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Shutō tori

In Japanese folklore, large grotesque birds steal sake.
05-30-2026 / 05-30-2026,
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Nishi

A nocturnal spirit in Bengali folklore that calls people in familiar voices and lures them away from home to certain death.
05-07-2026 / 05-08-2026,
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Chokosai

In Japanese folklore, tiny carnivorous octopuses that attack humans or large animals in swarms.
05-05-2026 / 05-05-2026,
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Doht

According to the folklore of the eastern Indian state of Assam, pitch-black gaunt and lanky beings of mosquito-infested swamps and ponds.
04-28-2026 / 05-03-2026,
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Views: 445
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04-28-2026, KOT
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Kuroki shibugami no gotoki mono

A legendary flying creature with a wide, flat body and a sharp beak that, in 1726, swooped down from the sky in Japan’s Tamba Province to...
04-23-2026 / 04-23-2026,
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A-senee-ki-wakw

In the folklore of the Abenaki people, stone giants who were destroyed by their own creator for posing a threat to the earth, humans, and...
04-21-2026 / 04-21-2026,
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Giwakwa

In the folklore of Algonquian Native American tribes, man-eating ice giants, half-human and half-beast, into which cannibals and those...
04-21-2026 / 04-21-2026,
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Kuri

In the folklore of the Hausa people of Nigeria, a man-eating forest spirit that wears a goat skin and barks like a dog.
04-18-2026 / 04-18-2026,
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Sarkin Rafi

According to the folklore of the Hausa people of Nigeria, a water spirit to whom virgins were sacrificed.
04-18-2026 / 04-18-2026,
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Ayu

According to the folklore of the Hausa people of Nigeria, a spirit living in the water, which drags people down.
04-18-2026 / 04-18-2026,
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Uwayara

According to the folklore of the Hausa people of Nigeria, a certain evil spirit that kills mothers and their newborn children.
04-18-2026 / 04-18-2026,
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Kyodai katatsumuri

According to Japanese folklore, gigantic snails which live in caves and feast upon meditating monks.
04-16-2026 / 04-16-2026,
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Mashynytko

According to the folklore of the Lotf Roma living in Ryazan region of Russia, a spirit responsible for the functioning of a machine.
04-01-2026 / 04-01-2026,
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Majomber

In the folklore of the Hungarian population of Romania, small cave-dwelling creatures, naked, with rough skin and large ears.
04-01-2026 / 04-01-2026,
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Jinmenken

According to Japanese urban legends, dogs with human-like faces, most often resembling the faces of old men.
03-17-2026 / 03-17-2026,
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Views: 911
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03-18-2026, Рон54
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Maçone

In the rural folklore of eastern Brazil, a nocturnal demon in the form of a half-human, half-goat creature that hunts disobedient children.
03-14-2026 / 03-14-2026,
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Me kara hikari wo hanatsu ijū

According to Japanese folklore, a strange creature once fell from the sky, bearing a single glowing eye in place of a head.
03-02-2026 / 03-02-2026,
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Onnen no niwatori

A vengeful spirit from Japanese folklore that appeared after the fusion of the souls of a murdered man and his fighting rooster.
02-10-2026 / 02-10-2026,
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Geya nyūdō

According to the japanese folklore, small subterranean people who make their homes beneath human settlements.
02-04-2026 / 02-04-2026,
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Kotoro kotoro

Jealous demonesses from Japanese folklore who devour children, appearing as monstrous half-naked women with long black hair.
01-27-2026 / 01-27-2026,
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Sahir al-Maqabir

According to the folk beliefs from Qatar, a supernatural figure found at cemeteries who uses hypnotic powers to make people sleep and then...
01-24-2026 / 01-25-2026,
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Bu-Darya

A half-human, half-fish creature from Kuwaiti and Qatari folklore that, by pretending to be drowning, dragged sailors who approached it down...
01-23-2026 / 01-24-2026,
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Merching

According to the folklore of the Parangi Porja tribe from southeastern India, the ghost of a child who died before the age of one year and...
01-22-2026 / 01-22-2026,
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Yōfuku

According to the japanese folklore, crab-like creatures with two arms and a back resembling a shellfish, a belly resembling a pufferfish...
01-21-2026 / 01-21-2026,
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Homem dos Pés de Louça

In the folklore of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, the ghosts of dead sailors appear as men with shimmering porcelain legs.
12-28-2025 / 12-28-2025,
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Elanya

