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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Susanoo
Susanoo, kami of the storm and the sea in Japanese Shinto folklore
Susanoo is the kami of the storm and the sea, bearer of the Kusanagi sword and associated with serpents.
Yamauba
Yamauba, man-eating crone of the Japanese mountains
Supernatural mountain crone: she offers the traveller shelter and hot food, and by night devours him.
Kosodate-yลซrei
Kosodate-yลซrei, the ghost who bought candy
A mother dead in childbirth who buys candy each night for the child born in her grave.
Tamamo no Mae
Tamamo no Mae, the kitsune of Toba's court
Nine-tailed vixen who sickened Emperor Toba and, killed at Nasu, became the stone that kills.
Oni
Oni, the Japanese demonic ogre of superhuman strength who punishes the wicked
The oni is a Japanese yokai ogre with colored skin, horns, and superhuman strength that terrorizes and punishes the wicked.
Karasu-tengu
The crow-headed tengu
The lesser tengu of Japan's mountains: beak, wings and claws, and the abduction that explained disappearances.
Oiwa
Oiwa, the ghost of the Yotsuya Kaidan
The most staged ghost in Japan: poisoned by her husband, she returns with half her face undone.
Kitsune Tenkล
Kitsune Tenkล, the celestial fox
Nine-tailed fox that after a thousand years and a long mountain seclusion attains celestial rank.
Kitsune Yakล
Kitsune Yakล, the field fox
Japanese field fox that with age takes human shape, misleads travellers with its fire and possesses people.
Sutoku Tennล
Sutoku Tennล, aristocratic goryล of the Heian period
Retired emperor who causes calamities after his exile in Sanuki due to dynastic rivalry.
Sลjลbล
King of the tengu of Mount Kurama
The daitengu of Mount Kurama who, legend says, taught swordsmanship to the boy Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
Izanami
Izanami, creator kami of death and the underworld in the Shinto pantheon
Izanami is the creator kami associated with death and the underworld in Shinto mythology of Japan.
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