BestiarypediaThe bestiary of every mythology
Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Durga
Ten-Armed Warrior Goddess
Durga is the Hindu goddess with ten arms who rides a tiger and defeats demons like Mahishasura.
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Kosodate-yūrei
Kosodate-yūrei, maternal spirit that returns to care for her baby
Maternal spirit from Japanese folklore that returns at night to care for her baby.
Sōjōbō
Sōjōbō, daitengu mountain king of Mount Kurama
Sōjōbō is the daitengu mountain king of Mount Kurama, master of the hero Minamoto no Yoshitsune and lord of storms and kenjutsu.
Konoha-tengu
Konoha-tengu, yamabushi ascetic of the sacred mountains
Intermediate phase of the tengu lineage that after centuries of shugendō asceticism adopts a humanoid form with prominent nose and complete yamabushi attire.
Karasu-tengu
Karasu-tengu, the bestial crow tengu of early Japanese folklore
Anthropomorphic giant crow spirit that inhabits mountain forests and abducts lost children.
Yamauba
Yamauba, anthropophagous crone of Tōhoku Japanese folklore
Supernatural crone who offers daytime shelter and devours at night in Tōhoku forests.
Tamamo no Mae
Tamamo no Mae, the transmigratory imperial seductress of nine tails
Tamamo no Mae is the nine-tailed kitsune courtesan who syncretizes three East Asian femmes fatales and causes dynastic falls.
Kitsune Tenkō
Tenkō Celestial Elder Kitsune
Ascended Kitsune Tenkō that after a thousand years of Zen-Taoist-Shinto cultivation attains independent celestial status.
Kitsune Myōbu
Kitsune Myōbu, celestial messenger of Inari Ōkami
Celestial messenger of Inari who conveys agricultural blessings and prosperity.
Kitsune Yakō
Kitsune Yakō, rural predator fox of Japanese folklore
Common Japanese fox that after one hundred years develops partial human transformation and rural predation through possession, foxfire and seduction.
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