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A gigantic animal -from west African folklore- that trespasses into villages and kidnaps girls on the behalf of witches. [[Category:West African folklore]]

[[Image:hyena.jpg|thumb|African hyena]] ...f assuming the shape of hyenas. They are present in the stories of several African and Eurasian cultures.

...author says the black snakes have a green head. The land of Bigsnake lies west of Rhinoceros country. (tr. Birrell 2000:136, cf. Schiffeler 1978:97) The Chinese folklore scholar Wolfram Eberhard links bashe with the legendary archer Houyi 后翌

In Jamaican folklore, '''duppies''' are restless spirits of the dead that are believed to haunt ...is word of West African (Bantu language) meaning ghost or spirit. Jamaican folklore contains a significant amount of duppy stories in various forms. Jamaican s

...ltures and migrated to the United States during the slave trade. The major African cultural contribution to hoodoo in the United States came from people of th ...on [[Africa]]n beliefs, though it draws significantly from Native American folklore, especially in its use of herbs and other botanical ingredients. Over the y

Although the bridge is off of Egypt Road, it is actually on what used to be West Pine Lake Rd., which now dead-ends to the east of the bridge. Legends attri ...d a case against the existence of several Crybaby Bridges as being genuine folklore; instead contending that they were fakelore that was knowingly being propag

...'''Vudu''' in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based [[Spiritism|spiritist]]-[[Animism|animist]] religious tradit ...riginally a cult practiced among the Bakongo) is as widespread as the West African elements, but has largely been overlooked by North Americans.

...into malicious figures by Christian propaganda. But the familiar witch of folklore and popular superstition is a combination of numerous influences. ...day beliefs about the witches of history attribute to them elements of the folklore witch, the charmer, the cunning man or wise woman, the diviner and the astr

...e trickster is the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore. ...o the transatlantic slave trade, and in so doing, he entered into American folklore — and was later immortalized in pop culture.

...passed down in Native American, Australian Aboriginal, and African Tribal folklore. "Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby", for example, is fairly acute psychology ...[19th century]] saw a significant increase of interest in mysticism in the West that combined with increased interest in [[Occultism]] and [[Eastern Philos