In folklore, crossroads may represent a location "between the worlds" and, as such, a site where supernatural spirits can be contacted and paranormal events...
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neighbourhood of Kingston Crossroads, Cape Town, South Africa Crossroads (junction), where two or more roads converge Crossroads (folklore), a symbolic location...
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(folklore) Color therapy see Chromotherapy Cone of power Conjuration (summoning up a spirit by incantation) Coven (a community of witches) Crossroads (folklore)...
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supernatural, spectral, or demonic hellhound originating from English folklore that has also been seen throughout Europe and the Americas. It is usually...
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crossroads of Europe since at least the Roman Empire. Constant movement of cultures and ideas into Switzerland has created a rich and varied folklore...
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Caucasus (redirect from Comparison of Greek and Caucasian folklore)
Baumer, Christoph (2021). History of the Caucasus - Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires (Hardback). London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781788310079. Bealby...
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American folklore encompasses the folklore that has evolved in the present-day United States mostly since the European colonization of the Americas. It...
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occurrence of vampire-like creatures in these ancient civilizations, the folklore for the entity known today as the vampire originates almost exclusively...
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Philippine mythology (redirect from Philippine folklore)
generally replaced indigenous polytheistic beliefs. Existing myth and folklore were retrofitted accordingly. However, indigenous belief systems survived–despite...
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Cross Road Blues (redirect from Crossroads (Cream song))
for musical genius. This is based largely on folklore of the American South that identifies a crossroads as the site where Faustian bargains can be made...
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Tylwyth Teg (redirect from Faeries in Welsh folklore)
mythological creatures corresponding to the fairy folk of Welsh and Irish folklore Aos Sí. Other names for them include Bendith y Mamau ("Blessing of the...
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Lampad (category Witchcraft in folklore and mythology)
[citation needed] Companions of Hecate, the Greek goddess of witchcraft and crossroads, they were a gift from Zeus for Hecate's loyalty in the Titanomachy. They...
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la Malora or la Malogra) is a folklore legend from New Mexico that describes an evil spirit that haunts the crossroads at night, hunting those who travel...
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Tiger (redirect from Lions in folklore, religion and mythology)
entertainment shows. The tiger featured prominently in the ancient mythology and folklore of cultures throughout its historic range and has continued to appear in...
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List of ghosts (section African folklore)
humanity and Bondye Phantome, an immensely tall spectre stands at the crossroads on nights of the full moon with his legs wide apart Soucouyant, a blood-sucking...
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Freischütz (redirect from Magic bullet (folklore))
In German folklore, the figure of the Freischütz is a marksman who, by a contract with the devil, has obtained a certain number of bullets destined to...
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hostile and unfavourable towards humans, being jealous of life. In Bulgarian folklore there exists the character of 12 navias that sucked the blood out of women...
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number of traditional blues and blues rock albums and hosted the periodic Crossroads Guitar Festival. His most recent studio album is Happy Xmas (2018). Clapton...
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Hecate (category Crossroads mythology)
depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied. She is variously associated with crossroads, night, light, magic, protection from witchcraft, drugs, the Moon, graves...
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Culture of Latin America (redirect from Latin American folklore)
the marinera, tondero and huayno. The culture of Colombia lies at the crossroads of Latin America. Thanks partly to geography, Colombian culture has been...
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Witchcraft (redirect from Sea witch (folklore))
University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2362-2. Rasbold, K. (2019). Crossroads of Conjure: The Roots and Practices of Granny Magic, Hoodoo, Brujería...
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Longevity myths (redirect from Longevity folklore)
(PDF) on 2 October 2011. Medhasananda, Swami (2003). Varanasi At the Crossroads. Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. p. 1042. ISBN 978-81-87332-18-3...
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serious problems with this crossroads myth. The devil imagery found in the blues is thoroughly familiar from western folklore, and nowhere do blues singers...
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patroness of the countryside and nature, hunters, wildlife, childbirth, crossroads, the night, and the Moon. She is equated with the Greek goddess Artemis...
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Dayan (witch) (section Folklore)
in and around cemeteries, abandoned battlefields, crossroads, toilets and squalid places. Folklore suggests that a woman treated badly by her family or...
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Moisei Beregovsky (category Yiddish-language folklore)
for Research on Jewish Language, Literature and Folklore, as well as head of the Office of Folklore of the Jewish Arts Section of the AUAS, and head...
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Jay's Grave (category Devon folklore)
on Dartmoor, Devon, in South-West England, and is the subject of local folklore, and several ghost stories. The small burial mound is at the side of a...
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2016). "Sukkot and Mid-Autumn Festivals in Kaifeng: Conundrums at the Crossroads of Sino-Judaic Cultural Identity". In Ross, James R.; Song, Lihong (eds...
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Dubois Crossroads is an unincorporated community in Harbison Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Dubois Crossroads had its start in...
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Hoopoe (section In folklore, myth and religion)
Afghan Folklore and Magic". Folklore. 85 (3): 173–93. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1974.9716553. JSTOR 1260073. Mall Hiiemäe, Forty birds in Estonian folklore IV...
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