This entry comprises a collection of terms, based on lore and legend, which the paranormal investigator is likely to encounter when dealing in angelology.
Anakim - Childern believed to have been created when the fallen angels descended on to earth to enjoy humanly pleasures. They were giants who stood extremely high and brought much suffering to the earth. They were wiped out in the great flood of Noah.
Angel - A typically benevolent celestial being that acts as a intermediary between heaven and earth, especially in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism. ( Dictionary.com) Angelus (Latin), (Greek),from Heberw for "ongoing" or " one sent" messenger. In Hebrew it means "Devine or human messenger." And also to assist and guide people on earth.
Angelology - A broad term for the study of angels and there hierarchy. Angleology began when humans frist began inquiring about angels.
Angelos - Greek for " messenger". Any one can be a "messenger", whether a person here on earth or on the other side of the grave.
Book of Enoch - The book of Enoch is a book written between the old and New testaments, around 150-80 B.C. Copies of the Book of Enoch have been found among the Dead Sea scrolls. Enoch means " learned one". This book explains the many fallen angles who "fell to earth" and were stuck there. These angles were commanded not to mate, but when cast down to earth, did so anyway. This book, known as 1 Enoch, was recognized by Jews and catholics, but is now denounced by both religions because of its contents and themes were regarding the fallen angles.
Cherubim - The islamic religion believes they were created by tears shed by Michael for the sins of humans. In Babylon and Samaria they were statues that guarded temples and palaces. Normally, they had cases of men or lions and bodies of eagle, sphinx, or bull. The word Cherub mean's " to be near", Cherubim also means "angelic spirit".
Daniel - " God is my Judge". Daniel could be a good angel or a fallen angel. Some believe he is a member of the Principalities, while others believe is a fallen angle. The first book of Enoch lists him as a fallen angle.
Devas - A celestial beings, also known as Dharma alas or Dharma protectors in the Buddhist and Hindu releigion. They are spiritual beings by nature that are seen as bodies or emanations of light or energy called " shining ones" There are 3 types of Devas that Hinduism recognizes, they are: mortals living on a higher realm than other mortals, enlightened people who have realized God, and Brahman in the form of a personal God.
Dominions - Ranked fourth in the nine choirs of angels. Also called hash mallim.
El - " of God", the suffix located at the end of every angelic name to represent their link to God.
Gabriel - " Hero of God" God is my strength" Gagriel is the messenger angel who is the "voice of God". Muslims believe that Gabriel is the spirit of truth who dictacted the Koran to Mohammed. Jewish religion see Gabriel as the angel of judment.
Lord Of Host - God's supreme command of angles.
Malaika - ( mah-lah-ee-kah). Islam term for angel, which were to carry the mesages to Allah.
Michael - "Who is God" or "who is like God". He is considered the warrior angle, for he defeated Lucifer in a heavenly battle. In Jewish tradition, he is the guardian angle of islam religion Michael has "wings the color of green emeralds. Covered with saffron hairs, each if them containing a million faces implore pardon of Allah".
Monotheistic - Worship of one God.
Polytheistic - Worship of more then one God/goddess.
Raphael - "God heals" or "The shining one who Heals". Raphael is the guardian of the human race, especially the youth or those embarking on a spiritual quest. He represents healing and creativity.
Sabaoth - Heavenly army related to the "Lord of Host". Some say that the word refers to the host of heaven, the angles, by metaphor to the stars and entire universe (cf. Genesis 2:1).
Zoroastrianism - The persian religion, founded by Zarathushtra, existing in 6000 BC shows evidence of the first angles emerging traditionally. Sister or brother religion of Judaism, Christianity, and islam.
Angel Societal Structure.
The ranking of the angelic choirs vary depending upon the religious views. Some discrepancies between which angels belong to which choir. Below are a list of commonly seen member and porsitions that may be found listed differently depeding on religion or theories that they refer to.
The hewbrews believed that there existed - 7 - heavens, guarded by various angelic human beings who has appointed different angles to represent each heaven.
Here's a list Of The Seven Heavens.
