#you can literally find this info on wikipedia

[i-eat-mass-blog]

everytime someone says "mcr isn't emo" an angel loses its wings

[skaldish]

If I may, I must make the gentle request that people consult Wikipedia for basic information about anything.

I’m not entirely sure what’s going on, but more and more people coming to me saying they can’t find info about [noun], when googling it yields its Wikipedia entry on the first page.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll gladly say it again: You can trust Wikipedia for general information. The reason why it’s unreliable for academic citations is because it’s a living, changing document. It’s also written by anonymous authors, and author reputation is critical for research paper integrity.

But for learning the basics of what something is? Wikipedia is your friend. I love Wikipedia. I use it all the time for literally anything and everything, and it’s a huge reason why I know so much about things and stuff.

Please try going there first, and then come to me with questions it doesn’t answer for you.

[sulumuns-dootah]

Assigning WHB demons plants/flowers based off the vibes: Abyssos

⟡ Masterlist ⟡

A/N: I think I need to start attending some botany classes again bc from the way these post are turning into me rambling about plants i can tell I miss it :D

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Nepenthes rajah

I don't think this plant has a common name, but if it did it would be smth like Rat/Mouse eating pitcher plant

Bc that's exactly what the plant does

It's just big enough for the small rodent to climb into and never see the light of day again

This also probably explains why I picked it for Beel

I mean, he literally eats angels whole

(I find pitcher plants really cool bc they're literally just a pitchers filled with digestive fluid, but they're not necessary carnivorous - some life off of animal droppings or insects)

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Venus flytrap - Dionaea muscipula

At first i was gonna include maybe some other pitcher plant or completely different plant...

But then again, Bael is literally catching the King of flies on daily basis

Idk why, but looking at pics of the open leaves is really calming to me

Having them is kinda cool bc sometimes you just walk past and see one of their leaves closed bc it caught a fly and you'll feel kinda proud of your little baby for catching something

From my experience they don't close when you give them dead one, though

They might also be a bit harder to keep alive...

Mine made it few months, but then bloomed and died shortly after I cut the flower off (similar thing also happened to my friend who specialises in succulents and carnivorous plants so I don't think I did anything wrong)

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Poison Ivy - Toxicodendron

At first I was thinking I'll give Stolas something bird-named, but I really wantd somethinig that looks harmless, and the moment you mess with, you're in for a lot of pain

And this plant baby delivers

I've never had the misfortune of meeting it, but I haver heard the stories

For those who don't know: Contanct wiht the plant gives you a nasty rash, sometimes with some blisters

Interestingly, looking it up on wikipedia, there's even what would happen if you smoked or eaten it....

As if you'd wanna do that after getting a rash just touching that thing

(You skin is pretty much reacting to the oil on the leaves, so after you come to contact make sure to wash it off or you'll spread it on other things too)

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Hypoestes

I can only talk about this moody beauty from experience since there isn't much info online

From what I've found there's about 150 scpecies in this family

Doesn't require much sunlight, but needs water

And oh boy, the amount of water...

The reason why I picked this plant for Amon is how easy it is for the leaves to start drooping

Just like him being constantly tired

But oh boy, the drooping... One minute she looks good and then two minutes later she's on the verge of death

It's not good to have planters just sitting in water bc of the risk of mold, but this one might just need it

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Common Ivy - Hedera Helix

Originally I wanted to go again with a plant based off his animal form, but then while writing for Amon, I saw normal Ivy

The ultimate Dark Academia plant that looks so good growing around anything

It's perfect for a demon they sometimes call Class President

I really love Common Ivy bc of how much you can use her for

Amazing use for Ivy is putting her into floral arrangements and the amazing thing is that it'll mostly keep its color as long as it's not left out in the rain or your glue gun set on too high temperature

Fun fact: The leaves of the plant are different on normal branches from the branches with a flower

[qqueenofhades]

Hello! This is kind of a weird ask, I'm sorry to bother you, but seeing as you're a very intelligent studied historian that I deeply respect, I was hoping you could offer some advice? Or like, things i could read? Lately, i feel like my critical thinking skills are emaciated and its scaring the shit out of me. I feel very slow and like I'm constantly missing important info in relation to news/history/social activism stuff. Thats so vague, sorry, but like any tips on how i can do better?

Aha, thank you. There was recently a good critical-thinking infograph on my dash, so obviously I thought I remembered who reblogged it and checked their blog, it wasn't them, thought it was someone else, checked their blog, it also wasn't them, and now I can't find it to link to. Alas. But I will try to sum up its main points and add a few of my own. I'm glad you're taking the initiative to work on this for yourself, and I will add that while it can seem difficult and overwhelming to sort through the mass of information, especially often-false, deliberately misleading, or otherwise bad information, there are a few tips to help you make some headway, and it's a skill that like any other skill, gets easier with practice. So yes.

The first and most general rule of thumb I would advise is the same thing that IT/computer people tell you about scam emails. If something is written in a way that induces urgency, panic, the feeling that you need to do something RIGHT NOW, or other guilt-tripping or anxiety-inducing language, it is -- to say the least -- questionable. This goes double if it's from anonymous unsourced accounts on social media, is topically or thematically related to a major crisis, or anything else. The intent is to create a panic response in you that overrides your critical faculties, your desire to do some basic Googling or double-checking or independent verification of its claims, and makes you think that you have to SHARE IT WITH EVERYONE NOW or you are personally and morally a bad person. Unfortunately, the world is complicated, issues and responses are complicated, and anyone insisting that there is Only One Solution and it's conveniently the one they're peddling should not be trusted. We used to laugh at parents and grandparents for naively forwarding or responding to obviously scam emails, but now young people are doing the exact same thing by blasting people with completely sourceless social media tweets, clips, and other manipulative BS that is intended to appeal to an emotional gut rather than an intellectual response. When you panic or feel negative emotions (anger, fear, grief, etc) you're more likely to act on something or share questionable information without thinking.

Likewise, you do have basic Internet literacy tools at your disposal. You can just throw a few keywords into Google or Wikipedia and see what comes up. Is any major news organization reporting on this? Is it obviously verifiable as a fake (see the disaster pictures of sharks swimming on highways that get shared after every hurricane)? Can you right-click, perform a reverse image search, and see if this is, for example, a picture from an unrelated war ten years ago instead of an up-to-date image of the current conflict? Especially with the ongoing Israel/Palestine imbroglio, we have people sharing propaganda (particularly Hamas propaganda) BY THE BUCKETLOAD and masquerading it as legitimate news organizations (tip: Quds News Network is literally the Hamas channel). This includes other scuzzy dirtbag-left websites like Grayzone and The Intercept, which often have implicit or explicit links to Russian-funded disinformation campaigns and other demoralizing or disrupting fake news that is deliberately designed to turn young left-leaning Westerners against the Democrats and other liberal political parties, which enables the electoral victory of the fascist far-right and feeds Putin's geopolitical and military aims. Likewise, half of our problems would be solved if tankies weren't so eager to gulp down and propagate anything "anti-Western" and thus amplify the Russian disinformation machine in a way even the Russians themselves sometimes struggle to do, but yeah. That relates to both Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine.

Basically: TikTok, Twitter/X, Tumblr itself, and other platforms are absolutely RIFE with misinformation, and this is due partly to ownership (the Chinese government and Elon Fucking Musk have literally no goddamn reason whatsoever to build an unbiased algorithm, and have been repeatedly proven to be boosting bullshit that supports their particular worldviews) and partly due to the way in which the young Western left has paralyzed itself into hypocritical moral absolutes and pseudo-revolutionary ideology (which is only against the West itself and doesn't think that the rest of the world has agency to act or think for itself outside the West's influence, They Are Very Smart and Anti-Colonialist!) A lot of "information" in left-leaning social media spaces is therefore tainted by this perspective and often relies on flat-out, brazen, easily disprovable lies (like the popular Twitter account insisting that Biden could literally just overturn the Supreme Court if he really wanted to). Not all misinformation is that easy to spot, but with a severe lack of political, historical, civic, or social education (since it's become so polarized and school districts generally steer away from it or teach the watered-down version for fear of being attacked by Moms for Liberty or similar), it is quickly and easily passed along by people wanting trite and simplistic solutions for complex problems or who think the extent of social justice is posting the Right Opinions on social media.

As I said above, everything in the world is complicated and has multiple factors, different influences, possible solutions, involved actors, and external and internal causes. For the most part, if you're encountering anything that insists there's only one shiningly righteous answer (which conveniently is the one All Good and Moral People support!) and the other side is utterly and even demonically in the wrong, that is something that immediately needs a closer look and healthy skepticism. How was this situation created? Who has an interest in either maintaining the status quo, discouraging any change, or insisting that there's only one way to engage with/think about this issue? Who is being harmed and who is being helped by this rhetoric, including and especially when you yourself are encouraged to immediately spread it without criticism or cross-checking? Does it rely on obvious lies, ideological misinformation, or something designed to make you feel the aforementioned negative emotions? Is it independently corroborated? Where is it sourced from? When you put the author's name into Google, what comes up?

Also, I think it's important to add that as a result, it's simply not possible to distill complicated information into a few bite-sized and easily digestible social media chunks. If something is difficult to understand, that means you probably need to spend more time reading about it and encountering diverse perspectives, and that is research and work that has to take place primarily not on social media. You can ask for help and resources (such as you're doing right now, which I think is great!), but you can't use it as your chief or only source of information. You can and should obviously be aware of the limitations and biases of traditional media, but often that has turned into the conspiracy-theory "they never report on what's REALLY GOING ON, the only information you can trust is random anonymous social media accounts managed by God knows who." Traditional media, for better or worse, does have certain evidentiary standards, photographing, sourcing, and verifying requirements, and other ways to confirm that what they're writing about actually has some correspondence with reality. Yes, you need to be skeptical, but you can also trust that some of the initial legwork of verification has been done for you, and you can then move to more nuanced review, such as wording, presentation of perspective, who they're interviewing, any journalistic assumptions, any organizational shortcomings, etc.

Once again: there is a shit-ton of stuff out there, it is hard to instinctively know or understand how to engage with it, and it's okay if you don't automatically "get" everything you read. That's where the principle of actually taking the time to be informed comes in, and why you have to firmly divorce yourself from the notion that being socially aware or informed means just instantly posting or sharing on social media about the crisis of the week, especially if you didn't know anything about it beforehand and are just relying on the Leftist Groupthink to tell you how you should be reacting. Because things are complicated and dangerous, they take more effort to unpick than just instantly sharing a meme or random Twitter video or whatever. If you do in fact want to talk about these things constructively, and not just because you feel like you're peer-pressured into doing so and performing the Correct Opinions, then you will in fact need to spend non-social-media time and effort in learning about them.

If you're at a university, there are often subject catalogues, reference librarians, and other built-in tools that are there for you to use and which you SHOULD use (that's your tuition money, after all). That can help you identify trustworthy information sources and research best practices, and as you do that more often, it will help you have more of a feel for things when you encounter them in the wild. It's not easy at first, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes more so, and will make you more confident in your own judgments, beliefs, and values. That way when you encounter something that you KNOW is wrong, you won't be automatically pressured to share it just to fit in, because you will be able to tell yourself what the problems are.

Good luck!

[foone]

weird thought: I think if I was a teenager now (or anytime in the last decade or so) I think I would have written (and read!) a lot more fanfic than I did in reality, where I was a teenager in the 90s.

See, I've never been hugely into fanfic. Never had anything against it exactly, but it just wasn't something I was into. But I think that has to do with an interesting combination of how my brain works and what time I was first really getting into being a fan.

I've got a "librarian" brain (I'm literally typing this from within a library, WHERE I WORK). It wants to know things like "what are all the works in this series/by this creator?" and "are they all accessible?" and "what info is available about how it was made?"

I'm the kind of person who will watch a show then go look it up on wikipedia to see how many seasons it has, who made it, if they're still making it, check tvtropes for any more info, etc. Or I hear a song I like by a band I've never heard of, so I go listen to their entire discography while researching them. I just focus on things I'm into that way, you know? I don't half-ass my interest. (this is probably related to my autism, of course)

So what does this have to do with fanfic? like, do I go read some fanfics as part of this process? No, and I think the reason for it is when I specifically first got into fandom, as a teen.

See, this sort of fandom-librarian was harder to do in 1997, you know? You couldn't just pull up the wikipedia for that new show and see how many episodes it had. You also couldn't just listen to the whole discography of that band! Forget Spotify or Google Music, even Napster didn't exist yet.

So my interest in fandom focused a lot more on very basic questions: How many episodes/albums/books/whatever are there? Where can I see/hear them all? Like, I remember getting excited because I found some fan magazine that had a list of all the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. Just a list! Not even descriptions or anything. I finally could take that list and see how many I'd seen, so I'd know when I saw them all in late-night reruns.

So I'm focusing on these very basic parts of being a fandom-librarian and I stumble across some fanfic. I'm like "oh, is this a transcript of an episode I haven't seen yet?" and I realize it's not, it's a story written by a fan, and I get a knee-jerk reaction of "that's not helpful to my quest to know and find all the episodes". It's like I am on a quest for the holy grail and I found a fake cup. It's not helpful to me, and at worst it's a distraction from my goal.

And the thing is, I think the fact I had that reaction is entirely due to the time and situation in which I first encountered fanfic. It was in that environment of "I can't even find a list of the episodes, let alone a way to watch them all!" and that anxiety that colored my response to finding fanfic.

I think if I instead was first introduced to fanfic NOW, where those fandom-librarian drives aren't so difficult to fulfill, I'd be way more positive about fanfic. If I could get a list of episodes with a quick google search, and watch them easily on netflix/prime/whatever, I'd be less "THIS DOESN'T HELP! I AM STRUGGLING WITH THE BASICS HERE!" and more "yay, more content for the fandom I'm obsessed with!"

Like I said, I'm not anti-fanfic, I never have been, I just never got into it. From the beginning I had this reaction that was "this is not useful" and I never developed any real interest in it. Which is a shame, honestly. Fanfic is great. It just never became one of my interests, and while I've written it and read it from time to time, I imagine I'd be way more into it if I didn't have the weird reaction to it due to the worries of the time in which I first encountered it.

I don't know how many other people have brains that work anything like mine, but if they exist, I'm glad they're now growing up in a world where they won't have these problems. They can get into fanfic without this weird baggage caused by a lack of information.

[flock-of-cassowaries]

So my hot take on NBC Hannibal is that is is a remarkably and relentlessly cynical story, in that every. single. character. abuses the power vested in the virtue of their profession.

Like, all the cops, all the doctors, all the psychiatrists.

Almost all the murderers, too - the bee lady is killing clients, as is the mushroom man, and the social worker; Randall Tier and Mason Verger are using the tools / items available to them from their jobs to commit murder; and Tobias Bunch and Garrett Jacob Hobbs are transforming parts of their victims into materials they use / sell at work.

The only characters I can think of who are not show to be ludicrously unethical at their jobs are:

1. The pharmacist-colleague of the Mushroom Man whom Jack inexplicably screams at;

2. Will’s long-suffering s2 defence lawyer;

3. Georgia Mädchen and Abigail Hobbs (no jobs, Literally Minors™️);

4. The child-kidnapper from Oëuf (no job); and

5. The Angel-Maker (deus diablus ex brain-tumor).

…but of the law-enforcement / law-enforcement-adjacent characters, we have:

- Hannibal

- Jack (routinely flouts rules and does things that endanger his subordinates and which are probably illegal; which, points for verisimilitude, I guess)

- Zeller (leaks info to Freddie Lounds)

- Beverley (a bit more of a stretch, but I’m fairly certain showing an accused serial killer / mental patient confidential information on other crimes isn’t okay; and she definitely broke into a suspect’s house without a warrant)

- Chilton (the most unethical psychiatrist since the CIA stopped funding the Montreal Experiments)

- Alanna (starts out straight and narrow, but becomes willing to take on the role of her ex’s keeper - incredibly unethical for a psychiatrist, especially with a patient being held in custody)

- Will (again, starts out reasonably ethical, but then slides into such ends-justify-the-means nonsense as [1] defiling corpses; [2] traumatizing museum staff with defiled corpses; [3] knowingly eating human flesh; [4] warning a serial killer of his imminent apprehension; [5] attempting to use various serial killers as tools to kill and/or bait other serial killers; and [6] attempting to extrajudicially execute a serial killer [via cliff]. )

And like, technically, you could just read it as “Hannibal’s influence corrupts those around him”; that certainly seems to be the case with Alanna and Will.

(And arguably, that is how we’re supposed to read Jack, but… as the self-appointed president of the Jack Crawford Hate Committee - fuck Jack.)

I think Hannibal would certainly find it flattering to read it that way. It would appeal very much to his narcissism.

It’s also quite possible that was the writing team’s authorial intent, too.

But that is absolutely not how people work.

Hannibal would’ve encountered people who were just stubbornly immovable in their refusal to endanger patients / subordinates / whatever.

And people who just found him creepy.

People who got a bad vibe the first time they met him, and just refused to ever reassess their first impression - not particularly fair, in most cases, but there definitely are people who operate that way.

