Bone-Chilling Legends from Around the World

BONE GHILLING LEGENDS FROM ÁROUND THE WORLD EUROPE THE HAIRY HANDS BUBAK KRAMPUS A pair of disembodied, hairy This scarecrow-like menace lurks Krampus is the horned and hands have been known to clamp by riverbanks, luring victims in by immitating the sounds of a crying hooved judgement that comes looking for naughty children during Christmas to whisk off around the throats or steering wheels of motorists, causing baby, before kidnapping them crashs and even death. away on his cart drawn by cats. to hell. NORTH AMERICA WENDIGO METMINWI JERSEY DEVIL Human-like in appearance with This midnight snacker has legs The Jersey Devil is a flying. deeply sunken eyes, a skeletal that are two floors high with arms hooved creature with the head of just as long, and wanders Haitian streets at night looking for an body with decaying skin, this a goat and small arms with creature has a hunger for human clawed hands that often lets out a flesh that can never be satified. easy meal. blood-curdling scream. SOUTH AMERICA LA SIGUANABA THE SMALL MAN EL CUERO Appears as a beautiful woman, but is anything but. With her real The 'Small Man' drives around the El Cuero has the appearance of a roads of the Bahamas out to stingray, with eyes on stalks and razor sharp claws along its fringes to help pull in its victims. face described as a horse or catch anyone after sundown, who a skull, she drives her he can imprison in his cart forever. victims insane. AFRICA ABO RAGL INKANYAMBA POPOBAWA MA SLOKHA A giant serpent-like creature with In Swahilli, Popobawa means "bat-wing' and relates to a shapeshifter that has taken the Once said to be a child who a horse's head that has control ended up badly burnt after over the weather, unleashing storms when it's angry. form of a bat, but also human and ignoring his parents, he now hunts down naughty children to animal. It attacks at night, cook and eat them. physically and sexually assaulting men and women. OCEANIA YARA-MA-YHA-WHO YOWIE THE THREE WITCHES OF AUCKLAND Hiding in the trees of Australia, a A hairy ape-like creature that little red creature waits for a stands at between 7 - 12ft and Stalking the woods of Auckland weary traveller to rest beneath it, lives in the Australian wilderness Domain are said to be three where upon it leaps down and witches who were hanged and now haunts the woods stalking passers by. drains their blood with the suckers on its hands and feet before consuming them. ASIA ASHIARAI YASHIKI PUGOT MAMU HANTU POCONG The ghost of a dead person trapped in their burial shroud because their soul could not Headless and with a taste for This huge, disembodied leg and foot is liable to smash through children who he swallows whole through the hole in his neck. Usually found living in trees or ceilings in Japan. It is usually escape. Hops around restlessly searching for something or covered in mud or blood and demands washing. Failure to do deserted houses. So... Well, just get washing. someone. SOURCES + REFERENCES villains wikia.com MORPHCOSTUMES listverse.com cracked.com toptenz.net desi-american.com gods-and-monsters.com MORPHSUITS.COM huffingtonpost.com cryptidz.wikia.com littlethings.com mentalfloss.com legendarydartmoor.co.uk The Esoteric Codex: Supernatural - creepypasta.wikia.com Cedrick Pettigrove