Search results

Help

..., he is known to sound a cow's horn to warn his friends of the approach of hunters. He doesn't tolerate killing for killing's sake, and the wanton destruction ...e his true shape, to issue a stern warning and then to vanish, leaving the hunters lost or perhaps compelling them to pay a fine of some sort, such as to marr

...ickname was apparently given on account of its remarkable ability to elude hunters. ...now and mud. "Wet Skin" was said to have been especially adept at throwing hunters off its trail.

...ting. It is told that it scares away prey and hides animal tracks or makes hunters lose their way in the jungle.

...' is a spirit that lives underneath the ice and gives aid to fishermen and hunters.

...a, specifically Dahomey. Living in the forest, they provide good magic for hunters. They also give both practical and spiritual knowledge to people.

...normals spirits. This activity is commonly performed by psychics and ghost hunters using [[Ouija board]]s and a coin. In rare cases, doing ''Spirit of The Coi

...catch them are usually unsuccessful because their feet point backwards and hunters invariably track them in the wrong direction. In 1889, however, a capture w

...o enter the deepest forest and survive, because in order to be successful, hunters have to possess strong magic, without which they would never see any game a

The Patasola appears in the form of beautiful and seductive women to male hunters or loggers in the middle of the wilderness when they think about women, oft

...ould be used to detect a vampire, there is no direct evidence that vampire hunters actually existed when vampire lore was common among the Slavic and Romanian As well as being knowledgable about vampire lore, vampire hunters in fiction are often armed with an eclectic mix of items and weapons which

...to be a wizard, and if in olden times an unknown lady offered food to the hunters at the moment the animal appeared she was thought to be a witch.

...n anaconda. She is sometimes thought to be the lover of Papa Bois, and old hunters tell stories of coming upon them in the 'High Woods'. They also tell of hea

They never returned, and it was said that hunters and travelers over the years could hear cries of anger slowly turn to cries

...th are very dangerous and evil and they act preying on human being, mostly hunters but unwary travellers passing by the Highlands as well. According to legend, Baobhan Sith are mostly attracted to hunters (as their clothes might smell of blood) and to young men out after dark.

"'''Shiru''', I have heard of from the Indians and a few white hunters on both sides of the Andes, but decidedly more so on the eastern slopes, wh

...rding to myth, the Abatwa live in the mountains and hills, but are nomadic hunters, having no central village. They follow the game, greedily eat their kill i

...en, and spends much of its time weeping sorrowfully over its own ugliness. Hunters can follow the trail of tears, and find the Squonk under hemlock trees. Hunters who have attempted to catch squonks have found that the creature is capable

...ess of a child's mother. In other versions, it appears to male loggers or hunters working deep into the jungle as a beautiful woman that tries to lure a man

...n the forest. Its backward feet, for example, have the effect of confusing hunters who may try to follow its tracks.

...h that it has received media attention in South Carolina, as well as ghost hunters from around the country. Local historians confirm that the British Army did

...She functions as the protector of the forest and not as the helper of the hunters.

Mama Dlo is sometimes thought to be the lover of [[Papa Bois]], and old hunters tell stories of coming upon them in the 'High Woods'.

Oeneus sent messengers out to look for the best hunters in Greece, offering them the boar's pelt and tusks as a prize. ...is host Eurytion. In the course of the hunt and its aftermath, many of the hunters turned upon one another, contesting the spoils, and so the Goddess continue

...several years with one in great domestic harmony, and only requested some hunters to take her back, she and her children (a little hairy also) were weary of

"Say did the fearless hunters, Pick up the beastly spoor, While trekking through the jungle, With steps a

*The baku appear briefly in the book '''''Sandman: The Dream Hunters''''', written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano (published *Neil Gaiman’s "The Dream Hunters,” which is based on Japanese mythology, features baku

...coal-burners. In return for sexual favours, the Skogsrå helped by charming hunters' rifles never to miss, or by keeping fires burning while charcoal makers

...ights or other times of poor visibility, and many tales were told by local hunters and hikers along the canal path. No spoor or tracks were ever found. Some f

...mishiteu fiercely protected the young of various animal species from human hunters. It is particularly fond of otters. One of his homes is reputedly under Man

