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Siren (mythology) In Greek mythology, sirens (Ancient Greek: singular: Σειρήν, Seirḗn; plural: Σειρῆνες, Seirênes) are female humanlike beings with alluring voices; they appear in a scene in the Odyssey in which Odysseus saves his crew's lives. [1] Roman poets place them on some small islands called Sirenum scopuli.
Morgan le Fay (c. 480 – ), Enchantress from the legend of King Arthur. Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330 – ), a French scribe and manuscript seller. He is believed to have found and decoded the everchanging book of Abraham the Mage, and found a spell for immortality, along with his wife, Perenelle Flamel. Count of St. Germain.
Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
e. An oni (鬼 おに) (/ oʊni / OH-nee) is a kind of yōkai, demon, orc, ogre, or troll in Japanese folklore. They are believed to live in caves or deep in the mountains. [2] Oni are known for their superhuman strength and have been associated with powers like thunder and lightning, [2] along with their evil nature manifesting in their ...
Caladrius (Roman) – white bird with healing powers. Chalkydri (Jewish) – heavenly creatures of the Sun. Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird. Cinnamon bird (Greek) – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon. Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death.
Lamia (/ ˈleɪmiə /; Greek: Λάμια, translit. Lámia), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon". In the earliest stories, Lamia was a beautiful queen of ancient Libya who had an affair with Zeus. Upon learning this, Zeus's wife Hera robbed ...
A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human -like creature found throughout much of European folklore. A changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being when kidnapping a human being. Sometimes the changeling was a 'stock' (a piece of wood made magically to resemble the kidnapped human), more often the ...
Deer Woman stories are found in multiple Indigenous American cultures, often told to young children or by young adults and preteens in the communities of the Lakota people (Oceti Sakowin), Ojibwe, Ponca, Omaha, Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Choctaw, Otoe, Osage, Pawnee, and the Haudenosaunee, and those are only the ones that have documented Deer Woman sightings.