Jenny Greenteeth was often described as green-skinned, with long hair, and sharp teeth.
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10 Facts About Jenny Greenteeth
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Jenny Greenteeth is called Jinny Greenteeth in Lancashire and North Staffordshire but in Cheshire and Shropshire she is called Wicked Jenny, Ginny Greenteeth or Jeannie Greenteeth.
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Jenny Greenteeth is likely to have been an invention to frighten children from dangerous waters, similar in nature to the Slavic Rusalka, the Kappa in Japanese mythology, or Australia's Bunyip.
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Jenny Greenteeth is said to live at the fountainhead of large rivers in Jamaica sitting on top of a rock, combing her long black hair with a gold comb.
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Jenny Greenteeth usually appears at midday and she disappears if she observes anyone approaching.
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Jenny Greenteeth inspired the lake monster Meg Mucklebones in the 1985 Ridley Scott fantasy film Legend.
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Jenny Greenteeth appears in Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men, attacking the main character, Tiffany Aching, and her brother, Wentworth, near a shallow stream.
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Jenny Greenteeth appears in the story "Something Borrowed" and in the novel Summer Knight, and is mentioned in the novel Proven Guilty, all by Jim Butcher; and is mentioned in Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr.
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Jenny Greenteeth appears in the story "Pretty Jennie Greenteeth" by Leife Shallcross, which won the 2016 Aurealis Award for best young adult short story.
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Jenny Greenteeth appears in the short comic book story The Corpse by Mike Mignola.
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