Murder of Yasuko Watanabe

Yasuko Watanabe was a 39-year-old Japanese woman, a senior economic researcher at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) moonlighting as a prostitute on the streets by night. She fell victim to murder by strangulation by an unknown assailant in Harajuku, Shibuya on March 9, 1997, and after being reported missing from home by her mother, with whom she lived, her body was discovered on March 19, 1997 in a vacant apartment in the Maruyamachō neighborhood of Shibuya, Tokyo, where she engaged in her nightly activity. During the investigation it was discovered that she had kept a detailed journal of her many clients, including dates, times and fees.

Chronica principum Poloniae

Chronica principum Poloniae is a historiographical work written in Silesia, ca, 1382–1386. Its authorship is ascribed to Canon Peter of Byczyna (1328–1389

The Legend of Knockgrafton

"The Legend of Knockgrafton" is an Irish folk tale/fairy tale published by T. Crofton Croker in Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (1825

Thomas o Yonderdale

Thomas o Yonderdale is Child ballad number 253; Roud number 3890. Child assessed that this "apocryphal" ballad seemed like a recent fabrication from a pastiche of other ballads

Keman

Keman , is a Buddhist ritual decoration, placed hanging on the beam of the inner sanctuary before the enshrined Buddha, in the main hall of the temple

Saho Sasazawa

Sasazawa Saho was a Japanese author, known as the creator of the Kogarashi Monjirō novels, which became a hit televised drama series

Paul Delarue

Paul Alfred Delarue, born 20 April 1889 in Saint-Didier, Nièvre, died 25 July 1956 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, was a French folklorist

Hoyau

Hoyau or hoyau kamui, in Ainu mythology, is a type of malodorous and venomous dragon or dragon god, believed to thrive in summer or near fire, but lose strength in the cold, whose trait earns it the alternative name of sak-somo-ayep

Shuihu

A shuihu or shui hu, is a legendary creature said to have inhabited river systems in what is now Hubei Province in China

Storm-Bogatyr, Ivan the Cow's Son

"Storm-Bogatyr, Ivan the Cow's Son" is a Russian fairy tale (skazka) #136 collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki, categorized as Aarne-Thompson type 300 A and 519

France Bleu Pays de Savoie

France Bleu Pays de Savoie, sometimes referred to as France Bleu Savoie, is a generalist radio station based in Chambéry. The radio station serves the departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, though it can also be received as far as Geneva, Lyon, and in