Originally published at: List of supernatural inhabitants of England - Boing Boing
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The link for “kidnappers” doesn’t seem to be referring to any special supernatural version. Do they really belong on this list?
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Here’s the pucaprinthouse version of locating mythological beasts for England (always a bit of stretch to localize each one so precisely, but the depictions are fun)
(during a postdoc visit to York university i was a assured (over a pint) that a Grindylow was to be avoided living in the nearby pond)
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Archive.org is b0rked 
Did anyone pick up an offline copy?
night-bats
So, just bats, then?
snapdragons
That’s a flower
redmen brown-men blackmen
We get it, English people are racist
bugs
Okay, now you’re not even trying
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What’s interesting is that despite the list being quite long, off the top of my head I can think of a dozen or more similar beings left off the list. It’s interesting how localized language (and folklore) was before mass media, and how certain types of names retain that diversity - though modern mass media popularized some names over others and caused them to come into common use nationwide*.
The English like to think of themselves as a particularly haunted people, with a thick layer of ghost (and fairy - there’s a lot of overlap) lore that hangs over the British isles as a whole. I wonder if that’s really true, if the cold, damp, dark environs really inspired a greater obsession with ghosts, or if it’s really just better documented than other parts of the world.
*And not just in folklore - in Italy, for example, there are extremely local names for certain recipes, where the food itself is made over a large region, but the names vary from village to village.
The wikipedia links are of varying relevance. In this case, given the context, it must be referring to fairy lore about changelings and child snatching.
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That’s too many ghosts!
We cannot fight them all
#Believe
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These are just the ones they know about.
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I checked the list, and I am not mentioned… lets keep it that way, shall we?
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When was the last time somebody checked the stake in Thatcher?
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Not recently enough
The Dead Speak!
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Faced with the return of one of humanity’s greatest threats, you have no choice but to head to THE TENTH CIRCLE OF HELL:
THE UNITED KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELANDAnd investigate the underworld fortress known only as…
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