1. Shamayim - ruled by Gabriel.
2. Raqua - which is co-ruled Zachariel and Rapael.
3. Shehaqim - ruled by Anahel. The thired heaven is supposedly the location of the tree of life.
4. Machonon - ruled by Michael.
5. Mathey - is ruled by Sandalphon.
6. Zumbul - has three rulers, Zachiel,Zebul, Ans Sabath.
7. Araboth - which is ruled by Cassiel.
Angels exist in many different cultures, with many differnt ranking orders is well known in the catholic religion is called the Nine Choirs of Angels. Each has a specific role in society and in the Catholic religion. Angels also exist in other religions. Baddhism, Judiasm,and Islam, Moron.
Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are the closest to God, while the Prinicipalities and Archangels reside closest to humans. Seraphim - Known as the highest order of angles. These angles are attendant guardians of Gods throne and regulate the heavens. Seraphim have six wings. Two to cover their face, two cover their feet and two used to fly with.
Some Seraphim are Michael, Seraphiel, Jehoel, Uriel, Kemuel, ( or Shemuel), and Satan ( before his fall).
Cherubim - the second highest choirs of angels are helpers of God and guardians of eden. They are link to Gods glory. They appear to be very man like in appearences. Some Cherubim are Gabriel, Cherubiel, Ophaniel, Uriel, Zophiel and Satan before his fall.
Thrones - these angels represent pure humility, peace and submission. They are the many eyed ones. For they carry out God's decisions. Some thrones are Orifiel, Zaphkiel, Jolhiel ( or Zophiel ), and Raziel.
Dominions - dominion angels represent leaderhip as they regulate the duties of other angels. They have to be sure that Gods wishes are carried out. Some Dominions are Zadkiel, Hashmal, Zacharael, and Muriel.
Virtues - " The brilliant" or " the shining ones" controls the elements. They grovern all nature controlling the seasons, the stars and the sun. These angels provide courage, grace and miracles to human beings. Some Virtues are Uzziel, Gabriel, Michael, Peliel, Barbiel, Sabriel, Haniel, Hamliel, and Tarshish.
Pawers - This important race of angels protect human beings from evil, for they are called " warrior angels". They prevent fallen angels from taking over the world and keep the universe inbalance. Some powers are Camael, Cabriel, Verchiel, and Stan (before his fall).
Principalities/Princes - These angels are a type of spiritual (metaphysica) being which are hostile towards God and humans. They are guardian angels of cities, nations, and rulers who are also against evil. Some Principalities are Nisroc, Naniel, Requel, Cerviel, and Amael.
Archangels - Archangels are the best known in the choir of angels, for they carry Gods messages to humans during critical times in history and salvation. They are in charge of the guardian angels and help to fight the " sons of darkess" or evil.
According to the Ethiopic Ench, the seven archagels are as follows:
1. Uriel
2. Raphael
3. Raguel, also called Ruhiel, Ruhiel, or ruahel.
4. Michael.
5. Zerachiel.
6. Gagriel.
7. Remiel.
According to the Testament of Soloman, the seven Archangels are as follows:
1. Mikael.
2. Gabriel.
3. Uriel.
4. Sabrael.
5. Arael.
6. Laoth.
7. Adonael.
Angels - these celestial beings are closer to humans then any other angel. They act as the 3rd party between God and the human race. These angels are mostly known as guardain angels. Some Angels are Phaleg, Adnachiel, Gabriel, and Chayyliel.
Fallen Angels - There are about 200 angels who where cast down from heaven during the fall was lead by several angels, one being Semyaza. These angels descended from heaven and begot children with mortal women. The out come was the Anakim, or giants who stood serveral miles high and brought suffing to the mortal world. Also, serveral angels inculding Lucifer were cast down and began a war against the heavens, ater refusing to bow down to mortals. Some fallen angels are Semyaza and Satan.
Semaza - According to Jewish mythology, he is the leader of the fallen angels who desended into heaven and entered into unions with human women. This angel participate in teaching the women of magic, spells, and herbal remedies.
