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' 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 ...
Malevolence or Malevolent may refer to: Concepts. Evil; Hostility; Malice (law) Sadistic personality disorder, the experience of feeling pleasure from the pain of others;
In many Abrahamic religions, demons are considered to be evil beings and are contrasted with angels, who are their good contemporaries.. Evil, by one definition, is being bad and acting out morally incorrect behavior; or it is the condition of causing unnecessary pain and suffering, thus containing a net negative on the world.
Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people; Badalisc – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps; Bagiennik – Malevolent water spirit; Bahamut – Giant fish; Bai Ze – Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits; Ba Jiao Gui – Banana tree spirit
The wendigo is often said to be a malevolent spirit, sometimes depicted as a creature with human-like characteristics, which possesses human beings. It is said to cause its victims a feeling of insatiable hunger, the desire to eat other humans, and the propensity to commit murder. [1]
Kasha – Cat-like demon which descends from the sky and carries away corpses; Kashanbo – Kappa who climb into the mountains for the winter; Katawa-guruma – Woman riding on a flaming wheel; Katsura-otoko – Handsome man from the Moon; Katallan – Man-eating giant; Kaukas – Nature spirit
According to Rashi, shedim, like lillin but unlike ruchos, have human form, although no human body. They eat and drink as humans do. [19] (p177) They can cause sickness and misfortune, [17] follow the dead and fly around graves. One is admonished not to do many thing that could invoke the shedim, such as whistling or even saying the word "shedim".
The Erlking is a malevolent creature that is said to lure children away from safety and kill them. Feldgeister; Feufollet are a Cajun legend that emerged along the bayou as early as the 1920s with a light (a ball of fire) that shot out into the sky, likely derived from the same natural phenomena as the will o' the wisp. The lights were known as ...