"Melusina" would seem to be an uneasy name for a girl-child in these areas of Europe, but Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Munster,
...:Shapeshifters|shape-shifting]] faery figure, through its glorious rise in Europe and in the Crusader kingdoms of the Eastern Mediterranean, weaving together
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...ampire than both of them. The next night, the night of their departure for Europe, Claudia comes running home crying that someone's been following her and it
In the book Louis and Claudia traveled through several parts of Europe (Varna, Carpathians, Piraeus, Germany, Transylvania, Hungary, and Bulgaria
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After de Loys returned to Europe, he kept the story of the giant monkey to himself until 1929. That year, hi
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...t is feared greatly by the people of Hungary, some other parts of mainland Europe, and the Orient. While the creature’s ability to travel for any consider
...s are thought to be the ghostly remains of the dead in folklore throughout Europe.
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France may be a beautiful, picturesque country, but like any other place in Europe, the French have their share of dark evils. One of the most feared of thes
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...like Dvergar. Like the dwarves, elves, and faries of Christian continental Europe, the Scandinavian Vættir become accused of kidnapping human infants while
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==Green Men outside Europe==
...ests that the symbol may have originated in Asia Minor and been brought to Europe by travelling stonecarvers.
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...are many legends in Indonesia that are similar to the elf or leprechaun of Europe with the ebu gogo kidnapping human children, hoping to learn from them how
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'It's possible that it's a catfish from Eastern Europe and people are misjudging the size but there is no known fish as large as t
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...inus. In the English translation of the game released in North America and Europe, the name was changed to Spirit Lance.
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...peoples, tales of dwarfs continued to be told in the folklore of areas of Europe where Germanic languages were (and are) spoken. Today dwarfs appear commonl
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...ng Theebaw, Captain Paperno, found them hiding and offered to take them to Europe. Mah Me died in June of 1886, evidently while in transit from Burma to Engl
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...g Back the Balls to Europe tour; In November 2006, Lordi is headlining MTV Europe Music Awards;
...side her dead body in its rotting wedding dress and went traveling through Europe as a ghost after she had killed her own father.
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...ay or another. There are three primary methods, used together, throughout Europe to destroy the walking dead: staking, decapitation, and burning. Collectiv
...hat is inhabited by a demonic spirit. In Romania (and some other parts of Europe), the Vampire is said to possess two hearts (and therefore, two souls). Th
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...applied to the forehead; this recalls the stories of the witch's salve in Europe. In Abyssinia the patient is usually a woman; two forms are distinguished,
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In the myth and folklore of the Near East and Europe, '''Abyzou''' (also spelled Abizou, Obizu, Obizuth, Obyzouth, Byzou etc.) i
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...s sailed across the ocean, eventually landing on the coasts of what is now Europe. There, they too married humans and gave birth to a race of pale-skinned h
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...en common among most of the indigenous populations of the world, including Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. On occasion such accusations have led to wi
==Europe==
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...necessary). This was particularly common in the Slavic regions of Eastern Europe, especially in Romania. Since the Vampire’s sperm was considered to stil
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...rities involved in the case. Murray, in her book The Witch-Cult of Western Europe (pp. 173-74), surmised that Rais was a witch and follower of a fertility cu
^ Norman Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons, London: Pimlico, 1973
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