De Nugis Curialium is a strange book in which history, religious debate and court satire are interwoven with a tangle of mythology, folklore and eerie supernatural tales.
On the walls of a 300 BCE Etruscan tomb, Vanth, a winged demoness of dark and stern gaze, flanks a door to the Great Unknown.
In the great wealth of witch-related lore, the image of the persecuted local midwife is one of the most enduringly popular.
The cursed painting is an enduring urban legend that continues to have the ability to scare us, and also makes a good tabloid news story.
Scottish lore contains some of the darkest and strangest figures in folkloric history: shape-shifters, blood-suckers, monsters without skin.
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