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 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

Baba Yaga is a solitary Trickster Fae — a weathered witch who inhabits the deep edges of Slavic woods and moves between aid and menace with the same deli...

Bahamut

Bahamut is a Deity (Dragon) recorded here as a colossal, guardian presence rather than a mere beast. Field notes: scales read like hammered platinum, pol...

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 along the shoreline. In field notes one would record a smell...

Bakunawa

Bakunawa is a hulking sea dragon said to rise from the deep to swallow moons. In the field it announces itself before sight: the air grows heavy with a b...

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...

Bean-Nighe

Bean-Nighe is a Fae and river-borne banshee often seen kneeling at secluded fords and slow streams, bending over the water to wash garments that belong t...

Belsnickel

Belsnickel is a Fae (Trickster) figure noted in winter hearth-rituals: an ember-warm, fur-clad visitor who moves like a shadow along the eaves. Smell: da...

Bennu

Bennu is a solar avian Deity often recorded as a heron-like bird of gold and ash, a presence more felt than confined. In the field, its plumage reads lik...

Bhut

Bhut is a Spirit: a restless dead that registers as a cold, incorporeal presence. In the field it announces itself with a sudden, focused drop in tempera...

Bigfoot

Bigfoot is a Cryptid — a large, bipedal, hair-clad hominid said to inhabit dense temperate forests. Field notes record a hulking, muscular silhouette mov...

Black Shuck

Black Shuck is a spectral hound recorded across the marshes and lanes of East Anglia: a large, ink-black dog the size of a calf with a coat that seems to...

Blue Men of the Minch

Blue Men of the Minch are sea-fae reported in the narrow straits between the Outer Hebrides and the Scottish mainland. They carry the clean, sharp tang o...

Brahma

Brahma is a Deity observed in the field as the slow, deliberate architect of beginnings — often imagined seated upon a single white lotus that rises from...

Brigid

Brigid is a Deity of hearth, smithcraft, poetry, healing and spring — a presence that feels less like a being and more like a living seam in the world. S...

Bulgasari

Bulgasari is a Monster of iron and hunger — a compact, riveted behemoth that moves with the deliberate force of a smith's hammer. Smell: the sharp tang o...

Bultungin

Bultungin is a mountain monster—massive, muscular and earth-warm—described by highland naturalists as a hulking predator that moves like a shifting scree...

Bunyip

Bunyip is a cryptid water-monster reported from billabongs, river bends and reed-fringed swamps. Field notes register a bulky, amphibious presence that m...

Buto Ijo

Buto Ijo is a Hostile Monster — a hulking, green-skinned ogre in Javanese tradition that moves through riverine forests like a living landslide. Field no...

Cadair Idris

Cadair Idris is a mountain-spirit wrapped in peat and cloud, a Fae-seat more than a person — the old chair of the giant Idris made manifest in rock and m...

Catequil

Catequil is a Deity of storm and lightning, felt as much as seen across ridgelines and puna. In the field he announces himself before the first strike: t...

Centaur

The Centaur is a liminal being, the fusion of a human torso and head atop the body of a horse. They are creatures of dual nature—often depicted as wild, untamed...

Cerberus

Cerberus is a Guardian Beast — an enormous, triple-headed hound bound to the threshold of the underworld. Smell: the air about it carries damp earth, col...

Cernunnos

Cernunnos is a Deity of the wild places — the Horned One who holds the border between forest, herd, and human road. Field notes record him less as a sing...

Chaneque

Chaneque is a diminutive fae recorded at hearth and river-edge: childlike silhouettes that blur between root and smoke. Their presence smells of wet eart...

Chang'e

Chang'e is a Deity of the moon—an ethereal presence observed more than seen. In the field she announces herself as a silver hush: a pale, consistent ligh...

Charon

Charon is a Deity (Psychopomp) — the ferryman who shepherds souls across the boundary river. In field notes he registers as a gaunt, hooded presence at t...

Charybdis

Charybdis is a hostile sea monster told of in the narrow straits of ancient mariners — less a creature of flesh than a living void in the water. Up close...

Chenoa

Chenoa is a small, marsh-bound spirit often seen at the edge of springs and reedbeds as dusk thins into night. It appears as a pale dove-shaped silhouett...

Cheonyeo Gwishin

Cheonyeo Gwishin is a gwishin — a vengeful female spirit most often tied to untimely death and broken vows. Sightings describe a pale woman in a white ha...

