Santa
I figured with Christmas on the way I would post a few links to some websites.
http://www.lone-star.net/mall/main-areas/santafaq.htm
I figured with Christmas on the way I would post a few links to some websites.
http://www.lone-star.net/mall/main-areas/santafaq.htm
Folklore of England
A type of Hag
This is a monstrous being in the folklore of the county of Lancashire in northwestern England. JENNY GREENTEETH is evil and malignant, inhabiting stagnant lakes and pools of water. She is a predator of humans and in particular awaits for the unwary child who may go too close to the water. When this happens, she grabs the child in her long, green fangs and drags them down under the water to drown. JENNY GREENTEETH may be found in any pool or pond that is covered with green slime or scum. She is a monstrous, demonic being that belongs to a class of Nursery Bogies described with vigor by watchful nursemaids and anxious parents in order to prevent the untimely death of children in such fearful places.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
Mythology of Asia
These are variations on the name of a fabulous animal said to inhabit the desert and scrublands of Asia, that appears in ancient texts of Europe. The BONNACON, also called the BONACHUS and BONASUS, is described by PLINY THE ELDER in his "Historia Naturalis" (AD 77) as a bovine creature with the mane of a horse and enormous in-curving horns. (In later texts these are described as green.) This otherwise unremarkable creature possesses a defense mechanism that was more effective then it's horns: when pursued, it would defecate so voluminously that the drug was said to cover over two acres and be so acrid as to burn trees, grass, hunters, and dogs alike. The BESTIARIES of the eleventh and twelfth centuries depicts this event most graphically.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
Norse Mythology
Teutonic Mythology
A type of Giant
This is the name of a primordial GIANT in the Teutonic and Norse myths of northern Europe. He is described as the immense being from whom the FROST GIANTS and, according to some sources, the GIANT HLER, and the GIANTS LOGI and KARI, were descended.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
Folklore of the Romany Gypsies
A disease DEMON in the folklore of the Romany Gypsies of Europe. This evil SPIRIT was the result of the union between ANA and the King of the DEMONS after he had eaten cloves of garlic covered in his urine. BISTO, whose name means One Who Fasts, takes the shape of a tiny many headed worm. He is responsible for causing humans loss of appetite, headaches, and stomach aches. BISTO has several "children", each buzzing around human bodies causing problems such as earache, toothache, cramps, and colic.
SOURCE: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia
French Folklore
This is the name of a DRAGON in the medieval legends of France. The TARASQUE was said to be the progeny of the monstrous LEVIATHAN and a B0NNACON and was described as having a body like that of an enormous ox, with the legs and feet of a bear. It was the terror of the countryside in the region of AIX la CHAPELLE until the blessed SAINT MARTHA tamed and vanquished it. Since that time, the TARAQUE has been paraded in the town's festivals and has and has influenced similar names of dragons in Spain known as TARASCA.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
European Mythology
A type of Spirit
This is an ancient European SPIRIT of the night. Originally an alternative name for one of the aspects of ODIN, it was later applied to the goblin or demon assuming a terrifying form, usually that of a large black dog or an owl, whose wails beneath the windows of the sick predicted their demise. This aspect of the FAIRY GRIM is described in The Life of Robin Goodfellow (1628). Different aspects of the SPIRIT'S role are denoted by a prefix, as in the FOSSEGRIM of Norway and the KYRKOGRIM, KIRKEGRIM, and CHURCHGRIM of Sweden, Denmark, and England, respectively. Essentially the GRIM is a warning rather then a terrifying SPIRIT.
