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Marabbecca (Italian folklore) – Malevolent water spirit; Mare (Germanic and Slavic folklore) – Malicious entity of dream. Mareikura – Attendant of Kiho-tumu, the supreme god; Mares of Diomedes (Greek mythology) – Man-eating horses; Marid (Arabian mythology) – Jinn associated fortune tellers
Grindylow – Malevolent water spirit; Grootslang (South Africa) - Large snake often associated with diamonds; Gualichu – Malevolent spirit; Guardian angel (Christian, Jewish, and Islamic belief) – Subclassification of angels that guard and protect a specific person or living being; Gud-elim – Human-bull hybrid
' malevolent spirits ') – An oni-like creature in Japanese folklore, thought to be able to provoke a person's darkest desires. Similar to the amanojaku. Jama (邪魔, lit. ' malevolent demons ') – A demon or devil of perversity, a hindrance to the practice of purity in Shinto and the practice of enlightenment in Buddhism. Jichinsai ...
Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people Badalisc ( Italian ) – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps Bagiennik ( Slavic ) – Malevolent water spirit
A malevolent demon associated with water, also described a fever-causing agency that is usually mentioned in the same breath as the wangliang. [47] In the Discourses of the States, Confucius regards the wangxiang (罔象) as a water demon, and as an entirely different being to the wangliang (魍魎), which is a demon associated with rocks and ...
Kappa – Little people and water spirit; Kapre – Malevolent tree spirit; Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz – Troublesome spirit; Karakura – Male night-demon; Karasu-tengu – Tengu with a bird's bill; Karkadann – One-horned giant animal
Malevolent spirits that appear where people have died violently and try to lure others to similar if not identical deaths. Shintai Physical objects worshipped at or near Shinto shrines as repositories where spirits or kami reside. They are not the kami themselves, just temporary repositories which make the kami accessible for humans to worship.
Said to be causes of floods and other water related disasters. Makara ( Hindu mythology ) – half terrestrial animal in the frontal part (stag, deer, or elephant) and half aquatic animal in the hind part (usually of a fish, a seal, or a snake, though sometimes a peacock or even a floral tail is depicted)