...ere believed as the same gods who takes care of the the underworld and the dead. They were described as angry evil spirit.
In Sudovian Book (1520s), Peckols was presented as the god of hell and darkness, while Pockols was said to be an airborne spirit or devil
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[[Image:Hermanubis.jpg|thumb|Statue of Hermanubis]]
...as popular during the period of Roman domination over Egypt. He is the son of Osiris and Nephthys.
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In Akkadian mythology '''Rabisu''' ("the vagabond") or possibly '''Rabasa''' is an evil vampiric spirit or demon.
...hat ''Demon lurking'' which in Hebrew means ''the croucher'' is similar to the word ''Rabisu''.
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The '''Monaciello''', or Little Monk is a house-spirit in the Napolitan Folklore.
...depicted as a short thick kind of little man dressed in the long garments of a monk with a broad brimmed hat.
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...ust wander restlessly, burdened by former sins, until it inhabits the body of a living person
...function in its lifetime is given another opportunity to do so in the form of a dybbuk.
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...''Caput galeatum'', literally, "helmeted head") is a thin, filmy membrane, the amnion, that can cover a newborn's head and face immediately after birth.
It is said that Lord Byron, Jesus, Alexander the Great, pianist Liberace, poet Kahlil Gibran, actress Lillian Gish and Shake
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[[Image:Imaginary friend.jpg|thumb|155px|right|Sendak's ''Where the wild things are'']]
...a fictional character created by children. Imaginary friends may exist for the child into adolescence and sometimes adulthood.
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...t was described prevously by the Dutch historian Jan Jakom Maria Groot and the British writer Gerald Willoughby-Meade.
...presence brings disease and instant death, spreading plague and rot across the land.
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...n graveyards and other uninhabited places. The ''ghul'' is a devilish type of jinn believed to be sired by [[Iblis]].
...the guise of an animal, especially a hyena. It lures unwary travelers into the desert wastes to slay and devour them.
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...ar or plural) are either witches or the evil souls of the dead rising from the tombs (or living) that transform into an animal or phantom apparition.
...vii) is a living vampiric witch. Strigoi mort (plural: Strigoi morti) is a dead (undead) vampire. They are most often associated with vampires or zombies.
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...laced the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur.
...ible. This translation was later appropriated in the King James Version of the Bible.
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The word has a Greek origin and means ''owl'', with which bird it is usually id
The Latin feminine plural form of ''stryx'' is ''striges''.
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...ry kind of elf popular in folklore around Scotland and England (especially the north).
[[Image:brownie.jpg|thumb|Portrait of a brownie]]
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...ed an instrumental role in the fall of Rome. It originates from the [[Book of Imaginary Beings]] by [[Jorge Luis Borges]].
...r light blue in color. Its skin cannot be pierced by any known weapon, and the creatures themselves are invulnerable and possibly immortal, or at least ve
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[[Image:The Black Flash.jpg|thumb|The Black Flash]]
...tom or the Devil of the Dunes) is a ghost monster that terrorized the area of Provincetown in 1939.
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...religious sect of Krudistan in the Mosul region of northern Iraq, accused of being devil worshipers.
...er Kruds give them the name of Yezidi, which is thought to be derived from the Persian ''Yazdan'', meaning "God."
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A '''Red Cap''' or '''Redcap,''' also known as a ''powrie'', is a type of malevolent murderous [[goblin]] found in Irish and Scottish folklore.
...s a pikestaff, and wears a red cap upon his head. The latter is the source of his name, and Redcap periodically redyes his cap by drenching it in human b
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...''king of the serpents''', is a fabulous beast which has been depicted as the most dangerous serpent that ever existed on Earth.
...eged to be hatched by a cockerel from the egg of a serpent (the reverse of the cockatrice, which is hatched from a hen's egg incubated by a serpent's nest
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...were believed to live in the graves of dead Vikings, being the body of the dead.
The original Nordic meaning of the word Draugr (pronounced "droo-GORE") is ghost.
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'''Eurynome''' is a lunar Goddess of ancient Greek religion and a demon in modern demonology.
...“ruler”. "Wide wandering," would then refers to the moon traveling across the sky.
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...Karloff as Frankenstein's monster, along with Elsa Lanchester, in ''Bride of Frankenstein'']]
...ginal novel — Frankenstein was the name of the creature's creator, and not the monster itself.
