Folklore or Mythology from your Country?

In Germany, one of the most iconic folklore beings in literature is the demon Mephistopheles. His etymology stems from Hebrew mephitz (destroyer) and tophel (liar). In the very beginning during Medieval Germany, he was said to collect the souls of "those already damned". His real popularity later came through the works of Goethe, who described him as an elegant servant of Satan who struck deals with magicians in exchange for their souls, making him a very common figure in popular media even today.

My bad, I posted this in a wrong thread.

The next folkloric creature I will highlight is another creature from the state of South Carolina, probably the most famous locally. It is the Grey Man of Pawleys Island. The Grey Man is a ghost in Pawleys island South Carolina who warns people when a storm is coming. www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/the-gray-man-of-pawleys-island This ghost either appears as a shadowy creature or as a man wearing a grey raincoat and hat. This creature is interesting as I know people who've actually claimed to have seen the Grey Man. Those people are my very own parents. They were on a beach near Pawley's Island arguing when all of the sudden my mother looks over at this dude that was standing looking at the ocean. The man looked like a silhouette of a man that you could make out that he was wearing a raincoat and hat. This man seemed odd so my father approached and the thing just starts moving away from him not walking but kind of gliding. My father being the fearless southern redneck that he is chased after it running at full speed. The thing moved no faster than it did before my father started chasing it but my father could not catch it no matter how fast he ran. The night was a very foggy night and conditions may have been right for a storm that day though it never came. My parents, my father especially is not prone to lying at all. I was about five years old and was left with my grandparents so I wasn't there to see the occasion. The picture below is an artists rendering of the Gray Man and my parents swear that's what they saw.

Well, Brazil is also full of such myths and evil/weird creatures, mostly coming from Native American mythology but some being a mixture of European, Native American and African myths. This is one from where I live (south of the country), an urban legend from my city: the blonde ghost. People say that in a rainy night a taxi driver stopped when he saw a blond girl signalling at him, asking for a ride. She got into the car and told him the address to which he should go. A few minutes after they got to the place. However, the driver was surprised when he noticed that he was in front of a cemetery! He looked at the blonde and asked her if that was the right address. She confirmed and got off, saying that it was where she lived. She thanked him and moved towards the cemetery, disappearing among the tombstones...

Yes, I'm pretty sure that this sort of story is pretty common in urban centres all over the world. This one here is pretty much associated to taxi drivers only. This is because, according to what some old people say, the blonde is the ghost of a girl who was murdered 'years ago' by a maniac who happened to be a taxi driver. So the ghost would only appear to taxi drivers, to scare them as some sort of 'revenge'.

I don't know anyone personally, it's just the things I read and heard about. A few years ago they brought the story to a tv show here called 'Urban Legends'. And there's also a short film about it made in 1991.