And sure, perhaps Hannibal would have just killed some of them, but… we never see that happen. It’s just everyone in Toronto Baltimore, in every profession, is apparently either just as laughably crooked as the real RCMP, or as corruptible as soft cheese on a hot day.

Tangential postscript:

This inspired me to read the Wikipedia article on “Controversies surrounding the RCMP”, and while I will not get into the horrifying details, this sentence made me laugh out loud:

“A subsequent public inquiry concluded that the RCMP was at fault, showing a lack of professionalism…”

Which like… yeah. Technically true.

Sort of like saying that Andrew Tate lacks a firm grasp of intersectional feminism.

But not incorrect, per se.

[wynought]

since i haven't seen it being pointed out before

all of the first stoats' names essentially mean "light"

kiran is of sanskrit origin meaning "ray of light" (and, according to wikipedia, an explicitly unisex name), uri is a hebrew name meaning "my light", hester is a variant of the name esther (of biblical/jewish origin) which comes from the same old persian root as the word "star", and, while i didn't find any particularly reliable source, various babyname websites at least seem to agree that jomei is a japanese name meaning "spread light"

additionally, their names seem to correlate with their purpose/position in last bast:

jomei is the speaker, they are in charge of propaganda - quite literally spreading the belief system and worldview of the first stoats aka the Light. it feels like this name is extremely straightforward in its meaning, but i was also unable to find much else on it, so there may be some additional hidden truth that i'm missing so far.

hester is the silence (the one with the gas mask missing their lower jaw and tongue) and their sphere of influence is secrets. now, i'm no religious scholar, and i have all of my information from quite literally the introductory paragraphs of the wikipedia article on the name esther. however, it seems that queen esther only took this name after ascending to the throne of persia to hide her true identity. this is reflected in the hebrew root of the name esther translating into "hide"/"conceal". (i am unable to provide more info on this, but anybody with a working understanding of how hebrew works and/or with more insight on the book of esther, feel free to interject/correct/add on to this)

uri is our beloved stoat pope. apparently, the name uri comes from the verb for "to shine" (to either be or to give light) and the mark of possession, resulting in the first connotation i mentioned earlier - "my light". this possessive marker, however, can also be interpreted as the name Yah which would be an abbreviation of YHWH - a marker of the divine, if you will. Therefore, Uri can also mean "Yah is my light", a very fitting name for the stoat whose department we only see called "faith".

i was unable to find a deeper meaning behind kiran's name, although to me "beam of light" feels very much like a name befitting the first stoats' leader. considering the way they commanded the wolf of theseus, it also seems to reflect the way their magic/their brand of control worked (their line of sight was part of how they controlled the wolf, indicating that was a key part of either their magic or the conditioning inflicted on the wolf - i'm partial towards the latter, considering how the wolf reacted to tula after she healed it). if anybody has anything more concrete to offer, though, i am all ears!

anyways, the first stoats' names are really cool, and we as a fandom don't talk enough about them because they died so fast. huge props to aabria for this fun bit of world building!

(disclaimer: as mentioned above, i have no background in theology or judaism, nor do i have any deeper knowledge of sanskrit, hindi, and indian mythology/folklore, nor japanese, and japanese mythology which would give me a deeper understanding of these names. my information comes from google and while i did try my best to verify the claims, i am fallible and happen to currently be very tired, so please correct me, if i made any mistakes!)

[jewishbarbies]

https://www.tumblr.com/jewishbarbies/760054305305788416?source=share

growing up, the one thing my English and history teachers always said to us was to NEVER use Wikipedia as a source for our essays and projects. In fact, all of my teachers would say that, but history and English were the ones with the most essays and large pieces of writing and we would have to source all of our information and it was literally a rule in our classes that Wikipedia was not to be used. They said it was because anyone can edit Wikipedia, but I’ve never really grasped that until now.

Before the 7th of Oct, you could find relatively unbiased information about Jewish history on there. But now after the 7th of October, I’m seeing literal historical events such as massacres being considered “acts of rebellion against Zionists” on fucking Wikipedia.

And it’s confusing for people like me, who aren’t Jewish or Israeli, but are genuinely trying to understand Jewish history and Israeli history and how modern Israel came to be in the place it is today, but we’re faced with such blatantly biased information, and if you call it out, you’re told you’re “pro genocide”.

Like I’m not looking for an Israel dick sucking page, but I’m just genuinely trying to learn about the history of this shit from a relatively unbiased perspective. Anyways, everything after 7th of October really showed me the importance of physical written media and archives because even history can be edited online to make you look like the most cartoonish villains ever lol.

Physical media like newspapers, magazines, CDs, DVDs, tapes, etc>>>>>>>

we’ve been dealing with nazis editing jewish pages and fucking with wwii pages to be nazi sympathetic for a long time now, so the concept of what they’re doing at least isn’t new, but this feels like such an escalation. wikipedia NEEDS much more heavy moderation and further limit who can edit and create pages. idk how they’ve lasted as some kind of amazing info source for this long while having almost NO protections against misinformation and deliberate tampering.

[sayitaliano]

Ciao! I hope it's okay but I have a very specific request. How would you say something like, "Great! Let's go!". Like you just made a new friend and invited them to come somewhere with you. (Also, if you have any references for the Milanese/Lombardi dialect, I'd appreciate it!)

Ciao!

This is you speaking after they agreed to come with you, right? If so, I'd go for a literal translation like "Fantastico, andiamo!" or "Grande, andiamo!".

Idk if these days there's a great usage of the milanese language in our everyday life tbh, I think it's very much more used its "accent" (also as a joke/stereotype), or as we call it "la gorga": the accent that makes you sound like a good "baüscia"! -jk, milanesi friends :P (as a reference for this way of speaking, think about Renato Pozzetto or Diego Abatantuono -who took up the gorga very well).

Anyway, you can find some songs on youtube that are typical of Milano and Lombardia (here and here, a couple of collections. Memo Remigi is a famous singer who used to sing, at times with Ornella Vanoni, in milanese. Nanni Svampa and Jannacci, Cochi e Renato, they're all other good samples of the milanese culture in music and theatre), or you can check infos on wikipedia especially the phonetics part (check also the lingua lombarda page you find linked and the literature one too as it may help). I would also suggest to rely on @urluch-in-dla-nebia as they're all lumbaard and use their language a lot in their posts + share a lot about Lombardia's culture and traditions too. I also reblogged something from them here and there, you can search for #lumbard on my blog if you're interested or just check their blog.

Lombardia is a pretty wide regione in Italy so if you want to know more about all the dialects/variations of the lumbard minority language, keep in mind that there can be differences with milanese if you move to another provincia (eg. Cremona, Brescia, Pavia...) or just take a few steps away from it. TBH, this is true in each regione here, also the smallest one: every comune has its own variation of the regional language, no matter how close or far they are from a bigger city. It depends on the bigger language influence they had to endure during occupations in the medieval era or before/after it.

I speak a bit of lumbard and understand it, but I'm not Milanese or Lombarda: my hometown is just very very close to Lombardia's borders and part of my family's ancestors come from there too. Here we speak a dialect that is more similar to Milanese than to the regional language we are supposed to speak.

[taylorklosscomeout138]

hi, i really like your theory for maroon and now the ghosting date.

i’m not sure if this would help or not as additional info but in canada/commonwealth countries 11/11 is remembrance day (i know in the us its called veterans day). the poppy being the symbol to emerge from the great war due to the popularity of “In Flanders Fields”, a canadian poem, which according to wikipedia was first published Dec 8, 1915.

just thought cause she’ll be in canada for the remaining dates and (not sure if it was you) someone said K is the 11th letter, so maybe its time to remember her cause they honour those that fought and survived the great war.

hi! For starters, tysm I appreciate that! Much more to come, I actually have some information on how I believe I decoded The Bejeweled MV to tell what day the events are, but I'll be submitting that to Spade later!

As far as your first statement, yes the reason remembrance day is 11/11 is because of The Great War/World War I, and that is exactly why Taylor uses "place a poppy in my hair" as the poppy takes place after her and her lover survived The Great War. The end, which as I had mentioned previously, ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

So we can infer the ending of The Great War within the song is 11/11/24 or beyond.

The poppy becoming the symbol of choice due to that poem however is not something I was aware of! I find it very interesting that the publishing date is Dec 8th considering Tour ends Dec 8th and my theory about the Dec 13th coming out following shortly after.

In regards to the mention of K=11, I was not the original commenter of that yesterday under my post but yes I did respond to it reinforcing it and yes I have been aware that 11/11 = K/K for quite some time!

It's been the core basis of my theory as to why on 11/11/21 Taylor said the can I plan something 3 years in advance and that she was going to try to do it quote. Exactly 3 years later is Nov 10th 2024 or if we go strictly off of the date it would be 11/11/24. Either works. And I think both apply. Nov 10th being the ghosting and Nov 11th being the breakup, whether it's figurative for the plot or a literal breakup announcement.

I agree with the idea that this was purposeful as 11/11 or the end of The Great War will mark a milestone that leads to the freedom of Kaylor.. in which for the longest I could only see this as being the FINAL bearding breakup before the curtain is pulled on everything. Hence why she is also walking the yellow brick road lately.

But now that that date is upon us... we will soon know if all of the above is true. I am anticipating tomorrow just as much as the rest of you and I feel truly honored to see my research and theories come/coming to life!

If you or anyone has any other questions or information, take this as an open invitation to do so! I'd love to share what I can offer <3

[nibwhipdragon]

god, dear fucking god, the monster hunter movie was worse than humanly possible

WHY IS THE US MILITARY HERE?! WHY IS IT AN ISEKAI PLOT? WHY DOES THE HUNTER NOT KNOW WHAT CHOCOLATE IS?

if they wanted a monster to fight the military at least use a Bazelgeuse cause it's right up their alley

I'm putting this all under a cut because I ranted much more than I anticipated. All my thoughts on this stupid film are under the cut.

Anon this sounds like you've watched the film for the first time and. Man I am So Sorry. It was worse than what I expected it to be and my expectations were already at rock bottom. They used Gore in the advertising but it was only used as sequel bait??? Nasty. And there was gonna be a scene where it and Rathalos would fight in a shopping center or smth and MAN. That would've made the film a little bit enjoyable. The tiniest bit.

The film REALLY didn't need to be an isekai. If the director wanted to make his wife the protag (again. Why does he do this all the time. Give someone else a chance will you) why couldn't she have been a hunter? Either learning the ropes a la Legends of The Guild (a much better mh film you should watch if you haven't already) OR already a top tier hunter investigating an odd phenomenon. Not. That.

And the way the guns were useless on the Diablos??? (Why were the monsters so oddly big too) Hello. Bowguns. Ballistae. Barrel bombs. Gunlance. They could at least do SOME damage.

Also the hunter not knowing what chocolate is is INSANE. They have donuts canonically. They have coke canonically*. Is chocolate really that far of a stretch??? It's sugar and cocoa beans and milk. Not that hard to make and they sure have a lot of jungles so it's not like they can't find any cocoa beans.

IN MHW THEY LITERALLY HAVE CHOCOLATE COVERED APPLES AND DONUTS. COME ON. It's like the director just treated the entire world as this sort of primitive place, rather than a place that's just different to ours. They're quite technologically advanced: They have airships, sandships, the dragonator and dragonrazer, and massive boats that can have up to 3 dragonators at a time on it. Steam trains*² too. All highly complex mechanisms. Yes they all seem to run on steam pressure but honestly? I don't think they'd plunder oil from the earth the way we do, so it makes sense. And all the knowledge on all these monsters and how they work and stuff? That's certainly not primitive. Also how did the Admiral know English. No I'm not taking that stupid timeloop paradox quest that used to be in MHW as canon. Because What Is That.

WHY DOES THE ADMIRAL LOOK LIKE THAT, ACTUALLY?

Like cmon man. I can barely even see a resemblance. $60mil budget is actually fairly small for a film but COULD YOU NOT HAVE SPENT MORE OF THAT ON THE ADMIRAL'S DESIGN??? There was barely even any monster action in the film it was just Artemis and the hunter fighting. Surely the CGI didn't cost that much.

OK I went onto Wikipedia for that info and it led me to find out the director is British. Having a moment of silence to mourn the fact this scourge came from my home country.

Moving on. The insect glaive was shown at the end of the film. No kinsect. My brother in Christ THE KINSECT IS LIKE HALF THE WEAPON. IT'S IN THE NAME.

Another nitpick but the desert is so ridiculously empty I'm convinced the director doesn't know what a desert looks like (I know he wouldn't have been a concept artist. But he both and directed and wrote so I assume he has quite a bit of control over the other parts of the film's creation).

Like cmon. Sure some parts of deserts are quite empty, like the Sahara, but I doubt a big monster like Diablos is going to be chilling in a place with no shade and no cacti. It can go underground to avoid the heat when traversing but in no way would it hang about as much as it did in the film. No reason to there are more optimal environments for it within the desert. At least make the background visually appealing on basis of it being a film. Can't the sand at LEAST be orange-yellow?

Also Bazelgeuse bombing them in the film would've been hilarious to me I wish that happened

Anyways. Go watch Legends of The Guild. Purify yourself. Great animated film that expands on pre-existing characters and also gave us the great indication that the games seem to take place in chronological order. I love you Legends of The Guild

* As one of the meal items in one of the games, I can't remember. Coke is cinnamon and vanilla flavoured so it isn't too outlandish for them to have it as a drink imo

*² The felynes in Elgado use a mini one near the dango food place thingy. Sure it's small but the fact it exist makes the concept of large ones used for transport and the like not too far-fetched

[briocheminded]

19th century rabbit hole

Digging around for unrelated info led me down a funny Detective Anna rabbit hole (or a rabbit hole led me to Detective Anna? idk).

In s2 ep11, "The Last Sacrifice", Krutin poisons Anton and leads Shtolman on a scavenger hunt for the antidote. An early scene starts with a beggar (to use a 19th c word) reading a book out loud in the barracks (?), poor house (?). The cover is hard to see, but you can kind of make out "лать," leading me to assume it was Lenin's "что делать" in a kind of intentional/tongue-in-cheek anachronism, since the real book wasn't published until 1901.

BUT, come to find out today there was an earlier book called "что делать" / "What Is To Be Done?" published 1863, by Nikolay Chernyshevsky?? (Look, I've heard of him, ok) Sure enough, a closer look at the book cover and I'm pretty sure the last letters of the authors name are "вский"??

Two fun discoveries in that:

s2 ep13 "The Living Dead" was probably at least slightly inspired by the plot of the Chernyshevsky book, in which a man fakes his own death in order to let his wife marry his best friend with whom she has fallen in love. Doesn't seem like a huge stretch since s1's "The Drama" is very obviously (and meta-textually) "The Seagull."

Per Wikipedia, Chernyshevsky's novel was written as a direct response to Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons," which also features a love triangle, where the young woman/subject of the son's affection falls in love with the son's radical best friend. Except Turgenev's love triangle is resolved when the radical gets what he deserves (lol) and dies. This is all only relevant because Anton reveals Shtolman is reading "Fathers and Sons" when he's arrested in s1's "The Prince".

It's kind of interesting they have Shtolman reading that particular book. Maybe it's just period appropriate and famous? "Crime and Punishment" would be a little too on the nose, lol. It's also a family/romance melodrama, which obviously DA heavily relies on.

But there are other novels they could have chosen... the show very lightly (very lightly) touches on themes of tradition vs modernity. The very first episode features the arrival of a bicycle! Kluyev is bringing electricity to Zatonsk! And a phonograph! And of course, much more so in s2, where I assume by 1894 it's basically impossible to ignore the very serious social/economic/political issues of Tsarist Russia? So it makes sense that between Shtolman and Anna, being diametrically opposed in almost every way, he would be associated with a more traditional/conservative perspective (he literally represents law and order), where Anna is constantly aware of the plight of the poor, and women's subjugated status under patriarchy.

Annnnyway, rabbit hole indeed.

In closing, sharing this amusing thumbnail from imdb. Between the cross-faded images and the title, it looks like Shtolman is dead and visiting Anna as a ghost. Of course, still grumpy af.

[electricpurrs]

i am actually so suspicious of this god damn moth post but i cant find any concrete evidence to prove theres something wrong with it other than my gut feeling and i feel insane

like of course first of all this post is from 2013 and im not really willing to believe any given post from 2013 is true specially when the post is this amazing coincidence of this person coincidentally finding those two coincidentally aesthetically pleasing moths and managing to get them coincidentally snuggling together for a picture. yknow. it does feel too weirdly good to be true

BUT SECONDLY im so weirded out by these two moths specifically.

ok bear with me. the little one is very obviously a rosy maple moth. (which is also coincidentally one of the most famous moths specifically for being pretty)

but im willing to believe any given english speaking tumblrgirl at the time could find one considering they live seemingly accross the united states and canada. fair enough

BUT my problem is the big one. of course everybody even in the notes seems to be classifying it as a luna moth (ALSO a famous moth species for being pretty) you can also feasibly find them in north america, ok.

theres also the point of their lifespans

luna moths as adults live only for about 7-10 days, and i had a harder time finding info for adult rosy maple moths but it seems its about the same

the source of this is an old article from someone actively breeding maple moths x but i believe its the same with moths in general, since they literally dont have mouths and cant eat so they just mate and die.

