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An old she-wolf with a sky-blue mane named Ashina found the baby and nursed him, then the she-wolf gave birth to half-wolf, half-human cubs, from whom the Turkic people were born. Also in Turkic mythology it is believed that a gray wolf showed the Turks the way out of their legendary homeland Ergenekon , which allowed them to spread and conquer ...
A Roggenwolf, a carnivorous spirit of the rye fields, with sheaves of harvested rye, on the coat of arms of the Bartensleben family . The Roggenwolf ("rye wolf"), Getreidewolf ("grain wolf") [1] or Kornwolf ("corn wolf") [6] is a field spirit shaped as a wolf. The Roggenwolf steals children and feeds on them. [7]
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Akuma – Evil spirit or devil; Akupara – Giant turtle that supports the world. Akurojin-no-hi – Ghostly flame which causes disease. Al (Armenian and Persian) – Spirit that steals unborn babies and livers from pregnant women. Ala – Bad weather demon. Alal – Queen of the full moon.
Marchosias appears as a fire-spitting chimeric wolf with the wings of a griffon and the tail of a serpent.. In demonology, Marchosias is a great and mighty Marquis of Hell, commanding thirty legions of demons.
There had been numerous other aliases referring to Japanese wolf, [8] and the name ōkami (wolf) is derived from the Old Japanese öpö-kamï, meaning either "great-spirit" [9] where wild animals were associated with the mountain spirit Yama-no-kami in the Shinto religion, [7] or "big dog", [8] or "big bite" (ōkami or ōkame), [10] and "big ...
Elaborating on the connection between wolves and figures of great power, he writes: "This is why Geri and Freki, the wolves at Woden's side, also glowered on the throne of the Anglo-Saxon kings. Wolf-warriors, like Geri and Freki, were not mere animals but mythical beings: as Woden's followers they bodied forth his might, and so did wolf-warriors."