...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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