SO youre gonna have a small time span to find one. both moths are also mainly nocturnal, which makes even weirder that op found both of them during the day.

theres also the point of WHEN are they adults. aka maply moths seem to show from from may through the summer

luna moths though, seem to vary in when they show up depending on place. some do include late may or early june on northern regions, ans a generation in july in central states.

which means you could, feasibly, have a span of about a week or so in may, june or july where both maple moths and luna moths are adults and alive at the same time.

BUT THE POST IN QUESTION IS FROM APRIL 16

thats NOT when adult rosy maple moths show up, much less both of them.

though maybe im just being too pedandic with specific dates and theres margin for variation, but its, again, some real big coincidences

BUT FINALLY theres the fact im suspicious about this luna moth IN THE FIRST PLACE.

i might just be going actually crazy here, but for this we've been assuming the luna moth is the species that exists in north america (otherwise these two wouldnt be in the same place at all)

and like this is what the luna moth looks like

(pictures from wikipedia)

and you see how theyre kinda weird compared to the one in the pic.

the luna moths are mostly green, with much less of this pretty pastel pink of the one on the tumblr post. you could argue they have pink markings but in most pictures i see they seem more like a dark red/brown with a remarkable very thick marking on the wings

you see how the moth in the pic just looks kinda weird. but that can also be from filters or editing to make the photo prettier making the colors different.

(i also think the tail looks weirdly long, but there seems to be variation in the tail length in various luna moth pics ive seen, so i cant speak for sure about that)

(i also cant tell you whether the sizes in comparison to each other are right cause i suck at visualizing size comparisons and its not like theres any other pic on earth of the two together so.)

CONCLUSION: i dont fucking know. i spent an hour looking moths up online and didnt get any reasonable answer to my doubts. i guess in the end THERE is, even if small, a chance of you finding both these boths alive at the same time in the same place so i can fully discredit the op. i give up im going to have breakfast

[wanderingmind867]

Well, here's the start of my series on the family tree of the Greek Gods. Most of my info will be coming from whatever I find on wikipedia or through google, although I might throw in some of my own personal opinions and interpretations too (but feel free to reblog and add things if you feel I missed something):

The first three deities to come into existence were Chaos, Gaia and Tartarus. Or as Wikipedia calls them: The Void, The Earth and The Abyss.

Chaos then had two children, Erebus and Nyx. Erebus and Nyx are also husband and wife, so that's weird. But I suppose they were some of the only people in existence at that time, so they kind of had to rely on each other. From them, Erebus and Nyx would have many children of their own.

Together with Erebus, Nyx gives birth to Aether and Hemera. I wonder how mother and daughter got along, since Nyx and Hemera were literally the personifications of Night and Day. Maybe they're the reason we have that saying, huh?

Anyway, Nyx also gave birth on her own. Without any father, Nyx gives birth to many children. According to Wikipedia, her children included Thanatos and his twin brother Hypnos, Nemesis, Eris, Momus, Moros, Philotes, Geras, Oizys, Apate, Charon and The Fates. All of these were her children, which technically means Charon is older than his boss. Strange how things work out like that, huh? I guess seniority isn't really a concept amongst the gods.

Anyways, this is getting a bit long. So stay tuned for part 2, when I can hopefully turn away from Nyx and turn towards Gaia.

[best-element-poll]

(the 2 most voted elements will continue onto round 2!)

More info about each element (and propaganda for the ones I like) under the cut. pleeeeeeeeease read some of them at least the one about francium

(disclaimer: these are based off short wikipedia reads and my crumbling high school chemistry knowledge. correct me if I'm wrong about anything.)

HYDROGEN: Hydrogen is the lightest element (consisting of only one proton and one electron). It is also the most abundant element in the universe, it's a gas (at room temperature) and it can explode. It's also quite representative of acids, having the (Arrhenius) definition of an acid straight up saying that it has to dissociate in water to form H+ ions. It's also quite an efficient fuel. Hydrogen is anywhere and Hydrogen is everywhere. If you like explosions, sour beverages, or acid in general, consider voting Hydrogen!

LITHIUM: Lithium, under standard conditions, is by far the least dense metal and the least dense solid element! You may primarily know him from your phone's Lithium-ion batteries. There are Lithium-based drugs used to treat mental illnesses. You can throw a block of lithium in water and it will make a really big explosion. The metal is soft and silvery. I'm running out of things to say about him. If you like batteries vote Lithium? (edit: just realised lithium is used for batteries, and batteries are connected to robotics and engineering. if you like robots and cool mechanical stuff vote lithium!)

SODIUM: You must know him from table salt. That's actually NaCl, his best known involvement. There are many more very important and very commonplace compounds that involve sodium, such as baking soda (NaHCO3) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH) (that's probably the most famous base?). It's also very important to the human body (you shouldn't eat more than 2300mg a day). If you've ever used table salt or baking soda while cooking, consider voting Sodium!

POTASSIUM: Their name was based on the word potash, which was based on an early and easy way of obtaining potassium, from putting ash in a pot, adding water, heating, and evaporating the solution. It's used in a lot of fertilisers because it's an essential plant nutrient. It's also involved in a ton of important compounds: KOH (a strong base), KNO3 (often used as salt bridges in electrochemical cells), K2CrO7 (an oxidising agent often used in organic synthesis), and K2CrO4 (I don't know what this one does). If you have ever eaten food from fertilisers consider voting Potassium!

RUBIDIUM: Rubidium compounds are sometimes used in fireworks to give them a purple color. They've also got a cool name, based on the latin rubidius, for deep red (the color of its emission spectrum). I'll be real, I don't really know much about them beyond that, but that is one cool name. Vote for Rubidium if you like cool names.

CAESIUM: Caesium is used in the definition for a second, meaning that an entire SI unit is based on it! A second can be defined as "the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of microwave light absorbed or emitted by the hyperfine transition of caesium-133 atoms in their ground state undisturbed by external fields". It was also discovered from mineral water. Did you know that they had to use 44000 liters of water to find her? If you've ever experienced time or had a conception of it in terms of units, consider voting Caesium!!!

FRANCIUM!!!: Caesium... TWO! It's sad that no one will probably read this far but this is my favourite element in this poll. This element is characterised by instability. Her longest half-life is 22 minutes. Her entire existence was conjoint with Caesium before they discovered that she was her own element. She has never been seen. They literally never confirmed what color she is. She was born in a wet cardboard box all alone. Through the hands of different scientists, she was going to be named after Russia, Virginia, or Moldavia at different points in time. At one point the name catium was proposed (for "cation", since she was believed to be the most electropositive cation), but was rejected because it sounded like a cat element. Which is so fucking sad. We could've had cat element but we ended up with France element. That's right she's also named after France. Just tragic fascinating existence overall. Also isn't it just insane that her half-life is only 22 minutes? Dude, you don't get it, the most of her that's ever existed in one place is a mere 300000 atoms. She's here and she's gone. What the hell.

The charm of Francium can be summarised by the wise words of my good friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

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List of Mythic Beings by Type

Full alphabetical list of mythic creatures unsorted by type here.

Q: What is this?

A: This is a list of all Wikipedia articles that begin with the letter A and deal with a creature or person or group of people whose existence is found in accounts that don't neatly fit the modern scientific understanding of the world.

The purpose of this list is to be really open. I want writers (artists, LARPers, performers, people with imaginations, people with fun hobbies) to have an overview of the information available on Wikipedia.

Q: Are the categories from Wikipedia? If not, how do they work?

A: The groupings are my own. Their purpose is to let you quickly find tropes. So if you look under "Habitat" and then "Forest" you find Wikipedia articles referencing stories set in the woods. This could be creatures whose literal habitat is the forest, but it can also be a creature that hunts in the forest. I hope that especially groupings like "Changeling", for example, which lists all Wikipedia articles where a creature exchanges infants for their own, helps writers and other artists find what they are looking for. To make things a bit easier I also add remarks like "(some accounts)" which indicates that only some sources portray a creature a certain way and I give a bit more info so that you, dear reader, can compare and contrast creatures in the same category -- in one culture, the Changeling myth might indicate an extremely ableist society, in another culture, the Changeling myth is so abstract it's hard to imagine. I try to give people those kinds of contrasts, although of course what qualities I contrast will reflect my biases.

Q: I noticed some creatures that start with A only mentioned once in this list and not under every appropriate category.

A: I'm winging it. Please let me know when you have spotted an oversight and I'll gladly correct it. :)

TLDR

The following Wikipedia articles were too long for my project and I skipped over them. I have been working on this project for months, so every now and then I just skip articles: Angel, Angels (List), Angra Mainyu, Annunaki, Antichist, Aos Sí, Apophis, Apsara, Archon, Argus, Asha, Asmodeus, Aspidochelone, Atargatis, Aura, Azazel, Azrael.

I intend to eventually cover the above entries as well, but currently would rather like to complete this project for most mythic beings.

Supertype

Supertypes are not species or cultures or anything like that. They are my word for "belongs to a larger group".

Amazon

Agave (Alcibie) (Alcippe) (one Alcippe in Greek myth) (Alke) (one Alke in Greek myth) (Amazonomachy (Event)) (Amazons (List)) (Antandre) (Antibrote) (Antiope) Amazon Queen (Apollo Amazonius) (Areto) (Asteria)

Angel

(Anakim) Nephilim (historical sources speculated) (Armaros) Grigori ("Watchers")

Anito

3 subcategories: bound (to a location); unbound ((Engkanto)); and Aswang

Asura

(Aghasura) (Andhaka) (Asura) (deva are asura by default, according to the Rig Veda; Deva become Deva by being virtuous, asura remain asura by being selfish, according to the Rig Veda) (Asura Lords mentioned on asura page) multiple factions of asura, each with a lord

Aswang

(Amalanhig)

Aufhocker (Creature that jumps on someone's back, holding them down)

(Aufhocker)

Creature that sits on someone's chest, holding them down

(Alp) Sits on Sleeper's Chest (Rides/Mounts Sleeper); crush small farm animals (like geese) to death in pressing attack (Alû) Sits on Sleeper's Chest (Rides/Mounts Sleeper)

Bloodsucker

(Alukah) dies without blood (Asanbosam) (Aswang) subtype: Bloodsucking Woman (example Mandurugo): slow bloodsucking

Centaur

(Amycus) (Anggitay) female centaur (Arktos) (Asbolus) benevolent (Polkan on Ascapart page) Centaur (Russian culture)

Changeling

(Aes Sidhe) (Al) (Al Ana) (Wikipedia has lengthy descriptions of their characteristics, this is a clear extreme use of ableism in the changeling story) (Alan) take drops of menstrual blood, miscarried fetuses, afterbirth, or other reproductive waste and transform them into human children, whom they then raise as their own. (Asrai) (in oldest account by Robert Williams Buchanan)

Colour

(Aitvaras) White or Black Colour (Akabeko) Red (Akaname) Red (Akerbeltz) Black (Aketeko) Red (Akugyo) Gold and Silver Scales (Alicanto) Metallic, depends on ore it eats: golden wings from gold mine, silver wings from silver mine, copper-green / If spotted, turns off colours of its wings, going into dark (Almas) black fur (Aloja - Aloges) gold or red hair, emerald or deep blue eyes (Alphito) White Hair (Am Fear Liath Mòr) Dark Skin, Dark Hair (Amaru) reddish snout (Ambika) golden skin; (South Indian version) dark blue skin (Amomongo) white hair (Amphiptere) green snake, light coloured feathers (Anchanchu) red (Angak) black beard (up to mid-chest) --> represents trails of rain & for Hokywan Angak'china: red beard (Anhangá) (Tupi-Guarani version) white deer (Anito) pale skin (Anito) omen birds, most commonly with green or blue iridescent feathers (Anjana) white skin (Anubis) Black Fur (symbol of Nile River soil, symbol of regeneration and life) (Aoandon) Blue Skin (Aobōzu) Blue Skin and/or Blue Clothes (Okayama Prefecture) (Aonyōbō) Blue Skin (the source Wikipedia uses https://yokai.com/aonyoubou/ directly contradicts the idea that they have blue skin, instead saying that blue in Japanese is like "green" in English, a word for inexperience. For a more detailed explanation, see there.) (Cŵn Annwn mentioned on Arawn page) White Hounds with Red Ears (Archura) Green Hair (made of living grass), Green Beard (made of living grass) (Arkan sonney) white skin, red eyes (some accounts), red ears (some accounts) (Arzhang Div) blue skin (Asag) dark skin (Asanbosam) pink skin, red hair (Asi) deep-blue colour as personified form (Asrai) pale skin (in oldest account by Robert Williams Buchanan) (Aswang) Subtype: Manananggal light skin by day (Augenbrand) (Auriaria) red hair (Azukiarai) yellow eyes (Āṭavaka) blue skin, black skin, red skin (Átahsaia) black and white scales cover arms

Construct

(Anchimayen) created from corpses of children

Corpse-Eater

(Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) (Anhangá) (Aswang) subtype "Ghoul"

Daemon / Daimon

(Aloadae) Ephialtes is a daimon

Daeva / Div

(Arzhang Div)

Demi-God

(Almops) Poseidon and half-nymph (Amykos) (Arjuna) (Auriaria)

Demi-Goddess

(Alcippe) (one Alcippe in Greek myth)

Diminutive

(Afanc) (Agogwe) (Akaname) (Aloja - Aloges) (Alux - Aluxo'ob) (Anchanchu) (Anjana) tiny (15 cm = 0.5") (Aobōzu) (Yamaguchi Prefecture Version) in other accounts, giant (Asrai) 2-4" (Awes-kon-wa) (Aziza) (Azukiarai)

Disembodied Organ

(Aketeko) hand (Aswang) subtype: Manananggal disembodied head (by night)

Div

(Akvan Div)

Doghead

(Anubis) (Egyptian gods don't really have animal heads, they are personalities) (Anubis) brother Wepwawet (Egyptian gods don't really have animal heads, they are personalities) (Anubis) female counterpart Anput (Egyptian gods don't really have animal heads, they are personalities)

Dragon

(Amaru) could be called a dragon; 2 heads; 2 Amarus destroy the land while fighting each other; horns of a taruka, a type of huemul deer; wings; lives in underworld and associated with water; scales

Dvergr

(Alberich) beard / smith

Elemental

(Aitvaras) fire tail (like meteor) (Akuma) flaming eyes, fiery head (Alara) butterfly wings made of light; formed from love tears of 1,000 women (Giant Black Dog mentioned in Almamula or Mulánima) teeth of fire, transformed into this state (Tsé’nagahi on Anaye page) monstrous rock, crushes passersby to death (Anhangá) (Tupi-Guarani version) white deer with fiery eyes (Augenbrand) fire eyes (Azhdaha) flaming eyes (Āṭavaka) enveloped by flame

Elf Clothes

(Archura) left shoe on right foot

Fairy (Petty Fairy, Winged Little Sprite)

(Alara) hovers over lake (Mmoatia the Fairy on the Anansi page) what is the Akan word for the type of being that Mmoatia is? (Iambana on the Anito page) No tiny winged beings like fairies ("petty fairies") in precolonial native Filipino folklore, but lambana are fairies in modern Filipino folklore (Awes-kon-wa) (Aziza) (sometimes & possibly European influence)

Familiar

(Alloces) grants familiars (Amy) grants familiars

Figment / Personification

(Alke) Courage / Battle-Strength spirit (Aloadae) Ephialtes is a Nightmare (Amalur) the Earth itself (Amanozako) originated when Susanoo let his own ferocious spirit (his Aramitama) build up inside him until he vomited her out (Andaokut) born from tears of a grieving mother (Aonyōbō) appears as an ancient court noblewoman, living in a now abandoned house of fallen nobles and ruined families, constantly fixing her hair and applying makeup, expecting possible guests who never show up (e.g. a lover who lost their interest or a husband who abandoned his wife) (Asi) asi is a sword, but has a personified form (Ask-wee-da-eed) personified fire / embodies fire (associated with comets, meteors) (Awelo) embodies the essence of the Tigua people and their customs and morality, monitors their conduct and punishes those who don't behave properly (Azone) universal commonalities of humans, united in worship (Azure Lóng) represents springtime (Aufhocker) Emotional Burdens weighing on one's shoulders (old woman haunted by memories)

Face on Back of Head

(Akerbeltz) (Christian Version)

Fallen Angel

(Agaliarept) (Agares) (Alloces) (Amaymon) (Amy) (Archdemon) rather short Wikipedia page that simply mentions various archdemons by name, often the sin they are associated with or the cardinal direction they preside over / different archdemons in different religious traditions

Flying Head

(Aswang) Subtype: Manananggal hides lower half during nighttime

Green Hair and/or Green Beard

(Archura) made of living grass (Asrai) long green hair (account by Ruth Tongue)

