Traditional Legends

Long before she was invoked by sorcerers or described as the Queen of Ghosts, Hekate held a very different place in the ancient world. Her earliest identity was not sinister or occult. Instead, she was a protector, a guide, and the sacred embodiment of the spaces where one thing becomes another.

In the high desert mesas of the American Southwest, the Hopi people have passed down a deeply layered spiritual tradition for centuries. At the heart of it all are the Kachinas powerful spirit beings who represent everything from natural forces and ancestors to animals and cosmic entities.

There’s a saying in the hills: “If you hear your name called from the woods, don’t answer.”

Robert Johnson’s name carries a strange weight. He’s a ghostly figure in American music—a man who recorded just 29 songs in the 1930s and then vanished, leaving behind not only legendary blues tracks but also one of the most enduring myths in music history: that he sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for his musical talent.

Traveling through the quiet backroads of Appalachia, it’s not uncommon to stumble across the weathered ruins of old farmhouses.These paired entrances were known as death doors: one reserved for the living, and the other for the dead.

In many parts of East and Southeast Asia, August isn't just a hot summer month—it’s a spiritual time full of reverence, caution, and rituals. Known as Ghost Month, this period is steeped in tradition, superstition, and ancestral respect.

In 2008, a woman named Lerina Garcia Gordo posted on an online forum something extraordinary. She claimed to have woken up in a world that wasn’t hers. Her sheets were different. Her job had changed. Her relationship status was not what she remembered. The differences were subtle, but undeniable. She was convinced she had somehow shifted into an alternate reality.

Whispers in the mists. Songs from unseen lips. Footsteps echoing in empty woods. In the highlands of the American Southeast, such signs may mark the presence of the Nunnehi—the Hidden People.

Before the name "hurricane" entered our everyday vocabulary, before weather apps and Doppler radar, the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean had their own way of explaining the violent storms that ripped through their islands. They feared and respected a force of nature embodied not as a storm system, but as a wrathful, commanding deity: Guabancex The Furious Goddess of Storms.