Bevdan Bridge was built in 1926 and is currently crumbling into Flat Creek. Some call it Crybaby Bridge. There are a number of unofficial Crybaby bridges around the country with various reasons given for the name. In fact there is a whole wiki dedicated to the life of bridges with that nickname. Bevdan Bridge is not listed there.
For me Bevdan Bridge is just a really good hundred year old bridge that is decaying and being absorbed into the earth and water every time a fallen tree gets washed up against its supports. But it needed something. What good is a ruined bridge without a troll under it?
I see this drawing as a rough draft. I need to do it at least 4x the current size to get all the details in. But sometimes done is better than pending.
If you go to the bridge say hello to Bevdan the troll. He asks for no trouble or tribute.
Micron 005-08, A5
I love it. Make some new folklore for the region :)
If you do more of these, definitely post them, I’d love to see some more.
I have a lot of ideas. We took a tour of a historical house. Talked about how the space above a particular room was where the help slept. Anyone that had looked at the outside of the house would immediately realize that that space was no more than 3 ft tall. They also talked about how when General Sherman’s troops came through they tried to burn the whole place down but the lady of the house said that she would rather burn in the fire of the house then leave it so the house survived.
Everything they could do to talk about how heroic she was was undone by the fact that they weren’t talking about how the help was slaves and the reason General Sherman wanted to burn the place down was because they had slaves.
If this had happened prior to the 16th century, there would be a mythical monster that was tied to the ways slavery was tied to this property. The slaves slept in that 3-foot space above the main room. The reason General Sherman was there was because of the slaves that this plantation kept.
But I’m torn about creating a new mythology around slave properties versus the historical accuracy. But I’m also wondering why we don’t have supernatural mythology built around the horrors that happened in this town.