as a creepypasta Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (also known as "Victor Surge") in 2009. It is depicted as a thin, unnaturally tall man with a featureless head and face, wearing a black suit.Stories of the Slender Man commonly feature him stalking, abducting or traumatizing people, particularly children. The Slender Man is not confined to a single narrative, but appears in many disparate works of fiction, typically composed online. Fiction relating to the Slender Man encompasses many media, including literature, art and video series such as Marble Hornets. Outside of online fiction, the Slender Man has had impact on popular culture, having been referenced in the video game Minecraft and generated video games of his own, such as Slender: The Eight Pages and Slender: The Arrival.Other Digital and Dice Podcast Links:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaldicepodcastTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/digitalanddiceWebsite - www.digitalanddice.com

Episode 1 - Slenderman - CreaturePasta

Welcome to CreaturePasta, an incomplete field guide to creaturepasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters, brought to you by Digital and Dice.  Out of the mind of our very own "The One Called Justin" comes an incomplete field guide to creepypasta critters, gaming beasts, and horror monsters. Each episode goes over one of the many creatures from history, popular culture, games, or horror media, and explains where they came from, what they look like, and how you can integrate them into your roleplaying game! Join us for some creepy creature cinema in CreaturePasta, releasing every other Monday on youtube.com/digitalanddice.

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