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Kelpie
The kelpie is a shape-shifting water spirit from Scottish folklore, usually described as a horse that lures people into rivers, lochs, or pools. In many traditional stories, an apparently tame horse waits beside the wate…
Anapiel
Anapiel is an obscure angelic name associated with Jewish mystical and angelological traditions. The name is more often written as Anaphiel, Anpiel, or Anafi’el, and the surviving evidence does not establish a single, un…
Ta’aroa
Ta’aroa is a major creator deity in the traditional religion of Tahiti and the Society Islands, in eastern Polynesia. He is often described as a primordial god who existed before the ordered world and brought the heavens…
Periboriwa
Periboriwa is an obscure name associated in some modern compilations with South American, especially Brazilian or Amazonian, folklore. Its identity is uncertain. Unlike well-attested figures such as the Curupira, Boitatá…
Tloquenahuaque
Tloquenahuaque is a name or epithet found in Nahua religious language and commonly associated with a supreme, all-encompassing divine power. It belongs to the religious world of central Mexico, especially the traditions …
Ga Gaah
Ga Gaah is a name associated in some modern reference lists with Iroquois or Haudenosaunee ideas of thunder and storm power. The identification is not securely established across the traditions of the Haudenosaunee natio…
Sojobo
Sōjōbō (also written Sojobo or Sōjōbō) is a powerful tengu associated with Mount Kurama in Kyoto, Japan. In Japanese legend, he is often described as the king or chief of the tengu who inhabit the mountain. His best-know…
Tore
Tore is a name associated in some ethnographic accounts with the sacred forest and a supreme or powerful forest being among certain Mbuti communities of the Ituri Forest in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Con…
Aegina
Aegina is a figure of Greek mythology best known as a river nymph, the daughter of the river god Asopus and the mother of the hero Aeacus. Her story explains the mythic naming of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf …
Ovda
Ovda is a little-documented wilderness figure commonly labelled as part of Finnish mythology. In modern descriptions, Ovda is usually presented as a hairy, human-shaped forest being associated with remote woodland, disor…
Jorōgumo
Jorōgumo is a spider-associated yōkai from Japanese folklore, usually described as a monstrous spider capable of taking the form of a beautiful woman. In traditional stories, the creature uses this appearance to attract,…