American Cryptids, Deer Woman

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The Deer Woman🦌

The Deer Women is a cryptid from North American Indian legends, she can be considered a type of spirit or Forest nymph, she is attractive and alluring but also quite deadly. Often seen as very attractive young woman  though she can appear in different forms, ranging from a young beautiful woman to a deer or even a combination with a  human female upper body and the lower body of a white-tailed deer.

While sometimes associated with love and fertility, she is usually feared as a dangerous figure who punishes men, especially those who are promiscuous or harmful to women, she hates cheaters and abusive parents.

 She is most often encountered on trail's where she will be in the brush or behind the trees calling out to travelers, leading them into the forest .

She also loves to dance, and will sometimes sneak into  a communal dance unnoticed, only leaving when the drum beating stop.

Her appearance is that of a very attractive young woman, the only noticable difference is that she has hooves instead of human feet and eyes similar to a deer. 

Men that fall for her charms may escape if they notice her deer hooves and run before she can stomp them to death, though most notice to late and fail to escape.

In some version of this legend, sighting her is infact a sign of personal transformation or possibly a warning of things to come, not necessarily a bad thing but not quite good either. .

According to Ojibwe tradition, she can be banished through the use of tobacco and chanting. 

You can also break her spell by looking at her feet, and realizing that they are hooves. Once they are recognized for what they are, the Deer Women will run away.

Some believe the Deer Women to be an allegory about getting to know and understand someone you're attempting to get sexually intimate with and valuing them for who they are not who you want them to be. .

Aside from Folklore and legends, she has appeared in several movies, tv show and literary work.

Demons of Love: the Baobhan Sith or Scottish Vampire / fairy ..

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February  is the month of love and valentines Day, so too celebrate the month of love i will be posting about the monster's  of Love and subduction ...Think of demons like  the Succubus and other's similar to her in nature...
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The Baobhan Sith, pronounced baa’van see, also also known as the White Women of the Scottish Highlands or simply the Fairy Woman.

The Baobhan Sith is most often  depicted as  a beautiful young woman,

They are believed to be a type of fairy, though they share similarities to Succubus and Vampire's

They can be found lurking in the Highlands, waiting to seduce young travelers and drink their blood.
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Thought to be fairies. though some believe them to be a sub spices of Succubus or a type of lesser vampire... are a particularly dangerous type of vampire-spirits from the folklore of the Scottish Highlands like  the Leanan Sídhes, the Boabhan Siths are considered female but are usually temptresses who use their beauty to lure men into dance before brutally killing them


There mane concern is feeding - they will luring young hunters in by inviting them to dance until the hunter's are too tired too fight back or  overpower the Baobahn Sith.

They would then feed on their helpless victims, draining them dry of blood.




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The baobhan sith most often appears as a beautiful young woman wearing a long green dress..

She has deer hooves insted of normal human feet..

The long dress is used to conceals her  hooveed legs ..

                                      
                                             Green Dress...

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Like vampires, she drinks the blood of human victims and will leave before dawn..

She  can also transform according to some legends she may take the form of a hooded crow or raven. in other versions she will transform into a wolf..
                                      



There are numerous stories about the baobhan sith with a general theme of hunters being attacked in the wilderness at night.

                                  


                                      


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One famous legend state's that there were four men who went hunting and took shelter for the night in an old cabin.

One of the men supplied vocal music while the others began dancing.

The men wished there were woman present  to dance with, and soon after that four women entered the hut.

Three of them danced while the fourth sat beside as the vocalist.

He then noticed drops of blood falling from his companions and fled from the hut, taking refuge among the horses. His blood thusty  guests chased him but were unable to catch him, and when daylight came the woman all disappeared.

Later the man went back inside and found all three of his friends dead and  completely drained of blood.

The  baobhan sith was unable to catch the fourth man because liker other fairy's she has a weakness to iron., (iron being a traditional fairy  vulnerability.)

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In a similar tale one of the men noticed that the women had deer hooves instead of feet and fled from them. He returned the next morning to find that the other hunters had their "throats cut and chests laid open"<sup>.

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In a third story the hunters took refuge in a cave.

Each of the men said he wished his own sweetheart were there that night, but one of them, named Macphee, who was accompanied by his black dog, said he preferred his wife to remain at home.

 At that moment a group of young women entered the cave, and the men who had wished for their sweethearts were killed. Macphee was protected by his dog who drove the women from the cave^.

 
One recurring motif in these stories is that the baobhan sith appear almost immediately after the hunters express their desire for female companionship.

This is connected with a traditional Scottish belief that if one were to make a wish at night without also invoking God's protection, then that wish would be granted in some terrible manner..
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