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Chonchon
Chonchon is a supernatural being associated chiefly with Mapuche and Chilean folklore. It is commonly described as a human head that separates from the body and flies through the night, using enlarged ears as wings. In m…
Mayahuel
Mayahuel is a goddess associated with the maguey or agave plant, its nourishing sap, and pulque, the fermented drink made from that sap in central Mexico. She belongs to the religious traditions of the Nahua peoples, inc…
Huruing Wuhti
Huruing Wuhti is a female spiritual being associated with Hopi mythology, although descriptions of her identity and role vary considerably between published accounts. Her name is also written in forms such as Huruing Wuh…
Kawaya-no-kami
Kawaya-no-kami (厠神), also written in English as Kawaya no Kami or “the deity of the privy,” is a Japanese household and folk-religious kami associated with the toilet, latrine, and other places used for bodily eliminatio…
Yansan
Yansan is a name used chiefly in the African diaspora for Ọya, one of the powerful òrìṣà of Yoruba religious tradition. She is especially associated with wind, storms, sudden change, warfare, transformation and the bound…
Aius-locutius
Aius Locutius was a Roman divine voice associated with a warning that preceded the Gallic capture of Rome in the early fourth century BCE. Unlike Jupiter, Mars, Venus or other major Roman gods, Aius Locutius was not a br…
Maga
Maga is an obscure name associated with Irish mythological tradition. Unlike figures such as Macha, the Morrígan, Brigid or Medb, Maga does not possess a clearly established biography, mythology or cult in the surviving …
Beleth
Beleth, also spelled Bileth, Byleth or Belet in different texts, is a king of demons in the early modern European grimoire tradition. He is best known from the Ars Goetia, the first part of the Lesser Key of Solomon, whe…
Azbogah
Azbogah is a little-known angelic name associated with Jewish angelology and later esoteric traditions. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael or Uriel, Azbogah does not belong to the small group of angels whose names and stor…
Atea
Atea is a name associated with primordial beings and creator figures in several eastern Polynesian traditions, especially those of the Marquesas and Mangareva. The name is not a single, universally defined Polynesian god…
Colo Colo
Colo Colo is a frightening being associated with the mythology and rural folklore of Chile, especially traditions connected with the Mapuche cultural area. Its description is not uniform: in some accounts it resembles a …