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The Basty was also believed to "ride" horses, which left them exhausted and covered in sweat by the morning. Basty included witches who took on the form of animals when their spirits went out while they were in trance. Animals such as frogs, cats, [1] horses, hares, dogs, oxen, birds and often bees and wasps. In their metamorphosed form they ...
Bulul - are ancestor spirits and the carvings that house them. These figures are traditionally kept in granaries to ensure a good harvest. little rice-protecting spirits [12] Busaw: cannibalistic creatures who resemble humans; Buso: demons or evil spirits in Bagobo folklore. They prey on humans, spreading disease and death.
Loo-errn, spirit ancestor and guardian of the Brataualung people; Nargun, fierce half-human, half-stone creature of Gunai legend; Thinan-malkia, evil spirit who captures victims with nets that entangle their feet; Tiddalik, frog of southeast Australian legend who drank all the water in the land, and had to be made to laugh to regurgitate it
The Kalahari Desert's San people tell of a bee that carried a mantis across a river. The exhausted bee left the mantis on a floating flower but planted a seed in the mantis's body before it died. The seed grew to become the first human. [5] In Egyptian mythology, bees grew from the tears of the sun god Ra when they landed on the desert sand. [6]
Images created for magical purposes, sometimes attributed as signatures of demons, angels, and other beings. Sigil of Lucifer: Grimorium Verum: A sigil used in rituals invoking Lucifer, first recorded in the 18th-century True Grimoire.
It also covers spirits as well as deities found within the African religions—which is mostly derived from traditional African religions. Additionally, prominent mythic figures including heroes and legendary creatures may also be included in this list.
The evil spirits are said to have stones called Iyi-uwa, which they bury somewhere secret. The Iyi-uwa serves as a talisman for the á»gbanje to return to the human world and to find its targeted family; destroying the Iyi-uwa cuts the connection of the ogbanje and frees the family from the torment.
Taotao carvings sold in a souvenir shop in Siquijor Island. Anito, also spelled anitu, refers to ancestor spirits, evil spirits, [1] [2] [3] nature spirits, and deities called diwata in the Indigenous Philippine folk religions from the precolonial age to the present, although the term itself may have other meanings and associations depending on the Filipino ethnic group.