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What is particularly interesting is the age of these tales. There seems to be a cycle of myth extending back over two hundred years in Bayfield and Sawyer counties. A cycle that continues to this very day. An absolute belief among locals of a race of nocturnal underdwellers that apparently come up out of the earth through mud and sinkholes to raid graveyards and feed on corpses. One is greatly reminded of the Arabic folktales of the ghul, which supposedly haunt lonely burial grounds and devour corpses and the unwary…

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