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Pages in category "Arabian mythology" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. ʿĀd;
Illustration of a Sila seducing a man from a Persian miniature. Sila (Arabic: سعلى أو سعلا أو سعلاة alternatively spelled Si'la or called Si'lat literally: "Hag" or "treacherous spirits of invariable form" pl. Sa'aali adj: سعلوة su'luwwa) is a supernatural creature assigned to the jinn or ghouls in Arabian [1] folklore.
Pages in category "Arabian legendary creatures" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anqa;
Jinn, invisible being, like humans, created with fitra. Their destiny depends on God's Judgement on the Day of Resurrection. (Genie) Jundullah, army of angels who helped Muhammad in the battlefield. [22] (Angels)
According to common Arabian belief, pre-Islamic soothsayers, philosophers, and poets were inspired by the jinn. [ 22 ] [ 20 ] (pp 1–10) The Arabian poet al-A'sha (d. after 3/625) is said to have gotten his inspiration for his poetry by a friend named Misḥal ("daʿawtu khalīlī Misḥalan") and further calls him his jinni-brother ("akhī ...
In folklore, a ghoul (from Arabic: غول, ghūl) is a demon-like being or monstrous humanoid, often associated with graveyards and the consumption of human flesh. In the legends or tales in which they appear, a ghoul is far more ill-mannered and foul than goblins. The concept of the ghoul originated in pre-Islamic Arabian religion. [1]
Deities formed a part of the polytheistic religious beliefs in pre-Islamic Arabia, with many of the deities' names known. [1] Up until about the time between the fourth century AD and the emergence of Islam, polytheism was the dominant form of religion in Arabia. Deities represented the forces of nature, love, death, and so on, and were ...
There were reported elephant bird sightings at least in folklore memory as Étienne de Flacourt wrote in 1658. [8] Its egg, live or subfossilised , was known as early as 1420, when sailors to the Cape of Good Hope found eggs of the roc, according to a caption in the 1456 Fra Mauro map of the world, which says that the roc "carries away an ...