SOURCE: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia
American Folklore
Based on Literature
For my Husband
This is the name of a gigantic spider being in the literary works of the English academic and author J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) in "The Hobbit" (1937) and "Lord of the Rings" (1955). UNGOLIANT was a vast female spider the wove her vicious web of Unlight, killing the light of the trees of Valar. When she bred with her kind in the Nan Dungotheb, or "Valley of Dreadful Death", she produced SHELOB among many of her monstrous spiders. They were eventually killed in raging floods after the War of Wrath, and she was said to have consumed herself with hunger.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
European Folklore
This is the name of a monstrous type of serpent in the legends and folklore of the North of England. This is the tale of a beautiful young woman turned into a gigantic serpent by a curse. The LAIDLEY WORM became the terror of the region. But she was set free from her hideous and terrifying form by the kiss of a young man.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
Greek Mythology
Roman Mythology
(2) Spanish and French Mermaid
Two characters bear this name:
(1) This is the name of a female supernatural monster in the classical mythology of Greece and Rome. The LAMIA was said to exist in the northern African deserts. She was described as being like that of a woman to the waist, but there after the body of a serpent, though she was able to assume the shape of a completely beautiful woman. There are a number of traditions concerning her origin. THe most usual is that she was a Lybian Queen loved by the king of the gods ZEUS/JUPITER. He had hid her from his consort, HERA, in a fabulous cavern in Africa and, to protect her, empowered LAMIA to remove her eyes and leave them to keep watch while she slept. However, ZEUS/JUPITER'S Queen, HERA/JUNO, found and transformed LAMIA into her hideous appearance, then took her children and destroyed them. Henceforth, LAMIA seeks and destroys men and children whenever she can entice them. Later on, her legend was associated with the EMPUSAE, the VAMPIRES of the ancient world, spawning with a horrible tribe of offspring known as the LAMYA, LAMIE, or LAMYE. From this earlier legend, used over a thousand years ago as a nursery bogie for Roman children, the tradition developed to the LAMIA described by Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) and Keats's Lamia (1780) of the amorous sorceress, or SUCCUBUS.
Folklore of Europe
In the folklore of this district of Cumberland in the northwest of England, a story is told of the disappearance of a peddler in the nineteenth century. This coincided with the appearance of the monstrous BLACK DOG, considered to be a type of BOGIE beast that terrorized and attacked travelers in the district at night. The local people connected the incidents, and when the peddler's body was found and interred in the churchyard, the BLACK DOG was no longer reported. The horrific injuries that it had inflicted on it's victims at last started to heal.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
European Folklore
Tibetan Folklore
Folklore of Tibet
This is a popular European name for the YETI, or ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN, of the Himalayan mountain region of Tibet and Nepal. The concept of this elusive giant hairy humanoid existing in the mountains was first made popular in Europe by members of Shipton's Everest expedition of 1951; and later Hillary-Tensing conquest party also reported evidence. The name ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN implies a humanoid shape, and, indeed, enormous tracks resembling those of a giant anthropoid have been photographed by European climbing in the region. While others are skeptical about the authenticity of such evidence, there exists a definite mythology of the indigenous people for the more bear like YETI.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
English Folklore
Created by Lewis Carroll
In a Poem from "Alice Through the Looking Glass"
This is the name of a monstrous creature in the classic work of English academic and author Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898), entitled Through the Looking Glass. The beast appears not in reality but in a poem within a book that Alice sees and decides to read. As she is through the looking glass, the writing is reversed, but when viewed properly the words are still rather incomprehensible. Thus when Tenniel, the artist commissioned for the publication, created his image of the JABBERWOCK, that too was based on conjuncture. The first verse of the poem itself was created by Dodgeson as an exercise in pseudo-Anglo-Saxon verse and written into the family magazine the he had produced. The later verses give something of a description as follows
European Mythology
Scottish Mythology
Female Version of Merman/ Half Fish Half Humanoid
This is the name of a female water being in the form of a beautiful young woman from the head to the waist, and the rest of her body being like the tail of a huge fish. MERMAIDS have been a part of folklore and mythology of maritime and freshwater cultures since ancient times. The derivation of the English name means both "sea" and "lake" maiden, however there are many different regional names in the British Isles, such as BEN VARREY, CEASG, CLYRTIE, GWENHIDWY, LIBAN,MARI MORGAN, MERROW, ROANE, and SELKIE.
