Black annis folklore

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Folklore time; Dullahan are Irish spirits who ride black horses and carry their own severed heads along with whips made of human spines. … I wanted to draw a female one :P

Black Annis, also known as Black Agnes, was a formidable witch in English folklore. Rather than conforming to traditional dietary habits, Black Annis chose to feast upon the flesh of humans, specifically children. According to English legend, she prowls the countryside around Leicestershire, looking for her next unwary victim. As mentioned in The Alchemyst, Black Annis is a vile, dark creature of the night and even thinking about her could cause madness. When Nicholas Flamel and Scathach are…

Black Annis by Tiffany Turrill 9x12, watercolor/digital Now swallowed up by the suburban sprawl of Leicester is a series of low hills known as the Dane Hills, which long had remained a wasteland. On...

6. The Urisk (Also known as: Ùruisg, ùraisg, urisg, urisk, ourisk , pheailladh, peailladh, pealladh or shellycoat.) What follows are some descriptions and tales from old sources: 1. Solitary fairy of Scottish Gaelic tradition, a subspecies of the fuath, half-man and half-goat, but not satyr-like, despite appearances. In many ways, the ùruisg is a rougher, hirsute brownie, given to helping at household chores, especially churning butter and cleaning, in spite of a reputation for good-humoured…

The Field Guide to Witches: An artist’s grimoire of 20 witches and their worlds■ — that's the title of the book issued recently by 3dtotal, where I participated as one of 20 artists and authors. 🧙‍♀️ My point of interest was the horrible and dangerous witch from rural Leicestershire's Dane Hills, a large area to the west of the English city of Leicester. Living in the sandstone cave near old giant oak, she hunts people or steals children to eat them. No one can tell if she's a human being…