Your search for myths, folklore, ghost stories, legends and oral traditions should have helped you identify three or four Gods or Goddesses, legendary Kings or Rulers, scary Monsters or magical Beings specific to your region.
For example, I found a character named Vishwakarma, who was a great architect commissioned to build a beautiful house for Laxmi, the goddess of wealth. In return she would give him gold enough to cover his body but Vishnu, the lord of balance, put fleas and ticks inside the gold dust, which made Vishwakarma wiggle around. Laxmi decided that Vishwakarma was moving because he wanted more gold. She put a curse on him.
TODAY'S CREATIVITY CHALLENGE:
Update the stories you found yesterday setting them in the city where you currently live and in the present day. So the above story would be updated by saying:
Juan Carlos Garces, a talented Mexican architect, is commissioned to build a beautiful house in Beverly Hills for Ivana Worthington, an heiress to the Post It fortune. As the dig for her mansion begins, the workers strike into a vein of opal rock delaying work and causing Juan Carlos to have to opt out of another big job. The project seems cursed, everything always falling apart until finally the house is finished and Juan Carlos is about to hand over the keys and they discover the carpets are infested with fleas.
You don't have to write out the full story - we're just looking for "seeds" right now, just jot down your ideas.
Jot down a few ideas to modernize each of the characters or myths that you found yesterday.
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