Know by Many Cultures
Sometimes Cannibalistic
They have little or no intelligence
An OGRE (feminine: ogress) is a large and hideous humanoid monster. OGRES are often represented in fairy tales and folklore as feeding on human beings and have appeared in many classic works of literature. In art, ogres are often depicted with a big head, abundant and hirsute hair and beard, a huge belly, and a strong body. Today, variants of ogres can be found in most modern fantasy games, and the term is also often applied in a metaphorical sense to disgusting persons who exploit, brutalize, or otherwise metaphorically devour their victims.
Created by Author Bram Stoker in 1897
Based of real life "Vlad the Impaler"
World Wide Folklore or Legend
This is he name of the character in the classical horror story DRACULA 1897 by the Irish author Abraham (Bram) Stoker (1847-1912). The Count DRACULA of the novel is described as a clean-shaven old man with a high forehead over hi aquiline nose. His eyebrows were so thick that they seemed to meet; his eyes appeared to be as one in a fever; and he wore a gray mustache over his ruddy mouth, from which sharp, pointed teeth protruded and his stinking breath exhaled. His ears were curiously pointed at the hair line, while the hands with which he gripped his visitors were white with hairs in the center of the palm, and the long finger were extended by pointed, claw-like nails. He was dressed entirely in black, which made his pallid skin appear almost blue. DRACULA was a VAMPIRE and a Transylvania count who lived in his castle high in the mountains, from which he made sorties every night with his wolf pack and other VAMPIRES to terrorize the local population. In the novel, DRACULA visits the British Isles, because he must remain to his vault each night (Sharing with the TROLLS of Norse Mythology his demise should sunlight fall on him), he had to take some Transylvania earth with him.
Danish Folklore
British Folklore
Scandinavian Folklore
Swedish Folklore
This is the name of a water monster in the folklore of Scandinavia. The NICKER is called the NACKEN in Sweden; the NICKAR in Danish Faroe Islands; the NICUR or NINNIR or HAIKAR in Iceland; the NICKEL in the Danish Isles of Rugen; the NIKYR in the MANX language of the isle of Man in Britain; and the NEKKE in Denmark. It is variously described as a beautiful, huge, white horse with it's huge hooves in reverse, or as a handsome youth to the waist with a horse's body and legs like the CENTAURS of classical mythology, or as a golden-haired boy wearing a red cap, or an old man with a green, dripping wet beard. These water beings inhabit the seas, lakes, rivers and streams. They are generally benign towards humans if left alone to make their music. However, if anyone tries to ride one in the form of a horse, that person will be taken forever under the water. The NICKER will sometimes desire a human wife and will be a most attentive lover, but if scorned he can be as malicious and terrifying as the Scottish KELPIE. A knife or metal object is placed in the bottom of a fishing boat as a precaution against the NICKER, as iron is supposed to "bind" his power.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
European Folklore
A Type of Very Small Fairy
This is a somewhat euphemistic name given to the FAIRIES or the small people of Cornwall, England. The MURYANS, whose name means Ants, are described as extremely beautiful. The men are dressed in green trousers, blue jackets, and black hats, while the ladies wear lace and silver bells. The MURYANS would come into the houses of the poor and the sick to entertain them and bring comfort to those who had little. It was believed that the FAIRIES had once been huge supernatural SPIRITS and that they had offended GOD, but were too good to be condemned to Hell. Their punishment was to exist on the earth, but their size would diminish each time they shape shifted to another form. They have now dwindled to the size of ants, and will ultimately disappear completely. For this reason it was considered imprudent in Cornwall to kill an ant.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
Folklore of New Guinea
Variation of the Were-wolf
This is the name of a malicious variant on the WEREWOLF motif in the folklore of the peoples of the island of Timor near Papua New Guinea. This is a human that has the power not only to transform himself into a dog but also to transform unsuspecting people into other animals while they sleep. The WERE-DOG will transform at night, leaving his bodily shell supposedly asleep while he seeks a victim. The victim's Sumangat, or soul, will be released into some animal for the table such as a cow or goat. But as the head of a normal human will remain on the animal body, the WERE-DOG will cut off this before taking his booty back to be consumed. The following day the carcass will be prepared by the unsuspecting family for the next meals, while grieving family of the victim will find the soul of their loved one has gone and they will die very quickly. They might even be invited to take part in the meal from the transformed soul-carcass. Should the WERE-DOG ever be discovered on his night prowls, the penalty is instant death.
