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Glastonbury Tor

añadido28 de agosto de 2026

Una colina de Somerset coronada por la solitaria torre de San Miguel, con las laderas talladas en terrazas. Se la identifica con la legendaria Ávalon, adonde llevaron al rey Arturo herido, y se la tiene por un centro de la mitología celta de Gran Bretaña.

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The Blue Stone

A twelve-ton boulder on the shore of Lake Pleshcheyevo, a shrine to the Merya people and then to the Slavs. The church fought it for centuries: it was buried, sunk in the lake, and hauled on a sledge to be used in a bell tower's foundation — the sledge went through the ice, and decades later the stone was back on the shore. There is a physical explanation too: ice movement and washed-out ground push the boulder up. The name comes from the colour, which turns blue when wet.

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Cropsey

A children's bogeyman with a hook, told on Staten Island for generations — until children began disappearing in the neighbourhood in the 1980s and it emerged that a former orderly from the abandoned Willowbrook school was living beside it. Willowbrook was a real institution, closed after a 1972 investigation exposed appalling conditions. A rare and unpleasant case of a local bogeyman and a documented local history meeting at the same point on the map.

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Krasue

A flying woman's head with its viscera trailing beneath — one of the most recognisable images in mainland Southeast Asian folklore, known in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos under different names. By day she is an ordinary woman; at night the head detaches and goes looking for food. Her appearance was traditionally linked to night lights over rice paddies and to sickness in livestock. In Thailand she has been the subject of dozens of films and remains a living figure of popular culture rather than a museum entry.

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The Pontianak

A woman who died in childbirth and came back for revenge — one of the central figures of Malay and Indonesian folklore. Her presence is identified by smell: first the sweetness of frangipani, then the smell of a corpse. She is held to live in banana trees, which is why they are not planted right against a house. The city of Pontianak in Borneo carries her name: by tradition its founder laid out the settlement on the spot where he drove these spirits off.