It’s only a little less than a week until Halloween, and I thought I could bring you all along on a journey through scary legends and monstrous folklore creatures hailing from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

As you might know, many of the countries in continental Europe don’t have their own Halloween tradition— or at least, not in the way the United States and other English-speaking countries do. Pretty much all we know about Halloween — the jack o’ lanterns and the trick or treating and the dressing up — we have imported straight from America.