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Also known as T?rehu · Pakepakeh?
Supernatural forest and mountain people in M?ori traditions, associated with mist, secrecy, music, and places beyond ordinary…
Also known as King of the Wind Demons
The king of the lilu wind demons of Assyro-Babylonian tradition: canine face, bulging eyes, scaled body, four wings, scorpion tail,…
Also known as Kuntilanak · Matianak
The vengeful spirit of a woman who died in childbirth — Southeast Asia's most feared apparition, and the only entity in this archive…
Also known as Popo Bawa · Bat Wing
A feared Zanzibari night spirit whose Swahili name is commonly glossed as 'bat wing.' Descriptions are unstable ? a winged shadow, a…
Also known as Qalupalik · Qallupilluk
Beings beneath the sea ice whose names, number, and appearance vary among Inuit communities. A commonly published form is humanlike,…
Also known as Bigfoot · Skookum
The most extensively documented cryptid in North America. Witnesses consistently describe a bipedal primate between seven and nine…
Also known as Shadow Figures · The Hat Man
Two-dimensional silhouettes of human form, blacker than the darkness around them, most often seen crossing doorways or standing in…
Also known as Yee Naaldlooshii
In Diné tradition, a practitioner of corrupted medicine who gains the ability to wear the skin and shape of animals. Out of respect,…
Also known as Loogaroo · Old Hag
By day, the soucouyant is said to live unnoticed in the community, often in the shape of an elderly woman. At night she sheds her…
Also known as Stolos · The Crowned Owl
A Great Prince of the Goetia commanding twenty-six legions, who appears first as a raven — 'a mighty raven at first, but after taketh…
Also known as Moroi · The Restless Dead
The original behind the vampire: the Romanian restless dead, who rise from the grave at night to draw the life from the living —…
Also known as The Crouched Man
A pale, hairless humanoid, roughly the size of a large dog when crouched, with elongated fingers and eyes set too wide. It is defined…