Category Archives: folklore

Sabine Baring-Gould: Hymns and Werewolves

January 4th, 2012 | Posted in Christianity, folklore, werewolf

I sometimes think I am a strange phenomenon. I work in the area of theology and cultural studies on the one hand, and yet also have this interest in the fantastic and bizarre in popular culture, including horror, science fiction, fantasy, and the paranormal. From time to time, however, I discover that there have been, […]

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Move Over Santa: Merry Krampus

December 10th, 2011 | Posted in Christmas, folklore

Today I learned of a new twist that has been associated with the various historical and cultural influences that have gone into our contemporary Christmas holiday. Apparently there is the Krampus creature that comes from European Alpine folklore. This monster accompanied St. Nicholas and whereas St. Nick would pass out gifts to the good children, […]

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Gary Varner: Creatures in the Mist and Comparative Mythology

June 7th, 2010 | Posted in cryptozoology, folklore, myths

Mythologist and folklorist Gary Varner was a recent guest here answering questions about the origins, history, and expressions of gargoyles and grotesques. He has researched a variety of subjects and is the author of Creatures in the Mist: Little People, Wild Men and Spirit Beings around the World: A Study of Comparative Mythology (Algora Publishing, […]

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Jewish Monstrosity

April 19th, 2010 | Posted in folklore, Jewish monsters, Judaism, monsters, myths

For those who may have come to this post via a search engine or link on a website or blog expecting to find something anti-Semitic you’ll be disappointed. Instead, I want to draw the reader’s attention to the recent discussion of various monsters from Jewish folklore, religion, and myth. In the West we tend to […]

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Mary Y. Hallab: Vampire God

January 25th, 2010 | Posted in death, folklore, vampire

One of the helpful features of Amazon.com is its “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought…” recommendations. In a quest for new research and discussion topics using this feature I came across a book by Mary Y. Hallab, titled Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture (SUNY Press, 2009). I’m glad I […]

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Diary of a Madman: Neglected Price Classic, and Paranormal Connection

November 7th, 2009 | Posted in folklore, horror, Old Hag, sleep paralysis, Vincent Price

Over the last week two areas of interest came together to make for an interesting tale here at TheoFantastique. On Halloween, like many horror and Halloween fans, I spent a good portion of my day enjoying various horror films on television. I had several options to choose from, but one station did a better job […]

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Post-Millennial Road-Horror

September 1st, 2008 | Posted in Bill Ellis, fairy tales, folklore, horror, legend-tripping, road-horror

Texas Chainsaw Massacre I recently discovered an interesting academic source that explores horror and which I have included in my Exploring the Fantastic links, the Irish Gothic Horror Journal. This is a publication available in totality on the Internet, and as I reviewed the contents for various issues one of the items that caught my […]

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