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Azeban, Azban, Asban, Azaban
In the folklore of the Native American Tribes (Abenaki and Penobscot)* the Azeban is a trickster figure, Racoon deceives animals and other beings for food or other services...The Azeban often behaves...
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Mngwa, Nunda
The Mngwa, which means the strange one, is described as an overly aggressive, unknown, big cat roughly the size of a donkey reported to roam the East African countries of Tanzania and Kenya...It has...
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Ullr, Ull, Wulþuz, Ollerus, Ullur
Ullr is a very old god of the northern lands, in Norse folklore, so old that by the time the Iron Age Norse myths were written down, not much more was known about him except that he was a god of...
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Kabeiros, Kabeiroi, Cabiri, Cabeiri, Kabiri, Cabirus, Cabeiri
In Greek folklore, the Kabeiroi are twin gods or daimones who presided over the orgiastic dances of the mysteries of Samothrake which were performed in honour of the goddesses Demeter, Persephone, and...
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Tefnut, Tfnt, Tefenet, Lady of the Flames
In Ancient Egyptian folklore, Tefnut, transliterated tfnt (tefenet), a daughter of the solar god Atum-Ra, is a goddess of moisture, moist air, dew and rain.She is the sister and consort of the air god...
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Mami Wata, Mammy Water
Mami Wata, a water-spirit, is venerated in West, Central, Southern Africa, and in the African diaspora in the Caribbean and parts of North and South America.Mami Wata spirits are usually female, but...
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Pap-nigin-gara, Panigara
Panigara (lord of the boundary stone) is the Akkadian and Babylonian god of war, syncretised with...
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Šala, Shala, The Ear of Grain
Šala, consort of the storm god Adad in the Sumerian folklore, is probably of non-Mesopotamian origin. The name Šala (with a long vowel in the first syllable) has no clear Akkadian or other Semitic...
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Erra; Irra
Erra is the god of war and plagues in the Babylonian folklore (Akkadian in particular), who later became closely associated with the underworld god Nergal.Erra, known from an 'epos' the eighth century...
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Ninhursag, Ninkharsag, Queen of the Mountain, Lady of bearth, Nintu,...
Ninhursag, the 'Queen of the Mountain', is the Sumerian earth and mother-goddess, and a goddess of fertility...She is the consort of the supreme god Enki (and is as such identified with...
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Magni
Magni (meaning mighty), the god of Strength in Norse folklore, has been following in the footsteps of his father Thor, god of Thunder, in ways that go beyond Norse mythos.As champions of humans and...
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Girra, Girru, Gerra
Girru, the son of Anu and Šala, according to the first-millennium incantation series Maqlû, tablet II, lines 136-7, is the light and fire god in the Akkadian folklore and the Sumerian Gibil's...
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Capricornus, Capricorn, See-Goat
The representation of CAPRICORNUS, The Sea-Goat or Goat-Fish, as a creature with the head and body of a goat and the tail of a fish, may well have originated from Assyro-Babylonian depictions of their...
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Huldra, Hulder, Hulla
Huldra is a seductive wood fairy or nymph of Norway that has the tail of an animal...The word "huldra" in Norwegian means "hidden" or "covered" and the huldra is adept at hiding her fox or cow's tail...
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Fylgjur
Remember the cats, ravens, and other familiar spirits who are often the companions of witches in Scandinavian folktales?These are fylgjur (pronounced “FILG-yur”) in the plural and fylgja (pronounced...
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Talos, Talon, Talôs
In the Greek folklore Talos, the Guardian of Crete, is the first 'bionic' ‘robot-like’ creature on earth... It is said that Talos was bull-headed and was forged by Hephaestus for King Minos, with the...
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Jinmenju, Ninmenj
Jinmenju is the human-face tree...Legend has it that the Jinmenju grows "in remote mountain valleys in China."...The jinmenju's fruit appear to be "human heads. The faces are always smiling or...
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Otso, Ohto, Kontio, Metsän kuningas, the king of the forest, Mesikämmen,...
Where was the bear born? Where was the beast made? By the moon, with the day, on the shoulders of the Plough Then lowered on silver chains, let down on golden cords http://bit.ly/1rs0rntIn Finish lore,...
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Sól, Sol, Sunna, Sun, Gull
In Norse lore, Sol is the sun goddess, daughter of Mundilfari. She is married to Glen. Some argue that Sól is the mother and Sunna is her daughter....Sol rides through the sky in a chariot pulled by...
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Alpan, Alpanu, Alpnu, Apan
Alpan is an Etruscan goddess about whom not much is known. She is probably one of theLasas (winged female guardians of graves with Underworld connections; sometimes collectively called the Bellarie...
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