New Challenge:

*Make a story, one shot or chapter story based off of any old wives tale of your choice.

*The pairing, obviously, must be Kagome/Sesshoumaru.

*It can be AU or canon.

*Can be any rating, but preferably K-T.

*No date line.

*Have fun with it!

*Karma for the first post.

* You can include more than one wives tale if you want, just make sure they go together.

* Post a link here when you are finished!

If you want to search through Wives' tales and pick the one you like, you can do so here, there is a list of them here A-Z. Have fun!!

thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/tales110.html


This one has a few that weren't mentioned on the first list:
www.writers-free-reference.com/13wivestales.htm

If you have a wives tale you know of but isn't on the lists I post here, feel free to use it!!

I'd like to give this a shot, just not sure I can manage to write a fic that's within the 'preferred' rating range XD.

I did find the list of superstitions very amusing, though. It lists a belief that demons are afraid of bells 'cause of the 'loud noise they make' >_> . . . imagine how much easier Naraku would have been to deal with if that were so.

No worries, you can write outside the preferred rating if you want

(Laughs)that's amusing! Could you imagine if Kagome heard that and then brought bells with her and shook them at a demon(it would be even more amusing if the demon was Sesshoumaru) fuu imagine the looks she would get. Fun

I thought about that- Kagome getting frustrated with Sessh, and lamenting the fact that she can't just 'sit' him like Inu, so she pops out of the well one day holding a bell behind her back, all 'Sesshomaru, can you come here a minute' just to ring it when he gets close and see the ice-prince daiyoukai scream like a girl and run .

(Laughs) oh my goodness, that's great! I just started giggling and smiling when I read that, I think it scared the people around me.

I am wondering now though if that is why shrines and a few other places have bells on various places around the property?

Actually, it might be, when you consider that 'demon' can also be taken to refer to an evil or non-human spirit. Hmm, I hadn't made that connection, but a lot of religions have ceremonies or rites that include the chiming of bells, don't they? O_o

(Nod) that's what I was thinking too. I think most of these tales come from an english origin and the general view for demons is different then what we are use to seeing them as(in manga and anime), So as you mentioned the 'demon' term used for this tale could be bad or evil spirits.
But it would be amusing to see kagome try it on one of the demons in the past.

Yeah, lol, have her storm into battle looking all gung-ho and then . . . she busts out with buyo's jingly cat-collar! Can you imagine the look on Sessh & Inu's faces as their girl stands there, threating their greatest enemy with a pet trinket?

(laughs) that would be great, I can Imagine Shippo saying "I think Kagome has finally lost it" or "I think Kagome's broken" or his usual wise Shippo words.

Lmao. Wow, we could totally string a drabble together right now just from this conversation XD.

haha that's what I was thinking

Alright, then I think we have here the basis of my one-shot for this challenge, if that's alright. I will credit you for helping create the fic.

Sounds good to me! Can't wait to see the finished piece

Okay, so it is officially a one-shot, I'm half done already and it looks like it will be minimum 1,000 words. Should be posted shortly.

Here it is! Bell, Book and . . . What, Now?

woo. Karma for you *goes to read it*