Giant

(Aghasura) Giant Animal (Aido Hwedo) Giant Animal (Akkorokamui) Giant Animal (Akugyo) Giant Animal (Ala - Ale) huge ears (Albruna) (Alcyoneus) a gigantes, NOT ALWAYS a giant, hurls rocks, hurls 12 chariots, hurls 24 heroes, uses mountain as weapon (some accounts) (Alfred Bulltop Stormalong) giant baby, giant adult (Almops) (Aloadae) 16.4592m = 9 fathoms tall at age 9 (Alpos) body reaches the clouds, touches the sun, pulls back the moon; hurl rocks, hurl hills; uses rock as shoulder shield (Am Fear Liath Mòr) over 10" tall (Endriago on Amadís de Gaula page) (Amala) supports the world (Amarok) (Amemasu) Giant Animal (Anakim) (Anathan) (Sasnalkáhi on Anaye page) (Teelget on Anaye page) (Tsetahotsiltali on Anaye page) massive legs (perhaps not a conventional giant, just really long legs) (Yeitso on Anaye page) colossal (but speaks and asks questions when trying to find victims); drinks lake in four gulps; travels across horizon in one step; scalp becomes a peak (Andaokut) (Angalo) (Anguiped) (some examples) (Antaboga) Giant Animal (Antaeus) giant bones entombed within a tumulus (Antero Vipunen) (Anzû) (Ao) Giant Animal (Aobōzu) (Apotamkin) Giant Animal (Apukohai) (Prabu Niwatakawaca (Javanese) on Arjuna page) (Asag) (Asanbosam) 20" wings (not a conventional giant, just huge wingspan) (Ascapart) 30" tall (smallest giant of his land) (Pelucan on Ascapart page) (Ashinaga-tenaga) 3m, 6m, 9m legs (some accounts) (not a conventional giant, just long legs or arms) (Asi) personified form may not be giant, but is described as tall (Athos) crushed under a mountain, died in a fight with a god who hurled rocks at him (Atosis) Giant Animal (Augerino) Giant Animal (Azhdaha) 30 gazes (~30m); Giant Animal (Átahsaia) (Wikipedia page has descriptive size comparisons)

Gigantes

(Alcippe) one Alcippe is daughter of a Gigantes (Alcyoneus) but she may not be (Alcyoneus) [Aloadae] (Alpos) (Antaeus) (Athos)

Glutton

(Ala - Ale) (Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) possessed by ala: huge hunger (Alfred Bulltop Stormalong)

Griffon

(Akhekh)

Haunt

(Alseid) (Am Fear Liath Mòr) presence

Human

(Angalo) the first human (he is also a giant) [Arikura-no-baba] (Atlantes)

Hybrid: Object-Creature

(Akaname) pebble head (Al) clay nose, copper claw, iron teeth (Al Basty) (Armenian Version) iron teeth, brass fingernails (Amaru) crystalline eyes (Anaye) resemble objects (human mothers fornicated with objects)

(Tsé’nagahi on Anaye page) monstrous rock, crushes passersby to death (Asanbosam) iron teeth, iron hook feet (Axehandle hound) axeblade-shaped head, axehandle shaped body, stubby legs, eats abandoned axehandles, travels logging camps looking for next meal

Island Turtle

(Ao) Carries the three islands of the eight immortals (Penglai, Fangzhang, Yingzhou)

Joetunn

(Alvaldi)

Kachina

(Ahöl Mana) (Ahöla) (Ahöla) (Angak) (Angwusnasomtaka)

Long / Lóng

(Ao Guang) (Azure Lóng)

Luminescent

(Alicanto) eyes emit lights (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) glowing eyes (Aosaginohi) gives off iridescent blue light; releases golden powder into the air that forms heat-less fiery light that eventually dissipates in the wind

Man-Eater

(Afanc) (Agnen) (Ahuizotl) (Aigamuxa) (Akashita) swallows evildoers (Akerbeltz) (Christian Version organizes lunches with witches and elves where human meat is served) (Aku-aku) (Amanesaku mentioned in Akubōzu) (Akugyo) (Ala - Ale) huge mouth, carries spoon, eats at home, home full of children's bones and spilt blood, smells humans (Alpos) (Amai-te-rangi) (Amanojaku) (Amarok) (Amikuk) (Ammit) (Tsenahale on Anaye page) feed people to hatchlings (Anhangá) (Anhang - Anhangá (Spirit) in Mawé culture) (Ao Ao) humans are its only source of food (eats them with clothes) (Ao Ao)'s children, see Ao Ao (Aonyōbō) devours those who trespass in the abandoned house she now occupies (Apotamkin) (Asanbosam) (Aswang) subtype: Silagan: tears out human liver and eats it (Aswang) subtype: Manananggal eats internal organs; eats phlegmatic discharge of the sick, eats fetuses within the womb [Ato-sees] forces humans to find the materials with which he would cook them (Atosis) (Atshen) [Azukiarai] (Azukibabaa) (swallow into bright light) (Gunma Prefecture) (Āṭavaka) (Átahsaia) (Aswang) subtype: Weredog favours pregnant people travelling roads at night

Child Harmer (Boogeyman)

(Maria Enganxa from Aloja - Aloges) takes children (with hook) (Alphito) (Amanojaku) child eater, kidnaps children (Ao Ao) child eater (Aobōzu) (Shizuoka Prefecture Version) kidnaps children (Apotamkin) child eater (Azukibabaa) (Kawagoe City Version) children who fall behind their parents, scoops up people in basket; (Kanagawa Prefecture Version) child eater

Mermaid

(Akugyo) (Amabie) mermaid, merman

Mortal

(Aku-aku) (Arzhang Div)

Multiple Organs

(Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) 3 heads; 2 headed snake form (Alpos) many arms (Amabie) 3 Tail Fins ("3 Legs") (Amabiko on Amabie page) 3 legs, 4 legs, 5 legs, 7 legs (Yamawarawa on Amabie page) 3 legs (Amaru) 2 heads (Ambika) 4 arms (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) head at each end (Andhaka) 1,000 heads, 1,000-2,000 arms, 2,000 legs (some accounts), 1,000-2,000 eyes (Anpao) 2 faces (Anqa) 8 wings (4 pairs of wings) (Asag) 3 legs, 3 arms, several eyes across body (Ayahos) 2 heads (in snake form) (Āṭavaka) 1 head, 4 heads, 6 heads, 17 heads, 4 arms, 8 arms, 36 arms

Missing Organs

(Alû) no ears, no lips, no mouth (Amabie) no torso (Amikiri) no hindlegs (Binaye Ahani (Eye Killers) on Anaye page) no limbs (Asag) no neck (Astomi) no mouths (some accounts)

Naga

(Apalala)

Nat

(Akathaso)

Nymph

(Agave) Nereid (Alseid) (Anthousai) (Auloniad)

Omen

(Akashita) Bad Luck (Akuma) Misfortune (Anito) omen birds (either a diwata's true form, a diwata's shapeshifted form or servant of a diwata) (Arkan sonney) good omen

One-Eyed

(Amefurikozō) (some accounts) (Arimaspi)

One-Legged

(Aziza) (if sole being of its type)

Oni

(Amanojaku) appearance of a small oni

Pendulous Breasts

(Ajatar) long breasts maybe not pendulous (Al) long breasts (sagging) (Al Ana) large breasts (Anguane) long breasts

Pendulous Breasts Hung Over Shoulder (this category exists because there's a lot of creatures that fit this trope and it will be expanded once we get beyond the letter A.)

(Anguane) throw breasts over backs; carry children in baskets on backs

Psychopomp

(Anubis) guide the dead to the underworld

Rainbow Snake

(Aido Hwedo)

Santa

(Ayaz Ata)

Snakehair

(Al Basty) (Armenian Version) (Alpos) vipers

Tanuki

(Ashi-magari) (some accounts) a trick by tanuki (Azukiarai) (some accounts) a trick by tanuki

Tennin / Tennyo

(Amorōnagu)

Tsukumogami

(Azhdaha) snake reaches 100 years of age and grows to 30 Gazes (~30m in length!)

Tuatha

(Aillen)

Undead

(Aes Sidhe) (sometimes the hosts ("sluaghs"), which are a type of sidhe, are counted as undead) (Ahkiyyini) skeleton (Aitu) (Aku-aku) (Al Ana) (Wikipedia describes all the at-risk groups of women who may return from the dead as Al Ana) (Alp) (in some stories, e.g. stillborn infant) [Alû] Wikipedia calls it a vengeful spirit, so does that mean it's undead? (Amalanhig) (Akhu mentioned on Ammit page) (Anchimayen) created from corpses of children (Ankou) skeleton, black robe, hat conceals face, shadow, scythe (Ankou) first person to die that year (some accounts), last person to die that year (some accounts) (Ankou mentioned on French Mythic Creatures and Saints page) female skeleton (??) (Lil a subtype of Ardat-lilî mentioned on that page) ghosts of young people who died sexually unfulfilled

Utukku

(Alû)

Vampire

(Amalanhig) vampire teeth

Webbed Feet

(Asrai) (account by Ruth Tongue)

Wisdom King

(Āṭavaka) has subjects, including doorkeeper

Wisp

(Akurojin-no-hi) (Anchanchu) fireball (Ayakashi) ghost light

Witch / Hag

[Arikura-no-baba]

Woman Head

(Alkonost)

World Serpent

(Antaboga)

Worm

(Augerino)

Yaksha

(Ambika) (a yakshini) (Āṭavaka)

Youkai / yōkai

(Akashita) (Amefurikozō) (Amikiri) (Aobōzu) (Aonyōbō) (Ayakashi) (Azukibabaa)

Animal

The "animal" section lists animal traits of these beings. If a creature has a goat head, a snake foot, the whole body of a dog etc. it may be listed under that entry.

Some animal features are listed not under the "Animal" section here but instead under the Power section, specifically the "Shapeshift - Animal" section. This means that the being is able to shapeshift into an animal.

Antelope

(Antelope (Real Animal)) Linnaeus didn't think antelopes were real: see Animalia Paradoxa page

Ape

(Aegipan) (Agropelter) (Amabiko on Amabie page) (Amomongo)

Bat

(Amphiptere) wings (Asanbosam) wings, body parts, feet point both ways

Bear

(Sasnalkáhi on Anaye page)

Beaver

(Afanc)

Bird

(Akhekh) wings (Alal) claws (Alerion) no beak, no claws (Alicanto) flightless (too heavy from ore) (Alkonost) woman's head (Alphyn) claw forelegs (Amabie) beak (Amabie) parts (Amaru) condor head (one of its heads) (Amaru) feet, wings (Amikiri) beak (Amphiptere) wings, beak (Anito) omen birds, most commonly with green or blue iridescent feathers (Anqa) long neck, human face (Anzû) (Aosaginohi) (Blue-Crowned Night Heron)

Bison

(Átahsaia) hair on scalp like a bison mane

Butterfly

(Alara) wings made of light

Camel

(Aisha Qandicha) hoofs (Allocamelus) camel body, donkey head

Cat

(Aswang) subtype "Weredog" (sometimes transforms into cat)

Chicken

(Aitvaras) rooster (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) (Medieval Version) feet

Claws

(Amomongo) long nails (not claws) (Arzhang Div) (Átahsaia) long talons (Aswang) subtype "Ghoul" sharp nails

Cow

(Akabeko) (Akerbeltz) (Christian Version) Ox (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) Bull

Crab

(Amikiri) claws

Crocodile

(Afanc) (Ammit) head

Deer

(Anhangá) (Tupi-Guarani version) white deer

Dog

(Akerbeltz) (Christian Version) (Alal) ears (Almamula or Mulánima's Victim) transformed into giant black dog (Ammit) body (some accounts) (Anchanchu) (Aralez) (Cŵn Annwn mentioned on Arawn page) White Hounds with Red Ears (Pelucan on Ascapart page) giant with dog parts (Augenbrand) (Axehandle hound) (Aswang) subtype Weredog

Donkey

(Allocamelus) head (but camel body)

Ears

(Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) (Medieval Version) ears

Eel

Elephant

(Airavata) 4 tusks, 7 trunks, pastel white skin (Erawan see Airavata) 3 heads or 33 heads (Aka Manah) elephant head --> mouth filled with tusks instead of teeth

Fangs / Teeth / Tusks

(Al) sharp fangs (Amanozako) large fangs (Amphiptere) snake fangs (Ao Ao) massive fangs (Ao Ao)'s children, see Ao Ao (Aoandon) sharp teeth (Apotamkin) (Arzhang Div) (maybe tusks?) (Asi) sharp teeth as personified form (Azhdaha) many teeth (Átahsaia) yellow tusks (Aswang) subtype "Ghoul": sharp teeth

Feathers

(Amphiptere) light coloured (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) (Medieval Version) feathered wings (Awanyu)

Fish

(Aegipan) (Akugyo) (Amabiko on Amabie page) parts (Amaru) fish tail (Amemasu) (Asrai) fish tail (account by Rosalind Kerven) (Avatea) left body half is fish

Fox

(Amaru) fox muzzle on the llama head (one of its heads)

Goat

(Aegipan) (Aisha Qandicha) hoofs (Akerbeltz)

Hairy

(Almas) black fur (Amomongo) white hair (Asanbosam) long red hair (Astomi) (Auvekoejak) furry merman (has no Wikipedia page, may be hoax)

Hippo

(Ammit) hindlegs

Hoof

(Alphyn) Cloven Hoof Forelegs (Anguane) (Archura) (some accounts)

Horns

(Akugyo) (Al-Mi'raj) 1 or 2 horns (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) huge horns (Amaru) of a taruka, a type of huemul deer (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) (Medieval Version) (Teelget on Anaye page) thick antlers (Anggitay) 1 horn (some accounts) (Aoandon) twin horns (Archura) (some accounts) (Asanbosam) (Awanyu)

Horse

(Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) horse head (on snake body) (Alal) mane (Apaosha) black horse, black ears, black tail (Arion (Horse))

Human

(Akaname) child form (Anansi) human face; human with 8 legs (or other spider features) (Anqa) human face, long neck (Apsonsi) woman upper body (Arimaspi) (Ashinaga-tenaga) (Astomi) (Ato-sees) half human (Avatea) right body half is human

Insect

Leech

(Alukah)

Leopard

(Ammit) forelegs (Aq Bars) snow leopard with wings

Lion

(Alal) head (Alloces) head (Alphyn) hindlegs; thick mane (Ammit) (some accounts) mane, forelegs (Anzû) head (some accounts) (Apsonsi) biped with lion hindlegs

Lizard

(Azhdaha) (some accounts)

Llama

(Amaru) one of the heads (has a fox muzzle)

Mule

(Almamula or Mulánima's Victim) transformed into mule

Octopus

(Akkorokamui)

Orca

(Akhlut) orca parts

Oryx

(Akhekh) with bird wings and snake tail

Peccary

(Ao Ao) (some accounts) (Ao Ao)'s children, see Ao Ao

Pig

(Al) boar tusks (Ala - Ale) shapeshift form (Otherworldly Pigs mentioned on Arawn page) (Arkan sonney) (Aswang) subtype "Weredog" (sometimes transforms into pig)

Porcupine

(Átahsaia) Porcupine Quills --> Chest Hair

Puma

(Amaru) one of its heads

Raccoon

(Azeban)

Rabbit

(Al-Mi'raj)

Raven

(Ala - Ale)

Scales

(Amabie) covered in scales from the neck down (Endriago on Amadís de Gaula page) body is covered in scales (Amaru) crocodile or lizard (Átahsaia) cover arms

Sheep

(Ao Ao) (some accounts) (Ao Ao)'s children, see Ao Ao

Snake

(Agathodaemon) (Aghasura) (Aido Hwedo) (Airavata) (Aitvaras) appearance of "dragon" outdoors (Ajatar) (Akhekh) tail (Al Basty) (Armenian Version) hair (Ala - Ale) (e.g. snake body with horse head) (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) 2 headed (Amaru) (Amarum) water boa (Amphiptere) (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) Lifts the head that moves forward, lifts other head to reverse direction; (Medieval Version) small, serpent-headed tail (Ananke) (Orphic Version) incorporeal snake with arms stretching around the cosmos (Anguiped) snake legs (Antaboga) (Apotamkin) snake with long red hair (Ato-sees) half snake (Atosis) giant snake (Awanyu) (Azhdaha)

Spider

(Akkorokamui) once was called Yaushikep, a giant spider (Anansi) spider (some tales); anthropomorphic spider (some tales)

Sloth

Tail

(Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) 12 tails (some accounts) (Alphyn) knotted (Amikiri) (Amphiptere) spiked (Archura) (some accounts)

Tongue

(Alphyn) long, thin (Aswang) subtype: Manananggal Proboscis Tongue (Aswang) subtype: Bloodsucking Woman (example: Mandurugo) Proboscis Tongue

Turtle

(Ao) sea turtle

Peacock

Whale

(Amemasu)

Wings

(Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) huge wings, 6 wings (some accounts) (Zmajeviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) little wings beneath armpits (Alan) (Alara) (Alcyoneus) (some accounts) (Aloja - Aloges) colourful (Amphiptere) (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) (Medieval Version) feathered wings (Anemoi) (Anjana) nearly transparent (Aq Bars) (Aralez) (Astaroth) (Awes-kon-wa) (Azhdaha) (some accounts) (Aziza) (sometimes & possibly European influence) (Aswang) Subtype: Manananggal wings by night

