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Idlirvirissong is a demonic, evil spirit [2] [3] usually depicted as a clown, [4] with a nose "turned up on the side." Idlirvirissong owns many dogs, and together with them Idlirvirissong lives in a house in the sky, where she awaits the arrival of the newly deceased. [5]
Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...
Bunyip (1935), by Gerald Markham Lewis, from the National Library of Australia digital collections, demonstrates the variety in descriptions of the legendary creature.. The bunyip has been described as amphibious, almost entirely aquatic (there are no reports of the creature being sighted on land), [11] [a] inhabiting lakes, rivers, [12] swamps, lagoons, billabongs, [6] creeks, waterholes, [13 ...
A cacodemon (or cacodaemon) is an evil spirit or (in the modern sense of the word) a demon. The opposite of a cacodemon is an agathodaemon or eudaemon , a good spirit or angel . The word cacodemon comes through Latin from the Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων kakodaimōn , meaning an "evil spirit", whereas daimon would be a neutral spirit in ...
Kikimora (harmful domestic female spirit) Mavka (evil spirits, rusalkas) Rusalka (the harmful spirit that appears in the summer in the grass field, in the forest, near the water) Samovila (a female spirit inhabiting the mountains and owning wells and lakes) Upyr (vampire) Devilry (evil power) Bies; Chort; Chuhaister; Korov'ya smert' (Cow's ...
Baš Čelik – Powerful, evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration; Bashe – Elephant-swallowing serpent; Basilisco Chilote – Chicken-serpent hybrid; Basilisk – Multi-limbed, venomous lizard; Basty - Evil spirit or goblin of bad dreams
Wirry-cow – Malevolent spirit; Witch (Worldwide) – Person who practices magic; 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
The reason some people may feel as though Rabisu (Akkadian) or Robes (Hebrew) is an evil spirit or evil demon can be attributed to a series of books published in 1903-1904. Assyriologist Reginald Campbell Thompson published the seventeenth volume of Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets and a two-volume series Devils and Evil Spirits of ...