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  2. Bloody Bones - Wikipedia

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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).

  3. West Virginia folklore - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Bogeyman - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    Brazen head (Medieval legends) – living head of brass purported to be able to answer any question given to it; Doll Woman- (Lenape) lifelike doll spirit. Must stay properly appeased, or will cause mischief in the home. Frankenstein's monster; Galatea – ivory statue carved by Pygmalion; Gingerbread man – from German folk tales

  6. Skeleton (undead) - Wikipedia

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    Animated skeletons in The Dance of Death (1493), a woodcut by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel.. A skeleton is a type of physically manifested undead often found in fantasy, gothic, and horror fiction, as well as mythology, folklore, and various kinds of art.

  7. Barghest - Wikipedia

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    A ballad entitled "The Legend of the Troller's Gill" can be found in William Hone's Everyday Book (1830). It recounts the tale of a man who ventures forth "to the horrid gill of the limestone hill" in order to summon and confront the Barghest in an act of ritual magic.

  8. Edward (ballad) - Wikipedia

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    Edward" is a traditional murder ballad existing in several variants, categorised by Francis James Child as Child Ballad number 13 [1] and listed as number 200 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The ballad, which is at least 250 years old (a text of its Swedish counterpart has been dated to the mid-17th century [ 2 ] ), has been documented and ...

  9. Lazybones (song) - Wikipedia

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    Lazybones or "Lazy Bones" is a Tin Pan Alley song written in 1933, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1909-1976), and music by Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981).. Mercer was from Savannah, Georgia, and resented the Tin Pan Alley attitude of rejecting Southern regional vernacular in favor of artificial Southern songs written by people who had never been to the South.