Augustus Hare recorded Captain Fisher's story of a being that dismantles a window and returns to a family vault. Its narrative has survived more securely than its supposed setting.
A short entry links nocturnal attacks with a dead woman; later retellings supply a potter husband and strengthen the witchcraft motifs.
In Neplach’s chronicle the dead shepherd Myslata visits settlements, calls the living by name and mockingly accepts a stake as a defensive staff.
Roulet was found after an attack on a child; an account of a wolf-making ointment reached court, but appeal produced confinement instead of execution.
A shepherd boy’s confession was connected with wolf attacks; execution gave way to lifelong monastic confinement, while later books transformed the opening scene.
A group describes a woman in a mirror and then tries to turn the story into an encounter; Mary’s identity and the rules vary between groups.
A woman’s cries and green dress link the chateau to the murdered Charlotte de Valois; sources tell the building’s history and the ghost’s story differently.
One tradition destroys the town through a palace’s shadow, another through a rejected magician’s curse; monument opening hours have a separate legal history.
Weeping beside water connects many narratives: drowned children, a separated family and a ghost identified differently in each locality.
The forest master changes size and dress, moves animals between territories and makes travellers circle familiar ground.
