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Nadubi
Nadubi is a name sometimes listed in modern collections of Australian Aboriginal mythology, but its identity and traditional context are not securely established. Unlike well-documented figures such as Baiame, Bunjil, Da…
Si
Si is a name sometimes listed in modern references as an Inca lunar goddess. The identification is uncertain, however. In the best-documented accounts of Inca religion, the Moon is called Quilla or Killa and is personifi…
Cihuacoatl
Cihuacoatl was an important female deity and political title in the religious and governmental world of the Nahua peoples, especially the Mexica, commonly called the Aztecs. Her name is usually translated as “Serpent Wom…
Wendigo
Wendigo is a powerful and dangerous being associated chiefly with Algonquian-speaking peoples of the Great Lakes, the northern woodlands and parts of subarctic North America. The name appears in several related forms, in…
Hoori
Hoori is a figure in Japanese mythology who belongs to the divine genealogy leading to the imperial ancestors. He is best known as the mountain hunter who loses his brother’s fishing hook, enters the underwater palace of…
Abiku
Abiku is a concept in Yoruba religious tradition concerning a child believed to move repeatedly between the human world and the spirit world. The Yoruba term is commonly written àbíkú, often translated as “born to die” o…
Arachne
Arachne is a mortal weaver in the best-known Greek myth of artistic rivalry, pride and transformation. According to the account preserved by the Roman poet Ovid, she was so exceptionally skilled that she challenged Miner…
Fraoch
Fraoch, also written Fróech or Froech, is a heroic figure of medieval Irish literature associated especially with the tale Táin Bó Fraích, usually translated as The Cattle Raid of Fraoch. He belongs to the heroic world o…
Malphas
Malphas is a demon of early modern European grimoire tradition, best known as the thirty-ninth spirit listed in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is described as a great president of Hell…
St. Peter Canisius
St. Peter Canisius was a sixteenth-century Dutch Jesuit priest, theologian, teacher and missionary whose work helped shape Catholic life in the German-speaking lands during the Reformation. He is especially remembered fo…
Namorodo
Namorodo is a name used in English-language accounts for a dangerous spirit being associated particularly with Aboriginal traditions of western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. The name is also written…