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Hungry Ghoul
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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Motifs of Myth
Yes, Pan is a nice idea. I think there is a similar tree-spirit in Slavonic lore called Leshy who is a defender of the trees and who shuns men.
Personally, I would, however, not go as far as to attribute to a Vala a corresponding deity of the 'real' world as those connections cannot be held upright when taking the full field of the respective deities in account.
<h6> What still of desease in me found sleep / I tore it out with my firm hand / And threw it, laughing, steep and deep / Down into the snow-covered land </h6></p>