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Muma Pădurii

October 21, 2021

In Romanian folklore, Muma Pădurii is a spirit of the forest who appears as an ugly old witch. Muma Pădurii lives in a dark, dreadful, hidden little house in the

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Penanggalan

August 18, 2010

The penanggalan in Malay lore is a woman whose head, esophagus,stomach, and intestines separate as a whole from the rest of her body at night to fly off and seek

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Aswang

August 18, 2010

In the Philippine Islands today, the term aswang is a generic term that applied to a variety of mythical or paranormal creatures such as witches, vampires, manananggals and shapeshifters .

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Loogaroo and Soukoyan

August 18, 2010

The name loogaroo occurs in islands or, in the case of Haiti, part of an island that was colonized by the French who imported African slaves to do the hard

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Asema

August 18, 2010

The asema is a vampiric witch or sorcerer found in the lore of the South American country of Surinam, once a colony called Dutch Guiana. The asema was usually an

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Obayifu

August 18, 2010

According to Ashanti lore in Ghana, the obayifu is a witch who leaves her body at night in the form of a small ball of light which flies through the

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Tlahuelpuchi

August 18, 2010

Belief in the tlahuelpuchi (plural: tlahuelpocmimi ) is prominent in at least the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. Most typically, the tlahuelpuchi is a woman born with a curse. When she

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Old Hag

August 18, 2010

The night hag or old hag is the name given to a supernatural creature, commonly associated with the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. The Old Hag occurs in the lore of

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