Picture of the month

 

There isn't much to say here as the picture says it all! A real seasonal one at that! Wolf taking off with a present from Santa! 

Seasonal and Yule blessings from She Wolf Night. 

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The Yule Lads

 

These characters are Yule spirits from Icelandic folklore. While Santa is the beloved man who rides in a sleigh bringing gifts, the Yule Lads are thirteen men who appear bringing gifts and other surprises. They don't arrive all at once. Much loved in Iceland, children always look forward to the thirteen lads bringing seasonal cheer. The Yule laddies don't visit households together but once a day alone. 

So the 12th December is when the first Yule Lad sets off. His name is Stekkjarstaur that means "Sheep-Cote Clod". He lingers on earth and then leaves on the 25th December. He's got impaired legs and walks with a limp or uses a peg to help him. He's actually quite naughty for upsetting sheep. 

On the 13th December the next lad sets off. His name is Giljagaur and it means "Gully Gawk." He likes to hover around waterways and gullies. He hides and then comes out at night to enter barns so that he can grab some milk. He stays around until the 26th December. 

The next lad arrives on the 14th December and leaves on the 27th December. His name is Stúfur and it means "Stubby". He's the smallest of the Yule Lads and dwarf sized. He likes to steal from kitchens and he eats the remains of pie crust inside pots and pans.

On the 15th December arrives Þvörusleikir whose name means "Spoon-Licker." He looks very thin and almost skeletal. He leaves germs on spoons because he licks them. He departs on the 28th December.

Then arrives Pottaskefill whose name means "Pot- Scraper." He turns up on the 16th December and leaves on the 29th December. He's another who likes eating the remains of food inside pots!

On the 17th December the lad Askasleikir arrives and his name means "Bowl-Licker." He tends to hide inside the house, usually under beds so he can be ready to take off with bowls of hot food. He stays around and then departs on the 30th December.

The next is Hurðaskellir whose name is "Door-Slammer"! He arrives on the 18th December and leaves on the 31st December. Whilst around, he enjoys being noisy and slams doors late at night to wake everyone up.

Then Skyrgámur whose name means "Skyr-Gobbler" arrives on the 19th December and he leaves on the 1st January. He loves Icelandic yoghurt Skyr and will eat it up in shops and households when they sleep.

On the 20th December arrives lad Bjúgnakrækir whose name is "Sausage-Swiper". He hides in the rafters, in the attic or somewhere in the house watching sausages being cooked. He likes smoked sausages and he'll come along and steal it. He departs on the 2nd January.

It will be the 21st December when lad Gluggagægir whose name is "Window-Peeper" appears. He tries looking through windows to find something to steal. This is probably the most weirdest of all. He leaves on the 3rd January.

On the 22nd December arrives lad Gáttaþefur whose name means "Doorway-Sniffer". He's got a very acute sense of smell, loves bread and has an incredibly big nose. He'll sniff for "leaf bread" (also called "snow bread," a traditional Icelandic bread during Yule season). Then he'll leave on the 4th January.

The next lad is Ketkrókur whose name means "Meat-Hook." He appears on the 23rd December, and always carried a long metal hook to steal meat. He leaves on the 5th January.

Then Kertasníkir whose name means "Candle-Stealer" appears on the 24th December and he leaves on the 6th January. He follows children and waits to steal their candles, in the hope they're made of juicy tallow! 

While these Yule Lads seem up to mischief, they also leave candies and cakes for children. I seem to be highlighting the bad the Yule Lads do. If children are well behaved, they get goodies (toys, sweets, gingerbread) from the visiting Yule Lads. The purpose of Yule Lads is to leave gifts to nice children even if they'll steal a few morsels from kitchens. But what about badly behaved kids? They get potatoes shoved in their boots.  

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The goose that laid black eggs

There is the folk story of the goose that laid golden eggs but what about black eggs? Black eggs are something dragons would lay. It's rare for birds to lay eggs with black shells and emus lay very dark green eggs. A goose has been laying eggs with black yolks and nobody knows why.      

This goose is from Hangzhou City in Zhejiang Province, China. The owner is a friend of a man identified only as "Zhu" who informed the mass media, claiming the goose laid perfectly normal eggs before but has recently been laying strange eggs with black yolks. The yolks didn't smell bad so it wasn't considered any form of illness. 

Some believe the bird was eating black mulberries which grows on the farm, and caused the black eggs, but Zhu doesn't think it's that. Worried about pollution being the culprit, certain experts come forward to explain it but the view is that this remains a mystery. 

If there's nothing wrong with these eggs, why are they this colour?

More on this story Oddity Central baffling goose laying black eggs yolk

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Revontulet

The aurora borealis is made by foxes, which is the story in Finnish and Lapland folklore. Arctic foxes running across snow leaves sparkles, their bushy tails whipping up snow towards the sky, and turning the flakes into colourful fiery glitter, creating the northern lights, aurora borealis. This is called revontulet, or "fox fires". In Finnish legends, a Firefox is a supernatural creature that looks like a dark fox in the daytime but whose tail glows at night. 

Check out and visit this luminous page on Fox fires at Visit Finland - 

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Mistletoe bride

 

A ghost story for Yuletide. There is a curious urban legend linked to Bramshill House in Hampshire. Within that house are more than a dozen resident ghosts. Among them is a White lady that is considered the ghost of a bride who was found dead. This is how it goes...

There was a Yule wedding in the 17th century, to celebrate a girl named Anne Cope who married Lord Lovell. Afterwards there was a great feast at Bramshill House. The cheerful bride wanted to play Hide and Seek and the wedding guests all agreed. After many hours, long after everyone was discovered in their hiding places, only the bride was still missing. She was nowhere to be found and it seemed that she just disappeared. The bride hid so well that she remained undiscovered for a very long time.

So many years passed that Lord Lovell and all the other wedding guests were dead and gone. The house was very old and it was sold to another, who spent time clearing away rotten furniture. The new owner went up into the attic full of cobwebs, and found a big chest made of mistletoe wood. Inside the chest was a horrific sight: A skeleton of a young woman wearing an old fashioned bridal gown.