Satan - Also considered the leader of the fallen angels. He was seen as a tempting angel serving the lord. Satan stands for " adversary". He was appointed by God to tempt people and provide the Lord with a picture of their true faith. He was the most knowledgeable, beautiful, and beloved angle. He heads the angelic choirs of the Seraphim, Cherubim (depending on the source and the virtues). Satan, also known as Lucifer, had a large amount of pride, too much in fact when God created man and commanded all the angels to bow down to humanity, Satan refused. He was the first angel to sin, to cross that barrier of obedience, for this he was cast down form heaven.
Araqiel - A fallen angel who descended down to earth to live with human women.
Exael - This angel was mention in the First Book of Enoch. He descended down to earth and took human wives. He participated in teaching humans magic and incantations.
Celestial Who's Who.
1. A'albie - Services the Archangel Michael.
2. Abaddon - Angel meaning "destruction", some times known as a good angel that servers God. Abaddon has been seen as an angel of the judgment of heaven or angel that fell claims as a ally.
3. Abariel - An angel called upon in ceremonial magic, for invoking spirits and other angels.
4. Abather Muzania - An angel - like being in Mandean culture (a Gnostic followig that prospered in the first and second century AD). This angel weighs the souls of the dead determines their worthiness.
5. Abariel - An angel used in invoking, during ceremomial magic.
6. Abdals - Seventy different spirits who only God knows their identity. They are a mysterious beings in Islamic lore.
7. Abel - (Meadow) - Judges Souls entering heaven. He is one of the 12 Powers.
8. Achaiah - A seraphim of patience and discoverer of the secrets of nature.
9. Af Bri - An angel who controls the rain.
10. Aha - An angel of Dominions who is a spirit of power. He is used in cabalist.
11. Ahadiel - Enforcer of the law.
12. Akattrielah Yelod Sabaoth - "Lord of Host" Jews believe this angel to be powerful and stand above other angels.
13. Al-Zabamiyah - Nineteen angels in the Koran. They are the Islamic guards in their view of hell.
14. Anael - One of the seven angels of creation. He is Prince of the Archangels.
15. Anahila - An angel in the Zoroastrain religion that is high ranking.
16. Angels of Childbrith - Seventy Amulet angels.
17. Angels of Fire - Nathaniel, Arel, Atuniel, Johoel, Ardarel, Gabriel, Seraph, Uriel.
18. Angels of Love - Rahmiel, Raphael, Donquel.
19. Angels of Mysteries - Raziel, Gabriel.
20. Angels of Prayer - Akatriel, Gabriel, Metatron, Rachael,Sandalphon, Sizouse, Michael.
21. Angels of Rain - Matriel, Matarel, Matariel.
22. Angels of Wind - Moriel, Ruhiel, Rujiel.
23. Anthriel - An angel representing balance and harmony. This angel can keep someone claim in extreme circumstances.
24. Aralim - An angel that brings protection to the home and love ones. Gives confidence and self esteem.
25. Arariel - One of the Dominions and curer of stupidity. According to the Talmudists' Arariel preside over the waters of the earth.
26. Aratheil - Angel of the hour of the night.
27. Arel - An angel called in ritual magic that represents fire.
28. Beburoa - According to the book of Revelation of Esdras, Beburoa will be one of the nine angels to rule over the end of the world.
29. Cassiel - A leader of the Powers and is a high ranking angel that rules temperance, and the day of Saturday.
30. Cerviel - A member of the Principalities. According to the catholic religion he was sent to David who defeat Goliath.
31. Chamuel (Camael,Kemuel) - "He who seeks God". He is an Archangel that had visited christ the gardian of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, giving him comfort before his crucifixion. This angel is sopposed to have authority over the angels of destruction and is a chief of the powers.
32. Djbril (Jibril) - The Arbic word for Gabriel.
33. Gabriel - "Hero of God or God is my strength". Gabriel is the messager angel who is the voice of God". Muslims believe that Gabriel is the truth who dicatated the Kronan to Mohammed.
34. - Habriel - Member of the choir of angels called Powers. This angel is often summon during magical rites in the Hebrew religion.
35. Israfel - Angel of the last Judgment and the Resurrection in Islamic lore. On judgment day this angel is supposed to descend onto earth, stand upon the holy rock in jerusalem and blow the trumpet to awaken the dead and the living to be judged. He is covered with hair and has several mouths and four wings. He sings the praises of Allah.
