...'croque-mitaine''' is the equivalent of the [[Bogeyman]] in the foklore of France.
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'''Machecroute''' is a water dragon that was haunting the river Saône in France.
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...e, the guardian angel intent to cause the Revolt of the Angels, in Anatole France's "Revolt of the Angels".
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...n 1896 in Florida. Samples were sent to laboratories in the United States, France and Italy for DNA testing. On July 11, Chilean scientists announced that it
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...e psychiatric hospital. He evaded police and left the country to travel to France by rail.
...occasions and wounded others. He was considered Public Enemy number one by France, Italy and Swiss Confederation.
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In France '''Meneurs de loup''' (wolf charmer) were said to lead wolves by playing a
In the year 1502 in France there was a peasant named Pierre Burgot who was tending to the sheep in his
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...gon with wings and claws, and may have originated with the [[Tarasque]] in France. However, the Tarasca has no known legend connected with it and feeds espec
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...80s and the 1990s. He is also suspected of ten additional murders, nine in France and one in Belgium. He is currently detained in Belgium awaiting trial. H
...belle Laville''' - a 17-year old French girl. She disappeared in Auxerre, France, on her way from school to home.
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The '''badaruc''' was an imaginary monster in the area of Tarn, in France.
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...en (called ''Bonhomme Basse-Heure'') with similar names in the folklore of France.
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...have evolved over the years and they are still played in such countries as France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and Denmark.
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'''Gallicenae''' are witches in the folklore of ancient Gaul (France).
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...was written on a talisman that belonged to Catherine de Medicis, Queen of France.
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'''Yan-gant-y-tan''' is a demon from Brittany (France).
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The '''gargouille''' was a mythological water dragon originating from France.
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Marie de France in her ''Lay of the Bisclavaret'' used the idea of a werewolf, and again in
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In 12th century France there appears to have been a Countess who lived in a castle called the Chat
...s was erected to mark the place of the execution. And, in case you'd go to France, the place where it all has happened can still be seen today.
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'''Teurst''' are demonic creatures in the folklore of Britanny (France).
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...''' is a mythical beast in the folklore of Anjou, Normandy and Auvergne in France.
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...led. Vacher was a drifter, simply moving from town to town in the South of France, surviving by begging.
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...f superior extraterrestrial beings known as the Xiliens. It attacks Paris, France and is teleported away by an enormous UFO to make it seem as if the Xiliens
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Louise was born somewhere in France in 1869. She was married and had two daughters and according to the Bernard
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'''Louise L.''' was born somewhere in France in 1869. She was married and had two daughters and according to the Bernard
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...aouilly, Graouilli, Graully) is a dragon that terrorized the city of Metz, France.
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'''Barbegazi''' are gnome-like people that inhabit the Alps mountains between France and Switzerland.
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* [[Ilan Halimi]] (France, 2006)
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...nalisme en France'' ("Of the Moral Customs and Doctrines of Rationalism in France", 1839) was a tract within the cultural stream of the Counter-Enlightenment
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...article about this creature was written in the ''Courier de L'Europe'' in France in 1784 stating that it had been captured and was going to be on display in
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...g in the mountains. The zoologist Dr. Jordi Magraner, a Spaniard living in France, researched the barmanu extensively. He was assassinated in Pakistan in 200
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...'dahu''' is an imaginary creature in the folklore of the Alps mountains in France, Switzerland and the north of Italy.
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...ver, a Paris tour followed, and they were examined by two doctors in Lyon, France. They determined the twins would live long, against the prediction of the p
...t of the major cities in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Poland, and France almost every day. They never learned to walk as they did not have muscular
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...blood of its unfortunate victims. The Craquehhe inhabits old graveyards in France.
France may be a beautiful, picturesque country, but like any other place in Europe
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...ing crocodile eggs wherever it finds them. Pierre Belon, who traveled from France to Egypt two-hundred fifty years before Napoleon’s expedition published a
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...m in cities throughout the world, with Gorosaurus being released in Paris, France (Baragon is blamed for the attacks). However, the humans retaliate and find
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...deshow pitch, he claimed that he had broken the leg in a train accident in France, rendering it useless. Additionally, Lippert possessed two functioning hear
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In 1611 at Aix-en-Provence (South of France), Father Louis Gaufridi was burnt alive for sending demons into the Ursulin
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...de Mets circa 1410. The original is held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.]]
Raymond of Poitou came across Melusine in a forest in France, and proposed marriage. Just as her mother had done, she laid a condition,
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...') is a malevolent fairy creature that was initially reported in Normandy, France but reportedly emigrated to Michigan, USA.
