Folklore & Legends Map
57 documented folklore and legend reports across 17 countries
Encounters drawn from local legend and oral tradition — fae, demonic entities, banshees, werewolves, and the curses attached to particular places. Where a story is rooted in a real location, it is mapped there, with the tradition it comes from named.
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Notable folklore and legend reports
Fairy Belief Persists in Modern Celtic Britain (2007)
·2007
Modern Fairy Ring Beliefs in Scotland (2003)
Scottish Highlands·2003
The Enduring Power of Fairy Belief in Rural Britain (2002)
·2002
Popobawa — the bat-winged shadow that terrorized Zanzibar (1995)
Zanzibar·1995
The Kuchisake-onna Panic — Japan's Slit-Mouthed Woman Terrorizes Nagasaki (1979)
Nagasaki Prefecture·1979
Kuchisake-onna — The Slit-Mouthed Woman of Japanese Urban Legend
·1979
The Highgate Vampire — London's 1970s Graveyard Panic
London·1970
El Palmar de Troya — the Virgin apparitions of 1968 and the founding of the Palmarian Church
Andalusia·1968
Fairy Ring Lore in Wales — The Tylwyth Teg Dancing Grounds (1909)
Wales·1909
The Mercy Brown Vampire Incident — New England's Last Vampire Exhumation (1892)
Rhode Island·1892
Fairy Ring Superstitions in Victorian Ireland (1887)
·1887
The Rodenstein Wild Hunt — Germany's Most Famous Ghost Ride
Hesse·1870