BestiarypediaThe bestiary of every mythology
Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Set
Set, god of chaos, storm and violence in Egyptian mythology
Set is the Egyptian god of chaos, storm, desert and violence.
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Sutoku Daitengu
Sutoku Daitengu, deposed emperor transformed into a vengeful great tengu
Sutoku Daitengu is the spirit of Emperor Sutoku who, after biting his tongue and writing a blood oath of vengeance, transformed into a daitengu and caused disasters in Japan for centuries.
Tenjin
Tenjin, god of lightning and scholarship in the Shinto pantheon
Tenjin is the kami into which Sugawara no Michizane transformed after his death, worshipped as the protector of scholarship and calligraphy.
Sugawara no Michizane
Aristocratic Heian period goryō, scholar and politician unjustly exiled who causes calamities after his death
Sugawara no Michizane is a Heian period goryō associated with lightning, exile and calligraphy, deified as Tenjin in Dazaifu.
Otsuyu
Otsuyu, vengeful Japanese spirit from the Botan Dōrō folklore
Otsuyu returns each night with a peony lantern and a white kimono to visit her living lover.
Langsuir
Langsuir, the winged vampire mother of rural Malay folklore
Malay woman who dies forty days after childbirth and returns as a winged vampire.
Krasue
Krasue Floating Head with Entrails
Thai woman who at night separates into a floating head with dangling entrails and flies low seeking blood.
Manananggal
Manananggal Segmented Flying Torso
Village woman who at dusk separates at the waist, flies with bat wings and sucks fetuses from pregnant women with a proboscis tongue.
Penanggalan
Penanggalan, the Malay vampire of floating head and glowing entrails
The penanggalan is a Malay female vampire that detaches as a floating head with glowing entrails to hunt blood at night.
Sutoku Tennō
Sutoku Tennō, aristocratic goryō of the Heian period
Retired emperor who causes calamities after his exile in Sanuki due to dynastic rivalry.
Taira no Masakado
Aristocratic goryō of the Heian period, rebel warrior who leads a rebellion and causes disasters after his death
Kantō goryō with high military and geological influence, attributes of severed head, rebellion and earthquakes.
Okiku
Okiku, samurai maid in Himeji who returns as vengeful yūrei after being killed by her master
Okiku obsessively counts plates up to nine and repeats, dressed in a white kimono beside a well.
Oiwa
Oiwa, vengeful Japanese spirit from the Yotsuya Kaidan folklore
Vengeful Japanese spirit who dies poisoned by her husband and returns as a deformed yūrei with a fallen eye.
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