child-stealing

Lamashtu · salience 0.9

“She is believed to sneak into homes at night, stealing or harming babies, and causing miscarriages.”

Lilitu · salience 0.9

“She is believed to steal or harm infants, causing unexplained illnesses or sudden deaths.”

Kalanoro

“In some stories it is a dangerous, child-stealing spirit that lures or abducts unattended children who wander too far into the forest, and parents in some communities invoke the Kalanoro as a cautionary figure to keep children close to home.”

Slender Man

“Slender Man's defining power is his association with children, whom he is said to stalk, follow, and in some tellings abduct, often over an extended period of surveillance before any direct encounter.”