I'm looking for a noun from English folklore.
It should describe a place where unusual, mysterious, possibly magical, occurrences happen.
The locals shun and avoid this place. Its influence might be beneficial sometimes, but it's unpredictable – only the desperate, mad, or naive would seek it.
I suppose archaisms and obscure words should be fine. I need it for a translation of a fantasy game.
The Polish noun I'm looking to translate is "uroczysko" – in case some of the answerers know Polish.
The sites in question aren't one-of-a-kind so unique names starting with capital letters, like Shangri-La or Xanadu, won't do.
Best Answer
Eldritch. It's an adjective, and you can slap it on any geographical feature you want: "an eldritch waste", "an eldritch wild", "an eldritch moor", "an eldritch fen", "an eldritch barrow", etc.