7 Of The Best Folklore Legends

With so many legends from around the world from haunted trains to monsters from the deep. We look at 10 of the best tales I have found.

1. The Face Of Skogsrå

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An ancient Norse legend who lures victims into the woods with her beauty where they become lost and are never heard from again.

2. La Llorona

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a haunting tail of a young Mexican woman who drowned her children driven mad by the the fact that her husband left her for another woman .She is often seen by the river crying for them.

3. Kinoly

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One special kind of angatra (“ghosts of the dead ) is the kinoly. These angatra are usual good but when ignored become a ghoulish version of the ancestor ghosts who preys upon the living.

4. Bal Bal

Is a Filipino monster from legend and eater of the dead. It enters graveyards to steal corpses and feed on them

5. Faoladh/conroicht

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Faoladh or the Irish werewolf is a complex creature, just as often helpful as it is Deadly and dates back to the 12th century.

6. Selkies

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Selkies can transform from a seal to a beautiful woman. Originating in Scotland the legend goes that a man who found a beautiful female selkie sunbathing on a beach, stole her skin and forced her to become his wife and bear his children, only for her to find the skin years later and escape back to seal form and the sea.

7. Ragnar Lothbrok

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Prehaps better known from the show vikings, this person was a real viking warrior turned king turned badass who pillaged and plundered his way into the ancient Norse legends.