Black
Black denotes mourning, night and the swallowing abyss, yet also fertile silt and womb, so that its darkness both annihilates and generates.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / Color
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Modern cryptid (North American) (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Slender Man bears Modern cryptid (North American)
why
A modern internet-age cryptid, this unnaturally tall, faceless figure in a black suit is defined by his origin as a 2009 collaborative creepypasta creation rather than older oral tradition.