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I love folk tale monsters.
Russalkas are freaking creepy; they are spirits of girls who died violent deaths in water. the original story i read about them said if a person looked into the pool a Russalka inhabited, they would see her reflection over their shoulder. she would appear dead with glowing green pinpoints in her eyes. if you made eye contact, she grabbed you by the hair and dragged you underwater and drowned you.
I also always liked Baykok, a spirit in the great lakes region that looked like a skeleton covered in translucent skin with glowing red eyes that would kill warriors and eat their liver. I also read a description that said they would cut a man open with surgical precision, eat part of their liver, then sew them back up to die a long painful death.
On a more modern note, any of the spirits, and pretty much anything that happens in the "spirit world" in FEAR scares the hell out of me.
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