Wolf

(Akhlut) wolf parts (Amaguq) (Amarok) (Asena)

Body

Look

(Aka Manah) male, long hair (Akaname) long tongue, claws (Akashita) hairy face covered with dark clouds (Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) born covered with the caul (some accounts) (Alan) their fingers and toes point backwards (Alp) (14th Century Version) crooked nose (Alp) meeting eyebrows (Alp) Caused by Weird Birth (caul, hair on palms, pregnant mother scared of animal or biting horse collar) (Am Fear Liath Mòr) thin; long arms; broad shoulders (Amabie) long hair (Amala) supports the world; dirty (Amanozako) long ears, long nose (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) dull eyes (Angak) specific clothes and decorations, see Wikipedia page (Anito) no philtrum (Anjana) slanted eyes (Ankou) first person to die that year (some accounts), last person to die that year (some accounts) (Ankou mentioned on French Mythic Creatures and Saints page) female skeleton (??) (Anthousai) hair resembles hyacinth flowers (Armaros) painted skin - green cross & 7 keys on forehead (Asanbosam) large, blood-shot eyes (Asi) personified form is described as slim (Azukiarai) grotesque appearance, large head, bald, crooked teeth, thin moustache, large bulging yellow eyes (Átahsaia) long, wild, grey hair; Red Hair (He pushes his hair out of his eyes with this knife, leaving his hair crimson with blood.); mouth from ear to ear; wrinkled, swollen face; bulging eyes; doesn't blink

Sound

(Ahuizotl) deceptive cry for help (Am Fear Liath Mòr) silent; intense high singing note; Crunching Gravel (from walking: Every few steps I took I heard a crunch, and then another crunch, as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own.) (Amafufunyana) speak in voices from victims stomach; speak in other language; speak in disturbing tone (Anjana) sweet voice (Azukiarai) like azuki beans being ground or washed; (some accounts) song "azuki togou ka, hito totte kuou ka? shoki shoki." ("Will I grind my azuki beans, or will I get a person to eat? shoki shoki." (Azukibabaa) sounds like azuki beans being ground or washed (Azukihakari) sounds like azuki beans being ground or washed; then like azuki beans being clogged and watered; sounds like 18 litres of beans being processed (Azukihakari) as if someone is stepping over the ceiling

Smell

(Aswang) subtype "Ghoul": rank and pungent smell

Taxonomy / Role

LGBT

(Agrat bat Mahlat) "mistress of the sorceresses" (Aido Hwedo) shares female concubine with her male partner (Akhkhazu) the word in Babylonian is male, but she is described as having a female nature (Ala - Ale) shapeshift into 6 fingered men (Alkonost) comforts Sirin (Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) child of ala and human woman (Alp) Drink Blood (from nipples of men and young children) (Alû) androgynous (Amaru) power over rainbows (Amazons) exclude men, return boy children (Amykos) look at the pictures of his punishment on Wikipedia (Anansi) "Aunt Nancy"; "Nancy"; "Sis' Nancy" all of whom are always male (Angwusnasomtaka) she has two names: Tümas ("Crow Mother") and she is also called Angwusnasomtaka ("Man with crow wings tied on") -- is this because men play her in the ritual? (Anito) choose a shaman (asog or bayok, usually women, often trans women who are classified as bakla, which gives certain rights and obligations) - shaman experiences serious illness or bout of insanity and recovers, having gained an anito as spirit guide (Anito) a subgroup (bound diwata) are genderless (Apsonsi) they are portrayed with nude breasts, sometimes surrounded by jewelry, so something for the sapphics (Aralez) which furry would not like the Wikipedia page for the aralez, where a cute dog with wings is looking at you in a friendly way (Asanbosam) breasts and beard (in many depictions) (Aspalis) cross-dresses as his sister Aspalis. She died but her body had disappeared (strange detail of the story). Kills the tyrant (see Euphemism section). Could be read as a trans man, trans woman or non-binary person. (Asrai) nude (account by Nancy Arrowsmith) (Atosis) love relationships with humans (some versions a woman lures her husbands to water for Atosis to eat, in others the woman falls in love with the snake but does not kill her husband or harm anyone) (Azovka) moans (Aufhocker) I'm being speculative here, but if Aufhocker sometimes transform into beautiful women and frequent targets are old women…I think I'm onto something (Aswang) Female aswang often expose their genitals

Hierarchical Politics

(Aino) old gender politics (Al Ana) old gender politics, ableist (Alebrije) this artform endangers copal trees (Endriago on Amadís de Gaula page) born of incest (Anaye) old Gender Politics: Offspring of women fornicating with objects (Aobōzu) (Kagawa Prefecture Version) kills women (Archura) kidnaps young women (Ardat-lilî) (some accounts) Backstory: Woman Who Died Sexually Unfulfilled or Without Marrying (in other accounts they are young women that died sexually unfulfilled) (Asag) hideously ugly & malevolent (so hideous that fish nearby boil alive in rivers)

Example Names

(Ala - Ale) (female personal names in eastern Serbia: Smiljana, Kalina, Magdalena, Dobrica, Dragija, Zagorka etc.) (Alastor) a common Greek male name (Alke) a common Greek female name (Asteria) (Asura) Vepacitti, Rāhu (Verocana), Pahārāda, Sambara, Bali, Sucitti, and Namucī

Phantom Name (meaning lost to time)

(Albruna) (Attila) (historical person, larger than life character in Norse sagas) name "Atilla" not Hunnic but among his Gothic mercenaries, means "little daddy" in Gothic language; early German myths call Attila the Hun "Etzel"

Namesake

(Asrai) "asrai night" (Athos) mountain and peninsula he created (Azure Lóng) star constellation

Euphemism (name to be avoided)

(Almas) (Alux - Aluxo'ob) naming them aloud will summon a disgruntled one from its home (Anemoi) secret missing entity: Eurus, eastwind (Anito) ("Elder", "Grandparent", "Those Unlike Us", "Dweller of a Place", "Dwellers of the Bowels of the earth" or "Dwellers of the Depths of the Sea") and euphemistic name for the harm they cause: victims were "greeted" or "played with" (Aspalis) fights the villain Tartarus, a human tyrant so cruel that citizens dared not pronounce his real name (which therefore is lost to history)

Name Confusion

(Æsir) Concept Applied To Name Foreign Beings (Æsir applied to gods, including Greek gods)

Joke Character / Fearsome Critter

(Agropelter) too fast to be seen (Alfred Bulltop Stormalong)

Wild Cultural Familiarity

(Amabiko on Amabie page) Speaks Japanese; Worships Buddhist Devas (Tenbu) of the Heavens (despite being sea-dwelling)

Sole Being

(Agave) Amazon (Agave) Nereid (Alerion) only 1 pair life at a time -> parents drown themselves on hatching of eggs, which they lay every 60 years. (Alkonost) (Maria Enganxa from Aloja - Aloges) (Amala) supports the world (Amarok) they hunt alone (caveat: can have lots of cubs) (Amycus) (Andaokut) (Ao) (Apalala) (Ardat-lilî) (Aremata-Popoa and Aremata-Rorua) 2 beings (Arion (Horse)) (Armaros) (Arzhang Div) (Asbolus) (Athos) (Augenbrand) (Aziza) (some accounts)

Umbrella Term

(Aitu) (Anaye) (Anito) (Chura mentioned on Archura page) umbrella term for nature beings (Archura) and household beings (Bichura) (Aswang) (malevolent shapeshifters) (Atua) (Azone) deities that were not the private divinities of any particular country or people. Azones were acknowledged as deities in every country, and worshipped in every nation

Uncertain Identity

(Aegipan) resembles Satyr or Faun (Agathodaemon) (Aitu) (Al Basty) name for Lilith (Anito) Spanish Names: Duende, Encantador / Encanto (Spell Caster), Hechicero (Sorcerer), Sirena (Mermaid), Maligno (Evil Spirit); Islamic Names: Jinn, Saitan (Aosaginohi) sometimes equated with Onibi lights

Intermixing

(Aguara) (Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) aloviti as child of ala and human woman (Zmajeviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) human mother, (Zmaj TLDR) father (Allocamelus) donkey and camel (Aloja - Aloges) marry mortal, but must be kept secret (aloja leaves with man's fortune if relationship is found out) (Anaye) human women and objects (Anito) can mater with humans (children = albinism, syndactyly, unusual beauty or behaviour) (Antaeus) half-giant (Wikipedia doesn't source this Antaeus as a half-giant and it make no sense to me, because the term "half-giant" doesn't seem to mean anything specific) (Asena) impregnated by a boy (an injured child she, as a wolf, nursed back to health); gives birth to 10 half-wolf half-human children (Atonga) half-spirit, half-mortal (Atosis) love relationships with humans (some versions a woman lures her husbands to water for Atosis to eat, in others the woman falls in love with the snake but does not kill her husband or harm anyone) (Aswang) Subtype: Manananggal marry into communities (Aswang) Subtype: Bloodsucking Woman (example Mandurugo) marry into communities; target husband

Unrelated Offspring

(Aitvaras) said to hatch from an egg of a 9- to 15-year-old rooster (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) gives birth to fairies and winds in mouth (Alberich) Ortnit is Human, Alberich his father (Alcippe) one Alcippe is daughter of a Gigantes (Alcyoneus) but she may not be (Aloadae) father is Poseidon, mother is a mortal, they are both Giants (possibly Gigantes??). (Aloja - Aloges) children with mortals. Comb children's hair and dress them every morning even if they leave their husbands and take the fortune along. (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) born from Medusa's head (Andhaka) parents are both deva (Angalo) his wife Aran…is she a giant too? Or is she like the ogre's wife in some version's of Jack and the Beanstalk, inexplicably human? And Angalo's father is the god of building. (Antaeus) gods like Gaia and Poseidon birth a giant (Anubis) snake goddess Kebechet is daughter (Note: "snake goddess" and "jackal god" refer to personalities, Anubis personality is like a jackal, hence being portrayed in jackal form or with jackal head…so technically not suited to this category. Same applies to all Egyptian deities.) (Asena) impregnated by a boy (an injured child she, as a wolf, nursed back to health); gives birth to 10 half-wolf half-human children (Ao Ao) born as one of 7 wicked children as result of goddess Arasy's curse against Tau and Kerana (Arion (Horse)) child of Poseidon in horseform and Demeter in horseform (Avatea) father of gods and men

Role - A Mount

(Akhekh) cavalry, flying mount (Ama no Fuchigoma (Horse)) mount of god Susanoo

Role - A Rider

(Agares) crocodile & cockatrice (Ala - Ale) humans, ridden like horses after being chased into gullies (Alp) can ride horses (Amazons) riding skill (Ambika) lion (Astaroth) dragon

Role - A Ruler

(Aibell) queen of the fairies (Ajatar) she is master of (Lempo) and "gnomes" (which may be (Haltija) or (Nisse)) (Akerbeltz) many elf servants (Alberich) elf king (Ao Guang) (Apalala) (Arawn) (Prabu Niwatakawaca (Javanese) on Arjuna page) giant king (Armaros) 1 of 20 leaders of the Grigori, who in that tale number 200 total (Arzhang Div) chief (Auriaria) giant chieftain

Role - A Parent of Divine Forces

(Amalur) Mother of Sun (Ekhi) and Moon (Ilazkhi / Ilargi) (Amanozako) ancestor of all yokai who share her short-fused temper and disobedience (e.g. (Tengu) and (Amanozako)) (Ananke) mother of the Fates (some accounts)

Role - A Servant of a Deity / Attendant Deity

(Amefurikozō) serve rain god Ushi (Anhangá) (Anhang - Anhangá (Spirit) in Mawé culture) followers of Yurupira (Anito) Some animals like crocodiles, snakes, monitor lizards, tokay geckos, and various birds were also venerated as servants or manifestations of diwata, or as powerful spirits themselves (Ardat-lilî) one group are servants of the god Erra; another group are the lil, ghosts of young people who died sexually unfulfilled, subjects of Pazuzu

Role - A Helper of Magic-User

(Anchimayen) serve a sorcerer (a kalku) (Anito) choose a shaman (asog or bayok, usually women, often trans women who are classified as bakla, which gives certain rights and obligations) - shaman experiences serious illness or bout of insanity and recovers, having gained an anito as spirit guide

Human Culture

(Aitu) (Amazons) (Antichthones) (Arimaspi) (Ashinaga-tenaga) Long-Leg Country and Long-Arm Country; Ashinaga-jin (long legs) and Tenaga-jin (or chōhi) (long arms)

Gender

Non-Binary

see LGBT section

Female

(Agrat bat Mahlat) (Ahöl Mana) (Aibell) (Aide) (Aido Hwedo) (Ajatar) long hair (Akhkhazu) (Akka) (Al) wild hair, fat, ugly, old, hairy (Al Ana) old, ugly (Al Basty) (Ala - Ale) (Albruna) (Aloja - Aloges) (Alphito) (Amalur) (Amanozako) (Amazake-babaa) old woman (Ambika) (Amemasu) beautiful (Ameonna) (Ammit) (Amorōnagu) (Ananke) (Anggitay) (Anguane) beauty (Angwusnasomtaka) (Anjana) (Anqa) (Anthousai) (Aoandon) (Aonyōbō) (Arae) (Ardat-lilî) appealing (atypical, since most malevolent beings in Mesopotamian accounts are portrayed as faceless / ever-changing and strange) (Arikura-no-baba) old (Asena) (Askafroa) (Asrai) (in oldest account by Robert Williams Buchanan) (Ayakashi) can assume form of beautiful woman (Azovka) (Azukibabaa) old

Male

(Ahöla) (Aholi) (Aka Manto) (Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) "ala-like" men (Alberich) (Ameotoko on Ameonna page) (Anansi) (Ao Guang) (Arquetu) old (Asrai) (in oldest account by Robert Williams Buchanan & account by Nancy Arrowsmith) (Astaroth) (Athos) (Ato-sees) (Azukiarai)

Habitat

Anthills

(Aziza)

Arctic

(Agloolik) under ice (Atshen) permafrost (Auvekoejak) has no Wikipedia page, may be hoax (not sure)

Beach

(Alkonost) lays eggs on beach (Ayakashi) beach

Cave

(Afanc) (Akerbeltz) (Aku-aku) (Ala - Ale) (Alux - Aluxo'ob) (Amomongo) (Sasnalkáhi on Anaye page) (Anchanchu) (Archura)

Cliff

(Tsetahotsiltali on Anaye page)

Desert

(Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) (Antaeus)

Fairy Fort

(Aes Sidhe)

Fairy Ring

(Aes Sidhe)

Field

(Alux - Aluxo'ob) (Aobōzu) hizuoka Prefecture)

Forest

(Agogwe) (Ajatar) (Ala - Ale) deep forest (Alebrije) (Alkonost) (Alseid) groves, woods (Alux - Aluxo'ob) (Anjana) (Apsonsi) the mythic Himappan forest / Himavanta forest (Archura) woodland (Asanbosam) (Aziza) (Āṭavaka) deep forest (Aswang) Subtype: Manananggal Forest (domiciles deep in the jungle, if not the trees themselves) (Aswang) Subtype: Bloodsucking Woman (example Mandurugo) Forests far from human communities

Grasslands

(Alseid) grassy meadows (Teelget on Anaye page) grassy fields

Hearth

(Akubōzu) the ashes / ash (Amanesaku mentioned in Akubōzu) the ashes / ash

Hidden Remote Places

(Ala - Ale) (Amazons) edge of the known world (often Scythia) (Anchanchu) isolated places (Anqa) the place of the setting of the sun (Antichthones) Opposite End of Earth, South of Torrid Equatorial Climate

Hills / Tumulus

(Aes Sidhe) beneath them (Aibell) beneath a hill or rock (Alven) hill mounds

Household

(Agathodaemon) worshipped (Aitvaras) (Akka) beneath tent (Amazake-babaa) visits homes (Amazake banbā on the Amazake-babaa page) Tries to sell sake and amazake door-to-door (Aka Manto) bathroom (Akaname) bathroom, dilapidated buildings (Aobōzu) Toilet (Yamagata Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture); Vacant Houses (Okayama Prefecture); (Bichura mentioned on Archura page)

Settlements (Villages, Cities)

(Aswang) Self-Domesticated (feral monsters that begin living in close proximity to humans) (Aswang) subtype: Bloodsucking Woman (example Mandurugo) Use village A as hideout, raid nearby villages at night (Aswang) subtype Witch Town Outskirts, Village Outskirts (Aswang) subtype "Ghoul" Gather in trees near cemeteries to exhume and consume fresh burials

Implausible

(Amabiko on Amabie page) Shinji-kōri (fake county in Higo Province)

Island

(Al-Mi'raj) remote island (Amorōnagu)

Lake

(Afanc) (Alara) (Lake Baikal)

Mountains

(Akkorokamui) lived in mountains as Giant Spider named Yaushikep (Ala - Ale) inhospitable (Yamawarawa on Amabie page) (Aobōzu) Mountains (Yamaguchi Prefecture) (Auloniad) mountain pastures; mountain vales (Azovka) (Mt. Azov)

