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Category Archives: Urban Legends

Changing in the Telling

The Unkindest Tide, by Seanan McGuire – This book deals with the Roane, the aquatic children of the Luidaeg who had been mostly killed off centuries earlier, their skins then being used to create Selkies. The sea-witch vows to revive … Continue reading →

Posted in Anglicanism, Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Christianity, Fairy Tales, German, History, Islam, Magic, marissa meyer, Middle Ages, Mythology, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, october daye, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Urban Legends, Welsh | Tagged apocrypals, archbishop whateley, cait sith, cats, ceil baring-gould, curious myths of the middle ages, cursed, dogs, erlking, fairies, garden of eden, gellert, gilded, jesus, luidaeg, merrows, napoleon bonaparte, paradise, perchta, pope joan, prester john, prince llewellyn, roane, rumplestiltskin, sabine baring-gould, selkies, seven sleepers of ephesus, sherlock holmes, the annotated mother goose, the unkindest tide, titania, wandering jew, william stuart baring-gould, william tell |

Sweets to the Sweet

Candyman – WARNING! SPOILERS! I think it would be fair to say the original movie is one of Beth’s favorites, so she was cautiously optimistic about this one. We both liked it, although there were a few things that didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Monsters, Music, Politics, Prejudice, Urban Legends, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged cabrini-green, candyman, gentrification, racism, revenge, tony todd |

Nobody Ever Suspects the Butterfly

Picture by Carsten Witte In this post about a Chinese drama, there’s a mention of butterfly demons, and some possibilities as to how this links to mythology. Butterflies are apparently considered manifestations of the soul in Greek, Chinese, and Japanese culture. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Aztec, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Greek Mythology, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Roman, Urban Legends, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aoyama, batterflies, betterflies, butterflies, caterpillars, cupid and psyche, demons, dread admirals, ghosts, godzilla, insects, itzpapalotl, mothman, mothra, moths, mothula, okiku, okiku mushi, psyche, shinchu, souls, yokai |

Snally Boy

I noticed that one of the other monsters described in William Cox’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, the same book as the Squonk, is the Snoligoster. (WARNING: The passage is pretty racist.) That’s a name I thought I knew, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Etymology, Food, German, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, The Flintstones, Urban Legends | Tagged barney rubble, dewayo, fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods, florida, fred flintstone, fred flintstone and the snallygaster show, lake okeechobee, maryland, ork, president theodore roosevelt, snallygasters, snoligosters, the scarecrow of oz, william t. cox, wilma flintstone, wolves |

Listening Backward

One thing I was reminded of in response to my recent post on Satanic panic was that there were some people who genuinely did do horrible things due to what they thought were messages from the Devil or some other … Continue reading →

Posted in Beatles, Camper Van Beethoven, Cartoons, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Humor, Music, Religion, Satanism, Television, The Simpsons, They Might Be Giants, Urban Legends, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged aleister crowley, backmasking, bart simpson, camper vantiquities, charles manson, david berkowitz, demons, john linnell, michael ian black, paul mccartney, satan, satanic panic, serial killers, sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band, subliminal messages, the exorcist |

We Need to Talk About Reg

Here are my thoughts on a few movies I’ve seen recently. We really haven’t been making the most of our Netflix account as of late. They seem to be de-emphasizing movie distribution in favor of the creation of original content … Continue reading →

Posted in Celebrities, Families, Music, Relationships, Urban Legends, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged addiction, bernie taupin, blair witch, elton dean, elton john, john c. reilly, john reid, linda hannon, long john baldry, psychopathy, renate blauel, rocketman, the blair witch project, tilda swinton, we need to talk about kevin |

The Most Horrific Time of the Year

Here are some thoughts on the horror and horror-adjacent movies that Beth and I watched this month. Halloween in a Box – This documentary is about the cheap costumes that came in what looked like pie boxes, made by Ben … Continue reading →

Posted in Aztec, Cartoons, Halloween, Holidays, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Snobbery, Star Wars, Television, The Simpsons, Urban Legends, Video Games | Tagged aliens, american mary, atari, ben cooper, bob's burgers, body modification, collegeville, cosplay, costumes, dead hooker in a trunk, e.t., halco, halloween in a box, homer simpson, jack kirby, jen soska, kang and kodos, maggie simpson, q the winged serpent, quetzalcoatl, selma bouvier, spider-man, steve ditko, stranger things, sylvia soska, the omen, the shape of water, treehouse of horror, when a stranger calls, zorro |

Templar Insanity

It was Friday the Thirteenth yesterday, and September 11th two days before that, so it hasn’t been a great week in terms of luck, I suppose. No one seems to be entirely sure WHY Friday the Thirteenth is unlucky. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Crusades, Economics, History, Religion, Urban Legends | Tagged banking, friday the thirteenth, jesus, judas iscariot, king philip iv of france, knights templar, last supper, luck, numerology, pope clement v |

I Don’t Need a Rationale to Sing the Internationale

They Might Be Giants, My Murdered Remains – Even though TMBG’s albums tend to have a lot of songs, there are also quite a few they record that don’t make the cut, many of which are still quite good or … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Holidays, Humor, Language, Music, Relationships, They Might Be Giants, Urban Legends | Tagged accordion, aerosmith, cats, corn mo, dial-a-song, glean, gudetama, hardy fox, i like fun, john flansburgh, john glenn, john linnell, jonathan richman, marty beller, more murdered remains, my murdered remains, nikola tesla, records, residents, robin goldwasser, run dmc, sanrio |

¿Donde Estan Mis Hijos?

La Llorona, most literally “The Crier,” but more often translated as the Weeping or Wailing Woman, is one of the most famous Mexican ghosts, but as with most folklore, there are several different versions of her story. What’s consistent is … Continue reading →

Posted in Aztec, Colonization of America, Greek Mythology, History, Mesoamerica, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Urban Legends | Tagged chihuicoatl, dona marina, ghosts, hera, hernan cortes, la llorona, la maliche, lamia, medea, mixcoatl, zeus |