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Also at school, Aka manto comes to the bathroom when there's no paper and asks "Do you want red paper or blue?" Say red and you're slashed to death, say blue and all your blood is sucked out and you're left dead and blue on the floor art by

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Jörmungandr (Midgard Serpent), Norse mythological monster, son of Loki and archenemy of Thor. Painting to the right by Swiss Romantic painter Henry Fuseli (1790).

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This wildchild from https://t.co/6U0K0AuQtS / https://t.co/CmOsHTFHKT has me so intensely curious.

I can't yell about 's stunnning and intriguing old english folklore comic eNOOUGH y'all!! So glad it exists.

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"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
- Lewis Carroll - "Jabberwocky", a dragon-like monster with smooth teeth and buttons on his stomach.

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The baku was made at the end of creation from leftover bits of other animals. It feeds on bad dreams and protects from evil spirits and bad yokai. If you have a nightmare repeat three times "Baku-san come eat my dream." But.... by

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The Iberian version of El Coco is called a Bugbear. Although, the Bugbear was more of a sort of hobgoblin(sometimes with a pumpkin head).Only eating disobedient children. 'Bugbear' is also a figure of speech, representing an irrational or exaggerated  

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In Spanish lore, the under the bed is El Coco. The child-eating hairy beast who devours children! Often hiding in closets or under beds, it only eats children that misbehave when they are told to go to bed.

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In Normandy, the loups-garoux, clothe themselves every evening with a wolf skin, a gift from the devil. The only way to release the human inside, is by drawing from them, three drops of blood with a needle

Image: Lon Chaney Jr transformation

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The Haunted Landscape: Magic and Monsters of the British Isles
23 November 2019



https://t.co/x03kariJFU

Monsters include a dragon, fairies, Old Stinker the Werewolf and the Croglin Vampire.

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The a demon badger Broc Sidh terrorised residents of Inchiquin, killing men & cattle. The prayers of 6 priests were unable to subdue the beast but MacCreahy of Clare caught it and tossed it:

‘Deep in that forgotten mere
Among the tumbled fragments of the hills’

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My favourite Supernatural book when I was growing up was 'Vampires, Werewolves & Demons'. The chap in the middle is Eurynome, a medieval prince of death, who fed on human corpses. The colour pic shows some sort of demon party

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This on the theme of let me tell you the story of the 'Ginger Beast of Beckermet'. Cumbria's own mystery.

https://t.co/myI372OOYb

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Monopods (dwarflike creatures with a single foot) get an early mention in Aristophanes’ 413BC The Birds. Pliny the Elder in his Natural History (77CE) recounts travelers tales that these monsters are to be found in India.

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Yorkshire has its very own werewolf - Old Stinker. He is 8foot tall with red eyes, a human face and disgustingly bad breath (hence the name). Sighted since the 18thc, it was spotted again in 2016, prowling around an industrial estate near Hull

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The Nucklavee plagues the people living on the isles nearby. It is said that its foul, black breath is poisonous; it comes in on the sea-breeze, blighting crops, spreading illness, and killing livestock as it goes by. 3/5

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The Gytrash. One of the most menacing creatures in Northern English folklore. Said to be a gigantic black dog with eyes that shone red like glowing coals, it led unwary, lost travellers astray and to their doom.

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What do Jean Grey of the X-Men & Helen of Troy have in common?

Eidolon, ka, fetch, doppelgangers, spirit-doubles: a mythical plot device from Euripides to Goethe to Marvel.

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