The Headless Horseman
The Headless Horseman is a legendary creature harbinger of death in European, Indian and American folklore. The figure is traditionally depicted as a man upon horseback who is either carrying
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Death creatures
On top of the notorious ghosts, zombies, mummies and vampires which have a dedicated section on monstrous.com, there are many other creatures that belong to the death realm: psychopomps, scarvengers, executers, …
Psychopomps
All the religions and beliefs about death mentions a particular spirit, deity, demon or angel whose responsibility is to escort souls of the dead to the Afterlife or the underworld
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The Hounds (of the Hunt)
The Hounds are a great pack of spectral hounds with black fur sometimes wolf like and whose eyes and tongues burn with a greenish fire. Generally, however, they are not
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The Wild Hunt
The Wild Hunt or chasse sauvage is a pack of spectres and demons, usually as hunters on horses, sometimes accompanied by hounds which used to crawl in the sky at
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Herne the Hunter
The hunter may be an unidentified lost soul, a historical or legendary figure or Satan, or Satan himself. In many of these stories, from the Wild Hunt of Odin to
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