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Wolf or Wulf is used as a surname, given name, and a name among Germanic-speaking peoples. "Wolf" is also a component in other Germanic names: Wolfgang (wolf + gang ("path, journey")) Adolf, derived from the Old High German Athalwolf, a composition of athal, or adal, meaning noble, and wolf; its Anglo-Saxon cognate is Æthelwulf.
Sungmanito - The Wolf Spirit of hunting and war. Sunka - The Dog Spirit of companionship and faithfulness. Tȟatȟáŋka (Great Beast), or Ta Tanka - The male Buffalo Spirit of plenty. Enemy of Mica. Tatankan Gnaskiyan (Crazy Buffalo) - The malevolent spirit who wreaks havoc on love affairs, causing feuds, murders, and suicides.
The Inuit culture, the word “amarok” means “wolf” or “wolf spirit.” It incorporates the wolf and the wolf’s spiritual essence in Inuit animism. Amarok targets human hunters or wolf packs who are either alone or careless enough to come out at night. [2]
Ligeia – name meaning "clear-toned", daughter of Achelous and either Melpomene or Terpsichore; Parthenope – name meaning "maiden-voiced", Daughter of Achelous and Terpsichore; Pisinoe – daughter of Achelous and either Melpomene or Sterope; Thelxinoë – name meaning "mind charming" Swan maiden (Multi-cultural) – shapeshifts from human ...
He was written about by Johann Weyer in 1583 in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum.. Amon, or Aamon, is a great and mighty marques, and commeth abroad in the likeness of a Wolf, having a serpents tail, [vomiting] flames of fire; when he putteth on the shape of a man, he sheweth out dogs teeth, and a great head like to a mighty [night hawk]; he is the strongest prince of all other, and understandeth ...
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The names are held to derive from Common Germanic *nikwus or *nikwis(i), derived from PIE *neigʷ ("to wash"). [3] They are related to Sanskrit nḗnēkti, Greek νίζω nízō and νίπτω níptō, and Irish nigh (all meaning to wash or be washed). [4] The form neck appears in English and Swedish (näck, definite form näcken). [4]
According to Inuit mythology Amaguq is a trickster and wolf spirit, able to shape-shift. [1] [2] Amaguq is the Iñupiaq word for wolf. [3] See also. Amarok (wolf ...