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Spelly-Coat
Allan Ramsay explains Spelly-Coat to be “one of those frightful spectres the ignorant people are terrified at, tell us strange stories of, that they are clothed with a coat of shells, which make a horrid rattling; that they’ll be sure to destroy one, if he gets not a running water between him and it. It dares not meddle with a woman with child” From Poems 1721, p227
pictured: I couldn’t find an example of a Spelly-Coat, but here is one of my favorite boogeymen, Herk Harvey, from Carnival of Souls. Close enough.
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