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Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Ghaddฤr
Yemeni jinn who tortures desert travelers
Ghaddฤr ambushes lone travelers in the deserts of Yemen and the Hejaz, captures, tortures and leaves them to die; cousin of the ghลซl and siสฟlฤ.
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Cihuacรณatl
Cihuacรณatl, the Serpent Woman of the Mexica
Mexica goddess of childbirth, also called Tonantzin, who left a cradle holding a flint knife in the market.
Huitzilopochtli
Huitzilopochtli, the Hummingbird of the Left
Mexica god of war, born armed at Coatepec, who led the Mexica to the prickly-pear of Tenochtitlan.
Perseus
Perseus, who beheaded Medusa and reigned at Tiryns
Greek hero, son of Zeus and Danae, who cut off Medusa's head without looking at her and saved Andromeda.
Theseus
Theseus, who unified Attica and killed the Minotaur
Athenian hero who killed the Minotaur with his fists and gathered the villages of Attica into one city.
Danel the Fallen
Bound for seventy generations
He fell with the two hundred, sired giants and awaits judgement beneath the hills. His sentence is shared.
Danel
The seventh name on the list
A chief of ten among the two hundred of Hermon. The Book of Enoch names him twice and nothing more.
Pricolici
The wolf revenant of Romanian folklore
The Romanian strigoi that walks as a wolf or a hound, and whom only blood turns back into a man.
Skรถll
The wolf that chases the sun
The wolf of Fenrir's line that runs after Sรณl across the sky and will catch her when Ragnarรถk comes.
Charun
The Etruscan demon of death
The hammer-wielding daimon who escorts the dead in the painted tombs of Etruria.
Charon
The ferryman of the underworld
The daimon boatman who ferries the dead across the Acheron in exchange for an obol.
Hellhound
The Devil's black dog, hound of the Wild Hunt
Ember-eyed mastiff that hunts souls by night: it serves Hecate at the crossroads and runs with the Wild Hunt.
Legion
The demon multitude of the country of the Gerasenes
The numberless spirits that spoke as one from a possessed man, until Jesus sent them into a herd of swine.
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