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Kaw kaw, Gaw gaw
Kaw kaw is a variant of boogeyman from the Maltese folklore. Kaw kaw strolls the streets at night. He is able to smell a person's guilt and is capable of entering their homes by extending and...
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Bast, Bastet, Ubasti, Baset, Baast, Boubastis, Pasht
Bast is The Egyptian cat-headed goddess. Bastet was strictly a solar goddess until the arrival of Greek influence on Egyptian society, when she became a lunar goddess due to the Greeks associating...
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Jack-in-Irons
Jack-in-Irons is a mysterious, fierce giant from the Yorkshire lore who haunts lonely roads... He is covered with chains and wears the heads of his victims. He wields a large, spiked club... It...
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Baobhan sith, Baobhan Sidhe, Bavanshee, Baavan Shee
The 'baobhan sith'; pronounced baa'-van shee, stanis a vampire in Celtic/Scottish folklore, similar to the Manx Leanan Sídhe or Irish Banshee. They are also often referred to as the White Women of...
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Juno
Juno is a daughter of Saturn, sister and consort of Jupiter, mother of Mars and Vulcan, and one of the most important of the Roman goddesses... She used to have many duties, each with an associated...
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Cacus
Cacus is a fire-breathing giant shepherd from Italy... Some experts argue that he is the son of Vulcan... This monstrous giant used to dwel in a cave on the Aventine Hill of Latium, which was to...
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Jogah
Small spirits of nature in Iroquois (Six Nations of the indigenous of North America) folklore.. Jogah are akin to fairies... They represent aspects of nature, and are split into various groups...
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Santelmo, St. Elmo's fire, Saint Elme's fire, Corposant
The Santelmo (St. Elmo's Fire) is a spirit in the Philippine folktales which appears as a mysterious fireball that comes from the middle of nowhere and rotates or dances in the air. The term santelmo...
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Ziburinis
The Žiburinis is a scary demonic, phosphorescent, shape-shinfting skeleton from Lithuania... They say: Once some people were braking flax in the drying barn. One of the people who had just come in...
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Di sma undar jordi, Di sma
Di sma are tomte-like creature from the island of Gotland, Sweden... The name can roughly be translated as "the small ones underground". Di sma are said to take care of farms and the people and...
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La Sayona
La Sayona, the 'weeping woman', is a wandering ghost with the figure of a beautiful woman with long hair who wanders the streets wearing a long white dress in Latin America especially Venezuela......
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Fachen, Fachan, Fachin, Peg Leg Jack, Direach Ghlinn Eitidh, The Dwarf of...
Fachen is both a Scotish and Irish dreadful monster... Fachin can look as a bird-like creature with an appearance so frightening that it reportedly induced heart attacks in anyone who saw it.......
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Sobek, Sebek, Sebek-Ra, Sobeq, Sebek, Sobk, Suchos, Sebeq, Souchos, Sobki,...
Sobek is a dark being with the head of a crocodile and a headdress of feathers and a sun-disk from Ancient Egypt... There are conflicting accounts of the nature of Sobek. Somebelieve he was evil...
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Ganesh, Ganesa, Ganapati, Ekadanta, Vinayaka, Pillaiyar, Pillaiyar,...
Ganesh from Hindu floklore is a deity in a human form but with the head of an elephant - represents the power that removes obstacles and ensures success... The portrayal of Ganesha as the blend of...
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Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Pŭk, Pouke
Robin Goodfellow loves a good joke but is not one to make it hurtful. He is a sort of hobgoblin. Robin itself was a medieval nickname for the devil. His mad pranks and merry jests, full of honest...
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Datsue-Ba, Datsueba
Datsue-Ba is a Japanese demoness who looks like a hag.... This dreadful demonic being sits at the edge of the Sanzu River in the Buddhist underworld where she strips the dead of their clothes and...
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Shtriga
Shtriga is an awfully evil witch from Albanian folklore. As legend says, this evil-doer preys upon the life essence of a person (spiritus vitae) and can feed on anyone, however they prefer the young...
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Heinzelmännchen
Heinzelmännchen make their own race or probably represent a sort of household Kobold (elves/dwarves/gnomes/pixies)... "There is a tale that relates to the Heinzelmannchen of Cologne: There was a...
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Wekufe, Huecufe, Wekufü, Watuku, Huecufu, Huecubo, Huecubu, Huecuvu, Huecuve,...
Wekufe is a harmful demonic spirit in the Mapuche folklore... The concept of Wekufe is ample, and has manifolds, uses, or subjects, quality or agents, depending on the datum-point or situation that...
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El Trasgo, Trasgo, Trasgu, Trasno, Cornín, Xuan Dos Camíos Gorretí (Coloráu),...
Trasgos are tiny mischievous beings similar to goblins or gnomes from the Spanish and Portuguese folklore... They are also known to have an impish look... They are usually friendly and hard-working,...
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