Scary Tales of Olden Days Volume 1: 'Folklore and Oral Histories of the Old World' - Paperback

by Umbrage Press (Author)

'Scary Tales of Olden Days' Volume 1, is a collection of forgotten tales and legends from long ago - some so old that their origin is unknown. In all, there are forty-four frightening stories about witches, ghouls, demons, vampires, werewolves, and other creeping hideousities that lurked about through the ages looking for unsuspecting victims. Included within 'Scary Tales of Olden Days' Volume 1, the reader will delight in a variety of Gypsy lore from Romania, Bukovina, Ukraine, Lovakia, Moravia, Bohemia and Scotland. Ghastly legends from India. Tales of Turkish evils. Old spooky stories from Czechia & Portugal. Accounts of ominous spirits from Canada. American Indian devils. There is even a story about sorcerery, which was told by old Eastern European Hassidic Jews; along with other frightful retellings from the early Russian Muscovites. A rare collection of thoroughly captivating old narratives.