Documents

Letters, gazettes and registers, transcribed from the page and translated.

• English, transcribed from the page image

  “Burlington Under Arms”, Perth Amboy Evening News, 21 January 1909

• English, transcribed from the page image

  “In the Pines”, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1859: Leeds’s devil

• English, transcribed from the page image

  “The Bell Witch”, from an anonymous sketch of Robertson County (about 1880, printed 1900)

• English, transcribed from the page image

  “The Tennessee Ghost”, New England Farmer, 26 January 1856

• English, transcribed from the page image

  A. Blayney Percival, The Chemosit, Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society, August 1914

• English, transcribed from the page image

  A. C. Hollis, The Nandi (1909), p. 41: the devil called Chemosit

• Latin, OCR, checked against the page image

  Abraham Ortelius to Dominicus Lampsonius, 27 December 1589, with Lampsonius's replies

• English, transcribed from the page image

  al-Baladhuri, Futuh al-buldan, transl. Murgotten (New York, 1924): the taking of as-Sus and the tomb of Daniel, pp. 114 to 115

• Arabic, transcribed from the page image

  al-Istakhri, Kitab masalik al-mamalik (BGA I, Leiden, 2nd ed.): the coffin of Daniel at as-Sus, p. 92

• Arabic, transcribed from the page image

  al-Muqaddasi, Ahsan al-taqasim (BGA III, Leiden, 2nd ed.): the grave of Daniel at Sus, p. 407, and the feud over his coffin, p. 417

• English, transcribed from the page image

  al-Tabari, History, vol. XIII (SUNY, 1989), transl. Juynboll: the remains of Daniel at al-Sus, pp. 146 to 148

• Dutch, transcribed from the page image

  Ampzing, Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem (1628): the sea-monster woman, verse and the Divisiekroniek passage

• French, transcribed from the page image

  Annales de la propagation de la foi, 1864: the Jesuit account of the Ramanenjana

• English, transcribed from the page image

  Antia, Karnamak-i Artakhshir Papakan (Bombay, 1900): Chapters X, XII and XIII, English translation and a note

• Spanish, transcribed from the page image

  Benavides, Memorial (Madrid, 1630): the miraculous conversion of the Xumana nation

• Spanish, transcribed from the page image

  Benavides's letter to the New Mexico friars, 1631: the abbess's habit (Mexico reprint, 1730)

• English, transcribed from the page image

  Benjamin of Tudela, Itinerary, transl. Adler (Oxford, 1907): Shushan and the coffin of Daniel, pp. 52 to 53

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Bölsche, Drachen (1929): von Stein's report on the mokéle-mbêmbe

• Malagasy, OCR, checked against the page image

  Callet, Tantara ny Andriana, 1908: the Ramanenjana at the palace

• English, transcribed from the page image

  Captain John R. Bell's journal, 19 October 1820

• Latin, transcribed from the page image

  Chronicon Belgicum, book 31, chapter 63: the woman the girls of Edam caught (in Sweertius, 1620)

• Latin, transcribed from the page image

  Commercium litterarium, 12 March 1732: Johann Friedrich Glaser's letter on the vampires of Medveđa

• French, transcribed from the page image

  Darmesteter, Études iraniennes, vol. 2 (Paris, 1883): the worm of Haftvâd, pp. 81 to 83

• Chinese, transcribed from the page image

  Fang Chengpei, preface to Leifeng Pagoda (Leifengta chuanqi), winter 1771

• Chinese, transcribed from the page image

  Feng Menglong, “Madam White Is Kept Forever Under Leifeng Pagoda” (1624): the ending

• French, transcribed from the page image

  Gazette de France, 23 November 1764: letter from Marvejols

• English, transcribed from the page image

  Geoffrey Williams, An Unknown Animal on the Uasingishu, Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society, July 1912

• Italian, transcribed from the page image

  Guicciardini, Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi (1567): the sea-woman of Haarlem

• Latin, transcribed from the page image

  Hadrianus Junius, Batavia (1588): the sea-monster of the Purmer

• German, OCR, checked against the page image

  Hermann von Weinsberg's diary, 31 October 1589: Stupe Peter

• Japanese, transcribed from the page image

  Honchō koji innenshū (1689): the plate mansion of Matsue

• Swedish, transcribed from the page image

  Hvad nytt från Stockholm?, 17 July 1889: "Draken eller Lindormen", a writer's note after Hyltén-Cavallius's death

• English, transcribed from the page image

  I. Q. Orchardson, The Chemosit, Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society, January 1927

• Chinese, transcribed from the page image

  Ji Yun on the two kinds of jiangshi, Yuewei caotang biji, juan 10 (1791)

• Chinese, transcribed from the page image

  Jingangzuan, 1 February 1935: Shushi, 'On passing the year'

• Chinese, transcribed from the page image

  Jingangzuan, 17 January 1933: Sun Yusheng on the Ziwei scroll

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Johann Leopold Cysat, Beschreibung des Vierwaldstättersees (1661): the dragon stone and the deeds of 1509 and 1523, pp. 176-181

• Japanese, transcribed from the page image

  Kagakushū, the entry for inuoumono (dog-shooting), 1617 printing

• French, transcribed from the page image

  Letter written from Auvergne to the Comte de ***, 1767: the death of the Beast (first page)