...o not fall into the hands of men; roaring at the same time, to terrify its hunters, who coming close to the mouth of the pit, pierce the beast with their arro ..., or generouʃneʃʃe they kill their whelps, and cry hideouʃly to fright the hunters; they ʃhoot him dead with arrows, and ʃlea him. Some fain that they in fo

# ^ a b c "Louisville Ghost Hunters Expores "The Legend of Pope Lick!"". Retrieved on 2008-07-18.

*[http://www.ghosthaunting.com/html/momo_sightings.html Missouri Ghost Hunters Society's Page to Report Momo Sightings]

...ld hunt or ''chasse sauvage'' is a pack of spectres and demons, usually as hunters on horses, sometimes accompanied by hounds which used to crawl in the sky a Many hunters have been said to lead the Wild Hunt.

*Manga/TV anime Bakuretsu Hunter/Sorcerer Hunters - Marron Glaces regularly uses shikigami.

On episode 411 of Sci-fi Channels Ghost Hunters, The Atlantic Paranormal Society investigated Franks Place, now know as "Mo

...t when an animal is trapped and injured by imitating animal calls to throw hunters off track.

...pires). This leaves the revenant highly vulnerable to attack from Vampire Hunters. However, if the would-be hunter isn’t careful, the Vampire may rise and ...d has had more experience in dealing with would-be killers than most Demon Hunters are inclined to think or admit to.

The Beast of Bray Road appears in the television program Mystery Hunters as well as several books and a motion picture. Articles about it have appe

...Dreaming's castle in Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano's Sandman: The Dream Hunters.

...e never appears to more than one individual at a time, and only preys upon hunters and warriors. The Baykok prefers to hunt at night, moving silently through ...ime after his body had decomposed, he was roused from his eternal sleep by hunters. Angered and vengeful, the hunter arose from his unmarked grave as the Bay

Neverthless, this does not deter speculation among eager modern ''monster hunters'' who seem convinced that this infamous figure of the myths of the Nguni(a

largest hunt for the wild man was organized, and the hunters did trap a man in a tree, surrounded by baying dogs, horses and men with gu

[[Category:Hunters]]

Patupairehe were hunters and gatherers, surviving on raw forest foods and sometimes fishing from the

...there all night, and when he did not make his appearance at camp the other hunters began a search for him and, when they found him, cut the grapevine by which Sheriff W. P. Cotton dismissed a posse of "wild man" hunters today and reported that an all day search for a strange gorilla like family

The hunters rushed out from the thicket and surrounded the pit, but shoot as true and a ...ever since its tongue is short and everybody knows it is a liar. When the hunters let it go it flew straight up into the sky until it was out of sight and ne

...d me he was in Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique] with his wife and three hunters, and saw a mother, father and child, of apparently a similar animal species

...lso shot at the beast, but without success. The Nandi Bear has eluded both hunters and researchers alike to remain unclassified by the scientific community. ...westerners after the 1920's are rare, but still do occur. In recent times hunters searching for the beast report finding tracks and hearing blood curdling ho

...slip through the slightest openings with ease, and to escape from vampire hunters in pursuit of the creature. The Vampire is also unable to be physically ha ...Vampire, but this did leave the body vulnerable to an attack from vampire hunters.

...unter, and they told him he had seen an olitiau, a very feared animal. The hunters then fled from the camp; when they returned the following day, and Sanderso

*'''Desert troll''' - Chameleon-like, intelligent ambush hunters.

..., a Dark-Hunter novel by Sherrilyn Kenyon, where he is called upon by Were-Hunters to cause mischief. Bryani, Vane's mother, conjures Alastor to bring Bride

While many of these hardwoods are still popular, many modern vampire hunters prefer silver stakes. Although expensive, stakes made of this precious met ...lore. Some are fairly extreme measures, reluctantly done when the vampire hunters or the common people had no other choice or any other ideas.

**Two Gloucester hunters tracked the Devil's seemingly impossible trail for 20 miles. The trail appe * [http://www.njdevilhunters.com/ NJ Devil Hunters] — A group that organizes hunts for the creature. Home to a large cat

The sightings attracted tourists interested in seeing the creature and hunters interested in tracking it, and nearby radio station WCOS[disambiguation nee

While the creature appears harmless, perytons are hunters of humans, swooping down on victims and tearing them up. After the victim i * In the Veil trilogy by Christopher Golden, perytons, called Hunters, are assassins for the Atlantean army.