WERE-DOGS are also known in the folklore of both France and Russia but follow more strictly with the WEREWOLF motif.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
European Mythology
Greek Mythology
Roman Mythology
A mythological Hero
There are several characters in mythology and European traditions who bear the name "HERCULES".The first and foremost is the hero of classical Greek mythology, who is not a giant but whose character was "borrowed" by the giantologist and genealogist of medieval France, Jean Tixier de Ravisy (ca. 1480-1524) for one of the descendants of the biblical Noah. In this work, Hercules is not only a giant descendant of Noah - through his reputed son Tuyscon Gigas - but also a sibling of the giants Gambrivius, Herminon, Hunnus, Ingavon, Istaevon, Marus, Suevus, Tentanes, and Vandaluus. These were conjectured as the giant race from whom the Gauls and ultimately the French monarchy were supposed to be descended. (Many of these names are taken from names of the races of people who invaded Europe from the east, after the collapse of the Roman Empire circa 400 A.D.) The list was utilized extensively in the genealogy of Pantagruel as ancestors by the French author Francois Rabalais in his work Pantagruel (1532).
The third Hercules is also a giant and is usually known as Hercules Libyus.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
Folklore of England
Evil Spirit
A bogie or fiend known also as BARGHEST and BOGUEST in the northern English counties of Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire. It is possibly derived from the German Bahrgeis, meaning SPIRIT of the Bier. The BARGUEST is variously described as having the shape of a black dog the size of a Mastiff, with horns, fangs, and fiery eyes, or of a large shaggy-haired dog or even a bear, with huge claws and eyes like glowing coals. Sometimes it drags a chain; sometimes it is wrapped in chains. At other times it has been described as a headless man, a headless woman, a white rabbit, cat or dog that disappears in flames. The Barguest is a fiend attached to a particular locality and is known as a portent of disaster or death for those who see it, or one of their family. If anyone tries to approach it or pass in front of it, then it is said to inflict a terrible wound on the person that never heals. Around the area of Leeds in Yorkshire, a Barguest would appear and set all other dogs in the city howling when anyone of importance would die.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
Legend of the United Kingdom
Causes Harm to anyone who looks at it
Evil Spirit
This is the evil SPIRIT, also known as the Moddey Dhoo, of Peel Castle on the Isle of Man (United Kingdom). It manifests in the shape of a Black Dog described variously as the size of a calf with eyes like pewter plates, or a spaniel with shaggy hair, which may materialize and inflict harm on all who see it. There are numerous accounts of people who have some experience of the demon, often with variations in the events outcome.
One such tale refers to the time when that Peel Castle was occupied by military forces in the seventeenth century. A bored soldier on guard duty, after a few drinks, bragged that he would go search for the supernatural fiend. His terrified shrieks brought his fellow officers to the corridor where he lay, and they dragged him back to the guardroom, jabbering about the “Dhoog”, before he died. A similar fate befell a minister brought to exorcise the evil spirit.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
European
May be spelled Alfe, Alve, Elve, or Ylf
This is a type of SPRITE or MANNIKIN in British, Icelandic, Scandinavian and Teutonic legend. Originally, the word in Anglo-Saxon meant all fairies, but later denoted a special breed. This was then adapted by other cultures. Elves are tiny human-shaped supernatural creatures that can shape shift at will.
