Frightening Folklore

When people think of a creature that snatches up little children in the night, they usually think of the boogieman, but there are many boogiewomen in folklore that are just as malevolent and frightening as the boogieman. Here are a few of the boogeywomen found in folklore around the world. The Banshee is one of the more popular boogiewomen. There is folklore of banshees being the spirits of deceased women, but there is also folklore of banshees being elemental spirits, such as a fairy. In some folklore, fairies are considered spirits of the dead. According to folklore, a banshee’s scream is heard before a death in a family. Black Annis or Black Agnes is a boogiewoman who resides in a cave in the English countryside of Leicestershire in the Dane Hills, which has a tunnel connected to Leicestershire castle according to folklore. She has iron talons, blue skin, and only one eye. She preys on little children, which she eats and decorates her cave with their skins. Baba Yaga is...

There have been people that have admitted to cooking with breast milk, urine, semen, saliva, and menstrual blood for others to eat. Usually we only hear stories of restaurant workers adding bodily fluids to the food of their least favorite patrons, but sometimes it’s a friend or family member serving foods with these fluids. Many people have no idea they are consuming these things when a friend or family member gives them these strange meals to eat, and some knowingly choose to eat these foods. This is often done for magical purposes. There is lore that if a woman serves a man food that contains her menstrual blood and urine, he will stay faithful to her as long as he is regularly consuming meals with these bodily fluids. People who go to spirit cooking dinners are completely aware they are consuming bodily fluids in spirit cakes, which are cakes made with bodily fluids. Christian churches use a wafer and wine to represent Christ’s body and blood during holy communion. How...