⨂CREEPYPASTA RESEARCH⨂

𝕊𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 (𝔹𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕀𝕤𝕝𝕖𝕤)

The Fear Dubh:

The Fear Dubh (Tranlated: The Black Man) is a Irish/Scottish legend concerning a malevolent entity that haunts footpaths and forests at night. In ancient times, it used to be connected to the Christian devil, but some of its characteristics are closer to that of Slender Man. It was used to scare small children to stay indoors and keep pesky children from snooping in the woods without their family.
The Fear Dubh is described as a male, thin being with no eyes and no hands.
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There has also been a relatively recent account recorded from 1960 Scotland. The account is this:

“Although I can remember my granny telling me stories about a lot of Scottish folk tales, she only ever mentioned the Fear Dubh once, and that was in church. I was about eight, and was spending the summer holidays with her.

She took me to church one Tuesday morning, and told me to wait by the font while she spoke to Father MacAndrews. And all she said was the name, and then “He’s been at the bairns’ window again”. The priest just nodded, and said he’d be round later.

I was a curious child, so I took a walk around the house later. It was built on the edge of woodland, so close that the branches of an ash tree almost touched the window. Ivy grew up the side of the house, but it was dying back in long thin patches, the leaves wrinkled and sort of wet-looking.

My granny made me say my prayers that night, and put her rosary beads under my pillow. And I fell asleep to the sound of wet leaves brushing against my window. And I dreamed of a thin man who looked at me, even though he had no eyes, and tried to touch me, even though he had no hands.

I can’t actually remember much of the next few days. My mum says it was the trauma of my grandma’s funeral that’s made those days so blurry, but I don’t understand why, because I coped okay with other funerals round about that age. And I don’t understand how Father MacAndrews died of a heart attack the same night (he was only thirty, and fit as a butcher’s dog).

And if Gran died of a stroke, I don’t understand why the police sealed off the house and woodland. It wasn’t the local police either; they were all big serious men in dark blue with riot gear on. You’d have thought that their presence would have meant that local vandals would have stayed away, but they didn’t, and poor Grans’ house got firebombed a few weeks later. The walls are still standing though. You can see the long thin streaks that the smoke’s made on the white walls. Looks almost like an octopus’ tentacles, reaching for you.

I’ve still got the rosary, and even though people laugh, I sleep with it under my pillow. Because if I don’t, I dream. About the sound of wet leaves sliding softly across a window, and the way he is still watching me, even though he has no eyes.”

The reference: "Looks almost like an octopus’ tentacles, reaching for you." The Slenderman and the Fear Dubh  are both described with tentacles. Both of them have no eyes, are thin, and often associated with the woods and sometimes with fire.
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The Faceless one:

The Faceless One is a lullaby that dates back to 18th century Wales. It was created by parents as a way of scaring their children into being obediant, and to warn them away them from the forests, as children often disappeared in the night and were found in the forest, mutilated almost beyond recognition.

'Hush, thy childe, do not stray far from the path,or The Faceless One shall steal you away to Fairieland.He preys on sinful and defiant souls,and lurks within the woods.He has hands of ebony branches,and a touch as soft as silk.Fear The Faceless One thy childe,for he shall take you to a dark place.And what shall become of thou?Noone knows, so be good, thy little one-Alas! He is here to take thou' away!
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