The Nain Rouge originated in Normandy, France, as a type of [[goblin]].
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Petiot was born January 17 1897 at Auxerre, France. Later accounts make various claims of his delinquency and criminal acts du
After the outbreak of World War II and the fall of France, Petiot begun to provide false medical certificates to French citizens who
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...ecome barren. Lludd, king of Britain, goes to his wise brother Llefelys in France. Llefelys tells him to dig a pit in the centre of Britain, fill it with mea
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...ainting "the Sorcerer" in the Trois-Frères (Cave of the Three Brothers) in France.
...loped in the fashionable 19th-century [[Occult]]ist circles of England and France. [[Eliphas Levi]]'s famous illustration (''right'') of [[Baphomet]] in his
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...wo to nine years, the sisters were exhibited in Holland, Germany, England, France, Italy and Poland. They became talented singers and spoke Hungarian, High D
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...4) written in Greek letters from Montagnac (Hérault, Languedoc-Roussilion, France) reads ''αλλετ[ει]υος καρνονου αλ[ι]σο[ντ]εας''
...alth as does the coin pouch from the Cernunnos of Reims (Marne, Champagne, France) - in antiquity, Durocortorum, the ''civitas'' capital of the Remi tribe -
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...led in the mountains of the Basque Pyrenees of northern Spain and southern France. The Basajaun is usually the spirit that inhabits the deepest forests or ca
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...o them. The Aatxe is the guardian genius of Grottes de Sare (Sara's Cave), France.
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...Mary's Hospital in London and examined by numerous doctors in England and France. Despite his extensive medical examinations and relative fame in medial cir
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...|thumb|Woodcut, from ''Cosmographie universelle. In Les Singularitez de la France antarctique'', by Thevet]]
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...Freyming.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Epona, 3rd c. AD, from Freyming (Moselle), France (Musée Lorrain, Nancy)]]
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...uerus, Buttadeus, Cartophilus, Isaac Laquedem (a name attributed to him in France, in popular legend as well as in a novel by Alexandre Dumas, see below), an
...ight editions in Dutch and Flemish are known; and the story soon passed to France, the first French edition appearing in Bordeaux, 1609, and to England, wher
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...gly influenced by the medieval Christian cosmology of Germany, Britain and France. Prominent are stories that reflect later views of the Vættir, usually cal
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...''barbegazi'' are gnome-like creatures with big feet in the traditions of France and Switzerland. In Iceland, gnomes (''vættir'') are so respected that roa
...lp in the garden at night. The gnome quickly spread across German and into France and England where ever gardening was a serious hobby.
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...mb|A fountain with a frog man in the gardens of the Chateau of Versailles (France).]]
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...e seventh son of the marquis d'Auvergne Auvergne and was born in Auvergne, France in a castle belonging to his ancestors. Despite his apparent highborn backg
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...her knights arrested in the Paris Temple. More arrests followed throughout France, and later throughout Europe after Pope Clement V annulled the French proce
...s in France faced various prison terms, while very few Templars outside of France were convicted of charges.
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*Annequin (France)
*Feu follet (France)
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===France===
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...", or icon in 1244 was sold by Baldwin II of Constantinople to Louis IX of France, and it was enshrined with the Crown of Thorns in the Sainte Chapelle in Pa
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...es esoterically Classical heroic poetry of the 18th century in England and France, Pope pretends to have a new alchemy, where the sylph is the mystically, ch
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'''Dracs''' are fairy creatures in the folklore of South France.
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...at we cannot believe that any savage is their author; for good painters in France would find it difficult to reach that place Conveniently to paint them. Her
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..., is a [[dragon]]-like beast that terrorized the city of La Ferté-Bernard, France, in medieval times.
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A '''Korrigan''' or '''Corrigan''' is a type of fairy specific to Britanny (France). There are several types, some of which are the Korils, Poulpikans, Teuz,
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In southern France, near the town of Nerluc (“Black Lake”), on the banks of the Rhone Rive
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Ireland, Scotland, Germany, France.
...eprechauns. They are also known in German culture as "Washer women" and in France as "Dames blanches".
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King Charles VI of France and five of his courtiers were dressed as woodwoses and chained together fo
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...hey have also been reported in various forms in Ireland, Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Scandinavian countries, the United States of Ameri
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...ed in 1517 by Alibeck the Egyptian. However, it was most likely written in France in the 18th century.
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King Francois I of France used a salamander as his personal emblem.
