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Bloody Bones is a bogeyman figure in English and North American folklore whose first written appearance is approximately 1548. As with all bogeymen the figure has been used to frighten children into proper deportment. The character is sometimes called Rawhead, Tommy Rawhead, or Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones (with or without the hyphens).
Bloody Bones, also known as Rawhead or Tommy Rawhead, is a boogeyman of the American South. [55] Rawhead and Bloody Bones are sometimes regarded as two individual creatures or two separate parts of the same monster. One is a bare skull that bites its victims and its companion is a dancing headless skeleton. [56] Bloody Bones tales originated in ...
Another version claims that he is an evil spirit attracted by violence and carnage. The Bloody Bones popular in West Virginian folklore, however, is a creature that inhabits the space under the stairs of a home and eats disobedient or misbehaving children. [8] A tale of a child's encounter with Bloody Bones was recorded by Ninevah Jackson Willis.
Carbuncle – one of its many descriptions is a greenish-red fiery light reminiscent of fireflies; Gold-digging ant – Reported by Herodotus to live in either Ethiopia or Indian subcontinent; Iktomi - (Lakota) Name for a very narrowly believed in trickster spider. Also known in parts of the Rockies.
There is a legend in the Black country of a creature called Raw bones there are even places named after it, Raw Bones croft in Bilston for example it seems to be a quite wide spread legend that novelists have tapped into — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.217.233.144 15:22, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Peg Powler is a hag and water spirit in English folklore who inhabits the River Tees. Similar to the Grindylow, Jenny Greenteeth, and Nelly Longarms, she drags children into the water if they get too close to the edge. She is regarded as a bogeyman figure who is invoked by parents to frighten children into proper behavior.
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In general, it has been observed that Clíona is especially associated with old Irish families of Munster. [citation needed] Clíona has long been associated with the lands that had been the territory of the Ui-Fidgheinte (O'Donovans and O'Collins) during their period of influence (circa 373 A.D. to 977 A.D.), or were later associated with what had been the Ui-Fidghente territory (MacCarthys ...