There are ghost sightings at the house today. It's believed that the bride is one of them. She's described as a glowing Lady in White. She's reported to have scared some guests staying over in the house. The phantom bride has terrified people when they saw her passing through walls. She haunts certain rooms and brings a smell of flowers. Her ghost has been standing in the window looking outside. The house is so popular with this ghost bride that the actual chest itself is placed by the reception. A lot of poems and stories were based on this ghost legend, including "The Mistletoe Bough" by Sir Henry Bishop. 

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House dragons

 

While famous for being powerful, vast creatures of the sky, land or the mountains and sea. There is few well known smaller domestic dragons that guarded the home in folklore and other old customs. Associated with the cosmos, or the weather, elements, and even regarded as deities, some dragons are fire breathing or venomous, harmful and demonised. Not all dragons were monstrous.

Puk is a small friendly dragon with a serpentine body, four legs and wings. They appear in Germanic and Slavic folklore. The Puk is a domestic dragon who protects the livestock and the family, treated as a pet dog, who views the house owner as master, and in return is rewarded with treats. The favourite things Puk dragons like are honey and milk. So people who leave gifts for their own domestic dragons will get good fortune. Despite the friendliness of a Puk dragon, these don't feel that same love towards the neighbours, who they sometimes steal from. 

Kaukas is a Baltic and Slavic dragon, small and glittering, who guard treasures, relics and even machines. A patron of blacksmiths, the Kaukas dragons tend to shelter in a house or a barn. These can protect and guard the home, as they leave signs to their owners such as a bit of straw and grass. Considered ghosts taking on the form of little dragons because it was believed they were once humans, Many people left offerings (food) out for the Kaukas dragons.  

Aitvaras is a white or black supernatural creature that resembles a bird with a fiery tail, found in Lithuanian folklore. They can take up residence in a house and bring either good or bad luck on the humans living there. If people treat the Aitvaras well, leaving offerings, the dragon will bring stolen gold and grain. If not the home itself would end up burned. 

Source and info from The Circle of the Dragon 

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Picture of the month

 

A wolf being very nosey. Proudly gazing into the lens and thinks the camera is a good find. 

"Try not to tell anyone that I found a camera! It's mine now!" whispered wolf.

"I heard you!" shouted the second wolf who appeared behind the trees!

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Photo credit by Wolf Conservation Centre.

Bisclavret

 Bisclavret or "the Werewolf" is one of the twelve Lais of poet Marie de France. "Bsclavret" is a tale about a man named Bisclavret, a baron of Brittany. Great friends with the king, Bisclavret would disappear for a few days and nights. It happened more than one time. Everyone including his wife wanted to know where he would vanish to. Bisclavret told them that he was actually a werewolf but goes away to keep himself hidden. The wife of Bisclavret becomes frightened of him. She confides in her lover, a knight, about ridding her werewolf husband. When Bisclavret becomes a werewolf again, he leaves the castle and goes off into the woods. His wife and her lover take Bisclavret's clothing, and on Bisclavret's return, he can't find his clothes and remains in his werewolf form. He stays away from the castle, and soon his wife marries the knight. There is a search party for the missing baron, but after so long of not finding him, they soon give up. All is not over.

The king is hunting in the woods a whole year after Bisclavret disappeared. The royal hunting dogs soon discover a timid Bisclavret as a wolf. Bisclarvet grovels to the king and talks like a man. So the impressed and amazed king decides to keep the wolf, and takes him back with him to the castle. The king wants to celebrate and show off his new pet, so a lot of nobles are invited including the knight who married the wife of Bisclavret. Once the knight enters the castle, he's attacked by the angry wolf Bisclavret. The king intervenes and threatens to kill Bisclavret with a staff. Feeling curious about the wolf reacting so aggressively to that particular knight, the king visits the knight's house, taking the wolf with him. Upon finding his wife there, Bisclavret bites off her nose. As if things couldn't get worse for the woman. She's taken by the king, and she's questioned severely under torture. She admits to taking the clothes of Bisclavret, her first husband, who vanished to trick him into staying as a werewolf so she could be free to marry the knight. The king gives the clothes back to the wolf, who soon becomes a man. So happy to see the baron again, the king restores land and castle to Bisclavret. The knight and baroness are exiled. Future female generations of the baroness are born without noses. 

The author Marie de France originally called the baron "Garwaf", a Norman word, until she changed it to the Breton "Bisclavret." Her work appears in the Strengleikar ("Stringed Instruments"), Old Norse stories based on the Old French Lais of Marie de France. She was born in 1160 in France and spent time living in England at the royal court of king Henry II. An early scholar, storyteller and poetess, she was able to speak many languages. She translated the Aesop's Fables from Middle English to Anglo-Norman French. She could read Latin, and wrote many other stories. She was an extremely intelligent woman, creative and educated. This is a Medieval horror story author. She died in 1215.

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The Greyman

This is a creature called The Big Grey Man of the mountain Ben MacDhui. It also goes by the name of Am Fear Liath Mor. Many simply call it The Greyman. Ben Macdhui is the second highest mountain in Britain, found in the Cairngorms mountain range in Scotland. 

Shrouded in rugged beauty, the mountainous region is frigid in Winter with dense snow and mist. It's the home to a giant called the Greyman, who was encountered by many who dared climb the mountain including J. Norman Collie, explorer and scientist. The mountain's mysterious Greyman is said to be over ten feet tall, bulky, covered in hair, and with very long arms. The area is so foggy that it's often heard walking heavily with loud crunching footsteps. 

During the Second World War, the Greyman was witnessed by Peter Densham who worked there as a rescue operation, experienced intense fear when he heard ominous sounds when the fog increased. His friend, Richard Frere was stationed up in the mountain and he saw the Greyman standing near his tent.

 Again the Greyman was seen by other people including Alexander Tewnion, a mountaineer and he described a frightening close encounter with the Greyman. Huge footprints were found although it was later decided to have been caused by water. Three men saw the entity as they hiked in the area, and another occasion the friends saw it again while in the car. This time the Greyman attempted to chase after them and followed the car as they sped off, until they lost the Greyman. 

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A mystery cat woman

In Edmondthorpe, Leicestershire, there is a strange local legend of a cat woman. It's believed that there lived a witch who shapeshifted into a cat. 

