They appear usually as beautiful white horses and lure you in, then, they trap you and drag you below water to drown you. Only two lochs in Scotland are reported to have monsters: Loch Ness and Loch Morar, but the Kelpies are a whole other thing. The ghoul then takes on your appearance, and returns to live your life, but in reality it drains and destroys those you loved.” - Nash_Rambler 5. The Kelpie It can assume the guise of an animal, and lures you into abandoned places to slay and eat you.
“I’ve always had a dark fondness for the ghoul of Persian folklore basically a shape shifting monster who lurks in wastelands and/or graveyards, with a fondness for dead human flesh. She then presumably kills them or just scares the ever loving shit out of them – I love legends that very clearly arose from wives trying to scare their husbands into not straying when they went out drinking with da boys.” - Krov_Koshka 4. “I’m gonna go national, La Segua, she’s a beautiful woman drunk men would encounter while riding home late at night on rural roads, she’d ask if she could hitch a ride on the back of their horse and if and when they turned back to look at her, perhaps to try and kiss her, they’d find sitting behind them the woman but with the rotting face of a horse skull. They are frightened of gold, and even a single gold pin can drive a Dullahan away.” - CheGaffero 3. La Segua They do not appreciate being watched while on their errands, throwing a basin of blood on those who dare to do so (often a mark that they are among the next to die), or even lashing out the watchers’ eyes with their whips. There is no way to bar the road against a Dullahan-all locks and gates open to them when they approach. The Dullahan calls out the person’s name, at which point the person immediately perishes. When the Dullahan stops riding, that is where a person is due to die. The Dullahan uses the spine of a human corpse for a whip, and its wagon is adorned with funeral objects (e.g., candles in skulls to light the way, the spokes of the wheels are made from thigh bones, the wagon’s covering made from a worm-chewed pall or dried human skin). The flesh of the head is said to have the color and consistency of moldy cheese. Its eyes are constantly moving about and can see across the countryside even during the darkest nights. The mouth is usually in a hideous grin that touches both sides of the head. Usually, the Dullahan is male, but there are some female versions. The Dullahan /duːˈləhɑːˌn/ is a headless rider, usually on a black horse who carries his or her own head under one arm. If they answers no, she walks away, then murders them in their bed that night.” - EnkoNeko 2. If the kid answers yes or screams, she cuts them to resemble herself. She’d ask children ‘Am I pretty?’ and if they answered yes, she removed her mask and asked again.
A beautiful woman wearing one of those cloth masks, roaming the streets at night. “There’s Kuchisake-onna, (the Slit-Mouthed Woman). If you want to sleep soundly tonight, you might not want to read about these mythological creatures discussed on Ask Reddit.
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