In Russian folklore, a forest spirit that got its nickname from the word “elan’”, meaning a clearing in the forest.
12-23-2025 / 03-10-2026,
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Kosamebō

According to japanese folklore, mountain yōkai which look like Buddhist monks.
11-09-2025 / 11-09-2025,
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Brunčadło

In Sorbian folklore, is a mysterious mythological being that wanders after sunset, buzzing and muttering.
11-02-2025 / 11-17-2025,
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Caspilly

In Arabic and Persian, and later in European medieval sources, the “marvelously large and strong” one-horned fish was known as the terror of...
11-01-2025 / 11-01-2025,
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Honenashi onna

According to the folklore of Japan’s Kōchi Prefecture, a ghost appearing in the vicinity of Haba Mountain takes the form of a boneless woman...
10-30-2025 / 10-30-2025,
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Gulu

According to the folklore of the people of Shiraz (Far province, southern Iran) children's bogey in the form of a black being with three...
10-19-2025 / 10-19-2025,
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Yukinko

According to the japanese folklore, snow spirits, the children of Yuki Onna, who become incredibly heavy if you try to carry them in your...
10-11-2025 / 10-11-2025,
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Nhangs

Monstrous water spirits of Armenian mythology, capable of shapeshifting and related to the dragons-vishapakar.
04-17-2025 / 04-17-2025,
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Igabō

A mysterious Japanese yōkai associated with chestnuts and likely originating from a pun.
04-13-2025 / 04-13-2025,
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Uthlakanyana

In Zulu folklore, a half-human, half-demon of very small stature, resembling a child but also able to take the form of a hare, a weasel, or...
04-12-2025 / 10-07-2025,
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Gyogyochi

In the folklore of the Andi people of northwestern Dagestan, a wild giantess with enormous breasts thrown over her shoulders.
04-07-2025 / 10-07-2025,
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Raliradir

In the folklore of the Andi people of northwestern Dagestan, an invisible spirit, the personification of the mountain echo.
04-07-2025 / 10-07-2025,
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Sato

According to the japanese folklore, a mermaid with four flipper-like paws, who was born from the drowned corpse of a seventeen year old girl.
03-20-2025 / 03-20-2025,
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Akampeshimpeshi

According to the beliefs of the Lamba people of Zambia, a half-goat, half-crocodile creature that dwells in the celestial lake and descends...
03-16-2025 / 03-22-2025,
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Mardigras

In François Rabelais' novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, a huge, fat, thick, grizzly swine, flying on long and wide, windmill-like wings.
03-15-2025 / 03-16-2025,
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Hurbóż

A type of nightmare demon that strangles people, known from the folk beliefs of the inhabitants of the areas around Sanok and Krosno, towns...
02-20-2025 / 02-20-2025,
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Views: 3079
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Nobiagari

According to the japanese folklore, dangerous shape-changing yōkai which live in bamboo groves and can stretch to become extremely tall.
02-19-2025 / 02-19-2025,
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Mlejka

According to the folklore of the Maltese island of Gozo, a "phantom queen" who sneaks into houses on New Year's Eve, bringing...
02-19-2025 / 02-19-2025,
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Miramas

In classical Persian texts, a half-man, half-horse creature who lives in the far west and sings enchanting songs that cause all living...
02-14-2025 / 02-14-2025,
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Sharley

In Upper Silesian folklore an evil and vengeful mine spirit, who has migrated from mythology into The Witcher world.
02-10-2025 / 02-12-2025,
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Views: 5260
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Chīnouya

In Japanese folklore, a nursing spirit in the form of a long-haired woman with enormous breasts, who protects the souls of deceased children...
02-09-2025 / 02-09-2025,
Page size: 4 980
Views: 3793
Comments: 2
05-10-2025, Фея
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Japiñuñus

According to the folklore of the Aymara people from South America, winged demonesses with long, sagging breasts who steal human souls...
02-07-2025 / 02-08-2025,
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Views: 2330
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05-02-2025, Mefista
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Fei

Chinese monster from ancient text of Shan-hai Ching, an ox with a white head, a single eye, and a snake’s tail, an omen of a great plague.
02-05-2025 / 02-05-2025,
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Kawaguma

According to the japanese folklore, aquatic, hairy, animal-like yōkai which live in deep rivers.
02-03-2025 / 02-03-2025,
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Nagbuagan

