The Rolling Bogey of Pogue’s Run A rolling bogey and/or a shape-shifting ghost haunted residents of Pogue’s Run, Indiana.
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Chris Woodyard
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January 27, 2018
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Panics , Victorian
and tagged boggarts , bridge ghosts , fairy census , Indiana ghosts , Indianapolis ghosts , Pogue's Run , Pogue's Run Bottoms , rolling Pooka , rolling wool bogey , shape-shifters , shapeshifters , The Rolling Bogey of Pogue's Run
Appreciate a Dragon Day We appreciate dragons with a gallery of draconine images.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 16, 2018
in Animal Tales , Creature Feature , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged Appreciate a Dragon Day , Bertha Lum , Chinese dragon robe , dragons , dragons in art , Imperial dragon , Jacob Strickler , Japanese dragon , pantomime dragon , Queen Victoria , Rogier van der Weyden , Sebastiano Ricci , St. George and the Dragon , St. Margaret of Antioch
A New Year’s Parade of the Damned
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Chris Woodyard
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December 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A New Year's Parade of the Damned , Black Country , Civil War ghosts , devil , Devil's footprints , dragon's ghost , Eating Holy Clay , flagellation , funeral flowers , kissing corpses , spanking machines , Spiritualism , spook lights , Victorian mourning , Victorian tear bottles , Wales , wild men , witch's curse , witchcraft
Tucked Up A narrator is tucked up by an invisible humming horde.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 9, 2017
in Christmas , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News
and tagged alien abduction , auditory hauntings , bedroom invaders , Christmas ghost stories , Christmas paranormal , fairies , fairy abduction , Tucked Up
Magical Folk and Munes Magical Folk has just been published and I contributed a chapter on American fairies. We also look at the “Munes” a brand new (in 1916) breed of American fairies.
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Chris Woodyard
on
December 2, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Interesting People , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged American fairies , British and Irish Fairies , Ceri Houlbrook , fairy lore , Frederick Judd Waugh , Magical Folk , Magical Folk and Munes , Munes , new fairy book , Simon Young , The Clan of Munes
The Gobblers’ll Git You, If You Don’t Watch Out! Ghostly gobblers who tap at your windows and gobble in the garret…
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 21, 2017
in 18th century , Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Victorian
and tagged Epworth Rectory , fairy turkey , ghostly gobblers , ghostly turkeys , headless turkey ghost , king of the fairies , poltergieists , Thanksgiving , The Gobblers'll Git You If You Don't Watch Out! , turkey as messenger of death , turkey as omen of death , turkey ghost , white turkey
Christopher Crellius and the Savior of the Swamp Trapped in a swamp, the Polish theologian Christopher Crellius finds an unlikely savior in a mysterious small man.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 14, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Social History
and tagged Arian theology , Christopher Crellius , Christopher Crellius and the Savior of the Swamp , fairies , forest spirits , gnomes , Krzysztof Crell-Spinowski , Samuel Crellius , Unitarian expulsion from Poland , Unitarians
Here, Mr Hotfoot The Devil is hotfooting it around the Black Country, searing footprints into the soil.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 4, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , religion , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Black Country , devil's foot prints , devil's foot-marks , Devil's Hoofmarks , Eagle Colliery , Great Devon Mystery of 1855 , Here Mr Hotfoot , Mike Dash , Mr Hotfoot , mysterious footprints , Rosley Regis , Satan's Spoor , Spring-heel-Jack , the devil
Green Jean Seen The legendary Green Jean of Wemyss Castle puts in an appearance.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 21, 2017
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged Countess of Munster , fae , fairies , green as a fairy color , green ghosts , Green Jean , Green Jean Seen , Green Ladies , Green Lady , Scottish ghosts , The Gentry , Wemyss Castle
The Quick and the Red. Ghostly visions of old women in red cloaks–what do they mean?
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 10, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Victorian
and tagged banshee , epilepsy , ghost in red cloak , haunted jails , illusions , Irish banshee , Irish ghosts , Margaret Kearney , New Orleans ghost , The Quick and the Red