Neko Rider ~ When Legend Meets Urban
By: Charz
Tags: Celtic Folklore, Celtic mythology, Celty Sturluson, Certy Sturluson, Dulachan, Dullahan, Durahan, Faerie, Ghost Rider, Headless ghost, Legend, Urban Legend, Wulahan
Category: Codex, Durarara!!
Celty Sturluson ~ Durarara!!
“Then wonder not at headless folk,
Since every day you greet’em;
Nor treat old stories as a joke,
When foots you daily meet’em”
The Legendary
Dullahan
A few hundred feet from the place where this occured, is a lane Oldfield Lane, Wortley, near Leeds, which was noted many years ago, as the best of one those somewhat rare spectres, a headless ghost. Some are living even now who have known those who had seen this phantom. When last seen, it appeared as a comfortable-looking man, dressed in a drab-coat, and carried the head under the arm. As a Yorkshire version of a very ancient and wide-spread superstition, its memory is worth preserving. The belief in headless ghosts is found in many parts of England, Ireland (the Dullahan or Dulachan), Wales, Scotland, Spain, France, and Germany.
Fiends, ghosts and sprites: including an account of the origin and natura of belief in the supernatural, John Netten Radclíffe, 1854, p111</blockquote
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