/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>9927499
>The thing is that all those mythological things are formed from people’s beliefs. They don’t have an independent existence
In reality, sure, that's true. But in Touhou lore, what you're describing applies only to deities like the ones in the 10th and 18th games, who get stronger the more worshippers they have and will literally stop existing without enough people believing in it. Everything else - dullahan, moon rabbits, ghosts, etc. - is canonically an objective fact that society forgot about or suppressed, in a fictional version of our own world where magic was real all along, like in Fate and Bleach and Harry Potter.
Something only appears in the lore if it has an independent existence, and only appears in the setting of Gensokyo if people feel like it's gone / fiction / obsolete. The American flag on the moon couldn't have appeared if there never was a moon landing, and it can't appear if that fact is universally accepted. It has to be both true and actively disbelieved/denied.
Better example - one of ZUN's side stories talks about how the Touhou cast has been finding more and more paper lying around their home in the past few decades, since the world is continuing to replace it with digital storage methods. Is that >implying that paper isn't real?
The image is not a list of things Mizuryu Kei personally thinks are bullshit, they're a list of things that have been, in some way, mythologized. Was it retarded of him to include a Bronze Age execution alongside
war crimes, alongside wacky shit like dowsing and negative ions? Yes, especially for what was basically just edgy window dressing, and this is exactly why the canon author never touches any of those yabs. But it says absolutely nothing about Mizuryu's own beliefs, unless you're the kind of rrat-peddling chink who thought the punctuation in Aqua's tweets was secretly proof she hates all her coworkers. They will take any excuse to turn her, Artia, and even this dumbfuck doujinshi dude into martyrs to attack Cover with - and then they will take an equally stupid excuse to stab them in the back.
Don't fall for that shit again. This guy's no different from HoloBass - you can BTFO him just as easily without the rrat