TV vs Folklore: Supernatural and the Woman in White

Описание: Have you ever wondered where the story of the Woman in White from the pilot episode of Supernatural comes from? The short answer is that it’s the Mexican legend of La Llorona, but the longer answer is that there are stories of ghostly, spooky women in white from all over the world…

00:00 Supernatural's Woman in White
01:20 La Llorona
08:02 Japanese ghosts
10:06 Rudd House, South Africa
11:14 Bangkok, 2015
12:20 Celtic and European White Ladies
16:01 Y Ladi Wen
19:51 Creepy Classics & Freya!

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Creepy Classics theme music composed and performed by Ed Harrisson ©

Books and sources

Catrien Ross, Haunted Japan: https://amzn.eu/d/cyL1odo

Domino Renee Perez, There Was a Woman: La Lorona from Folklore to Popular Culture: https://amzn.eu/d/fcoGRZ9

Jason R. Ward, Haunted Thailand: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0828MTCP...

Gillian Bennett, The 100 Best British Ghost Stories: https://amzn.to/3wfXEpW

Delyth Badder and Mark Norman, The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts: https://amzn.eu/d/hw4EJOz

Zack Davisson, Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost: https://amzn.eu/d/buanq6p

Gérard Lomenec’h, Dames Blanches et Fantômes Bretons

Jan Harold Brunvand, The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings: https://amzn.to/3x8SKeB

Darnley Sullivan, Ghosts of South Africa : Chilling Tales of Real Hauntings: https://amzn.to/3y6EMKV

Wikipedia pages on the various white ladies

https://americanghoststories.com/2023...

Image credits:

Screencaps from Supernatural via https://fancaps.net/tv/episodeimages.... and https://supernatural.fandom.com/wiki

La Llorona photo: CarlosGalvanMex, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

La Llorona tribute: Karla Andrew, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Statue of Cihuacoatl in the Museo Nacional Antropologia: Madman2001, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

Donna Marina (La Malinche), from "The Mastering of Mexico" by Kate Stephens (1916) New York: The MacMillan Company. Illustration between pages 64-65 (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

1890 facsimile of 1500s image of the meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma II: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Fresco of Medea from the Casa dei Dioscuri, Pompeii by Olivierw; public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Greek vase showing the flight of Medea via https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/M26.1B....

Statue of the lamia: Josu Goñi Etxabe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

View from the Pali lookout, Oahu, Hawaii: User:Jiang, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo of the Rudd House museum from the museum’s website: https://museumsnc.co.za/new_site/sate...

Ōkyo and the ghost: Yoshitoshi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Ghost of Oyuki: Maruyama Ōkyo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Okiku: Wisi eu, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Ghost of Oiwa: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Lewtrenchard House before 1923: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The banshee: W.H. Brooke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Other photos author’s own