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July 2014: Characters of Myth or Legend :: Nic Klein | BLACK ANNIS

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Title:	Nic Klein \| BLACK ANNIS
Posted By:	Stefan B
Artist:	None Specified
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Pin Up
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1302
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	7/22/2014

Description

Black Annis, also known as Black Agnes, is a bogeyman figure in English folklore. She is imagined as a blue-faced crone or witch with iron claws and a taste for humans (especially children).[1] She is said to haunt the countryside of Leicestershire, living in a cave in the Dane Hills, with an oak tree at its entrance. She supposedly goes out onto the glens at night looking for unsuspecting children and lambs to eat, then tanning their skins by hanging them on a tree, before wearing them around her waist. She would reach inside houses to snatch people. Legend has it that she used her iron claws to dig into the side of a sandstone cliff, making herself a home there which is known as Black Annis's Bower. The legend led to parents warning their children that Black Annis would catch them if they did not behave.

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