English Folklore Monsters

It may also contain individual non human characters which should also be categorised in category english legendary characters.

English folklore monsters. Like most other european nations england is known for it s folklore. Nowadays fading into obscurity one of the oldest and most persistent mythological creatures common to most regions of britain is of the black dog a ghostly and usually malevolent creature often frighteningly large. England is no different in this regard. In some stories the golem becomes animate when the hebrew word for truth is written on the forehead the monster.

Here you will find grouped together articles and features about witches fairies and monsters in british folklore. In english folklore however a boggart was a kind of evil creature which attached itself to families or households and was a nuisance. They became known as the pendle witches witches in england. In the year 1612 at lancaster gaol ten people were hanged for the crime of witchcraft.

English folklore is known all over the world mostly for legends of robin hood and king arthur. According to traditional fairy tales boggarts love to hide in dark spaces such as unused attics or cellars cupboards or under beds. The pendle witches perhaps the most notorious witch trial of the 16th century. A big part of any folklore is the legendary monsters and beasts described in it.

They were sometimes described as shape shifters. By elliot creepy.