Otherworld

(Aes Sidhe) [Ajatar] Pohjola (Akhekh) Set's Domain of Darkness Guajupiá (Tupinamba), an afterlife of the Tupinamba people ("Land without evils") mentioned in (Anhangá)

Portent

(Almas) empty homes, people have fled their homes because an almas is around (Alven) fishless pond (Anito) Cold Presence (unlike "warm" human spirits); Leave no footprints (unlike human spirits!) (Antaeus) Builds a temple of skulls (from his opponents)

Ravine

(Amorōnagu)

Roads / Paths

(Ala - Ale) crossroads are where Ala hunt for supper (Aufhocker) attack locations: ridges, crossroads, springs, woods, on a path through a hollow, and cemeteries (Aswang) subtype: Weredog favours pregnant people travelling roads at night

Rural

(Akurojin-no-hi) bad roads

Sky / Heaven

(Aerico) (Aguara) stars (builds structure from stars) (Ala - Ale) clouds (house) (Amai-te-rangi) Upper Spirit Realm / Sky (this detail is from the Ngaru Wikipedia article) (Amanozako) (Angiris) (Azhdaha) air

Stone

(Alux - Aluxo'ob)

Subterranean

(Aes Sidhe) (Amikuk) inside the ground (Augerino)

Tree

(Akathaso) canopy (Thitpin Saung Nat found in Akathaso) trunk (Myay Saung Nat found in Akathaso) root (Aketeko) honey locust tree (Ala - Ale) giant tree (Mmoatia the Fairy on Anansi page) fairies often meet in front of odum tree (Asanbosam) attacks from canopy (Askafroa) ash tree (Aziza) silk-cotton trees

Underworld

(Aillen) from Mag Mell (Alkonost) (Alû) (Amaru) [Ammit] Duat [Amycus] Tartarus (Anathan) (Kalug/kaluluwa on the Anito page) a free soul, travelling to afterlife on a boat (Anubis) Lord of Underworld (prior to Middle Kingdom 2055 BC)

Enchanted Place

(Alan) fine houses made of gold and other valuables (Aloja - Aloges) lakes that boil "in anger" when strangers enter

Upper World

(Aiy) (Amai-te-rangi) Upper Spirit Realm / Sky (this detail is from the Ngaru Wikipedia article)

Water

(Ahuizotl) (Aisha Qandicha) near water (ocean, river, drainage canal) (Al Ana) near streams, rivers, lakes (Ala - Ale) lake, spring (Alan) near springs (Aloja - Aloges) near fresh water; they bathe (Maria Enganxa from Aloja - Aloges) wells, cisterns (Alseid) springs of rivers (Altamaha-ha) rivers, streams, abandoned rice fields (Alven) fishless ponds (Amabie) open sea (Amahiko-no-mikoto on Amabie page) rice field (Amaru) bottom of lakes, bottom of rivers (Amarum) water boa (Amemasu) lake (Amikuk) sea (Amorōnagu) pools, waterfall (Anchanchu) river (Anguane) lake (Apalala) river (Vourukhasha mentioned on Apaosha page) is a cosmic sea (Apotamkin) sea (Passamaquoddy Bay) (Apukohai) sea (Aremata-Popoa and Aremata-Rorua) ocean (Ashinaga-tenaga) seashore (Asrai) lake (in oldest account: Robert Williams Buchanan), sea (Atosis) (Awanyu) springs, ponds, rivers, and ultimately the oceans (Ayakashi) water surface (Azhdaha) (Azukiarai) near rivers or bodies of water

Item

(Aeternae) bony, saw-toothed horns (Aholi) colourful cloak (Aibell) magic harp (Power - Cuts Life Short) (Akerbeltz) (Christian Version) horns as candles; eggs/bread/money as offerings (Akkorokamui) Offerings - Fish, Crab, Molluscs (give back what it gave) (Akuma) sword (Al Ana) red hat with fern twig (Zmajeviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) belemnite as lightning bolt (Zmajeviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) flint arrowheads (Alberich) cloak of invisibility (Tarnkappe) (Alberich) magic ring (Alberich) sword Eckisax (made by him) (Alberich) sword Nagelringr (made by him) (Alfred Bulltop Stormalong) huge ship (Alicanto) Leads to Treasure (if follower unnoticed) (Alkonost) egg laid on beach, hatching of egg causes thunderstorm and rough seas that are impossible to traverse (Alloces) spear (Almas) black fur; enormous foot claws; Sacrifices (edible wild roots, wild animal meat) (Aloadae) bronze jar (a storage pithos, similar to an amphora in shape) traps Ares for a year (a lunar year of 13 months) (Aloja - Aloges) fine, rich clothes (Aloja - Aloges) Wand (hazel wood, in Catalan tradition the only wood that allows casting spells) (Maria Enganxa from Aloja - Aloges) Hook to capture children outside her well (Alp) Tarnkappe (cap of concealment, sometimes a veil) -> offers reward for its return (Alpos) uses rock as shoulder shield (Alux - Aluxo'ob) offerings (Alux - Aluxo'ob) an alux house ("kahtal alux") is a 1-2 storey shrine; within 7 years farmer must close the windows and doors of the little house, sealing the alux inside; If this is not done, the alux will run wild and start playing tricks on people. (Amabie) glowing object (underwater light?) (Amadlozi) blood sacrifice: cow, goat, chicken (Amafufunyana) magic potion causes possession if ingested - brewed from ants that fed on buried human corpse Eguzki-lore luze (stemless carline thistle); flower; scares off malevolent spirits (created by (Amalur)) (Amazake-babaa) offerings (likely amazake) (Amazons) Weapon - Battle-Axe (Sagaris) (Amazons) Magic Belt (Hippolyte) (Amazons) bow (Ambika) paper lantern (Amefurikozō) umbrella without central pole (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae)

Item - Live Amphisbaena Necklace (safe pregnancy)

Item - Amphisbaena Skin (wear item to cure for arthritis and common cold)

Item - Amphisbaena Carcass (or Skin) (nail to tree to keep warm during cold weather & allow tree to be felled more easily)

Item - Amphisbaena Meat (attract many lovers) (Ananke) spindle (Anemoi) blood sacrifice: horse (Anhangá) food offerings (grizzly caveat that doesn't apply in this circumstance: it eats corpses) (Anjana) Stick of Wicker or Hawthorn (Shines in different colour each day of the week) (Anjana) Petals of Happiness (Rose with purple, green, blue or golden petals) grants happiness till day of death (Ankou) black robe, hat that conceals face, scythe (Anzû) Tablet of Destinies (stole this item from Enlil, keeping it on mountaintop) (Ao Guang) Offerings and Sacrifices, Including human sacrifices (Ao Guang) Ruyi Jungu Bang, a magically expanding, gold-ringed iron rod weapon granted to Sun Wukong (originally a tool for measuring the depth of sea water, hence its ability to vary its shape and length; it remained in the sea and became the "Pillar holding down the sea", an unmovable treasure of the undersea palace) (Ao Guang) Golden Chain Mail (Ao Guang) Fenghuang Feather Cap (Ao Guang) Cloud-walking boots (Aobōzu) blue clothes (some accounts) (Okayama Prefecture) (Aonyōbō) Tattered, moth-ridden kimono (Aralez) tower: The dead are placed on top of towers to attract the aralezes (Arjuna) see magical heirlooms and powerful heirlooms (Arkan sonney) brings eternal silver coin to those who manage to catch it (Ascapart) club made from an entire tree (Astaroth) Magic Ring needed to withstand the stench of his breath (Astomi) carry roots, flowers, apples, spray perfume on their victims (Aswang) Subtype: Manananggal hides lower half during nighttime (Átahsaia) flint knife "as broad as a man's thigh and twice as long" (Āṭavaka) Seal(s) and Talismans (many for believers)

Item - Dussāvudha (aka Vatthāvudha) (made of cloth) (Superweapon): if he threw it up into the sky, no rain would fall for twelve years; if he let it fall on the earth, all plants and trees would die and nothing would grow for twelve years; if he threw it into the sea, the sea would completely dry up; it could make Sineru crumble into pieces.

1 of the 4 most powerful weapons

Yama's Nayanāvudha

- Śakra's Vajra

Vaiśravaṇa's _Gadāvudha

Accepts Offerings - Child Sacrifices

pregnant women fled the capital

"Dragon" Sacrifice

variation: the hero converts the dragon (Atlantes) Magic Garden Ringed By Glass (Atlantes) Magic Castle Filled with Illusions (Atonga) canoe transported by birds (Awelo) represented by grandfather and grandmother buffalo masks (Ayaz Ata) magic staff; lots of old clothing (Azhdaha)

Item - Azhdahā Heart

Power - Courage / Bravery

Item - Azhdahā Skin

Power - Heal Wound of Love

Item - Azhdahā Severed Head

Bury Head in Soil

Power - Fertility (for soil) (Aziza) (if sole being of its type) smokes a pipe (Azukiarai) ragged clothes (Azure Lóng) temple statue comes to drink from waterfall at nighttime

Vehicle

(Agrat bat Mahlat) chariot (Power - Flight) (Alven) bubble or broken eggshell boat (Ankou mentioned on French Mythic Creatures and Saints page) cart

Companion

(Agares) pet hawk (Akashita) black cloud (Akerbeltz) snake (Aketeko) 17-18 yo. specter of a young woman, induces trance or fever in passersby (Ala - Ale) Livestock: Owls, Wolves, Badgers, Forest Animals (Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) (version where it is child of ala) snake companion (Alastor) erinyes (Albruna) elves (Almamula or Mulánima) Mule (drags chains, is a transformed victim); Giant Black Dog (teeth of fire, transformed victim) (Archura) grey wolf (close bond) (Asag) his offspring and companions in battle (Wikipedia calls them "Rock Demons" but it says "citation needed") (Ashinaga-tenaga) Ashinaga-jin (long legs) is usually the companion of Tenaga-jin (or chōhi) (long arms)

Morality / Reputation

I'm not doing D&D alignment here. In fact, often the accounts about creatures are contradictory, some stories insisting they are all good and others they are all evil. I just classify them as both in those cases. I'll try and explain all these categories in more detail, but the main point here is to show how the storytellers in communities subjectively feel about these beings: are these beings helpers and we like them? Then probably "benevolent" is what they are considered. Are people calling them dangerous but insisting they are not wicked? Then that should be its own category. That's what this is based on: my best approximation (classifying only creatures where Wikipedia mentions it) of what people tell of these beings.

Ambivalent / Ambiguous

(Aes Sidhe) appeased with offerings (Aisha Qandicha) (Alberich) (probably a human morality, but he plays tricks in Ortnit) (Aloja - Aloges) avoid human contact, Prideful of own beauty, high self-esteem, Gaze at their reflection in lakes on full-moon nights (Anemoi) force of nature (Ankou) force of nature (Anpao) force of nature

Benevolent

(Agathodaemon) (Agiel) (Agloolik) aids fishermen & hunters, blesses hunters with prey (Aguara) (Aitu) (Aiy) (Akashita) (Akathaso) (Akkorokamui) (Alara) (Aloja - Aloges) (Alp) if evil eye of alp is destroyed, so too are their malicious intentions (Amadlozi) guide people's lives towards purpose and integrity (Akhu mentioned on Ammit page) (Angak) (Angiris) (Anhangá) (Tupi-Guarani version) pacifist (Anjana) (Anqa) (Anthelioi) (Anubis) (Apple Tree Man) (Apsonsi) protects from harm (Aralez) (Asbolus) (Asrai) (Awwakule) assists people (Aziza)

Benevolent, with caveats

(Ala - Ale) (caveat: to her favourites) saves lives, grants wealth to her favourites (Alux - Aluxo'ob) will occasionally stop and ask farmers or travelers for an offering, offers boons (good luck or cause enemy to be diseased), Refusal means they wreak havoc (Anito) cause misfortune if angered, disrespected or mistakenly encountered

Trouble or Dangerous

(Aeternae) wild beast (Afanc) wild beast, carnivore (Agropelter) territorial, destructive (Ahuizotl) destructive, carnivore (Almas) (Alp) (Early Medieval Texts) Eerie, Ferocious (Alven) Territorial (befoul cattle and humans who touch their favoured plants) (Amafufunyana) aggressive, can cause suicide (Amanozako) goes against conformity and does the opposite of what is expected by society and social norms. Also, it is said that Amanozako is picky, and will go into an atrocious rage if she does not get what she wants, or if things do not go according to her way. Her wrath cannot be stopped (Amaru) (2 Amarus destroy the land while fighting each other) (Amikiri) Pest (Cuts Fisher's Netting and Mosquito Nets) (Amomongo) (Apotamkin) dangerous but explicitly not always malevolent (Archura) territorial, fight with other archura, knock down trees (Asanbosam) territorial (Augenbrand) predator (see Motivation for nuance) (Ayakashi) vengeful

Harmless

(Aketeko) harmless, minor inconvenience (most accounts) (Anito) a subgroup (bound diwata) ignore human affairs (affairs as in: human matters) (Aosaginohi) flees human contact (Azukihakari) harmless, minor inconvenience; nuisance (drops dirt and paper waste from the ceiling), NOT Malevolent

Judgmental

(Akashita) swallows evildoers (Al Basty) visits the guilty, family of perpetrators of unpunished bloodshed (Al Basty) (Armenian Version) Punishes Unpunished Criminal Women (Ala - Ale) rewards being treated as normal, punishes being treated as weird (Punishment: Chest of Snakes that cause blindness, Eat Person) (parallels (Wekufe)) (Alicanto) leads off cliff (if pursuer is not of good heart) (Amefurikozō) if thieves steal their umbrella, they can't take it off (Ammit) Sentient, Ammit understands the results of the weighing of the heart and does not eat the akhu (the blessed dead who abide by the code of truth (Ma'at)) (Anhangá) (Tupi-Guarani version) avenges animals victimized by insatiable hunters (also describes as pacifist on Wikipedia, so either the accounts differ about pacifism or not (?) or the avenging is done peacefully) (Arkan sonney) misfortune to those who hold on to it for too long (causes good luck and has eternal silver coin) (Armaros) Lends money to those who spend their fortune; If they spend their fortune again, he curses them with eternal poverty (Awelo) morality personified (Aufhocker) targets thieves and criminals that need to be taught a lesson (Āṭavaka) wrathful

Malevolent

(Aeshma) causes animal cruelty, drunken violence, war (Agnen) (Agrat bat Mahlat) destructive (Aguara) (Aillen) (Aitu) (Ajatar) (Aka Manto) (Akaneburi mentioned in Akaname) (Aketeko) (some accounts) tear victims limb from limb (Akhkhazu) (Akvan Div) (Al) (Ala - Ale) (Alal) (Aloadae) attempted rape of Artemis and kidnapping of both Artemis and Hera, kidnapped Ares and contained him in a bronze jar for a year (a lunar year of 13 months) (Alp) (Alpos) (Alû) torment victims for fun (Amai-te-rangi) (Amalanhig) (Amanojaku) (Amanosagume on Amanojaku page) (Anathan) (Anaye) (Anhangá) (Anhangá) (Anhang - Anhangá (Spirit) in Mawé culture) (Aswang mentioned on Anito page) no appeal through offerings, utterly pitiless (Apaosha) (Ardat-lilî) (Arzhang Div) (Asag) (Askafroa) unless appeased through sacrifices on Ash Wednesday does much damage (Asrai) (account by Rosalind Kerven) (Asrestar) (Aswang) (e.g. victimize their own without hesitation) (Atlantes) (Átahsaia) (Aufhocker) they target people travelling alone and old women (Ayahos) (Azhdahak)

Malevolent (Riddle)

(Aka Manto) (Aobōzu) (Kagawa Prefecture Version) life or death question

Mischievous

(Aguara) (Alp) souring milk, elfknots, ride horse to exhaustion, and re-diapering a baby with soiled diaper (Alux - Aluxo'ob) (Amaguq) (Anansi) (Anito) (Archura) imitates human voices (lures wanderers to cave), horribly cry, removes signposts, kidnaps young women (Wikipedia page says this mischievousness is not evil) (Ashi-magari) prevents people from walking by wrapping around person's legs at night (soft thing, like a kitten or wad of cotton) (Asrai) (account by Rosalind Kerven) (Awwakule) harmless pranks (Azeban)

Undergoing Purification

(Apalala) converted by the Buddha

Magic Abilities and Major Non-Magic Skills

Miscellaneous

(Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) you gain power from slaying amphisbaena during full moon if you are pure of heart and mind (Antero Vipunen) magic (very valuable spells and knowledge, uses spells composed of words, see Luotes) (Arikura-no-baba) turned the hot water of an onsen cold by throwing a horse's hoof into it (Āṭavaka) Soften Solids (his glance can make a body soft as butter)

Animals (Power Over Animals)

(Aido Hwedo) snakes

Bliss

(Alkonost) her song causes people to have no more wants (see also Forgetting) (Anjana) Petals of Happiness (Rose with purple, green, blue or golden petals) grants happiness till day of death