In the folklore of the indigenous people of the northern Luzon of Philippines, demon or malevolent spirit that seeks to destroy everything...
02-02-2025 / 02-02-2025,
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Anito

General term for spirits in the animistic beliefs of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines.
02-02-2025 / 02-02-2025,
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Fauni Ficarii

In Sicilian folklore, bloodthirsty demons living in fig trees.
01-31-2025 / 01-31-2025,
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Aërico

According to the albanian folklore, demonic beings that inhabit certain trees and attack anyone who approaches them.
01-31-2025 / 04-06-2026,
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Dōmokōmo

According to japanese beliefs, mysterious, two-faced yōkai who wear kimono.
01-30-2025 / 01-30-2025,
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Views: 2542
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01-30-2025, KOT
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Janaza

In the folklore of the Andi people living in northwestern Dagestan, the "hungry spirit", a cemetery demon.
01-26-2025 / 04-07-2025,
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Views: 1721
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04-07-2025, KOT
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Laura

A creature from Albanian mythology in the form of an ugly, malevolent old hag capable of taking the shape of a small amphibian and screaming...
01-26-2025 / 02-04-2025,
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Views: 1890
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Hane no haeta kappa

A winged species of kappa, allegedly found in the mid-19th century in a pond in Yamagata Prefecture on the north of Japanese island of.
01-24-2025 / 01-27-2025,
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Views: 2151
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Serpegatto

According to the folktales from the Alpine region of Piedmont in northern Italy, a deadly half-cat, half-snake creature with hypnotic...
01-23-2025 / 01-23-2025,
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Views: 1656
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Flabbaert

According to the flemish folklore of Belgium, a certain evil spirit or a red-haired dwarf pounces out of the gutters at passers-by...
01-21-2025 / 01-21-2025,
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Views: 1636
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Alke

According to the folklore of Westphalia, a kind of demonic water-sprite in the form of a fiery wheel or a dragon.
01-19-2025 / 01-19-2025,
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Ujanko

According to the folklore of Navarre, a creature covered with many eyes, each of which disappears on a certain day of the year and reappears...
01-18-2025 / 01-18-2025,
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Akaei

According to Japanese folklore, pacific titanic stingrays, so large that they are often mistaken for islands.
01-16-2025 / 01-16-2025,
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Alma de Mestre

According to the beliefs of Portuguese sailors, appearing in the form of a bird, the cursed soul of the skipper or captain that died in a...
01-14-2025 / 04-24-2026,
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Ababil

According to Islamic tradition, miraculous flocks of giant birds that destroyed the army of war elephants sent to attack Mecca.
01-10-2025 / 10-07-2025,
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Kebō

A creature with a human body, a crab head and six limbs, which, according to Japanese folklore, a crab turns into when it reaches extreme...
01-10-2025 / 01-10-2025,
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Dismal Sauger

According to the folklore of the American colonists, a miserable and melancholy mammalian mustering a curiously comical coat of cyprus...
01-09-2025 / 01-13-2025,
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Ærsladraug

Icelandic "poltergeist", a domestic restless spirit, a type of draug.
01-07-2025 / 01-07-2025,
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Dagdraug

A special kind of draug in Icelandic folklore; is a ghost that can appear not only at night but also during the day.
01-07-2025 / 01-07-2025,
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Tsutsugamushi

According to Japanese beliefs, the malicious insect-like yōkai parasites that suck the blood of villagers at night.
01-06-2025 / 01-06-2025,
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Views: 2711
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01-09-2025, KOT
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Myrlawa

According to the folklore of Upper Lusatia, a malevolent demoness depicted as an evil, hideous and perpetually filthy woman.
01-05-2025 / 01-05-2025,
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Capelthwaite

A local bogie of the black dog type from the Westmorland county in North West England.
11-29-2024 / 11-29-2024,
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Heikegani

Japanese crabs with a shell pattern similar to a scowling mask, which, according to legend, became samurai who died in a sea battle.
11-11-2024 / 11-11-2024,
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Kani oni

According to japanese folklore, demonic crabs with blue-green spiky carapaces, six limbs, and with fanged mouths on bearded faces.
11-08-2024 / 11-08-2024,
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Henkies

One of the names for the trows from the Orkney and Shetland Islands, indicating their lameness as a distinctive physical defect.
11-02-2024 / 11-02-2024,
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Water Bull from Ushachy Lakeland