Edmondthorpe is a small parish village that once existed under the Danelaw in the Early Middle Ages. It was well known in the past for it's castle, named Edmondthorpe Hall, built by knight Sir Roger Smith. This grand house was destroyed by fire in 1943 and all that remains of it today are ruins. Some believe that witchcraft or a curse by the cat woman was responsible. Sir Roger Smith died in 1655 and is buried in a tomb at St Michael's Church, surrounded by statues of his family including his wife, Lady Ann, believed to be the actual were-cat witch. 

People believed Lady Ann had magical powers. There was a vicious household cat in the hall that always stole from the kitchen. A butler tried to kill the cat using a meat cleaver, but only wounded the cat on its paw. The cat quickly fled from the manor house and disappeared completely. Lady Ann was soon found wearing a blood soaked bandage around her wrist to cover a severe gash. The statue of Lady Ann in the tomb has a strange red "scar" showing on her wrist that sometimes bleeds. This is regarded as proof that Lady Ann was the cat all along. Also adding to the folklore about statues turning to life. Some say it's just discoloration of the stone. What do you think?

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A Halloween message

 

    Have a safe and happy Halloween. 

Best wishes and extra howls.

From the She Wolf Night blog 

Resurrection Mary

In Chicago there is a curious legend about Resurrection Mary, a strange entity that haunts Resurrection Cemetery beside Archer Avenue. Mary sounds more like a zombie than a wispy ghost. She's a corporeal "Lady in White" type of figure, that looks like any living person except that she's not. 

A particular incident with Mary happened in 1979, a taxi driver noticed a young woman wandering along a road, wearing only a white party dress in the middle of winter. He noticed that she must've been very cold, and as there was going to be a snowstorm, he decided to offer her a lift. The woman wanted to go to the cemetery and that was where she went. Other reports of Mary used to happen more frequently when there was a ballroom along Willowbrook. She's often hitchhiked her way to the cemetery from lonely roads late at night. 

She's also been seen covered in blood. Well known as a "phantom hitchhiker", Mary has been known to appear along the road and has suddenly stepped out into the road in front of cars, seeming to get run over. Mary has been witnessed appearing in nightclubs around the area itself! According to those that saw her, Mary looked deathly pale and didn't speak to anyone. Wearing an old fashioned white dress and slippers, those that touched her said she felt very cold. The most unnerving thing of all was her bleeding eyes.   

In the 1970's the police were called about a blonde woman in a white dress locked inside Resurrection Cemetery. According to the person who saw her, the woman was trying to get out and she was holding the metal iron bars of the fence around the cemetery. When they arrived, the police never found the woman but instead they noticed the bars were bent and her fingerprints burned into the metal. 

It's believed that this mysterious Mary was a girl who died in a road accident on her way home from a party after having a row with her boyfriend. She's buried at Resurrection Cemetery. She's one of the most famous paranormal entities in the United States. But why she continues to walk undead remains a mystery. 

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Picture of the month

 This is a picture for October that says it all! A wolf has just found a prized pumpkin, and doesn't want anyone else near!!!

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Apple bobbing wolves!

 This is a video of a wolf pack bobbing apples! They're all competing to play this Halloween themed game. It's both amusing and also lovely to watch. 

Souling

 The Halloween tradition of Trick or Treat, usually by kids dressing up as monsters and visiting houses requesting sweets, has early origins in Medieval times, when soul cakes were given instead of candy. 

These small round cakes were called "somas" or simply just "soul cakes". They were made with nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, spices, with fruit such as raisins and currents. A tradition for Halloween or All Saints Day, children used to go around knocking on doors then sing songs, hoping to get a gift of soul cakes. This medieval game still continues today. It was celebrated throughout Britain and Ireland, and other countries in Europe including Italy, Portugal and Spain. 

The custom of Souling was a Medieval Halloween form of Trick or Treating, which sometimes involved adults visiting farms and village houses, singing merry songs for apples, ale and soul cakes. Often with these groups of soulers carried lanterns made from the shells of turnips, wearing costumes to look like ghosts and witches. They carried old hobs, wooden horses on sticks.

According to sourses, children throughout the British Isles enjoyed the company of spooky Tindle Fires or Teanley Fires on Halloween, often made to ward off evil spirits. This tradition has its roots far back in pre-Roman times. After making these bonfires, people had parties with food and music. During the Middle Ages, people sometimes left a lit candle in the window at night to keep dark spirits and demons away. If a candle went out, it meant that entities could invade that particular house. 

Also hand-in-hand with soul cakes are apples and nuts. Halloween was nicknamed "Nut Crack Night" to crack open nuts indoors. Another nickname for Halloween was once "Snap Apple Night". These were very old apple games including divinations. Young women would try to bite an apple left dangling on some strip while keeping their hands behind their backs. The winner of this game would peel the apple, then throw the peeling over her shoulder. Whatever letter of the alphabet looked like when the peel landed, would mean to initial of her future husband. Apple bobbing is similar to this. Trick or treating isn't new and there are many customs in Halloween.

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Black cats

 

Honestly this is a sad topic but relevant. Most people are superstitious about black cats, in the 21st Century. Halloween is a horrific season of people killing black cats. These animals have been a target by the religious, especially Puritans and Pilgrims, who slaughtered black cats on Shrove Tuesday. They believed black cats are linked with demons and witchcraft. A lot of people are afraid of black cats so they refuse to adopt any. During Halloween there is a spike in abandoned black cats, animal cruelty towards black cats, avoiding black cats and also being left behind in shelters. Owners of black cats are warned to keep their pets safe indoors over Halloween. Some animal shelters don't want people adopting black cats over Halloween because of fears they'll be abused. 

There is no evidence that black cats are bringers of bad luck. Its just a superstition and has no basis on fact or reality. The problem is, many people are superstitious and believe it. Some of the most horrific incidents of cruelty and torture against black cats is found on a Peta article: 

https://www.peta.org/blog/halloween-horror-stories-black-cat-outdoors/ 

Unfortunately in the past, especially in medieval times, black cats were seen as unlucky during the spread of witch mania. In this period of time, when everyone was afraid of witches, cats were slaughtered everywhere. It was an era called "Cat Burning". 

