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  2. Rougarou - Wikipedia

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    The rougarou legend has been spread for many generations, either directly from French settlers to Louisiana (New France) or via the French Canadian immigrants centuries ago. In the Creole and Cajun legends, the creature is said to prowl the swamps around Acadiana and Greater New Orleans, and the sugar cane fields and woodlands of the regions.

  3. List of urban legends - Wikipedia

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    The rougarou (alternatively spelled as roux-ga-roux, rugaroo, or rugaru) is a folklore legend that describes a legendary creature in French communities linked to traditional concepts of the werewolf in Acadiana, Louisiana.

  4. Soucouyant - Wikipedia

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    The Soucouyant is a folklore character who appears as a reclusive old woman (or man) by day. By night, they strip off their wrinkled skin and put it in a mortar.

  5. List of legendary creatures from Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese version of fairies, and the term for spirits from Western legends. Yosuzume A mysterious bird yōkai that sings at night, sometimes indicating that the okuri-inu is near. Yuki-onna A malevolent spirit that manifests as a beautiful woman wandering snowy mountain passes. Yume no seirei A wizened, emaciated old man yōkai that causes ...

  6. New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum - Wikipedia

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    In the Gris Gris Room, visitors will find a recreation of the Rougarou, standing side by side with Baron Samedi- two essential figures in Louisiana Voodoo and folklore. There you will also find ceremonial masks from Central American, fertility statues from the Ahsanti tribe and “Passport” masks used by tribes to travel regionally.

  7. Shreveport Rouxgaroux - Wikipedia

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    The Rouxgaroux are named after the mythical beast of Cajun folklore similar to a werewolf. Team owner Keith Carter told of the legends of parents and grandparents warning their children to get in bed lest the rouxgaroux "get them," as well as farmers who believe the rouxgaroux was responsible for their cattle's death, pointing out his team will continue that legacy particularly against the ...

  8. Beast of Gévaudan - Wikipedia

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    The Beast of Gévaudan (French: La Bête du Gévaudan, IPA: [la bɛt dy ʒevodɑ̃]; Occitan: La Bèstia de Gavaudan) is the historic name associated with a man-eating animal or animals that terrorized the former province of Gévaudan (consisting of the modern-day department of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire), in the Margeride Mountains of south-central France between 1764 and 1767.

  9. Coco Robicheaux - Wikipedia

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    Arceneaux took his stage name from a Louisiana legend, in which a naughty child called Coco Robicheaux is abducted by a werewolf (Loup Garou or Rougarou). The name 'Coco Robicheaux' is repeated in the song "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" from Dr. John the Night Tripper's 1968 album, Gris-Gris. [3]