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Cryptids of Hungary

What cryptids are in Hungary? The best-known is Lidérc.

Hungarian folklore’s most unusual creature is the lidérc, a being that comes in several forms: a bald, talking chicken hatched from the first egg of a black hen kept under the arm, a tiny “earthly devil” found in a box or pocket, and a flying fire that visits at night in the form of an absent lover. It brings money and drains its owner’s strength.

  • 1 cryptid

Cryptids reported in Hungary

Spectral · Medieval folklore

Lidérc

Hungary and Transylvania The lidérc of Hungarian folklore: a black-hen-egg familiar that brings wealth and drains its owner, or a fiery night lover that flies in by the chimney. Folklore

The legends of Hungary

The word lives on in modern Hungarian as lidércfény (will-o’-the-wisp) and lidércnyomás (nightmare).

Hotspots

  • Hungarian Great Plain

    Marshy lowland regions associated with will-o’-the-wisp stories.

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