Is there any hope for black cats? There are many cat lovers who disagree with the old superstition. There are some educated and more of the young increasingly aware that black cats are a force of love and affection. In Britain and Ireland, black cats are considered very lucky and positive. In England black cats are considered wedding gifts that bring happiness. In Scotland, a black cat found on your doorstep is a sign of good positive luck, wealth and prosperity. Throughout Japan, black cats are lucky.  I have a lot of cat friends and they include sweet natured friendly black cats. Many animal lovers set up National Black Cat Day on the 27th October. 

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Ghosts and their ghost animals

There's a load of various stories about this subject: ghosts with their phantom pets or ghosts of humans and animals together in the same locations, whether or not they're together. I wanted to share some of those tales, because they're actually quite strange. 

In Aldsworth, Gloucestershire, is pretty haunted, especially the parks and woodlands. A phantom coach pulled by a team of ghostly horses move along the road and disappears into Larkethill Wood. Also the ghost of Sir John Dutton travels to Lodge Park driving a coach of horses, the same place that a mysterious white stag was seen. 

In Blandford Forum, Dorset, a pair of stone dogs at the Bryanston Gates come to life at night then go off to the nearby river for a drink. There is also a pale human ghost that was witnessed in the area. In nearby woods there has been witnessed a Shuck creature, which is a spectre of a large black dog. People have listened to the mysterious Wild Hunt of barking and yelping of phantom dogs. 

In Lanarkshire, near a road to Faskine, a woman of the Kerr family was found dead with her lover at a site called Lover's Leap. Afterwards, a ghostly white hare appeared to her family as an omen that someone would die.

At Deans Place Hotel in Sussex, a ghostly woman dressed all in blue was seen inside the corridor, while a phantom dog has been witnessed around the car park. It's believed that the blue lady was murdered in the hotel and her spirit haunts the hotel with ghost dog haunting the outside.

At King John's Hunting Lodge in Somerset, a phantom white lady haunts the same building as her companion ghost cat. Both of them sit in the same chair. Another site called Dragon Theatre in Gwynedd, are a group of resident spirits including a cat and a girl that sings hymns. Lansdown Hill in Somerset is the fairy tale looking Beckford's Tower, that was once called Lansdown Tower. The owner, the novelist William Thomas Beckford and his dog now both haunt the place.

There is a load of reports on headless horsemen seen throughout countries such as Britain, Ireland and in the USA. The most popular headless horseman of all is based on the fictional story Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. 

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The "penguin - alien" puzzle

 This is going to be a post too out there for this blog, although sticking to the theme of nature, mysteries and unexplained. Penguins are often associated with winter, although I can't help bringing this up now in the autumn. Something caught my attention a few weeks back, although I did some more reading up on it and felt like posting on the subject.

Penguins could be aliens, according to many who have examined them. These birds produce a chemical called phosphine, which is known to exist on planet Venus, about 38 million miles away. Scientists are unsure how this is possible. No one knows why penguins can make phosphine So researchers intend to study penguins diet closely and find out what's making phosphine. The chemical was discovered inside the droppings of penguins. Once this came to light, people are wondering if penguins come from Venus.   

More odd facts about penguins: 

They can't fly but they can swim underwater. They can go up to fast speeds of 22 miles per hour. There are about 19 different types of penguins. The smallest species of penguin can grow up to 12 inches tall. The biggest penguin species can grow up to four feet. However a prehistoric species of penguin was part of the "megafauna" and stood up to 6.5 feet tall. Male penguins can keep the eggs warm, as the females go off hunting. Yes, penguins are carnivorous. 

The most prehistoric penguin on record, the Kupoupou stilwelli, lived 61 million years ago, but another penguin fossil was found, belonging to a species called Crossvallia, which lived between 66-56 million years ago. The extinction of dinosaurs was caused by an asteroid, or the KT event, which happened 65 million years ago. It's very close together.    

More useful articles:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/09/world/penguin-evolution-dinosaurs-scn/index.html

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/33418/20210913/penguin-feces-containing-element-usually-found-venus-discovered-scientists-baffled.htm

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Picture of the month

 

WATCH OUT! No it's not what you think it is. This is a picture of a wolf chewing on a pinecone. It looks pretty scary though as that wolf appears to have a mouth full of extra big teeth! 

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The spookiness of harvest moon

 Last night was during the full moon called "Harvest Moon". It looks an eerie orange colour and happens in early Autumn, either in September or early October, depending on when it occurs in each year. This is the full moon closest to the Autumn equinox. 

Some creepy events have happened during that certain moon phase. It seems the Harvest Moon is low hanging and lingers in the sky more than other full moons. It's been associated with horror films and the supernatural. Creepy and strange occurrences have been mentioned happening during the Harvest Moon phase, as mentioned by many. Hospitals have been experiencing chaos and weirdness during a full harvest moon night. Nurses and midwives said there are more patients being admitted during full moon times but odd things during a harvest moon, such as distress and faulty electric equipment. The Harvest Moon was also called a "Blood Moon" during the Middle Ages in Britain. 

In China, people celebrate the Harvest Moon during a festival and eating delicious mooncakes. In ancient Greece, pigs were sacrificed to goddess Demeter during the Harvest Moon. The phase of this moon happens during spider season. It would be a perfect time to place lemons, conkers and peppermint around the house because it puts off spiders from going near. 

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Phantom red ladies

 While there are so many famous spirits of white ladies, and also grey ladies, there is also the less known red ladies. These are the most vibrant looking spirits reported from haunted locations. These ghosts are also called Lady in Red. I will mention some of them. 

At Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama are stories of two phantom ladies in red. First witnessed in the 19th Century, a spirit of a young woman in a scarlet dress and holding a matching coloured parasol haunting the women's dorm at night. She was seen glowing red, and walked through the college and exited outside, which was supposed to have been the last time she was ever seen there. The other lady in red was a former student, who was a shy girl named Martha who took her own life. She always wore red and other students had reported seeing her red shining spirit. 

In February 2021 a lady in red spirit was caught on camera at Astley Castle, Warwickshire. Paul Sanders was making a documentary about the area itself when he captured a mysterious lady in red. She was an apparition many have seen before and believe is the ghost of a medieval queen. Also in a cemetery in Toowoomba, Australia, an apparition of lady in red was photographed standing by the graves in mourning.   

