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Monster may also be Native, but name was given from Native language by local whites & not the original name, if so. Sea goat – Half goat, half fish; Selkie – Shapeshifting seal people; Water bull – Nocturnal amphibious bull; Water Horse – General name for mythical water dwelling horses of many cultures
The Infernal Names is a compiled list of adversarial or antihero figures from mythology intended for use in Satanic ritual. The following names are as listed in The Satanic Bible (1969), written by Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey . [ 1 ]
The Greek word κήρ means "the goddess of death" or "doom" [2] [3] and appears as a proper noun in the singular and plural as Κήρ and Κῆρες to refer to divinities. Homer uses Κῆρες in the phrase κήρες θανάτοιο, "Keres of death". By extension the word may mean "plague, disease" and in prose "blemish or defect".
Veļi – Ghost, shade, formed after a death of a human; Věri Şělen – Chuvash dragon; Vetala – Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits; Víbria – Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak; Vielfras – Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid; Vila – Weather spirit; Vilkacis – Animalistic, werewolf-like monster
Mythical characters, spirits, and creatures [ edit ] As is common in folklore , there is no standard set of characteristics, or names, and spirits or magical creatures are referred to by many names, often identifying their function or the place or environment of their activity.
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 ...
Pok-wejee-men – Tree spirit; Polevik (Polish) – Little people and field spirits; Pollo Maligno – Man-eating chicken spirit; Polong – Invisible servant spirit; Poltergeist – Ghost that moves objects; Pombero – Wild man and nature spirit; Ponaturi – Grotesque, malevolent humanoid
Harpy – birdlike human-headed death spirit; Haugbúi – undead being who lives in its burial mound; Havsrå – saltwater spirit; Helloi (Meitei mythology) – celestial maidens, daughters of the Sky God Salailen; Headless Horseman – humanoid spirit who haunts or kills