#kirkegrim

[seithr]

bro every time I see a post tagged as your ocs I go a little bit more crazy. these people seem SO. so much. I love them. U should make a webcomic so I can see what on earth is going on. just as a treat for me. 10/10 keep it up

THEY ARE SO MUCH they mean the world to me... funniest little dragon-people world and a weird corner of ffxiv goin off the walls...

oh id love to make a webcomic but for now I just draw little scenes of things, gotta improve on drawing weird dragon legs and scales right and actual backgrounds uwheh... but... we will get there..!! i believe i have it in me to make them real. eventually‼️

Every time i hear smn likes them i inch ever closer to getting my work done though. 100% powered by hearing things like this. I'll talk about these weird guys until the end of my time on this earth... i will draw more just for u though as if i need persuading to put more of these guys' unending violence and out of context baggage in the world

(Thank you hehe hearing this makes me kick my feet . I'm all smiley now wah ty,,,)

#can u believe i don't have a smallguy kirkegrim yet . shocked but i supposed 4 different pixelgrims filled my quota #authors note: while katrine/caia/red lady and kirkegrim/zinadia/purple lady are AUs respectively: sirah'li/hunter the dragonguy arent!! #that is because he is dead . sirah'li is just some catboy. sillyman. with his own issues. caizin are the main event here (extinction level) #im struggling so hard . not to go off in tags about them . hi. i like my ocs so muchd. and when people do to i feel ill explode. #i need an oc tag #kirkegrim #vespertine #rexbolt #my asks

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Urban fantasy pets on New Year's Eve:

Griffin - Stubbornly pretending that it does not care and just...doesn't feel like going for a walk or a flight right now. For no reason at all. Just because it happens to feel like staying inside right now

Salamanders - Keep trying to climb up through the chimney of their fireplace because the airs smells so unusually delicious tonight. Must be bribed with hard coal to keep them inside

Kirkegrim - Circling its home in protection, thereby roaming through the dark like a ghostly canine shape in the smoke and dust filling the air, its red eyes lit up under every flicker of light from above. Probably absolutely terrifying the neighbours

Hippocamp - Still just chilling in the water. Really not that bothered, as long as it can dive down deep enough when there's too many flashing lights

Dragon - Thinks roman candles are a delicious snack. Chews on sparklers. Will end up spitting out spinning balls of coloured fire. Must be locked inside the house and is so so sulky about it

Jackalope - Having a very bad no good horrible time due to all the sudden noises. Prefers to burrow away or hide against its human. At risk of bolting at accidentally driving its antlers through random objects

Phoenix - Escaped its aviary. Soaring among the fireworks. Having the time of its (current) life

#fijn oud en nieuw iedereen! #happy new year <3 #in honour of my cats who hate both the noise and the flashes #laura tumbles #urban fantasy #new year's eve #fantasy creatures

[coyoteprince]

Since you know a lot about graveyard lore and death in antiquity, I was wondering if you knew if this fact I found was true.

There was a comic someone made that said the first person buried in a graveyard was meant to keep watch over it, but instead of burying a human there and keeping a human soul essentially imprisoned on the grounds, they'd bury a black dog first, instead.

Yeah, I actually referenced this in my zine The Dog that Calls Our Name and it is a legend utilized in various big name medias, though I've never heard of the dog having to be specifically black, just that its ghost shows up black. This was a Christian practice at one point in English, Nordic, and Spanish or Mexican areas. Depending on region its called a church grim or kirkegrim. There is also one in Mexico or Spain (I can't seem to track down the name...) that has a horse or donkey in place of the dog, but is otherwise the exact same. The Inugami has similarities to both the church grim and black shuck as well, with it being a dog guardian spirit that was sacrificed for human gain. Beyond this, there's many cultures worldwide who have historically sacrificed and buried dogs as an intention of spiritual protection for their human owners who have died, so this is a fairly common event.

Exact details vary with both culture and even town, but it was either a lamb, a dog, or a horse that was sacrificed. The general thought was that in a newly erected cemetery, the first soul buried would be cursed to guard the church grounds and protect all future bodies that rest there. To save a human soul from this duty, animal sacrifice was utilized, and the ghost would often appear as a black dog or horse. The animal was usually buried under the cornerstone of the church.