Many more ladies in red have been seen across America, Canada, Europe and throughout Asia. A Wikipedia page on some of the Lady in Red sightings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_Red_(ghost)

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Angelique Cottin

Superpowers can be real as it was in the case of Angelique Cottin. She was nicknamed "Electric Girl" for her remarkable talent, a natural gift that is still incredible to this day. From Montagne, Normandy in France, around 1849, a fourteen year old peasant girl discovered that she had the ability to move objects without touching them. While working on a weaving pattern, she caused a table to jump. This is a psychic ability known as telekinesis. 

After being sent to Paris, Angelique was given a number of tests, and she could manipulate energy and had an influence on various objects including magnets. Unable to control her power, she found that she repelled some objects. Furniture was forced away from her intense energy. While she was inside the building undergoing her abilities, it felt as though there was a cold wind. 

The night generated more energy from her, especially directly from her left arm. Her entire left side was a warmer temperature than her right. Her own presence disturbed furniture, compasses and candle flames. The doctors found out that nothing really worked if Angelique was sat down without her feet touching the floor, or even if she stood on a surface made of wax, silk or glass. 

Despite the intense sorcery powers generated by Angelique, it all frightened her so much that she ran. The discovery of her strange talents earned her family money and trips to other countries where she could display her electric powers. Ten weeks after her talent was first discovered, the powers suddenly stopped working. Now we're all wondering if any of this truly happened or not. 

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A werewolf visitor

A werewolf tried to invade a home. This happened in Lincolnshire, England. The year was 1926 and a local man named Christopher Marlowe, who lived in a nearby hamlet called Langrick Fen not far from a village called Dogdyke, reported that a werewolf tried to break into his house. It was understood that during the night, a creature resembling a monstrous werewolf had tried to enter the house, and Christopher was so scared that he locked himself in his kitchen. Throughout the night, the creature pounded on the doors and windows, trying to burst in. 

The terrified man couldn't get any sleep. He waited in fear as the hours passed, and then as dawn broke and daylight appeared, the werewolf was gone. Christopher believed that he was tormented that particular night because of a skeleton that he found. He was an archaeologist and while digging, he found an unusual skeleton with a human body and the head of a wolf. He took it home, and that was when his house became attacked that very night by a werewolf looking creature. Quickly the next day, Christopher returned to the site where he found the skeleton and reburied it. He wanted nothing to do with it. 

Due to recent events, as reported by the Daily Star in 2016, some believed there was a "large wolf" prowling the woods near Dogdyke, after such creature had been witnessed. Police put out alerts warning parents to keep their children safe. Mutilated bodies of hares only added to the fear of the local legendary werewolf.

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Tree brides

 

A pattern of marrying trees has been happening. In Mexico back in 2018, women who were dressed in traditional white wedding gowns married trees. This was part of an anti-logging campaign in an event called Marry A Tree as a protest against deforestation. Their love and devotion towards trees was strengthened by the symbol of marrying them. The idea inspired other women elsewhere to do the same. The notion itself, like a tree that takes root and branches out, flowering and growing. A woman in Merseyside, England, married an elder tree and her surname was changed to Elder. It was her love of trees that encouraged her to take part in Marry A Tree campaign in protest against building over woodlands. 

While this has been a movement to help trees, there has always been an old Hindu tradition of marrying trees in India. It's a ritual going way back since ancient Vedic times. It's believed that marrying a tree was a rare event done by those with a curse or "Manglik dosh", meaning people born under the influence of planet Mars and/or Saturn were believed to have uncomfortable futures. So to lift the curse, marrying a tree would help a person become freed from the dark astronomical influences. Actress and former Miss World named Aishwarya Rai (Ash) was born a Manglik, and she married a banana tree to lift the curse and be with the man she loved properly afterwards. 

Marrying trees for a number of reasons, from ancient spiritual beliefs to protesting has seen a global increase of tree brides this century. Does it help? It surely helps those who marry trees for whatever they believe in. 

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Saint Christopher a werewolf?

For this topic, I could not resist mentioning the curious figure of Saint Christopher. He's a well loved saint often found in art and in lockets, pictured as a bearded man depicted carrying a child across a river. Unknown to him, the child was really Jesus Christ. However, Saint Christopher is shown as always having the head of a dog in eastern Orthodox churches. Why is this? Was he really a sort of Dogman or a werewolf? The term for a dog headed looking human is Cynocephali. This is how many early Medieval art forms have made him out to be. It must be said that he was a warrior and a Canaanite, regarded as giant in stature, belonging to a race of humanoids with dog heads. Many early church art, show people of these dog headed features. 

More on Saint Christopher at Medievalist  

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Scientific view of werewolves

There are diseases that sparked off the legendary werewolf stories, according to medical science. The main cause of the amount of mass werewolf sightings in centuries past might be caused by a number of terrible diseases and pandemics. 

One of them is rabies. The legend of the werewolf causing a human being to become a werewolf through an attack or a bite, a telltale sign similar to how a rabies infection is passed from animal to human. Rabies is a lyssavirus (named after Lyssa, a spirit of rage in Greek mythology). The earliest  symptoms of rabies is anxiety, hallucinations, fever and vomiting. After a few days, the infected will become aggressive, paralyzed, foaming saliva, hydrophobia and hallucinating. Rabies is a fatal disease although it's treatable at the beginning stage. 

Another disease responsible for werewolf activity (and this also includes vampires too) is porphyria. The blood disorder that makes the person with porphyria to have really sensitive skin to sunlight. It has an effect on the nervous system, causing pain, nausea, weakness, paranoia, discoloured urine, high blood pressure and seizures.

Other known diseases that triggered off werewolf mania include psychosis, a mental illness that is properly termed as clinical lycanthropy. There is also congenital hypertrichosis lanuginosa, a genetic disorder that causes someone to grow a lot of hair. There are some poisons that cause hallucinations too. Ergotism might've been responsible for mass werewolf sightings in Europe during the Middle Ages. Ergot poisoning happens after eating infected grains and cereals in bread and porridge, that was mainly consumed by the peasantry. Such ergot poisoning played a part during the witchcraft events at Salem. Deadly nightshade was used a lot in ancient times, during rituals as a herb to assist with astral travel, and it caused a lot of hallucinations and visions. 

