The Eternal Hunter

In modern times, fairies are often portrayed as tiny, pretty, winged women dancing from flower to flower.

However, our ancestors knew fairies took a vast range of forms, big and small, human-like and bestial, hairy, scaly, feathered and bald.

Beautiful and horrifying, helpful and hindering, these strange beings bearing names as varied and numerous as their descriptions have haunted humankind for as long as people have been telling stories.

They appear in the wild places, the dark places, and the forgotten places, in forest, field, mine, and cave, and they appear beside us in the corners of our gardens and the rafters of our homes.

When the various peoples of Europe came to live in Pennsylvania, the fairies in all their forms came with them.

Leprechauns, banshees and pukas, Tommyknockers, kobolds, goblins and dwarves, will-o'-the-wisps, dragons, and phantom black dogs.

You'll find them all in this book, as much a part of the Keystone State as they are the Old World.

Likewise, you'll discover other entities with a particularly Pennsylvanian twist.

That's hard to say.

Particularly Pennsylvanian twist?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

The Eternal Hunter, obliged to forever roam the hills with a pack of spectral dogs.

Women in black, mourning spirits and possible portents of doom.

Hex cats, witches in feline form leaving curses in their wake.

And the Albatwitch, hairy elf ape of the Susquehanna River lands.

Many newspaper articles detailing encounters with these otherworldly beings are reprinted herein beside a depth of folkloric research spanning hundreds of years.

In your hands is a bestiary of the weird, wild, and wonderful spirits, monsters, and strange entities of Pennsylvania.

Now really, what I should have done with you is a show on the women in black.

I think that really would have been up your alley with the mourning connection.

We could still do that.

We'll do that at another time.

Uh-huh.

That's gonna be-Very in depth and there's a lot of articles to read.

Mm-hmm.