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Kallikantzaros
Kallikantzaros is a mailicious goblin-like creature in Greek and Cypriot folklore... The Kallikantzaroi dwell underground and saw the roots of the world tree, so that it will eventually collapse and...
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Gashadokuro, Odokuro
The Gashadokuro (pronounced "gah sha doh kuroh") are giant skeletal beings approximately fifteen times taller than a human being from Japanese folklore... The eyeballs of the Gashadokuro are usually...
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Selene, Selena
Selene is the moon goddess in Greek folklore... She resembles a young woman with an extremely white face who travels on a silver chariot drawn by two horses. She is often shown riding a horse or a...
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Skadi, Skaði, Skaoi, Skade, Skathi, The snowshoe goddess
Skadi is a female giant goddess (jötunn), daughter of Thjazi, wife of Njord... The etymology of the name Skaði is uncertain, but may be connected with the original form of Scandinavia. She is...
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Horae, Horai, Hours
Horae are the goddesses of the seasons and prosperity and guards of the Gates Mount Olympus, the god's home in Greek folklore... They presided over the revolutions of the heavenly constellations by...
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Moss People, Moss-folk, Moosleute, Wilde Leute, Wild folk, Wood-folk,...
Moss People are a class of fairy-folk, variously compared to dwarves, elves, or spirits, described in the folklore of Germany as having an intimate connection to trees and the forest. In German the...
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Tangaroa, Takaroa, Tangaroa-a-timu, Tangaroa-a-mua
Māori people and their Polynesian ancestors lived close to the sea and relied on it for food and other resources. Māori believe that water is an energy, with many moods. It can be calm and...
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Cybele, Kybele, Magna Mater
Cybele was the fertility goddess of Phrygia, an ancient country of Asia Minor. In Roman folklore, Cybele personified Mother Earth... She was also associated with forests, mountains, and nature......
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Bes, Bisu
Bes is the god of music and dance, the god of war and slaughter, and a destroying force of nature in Ancient Egyptian folklore... Bes is usually portrayed as a dwarf (large head); with lion and human...
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Hestia
Hestia is the virgin goddess of the hearth (both private and municipal), architecture, home, the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state. Hestia is also the goddess of the sacrificial...
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Ninurta, Nin Ur, Ninib, Ninip, Enurta, very rarely Nimrod
Ninurta is the Sumero-Babylonian god of rain, fertility, war, thunderstorms, wells, canals, floods, the plough and the South Wind. Son of Enlil and Ninhursaga, he started off as an eagle and then...
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Dike, Dikē, Dicé
Dike is the spirit of moral order and fair judgement based on immemorial custom, in the sense of socially enforced norms and conventional rules in Greek folklore. She's one of the HORAE and was born...
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Flora, Flōra, Flusia, The Handmaiden of Ceres
Flora is the Roman goddess of Flowers, Springtime, and Sex--Fertility... She is quite ancient; the Sabines are said to have named a month for Her (which corresponds to our and the Roman April), and...
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Kikimora
Kikimora is the Slavic and Russian goddess of the Home; She rules over all aspects of housekeeping and the cooking. She sets up Her home in the basement or behind the stove. She is known in some...
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Demeter, Dēmētēr, Dāmātēr, Da-ma-te
Demeter is the godess of corn, grain, and the harvest in Greek folklore... she presides also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She is the daughter of...
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Pombéro, Kuarahy Jára, Curupi, Corupira, Karai-pyharé, Cuarahy Jara, Dueño...
Kuarahy Jára is humanoid beast in Guarani Folklore... Pombéro is ugly, hairy dwarf or spirit with hairy hands and feet... He was also killed by Porâsy, but similar dwarves are still told about in...
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Bragi
Bragi is the god of poetry in Norse folklore... He is the son of Odin and the husband of Idun, the goddess of fertility. At his birth, the dwarfs gave Bragi a golden harp and set him afloat in a...
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Khepri, Khepri, Khepera, Kheper, Chepri, Khepra, Khopri
Khepri is associated with the dung beetle (kheper), whose behavior of maintaining spherical balls of dung represents the forces which move the sun in Ancient Egyptian folklore... Khepri gradually...
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Caballucos del diablo, Devil's small horses
'Devil's small horses' In Cantabria (northern Spain), it is told that those creatures appear with a terrific cry at Saint John's Eve, amongst fire and smoke... They are seven winged horses, of seven...
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Nabu, Nebo
Nabu is the Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian; Assyrian, Akkadian) god of wisdom. He is the son of Marduk and Sarpanitu. He invented the art of writing and recorded all knowledge on clay...
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