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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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Melinoe
Melinoe, chthonic goddess of specters and nightmares in the Orphic tradition
Melinoe roams the night sending ghosts and terrors to mortals with her body half black and half white.
Hades
King of the underworld
He is no god of evil: he is the one who lets no one out, and whom no one dares to name.
Pluto
Pluto, Roman god of the underworld and lord of subterranean riches
Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld, equivalent to the Greek Hades, lord of the dead and subterranean riches.
Eurynomos
Eurynomos, chthonic daemon corpse-devourer of the Greek Hades
Eurynomos is the chthonic daemon that devours the flesh of corpses leaving only the bones according to Pausanias.
Persephone
Persephone, goddess of rebirth, vegetation and queen of the underworld
Persephone is the Greek goddess of rebirth, vegetation and queen of the underworld.
Erinyes
Erinyes, avengers of kindred blood
Goddesses born from the blood of Uranus who hound to madness whoever kills a blood relative.
Proserpina
Proserpina, Roman queen of the underworld, daughter of Ceres
Carried off from the grove of Henna in Sicily; the pomegranate bound her below for half the year.
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.
Cerberus
The dog that only lets you in
Monstrous hound of Hades: he fawns on the souls that enter and devours those that try to leave.
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