36. Izrael - An angel of Islamic lore that will descend to earth with Israfel on judgement day.
37. Michael - "Who is God" or "Who is like God". He is considered the warrior angel for he defeated Lucifer in a heavenly battle. In Jewish tradion, he is the guardain angel of islam religion Micheal has "wings the color of green emeralds, covered with saffron hair each of them containing a million faces implored pardon of Allah.
38. Metatron - (Metatetron, Merraton, Metaraon) A great angel honored as the angel of pressence, chief of ministering angels, chancellor of heaven, and whom maintained the world.
39. Mik'ail - Arbic name for the Archangel Micheal.
40. Phanuel - An angel of presence. Actually beholding the face of God and spends time in his presence.
41. Raphael - "God heals" or "The shining one who heals". Raphael is the guardian of the human race especially the youth or those embarking on a spiritual quest. He respresents haling and creativity.
42. Satan - also considered the leader of the fallen angels. He was seen as a tempting angel serving the Lord. Satan stands for " the adversary". He was appointed by God to tempt people and provide the Lord with a picture of their true faith. He was the most knowledgeable, beautiful and beloved angel. He heads the angelic choirs of the Seraphim, Cherubim (depending on the source and the virtues). Satan, also known as Lucifer, had a large amount of pride; too much in fact when God created man and commanded all the angels to bow down to humanity, satan refused. He was the first angel to sin, to cross that barrier of obedience, for he was cast down from heaven.
43. Semyaza - According to jewish mythology, he is the leader of the fallen angels who descended into heaven and entered into unions with human women.
Spirits And Elements, Goblins, Elfs And Gnomes.
Generic Classification.
They are grouped in generic families based on big differences among them, and the elements they inhabit or perferrably domain. They are classified as follows.
Air Spirits - Silfides.
The air element, featured by intelligence, repressented by spring and dawn is inhabited by sylphs in the form of butterflies. They control winds, help birds in their migrations and flowers in their pollination. Their light yellow - toned translucent appearance is present in the scent of wet herb threatening to rain. Sylphs.
Water Spirits.
Nymphs, Mermaids, Nereids, Naiads, Undines, and Water Goblins. The water element featured by love and cures, represented by Autumn, and Sunset, is inhabited by nymphs, mermaids, nereids, and undines. They appear as mythological creatures in all liquids, such as seas, rivers, fresh water brooks, falls, and clouds. Their aspect vary depending on their habitat. Nereids rule the seas, undines called Naiads by the Greek, are found in lakes. They are mostly blue and a receptive energy. Like mermaids, they attract any sailor with their songs until they wreck. They are the ones channeling natural river beds.
Earth Spirits.
The earth element is the most dense. It is represented by winter and night. It is inhabited by ladies, goblins, gnomes, and trolls. They mostly green and have a receptive energy. Fairies or ladies are characterized by their kindness and for being the oldest inhabitants of the plant. They may either be imposing or tiny, their powers, hower, are incredible and dominate nature.
Fire Spirits - Salamanders.
The fire element features both creation and destruction. It is represented by summer and daylight. It is inhabited by Salamanders, Farralis and Ra-Arus, appearing as reddish salamanders and dragons. They give the idea that with courage and imagination everything can be done. They send forth projective energy, and dominate the element. No fire would be ignited with out their intervention.
Goblins, Elfs, And Gnomes.
trying to explain or talking about beings not considered spirits, angels, or human beings is rather difficult. They however, share something in common, and more. We could give them the generic name of elemental creatures, nature spirits. They all inhabit the Magic world of fairies. Is it yrue that we can communicate with those tiny beings? In spite of the fact nature has been devastated by man, and that they were compelled to hide in the jungle or in the woods, many of them live with human beings and are willing to serve them. To communicate with them, we should love everything that surrounds us. They may appear under certain circumstances and on special occasions without us realizing of that, for they have the ability to choose the form they shall appear under - which may be similar to the very nature either as a stone, or a tree, an animal, a plant or even a human being. These beings talk, laugh, are cautious, poor, rich, wise and crazy, just like all of us. They are the rough image of man, viruous or vicious, pure or impure, better or worse.
