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ʻAumakua as animals could also inhabit plants that had similar characteristics or visual resemblance to that animal. For example, ʻaumakua as mackerel (ʻōpelu) were also associated with the lobelia plant (also called ʻōpleu) whose leaves are a similar shape and color as the fish.
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit who takes the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion; Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) – Water spirit; Shen – Shapeshifing sea monster; Shenlong – Weather dragon; Shibaten – Water spirit from Shikoku; Shikigami – Servant spirit
Tachash – Large land animal; Tailypo (American Folklore) – Powerful animal, that takes revenge on those who steal its tail; Taimatsumaru – Tengu surrounded in demonic fire; Takam – Nature spirit; Taka-onna – Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building
Piatek – Large land animal; Pictish Beast (Pictish stones) – Stylistic animal, possibly a dragon; Pillan – Nature spirit; Pim-skwa-wagen-owad – Water spirit; Piru – Minor demon; Pishacha – Carrion-eating demon; Pishtaco – Monster man that steals its victim's body fat for cannibalistic purposes
Kamaitachi – Wind spirit; Kamatayan – Philippine counterpart of Death; Kami – Nature spirit; Kamikiri – Hair-cutting spirit; Kanbari-nyūdō – Bathroom spirit; Kangla Sha (Meitei mythology) – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace; Kanbo – Drought spirit; Kanedama – Money spirit
Power animal, a neoshamanic belief of a tutelary spirit; Spirit guide, an entity that remains as a discarnate spirit to act as a guide or protector to a living incarnated individual; Totem, a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe
Kodama and Kurozome, the spirit of the Prunus serrulata (Japanese cherry) Kukunochi, Japanese tree spirit; Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern Baltic mythology; Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki ...