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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 ...
Printable version; In other projects ... According to Inuit mythology Amaguq is a trickster and wolf spirit, able to shape-shift. [1] [2] Amaguq is the Iñupiaq word ...
Sjövættir – Sea spirit; Skin-walker (American Indian) – Animal-human shapeshifter; Skogsrå (Scandinavian) – Forest spirit; Sköll – Wolf that chases the Sun; Skookum (Chinook Jargon) – Hairy giant; Skeleton (Medieval folklore) – Living skeletons; Skrzak – Household spirit; Sky Women (Polish) – Weather spirit
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From the Kantō region to the Kinki region, along with Kōchi Prefecture, there are legends of okuri-ōkami (送り狼; literally, 'sending off wolf'). Like the okuri-inu, they are feared as a yōkai that stalk you on mountain roads and passes that are said to eat its victims when they fall over, but can actually protect people from danger if ...
Sungmanito - The Wolf Spirit of hunting and war. Sunka - The Dog Spirit of companionship and faithfulness. Tȟatȟáŋka (Great Beast), or Ta Tanka - The male Buffalo Spirit of plenty. Enemy of Mica. Tatankan Gnaskiyan (Crazy Buffalo) - The malevolent spirit who wreaks havoc on love affairs, causing feuds, murders, and suicides.
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
Witte Wieven – Female, ancestral spirit; Wolpertinger – Forest animal comprised from various animal parts (similar to a Chimera) Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) – Weather spirit; Wraith – Water spirit or ghostly apparition; Wulver – Wolf-headed humanoid spirit; Wu Tou Gui – Beheaded ghost