Chimata-no-Kami

Chimata-No-Kami is a roadside kami that presides over crossroads, thresholds and the small liminal spaces between villages. In field terms it reads less ...

Chimera

Chimera is a composite predator—lion at the fore, goat upon its back, and a serpentine tail—recorded in rocky, sun-baked ranges. Smell: a sharp, acrid ta...

Chindi

Chindi is a Spirit — the lingering, bitter remnant left behind after a person dies in Navajo thought. In the field it announces itself by absence rather ...

Christmas Spider

Christmas Spider is a Fae trickster often observed on domestic evergreens at dusk. Field notes record a creature the size of a thumbnail whose webs appea...

Chupacabra

Chupacabra is a Cryptid often described as a compact, muscular predator—reported in rural homesteads and scrubland from Puerto Rico through parts of the ...

Clurichaun

Clurichaun is a solitary Fae trickster often found in the dim corners of breweries, cellars, and hearth-warmed kitchens. Field notes describe a small, wi...

Coyote

Coyote is a lithe, cunning Fae often told in the shape of a slim, red-tinged canid; as a field naturalist might note, it moves with the economy of a pred...

Cronus

Cronus is a Deity (Titan) observed in lore as an immense, dusk-wreathed presence tied to the slow passages of time and the turning of the harvest. Field ...

Cú Chulainn

Cú Chulainn is a Legendary Warrior — a mortal champion from the Ulster Cycle whose arrival reads like weather. He stands lean and taut, a young figure of...

Cù-Sìth

Cù-Sìth is a Fae phantom hound recorded in Highland lore: vast and lupine in outline yet unnaturally light and insubstantial, often said to appear as a s...

Cyclops

Cyclops is a Monster (Giant) — a hulking, solitary shepherd or smith of myths, built like a living boulder with one vast eye set in the center of its fac...

Dagda

Dagda is a Deity of the Tuatha Dé Danann, felt as a vast, hearth-sized presence more than a distant sky-god. Smell: peat smoke, damp oak, and warm barley...

Dalgyal Gwishin

Dalgyal Gwishin is a small trickster-spirit tied to thresholds and kitchen hearths, perceived more as a presence than a body. In the field one notes a ch...

Danu

Danu is a Deity often spoken of as the ancestral mother of rivers and peoples — presence felt rather than seen. Smell: the damp sweetness of peat and fre...

Dirawong

Dirawong is a large ancestral goanna-cryptid said to patrol river bends and sandbars along the northern New South Wales coast. Seen as both creature and ...

Diwata

Diwata — Deity (Nature Spirit). A presence of old groves, mountain springs, and cliffside clearings: incorporeal and cool, it leaves the air damp and a l...

Djaran-ngirriny

Djaran-ngirriny is a low, water-born cryptid-spirit most often encountered along slow tidal creeks and reed-lined billabongs. In the field it reads as so...

Djinn

Djinn is a Fae spirit most often encountered at the edges of settlements and where the human and uncanny meet. Field notes: presence smells like cold smo...

Dokkaebi

Dokkaebi is a capricious Fae that slips between the margins of village life and mountain trails—part prankster, part pact-maker. Field notes record them ...

Domovoi

Domovoi is a Fae household guardian often spoken of like a small, shaggy elder who lives in the nooks of a home. Smell: a trace of woodsmoke, stale milk ...

Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger is a Fae double that mimics a living person's appearance and manner with uncanny precision. Field notes record it as neither wholly flesh no...

Dragon

Dragon is a massive, reptilian Cryptid/Beast whose presence reads like a landscape event: the air tastes of hot iron and ozone, and smoke-sweet sap where...

Dragons

Dragons — Deity: vast, scaled intelligences that occupy the edges of weather and water, described by witnesses as both storm and old river. Field Natural...

Draugr

Draugr is a hostile revenant rooted in burial ground and shoreline lore. It carries the chill of long-buried earth: the air around it smells faintly of s...

Dullahan

Dullahan is a headless spirit often seen riding a black horse at the margins of lanes and graveyards, an omen that announces the approach of death. Smell...

Each-uisge

Each-uisge is a Hostile (Monster) — a hulking water-steed that haunts sea-lochs, fjord mouths, and tidal strands. Field notes describe it as a paradox of...

Einherjar

Einherjar — Divine (Warrior Spirits). In the field register they present as the chosen slain of Odin: an ordered host that hangs between battlefield and ...

Ekkekko

Ekkekko is a hostile spirit of thresholds and night-silences: a shadowy, elongated presence that leans into cracks and keyholes to watch. Smell: damp lin...

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