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Legacy of the Kraken

Probably the most largest cryptid (an unknown creature in cryptozoology), is the Kraken. There is a rich amount of info of the Kraken so I will try and make this post short. 

Mythology

The Kraken has a massive place in Norse myths and legends. A sea monster, that looks like a giant octopus, which is supposed to live around Norway and Greenland. The Icelandic Örvar-Odds saga of the 13th century describes two massive creatures called Hafgufa ("Sea Mist") and Lyngbakr ("Heather Back"). The one called Hafgufa is a kraken that devours everything including whales, sharks, and men in ships. Some speculate this is a story by Vikings who encountered giant squids, although actual big squids remain in the deepest depths of the ocean. The work Konunga ("King's Mirror") is writing from about 1250, mentioned the characteristics of the kraken monsters.

Cryptozoology

The Kraken is considered a cryptid. It's believed there is evidence of this creature that is about a mile long. Since the 12th Century, the kraken has been responsible for causing hysteria and stories based on many disasters at sea. It could also be argued that there is a misunderstanding, because the krakens were regarded as whale-like and not octopus like. People think that the ongoing fear generated by krakens is because of undersea volcanoes making things appear as if a monster is rising up above the waves.

Legacy

The Kraken has been a part of fiction for a long time. From science fiction to fantasy novels to comics and films. It also appeared in the film "Clash of the Titans" based on Greek mythology although the Kraken is founded in Norse mythology, a cross-over. Also remember Cthulhu, a colossal godlike entity that looks like a Kraken, and is found in writings of H.P. Lovecraft. 

Everyday life

The Kraken is the name of a spiced rum from the Caribbean. It's also the name of a team in Ice Hockey from Seattle. Many groups, companies and brands based on the giant sea monster. 

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Dragonby dragon rock

There was a dragon that was turned to stone by a wizard, according to folklore. It's a rocky outcrop in the shape of a large dragon, found in North Lincolnshire not far from a village called Dragonby, named because of the dragon looking skeleton formation. While this has been thought to be a natural limestone rock that was revered by ancient pagans, some also think it's a ruined Dark Age church that was destroyed with people still inside and sunk into the ground. Local villagers have said they sometimes hear the eerie sounds of ghostly bells ringing at night that comes from the stone dragon. While the church story is very horrific, not everyone believes it ever happened. Many stick to the idea of the rock being a natural formation. School children prefer the legend of a wizard turning a dragon into stone and I like that story too.  

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The Crocotta

The Crocotta is a strange type of canine that resembles a wolf. It is also called a Corocotta, a crocuta and a leucrocotta. Some other name is yena. Supposedly as a large as a horse, bull or mule, it appears to be a reddish brown or yellow colour with spots and/or stripes. While it's supposed to have fangs, it's often described as being without visible teeth, just bone, or even perhaps with gingival hyperplasia. This bizarre animal can be found in hot, arid and tropical climates, from India to Ethiopia. What is also a trait associated with the crocotta is its ability to mimic sounds! It's their way of attracting victims, by using voices to lure them to their trap. Crocotta eats all type of meat and hunts anything, including humans. 

It's believed that the Roman emperor Antonius Pius presented a crocotta beast at an arena in AD 148, during his decennalia celebration. That was mentioned in the Augustan History (Pius X.9.). Another historian named Cassius Dio mentioned that the Roman emperor Septimius Severus mentioned the crocotta being brought to Rome from India. The emperor had said of the crocotta: 

"It has the colour of a lioness and a tiger combined and the general appearance of those animals, as also of a dog or a fox, curiously blended." 

Pliny the Elder and his work "Naturalis Historia" described the crocotta as between looking like a dog and wolf, a hyena and a lion. Pliny wrote that the crocotta was able to change its genders, and it could become pregnant without a male. He said that the shepherds found the crocotta mimicking human speech to draw in prey. Crocotta also makes sounds of a sickened human to attract hungry dogs. These creatures dig up corpses. 

The Byzantine scholar Photius summarised work by the Greek writer Ctesias: 

"In Ethiopia there is an animal called crocottas, vulgarly kynolykos (dog-wolf) of amazing strength. It is said to imitate the human voice, to call men by name at night, and devour those who approach it."

 What is even more is that the crocotta can't be harmed by weapons made of steel. Many more scholars and historians including Strabo all mentioned the crocotta as though it were a very actual real creature. 

Besides the mention of it throughout ancient times, the Middle Ages, and some sightings in the United States, there is no evidence the crocotta is real. But what is mentioned is the scientific name for hyena is Crocuta crocuta as named after the legendary animal. Hyenas do have similar traits to the descriptions of the crocotta, as well as digging up corpses and being very strong, they can also make humanlike sounds too. A lot of modern researchers believe that the crocotta was probably a hyena after all.  

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Mosquitoes and vampires

One of the members of She Wolf Night gang recently posted on Quora and we want to share that. It's all about mosquitoes and if they're little vampire creatures. Luna (also named Wolf Girl Night) has made the link with mosquitoes and vampires. It's an unpleasant insect of the Culicidae group, mosquitoes love warm weather and feeding on blood. They're picky eaters so they have favourite types of hosts. Vampires are undead creatures of folklore and they drink blood to survive. So are mosquitoes like vampires?  

Yes. What's more interesting is that female mosquitoes are the ones who suck blood! It's said that the females feed on blood itself to make them more fertile and desirable to the males! So it is the females who are blood sucking vampires. And male mosquitoes are all vegetarians! It is nature's bizarre way of coupling vampire women and their salad munching boyfriends!  

On a much more darker note, mosquitoes are the biggest killers of humans every year: List of deadliest animals to humans

This was edited and paraphrased by Luna and Belladonna. Posted during a heat wave. PLEASE use insect repellent and avoid getting bitten. Enjoy your week!

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An ancient witch jar

An ancient Greek object was found in an excavation of the archaeological site of Agora in Athens. It was a ceramic jar containing bones of a chicken and a nail. On the jar's surface were writings of 55 people's names and the phrase that is understood to mean: "we bind". This is believed to have been a witchcraft jar, used to cast a magic spells on many individuals. The tell-tale signs are the bones of the chicken, the nail, the words and names. It was quite common for cursing rituals to go on like this back in ancient times. The names of the individuals on the jar reveal that they were the victims of the binding curse. This jar was found in 2006 alongside a coin beneath a craft worker's section in Agora but they have just cracked the code for understanding the writing on the jar. 

