Topic
France
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Krampus
Krampus, Knecht Ruprecht, Père Fouettard and Zwarte Piet are the dark companions of Saint Nicholas. While he hands out gifts, they threaten children who…
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Beast of Gévaudan
Between 1764 and 1767, an unknown animal killed about a hundred people in the Gévaudan region of southern France. Hunting it down became a…
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Witches’ Sabbath
The witches’ sabbath is the nighttime gathering with the Devil described by early modern judges and theologians. In Basque Zugarramurdi it led to history’s…
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Ankou
In Brittany, the Ankou is Death’s servant: a dead man who spends a year driving a creaking cart through the night, collecting the souls…