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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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Vetala
Vetala, the Hindu vampiric spirit that possesses corpses
Vetala is a vampiric spirit from Hindu mythology that inhabits corpses and possesses living bodies to torment humans.
Churel
The childbed dead who returns with her feet reversed
Spirit of a woman dead in childbirth who returns to exact payment for neglect, her feet turned backwards.
Ravana
The ten-headed king, lord of Lanka
The rakshasa king of Lanka, scholar and devotee of Shiva, who unleashed the Ramayana war by abducting Sita.
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