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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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Azrael
The angel of the appointed hour
The angel who takes the soul at the hour God has fixed, not an instant before or after.
Munkar
Munkar, the grave angel no one recognises
One of the two angels who question the dead in the grave. His name means 'the Unknown'.
Nakir
Nakir, the angel whose name is a Qur'anic word
The second angel of the grave. His name is the word the Qur'an uses for God's own reproof.
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