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My goddaughter has a presentation about her cultural background. So do you know or stories that se can use. Thanks xox

[Nikitas]

Kalikantzaroi is a good one. They are the gremlins that come after Christmas and haunt people, you have to feed them with pancakes which you throw on the roof.

[GorillaGal]

Kalikantzaroi is a good one. They are the gremlins that come after Christmas and haunt people, you have to feed them with pancakes which you throw on the roof.

what happens if you don't feed them?

[CBBB]

They get you.

It is not pancakes, it is loukoumades which is a pancake like mixture deep fired as small balls about 3cm diameter.

[iceman]

:lol: My goddaughter has a presentation about her cultural background. So do you know or stories that se can use. Thanks xox

Althgough he was a criminal/outlaw,Hasan Bulli is a legend in Turkish Cypriot Culture..

http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/culture ... index.html

http://www.folklore.ee/Folklore/vol16/bulliler.pdf

[umit07]

Kalikantzaroi is a good one. They are the gremlins that come after Christmas and haunt people, you have to feed them with pancakes which you throw on the roof.

Pancakes? This made me laugh a bit. Not as much as Oracle's "Renga in the Oven" though , now that was a hit. Been away from Cyprus for too long Nikitas.

[tessintrnc]

The five finger mountain range has 2 legends:

One tells the story of a conceited villager who fell in love with the local queen and asked for her hand in marriage. The queen wished to be rid of the impertinent young man and requested that he bring her some water from the spring of St Andreas monastery in the karpas.
This was a peilous journey in those days. The man set off and after several weeks returned with a skinfull of that precious water. The queen was most dismayed to see that he had succeeded, but still refused to marry him. In a fit of rage, he poured the water on to the earth, seized a handful of the resulting mud and threw it at the queens head. She ducked and the lump of mud sailed far across the plain to land on top of the Kyrenia mountain range, where it is to this day, still showing the impression of the thwarted villager’s five fingers.

Dighenis
Another legend tells of the giant Byzantine hero, Dighenis, fleeing from his arab pursuers. As he lept across the sea he grasped the top of the mountain and left his hand print. Thus the Five Finger Mountain.

Tess

[halil]

:lol: My goddaughter has a presentation about her cultural background. So do you know or stories that se can use. Thanks xox

she can find some legend stories from below links.


http://www.northcyprus.net/hoteliersass ... ND%20OF%20“KOPTI%20PETRA”;%20SNAKE%20ROCK

http://www.northcyprus.net/hoteliersass ... HDİNİ%20CAVE

http://www.northcyprus.net/hoteliersass ... %20LEGENDS

http://www.northcyprus.net/hoteliersass ... T%20STONES

http://www.northcyprus.net/hoteliersass ... 0LEGEND%20–%20THE%20MOTHER%20-%20DAUGHTER%20LEGEND

http://www.northcyprus.net/hoteliersass ... %20LEGENDS

[LENA]

The legend about the "Petra tou Romiou" The stone in the sea in Paphos area.

The legend about Pentadaktilos

The legend about the kalikanjarous who eat loukoumades and sausages to go away

The legends about Digeni Akrita. She can find lots of them about him.

She can write about Koumandaria...and the legend of the creation of the wine.

If she can read Greek books i can suggest some books that she can find in libraries.

[kafenes]

The five finger mountain range has 2 legends:

One tells the story of a conceited villager who fell in love with the local queen and asked for her hand in marriage. The queen wished to be rid of the impertinent young man and requested that he bring her some water from the spring of St Andreas monastery in the karpas.
This was a peilous journey in those days. The man set off and after several weeks returned with a skinfull of that precious water. The queen was most dismayed to see that he had succeeded, but still refused to marry him. In a fit of rage, he poured the water on to the earth, seized a handful of the resulting mud and threw it at the queens head. She ducked and the lump of mud sailed far across the plain to land on top of the Kyrenia mountain range, where it is to this day, still showing the impression of the thwarted villager’s five fingers.

Dighenis
Another legend tells of the giant Byzantine hero, Dighenis, fleeing from his arab pursuers. As he lept across the sea he grasped the top of the mountain and left his hand print. Thus the Five Finger Mountain.

Tess

Tess, what about the legend of the 5 Cypriot men who were sunbathing next to each other when a topless bikini girl walked past. Thus the five finger mountains.