Jenny Greenteeth

But anyway, I can't remember what they're called right now.

And Jenny Green Teeth, and things like that, so I'm trying to find ones in the US.

Um, another interesting...

This is something I'm working on.

[laughs] When Dresden goes to Undertown to see Maeve, who does Maeve summon up to try and tempt Dresden-

Okay, Jenny Green Teeth

... into a-

Yeah, a Jenny Green Teeth.

Yes.

I was thinking Mavra, not Maeve.

They don't want to fight.

And that's why the Crimson Queen has the sea witch, Jenny Greenteeth, basically break the tunnel, break the connection.

Between the blue and the portal in Atlantis that Aquaman's been using to travel out to these various lighthouses in the universe and then come back to Atlantis when he needs to.

And so at that moment, while he's traveling, trying to get back to Atlantis, that connection is severed.

These beasties were feared as man-eating reptilian monsters that lurked in riverbeds, threatening to drag down unsuspecting swimmers and potentially even capsize boats.

Our equivalent here would be creatures like Jenny Greenteeth and Peg Powler and Nellie Longarms and lots of distorted forms of river hag who do much the same thing, although they tend to have a roughly humanoid shape, often with very long arms, rather than being snaky in figure.

And

then we have like neckers and other things in Europe more widely.

The legend of a vengeful mother who slays her own offspring can be traced all the way back to Medea of Greek mythology, who killed her sons after being betrayed by her husband Jason.

The ghostly wails of a woman warning of impending death also share similarities with the Irish banshees, English parents have long used the tale of Jenny Greenteeth, who drags children down into a watery grave to keep adventurous children away from water where they might stumble in.

The most popular version of the tale features a stunning young peasant woman named Maria who married a wealthy man.

The couple lived happily for a time and had two children together before Maria's husband lost interest in her.

leaving the woman alone with the deafening sound of the cicadas and the water returning to her ears.

Now, friends, the physical description of this North Carolina entity aligns with alarming precision to the Ginny Greenteeth or Pag-Powler archetypes of English folklore.

These were not dainty sprites, but malevolent river spirits, characterized by pale skin, long dark hair, and sharp teeth.

Their sole folkloric purpose was to drag children into the depths.

In China, the answer was the river dragon.

In England, it was Jenny Greenteeth or Peg Powler lurking green and cold beneath the river's skin.

In Japan, across thousands of communities stretched along 10,000 rivers, the answer arrived at, not in a single moment, but slowly, over centuries of oral tradition, of whispered warnings, of campfire stories and rice paddy superstition.

was the Kappa.

Now, one such figure-

Is Jenny Greenteeth?

... is Jenny Greenteeth.

I not, I need to know everything about this bitch.

Uh, not to be confused with Jenny Garth, you know?

Ooh, that's fun to say, Lancashire.

Lancashire.

According to folklorist Catherine Briggs, Jenny Greenteeth is a variation of the more widely spread stories of the Grindelow, a supernatural fish-like humanoid.

We had, um, stories from people-

We had some Jenny Green Teeths.

We had all kinds of stuff.

Yeah, Jenny Green Teeths.

We had stories from the Orkney Isles.

We had a couple from, uh, kind of, uh, Eastern European cultures.