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67Dracula and the Jack the Ripper Connection
There is a fiend walking the streets of London town, a fiend with an insatiable blood lust. This monster actually describes two Victorian villains, one fictional and the other quite real. In the year 1888 in...
0 comments64Arachne- Mother of All Spiders
Every Halloween when putting up decorations my Mother always seeemed to prefer spiders and their webs. This always struck me as ironic since she was a seamstress and loved to sew. The symbolism and...
2 comments63Native American Demon
In addition to the Wampus-Cat and wendigio there are vampires, ghouls, and demons among the Native People. It would stand to reason that such an imaginatively rich group of people like the Native...
3 comments60And, Yet, Another Incredible Surrealistic Fantasy Artist-Enjoy.
We are All Visitors To This Place......Our purpose here is to observe to Learn, To Grow,To Love and Then Return Home. Autsralian Aborigine Proverb. One of my favorite...
0 comments63Allen K
Growing up in a small town in rural West Virginia there was often alot of spare time.One of my passions was comic books, especially horror comic books. I loved any comic books with vampires, zombies,...
0 comments71Saint Andrew's Eve
We tend to think of Halloween as the only spooky holiday, but there is considerable folklore surrounding other spooky events on various other less obvious holidays. Halloween has come under attack...
0 comments69The Feminist Santa Clause
In Italy, Santa Clause is a woman. According to Italian legend it is a magical woman who delivers the gifts. The story goes that the Three Wise men were traveling about looking for the home of the Christ...
2 comments64Good Old Fashioned Hillbilly Folk Magic, no less.
It might be hard for some people to believe but here in rural West Virginia we do has the practice of Folk Magic. Largely connected to the Pennyslvania Dutch and elements of Native American and Gypsy...
6 comments65The Legend of the Wild Hunt
One of the oldest ghostly folk beliefs is likely the Wild Hunt/ Said to happen around the Winter Solstice the Wild Hunt was a terrifying spectral hunting party that consisted of ghostly hounds, fairies,...
0 comments63The Pagan Santa Clause
Most people believe that the roots of Santa Clause originated from a 4th Century bishop who was well known for his miracles. St. Nicholas was known for his generosity and also for such miracles as raising...
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