Muma Pădurii - an Ugly and Mean Old Woman

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In Romanian old stories, Muma Pădurii is a monstrous and mean old woman living in the forest.

Muma Pădurii truly implies "the Mother of the Forest", however "mumă" is an ancient form of "mamă" (mother), which has a fable hint for the Romanian onlooker (to some degree simple to utilizing the age-old pronouns like "thou" and "thy" in English). Various such expressions, regularly heroes of people stories, have this effect.

Muma Pădurii is a spirit of the forest in a very ugly and old woman's body. Sometimes she has the ability to change her shape. She lives in a dark, dreadful, hidden little house. This (step-) mother of the forest kidnaps little children and enslaves them. In one of the popular stories, at some point, she tries to boil a little girl, alive, in a soup. However the little girl's brother outsmarts Muma Pădurii and pushes the woman-monster in the oven instead, similar to the story of Hansel and Gretel. The story ends on a happy note when all kids are free to go back to their parents. Instead of saying "she's ugly", Romanians sometimes say "she looks like muma pădurii".

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She is thought to attack children, and because of this, a large variety of spells (descântece in Romanian) are used against her.

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Old Book - Ghost or Spirit haunts in Illinois, United States

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Old Book is the name given to an implied phantom or spirit which frequents a cemetery and tree on the grounds of the Peoria State Hospital in Bartonville, Illinois. While rumours of phantoms and apparition stories are exceptionally theoretical, the Old Book story has been reported ordinarily. Around those archiving the story is the first chief of the state crazy asylum, George Zeller.

The name Old Book is the name given to a prominent understanding at the clinic. The decently loved Old Book filled in as a gravedigger throughout his opportunity at Peoria State Hospital. It is said that accompanying internment administrations for perished patients he might incline toward an old elm tree and sob for the dead.[1] Various sources report that Old Book's genuine name was Manual Bookbinder otherwise known as A. Bookbinder.(1878 - 1910) Grave marker 713 on the cemetery Grounds.

The superstitious story encompassing Old Book is to some degree special around phantom stories in that it was allegedly seen by several individuals. The story goes that when Old Book kicked the bucket his memorial service was went to by many patients and staff parts who came to be witnesses to the spooky phenomena that was going to transpire. As specialists were endeavouring to lower what may as well have been an overwhelming coffin they uncovered that it rather felt void.Suddenly, a crying sound echoed from the Graveyard Elm and everyone in attendance turned and looked, including Dr. Zeller, who later detailed Bookbinder and the surrounding events in his diary. They all claimed to have seen Old Book standing by the tree. They so believed it to be true that Zeller had the casket opened to ensure that Old Book still lay inside. As the lid was opened the crying ceased and Old Book's corpse was found undisturbed in the coffin. Days passed and the tree started to expire. Some of the grounds crewmen tried to uproot the Graveyard Elm or the "yelling tree", as it was likewise known. None were auspicious, referring to the sobbing radiating from the tree.

In later years the elm was struck throughout a lightning storm and was at long last evacuated from the potters field.

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La Llorona - The Weeping Woman in North and South America

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La Llorona ("The Weeping Woman") is a widespread legend in North and South America.

In spite of the fact that some varieties exist, the essential story recounts an excellent lady by the name of Maria who suffocates her children to be with the man that she cherished. The man might not have her, which crushed her. She might not take no for a reply, so she suffocated herself in a lake in Mexico City. Tested at the entryways of paradise as to the whereabouts of her children, she is not allowed to enter the great beyond until she has discovered them.Maria is forced to wander the Earth for all eternity, searching in vain for her drowned offspring, with her constant weeping giving her the name "La Llorona". She is trapped in between the living world and the spirit world.

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In a few renditions of this story and legend, La Llorona will capture meandering kids who look like her missing youngsters, or kids who ignore their folks. Individuals who claim to have seen her say she shows up around evening time or in the late night times from streams or seas in Mexico.Some believe that those who hear the wails of La Llorona are marked for death, similar to the Gaelic banshee legend. She is said to cry, "Ay, mis hijos!" which translates to, "Oh, my children!"

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