This Ancient Folktale Was So Horrific It was Lost for Thousands of Years

After my live stream I thought I'd make a video about that horrific folktale I told. Now I thought this would be simple, but oh my I have been on a journey today! Everything went wrong with my recording equipment if things look a little clunky. But also, when trying to produce some slides, I found a significant error in the Folklore Database, as it was using some old data sets rather than new ones, and the consequence was that it wasn't showing the sub motifs for J52 and J53 which weren't in the old data set. And so, all fixed, the Folklore Database is far better for it, although the video is still clunky. But I hope you enjoy this, a very interesting distribution of a motif, but not unique. 🌍 Links Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @crecganford   Patreon:   / crecganford   Twitter: https://x.com/crecganford Facebook:   / crecganford   Instagram:   / crecganford   Folklore Database: https://www.folkloredatabase.com/ 🧡 Please respect other's cultures and beliefs. Racism, discrimination or threatening speech will not be tolerated. 📚 References Berezkin Yu. E.The Doe and the She-Bear: A Little-Known Folklore Story // Steps. Vol. 9. No. 3. 2023. Pp. 11–29. https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-20.... Brown TJ, Gilmour DM, Solimano PS, Ames KM. The Radiocarbon Record of the Western Stemmed Tradition on the Southern Columbia Plateau of Western North America. American Antiquity. 2019;84(3):471-494. doi:10.1017/aaq.2019.32 Braje et al., 2017. ‘Finding the First Americans’. Science, Volume 58, Issue 6363. Pp. 593-595. https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1... Motif J52 and its sub motifs from the Folklore Database. ‘Folkloredatabase.Com/Db_get_multimotifs.Php?Myth=j52’. Accessed 13 April 2026. https://www.folkloredatabase.com/db_g.... Motif J53 and its sub motifs from the Folklore Database. ‘Folkloredatabase.Com/Db_get_multimotifs.Php?Myth=j53’. Accessed 13 April 2026. https://www.folkloredatabase.com/db_g.... Contributions in Cultural Resource Management No. 14-2 Native American Tribes of the North Cascades National Park- NPS History, accessed on April 13, 2026, https://npshistory.com/publications/n... Delbrassine, Hélios, Massimo Mezzavilla, Leonardo Vallini, et al. ‘Worldwide Patterns in Mythology Echo the Human Expansion out of Africa’. Preprint, Evolutionary Biology, 25 January 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.24.63....