English Folklore
A Sleep Spirit
This is the name of a nursery spirit in the folklore of England. The DUSTMAN is a sleep SPIRIT who comes at night to small children, and by sprinkling magic dust over their eyes, like the OLE LUK OJ of Denmark, the children fall asleep. By his enchantment, he ensures that they have pleasant dreams.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
Mythology of Europe/England
Described as ”Tiny Devils” or “Little Devils”
Purpose is to cause mischief and disruption
In the folk beliefs of Europe, this is a mischievous little devil, devilet, or minor fiend that is often described as being the childlike offspring of the DEVIL. It is a very old term, and may be seen in ancient documents in various spelling such as Emp, Himpe, Hympe, or Ymp. Imps may manifest in any form, but are often portrayed as evil-looking infants with tiny horns protruding from their heads and tiny wing from their shoulders. The Imp may also feature in witch trials as the familiar SPIRIT of the accused. Then legend of the Lincoln Imp tells how the DEVIL, in a frivolous mood, set loose some of his more playful IMPS to create mischief. One of them descended from the air into the English town of Lindum, as Lincoln was then known, entered the new cathedral being built, and started to wreak havoc. An ANGEL observing the little fiend put a stop to his pranks by turning the Imp into stone on the column where he had alighted, and that is where he remains to this day.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
European Folklore
A type of Fiend
This is the medieval European female fiend of the night. The name is from the Latin Sub, under, and cubare, to lie down. Just like the INCUBUS that mounts a sleeping woman for the purpose of sexual relations, this is the female form that copulates with man in his sleep. It may take on any shape, male or female, but it usually appears in the semblance of he wife or lover, or it may be entirely invisible. During witch-hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, women were often accused of being the SUCCUBUS of the DEVIL, with little chance of refuting such a charge.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
Mythology of Wales
Evil Mountain Fairies
Takes the shape of a goat
These are the evil mountain FAIRIES in the folklore of Wales. The GWILLION are described as hideous HAGS seen walking on the roads in foul weather. They could also materialize in the shape of goats. It is said that they combed the goats’ beards on Wednesdays, the FAIRY Sabbath. The most feared of them is the OLD WOMAN OF THE MOUNTAIN. The GWILLION, when not leading night-bound travelers astray in the mountains and forest, may call at the homes of the community about Aberystwyth, where the terrified inhabitants allow the GWILLION to shelter on stormy nights. These supernatural HAGS, like many others of their kind, are vanquished and disappear at the sight of an iron knife.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
Many countries share this mythology
Has many names and many stories
This is the name of a trickster of West African, West Indian, South American, and southern US folklore. As a typical shape shifting, cunning, sly, supernatural SPIRIT of folktales, ANANSI features extensively in moralizing tales, with other animal spirits and sometimes humans as dupes. His origin, according to West African folklore, was human, but he was transformed by the gods to be a used as a spirit messenger.
Mythology of Europe/England
Also originated with water spirit of Celtic Mythology
This is the mysterious fairy figure and spirit in the legends of King Arthur. She also goes by the names of FATA MORGANA, MORGAINE, MORGANA, MORGANE, MORGAN LA FAEE, MORGANETTA, and MORGUE LA FAYE. Originally, in the Arthurian legends she is the Lady of the Lake and the healing SPIRIT that takes the wounded Arthur to Avalon. In Malory’s Morte Darthur (ca, 1469), she is Arthur’s fairy half-sister, who plots the demise of Guinevere and Lancelot, and thus Arthur’s eventual downfall. MORGAN DE FAY also features in other works such as Ogier the Dane, Orlando Furioso, and Orlando Innamorto. Her magic is also considered to be responsible for the mirages of the Straits of Messina, which are known as Fata Morgana. It has been suggested that she may be derived from a mermaid or a Celtic water deity, and thus connected with Morrigan or Ireland and the Mari Morgan of Brittany.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
European Folklore
Medieval Evil Spirit
This is the European medieval fiend of the night known in Latin as the INCUBUS, which means, “That which lies upon”. As indicated by its name, this is an evil SPIRIT that mounts a sleeping woman for the purpose of sexual relations. It may take on any shape, male or female, but is usually a semblance of the woman’s husband or lover, or it may be entirely invisible. An INCUBUS was said to be recognized by his cloven hooves and stinking breathe.
