Talk:Bloody Bones

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Please do not redirect this page to Hobgoblin, as it covers a specific type of hobgoblin. The Hobgoblin page doesn't even have the name Bloody Bones on it as a synonym.

I'm Irish and familiar with a lot of Irish myths and legends, and I've never of this. It sounds to me like the invention of a modern author. Can we have better sources please that can show its legendary status? Like I said, I suspect its a modern invention, but I think the article should make that clear. Also, as the article stands now I don't think it should be in this list List_of_legendary_creatures --ConorHession (talk) 19:33, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited out much of this article. Those portions deleted were either unsourced, attributed to a non-notable/non-verifiable source, or were original research. For those portions that remain I have found sources and added references. I deleted "Scott Andrew Hutchins" as a source. I can find no reference to a Hutchins who is an authority on British folklore, and the link to a website referencing him is broken. I removed the Irish origin for "Bloody-Bones", as the only sources I found pointed to an English origin, and I have thus changed the origin to "Great Britain" in the article. I deleted as unsourced most of the descriptions of Bloody-Bones's behavior and appearance. If anyone has references that support the deleted portions, please add them back in, with verifiable, relevant, authoritative sources. Eastcote (talk) 19:44, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

mention of Laurell K. Hamilton novel?

Any call for linking the novel Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton?

- matt lohkamp 14:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I'd say no. There are a number of pop-fantasy novels, horror films, etc., that use the name or variations of it. We don;t need to start listing them all. If it relates to the actual folkloric "bloody-bones", then it belongs, but if not, it clutters. Eastcote (talk) 16:42, 28 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As I recall (it's been a while since I've read that series) they actually do go into some detail on the creature's origins, and it generally fits with the folktale description - see here, for instance: "Rawhead and Bloody Bones was a fey approximately ten feet tall with a bloody, pulsing head. A children's boggle, Bloody Bones was a true immortal and lived to punish guilty children."

But the fact that there are other pop culture references and that this one isn't necessarily outstanding makes sense - it's the namesake and features in the climax, but the novel doesn't really deal extensively with the legend. - matt lohkamp 02:57, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is a legend in the Black country of a creature called Raw bones there are even places named after it, Raw Bones croft in Bilston for example it seems to be a quite wide spread legend that novelists have tapped into — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.217.233.144 (talk) 15:22, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]