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.
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.
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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