BestiarypediaThe bestiary of every mythology
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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Coatlicue
Mother of Earth and Death
Coatlicue, whose name means 'Lady of the Serpent Skirt', is one of the primordial Aztec deities, Earth mother goddess embodying the duality of creation and destruction. Mother of Huitzilopochtli, the Sun god, and the Centzon Huitznahua, the 400 star gods, her miraculous pregnancy led to a family rebellion that ended in her decapitation, only to be reborn stronger. Her iconic statue in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology shows her with a serpent skirt, feline claws, pendulous milk-dripping breasts, and a necklace of hearts, symbolizing devouring fertility, life-death cycle, and primordial telluric forces.
Chupacabra
Chupacabra, the livestock vampire in Puerto Rican folklore
The Chupacabra is a Puerto Rican cryptid famous for sucking blood from goats and livestock, leaving puncture wounds.
Soucouyant
Soucouyant, the Caribbean vampiric witch who sheds her skin to fly as a ball of fire
The Soucouyant is a Caribbean witch who at night sheds her skin to fly as a ball of fire and suck the blood of her victims.
Bell Witch
Bell Witch, the vengeful spirit with poltergeist activity in 19th-century Tennessee
The Bell Witch is the infamous vengeful spirit that tormented the Bell family in Tennessee with poltergeist activity and prophecies.
The Black Man of the Crossroads
The stranger who tunes the guitar at the crossing
The nameless figure who in the American South takes the instrument at midnight, tunes it and hands it back. Puckett wrote him down in 1926 and LeDell Johnson told of him in 1966.
Resurrection Mary
The phantom hitchhiker of Archer Avenue
A young woman in white who thumbs a ride on Archer Avenue and vanishes outside Resurrection Cemetery.
La Llorona
She who weeps by the water for her children
She killed her children and seeks them by night in the rivers. Her weeping sounds far off when she is near.
Loogaroo
Skin-shifting witch-vampire of the French-speaking Caribbean
An elderly woman who makes a pact with the devil, leaves her skin on a silk-cotton tree and flies like a flame to deliver blood each night.
Quetzalcรณatl
Feathered Serpent
He went down to the land of the dead to steal the bones humanity was made of, and watered them with his blood.
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.
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.
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