Global Bestiary
A comprehensive compendium of spirits, beasts, and folklore.
Adaro
Adaro is a hostile sea spirit often described in fisherfolk accounts as a slick, merman-like predator: streamlined shoulders that slip into the swell, a ...
Adlet
Adlet is a cryptid from Inuit oral tradition: a swift, dog‑legged humanoid that travels with an uncanny long stride, more built for pursuit than for ling...
Adze (Adzé)
Adze is a hostile spirit often described as a vampiric presence that slips between forms — most commonly a tiny, ember-bright firefly and, more dangerous...
Agni
Agni is a Deity of sacred fire that manifests as living flame and ember; to the field naturalist he smells of warm ghee, cedar smoke and a faint incense ...
Ahool
Ahool is a Cryptid/Beast — a massive, winged creature reported along river corridors and lowland forest edges of Java. Field notes describe a muscular bo...
Aigamuxa
Aigamuxa is a Hostile (Monster) of Southern African oral tradition: a hulking, nocturnal humanoid that unnerves any field observer by the odd placement o...
Áine
Áine is a Deity of summer and sovereignty, often felt before she is seen: a woman of golden light who may appear as a young maiden on a ridge of barley o...
Akhlut
Akhlut is a Monster of Arctic lore — a sea-wolf hybrid that combines the bulk and drive of a cetacean with the lithe, deliberate movements of a terrestri...
Akkorokamui
Akkorokamui is a Deity — a colossal, cephalopodic presence anchored in kelp-shelf legend. Field notes record a persistent brine of iodine and old seaweed...
Al-Buraq
Al-Buraq is a divine, celestial steed — a luminous, winged creature that bridges earth and the heavens. It carries the scent of ozone and desert wind, pi...
Alicanto
Alicanto is a solitary cryptid bird of the high desert: a broad-winged creature whose feathers shine like burnished ore and scatter moonlight like polish...
Alkonost
Alkonost is a Fae—an avian spirit that inhabits the borderlands of sea and birch grove. In the field she reads like a myth made flesh: a faint, oily scen...
Alp
Alp is a nocturnal fae-spirit recorded in Germanic field notes as a small, unseen weight that perches upon sleepers. It carries the cold tang of iron and...
Amanojaku
Amanojaku is a small, willful Fae—an obstinate yokai that prefers to work from the seam between decisions. Field notes: it is less a stable form than a d...
Amarok
Amarok is a solitary, monstrous wolf of Inuit lore — a hulking cryptid predator that moves like a shadow across the tundra. Smell: a damp, animal musk cu...
Ammit
Ammit is a Deity — a composite judge-beast of the Egyptian afterlife, part crocodile, part lion, part hippopotamus, described with the precise eye of a f...
Anansi
Anansi is a Fae (Trickster) often perceived as a spider or a man with spiderlike cunning; he frequents the margins of villages, the undersides of porches...
Ankou
Ankou is a spirit-class psychopomp noted in Breton field records: a shadow at the edge of lanes, sometimes seen as a tall, thin driver in a sodden cloak ...
Anubis
Anubis is a Deity of the necropolis and embalming rites: a jackal-headed guardian whose presence arrives like a shadow at the lip of a tomb. Smell: dry n...
Anzu
Anzu is a Hostile (Monster) — a colossal storm-bird with leonine shoulders, a ruff of bristling feathers and the slow, deliberate menace of a predator th...
Apep
Apep is a Deity and colossal primordial serpent, catalogued here as a Hostile presence: a living fissure in the night that opposes the sun. In the field ...
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is a Deity of the Greek pantheon, felt more often than seen: a coastal shimmer where sea-spray and blossom-scent gather at the edge of thought....
Apollo
Apollo is a Deity of light, music, and prophecy whose presence reads like weather: the air tastes of crushed laurel and warm beeswax, sound resolves into...
Apsara
Apsara is a Deity: a lithe, celestial dancer whose presence announces itself at the edges of water and temple light. In the field she registers less as a...
Arawn
Arawn is a Deity — the sovereign of Annwn, the Otherworld encountered where moor meets sea and river. Field naturalist note: his influence is more atmosp...
Ares
Ares is a Deity of war and raw conflict, felt more than seen: the air thickens with a metallic tang, as if a distant forge and a wet field share the same...
Artemis
Artemis is a Deity of the hunt, moon, and wild places; she moves through forest and mountain like a season. In the field she is perceived as cool and cry...
Asanbosam
Asanbosam is a Hostile (Monster) forest cryptid of Akan tradition — a compact, arboreal ambush predator noted for iron-hooked feet and serrated, metallic...
Aspidochelone
Aspidochelone is a colossal, island-mimicking Fae—part turtle, part whale—whose back is often mistaken for shore. In the field it announces itself in the...
Aswang
Aswang is a Shapechanger and nocturnal predator recorded across Philippine villages. Field notes describe a creature that slips between human guise and b...
Athena
Athena is a Deity: a bronze-eyed patron of craft, strategy, and measured war whose presence reads like a changed landscape. Smell: olive oil warmed by su...
Baba Yaga
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Bahamut
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Baiame
Baiame is a Deity — the Sky‑Father and creator figure remembered across several eastern Australian nations. Smell: the dry, clean tang of rain on eucalyp...
Baize
Baize is a Fae bound to tables, hearth-edges and the green felt that gathers a household's small fortunes. It smells of chalk dust, warm ale and old coin...
Bajang
Bajang is a hostile spirit-familiar—small, furtive and bound to a vessel—kept by those who traffic in forbidden charms. Field notes: presence is accompan...
Bake-kujira
Bake-kujira is a yokai — the pale, drifting skeleton of a whale that moves like a slow Ghost" class="text-blue-400 hover:text-blue-300...
Bakunawa
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Balder
Balder is a Deity of light and gentle nobility often remembered as the bright heart of the Norse courts. Field note: Presence carries the clean, sap-swee...
Balor of the Evil Eye
Balor of the Evil Eye is a Fomorian Giant seen in wind-swept marsh edges and rocky coastal terraces. He is vast and slow-moving, a ridge of muscle and we...
Banaspati
Banaspati is a forest spirit encountered in the deep, older stands of the subcontinental woodlands — at first glance part leaning tree, part living knot ...
Bannik
Bannik is a Fae bathhouse spirit that inhabits the oven-stones, steam vents and wooden planks of the banya. Incorporeal and steam-wreathed, he is felt mo...
Banshee
Banshee is a Spirit (Fae) of the Irish otherworld: a household wraith more felt than seen. Smell: a metallic tang of old peat and cold iron, as if the he...
Baobhan Sith
Baobhan Sith is a predatory fae figure reported from remote Highland glens. Field notes describe a womanlike silhouette in green or dark silk, impossibly...
Barghest
Barghest is a Hostile (Monster) spectral hound—an enormous, coal-black dog said to haunt lanes and lonely moor edges. It often appears rimed in shadow, i...
Basilisk
Basilisk is a solitary, crown-crested serpent-like predator often recorded at the edges of old stone walls and sun-baked clearings. Field notes describe ...
Bastet
Bastet is a Deity (goddess of home, cats, and protection) whose presence reads like a field note on sacred domesticity. Smell: a steady veil of myrrh and...
Batibat
Batibat is a hostile household spirit often tied to old trees or reused timber. Field notes record it as an incorporeal presence that produces a localize...