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Mora or Mara is one of the spirits from ancient Slav mythology, a dark one who becomes a beautiful woman to visit men in their dreams, torturing them with desire before killing them. In Serbia, a mare is called zmora [57] or mora, or noćnik/noćnica ('night creature', masculine and feminine respectively). [59] In Romania they were known as Moroi.
An Alp is typically male, while the mara and mart appear to be more feminine versions of the same creature. Its victims are often females, [22] [23] whom it attacks during the night, controlling their dreams and creating horrible nightmares (hence the German word Alptraum ["elf-dream"], meaning a nightmare).
It is believed to be a creature that attacks people in their sleep, pressing on their chest and stealing their breath. However, folk legends do not provide a reason why the devil or ifrit does that. In Persian culture it is known as bakhtak ( Persian : بختک), which is a ghost-like creature that sits on the dreamer's chest, making breathing ...
Alom-bag-winno-sis – Little people and tricksters. Alp – Male night-demon. Alphyn – Lion-like creature, sometimes with dragon or goat forelegs. Alp-luachra – Parasitic fairy. Al Rakim – Guard dog of the Seven Sleepers. Alseid – Grove nymph. Alû – Leprous demon.
Before its adaptation to the Japanese dream-caretaker myth creature, an early 17th-century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (山海異物), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with the trunk and tusks of an elephant, the ears of a rhinoceros, the tail of a cow, the body of a bear and the paws of a tiger, which protected ...
Loki - a mischievous, sometimes sinister, god in Norse mythology. Pan - God of shepherds and flocks. He is a satyr: a creature that has the upper body of a man and the legs of a goat. In many stories, they talk of Pan, or just satyrs, in general, are known to play tricks on people, especially children, for their amusement.
Nasnas – Half-human, half-demon creature with half a body; Nav' – Ghost; Nawao – Savage humanoid; N-dam-keno-wet – Fish-human hybrid; Neptune (Roman mythology) – God of freshwater and sea; Neck (Germanic mythology) – Female water spirit; Negret – Little people that turn into coins
Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines) Sky Fox (mythology), a celestial nine-tailed Fox Spirit that is 1,000 years old and has golden fur (Chinese) Shug Monkey – dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain) Tanuki – Japanese raccoon dog, legends claim is a shapeshifting trickster (Japan)