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Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong, a central figure in the *Journey to the West*, is a legendary deity originating from Chinese folklore. He’s...

Chinese Journey Trickster Monkey King

9.6 Brilliant

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Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh is an ancient Mesopotamian legend concerning a powerful king of Uruk. The story, considered one of the oldest...

Epic Heroic King Mesopotamian

9.6 Brilliant

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Orpheus and Eurydice

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice recounts a tragic tale from Greek mythology. Orpheus, a renowned musician, ventures in...

Music Greek Tragic Underworld

9.5 Brilliant

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The Holy Grail

The Holy Grail represents a chalice or platter of immense religious significance within Arthurian legend. It became a fo...

Quest Medieval Arthurian Christian

9.4 Excellent

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Beowulf and Grendel

Beowulf is a foundational Anglo-Saxon legend recounting the heroic struggle against Grendel, a monstrous demon terrorizi...

Epic Monster Heroic Anglo Saxon

9.4 Excellent

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Daedalus and Icarus

The story of Daedalus and Icarus recounts a pivotal moment in Greek mythology. Daedalus, a skilled craftsman, constructe...

Greek Labyrinth Flight Hubris

9.4 Excellent

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Hoichi the Earless

Hoichi the Earless is a Japanese ghost story about a blind biwa player haunted by Heike spirits, retold by Lafcadio Hear...

Ghost Japanese Biwa Heike

8.4 Great

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Yuki-onna

Yuki-onna is a Japanese snow spirit who appears as a pale woman in winter storms, prominent in regional folktales and La...

Ghost Japanese Winter Snow Spirit

8.2 Great

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La Llorona

La Llorona is a Latin American ghost legend about a weeping woman who drowned her children, especially known in Mexico a...

Ghost River Latin American Mourning

8.0 Great

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Janghwa Hongryeon

Janghwa Hongryeon is a Korean tale of two sisters killed through family betrayal, influential as a Joseon-era ghost and...

Korean Ghost Revenge Sisters

7.9 Good

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Okiku and the Nine Plates

Okiku and the Nine Plates is a Japanese ghost legend, also called Sarayashiki, about a servant whose murdered spirit cou...

Ghost Japanese Well Vengeance

7.6 Good

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Black Shuck

Black Shuck is an East Anglian spectral black dog legend, notable for church attack stories at Bungay and Blythburgh in...

Ghost English East Anglia Black Dog

7.3 Good

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The Vanishing Hitchhiker

The Vanishing Hitchhiker is an urban legend about a passenger who disappears from a car, documented in U.S. folklore stu...

Ghost Modern Urban Roadside

7.3 Good

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Kuchisake-onna

Kuchisake-onna is a Japanese urban legend about a slit-mouthed woman who questions victims, spreading widely in school r...

Ghost Modern Japanese Urban

7.0 Good

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La Sayona

La Sayona is a Venezuelan legend of a vengeful female spirit who appears to unfaithful men, rooted in stories from the l...

Ghost Warning Revenge Venezuelan

6.9 Fair

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The Bell Witch

The Bell Witch is a Tennessee haunting legend centered on the Bell family of Adams, notable for early 19th-century polte...

Ghost American Tennessee Haunting

6.8 Fair

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The Ghost of Anne Boleyn

The Ghost of Anne Boleyn is an English haunting legend tied to the executed Tudor queen, with sightings claimed at the T...

Ghost English Haunting Tudor

6.6 Fair

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Hanako-san

Hanako-san is a Japanese school ghost said to haunt third-floor girls' toilets, a modern urban legend widely reported fr...

Ghost Japanese Urban School

6.6 Fair

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The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall

The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall is an English ghost legend linked to Norfolk's Raynham Hall, made famous by a 1936 Countr...

Ghost Norfolk English Haunting

6.2 Fair

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Teke Teke

Teke Teke is a Japanese urban legend about the upper half of a woman or schoolgirl who moves on her elbows and attacks v...

Ghost Japanese Urban Railway

5.9 Mediocre