Lares, Lemures and Penates
In Roman culture, Lares, Lemures, and Penates were gods and spirits that were believed to protect and watch over the household and its members. These figures played an important role in daily life and...
Category: Folklore
Water spirits of Eastern Europe
Water spirits hold an important position in Eastern European folklore. Within Slavic lore, the Rusalka and Vodyany or Wodnick are about the only creatures known beyond Slavic countries. This is mainly due to the...
Spearfinger or Uʻtlûñ′tă of North Carolina and Tennessee folklore
In Cherokee folklore Spearfinger or Uʻtlûñ′tă was a terrible looking mountain ogress, whose food consisted of human livers, that lived along the subrange of the Appalachians, also called the Great Smoky Mountains. She could take...
Brook horses or Water horses of Celtic and Nordic Folklore
Water horses or Brook horses are creatures of European folklore. Although the ancient Greeks, knew the Hippocampus (water horse) we find the tradition of these creatures mostly in British and Celtic Europe, Scandinavia and...
Spirit Beings in European Folklore
Spirit Beings in European folklore by Benjamin Adamah is a series of 4 compendiums that catalogs 1045 creatures of Europe’s supernatural history. This book-series is made available September 3, 2022 by VAMzzz Publishing. Netflix-series...
Leshy, the Lord of the Russian Forest
The Leshy or Lyeshy (Belor: лясу́н Lyasun, лесаві́к Lesovik; Ukr. лісови́к Lisovik; Pol: Laskowiec) is a forest spirit, widely known among Russians (especially in the North), and to a lesser extent representations about him...
Genius loci – the spirit of a location
The Latin term genius loci literally means “the spirit of the place”. In Roman mythology, the spirit originally meant a guardian spirit (genius), who was often depicted in the form of a snake. In...
Haselwurm and Tatzelwurm
The Haselwurm and the Tatzelwurm or Stollenwurm are a strange creatures which dwell in a foggy way between spirit beings from folklore and cryptozoological rarities. The weirdest thing about the creature is the fact...
Dybbuk or Dibbuk – the sticky ghost of the Ashkenazi
In Ashkenazic Jewish folklore a Dybbuk (Yiddish: דָּבַק, dāḇaq) is an evil spirit which enters into a living person, cleaves to his soul, causes mental illness, talks through his mouth, and represents a separate...
