Jenny Greenteeth

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Jenny Greenteeth is a figure in English folklore. A river hag, similar to Peg Powler, she would pull children or the elderly into the water and drown them. She was often described as green-skinned, with long hair, and sharp teeth. She is called Jinny Greenteeth in Lancashire, but in Cheshire and Shropshire she is called Ginny Greenteeth, Wicked Jenny, or Peg o' Nell.

She is likely to have been an invention to frighten children from dangerous waters similar to the Slavic Rusalka, the Kappa in Japanese mythology, or Australia's Bunyip, but other folklorists have seen her as a memory of sacrificial practices.^[1]

[edit] Uses in modern culture

Jenny Greenteeth made an appearance in the Hellboy short story The Corpse.

She is the subject of a stop-motion short film, inspired by Hurricane Katrina, in production at http://ubatuberproductions.blogspot.com

She also made an appearance in Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men as well as Christopher Golden's The Myth Hunters.

Jenny Greenteeth has made an appearance as one of the leading characters in London Falling, a short story in 2000AD which was written by Simon Spurrier and with the art of Lee Garbett.

She also made an appearance in the movie LEGEND as Meg Mucklebones, an alias.

Jenny Greenteeth is Monster in My Pocket #108.

A monster in Wild Arms 3 is called Jenny Green Teeth.

Jenny Greenteeth is the title of a song by the defunct Australian band Entropy (circa 1991) written primarily by Michael "J for Juicy" Cox.

Jenny Greenteeth has made a couple of minor appearances in books from the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, where she is a faerie of the Winter Court.

[edit] References

1. ^ Carole B. Silver, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, p 155-6 ISBN 0-19-512100-6

• Katharine Briggs, An Encyclopeidia of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Brownies, Boogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures, "Jenny Greenteeth", p242. ISBN 0-394-73467-X