You may dream of it or feel a cool touch on the back of your neck. First you may hear a faint whisper in your ear. It slowly convinces you of its existence over the course of weeks, if not months. If you walk passed one of these graves, it will latch on to you. It is known to wait near graves of people who have died on the moor. It’ll keep you alive as long as possible so that it has a food source for as long as it can during the winter. As the wendigo might capture you and eat you. They are said to have eaten their own lips because they just couldn’t resist.Īs the legends go you should be careful while walking the forests. all attempts it makes at feeding itself grows the wendigo and doesn’t satiate it. The wendigo became so consumed with flesh after that that it became insatiable. It used to be a person that once upon a time tainted his/her soul and ate human flesh. In northern Canada there’s a creature called the wendigo. This myth has variations from several continents. This is also linked to people seeing strange lights, particularly in swamps, in which there are bioluminescent insects and flora, as well as swamp gas. The folklore is possibly related to a real phenomenon in which people hallucinate when in the wild for long enough, and can wander randomly off the trail. It’s not as terrifying, but pretty creepy. The will o’ the wisp is a strange light that lures hikers off trails until they are lost. A terrifying, lonely creature which lived in the branches of a gnarled great oak- the lone remnant of a long-dead great forest- Black Annis was thought to have been the husk of a forgotten dark Pagan Goddess.
If you treat her well you’ll be bestowed with luck, but if you treat her badly you will be tormented by disease and death.īlack Annis – In a grim, remote Leicestershire cave hewn with her own scraping, steel-clawed hands, the old crone Black Annis was said to hang the trophy skins of flayed children. She lurks near the edges of deep forests and tries to seduce men. She looks like a beautiful woman from the front, but her back looks like a rotten tree trunk with a hole in it. The second one is the Skogsrå, who’d be a lot creepier if it wasn’t for the fact that she doesn’t really do all that much. He then lures you into whatever source of whatever he lives in and drowns you. Here in Sweden I think the two spookiest ones are Näcken, a naked old man that lives in rivers and ponds and plays a violin that places you into a trance. Also it can drive people insane or make them disappear, never to be seen again. Sailors and fishermen foolish enough to head out to sea at night may hear only its shriek before they are pulled beneath the waves, only to return as Draugen themselves, doomed to haunt the waters forever.ĭrekavac, a creature that jumps on your back and screams, predicting your death, or the death of your cattle. His face is fish-like, with soulless, black eyes and a wide, gaping mouth, and he has kelp and seaweed for hair. He can be seen on stormy nights, sailing in the splintered half of a boat with shredded sails. Though descriptions of it tend to differ from place to place and story to story, the general concept of it is pretty much the same everywhere:ĭraugen is, essentially, the ghost of a person who has died at sea. Here in Norway we have a lot of legendary creatures, but Draugen is probably one of the creepiest.
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