Strange Births and Monsters
For centuries, strange births, often sounding like mythological monsters, were regarded as portents of ill omen. We hear a number[…]
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Tag: folk belief
Spirits of the Corn
Spirits of the corn (grain) fields from the United Kingdom to Russia have been imagined as embodiments of the harvest[…]
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Master of the Wolves: Transylvanian and Balkan Wolf Lore
The Master of the Wolves is a supernatural figure central to Transylvania’s (modern Romania’s) voluminous body of wolf lore, a[…]
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