In Etruscan mythology, Charun (also spelled Charu, or Karun) acted as one of the psychopompoi of the underworld (not to be confused with the god of the underworld, known to the Etruscans as Aita). He…
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Various Ghosts & Hauntings
Caim (Demon)
Caim is a Gaelic rendering of biblical ‘Cain’, who appears in a variation of the fantastical pedigree of Dardanus of Troy that is spun out in Lebor Bretnach, the Middle Irish language recension of the…
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6 Books Supposedly Written by Ghosts
They’ve left our earthly world, but spirits sure have a lot to share with us. At least, that seems to have been the case in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period that…
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Bushyasta (Demon)
Bushyasta (Avestan, būšyāsta, būšiiąstā) is the Zoroastrian demon (daeva) of “Sloth”. Her stock epithet is “the long-handed.”
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Bune (Demon)
Bune is a demon listed in demonological grimoires such the Lesser Key of Solomon (including Thomas Rudd’s version, as Bime) Johann Weyer’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Jacques Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal, and the Livre des Esperitz.
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Bukavac
Bukavac (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [bǔːkaʋat͡s]) is a demonic mythical creature in Slavic mythology. Belief in it existed in Syrmia.
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11 Allegedly Haunted or Cursed Graves Around the U.S.
Despite their macabre associations, graveyards aren’t usually ground zero when it comes to reported hauntings—maybe because the connection is just too obvious. Nevertheless, there are a collection of strange graves around the country that have…
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Buer (demon)
Buer is a spirit that appears in the 16th-century grimoire Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and its derivatives, where he is described as a Great President of Hell, having fifty legions of demons under his command.
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8 Allegedly Cursed Places
Some of the most picturesque spots in the world hide legends of a curse. Castles, islands, rivers, and more have supposedly suffered spooky misfortunes as the result of a muttered hex cast after a perceived…
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Botis
Botis, sometimes Otis, is a demon described in the Lesser Key of Solomon (as the seventeenth spirit) and the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (as the ninth spirit) as a President and an Earl who initially appears as…
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