BestiarypediaThe bestiary of every mythology
Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Strigoi
The Romanian revenant, dead or living
The Romanian vampire proper: the dead man who comes home and the living whose spirit goes out at night.
Upyr
Upyr, the Slavic vampire that rises from the grave to drink blood with a kiss
The upyr is the Slavic vampire that emerges from the grave to feed on living blood through a kiss.
Moroi
Romanian vampire, living or unbaptised
The Transylvanian name of the strigoi: the soul that leaves the sleeping body and the unbaptised dead child.
Baobhan Sith
The Scottish Blood-Sucking Ghost Women
The Baobhan Sith are the vampiric ghostly beings of Scottish folklore (Highlands). Beautiful women in green dresses who seduce men and drink their blood with iron claws.
Leshy
Leshy, the ancestral Slavic forest guardian spirit and lord of the hunt
Leshy is the Slavic forest spirit that guides respectful hunters and punishes intruders with illusions and storms.
Werewolf of Ansbach
Wolf of Ansbach, the beast dressed as a man to be hanged in 1685
A real wolf that preyed on the people of Ansbach in 1685. The town believed it was their dead administrator, and once killed they dressed it as a man and hanged it.
Enfield Poltergeist
Britain's most documented poltergeist case
Knocks, moving furniture and a recorded voice at the Hodgson home in London, between 1977 and 1979.
The Girl of the Curve
The hitchhiker who warns of the curve
A young woman in white who gets into cars at a Madrid curve and warns of the danger before vanishing.
Dullahan
Dullahan, the headless rider herald of death in Irish mythology
The Dullahan is a headless rider from Irish mythology who gallops on a black carriage announcing imminent death.
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga, the ancient and powerful witch of Slavic mythology
Baba Yaga is the ancient witch who lives in a hut on chicken legs and flies in a mortar.
Cรน Sรฌth
Cรน Sรฌth, the green fairy hound of the Highlands whose howl announces death
Cรน Sรฌth is the green fairy hound of the Scottish Highlands whose spectral howl announces imminent death.
Black Monk of Pontefract
The most violent poltergeist in England
It dragged a twelve-year-old girl up the stairs; the monk was attributed to it afterwards.
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