Christian Church Hospital – Kansas City
Anyone who comes close to the hospital immediately feels the sorrow, the loss, and the sense of death from the many spirits who still inhabit…
Month: August 2017
The Armor Home For The Aged – Kansas City
On a hill just off the Paseo Boulevard stands two 100-year-old buildings. Though the sign on the driveway proclaims it as the Western Baptist Bible…
Seven Stars Spirits
Seven Stars Spirits ALSO KNOWN AS: Chilsong ORIGIN: Korea In Korean cosmology, the constellation known in the West as the Big Dipper or the Great…
Pali Kongju
Pali Kongju : The Rejected Princess; The Seventh Princess Shamans, magicians, and hoodoo doctors brag about being the seventh son. Pali Kongju is the seventh…
San Shin
San Shin literally means “Mountain Spirit.” Approximately 70 percent of Korea is covered by mountains. Technically each peak possesses its own presiding Mountain Spirit: they…
Kyeryong
Kyeryong may be translated as “rooster-dragon”or “chicken-dragon” depending on the gender of the dragon. They have dragon bodies but their heads resemble that of poultry.…
Kumiho
A Kumiho is a type of fox spirit. Like her compatriots, the Japanese Kitsune and Chinese Huli Jing, the Kumiho is associated with rampant, unbridled…
Aryong-Jong
Aryong-Jong : Lady of the Dragon Palace Aryong-Jong is a dragon goddess of water, rain, and fertility and the consort of the first King of…
Leland, Charles Godfrey
Charles Godfrey Leland (1824–1903) was an American folklorist, lecturer and prolific author whose immersion in Gypsy lore and witchcraft played a role in the revival…
Papa Legba
Legba (also Elegguá) Not the oldest, but perhaps the most important, orisha (god) in the African spirit pantheon is called Legba in Vodun and Elegguá…
