OK, going through my early recollections to the First Nations myths I was told that scared me beyond belief.
Its rather surprising I was exposed to so many being whiter than snow, I'm mainly Irish actually
Oh man Irish Folk tales! No this first those latter. (sorry going on about two hours sleep total for the last two days, so I'm rather disjointed)
Mosquito Man (or men)
http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legen ... Haida.html
Human Looking thing with a hidden proboscis that comes out the back of its throat, it "drinks" the brain and, in some stories I heard, spinal column of unsuspecting people, going all "And Then There Were None" usually picking people off one at a time and leaving them in positions to make it look like they just have fallen asleep.
When caught though stealth goes out the window and it goes full on rampage on whoever is there.
Ripping them apart with its hands and feasting with its proboscis. Its usually said (in the versions I heard) to have skin harder than iron or steel to go along with its super-strength. And like in the story I linked above ^ the only real way to kill it is to trap it and burn it, but, again like in the story above, its ashes turn to mosquitoes and fly away.
In the above version and some I heard there was only one Mosquito Man and it was the origin of mosquitoes, but in others I heard there were more than one and you had to watch visitors in case one was one of the things in disguise.
Right this next one works best with images so prepare for a deluge of links,
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http://lelooska.org/th_gallery/bukwus/
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Very Good Reasons to follow my example and forgo sleep are masks of the Bukwus
http://thedemoniacal.blogspot.ca/2011/08/bukwus.html
Undead things that look like the drowned bloated rotting corpses of the people they use to be the Bukwus along with the typical undead evil thing pastimes of drowning people and kidnapping children try to get people to Eat some of their food. Which is, like in pretty much all folklore, a bad idea, as it will
Turn You in To One of Them. Like ghouls, wendigo etc. moving on
Note: I'm just gonna assume everyone is familiar with the Wendigo
actually speaking of the Wendigo, the storys of Fort Kent in 1921 should make anyone wanting to use the spirit dance with joy
Short (extremely dubious) version, Doctor has his whole family die, goes nuts and/or gets possessed by Wendigo, starts killing/torturing/eating transients, goes fully over the edge one night and kills everyone he can get to, somewhere between 11 people and EVERYONE IN TOWN, runs off into the woods, never found. I'm sure just using google with Fort Kent 1921 and maybe Wendigo will get at least a dozen versions of the story. Here's the first I found
http://www.littlemissrisk.ca/blood-bath ... of-canada/
Gonna try and focus more on lesser known horrors though. Actually as a "quick" aside
Sasquatch is evil
"no he's a gentle blah blah blah" no he's evil, Sasquatch are giant hairy Ogers who are only interested in either eating people, or raping people, still places where the old folk (first nations & others, I knew a white rancher who did this) wont let women on their period go anywhere near the forest without an armed escort, because a Sasquatch will
smell you're fertile and drag you off to its cave to breed. Sasquatch = Evil horrible monster. Having grown up meeting people who FERVENTLY believed these legends, I get real sick of the 'Gentle Giant of the Forrest' stick.
Bugger, cant remember the names of the others. There was a story about these fishman looking things that lived in the Saltchuck (Ocean essentially) that would ambush people who were out on the water to drag them under, I remember seeing the Masks representing them.
Ugh, cant seem to remember any others that haven't already been mentioned, Basket Woman etc.
Instead I'll just supply some links I came across trying to refresh my memory.
http://www.native-languages.org/monsters.htm
http://www.robirda.com/legends/oluk.html
more soon proably