Passages that relate to all things unnatural – monsters, magic, and other unexplained phenomena.
Britons and Celts
A Dead Man’s Riposte
“The severed head, speaking with its own lips, at once replied.” […]
Supernatural
Britons and Celts
Ever Dance with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight?
“And constantly, for three days thereafter, there was a great bee come to her. And upon one morning, when she was changing her shirt, it did sit down upon her shoulder (she being naked) where she had one of the marks.” […]
Eastern Europe
The Death of the Old Gods
There was joy in heaven and upon earth to behold so many souls saved. But the devil groaned, lamenting, “Woe is me! How am I driven out hence! For I thought to have my dwelling-place here.” […]
Supernatural
A God-Given Double
“He himself was amazed, unconscious as he was of having earned praise, and in the end with difficulty realized that the Lord had supplied him with a substitute.” […]
Britons and Celts
Blood and Grace
“The cleanness of the strike cleaved the spinal cord and parted the fat and the flesh so far that the bright steel blade took a bite from the floor.” […]
Britons and Celts
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Coven
“Jean Martein is MAIDEN to the Coven that I am of; and her nickname is “Over the Dyke With It,” Because the DIVILL always takes the Maiden in his hand next to him, when we dance Gillatrypes, he and she will say, “Over the dyke with it!” […]
Greek and Roman
Werewolf: Origins
“His vesture was changed into hair, his limbs became crooked; a wolf.” […]
Orient
A King’s Revenge Against Demons
“The world will not keep faith with you, nor will she show you her true face.” […]
Greek and Roman
Even Herodotus Has His Limits
“The bald men say, but it does not seem to me credible, that the people who live in these mountains have feet like goats.” […]
Britons and Celts
Merlin’s First Prophesy
“The serpents began to struggle with each other; and the white one, raising himself up, threw down the other and sometimes drove him to the edge; and this was repeated thrice.” […]