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Linzbauer, Codex sanitario-medicinalis Hungariae, Mantissa: Maria Theresa's letters of 8 and 9 February 1755 and the protocol of 17 March 1755

• English, transcribed from the page image

  Loftus, Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana (London, 1857): Daniel's body in Ouseley's translation of Ibn A'tham, pp. 318 to 320

• Spanish, transcribed from the page image

  Martin Sheffield to Clemente Onelli, Esquel, 19 January 1922

• Chinese, OCR, checked against the page image

  Ming Shi, juan 28 (treatise on the five phases): the black creature entries of 1476, 1512 and 1638

• French, transcribed from the page image

  Mohl, Le livre des rois, vol. 5 (Paris, Imprimerie nationale): preface pp. iv to v and the Heftwad passages, pp. 260 and 263

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Nöldeke, Geschichte der Perser und Araber zur Zeit der Sasaniden, aus der arabischen Chronik des Tabari (Leiden, 1879): Ardashir's coast king and the queen of Alar, pp. 10 to 11 and 19

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Nöldeke, Geschichte des Artachsîr i Pâpakân (Göttingen, 1878): the name Haftânbôcht, p. 49, and the Worm's end, pp. 56 to 57

• English, OCR, checked against the page image

  Patterson, The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo, Field Museum leaflet, 1925: the opening

• French, transcribed from the page image

  Proyart, Histoire de Loango (1776): the tracks of an unseen animal

• Chinese, transcribed from the page image

  Pu Songling, “Shibian” (The corpse that changed), Liaozhai zhiyi, Qingketing edition

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Reichs-Post-Reuter, 4 April 1755: the dispatch "Aus Oberschlesien, vom 16 März"

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Reichs-Post-Reuter, 6 May 1755: Vienna's notice of 23 April

• English, transcribed from the page image

  Sanjana, The Karname i Artakhshir i Papakan (Bombay, 1896): the Worm chapters, English translation and notes

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Schöppl, Intermittierende Quellen in Krain (Die Erdbebenwarte, 1903/04): Freyer's visit of 4 November 1846 and Deschmann in 1885

• Japanese, transcribed from the page image

  Seiban kaidan jikki (1754): the plate mansion at Himeji

• Chinese, transcribed from the page image

  Shenbao, 31 December 1939: 'The legend of passing the year', children's weekly

• Japanese, transcribed from the page image

  Shinmeikyō, the Tamamo passage (manuscript copied 1540)

• Japanese, transcribed from the page image

  Shiryō gedatsu monogatari kikigaki (1690): the opening, the register entry, the headman's regret, the closing note and the colophon

• Swedish, transcribed from the page image

  Smålandsposten, 26 July 1884: the squib "Lindormen är funnen och förevisad i Wexiö" and a letter from Allbo

• Swedish, transcribed from the page image

  Smålandspostens veckoblad, 29 May 1884: the notice of Hyltén-Cavallius's booklet and his reward

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Steinberg, Gründliche Nachricht von dem Czirknitzer-See (Laibach, 1758 to 1761): the spring at Ober-Laibach and the white fish of 1751

• Japanese, transcribed from the page image

  The Amabie sheet: Higo no kuni kaichū no kai, Kōka 3 (1846)

• German, transcribed from the page image

  The Cologne pamphlet of 1589: the werewolf of Bepper

• English, OCR, checked against the page image

  The Spectator, 3 March 1900: The Lions that Stopped the Railway (first paragraph)

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Theresianisches Gesetzbuch, no. 385: Maria Theresa's order of 1 March 1755 against superstition

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Valvasor, Die Ehre dess Hertzogthums Crain (1689), vol. 1, Book IV, chapter XXXI: the water near Ober-Laybach that runs only when it is stirred

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Van Swieten, Vampyrismus (Augsburg, 1768): the Hermersdorf passages and the editor's preface

• Chinese, OCR, checked against the page image

  Veritable Records of Emperor Xianzong, juan 162, Chenghua 13, 2nd month, 8th day: a note on Wang Zhi

• Chinese, OCR, checked against the page image

  Veritable Records of Emperor Xianzong, juan 166, Chenghua 13, 5th month, 10th day: the memorial that ended the Western Depot

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Visum et Repertum, 1732: the surgeons' report on the vampires of Medveđa

• Dutch, transcribed from the page image

  Wachtendorp, Oude Hollandsche geschiedenissen ofte corte rym-kronyck (1648 printing): the sea-woman, eighth book

• English, transcribed from the page image

  Warner and Warner, The Shahnama of Firdausi, vol. 6 (London, 1912): Haftwad and the Worm, pp. 233 to 245

• German, transcribed from the page image

  Wienerisches Diarium, 21 July 1725: the provisor's report from Kisolova

• Chinese, transcribed from the page image

  Xu Ke, “The art of sending corpses home” (送尸術), Qingbai leichao

• Japanese, transcribed from the page image

  Yōkai gendan: how kokkuri came to Japan, and the ship at Shimoda, 1887

• French, transcribed from the page image

  Zotenberg, preface to Thaʿâlibî, Histoire des rois des Perses (Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1900), p. xxxv