The The Drekavac of Western Serbia, Balkans: A child was buried without a name. The village blamed the wrong grave. The scream has not stopped since.
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The The Impundulu of Eastern Cape, South Africa: The sangoma cast the bones. She saw lightning attached to blood, the maternal line. She named the wrong woman.
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The Likho of Central Russia: A merchant found the golden hatchet in the forest. He put it back. Then he told a desperate man where to look.
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The The Fext of Bohemia, Czech Republic: Three dead. Weapons useless. The dead soldier walks the field every night. Send someone who knows how to kill what will not die.
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
La Viudita: Bolivia's ghost who does not chase, she invites, and why every victim chose to approach
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The Baroness of Carini: a real 1563 murder, 392 ballad variants, and the financial records that reveal the killing was never about honor
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The The Bunyip: The water took three people. It did not kill them. It is holding them until you answer for what was taken.
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The The Grootslang: The diamonds are real. The thing that counted every one of them is older than the species it was made from.
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The Headless Nun of the Miramichi: a Canadian ghost who has been searching for her skull for 270 years, and the Acadian Expulsion that created her
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
Koschei the Deathless: the Russian villain who hid his mortality inside the structure of creation, and why compassion is the most dangerous thing in folklore
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The Pontianak: the Malay ghost whose 'cure' is as monstrous as the haunting
I've been researching real folklore from around the world and turning it into D&D 5e adventures.
The Bida: the Soninke seven-headed serpent that fed an empire on sacrifice, and the warrior who killed it at the cost of the rain
In the Soninke oral tradition, the empire of Wagadu (the Ghana Empire) was sustained by a pact with a colossal seven-headed serpent beneath the city's...
The old stories were warnings.