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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).
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.
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 ...
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)
Orcadian folklore had a strong Scandinavian influence, and it may be that the nuckelavee is a composite of a water horse from Celtic mythology and a creature imported by the Norsemen. As with similar malevolent entities such as the kelpie , it possibly offered an explanation for incidents that islanders in ancient times could not otherwise ...
In the video game series Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak I and II, Van Arkride describes himself as a spriggan. In the context of the games, it means someone who is willing to take on shady or illegal tasks for a price.
The most famous story recounts a buggane who found himself an inadvertent stowaway on a ship bound for Ireland.Determined to return to the Isle of Man, he caused a storm and guided the ship towards the rocky coast of Contrary Head.