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[Scoops Novel]

I would very much like to know first and foremost, and on the other hand it's excellent material for the world of darkness game I'm planning . I'll be finding out about the European portion, but off the top of m head my mother from Cameroon talked about 3 headed yellow snakes and mermaids tempting boys with rings when asked. Don't be afraid to go back in time either.

[miauw62]

Some holy guy came to our town, cured the pest, and now we disable all lamps in the city and decorate everything with candles every year. Looks awesome.

(Sint Rochus is his name here. He has a dog and the dog is usually holding a piece of bread.)

[DJ]

Classic Croatian fairy tales

Unfortunately, they also translated proper names and names of fantasy creatures

[MonkeyHead]

Celtic/Welsh Myths and Legends. The Mabinogion is pretty hefty. Most schoolchildren are taught about the legend of Gelert the Dog though.

[Helgoland]

Both the Cologne and the Aachen cathedral have stories about the devil being involved in building them - that could give some good background for your game. I'll look it up.

[Frumple]

Got a few things about stuff in the swamps I don't know the specifics of around here... frankly, there isn't much in the way of impressive myths left in the immigrant-descended population that makes up most of the folks in North Florida. Natives have some good stuff I don't actually recall, but we're... largely mythless in my community. Lil'bit of cryptozoology and some religious stuff still lingering, but for a community largely living in a swamp, of all things, we're surprisingly grounded. S'actually kinda' weird, now that I think about it.

If y'dig around, you can still get some stuff from some of the older folks, I think, but it doesn't really seem to be in the general zeitgeist of the area, at least that I've noticed.

[Scoops Novel]

Delve smaller, localer! *whips threateningly. That's right, no crack. Perform my bidding no cracks!* *cracks*

[Helgoland]

http://www.aachen-emotion.com/de-professional/orte/teufelsdaumen-im-dom
http://www.marketing-aachen.de/de/druckansicht.php?c=21
http://www.nobis-printen.de/unternehmen/aachener-sagen/dombau-sage.html
http://www.koelner-dom.de/index.php?id=dieteufelswette

It's all in german; use Google Translate.

[Boksi]

If the parents of an infant tell somebody the child's name before it's baptized, the devil can steal its soul. Okay, most people don't actually believe that, but it's the basis of the custom of not revealing a child's name until it's baptized. The priest asks the parent what the child is called, they answer and then the priest baptizes the baby.

[Cthulhu]

There's supposedly a frog-man living somewhere around my town, a couple people say they've seen it.

Up farther north there's supposedly a group or a race or some kind of cabal of big-headed mutants called melonheads, that were a science experiment?  Or something like that.

[Heron TSG]

In elementary school, everyone just knew that Bigfoot lived in the woods behind the school. My town's in the primary 'bigfoot-hunter' area, so I guess other people agree.

[Darvi]

It's all in german; use Google Translate.

Speaking of which: Bielefeld.

[Vactor]

"The Nash House"

An abandoned farm in the bottom of a valley, that has since reverted from farmland to forest.  The legend is the farm ended with the suicide of the final owner.  The local recreational trails run nearby. Snowmobilers are said to have their machines suddenly struggle to continue moving when passing by the farm, as if it were trying to pull a great weight, or a very heavy passenger just got on board.

(in a different time period this could be changed to horses struggling to move)


"The Tunneler"

The horror story at a local campground built atop a bluff was that a deranged man lived down alongside the river at the foot of the bluff, and used the natural cave system to move around under the campground, and had dug tunnels up underneath the cabins. Late at night he would open the floorboards under the beds to kidnap campers.

[Teneb]

Have fun. Some of that stuff can be really wierd.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

http://www.theshadowlands.net/places/missouri.htm

Use Ctrl-F to find:
Franklin County
Washington
Union
Sullivan
Villa Ridge
Rolla
Popular Bluff
Farmington
St. Louis
Desoto
Columbia