It is worth mentioning that there is also records of black dogs in cemeteries that are believed to be the soul of a human buried in the yard. I don't know if these specifically count as church grims or not, but I personally lump all ghostly black dogs into the same species.

[thesundowncrew]

"Who's a good boy?" 🐶⛪⚰️

When Samhain first became a ghoul, normal animals could still sense & were frightened of him thanks to his closeness with death & magick. Cats would hiss, livestock would go haywire & dogs would either bark or whimper if he came too close (Which is why he found it odd that Nightshade wasn't afraid of him the first time they met). He liked animals so this made him quite sad. Fortunately he was able to befriend the Kirkegrim (or church grim) - protective spirits buried at churchgrounds & cemeteries. The most common Kirkegrims he came across were in the form of black dogs but he's met a couple of lambs, sows & even horses in his time. Samhain might have what's been described as a 'feline' spirit but because of the Kirkegrim, he grew a certain fondness for dogs.

✝️ DrawWithCanvas Prompt 27/10: Favorite Animal

#;my art #drawwithcanvas #Canvas_oc_tober #Spooktober #Spooktober2021 #Drawtober #Drawtober2021 #Halloween #Spooky #Hellhound #Barghest #Kirkegrim #Churchgrim #Danish folklore #Danish mythology #Mythology #;headcanon (Samhain) #Ghosts #Graveyard

[yearwalkingg]

"The Scandinavian church grim is also known as the Kyrkogrim (Swedish) and Kirkegrim (Danish) and likewise defined as the protective revenant of an animal buried alive in the church foundation. It dwells in the churchtower or some other place of concealment, or wanders the grounds at night, and is tasked with protecting the sacred building. It keeps order in the church and punishes those who perpetrate scandals."

#straight from wikipedia dnbxjsxj #folklore #folklore art #church grim #kyrkogrim #kirkegrim #scandinavian #scandinavian folklore #swedish #swedish folklore #danish folklore #mythology #fairy tale #dark #creepy #horror #original art #horror art

[penguinpyro]

A bunch of quick drawings of The Cleaning Crew characters. There will be a lot of these in the future as my warmup exercises, and I'd probably go insane posting them individually.

Have you accepted Clean(tm) into your life?

#crash blossom #charles black #black shuck #kirkegrim #monica oh #angel of clean #the cleaning crew #sketches #clean #clean art #original characters #original art #original concept #oc #original #art #vexel #lineless #portrait #have you accepted clean into your life?

[broeckchen]

I saw that round little cutie at the top and just had to draw them together with my Hvid! This was done for art fight.

The fluffy delight belongs to Pandelirious!

#sheep #hvid #spirit #ghost #ghosts #spirits #kirkevare #kirkegrim #chen art #artfight #art fight #artfight2018 #art fight 2018 #artfight 2018 #Chen's Queue

[jockpoetry]

not to go adjacent but i saw bánánach cas and my brain side stepped right to kirkegrim cas after one of his resurrections. shaggy, dark-haired protective revenant instead of being tasked with protecting a sacred building he’s tasked with protecting a sacred man. 

#talkin spn to myself #his own body being the metaphorical christ that's buried to create the kirkegrim..... i AM thinking #HERE'S HOW DANISHSPN CAN STILL WIN skksksk

[bestiarium]

The Church Grim [British folklore; Danish/Swedish folklore]

Throughout Britain, there are many stories of monstrous black dogs that attacked travelers on desolate roads, or whose appearance heralded some kind of bad event. These creatures sometimes had burning eyes or other supernatural traits. Perhaps these stories originated from real events where wild dogs attacked or killed people, and were exaggerated until they became myths.

However, Britain also has stories about benevolent dog spirits, most notably the Church Grim. According to William Henderson (19th century), it used to be a custom to bury a living dog underneath the foundations of a new church during construction. While cruel, the idea was that the spirit of the dog would return as a Church Grim, a supernatural being that guarded and protected the church and the graveyard. Specifically, they attacked evil witches and warlocks who would seek to profane the holy grounds or ingredients for wicked spells.