Source page on Live Science Magic Jar...     

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A mystery guest

Imagine waking up first thing in the morning to see a wild predator in your room! This is what happened to a woman named Kristine Frank from Atlanta, Georgia. She woke up in the morning to see an African serval cat on her bed. She and her husband then managed to send the wild cat outside of the house. The couple quickly contacted some authorities on animals, the Department of Natural Resources, who deal with issues about wildlife. The keeping of exotic animals is the likely reason for it being in the neighbourhood, according to The Animal Legal Defence Fund. The State of Georgia doesn't allow such animals as pets. The serval cat was eventually found in the local area and was gently taken to a caring animal sanctuary. 

The mystery is where did she come from and how did she appear in someone's house? Kristine Frank believed that it might've been during the night when she opened the back door to let the dog go outside. When the door was opened, it was possible the serval cat sneaked into the house. The serval's presence in the area could've been explained easily by the ALDF:

 "the wild cat is likely in the Atlanta area because someone is keeping the feline as a pet" they said. 

The woman Kristine Frank has also asked questions:

 "I just think if my dog would have been in the house, what would have happened to my dog? If I had small children, what would have happened to them?" 

It's just very lucky the dog wasn't there in the room with the cat. Although some people do keep serval cats as pets in States and countries where it's not illegal, there is still a risk. It's not safe to keep a serval at all in a family house with children and other animals. This touches on a very slippery debate about keeping exotic pets, and wild animals as pets including wolf hybrids. But serval cats are not domestic animals and they've certainly attacked children before. Anyone with kids should never consider adopting a serval cat.  

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Deer woman

 

This is a legendary spirit or cryptid from America, about deer women or deer ladies. These are often in Native American stories concerning a shape shifter who can turn into a deer or a beautiful woman. Some tales describe deer women as having the upper bodies of women but the legs and tails of deer. Other times deer women have bodies of women but they have hooves instead of feet, and the eyes of deer. 

The deer women have been said to enchant weary travellers, summoning men from the woods. They often are told of being dancers, who draw a number of victims by the hypnotic movements. Some men have managed to flee, while it is said these deer women have killed men who were not able to get away. It's said that the smell of tobacco repels deer women. 

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Divine canines: Inugami

There is a type of legendary dog Yokai (spirit) in Japanese mythology and folklore, called an Inugami, which is a combination of deity, spirit and demon. 

The Inugami is often a guardian and a familiar spirit helper, or companion, to their human owner. Often created by a ritual of burying a living dog, leaving only the head exposed above ground. Then food would've been put near it but out of reach of the dog, causing grief and torment to the animal. It would be left there for days until it dies, which then would turn the dog into an Inugami, belonging to its master, the person responsible for the ritual. 

Although cruel, it was believed that the food around the dog would become an offering to its Inugami spirit, making it bound to its owner. Another story is about an old woman who buried her beloved dog alive, with only its head stuck out, needing an Inugami spirit to help her get revenge on someone. 

Some people, such as from the Oki Islands believe that the Inugami is a spirit of good luck, blessings and fortune. Plenty of villages in Japan will have a story about these spirits. However, the Inugami has a dark side. It can possess the owner, causing them to go mad. The Inugami is also capable of turning on its owner. Inugami has also been regarded as a type of werewolf, a much more bloodthirsty fearsome version of the spirit. The origin story of the Inugami is sad but the spirit of the dog is treated as both a familiar and a demon. More on this strange dog creature at Symbolsage. 

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Burial mystery of girl with bird

Location is Tunel Wielki Cave in Poland. Fifty years ago, there was a strange discovery in a cave. A skeleton of a girl with bones of chaffinch birds placed around her, and with one inside her mouth. This type of burial was common in ancient times, but radiocarbon has dated the girl comes from the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. It was discovered also that she suffered in life and was malnourished. According to the girl's DNA, she wasn't Polish but Fennoscandian. It might be that the girl travelled with families to the area at the same time Finnish troops journeyed there in support of the Swedish king Carl Gustav.     

No one really knows why she was buried that way, except that certain people had beliefs that are about birds releasing the soul to the afterlife. Burying the dead inside caves is a primitive ritual that early hunter-gatherers used to do. Some believe that the girl's skeleton has been buried in a prehistoric fashion, and in a cave with no evidence of any ancient use. 

The birds bones reveal they were not consumed by the child, but likely put there with a ritualistic purpose. These birds were likely already dead while they were displayed on the deceased child. Certain pagan funeral practices similar to this happened in countries such as Finland until the 19th Century. Finches have a lot of significance in Christianity too as birds of freedom. The ritual may also be rural Medieval. More mysterious is that, after the child's skull was sent off for research, it simply disappeared and hasn't been found! 

For more reading at Ancient Origins: Bizarre burial Girl with bird

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Clarita Villanueva

There is a story from the Philippines about a 17 year old girl called Clarita Villanueva that became almost legendary. 

She was found by police to be so hysterical that she was put in a jail in Manila. Clarita was always screaming and in constant fear by something invisible around her. She described two malicious entities, that only she could see, who were violent. One of her spirit attackers, she had said, looked like a "dark man with curly hair all over his body" and the second attacker was "angelic" with "a big moustache." 

Later it was discovered that there were a number of other invisible creatures with fangs tormenting her. It was noticed that bite marks appeared over her hands and arms, which she could not have done herself while wearing handcuffs. There were strands of non-human hair that she'd pulled from one of the entities. 

While others assumed that she was ill, a visiting pastor called Lester Sumrall considered that Clarita was possessed by demons. So the pastor worked on removing the demons from her until she was freed. There are so many unpleasant creatures of folklore from the Philippines, including the Aswang, (a vampire ghoul) similar to the creatures who attacked poor Clarita. It may or may not have been the same thing!