...re the deer were grazing, and how many they were to kill and when. The old hunters would always keep to her instructions knowing that something bad would happ *The great Cailleach of Clibhrich used witchcraft to keep the hunters away from her deer. Early one morning a man named William watched her milki

...body is laid out with several zombies, among them the pale-faced man. The hunters set the bodies on fire and depart from the site.

within the circle of its tether. The hunters who went in

Such packs of spectral hounds have been seen all over Europe, with or without hunters, and are generally known as the [[Gabriel Hounds]] or ''Gabble Retchets'' i

...lk, whom other Greeks disdained, as the Olympians patronized Pan. Arcadian hunters used to scourge the statue of the god if they had been disappointed in the

...r. These instructions did not bode well with some of Slick’s hired bigfoot hunters who felt searching for the giant salamander was a waste of time that took t

..."snow man" and has gathered statements from the local populace, including hunters who have encountered Bigfoot in the wilds. Secret settlements have been fou

*There is an episode of Mystery Hunters about the Black Shuck.

...tary remains of Borley Hall, once the seat of the Waldegrave family. Ghost-hunters like to quote the legend of a Benedictine monastery supposedly built in thi * Underwood, P. (1985) ''The Ghost Hunters: Who They Are and What They Do''. London: Robert Hale.

...eces. The pieces rattle as they roll farther down into the valley. All the hunters are so afraid of Thunderbird and his noise and rolling ice that they never

...es to stay safe, and who easily succumb to the poison arrows used by local hunters. Then there are the 'lion killers', who seldom climb trees, are bigger and

...ships and destroy property for purpose of avenging kin that were harmed by hunters. The selkies of the seelie court, known as ''roanes'', are said to be soft ...at she is doomed to be miserable forever as a human. Several tales tell of hunters that skin a seal to find a transformed human who then bargains back the ret

* ''Carrow'' - Raven, one of the Great Hunters.

...y tied to Irish männerbund groups (described as "bands of youthful warrior-hunters, living on the borders of civilized society and indulging in lawless activi

Adrienne Mayor, a folklorist, has made tentative connections, in ''Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times'', between the rich fossil beds arou *[http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6811.html Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times]

...te the fact that the African guides were extremely capable and experienced hunters, guides and experts of the African rainforest, they were not able to show a * A fictional book was written about this creature called Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith.

...pires). This leaves the revenant highly vulnerable to attack from Vampire Hunters. However, if the would-be hunter isn’t careful, the Vampire may rise and ...d has had more experience in dealing with would-be killers than most Demon Hunters are inclined to think or admit to.

..., to ward off the Vampire. During the Inquisition, the inquisitors (witch-hunters) wore the cross on their person or crossed themselves in the presence of a

...the soft skin of women, the course muscles of men (especially warriors and hunters), or the brittle bones of the elderly. In preparation for long winters (wh ...t the most common method is for a man to willingly engage in cannibalism. Hunters, campers, and hikers (not necessarily Native Americans) most often travel w

In Blade: the Series Episode "Hunters", The White Prince, a sadisitic Vampire who tortures and multilates Young W

...e teeth) before it reaches the esophagus. They are believed to be solitary hunters, as only individual giant squid have been caught in fishing nets.

...special kind of fish called okoze was offered to the tengu by woodsmen and hunters, in exchange for a successful day's work.[28] The people of Ishikawa Prefec

*[[Ghost Hunters]]

...ngs are near habitats of bears. However, the witnesses include experienced hunters and outdoorsmen, who claim to be familiar with bears, and insist that the c

...e and Aishihik First Nations), found in August 1999 by three First Nations hunters at the edge of a glacier in Tatshenshini-Alsek Park. It was determined tha

...y tales, by Elsa Beskow, trolls are also depicted as an aboriginal race of hunters and gatherers who are fleeing the encroaching human civilisation. Where man

...wipe out the wolfs while they where still human. The king issued his best hunters to go out and kill it in 1764. But it kept coming back until 1767 when one