It was said that the Church Grim would manifest itself as a black dog which lived on the church grounds. This ghost also sounded the church bell right before someone in the region died, heralding the death in advance. The grim isn’t always a dog; sometimes a boar was used. In kroskjoberg, a sow (a female pig) was buried and its spirit haunted the streets of the village afterwards.

Sweden and Denmark have a similar story, called the Kyrkogrim and Kirkegrim respectively. In the Swedish version, it’s said that the first Christian churches in Sweden had a lamb buried under the altar of the building. The spirit of this lamb would sometimes appear to people, and when it showed itself in the graveyard this was a sign that a child was about to die. There is at least one story of a human ‘grim’: a bridge in Halle (Sweden) was said to have a kid buried alive in its foundation in 1843. I do not know whether this really happened, but I believe it’s fiction.

Sources: William Henderson, 1879, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders. Kvideland, R. and Sehmsdorf, H. K., 1988, Scandinavian Folk Belief and Legend, Norwegian University Press. (image source: IrenHorrors on Deviantart)

#British mythology #Scandinavian mythology #mythical creatures #monsters #creatures #undead #ghosts #spirits #mythology #myths

[ayamari-no-goshi]

DP and folklore - church grim

Church grims are usually depicted as large black dogs that haunt graveyards. However, they don't have to be dogs, and they don't necessarily have to be animals which is why I'm filling it under folklore as opposed to just a subset of animal ghosts.

The most famous tales are from England where they're also called Church Kirks. There was a belief that the first person buried in a graveyard would be doomed to protect it from all dangers physical and spiritual for the rest of eternity. To prevent a human from being the eternal guardian, a dog would be buried first.

In English tradition, while they are not evil, they're presence is often a sign of an impending death. In Yorkshire tradition, they toll the church bell at midnight to indicate an upcoming death. In other traditions, the priest preforming the funeral can use the appearance of the grim as a sign on whether or not a person's soul passed on to heaven.

They are also featured in Scandinavian lore. Called Kyrkogrim in Swedish and Kirkegrim in Danish, they serve an identical function to their English counterparts. However, they can appear as other animals such as lambs, sows, boars, and horses if those animals were used instead.

The church-lamb, as the lamb version is sometimes called, was buried under the alter to represent Christ. It was believed to not only protect the church and graveyard, but also bring security and longevity to the congregation. It could sometimes be seen in the church when mass wasn't being held. However, if it appeared in the graveyard, it meant a child would be passing away shortly.

I'd like to point out that the sow version (called a grave-sow) is said to appear in the streets of Kroskjoberg as an omen of death. However, I have no idea where this place is as it doesn't exist per google. I don't know if that's a town or city that was renamed at one point, or if it's a misspelling of Kronoberg which is a Swedish county. This is why I double check information.

Moving on, I need to talk about the Scottish version (this version also might exist in Ireland, but I can't find anything specific). Their belief is a bit different than the English and Scandinavian versions in that the most recent person buried in a cemetery acts as the grim. They are replaced when new person is buried. This is called the 'faire chlaidh' or graveyard watch.

I would like to point out that I can't find any information on what happens to those guardians when the cemetery is no longer used. This bothers me.

For completion's sake, the term faire chlaidh is also associated with a different tradition in Scotland and Ireland where on New Year's Eve, St. Mark's Eve, Midsummer's Eve, and Halloween, people would sit on the porch of a church during the night. They'd watch for apparitions of people who would die in the upcoming year.

#danny phantom #dp #dp theories #danny phantom theory #folklore #worldbuilding #I seriously know too much about folklore #types of ghosts

[whaleofatjme1920]

I guess for everyone there's a whole ass list to call me by, so it's not limited to these options;

+ Dr. Cryptid

+ Cryptid

+ Kirkegrim

+ Kowalski

+ Evergreen

+ Shayloft

+ Shasta

+ Shay

To be honest I don't care,, whatever you feel like. Shay is the real name but really up to what you think fits me in your eyes. With El is Dr. Cryptid,, the occasion Evergreen.

I'm so sorry for hijacking you blog El.

