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Every culture/region has stories and myths about the things existing there. What are the ones you find the most spooky and/or interesting?

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[โ€“] Mannivu@feddit.it 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here in Northern Italy near Bergamo, we have something called "Gratacornia", an half human-half goat creature, which was used to scare kids. The Gratacornia waits for the kid on top of the stairs in darkness and scratches his hooves with his long horns (Gratacornia is formed merging "Grata"=to scratch and "Cornia"=horns).