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I am always seeking bits of legend and lore about the supernatural...not just vamps....but any in any culture.....any one wish to contribute some?
ghosts, fey, witches, any really....

I have a couple of midwestern legends
if your interested

I'll have to dig through my Celt books to find an old favorite story for you one day when I'm not still trying to figure out the new (read:screwed up) computer system for classes.

well any and all legends are welcome....as long as they are translated as I only speak english
well I speak drunkard also.....but not while researching
thx

I will start it off with one that has caught my eye a few times over the years and has even been used in a few different books

Polish Legend : Rusalka - Polish Tree Spirit

In the folk legends of pre-Christian Poland, Slavic water spirits called Rusalka were thought to inhabit the forests and lakes of western Poland. Rusalka were thought to be the spirits of murdered girls, which seek to exist by drawing the energy of life from nearby living things. At certain times of the year Rusalkas come out of the water and sit in the branches of willlow and birch trees. Rusalka's apparently miss the human world and want to share the company of men asking them for bread, salt, onions, and sexual favours! Men who were seduced by her died in her arms.

Similar legends of a female tree or water dwelling succubus exist all over the Slavic world; some stories say they are the spirits of brides who died on their wedding night; others that they are the souls of young women who died an unnatural or violent death and now take their revenge on any man they find near the lake or forest they inhabit.

hope this sparks something

aright one of my legends is that of the Ishcabibal this is a subhuman species that lives under cattle guards( grates in roads that keep cattle from going past them) these creatures get energy from the sun so they stick thier fingures through the grates and if u dont honk your horn when you cross the guard(so they can pull thier fingers down) youll break thier fingers and they will die killing an Ishcabibal brings on horrible luck samtime even the death of a pet

ya its a little stupid but the one time i didnt honk i was headed out to a cave party( party in a cave) we got busted

hhhmmm..legends!
In my country...(you know where it is Daer)
There are lots! Boring ones though!

many of those I am resaerching right now are polish or russian....but celtic are a favorite

What of a few Arapaho or Mescalero legends? I know many of these

Heh, Daer, I know many bedtime stories about alot of Russian spirits and such.
::Laughs:: Just kidding about the bedtime stories but I do know alot about the following:

Karliki- dwarf of lowest realm of undergrounds.
Lyeshie- Slyvan demons
Vodyanuie- Water spirits
Vozdushnuie-Wind and storm spirits
Domovuie-domestic spirits.

See you soon

Many survive in African cultures to this day. I will find some intersting ones and post them here for you...

thanks folks.........any and all are definitively welcome......
and the rusalka one is also another type of water spirit.....of a drowned girl....
I have heard of vodyanoi and dvoromvio before....but would love to hear more info about them as what I have heard is sketchy at best....

I always liked the stories about irish fairies called Banshees. They have an awful wail and they scream outside doors or windows at houses were a family member is about to die. People get very upset when they here their cries, because someone they love is about to die.