<3333 you, and a few other people are welcome to hijack whenever

#just chatting #dr cryptid

[ow-anteater]

Some more Scandinavian folklore skins I think I’m entitled to at this point

Bækhest (’creek horse’) Orisa - A spirit who’d take the shape of a beautiful white horse lingering near creeks and rivers. If you mounted the horse to bring it home, it would ride you into the creek to drown you - transforming into it’s true, hideous, half-rotten form as well. There’s so many good things you could do for Orisa, shining white gold on one half, murky and muddy on the other? Make her look like her legs have been submerged?? Give her a long flowing mane???

Kirkegrim (’church grim’) Soldier - Being the first person buried in a cemetery meant bad luck, so an animal - typically a black dog, a ram or a white horse -would be buried beneath a corner of a new church. This animal would become a spirit guarding the grounds from evil spirits. Black dog soldier is very cool, but also the theme of something dead hunting down any evil entering its territory, a being caught somewhere between vengeful and benevolent

Helhest (’Hell horse’) Reaper - A variation of the myth above, originally believed to be the steed of the Norse goddess of death Hel, but reworked into the Christian understanding of a church grim. A ghostly, dark horse with glowing eyes and three legs. Seeing the horse is a sign of death or sickness. If you hear the sound of its three-legged canter it’s wisest to close your eyes. Horse skull Reaper with glowing eyes I’ll say no more

Ellekonge (’elfking’) Rein - The king of the elves holding great banquets in his keep, concealed as a hill. The hill is only open to mortals at specific times and those who enter to join the feast never come back out. I know the king motif with Rein has been done to death but I still want to see him decked out in flowers and fairy lights looking somewhere between enthralling and unnerving

Nisse (’elf’) Torbjörn - A tiny magical creature living on farms. They wear a red hat, have great white beards and smoke a pipe. If the farmer is good to them they watch over the grounds but if the farmer mistreats them they’ll use their magic to cause ruin on the farm. I just want Torb in a pointy red hat okay?

#overwatch #Orisa #Soldier 76 #Reaoer #Reinhardt #Torbjörn #shoutout to bækheste! my fave creature

[lawfulverse]

Doctor Fate #1

Fate chooses people to take up mantles like Kirkegrim based on their ability to perform the duties this mantle bestows and tacitly ignores that he is taking often flawed humans, turning them into quasi-immortal mythic beings with unnatural powers, and expecting them not to fuck up.

This is how we got Jonathan Crane bearing the ability to frighten any mortal because Kirkegrim are tasked with scaring immoral mortals from church grounds.

Doctor Fate does not regret this decision, by the by, Kent Nelson does.

#kent nelson #doctor fate #headcanons #headcanon #the demon hunters of earth-psi #the magi of earth-psi

[holycatsandrabbits]

Kirkegrim by Dannye Chase, an original horror fic

Written for the cryptozology zine Paranormalcy: A murderess trying to dispose of a body on consecrated ground faces the church grim or kirkegrim, the spectral guardian dog of the graveyard.

Coming Jan 18, 2022 to Ao3 & DannyeChase.com

Ao3 ~ DannyeChase.com ~ Linktree

Public domain photo by Brett Sayles from Pexels

#Dannye writes #original horror #original fiction

[ao3feed-khr]

Church Grim

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2ThgUul

by Dranovdragon

The Scandinavian church Grim is also known as the Kyrkegrim and Kirkegrim and likewise defined as the protective revenant of an animal buried alive in the church foundation. It dwells in the churchtower or some other place of concealment, or wanders the grounds at night, and is tasked with protecting the sacred building.

Words: 2792, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Katekyou Hitman Reborn!, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Sawada Tsunayoshi, Harry Potter, Yamamoto Takeshi

Additional Tags: Master of Death Harry Potter

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2ThgUul

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #KHR #Katekyo Hitman Reborn #KHR ao3feed

[punkprophetsarchived]

[ She's got a huge sweater on to fight the cold and humming winter wonderland as she holds two coffee cups while walking to the church. Mary's had the jingle stuck in her head all day for some reason and can't get it out. As soon as she's reached the fence she calls out to him. ]

"Mr. Church Guardian I come bearing gifts!" 

#hi i made another starter because im an ass that makes a bunch of starters instead of going to reply to old threads #kirkegrim #( threads. )