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BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF.
It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a WEREWOLF; young men are slow in seeking one of SEVEN sisters in marriage.

7 sisters myth Sabine Baring-Gould 1865

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2019-09-20

BECOMING A VAMPIRE. The myriad of ways one can become a according to Romanian folklore include: dying unmarried, dying a suicide, dying unforgiven, having a cat walk over your corpse, having the shadow of a man fall on your corpse, being born with a caul

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CROGLIN VAMPIRE. Attacks a Miss Fisher in Cumberland, England (1750s, documented 1871). The scratches at the window, disappearing into a vault, only 1 coffin remains intact & there shrivelled but quite entire stands the the Croglin Vampire

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2019-09-12

Victorian literature gave us some of our most enduring Based on Dickens' 1843 novella, here we have several types: a ghost; a corpse; a thieving servant; and miserly gentleman:

'A Christmas Carol' (1910) dir. J. Searle Dawley.

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The logical paradox at the centre of RL Stevenson's 1891 story, 'The Bottle Imp', is said to be inspired by the Grimm tale 'Spiritus Familiaris.' Here we have:

'Der Flaschenteufel' (1952) dir. Ferdinand Diehl.

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“The Demon of Mount Oe”(1960)

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From the second film in the Yōkai Monsters trilogy - all of which celebrate an excellent selection of - here we have Rokurokubi (played by Ikuko Mori):

'Yōkai Monsters: Spook Warfare' (1968) dir. Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

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2019-08-16

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