In the folklore of the Ushachi district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus, a certain water creature with a shovel-shaped tail, roaring at...
10-11-2024 / 12-10-2024,
Page size: 6 659
Views: 3785
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07-30-2025, KOT
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Nife

According to the folklore of the Istanbul Greeks, the ghost of a dead bride who lures men to the cemetery at night.
09-27-2024 / 01-06-2025,
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Chervin

According to the folklore of the northwestern Switzerland, a small quadruped with extraordinary strength that moves people and cattle to the...
09-22-2024 / 09-23-2024,
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Bishmyiyyk

In Bashkir mythology, a scary old man with five moustaches, who is used to frighten naughty children.
09-20-2024 / 09-23-2024,
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Kanibōzu

According to japanese folklore, giant crabs which disguise themselves as priests and haunt temples.
09-20-2024 / 09-20-2024,
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Khar Darna

In Kalmyk folk-beliefs, an evil spirit that strangles people in their sleep and prevents them from waking up.
08-06-2024 / 09-23-2024,
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Daki

Terrifying women who haunt the rocky islands of Japanese Saga Prefecture and feed upon human life.
08-06-2024 / 08-06-2024,
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Kaeru nyōbō

According to Japanese folklore, frogs that have transformed into human women to marry human men.
06-17-2024 / 06-17-2024,
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Hamaguri nyōbō

According to Japanese folklore, clams that transform into human women in order to marry human men.
06-02-2024 / 06-02-2024,
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Belliegha

The common Maltese name for bogies inhabiting wells, caves and the sea.
04-24-2024 / 04-24-2024,
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Gadajdu

According to Maltese folklore, a nocturnal creature that looks like a human skeleton covered with a thin pale skin, waiting for the victim...
04-22-2024 / 05-24-2024,
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Views: 3750
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Lunantishee

A tribe of British fairies who jealously guard the blackthorn bushes.
04-18-2024 / 04-18-2024,
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Sprites

One of the general English names for fairies and similar creatures.
04-16-2024 / 04-24-2024,
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Rukkihunt

According to the Estonian folklore, a demon that hides in grain and is capable of blighting crops with rust spores.
04-01-2024 / 04-03-2024,
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Views: 2457
Comments: 2
04-03-2024, KOT
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Mommi

A demonological bogeyman used to frighten children by the Griko people living in southern Italy.
03-28-2024 / 01-14-2025,
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Abe

According to Albanian folklore, a female ghost or phantom wearing the coarse shroud or thick cloak.
03-13-2024 / 03-13-2024,
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Kolakog

According to the folklore of the Bicol people inhabiting the southeastern part of the Luzon island in the Philippine, a peaceful and...
02-21-2024 / 02-21-2024,
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Views: 3279
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Jans

According to the folklore of the southern Portuguese region of the Algarve, invisible house spirits who spin beautiful linen fabrics at...
12-07-2023 / 04-08-2024,
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Hiran

In Portuguese folklore, the creature that becomes from the seventh daughter is a big-headed skinny girl who turns into a snake.
11-21-2023 / 11-21-2023,
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Angako d Ngato

According to folk-beliefs of Kalinga people from Philippines, the spiritis that afflict with sickness.
10-24-2023 / 02-01-2025,
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Bhim

According to Maltese folklore, a kind of cow-like animal monster.
10-24-2023 / 10-24-2023,
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Manangilaw

According to the folklore of the Bicolano people from Philippines, hairy humanoid giants living in caves.
10-23-2023 / 10-26-2023,
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Views: 3620
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Bentohangin

According to folk-beliefs of Sulod people from Philippines, a flying half-human, half-horse creatures similar to the winged centaurs with...
10-23-2023 / 10-23-2023,
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Views: 3858
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Abak

A malevolent or demonic spirit of the Mandayas people from Philippines.
10-23-2023 / 12-22-2023,
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Butatsch Cun Ilgs

According to the folklore of the Swiss Alps, a gigantic monster with a shapeless body covered with thousands of eyes, living at the bottom...
10-13-2023 / 10-26-2023,
Page size: 4 141
Views: 4726
Comments: 2
10-14-2023, KOT
Rating: 10 / 10 (2)

Bicho do Cidrão

In the folklore of the Portuguese island of Madeira, a ghostly creature that leads an invisible flock of sheep through the mountains, and...
09-18-2023 / 11-21-2023,
Page size: 1 224
Views: 4228
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09-19-2023, KOT
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