BestiarypediaThe bestiary of every mythology
Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Qarinah
Qarina, the female double born with every man
Female double born with every man, bringing jealousy and barrenness, and prowling by night as a cat.
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.
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.
Qarฤซn
Qarฤซn, male spirit-double who whispers temptations according to Islamic tradition
Male spirit-double assigned to each person at birth who accompanies them throughout life whispering temptations.
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.
Emperor Jiangshi
The highest grade of the Chinese reanimated corpse
A jiangshi of imperial rank: it keeps its will, drags lesser corpses along and resists common seals.
Hopping Jiangshi
The classic form of the jiangshi, the hopping corpse
Chinese corpse that advances in hops, drains qi through the breath and is frozen by a Taoist talisman.
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.
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.
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