history & documentation
In Cherokee folklore Spearfinger or Uʻtlûñ′tă was a terrible looking mountain ogress, whose food consisted of human livers, that lived along the subrange of the Appalachians, also called the Great Smoky Mountains. She could take...
Water horses or Brook horses are creatures of European folklore. Although the ancient Greeks, knew the Hippocampus (water horse) we find the tradition of these creatures mostly in British and Celtic Europe, Scandinavia and...
Spirit Beings in European folklore by Benjamin Adamah is a series of 4 compendiums that catalogs 1045 creatures of Europe’s supernatural history. This book-series is made available September 3, 2022 by VAMzzz Publishing. Netflix-series...
Centaurs are a fascinating and underrated family of asteroids. Chiron has been used for a few decades now. This is mainly due to the fact that for a long time it was only Chiron...
Sex asteroids are a hot topic in asteroid astrology. This article by the Dutch asteroid-astrologer and author on asteroid-astrology Benjamin Adamah gives a pretty complete overview of asteroids and their specific relation to the...
Peter Stumpp (c. 1535 – 1589, also spelled as Peter Stubbs, Peter Stube, Peter Stubbe, Peter Stübbe or Peter Stumpf) was a German farmer and alleged serial killer, accused of werewolfery, incest, witchcraft and...
The Leshy or Lyeshy (Belor: лясу́н Lyasun, лесаві́к Lesovik; Ukr. лісови́к Lisovik; Pol: Laskowiec) is a forest spirit, widely known among Russians (especially in the North), and to a lesser extent representations about him...
Bloody Mary, apart from a world famous cocktail, is a phantom, or spirit conjured to reveal the future. She is also known by the names Mary Worth, Mary Whales, Hell Mary and Mary Jane....
The Latin term genius loci literally means “the spirit of the place”. In Roman mythology, the spirit originally meant a guardian spirit (genius), who was often depicted in the form of a snake. In...
The Haselwurm and the Tatzelwurm or Stollenwurm are a strange creatures which dwell in a foggy way between spirit beings from folklore and cryptozoological rarities. The weirdest thing about the creature is the fact...
