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Engkanto (from Spanish encanto, lit. ' enchantment ') are mythical environmental spirits that are said to have the ability to appear in human form. [1] They are often associated with the spirits of ancestors and spirits of the dead called anito in the Philippines.
The ancient Lakota tribes of the Northwest had heard rumors from neighboring tribes that a Giant Evil Spirit had emerged from the icy waters of the far Northeast Atlantic. In time the creature and its companion had fought their way across the eastern coast into the midwest, with many different tribes finding ways to scare off the monsters.
A nuno sa punso ("old man of the mound"), or simply nuno ("old man" or "grandparent" "ancestor"), is a dwarf-like nature spirit in Philippine mythology. It is believed to live in an anthill or termite mound, hence its name, literally 'Ancestor/Grandparent living in the anthill'.
Belial (also Belhor, Baalial, Beliar, Beliall, Beliel) is listed as the sixty-eighth spirit of The Lesser Key of Solomon. He is a King of Hell with 80 legions of demons and 50 legions of spirits under his command. He was created as the first, after Lucifer. [6] He has the power to distribute senatorships and gives excellent familiars.
Similarly, the term Anito—widely understood today as referring to ancestor spirits or spirits of the dead and evil spirits—may have derived from the proto-Malayo-Polynesian qanitu and proto-Austronesian qanicu, both of which mean ancestral spirits, spirit of the dead, evil spirits and the wooden idols and fetish that represent them.
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Bulul - are ancestor spirits and the carvings that house them. These figures are traditionally kept in granaries to ensure a good harvest. little rice-protecting spirits [9] Busaw: cannibalistic creatures who resemble humans; Dalaketnon: evil engkanto elf-like beings. Males possess pale skin and extremely dark hair, while females boast bronzed ...
The dialectologist Elizabeth Wright described the boggart as 'a generic name for an apparition'; [1] folklorist Simon Young defines it as 'any ambivalent or evil solitary supernatural spirit'. [2] Halifax folklorist Kai Roberts states that boggart ‘might have been used to refer to anything from a hilltop hobgoblin to a household faerie, from ...