Not Yeti Friday - Ice Golem

Traditionally, golems are man-shaped beings created entirely from stone or clay that are then animated to do their creator's bidding. Think Frankenstein but without the dead bodies - a kind of grown-up Pinocchio, a proto-robot.

The golem story originated with Jewish folklore: a rabbi made one out of clay to defend his neighborhood. Ever since, the clay golem has popped up in popular culture.

In recent times, the popularity of games set in fantasy worlds (video games, role-playing, table-top, etc.) has led to MILLIONS of them created each year, and there has been an enormous demand for more and more varieties of monsters for players to interact with. Folklore and mythology from all cultures are mined and then transmuted. The golem is no exception.

In the fantasy game worlds made today, golems can be made of any material imaginable: metal, crystal, fire, plants, mud, paper, wool, and ice.

Images of the Ice Golem:





Do not be fooled by the ice golem. It is not yeti.




'Course, there was already an ice golem in our popular culture... we just didn't know it!