Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25008763-20170509173555

I have been wanting to write some folklore but I realize I am in a sticky situation now.. would accounts of the Saints and monks be considered theological under our new rules and thus invalid?

I think that'd be a great shame as things like folk Devils, the original Loch Ness Monster story (which I wanted to add here) would be lost under the excuse that while the monsters are completely fantastical the figures they faced just happened to be Christian folk heroes (or in the case of Saints, religious figures).

it seems a shame, is all, that these stories of cultural heritage be denied simply because they happen to star religious figures or have religious motives.. these tales are many centuries old and while they are not "fiction" in traditional sense I dare anyone to say with a straight face that they truly believed a medieval monk managed to put a horseshoe on a Devil (thus the origin of "lucky horseshoes") or that the Loch Ness Monster literally manifested before Saint Columba.. they were stories made to entertain during a period of time when religious figures were as much "folk heroes" as things like Hercules and whatnot were to the ancients. 