English Folklore
Spirit of Cold Weather
In English popular folklore, this is the mischievous SPIRIT personification of freezing weather. He is usually portrayed as a type of Elf dressed entirely in white, with icicles dangling from his clothes. JACK FROST nips at the fingers and toes of those who venture outside on such cold days, and will playfully turn human noses the color of ripe cherries. He frolics along the countryside, leaving twinkling frost crystals decorating everything he has touched.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
European Folklore
Enchanted Herb
In European occultism and demonology, this is a familiar demon derived from the nature spirit of the mandrake plant. From the earliest of times, the legends concerning the fatal results inflicted by the MANDRAGORA on anyone attempting to lift the plant out of the earth brought about the stratagem of harassing an unfortunate dog to the plant until the root was clear of the ground. The spirit was supposed to scream as it was drawn from the earth, as this is mentioned in ”Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” (1596)”.
Like the appearance of the roots, the spirit of the MANDRAKE is described as resembling a youthful, naked male or female human, which according to Thomas Newton was produced from the spirit of a buried murderer. The plant was used by alchemists and herbalists from the earliest times for it’s alleged fertility and curative properties as recorded in the Judeo-Christian Bible (Genesis 88:14-16). It was also supposed to inflict vanity and lunacy if the resultant potion were taken in excess.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
Greek Mythology
Egyptian Mythology
Medieval European Religion
Freighting Spirit
This is a supernatural being in the mythology of ancient Greece. It was also known as ACEPHALI, AKEPHALE, or AKEPHALOS. The ACEPHALOS is described in Egyptian, Greek and medieval European religion and folklore as a frightening SPIRIT. It is a demon that manifests in the shape of a human being but without a head, causing terror and panic in those to whom it appears. In the later folklore of modern Greece, the spirit known as PHONOS (the Greek word for death) has the same physical description and ability to incite terror.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
European Folklore
A.K.A. Berg Dwarfs, Bjerg-Trolde, Skovtrodle (wood troll)
A type of Dwarf or Troll
They are a species of troll often appearing in the shape of a toad. There is a well-known tale of a mid-wife who, on her way home from a successful human delivery, notices in the road a fat toad with white stripes and remarks to it that she will gladly deliver it too. A fortnight later, on hearing a cart draw up outside her door, she sees a little man with a long white beard. He entreats her to attend to his wife just as she had promised. This the midwife does, but she cannot help remarking on their poor abode. The little new mother tells the midwife to anoint her eyes with the liquid nearby, whereupon a vision of great beauty and wealth was revealed to her, and she receives much gold for her service. The little mother then tells her to jump from the cart when she reaches the boggy ground, otherwise the little man will not take the midwife home and may dispose of her. In fear she does as she was told and arrives home safely with her reward. Some time later in the market place she recognizes and greets the little old man who immediately pokes her eyes out.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
European Folklore
A type of Spirit or Devil
This is the name of an evil SPIRIT or devil in the folklore of the Basque people of southwestern France and northwestern Spain. Aatxe, which means Young Bull, is also known as Etsai. This spirit is a shape shifter who most frequently appears in the form of a bull, but may also assume the shape of a human. Aatxe inhabits mountain caves, from which he emerges only on stormy nights to wreak havoc and cause destruction.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
English Folklore
Demon/Spirit
A demon that manifests itsElf in the shape of a water horse in the folklore of Buckland in Devon, England. In this location, indelible red stains on a large rock were said to be the result of the BUCKLAND SHAG taking his victims there to be slain. Few people dared to venture into this vicinity alone for fear that they would encounter the BUCKLAND SHAG, until the vicar of Buckland exorcised the SPIRIT with bell, book and a candle.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
European Folklore
Evil Spirits
Can Change Shape or Morph
Also Called Aerico or Aerika
This is the name of a demon in the folklore of Macedonia in Europe. It is a SPIRIT that may take the for of a human, but more commonly dwells invisibly in the air. AYERICO is a disease SPIRIT, responsible for spreading plague and malaria.
Source: Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins Encyclopedia
