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Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead; Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld
Chindi - (Navajo) The dark side of the soul which has the ability to remain behind in the earth after death and become a sort of dark spirit. Drekavac (Croatia) Name used for several distinct undead monsters. Ghost – (Worldwide) Inipi- (California Native) shapeshifting ghosts; Jikininki; Kuchisake-onna; Lugat (Albanian) Poltergeist ...
Hesitant, Joshua Ben Levi gives back the knife in exchange for the Angel of Death's name. To never forget the name, he carved Troke into his arm, the Angel of Death's chosen name. When the knife was returned to the Angel, Joshua's carving of the name faded, and he forgot. (Ket. 77b; Jellinek, l.c. ii. 48–51; Bacher, l.c. i. 192 et seq.).
The Lalande dictionary follows suit: "God, angels, demons, disembodied souls of people after death are the spirits". [4] In some cultures, the "spirits of nature" refers to the elementals, spirits linked to the four classical elements: gnomes for earth, undines for water, sylphs for air, salamanders for fire).
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Duppy, malevolent spirits who bring misfortune and woe on those they set upon; Hupia, the spirits of deceased people; portrayed as faceless people or in the form of deceased loved ones; Jumbee, the generic name given to all malevolent entities, including demons and spirits; Lwa, a Voodoo spirit who acts as an intermediary between humanity and ...
A magical diagram, composed of two circles, a pentagram, and three heptagons, and is labeled with the name of God and his angels. Squared circle: Alchemy: A symbol of the Philosopher's stone. Depicted on the left image is Michael Maier's Emblem XXI from Atalanta Fugiens. Sriramachakra: Tamil mysticism: A mystic diagram used for astrology. Sri ...
Ghost (Worldwide) – Disembodied spirits of those that have died; Ghoul – Cannibalistic shapeshifting desert genie often classified as undead. Giant (Worldwide) – Immensely large and strong humanoids; Giant animal (Worldwide) – Unusually large beasts; Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw – Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid water spirit