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Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern Baltic mythology; Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki, leszonky). Meliae, the nymphs of the Fraxinus (Ash tree) in Greek mythology
The Waldschrat is a solitary wood sprite looking scraggily, shaggily, partially like an animal, with eyebrows grown together, and wolf teeth in its mouth., as summarized by Hans Pehl in the HdA. [2]: n50) But this is a hotchpotch profile put together from disparate sources. [38]
A water sprite (also called a water fairy or water faery) is a general term for an elemental spirit associated with water, according to alchemist Paracelsus. Water sprites are said to be able to breathe water or air and sometimes can fly. These creatures exist in the mythology of various groups.
Luna, for example, is a name from Roman mythology and is the number 10 ranked name for baby girls. Others, like Eleuthia, have never cracked the top 1,000 list of boys ’ or girl s’ names in ...
The Fänggen are female wood sprites in German folklore exclusively found in Tyrol. [1] The singular term is Fangga, Fanggin, [2] or Fängge. [3] Plural terms are Fanggen, Fänggen, [1] Wildfanggen (wild = wild), wilde Wiber [4] or wilde Weiber (both: wild women). [2]
The standard German names would be Buschgroßmutter, Buschmutter, and Buschengel respectively. All three names are used to scare children and denote a female wood sprite with shaggy fluttering hair, large fiery eyes and very big teeth. Accordingly, a person looking dishevelled and unkempt was called Baschäinjel in 19th century Transylvania. [18]
Lives beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Name clearly jumped from Mayan storm god (Huracan), to Taino name for the weather phenomenon (Juracan), to this creature around the Texas-Louisiana coast. Hræsvelgr – jötunn who takes the form of an eagle (Norse mythology) Poukai – monstrous predatory bird, likely based on an extinct species
Sprite; Tiddy Mun; Tomte; Trow (folklore) Tylwyth Teg or Bendith y Mamau is the traditional name for fairies or fairy-like creatures of the Otherworld in Welsh folklore and mythology. Urisk; Vættir - also Wight; Weiße Frauen; The Xana is a character found in Asturian mythology; Yallery Brown; Zână (plural Zâne) is the Romanian equivalent ...