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Also known as Old Shuck · The Hellhound of East Anglia
A spectral black hound the size of a calf, with a single burning eye — or two, in the accounts that end worse. Shuck is the definite…
Also known as Nuckalavee · Sea Devil of Orkney
Orkney's most feared sea-being, described as a skinless horse fused to a gigantic rider. Black blood shows through yellow veins; the…
Also known as Popo Bawa · Bat Wing
A feared Zanzibari night spirit whose Swahili name is commonly glossed as 'bat wing.' Descriptions are unstable ? a winged shadow, a…
Also known as Moroi · The Restless Dead
The original behind the vampire: the Romanian restless dead, who rise from the grave at night to draw the life from the living —…
Also known as Tikoloshe · Hili
A knee-high, hairy, ill-tempered creature of Zulu and Xhosa tradition — a water sprite in the oldest tellings, but in modern South…
Also known as Vet?la · Baital
A spirit that inhabits and animates a corpse, especially one left near a cremation ground or hanging in a tree. Unlike a mindless…
Also known as Windigo · Witiko
In Algonquian tradition the wendigo is a spirit of famine, cold, and insatiable greed — a human transformed by the taboo of…