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Many European countries and cultures have stories of werewolves, including France (''loup-garou''), Greece (''lycanthropos''), Spain
...g back until 1767 when one hunter shot it with a silver bullet. After that France didn't have any more werewolf problems.
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...lvania, Hungary, and Bulgaria) looking for vampires before they arrived in France. They also met several vampiric creatures that were quite unlike most of th
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...e. They eloped, (though Percy was still married to Harriet at the time) to France on 27 July, with Mary's stepsister, Jane Clairmont, in tow. This was the po
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In the 15th century, one of the wealthiest men in France, [[Gilles de Rais]], is said to have abducted, raped and murdered at least
...rban poor and gained coverage worldwide. [[Joseph Vacher]] was executed in France in 1898 after confessing to killing and mutilating 11 women and children, w
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The novel moves back in time to eighteenth century France, the world of Lestat's childhood artistocracy, as he tells his story. From
...which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mort
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...egally. But the Sades were ''noblesse chevaleresque'', that is, members of France's oldest nobility. Given the loftiness of their lineage, the assumption of
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...dess of battle was not limited to the Irish Celts. An inscription found in France which reads Cathubodva, 'Battle Raven', shows that a similar concept was at
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*France - The French equivalent of the Bogeyman is "''le croque-mitaine''" ("the mi
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...the 1950s have spread westward into Scandinavia, and south even as far as France.
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...b|A poltergeist phenomenon witnessed by Father Tinel in 1850 in Cideville, France]]
[[Image:poltergeist2.jpg|thumb|A recent case recorded in France.]]
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...It was the female form that was carved in the Middle Ages (in Germany and France) into manikins.
In France, they were considered a kind of elf, and associated with the main-de-gloire
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...encyclopedist Vincent of Beauvais acquainted his patron Saint Louis IX of France with "an animal with the head of the dog but with all other members of huma
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* Lucifer is a character in Anatole France's ''la Révolte des anges''; he is said to have led men to philosophy, scie
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...overed prison records showing that Ostrog was jailed for petty offences in France during the Ripper murders. Ostrog is last mentioned alive in 1904, though h
...h was illegal at the time. Awaiting trial, he instead fled the country for France on 24 November 1888, and thence to the United States. It has been suggested
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...further south in Europe as well. Similar creatures have been reported from France, Italy and Sicily. There has even been a report of what sounds very like a
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Greece, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, France.
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* The Bibliothèque nationale de France
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...by James Jerman and Anthony Weir, is that the sheelas were first carved in France and Spain in the 11th century; the motif eventually reached Britain and the
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...in Somerset. The '''Gap of Goeblin''' is a hole and underground tunnel in France.
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...cording to the ''Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were'', particularly in France during the Middle Ages, the revenant or zombie rises from the dead usually
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...the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. It was later transported to France, where it remained in the Sainte Chapelle until the 18th century. The icon
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In 1420 he found himself at the court of the Dauphin, pretender to crown of France. Jean de Craon sought to marry Rais off to the heiress Jeanne de Paynol; th
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...(weisse frauen in Germany, witte wieven in Holland, and dames blanches in France). There are also similarities with the Biblical Massacre of the Innocents,
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...ther, similar movements took place at roughly the same time, centered in [[France]] and [[Germany]]. Most Western traditions acknowledging the natural eleme
...e early development of human communities. The ancient cave paintings in [[France]] are widely speculated to be early magical formulations, intended to produ
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...auspices de la fondation Ratanbai Katrak, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France
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In the Dutch ''rampjaar'' (disaster year) of 1672, when France and England during the Franco-Dutch War / Third Anglo-Dutch War attacked th
...a Country") U.S.A., during 1687 was later described in this letter sent to France: “On the 13th (of July) about four o’clock in the afternoon, having pas
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...egaard]] and [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], developed in Europe, particularly in France and Germany. Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher generally considered the "Fa
...and Durant, Ariel, ''Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715,
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...ese live series known as "'''Message From Space'''" ("'''San-Ku-Kaï'''" in France), the villain's supreme leader is called Golem XIII; one of his many appear
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...s of Puss in Boots and their adventures in their world's equivalent of the France of Louis XVI and the French Revolution, called "Here Comes a Candle." )
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...l qualities over time, for example the Matter of Britain and the Matter of France, based on historical events of the 5th and 8th centuries, respectively, wer
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...ches" which describes the events of the Martian invasion as experienced in France, Italy, Russia, India, China, Texas, Alaska, Equatorial Africa and other lo
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