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...n Sumerian mythology, among other things. ''Cthulhu'' is often preceded by the title ''Great'' or ''Dread''.
...osest that the human vocal apparatus can come to reproducing the syllables of an alien language. Other possible pronunciations include ''k-Thoo-Loo''.
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...ike water sprite. The latter would have only one arm and one leg, the face of an old man on a boy's body, and by some accounts a disproportionately long
...also immensely strong. The ridge goes from above its forehead to the back of its head, and with this ridge it can knock down an ox by butting it with it
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...he start. In the Book of Jubilees, uncircumcised heathens are called "sons of Belial".
...s the element of earth and reigns over the Earth demons. The other princes of Hell include Olias, Asmoday, and Vassago.
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[[Image:Cynocephali.jpg|thumb|A cynocephalus. From the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).]]
The '''Cynocephali''' are dog-headed bipedal creatures in the mythologies of Europe, India and China.
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...ang''' (or ''Asuwang'') aswang is a generic term that applied to a variety of mythical or paranormal creatures such as witches (mangkukulam), [[vampire]]
The myth of the aswang is popular in the Western Visayan regions such as Capiz, Iloilo and Antique. Other entities w
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...were despatched by the god to snatch away (harpazô) people and things from the earth.
‘’’Harpyiae’’’ (Harpuiai), means "the swift robbers," in Greek and are, in the Homeric poems, nothing but personified storm winds. (Od. xx. 66, 77.)
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...nits (PRU) of RAF Benson, Wick and St Eval. The story attempted to explain the accidents which often occurred during their flights.
...author of the first article was Hubert Griffith, although he suggests that the stories have been in wide circulation for some time and are very well known
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...enerally contend that the chupacabra is a mythological creature, or a type of urban legend.
...o Pérez, who intended the name to be a joke. This claim is doubtful, since the word had already been used in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park,
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...h the playful trope of the clown is rendered as disturbing through the use of horror elements and dark humor.
...n, reckless, or simply insane — that of the giggling maniac. This includes the notorious Canio who murdered Nedda and Silvio (recorded in Leoncavallo's op
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...and "dumb", and literally means "cocoon". The name appears to derive from the word ''gelem'' (גלם), which means "raw material".
===Origins of the word===
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...ue find the sleeping Ariadne whom Theseus has just abandoned on the island of Naxos. ]]
...'''Liber'''), the Thracian God of wine, represents the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences.
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...out a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.
...he fictional Marquis of Carabas. The cat continues making gifts of game to the king for several months.
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A '''Martian''' is the alleged or fictional native inhabitant of the planet Mars.
...vessels; they had no organs for digestion. The ear, located in the back of the head, was believed to have been useless in our atmosphere.
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...e '''devil'''. For the Christian devil, see [[Devil in Christianity]], for the Islamic devil, see [[Iblis]].''
[[Image:Michael Pacher 004.jpg|thumb|right|''Saint Wolfgang and the Devil'' by Michael Pacher.]]
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...boration with translator Norman Thomas di Giovanni, contains descriptions of 120 mythical beasts from folklore and literature.
...ng patterns of a kaleidoscope"; and that "legends of men taking the shapes of animals" have been omitted.
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[[Image:WotC Dungeons & Dragons.jpg|right|frame|The ''Dungeons & Dragons'' logo]]
...y regarded as the beginning of modern roleplaying games, and by extension, the roleplaying game & MMORPG industry.
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...s organic components. The term is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system.
[[Image:Homunculus.jpg|thumb|19th century engraving of Goethe's Faust and Homunculus]]
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...s is more a reflection of fiction's influence than an authentic feature of the folk [[legend]]s. Werewolves are sometimes held to become [[vampire]]s afte
==Origins and variations of the word==
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...ntasy literature and role-playing games, trolls are featured to the extent of being stock characters.
...ad the originally meaning of ''supernatural'' or ''Magic'' with an overlay of ''malignant'' and ''perilous''. Another likely suggestion is that it means
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...although these fictional depictions often do not bear much resemblance to the original mythology.
The word “Wendigo” (pronounced wehn-dee-go) comes from the Native American Algonquian language, meaning “evil spirit that devours ma
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