My Grandma's Tale: The Origin of Elementals and Creatures of Folklore (Original Story)

This is an interesting story my late maternal grandmother told me a few years before she died. It explains why there are creatures of folklore like earth spirits, elves, ghouls and etc.

I assume you all knew the Biblical story of Adam and Eve before. My late grandmother's folk tale is just an aftermath expansion of that story.

When Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden or Paradise, they settled in the Wilderness. 

After settling there, they cried a lot. The two lamented the fact that they could never enter the heavenly Garden of Eden or Paradise ever again. Of course, while crying they embraced each other always.

Now having eaten the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil have made them gain carnal knowledge too. They only wore pieces of leaves strung together to cover their private parts. And so their frequent embraces made each other aroused and then they gave in to their lust.

Eve got pregnant and bore weird-looking children with unnatural traits. Why this was the case can't be fully explained. Some old folks speculate that the Serpent had sex with her while she was being tempted to eat the Fruit of the Tree. While other folks argue that God had not yet given His Blessing or Grace to Adam and Eve to be man and wife yet. They were still in curse mode after being cast out recently.

Adam was horrified of his kids and deeply ashamed of them. If God were to find out that these mutants and unnatural rejects were their children and products of sin, who knows what kind of anger God will have and punish them?

Adam and Eve tried again and Eve bore normal-looking kids this time. They were Cain, Abel, Seth and other brothers and sisters. Adam and Eve were happy. They can finally present these normal kids to God and receive his Grace and Blessings.

But what about the other children - the unnatural looking ones? Adam and Eve decided to hide these children among the shadowy places, deep forests, mountains, deep rivers or any other places in Nature that look dark and eerie. The coupled commanded these children to stay there and never come out in daylight. And so they remained there to this day. They were the ancestors of elemental spirits and legendary creatures of folklore we knew today.

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