Black Annis
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Black Annis is a bogeyman figure in English folklore. She is imagined as a one-eyed blue-faced crone or witch with iron claws and a taste for human (especially child) flesh. She is said to haunt the countryside of Leicestershire, living in a cave in the Dane Hills. She supposedly goes out onto the glens at night looking for unsuspecting children and lambs to eat, then hangs their skins around her waist. This legend is of disputed origin, some say it is based on a Fifteenth century hermit called Agnes Scott, while others say it is much older and probably Celtic in origin.
In his run on Doom Patrol, Scottish comics writer Grant Morrison made a monstrous figure with the same name one of the superpowered "alters" of his multiple-personality character Crazy Jane.
Black Annis has made a brief appearance in the short story London Falling which was published in famous comic 2000AD.
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