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Legend of Bennachie

Bennachie is a rocky national park of mountains in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. There are mountains, including the highest called Oxen Crag, which is visible for miles. Rounded hills associated with female breasts, called Mither Tap ("Mother Top") and Bennachie ("Breast Hill"). There was a human active presence there from the Bronze Age, who regarded the site as a mystical gathering place. It's believed that the area was a battle ground for giants. A trace of this combat is found on a standing stone, with very large hand and foot prints. The name of one of the giants is Jock O' Noth as there are songs about him. There is also an old story about wicked fairies who upset ploughman in the region. Much of these legends were gathered in a travelogue by Alex Inkson McConnochie.  

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Serpopard

One of the most bizarre creatures found in ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian art is the serpopard. While the art of ancient Egypt has been considered very realistic and accurate, there are depictions of animals that look mythical and possibly extinct. 

The serpopard is a feline looking beast with a very long snakelike neck. The name itself is a cross with serpent and leopard. Serpopards appear on designs and dating back 3000 BCE. 

Some theorise that serpopards might be heraldic in nature, or they symbolise the dangerous world outside of Egypt. Also fringe ideas out there suggest serpopards could be long necked dinosaurs. While it's unlikely that the sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic era made its way into the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, there are other explanations too. 

Others think that the serpopards could be giraffes (doubtful, as there are giraffes clearly shown in ancient Egyptian art and they look nothing like serpopards). There was a more recent animal than the Brachiosaurus. Its called a Macrauchenia although it lived in South America, and also doesn't have the super serpentlike twisting neck of the serpopard.

The serpopard has feline features. There seemed to be a significant number of weird looking animals in Egyptian art and in mythology, as well as myths and legends everywhere else. 

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Emilie Sagee

The most strangest stories of a spirit double, or doppelganger, is about Emilie Sagee. The story about the doppelganger of Emilie Sagee appeared in writings "Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World" by Robert Dale-Owen in 1860. 

It was at a school called Pensionat von Neuwelcke during the 1840's when a former student named Julie von Guldenstubbe, informed Dale-Owens about a peculiar event there. There was a young teacher, Emilie Sagee, who was able to perform lessons and be well liked, although an apparition of her exact likeness materialised in class. 

The teacher would either be reading or writing on the board, when her double appeared out of nowhere, often standing beside her, and making fun of her. The weirdest thing was that even though many saw it happen, Emilie couldn't see her own double! This entity also appeared beside Emilie during lunchtimes, breaks, or during costumed performances by the kids. 

The children found it creepy, to suddenly see a twin of Emilie appearing out of nowhere, doing the exact same movements, or just mocking Emilie. Once, Emilie was teaching a lesson outside in the garden, when her doppelganger materialised in a classroom, and a student touched the double of Emilie, only to feel something described as like "cobwebs".

This doppelganger caused Emilie to lose her teaching position at the school but it followed her for a long time. Wherever Emilie taught, her doppelganger was a nuisance there too, making Emilie attempt 16 different schools! 

While this sounds like a really scary story, many have questioned its authenticity.

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Kasa-obake

 

One of the most strangest looking monsters is the Kasa-obake. This is part of Japanese folklore and it's also called a a Karakasa-kozo. They resemble umbrellas with one large eye and a single leg, which they use to hop around. They are said to have very large tongues. 

The Kasa-obake are a type of Yokai (spirits) and often said to have started in the Edo period (16th Century to the 18th Centuries). 

While there are unknown sightings of them, many associate the Kasa-obake with hauntings and nightmares. It could be another kind of "bogeyman" in Japanese tradition. 

Often its' assumed these entities are just fabrications in stories. These creatures mostly appear in popular media such as cartoons, manga and computer games such as "The Legend of the Mystical Ninja".    

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Divine Canines: The Aralez

The Aralez is type of supernatural creature that looks like a winged wolf or a winged dog. They dwell in the caves of Mount Ararat, and these beings often fly at high altitudes in the sky. They were also connected to the spirit realm, and they assisted the souls of dead warriors into the afterlife. Sometimes the Aralez could heal and bring back the dead. This legend comes from Armenian folklore. There is something very angelic about the Aralez who share many characteristics with a lot of benign ethereal beings. 

Linking to all of this is a story called Ara the Beautiful. It's said that there was a war between the Armenian King Ara the Beautiful and Queen Semiramis of Assyria. Many had died and Queen Semiramis commanded her soldiers to locate her lover. All of the dead were to be placed inside her castle and this included the body of Ara, who was considered one of the nobles and given a tomb in an upper chamber. The Armenians announced war again and the queen said: "I have commanded the gods to lick wounds and they shall live again." It seemed Queen Semiramis kept the fallen warriors for that reason.

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The future of humanity?

 

According to scientists, its possible that humans could one day be able to spit venom, the way that snakes do. 

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, they studied mammals and snakes then concluded how there is a similar saliva producing gland make-up. While venom making animals such as snakes, spiders, jellyfish and scorpions, it's also interesting to learn that humans may one day be capable of doing this! 

There are many animals that produce venom, including mammals! These mammals that can produce venom are moles, the duckbilled platypus, water shrews, solenodons and also a primate species called slow loris. 

Could humans one day be capable of spitting venom? Remember that 80's science fiction series "V"? It was about an alien invasion led by Diana (pictured above), who was able to spit venom. Could that be the reality of humans one day? 

Maybe if humans will be able to spit venom in the far distant future, there would have to be stricter rules on social distancing!

To read more visit Live Science:  https://www.livescience.com/could-humans-be-venomous.html 

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Earth Hounds

 Among the spooky Hellhounds and Black dogs of legend and cryptozoology, there are the less known Earth Hounds. These creatures are often smaller than the phantom Black Dogs, but just as menacing and eerie. They were witnessed eating corpses in graveyards. Described as being like small dogs with dark fur, burrowing into the ground to look for the dead. A face of a dog, but with tusks and a very long tail. Many have claimed to witness these creatures in Scotland. Some think these are rats but these only resemble rats from a distance, close up they appear very different. Others think these could be moles but these animals don't burrow in graves to eat corpses and they don't have certain features like tusks. Another possibility is that this is a badger, that do burrow into the soil of graveyards, but they also lack the physical traits of the Earth Hound. People in the countryside would know what a badger looks like. The Earth Hounds were such a bad problem that it was known to have nests around graveyards and becoming pests. Whatever it is, the Earth Hound is a well deserved cryptid mystery. 

More: Earth Hound at Cryptid Archives           

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