Breathe Fire

(Akugyo) (Alloces) (Anzû)

Breathe Poison

(Endriago on Amadís de Gaula page) exhales poison gas (Amaymon) Poison astral breath

Breathe Water / Spew Water

(Anzû)

Cause Disability

(Al Basty) (Armenian Version) blindness in unborn children (Ala - Ale) stepping on an "ala's table" causes blindness, deafness, lameness

Cause Disease

(Aerico) (Ajatar) (Akhkhazu) (Akurojin-no-hi) (Ala - Ale) if Ala turns animal mad and that animal is eaten, it causes rabies (Alp) epilepsy, minor illnesses (Alp) through evil eye (Alux - Aluxo'ob) will do so for people in exchange for offerings (Alven) cattle, humans (Amazake-babaa) smallpox, common cold (Amazake banbā on the Amazake-babaa page) to those who answer the door (Askafroa)

Cause Madness

(Aisha Qandicha) (Akuma) (Al Basty) (Post-partum depression) (Ala - Ale) in animals

Cause Infertility

(Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) of Fields (thwart ripening or prevent fertility)

Cause Miscarriage

(Aisha Qandicha) (Al) (Al Basty) (Armenian Version)

Cause Misfortune

(Alp) through evil eye (Aonyōbō) (possibly, "a spirit of poverty and misfortune" may not cause misfortune) (Arkan sonney) to those holding on to it for too long (Ask-wee-da-eed)

Cause Poverty

(Aonyōbō) (possibly, "a spirit of poverty and misfortune" may not cause poverty) (Armaros) curses with eternal poverty those who lose the fortune he lent them

Cause Good Luck

(Alux - Aluxo'ob) in exchange for offerings (Arkan sonney) to those who manage to catch it

Cause Stillbirth

(Al Basty) (Armenian Version)

Creation

(Airavata) create clouds (Aiy) they collectively created the world and the fabulous land (Alfred Bulltop Stormalong) explains where some things were created (Aloadae) giants who built mountains (Amalur) (Angalo) shapes landscape (Antaboga) (Athos) Created a mountain and peninsula (named after him)

Deadly Gaze

(Binaye Ahani (Eye Killers) on Anaye page) glance kills (some stories)

Deadly Presence

(Asag) so hideous that fish nearby boil alive in rivers

Detection

(Ala - Ale) smell humans (Amanosagume on Amanojaku page) see into a person's heart (Amy) reveal treasures

Drought

(Ao Guang) (Apaosha)

Earthquakes

(Agares) (Ahkiyyini) (Amaru) (Amemasu) when they get tired from holding up the Earth (Angalo) (Ayahos)

Eat Smell

(Aku-aku) (Anito) can eat the vital force (the breath, the odem (ginhawa)) of humans > harmful; annoyed by perfume, salt and spices (Aonyōbō) spoiled and rotten leftover food, otherwise humans (Astomi) no need of food and drink; Apple smell, Flower smell, Perfume smell; die from strong, unpleasant smell (Awelo) represented by grandfather and grandmother buffalo masks, which are fed with smoke

Eat Solids

(Alicanto) eats ore (can't fly, too heavy from ore, faster if no recent meal)

Emotion Influence

(Al-Mi'raj) frightens animals -> they flee (Am Fear Liath Mòr) inspires feeling of unease (Amanozako) possess the hearts of humans and manipulate their emotions and personalities (Anjana) Petals of Happiness (Rose with purple, green, blue or golden petals)

Eternal Youth

(Alara) her beauty and youth depend on water, so you must remain close (Aloja - Aloges) retain youth throughout their long (not eternal) years (Asrai) only age in moonlight (account by Ruth Tongue)

Extreme

(Akaneburi mentioned in Akaname) lick victim down to the bones

Exorcism

(Akerbeltz) is immune to exorcism

Fertility

(Aido Hwedo) (Akerbeltz) (Alux - Aluxo'ob) (Amadlozi) (Anguane) including pregnancy (Ao Ao) (Ao Ao)'s children, see Ao Ao

Fire

(Aido Hwedo) (Aillen) (Ani Hyuntikwalaski) cause lightning fire in a hollow sycamore tree

Flight

(Alan) (Alcyoneus) (some accounts) (Alp) like a bird (Alukah) by releasing its long hair (Alven) (Amanozako)

Fog

(Am Fear Liath Mòr) mists as a cloak

Forgetting

(Alkonost) her song causes people to forget all knowledge (see also Bliss) (Azovka) enchantment so people get lost

Glue

(Amefurikozō) if thieves steal their umbrella, they can't take it off

God

(Æsir) mortal (Aide) (Aitu) (Akka) (Akkorokamui) Octopus God (hard to escape its grasp without permission) (Aku-aku) (Amalur) (Amanosagume on Amanojaku page) (Amanozako) (Amazake-babaa) of smallpox (Ambika) (Amefurikozō) (Ammit) not worshipped (Anammelech) (Ananke) even gods don't fight her (Anemoi) (Anguiped) (Anito) (Anthelioi) (Anubis) (Anzû) feared by all the gods (Apollo Amazonius) (Arawn) (posibly) (Askafroa) (Asteria) (Atua) (Avatea) (Ayaz Ata) (Aziza) (if sole being of its type) (Azone) (Azure Lóng) door god (Aswang) (Bilocano lore) Gugurang (God of Good) and Asuang (God of Evil)

Grant Knowledge

(Agares) languages (Alloces) astronomy, liberal sciences (Amy) astronomy, liberal arts (Anqa) shares wisdom (Astaroth) math, handicrafts, hidden treasures (Aziza) gift practical and spiritual knowledge; fire use; magic for hunters

Grant Strength

(Amarok) by removing bones that weaken person

Growth Spell

(Aghasura) (Aloadae) grow 9 fingers each month, never stop to grow 16.4592m = 9 fathoms tall at age 9 (Alven) Growth Spell (Shrink Spell), can shrink to minuscule size, only to then grow and spread into gorgeous monsters who cover half of the morning sky. (Arkan sonney) grows self

Hail

(Akerbeltz) (Akerbeltz, and the devil, and witches can make hail from the cut beard of a billy-goat) (Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) hail clouds through trance and spirit travel (Amaru)

Heal

(Akabeko) protect from Disease (Akerbeltz) for animals (Akkorokamui) (including mental, but also reminiscent of octopus that self-amputates and regenerates limbs) (Alara) remove hate and greed (Norse Álfar as represented in Álfablót) perform healing spells in exchange for blood sacrifice of animal (Amabie) Avert Disease (use pictures of it) (Angak) (Aswang) heal self (licking others transforms them into aswang)

Illusion

(Alp) (Anito) (Atlantes) castle filled with it

Immortality

(Aes Sidhe) (Alcyoneus) self-resurrection (Andhaka) (Ankou) as a curse

Incorporeal

(Alux - Aluxo'ob) can assume physical form / incarnate / manifest (Am Fear Liath Mòr) semi-corporeal (Ananke) (Orphic Version) incorporeal snake (Átahsaia) at times

Invisibility

(Aerico) (Afanc) undone by adder stone (Aibell) depends on item (Akubōzu) (Ala - Ale) not fully invisible, rather: indistinct shape (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) but audible hissing in front of dark hail clouds & visible to Six Toed-Six Fingered People (Alberich) Tarnkappe (Alicanto) If spotted, turns off colours of its wings, going into dark (Alp) Tarnkappe (Alux - Aluxo'ob) (Alven) ((Invisibility/See-through) (insubstantial to human eyes)) (Anito) (Ashi-magari) (Astaroth) (Azone) said to be neither visible nor sensible (Azukihakari)

Invincibility

(Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) to guns or arrows, unless gold or silver (Amanozako) can chew metal blades ragged with her fangs (Antaeus) (Antero Vipunen) Antero Vipunen is NOT invulnerable, but like many giants even sharp stakes shoved into his stomach are simply perceived as a stomach ache (Asag) hardened skin, skin feels like rock, almost indestructible (Augerino) indestructible (Átahsaia) Thick Skin --> So Thick That Knuckles Appear Horned

Landslide

(Ayahos)

Levitation

(Aka Manah) (Alara) hovers over lake

Life

(Amadlozi) (Amalur) Holds All Life in the world

Light

(Avatea) eyes are sun and moon

Lightning

(Zmajeviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) also associated with belemnites and flint arrowheads (Binaye Ahani (Eye Killers) on Anaye page) Shoot Lightning from eyes (in some stories) (Ani Hyuntikwalaski) cause lightning fire in a hollow sycamore tree

Longevity

(Aes Sidhe) (Aibell) (Aloja - Aloges) live for millennia (Anqa) 1,700 years, mating at 500 years, chick only leaves egg 125 years after shell breaks (Asrai) (account by Ruth Tongue)

Mind Control

(Alloces) (possibly not mind control) can get summoner the favour of nobles (Amy) (possibly not mind control) cause positive reactions from rulers (Anqa) over animals, feeds the animals it controls (Astaroth) (possibly not mind control) power over serpents

Moon

(Anammelech) (Avatea)

Multiplication

(Amikuk) When Shot, Amikuk multiplies into eight beings (Andhaka) duplicate

Nature

(Aitu) power over nature (Amalur) Withhold Earth's Treasures (can't be found unless Amalur wants) (Asi) personified form's appearance causes earth to shake, turmoils in the oceans, forceful winds to howl and trees to fall and be torn apart while meteors blaze through the skies

Pass Wall

(Amikuk) swim through earth (Anthousai) nymphs of flowers

Poison

(Afanc) (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) both heads are poison

Portal / Teleportation / Spirit Away

(Amaru) Travel Between Worlds (spirit realm and our world) (Anito) Seduce & Abduct Humans into Spirit World

Possession

(Aisha Qandicha) (Ala - Ale) "sneak" into living humans and corpses and even saints (St. Simeon) (in one account an ala gets into a deceased princess and devours the soldiers on watch) (Alastor) (Christian Version) (Alû) possessed are unconscious / in a coma (Amafufunyana) speak in voices from victims stomach; Possession by spirit horde from multiple cultural groups (Amikuk) (similarities with possession) Swim Upward Into Person's Body, making them weak (Anhangá) (Anhang - Anhangá (Spirit) in Mawé culture) (Anito) (Asrai) (Āṭavaka)

Prophecy

(Aibell) (Aka Manah) can share prophetic visions (Albruna) (Amabie) abundant harvest, epidemic (Amabiko on Amabie page) (Yamawarawa on Amabie page) (Asbolus) augur; reads omens in flight of birds (Atlantes) (Awanyu) harbinger of storms

Rain

(Alux - Aluxo'ob) (Amefurikozō) by waving their paper lantern (Ameonna and Ameotoko) encounter - rain (followed by rain) (Angak) sweet song (Ao Guang) torrential rain (Awanyu) torrential rain

Rebirth

(Ambika) Former Human (reborn as yakshini) (Azure Lóng) reborn as famous human general

Resurrection

(Alcyoneus) self-resurrection (Andaokut) resurrects children abducted by a man-eater by urinating on them (was born from the tears of a woman mourning the loss of one of her children) (Aralez) licks wounds --> the dead are placed on top of towers to attract the aralezes

Self-Replenishing

(Arkan sonney) brings eternal silver coin to those who manage to catch it

Seasons

(Anemoi) and seasonal weather (each has season & cardinal direction) (Ayaz Ata) winter

Shapeshift - Unspecified

(Alven) "shapechangers" (Amikuk) - Sea Shape: Hairless, 4 arms, leathery skin (Anhangá) (Anhangá) (Anhang - Anhangá (Spirit) in Mawé culture) (Anito) (Ao Guang) (Ayahos) (Aufhocker) diminutive mannikin shape (Aswang)

Shapeshift - Human

(Aerico) (Akaneburi mentioned in Akaname) (Ala - Ale) (e.g. 6 fingered men) (Alp) Night-Form of animal or human (person or animal is unaware); result of curse; can be lifted if origin (e.g. witchcraft) is known; injuries or other marks in both forms (Alp) human with meeting eyebrows (Alukah) (Amanojaku) impersonate with flayed skin (Amemasu) beautiful woman (Amikuk) human form called Qamungelriit (Amy) (Anchanchu) (Archura) peasant with glowing eyes (Ayakashi) child walking in the middle of a fire or beautiful woman (Aufhocker) beautiful woman shape (yeah, you can get weighed down by a beautiful woman magically stuck to your back); dead man shape (Aswang) subtype: Weredog impersonates a peddler or construction labourer on travels

Shapeshift - Animal

(Aino) fish (Aitu) (Akhlut) wolf (White Whale mentioned in Akhlut) reindeer (Akvan Div) onager (Ala - Ale) snake, raven (Aloja - Aloges) water blackbird (aka white-throated dipper) (Alp) Night-Form of animal or human (person or animal is unaware); result of curse; can be lifted if origin (e.g. witchcraft) is known; injuries or other marks in both forms (Alp) cat, pig, dog, snake, small white butterfly > always wears Tarnkappe (cap of concealment) (Alukah) wolf (Amaguq) (Anchanchu) red dog (Anito) crocodile, snake, monitor lizard, tokay gecko, bird (Aobōzu) Raccoon Dogs and Weasels are said to disguise themselves as "Blue Priests" (Ayakashi) remora (live sharksucker) that stops boats or sea snake (ikuchi) (Aufhocker)

Shapeshift - Plant

(Aitu)

Shapeshift - Elemental Form

(Aide) breeze, storm (Akvan Div) storm (Al) fiery eyes (Al Basty) (Armenian Version) flame form (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) dark fog form (Amy) fire (Ankou) shadow form (Ayakashi) child walking in the middle of a fire or ghost light

Shrink

(Archura) (Arkan sonney) shrink self

Sleep

(Aillen) item - music instrument dulcimer (timpán)

Soul Power

(Zmajeviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) fight while body is in trance

Speed

(Agropelter) too fast to be seen (Arion (Horse)) fabulously fast

Spiritual Killing

(Amikuk) Can Jump Through Victim, Causing Them To Lie Down and Die

Steal Souls

(Amarok) store them in icy lake water

Storm

(Akerbeltz) (Amaru) (Anzû) (Ao Guang)

Strength

(Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) (version of aloviti that survived ala's breath or is child of ala) superhuman strength (Alberich) superhuman strength (Almas) great strength (Amala) supports the world (Amazons) strong and agile (Amemasu) supports the world ("holds up the Earth"); when hero struggles with amemasu, it pulls rock he is standing on into lake, creating an island (Andhaka) (Aobōzu) (Yamaguchi Prefecture Version) (Archura) knock down trees

Thunder

(Aido Hwedo) (Aloviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) thunderstorm clouds through trance and spirit travel (Alkonost) egg laid on beach, hatching of egg causes thunderstorm and rough seas that are impossible to traverse (Angalo) (Anzû) thunderclouds

Tireless

(Ao Ao) Stalks over any distance or terrain, never stops till it feeds (Ao Ao)'s children, see Ao Ao

Transform Others

(Almamula or Mulánima) victim behaves on instincts of new form (seducing, murdering, and devouring) (Aswang) subtype Weredog flesh they lick or spit is contaminated and turns anyone who eats it into one of them

Transmutation

(Alan) drops of menstrual blood, miscarried fetuses, afterbirth, or other reproductive waste and transform them into human children, whom they then raise as their own (Amikuk) Turn Earth Surface Into Quicksand; must circle swim around the area first; if victim holds walking stick in this circle, the victim tires out

Trap Souls

(Aku-aku) capture souls (Ankou) collects souls (responsible for death in the community not as a horror monster, but as a force of nature) (Ankou mentioned on French Mythic Creatures and Saints page) collects souls of peasants

Vanish

(Aka Manto) (Akvan Div) hard to catch

Water

(Aido Hwedo) (Alven) (most powerful at night) (Amaru) irrigation, fertility, canals, rivers, springs (Amemasu) Corpse can dam up water, risk of flooding (Awanyu) floods

Waves

(Abaia) tail splash (Ahkiyyini) tidal wave (Alkonost) egg laid on beach, hatching of egg causes thunderstorm and rough seas that are impossible to traverse (Azhdaha) sea waves

Wealth

(Aido Hwedo) (Amadlozi) (Anchanchu)

Power - Extract Minerals

Power - Gatekeeper of Minerals, trades them

appeal to Anchanchu via The Dance of the Horns and other lengthy procedures (Apple Tree Man) reveals buried gold to man who offers his last mug of mulled cider to the trees in his orchard

Weather - unspecified

(Ashinaga-tenaga) ashinaga's appearance always brings bad changes in weather

Wind

(Aide) gentle breeze, storm wind (Aido Hwedo) (Anemoi) (Anzû) south wind

Wisdom

(Amaru) symbol of wisdom (Archura) knows the seasons

Wish

(Aisha Qandicha) (Alara) (Ambika) her favourite tree becomes wishing tree (Anpao) answers prayer

Encounter

(Ao Guang) fought by the Eight Immortals who used magic talismans to defeat him

Animate

(Anthelioi) statues animated by the sun's pneuma (pneuma has it's own Wikipedia page but it's basically the breath and life force, the odem)

Barrier

(Azhdahak) Imprisoned in Mountain

Curse

(Aibell) white cat form (Alastor) personified curse (Ameonna) Mothers of children who got spirited away on a day of rain get turned into ameonna (Arae) female spirits of curses, particularly of the curses placed by the dead upon those guilty of their death (Arjuna) Pandu (Arjuna's father) was under a curse whereby he would die if he had sexual relations with a woman (thus Pandu's wives invoke devas (gods) and Pandu's children are fathered by these devas) > Curse = death by sex (Azovka) (some accounts) cursed Tatar princess, banished to the mountain

Exorcism

(Zmajeviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) exorcizing them means exiling them into wilderness

Petrification

(Akabeko) turned to stone

Prophecy

(Alebrije) alebrije art is based on a vision (Azhdaha) - will be punished by god for their harassment of other creatures - will be cast into the sea - will grow to 10,000 Gazes in the sea - will grow wings in the sea, like a fish (Azhdahak) - will break out of mountain prison at the end of time - destined to be defeated by Fereydun

Protection

(Ambika) As mortal, protected by the gods (from flooding)

Resurrection

(Afanc)

Séance

(Anito) ritual is called Pag-anito (or when its specific to diwata: pagdiwata -- diwata are anito specific to nature, while anito can also be ancestors or deities); makes a visitation

Summoning

(Amadlozi) (Aobōzu) Summoning (if a person stops breathing and spins around 7 times at the base of a certain pine tree, an aobōzu is said to appear and say "don't trample the rocks, don't snap the pine tree") (Nagano Prefecture) (Aswang) subtype Witch making certain objects, such as rice, bones, or insects, come out of the bodily orifices of the cursed

Transformation

(Aino) into mermaid / nixie (Aitvaras) on death becomes spark (Akkorokamui) transformed from giant spider Yaushikep into giant octopus after dragged to sea by a sea god (Amaru) Transformed to Mountains on Death (Binaye Ahani (Eye Killers) on Anaye page) remains become cacti (Sasnalkáhi on Anaye page) remains become yucca (Aosaginohi) Feathers have fused into scales (Apotamkin) a human woman turned into a snake with long red hair (Asrestar) humans originate as transformed Asrestar (light particles (basically the soul) were added to the asrestar) (Atosis) transformed from human (Aswang) subtype Witch from human to aswang witch (powers surpass other witches)

Trapped In Smaller Object

(Aloadae) trap the Olympian Ares and contain in a bronze jar (a storage pithos, similar to an amphora in shape) for 13 months (a lunar year)

Motivation

Clean

(Akaname)

Eat

(Alicanto) eats ore (can't fly, too heavy from ore, faster if no recent meal) (Alp) Drink Blood (from nipples of men and young children); Drink Breast Milk; Drink Cow's Milk (drink cows dry) (Amazake-babaa) request a drink of amazake (Amemasu) eat large prey (deer) (Amomongo) attack livestock (Amphisbaena - Amphisbaenae) ants; (Medieval Version) birds (Mmoatia the Fairy on the Anansi page) fairies eat mashed yams (Anito) attracted to séance ritual (the pag-anito) through offerings and sacrifices (harvests, cooked food, wine, gold ornaments and betel nut, blood from an animal such as pig or chicken --> salt and spices avoided, believed to be distasteful), human sacrifices only among the Bagobo people (Anqa) Elephants, Large Fish, Tannin (Ashinaga-tenaga) catch fish (Átahsaia) eats his own (his fellow malevolent beings)

Follow Orders

(Agares) retrieve runaways

Gain Soul

(Asrai) (in oldest account by Robert Williams Buchanan)

Harm / Suffering

(Apaosha) prevent rain (Asrestar) do evil (e.g. lie) (Atlantes) Stop Conversion to Christianity (Because it will grant an alliance)

Hunt / Stalk

(Amarok) (Amikuk) pursues hunters onto land as it swims through earth (Sasnalkáhi on Anaye page) (Ao Ao) Stalks over any distance or terrain, never stops till it feeds; Digs at roots of tree until tree falls (unless it's a palm tree, see Strange Weakness section) (Asanbosam) entangles unwary hunters with its legs dangling from canopy (Atshen)

Kidnap

(Akashita) tongue hanging from clouds (Anhangá) (Anhang - Anhangá (Spirit) in Mawé culture) (Atosis)

Loneliness

(Augenbrand) search for its dead master

Protect - Unspecified

(Amadlozi) these entities can be summoned for assistance and protection (Amaru) (Ambika) (Angiris) (Arikura-no-baba) stop eruption of a mountain through prayer (Azure Lóng) cardinal direction (East)

Protect City

(Agathodaemon) (Azure Lóng)

Protect Families

(Aitu)

Protect Farms

(Akashita) (Ala - Ale) protector of fields (local ala protects local fields from outsider ala)

Protect Graves

(Anubis) as of First Dynasty 3100 BC

Protect Homes

(Agathodaemon) (Akerbeltz) households (Alebrije) against evil forces (Alux - Aluxo'ob) keep thieves out of homes that sacrifice to them (Anthelioi) guard doorways; charged by sunlight

Protect Nature

(Aes Sidhe) (Agloolik) protects seals (Ahuizotl) protects lake fish (Akathaso) protects sky, Thitpin Saung Nat protects tree, Myay Saung Nat protects earth (Akerbeltz) protects animals (Alven) care for favoured plants (nightwort, elf leaf) (Anhangá) (Tupi-Guarani version) plants and animals (especially female animals with babies: aids their escape from hunters), protects hunters (Anpao) prevent burning of earth by dancing as dawn with Han, the spirit of darkness (Ao Ao) hills and mountains (Ao Ao)'s children: hills and mountains (Apple Tree Man) farm cat (in one story) (Archura) wild animals, birds, forests (Askafroa) protects ash tree (Awanyu) guards waterways

Protect A People

(Aibell) (Aloja - Aloges) try to bring wealth and and well-being to the areas they live in. (Awanyu) Pueblo (Awelo)

Protect Treasure

(Alberich) (Azovka)

Protect Specialists

(Anhangá) (Tupi-Guarani version) protects hunters (Anubis) protects embalmers

Protect Village

(Aitu) (Angak) aid villages: Bring rain and flowers to Hopi villages

Re-Enter Heaven

(Amy) seeks to return to the 7th heaven after 12 centuries

Riches

(Arimaspi) they want the griffin gold

Have Sex

(Agrat bat Mahlat) (Aguara) (Aka Manto) (Akerbeltz) (Christian Version engages in sexual abuses against Christians) (Anito) seduction or rape

Seduce

(Aisha Qandicha) (Alp) (Amemasu) lure into death by drowning in human form (Anguane) (Anito) seduce and kidnap humans to spirit world (Ardat-lilî)

Attack Ships

(Akugyo) capsize ships (Amemasu) capsize ships (Amikuk) attack kayaks, drag hunters into sea

Temptation

(Alal) (Amanojaku) (Astaroth) laziness, self-doubt, rationalization

Theft

(Al Basty) (Alcyoneus) steals Helios' cattle

Seek Gems and Jewels

(Anggitay)

Music

(Ahkiyyini) (Aillen)

Song

(Alkonost) (Azukiarai) (Azukibabaa) (Gunma Prefecture Version)

Dance

(Ahkiyyini) (Akerbeltz) (Christian Version) (Anjana)

Relation

(Al) enemies of "Eve and her daughters" (Ala - Ale) enemies of St. Elijah and his dragon (and eagle?) allies (Zmajeviti mentioned in Ala - Ale) enemies of the Ala (Alfred Bulltop Stormalong) fought a (Kraken) (Alkonost) interacts with Rarog, Stratim, Sirin (Alpos) killed by Dionysus' staff, the Thyrsos (Andaokut) kills (Malahas) (Anjana) foil (outwit) Ojáncanu (Ao Guang) fights the Eight Immortals (Apukohai) defeated with assistance of owl god an the fish Ulu-makaikai by hero Kawelo (Arimaspi) animosity (Prabu Niwatakawaca (Javanese) on Arjuna page) encounters demi-god Arjuna (Auloniad) (some accounts) Eurydice (love of Orpheus) is Auloniad > (some) Auloniads go to Hades when they die > Auloniads can die from venomous serpents (Azhdaha) food for inhabitants of the land of Gog and Magog (Āṭavaka) with naga

Duality / Complementing / Counterpart

(Aido Hwedo) (Alkonost) and Sirin: Joy and Sorrow > Alkonost comforts Sirin (Ananke) (Orphic Version) with Chronos (Time) (Anubis) female counterpart Anput (Apaosha) makes war on the guardian of rainfall, Tishtrya (Apsonsi) Thepnorasi is the male equivalent (Archura) are nature beings, while Bichura are household beings. Both are chort/chura

Strange Weakness

I don't judge, all things that chase off or defeat a monster are classified as "strange weakness" in this list. So don't wonder if some are totally mundane things that would work on humans or animals too. I could call it just "weakness" but I don't know, it's just a quirky classification scheme I guess.

(Afanc) maiden's lap (Agares) can be drawn into crystals (Aigamuxa) blind hunter (eyes on feet) (only sees prey through handstand or lying in sand) (Aillen) (poison counteracts Aillen's sleep spell, keeps poison user awake) (Aisha Qandicha) metal (Al) garlic, metal, onions, prayers, charms (Al Ana) (Wikipedia has complex descriptions of rituals to ward them off) (Ala - Ale) can be defeated by dragons or eagles (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) Visible to Six Toed-Six Fingered People; House Shakes When they enter in human form (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version) herbs collected in levees and in places on a field where plows turn during plowing, both considered unclean because ala visit them (Ala - Ale) multiple supernatural entities bring hail and rain torrents, so since cause is unclear, custom is to bring large selection of antidotes: to bring a table in front of the house, and to put bread, salt, a knife with a black sheath, and an axe with its edge directed skywards on the table. By another custom, a fireplace trivet with its legs directed skywards, knives, forks, and the stub of the Slava candle were put on the table. (Alal) amulets (Alcyoneus) immortal as long as in his native land (Alp) lead amulet; sign of cross on diaper to stop mischief

Weird Weakness (broomstick under pillow, iron horseshoes hung from the bedpost, placing shoes against the bed with the toes pointing toward the door, or placing a mirror on the chest)

Weird Weakness (must fulfill favour if asked, even impossible favours)

Weird Weakness (plug holes, including keyholes om a room, sealing it --> preventative measure, if done with alp in the room it locks the alp in, as they can only leave through the opening they entered from)

Weird Weakness (keep light on at night)

Weird Weakness (lemon shoved in alp's mouth if alp is caught resting immobilizes or weakens alp) (Amalanhig) they have a stiff body, can only walk in straight lines, so you can run in zigzag direction (Amalanhigs can only run straight due to stiff body) (Amalanhig) if you climb trees or high platforms (Amalanhig) you run into lakes and rivers, amalanhigs fear deep bodies of water (Amaru) can be trapped by storms (Amaymon) consecrated silver ring protects against this poison breath; shows of politeness keeps this demon pleasant (Amazake-babaa) avoids cedar branch (Amazake banbā on the Amazake-babaa page) sign by the door that says "we do not like sake or amazake" (Amemasu) Cold, Clammy Skin in human form, like a fish (Amemasu) can be killed from within (Amikuk) in human form pulls sled across ice, always in straight line (Amikuk) in human form Sit down with back to creature, don't speak to it --> it will offer gifts of increasing value --> stay silent till it offers everything you need or everything on your mind (Binaye Ahani (Eye Killers) on Anaye page) throw salt in eyes, fire arrows from afar (Teelget on Anaye page) attack from gopher tunnel below (Tsé’nagahi on Anaye page) place knives point up in the ground as a trap, then lure it over the knives (Tsenahale on Anaye page) trick them into taking you to their nest, take babies hostage (Tsetahotsiltali on Anaye page) can be pulled off the cliff by hair (Yeitso on Anaye page) lightning bolt (Anhangá) fears fire (Anhangá) (Anhang - Anhangá (Spirit) in Mawé culture) Water (either can't swim or afraid of Sukuyu'wera the protector of waters) (Anito) powers limited by domain (forest diwata has no dominion over the sea) (Antaeus) Invincibility dependent on contact with his mother, the earth (similar weakness to Alcyoneus) (Ao Ao) palm trees have some unknown power against the Ao Ao and protect people who climb them (Ao Ao)'s children, see Ao Ao (Archura) no shadow (Ardat-lilî) a mock marriage (Ardat-lilî) Unlike gods, Mesopotamian malevolent beings are incapable of heeding prayers (Arkan sonney) explicitly does not have the power to shapeshift (can grow or shrink itself) (Asrai) Sunlight melts them into water, can't live on land; fear light (in oldest account by Robert Williams Buchanan) (Astomi) die from strong, unpleasant smell (Augerino) requires dry environment to survive and thus bores holes in dams and irrigation ditches to drain the water (Axehandle hound) dislikes axe handles from red oak (Azukibabaa) holding your thumb will calm you when Azukibabaa sings her disturbing song (Aufhocker) church bells; sunlight; Victim makes it home before dying (Aufhocker) Tear out throats (telltale sign that the culprit is an Aufhocker) (Aswang)

Strange Weakness - power greatly reduced (or totally reduced) during the day

Strange Weakness - averse to noises

Strange Weakness - Holy objects, spices, salt, ash, the tail of a sting-ray, large crustaceans, vinegar, betel nut chew, and urine

Strange Weakness - reverse a ladder leading to the house

Strange Weakness - husband of child-bearing wife remains under the house naked while furiously waving a sword

Strange Weakness - anti-aswang oil (for details search the term)

Strange Weakness - try to dodge blessings during mass

Strange Weakness - witch aswang weak at middle of their back, because they can't reach it with their tongue to lick the wound and heal it

Strange Weakness - see Influences in contemporary society

Weakness - Sharp sticks or bolos inserted between bamboos of house floor

Weakness - stay quiet (don't groan from sicknesses)

Weakness - sick people shouldn't stay in houses with holes

Giveaway - scratching noises from the ceiling

Giveaway - pig with no tail (Aswang) subtype Witch

Giveaway - Eyes reflect images upside down

Giveaway - Elongated Irises

Behaviour

(Aitvaras) steal gold and grain; share stolen goods with family (Ala - Ale) (Regional Version)"drink the crops" i.e. seize the crops of a village and transport them to another place in their huge ears, thereby making some villages poor, and others rich (Amalanhig) Tickle Victim to Death (victim dies both of laughter and terror) (Amarok) preys on lone hunters (Ameonna) (Toriyama Sekien illustration) licking her hand (Asrai) shy (Asrai) speaks in unknown language

Time

Cyclical Appearance

(Aes Sidhe) (Ala - Ale) eves of greater holidays (night-time) (Anjana) Spring Equinox (Cŵn Annwn mentioned on Arawn page) ride through the skies in autumn, winter, and early spring (Asrai) surface once a century (account by Ruth Tongue)

Evening

(Ayakashi)

Diurnal

(Aswang) beautiful woman by day

Nocturnal

(Aigamuxa) (Akaname) (Akurojin-no-hi) rainy nights (Ala - Ale) gather at night on eves of greater holidays (Alicanto) (Aloja - Aloges) (Alp) (Alû) (Amarok) (Amazake-babaa) (Amefurikozō) rainy nights (Anchanchu) (Aosaginohi) (Ashi-magari) (Ashinaga-tenaga) (Asrai) full moon (Axehandle hound) (Aswang) Subtype: Manananggal disembodied head (by night) (Aswang) subtype: Bloodsucking Woman (example Mandurugo) (Aswang) subtype: Weredog (not always dog) nocturnal transformation into creature

Time (Mythic Events)

(Amazons) war on the titans alongside Dionysus (Amazons) - (Attic War (Event)) (Amazons) military expeditions (to Scythia, Thrace, Asia Minor, Aegea) (Amycus) Event - Centauromachy (Anqa) appears once in ages (Ato-sees) Of the Ancient Age (similar to Dreaming, when humans and animals were equal) (Awes-kon-wa) Present Age (when humans and animals are entirely separate) (Azeban) Of the Ancient Age (similar to Dreaming, when humans and animals were equal (Azovka) (some accounts) a queen left by the "Old People" to guard treasure

Time (Century)

6th Century BC

(Amazons) IRL Russian town of Voronetz archaeological find: several generations of Scythian warrior women buried with golden headpieces

5th Century BC

(Agathodaemon)

4th Century BC

(Amazons) NOT THEIR TIME, this is the time period when a lot of doubt is sowed as to their existence, such as Palaephatus

2nd Century BC

(Amazons) Marcus Justinius claims Amazons cut off one of their breasts

1st Century BC

(Albruna)

5th Century

(Alpos)

8th Century

(Akuma)

11th Century

(Alp)

12th Century

(Alukah) (Azovka) (some accounts): cursed Tatar princess, banished to the mountain; (some accounts) enchanted girl stolen by the Tatars (Tatars came to Europe in the Mongol invasions, which I think is roughly in the 12th century?? I need to brush up on my history knowledge.)

15th Century

(Afanc)

19th century

(Asrai) modern 19th century invention

20th Century