Types Of Goblins.
Domestic Goblins.
They live inside houses or in the surroundings. For centuries they inhabited wild, woody, and mountainous areas, livng inside caves or carverns until one of them approached the places where human beings lived, firstly for the sake of curiosity, then with the single objective of having fun. They appear perferably at night. They are about 50 cm-high and resemble man. They go out at night and love to have fun by dint of those sleeping. Even though most of them like to bother or frighten human beings, some of them, however, love to help men in domestic households. According to some experts, their names come from the Arabig word duar, meaning the one who inhabites or the inhabitant.
Familiar Imps.
These are some little devil looking - goblins, not linked to a house, but to a person to whom they assist and make him their owner. They are linked to witchcraft.
Bedroom Goblins.
They belong to a strange family of aggrestive and individualist goblins. They cause nightmares and choose women and children as their victims.
General Features Of Elfs.
All these beings are very ancient, small and ugly. When they are standing, they have arms so long that they past beyound their ankles. They have abundant and entangled hair, and a special talent for evil, though there are also benevolent Elfs. They love larch roots, do not like rain, but are fond of tempests. They have pointing ears and legs like wire.
Types Of Elfs.
Elfs are huge magical beings divided into two big categories. The Ljsalfar, or Light Elfs, The Dopkalfar, or Darkness Elfs.
Light Elfs.
They dominate the change in appearance, have an etereous beauty, are one of the best dispostion elfs. They are translucent and blue in color. They are other light elfs with the ability to move over fire or inside wood and stone. They are called Ellefork, can foretell the future, sing and compose a fascinating and enraptured music.
Darkness Elfs.
Like lobsters, they build their homes beneath the earth. They are frequently found in houses where they perfer dark corners, only visible at night may be of grey, brown, red or black colors. If a house has locks with no keys or small gracks in the wood, elfs shall come in through those tiny spaces. They have many names, such as Cauchemer, Qaalruter, nachtmannle.
Gloom Elfs.
They are the most numerous. They may be found in trees, plants, brooks or ponds. They are quite cautious and protected from the interference of strangers.
Gnomes.
Since these elementary beings are earth spirits, they preferably work the soil and tree roots, to which they grant power. They look like funny little men, as they belong to a race coming from the beginning of times. It is said that they inhabited the lost Atlanis. These tiny creatures build their homes under aging trees. They only go out at night and their homes is lively after sunset. They are friends of animals, they speak their same language and protect them from danger. The best feasts are when the freezing winds blow over the woods dancing and playing, they start to run and some perfer rain for their dances.
Fairies.
Definition And Meaning.
The Spanish word hada comes from the Latin fata which, in turn, derived form fatum, meaning fate or destiny. In the middle ages, it was defined by the gentiles as a divinity unknown force which had a fascinating effect on the other divinities and on men and events. The french word fee has a similar orgin and resulted in the english words fey and fairie which, as time went by, suffered spelling variations from fayerye, fayre, faerie, faery, and fairy. According to its ethimology, it is a fanastic being pictured as a woman known to have magical powers. For the Saxons, the word ferie refers to the world of fairies as an entity, being a geographical location. In Spanish it turned out to be feerica depicting something wounderful or fantastic, as applied for example to musica feerica ( fairy music).
Introduction To The world Of Fairies.
At the outset of the third millennium, in a globalized world concerned more about geopolitics and amassing large fortunes, and supported in imposing technological development, inhabited by a man immersed himself in city stress and an endless whirl of activities, you might as well ask why speak about something so far away from the real world, making up the universe of illusion and fantasy? May be the answer is that those magical beings encourage the hope that the innocent imagination of childhood is still present in our hearts just drowsy awaiting for a fresh breeze of a pure heart, deprived of all evil to find the ideal conditions to see, talk and believe again in fairies like when he was a child. Could anyone ever introduce us to a fairy? Or are they freely decide whether they accept a human being or not? The world of Fairies is a mixture of a mysterious enchantment, a charming beauty, but also of a huge ugliness, of insensitive shallowness, humour, malice, joy and inspiration, frar, laughter, love, and tragedy. It is richer than what we are usually induced to think by literature. In addition, extreme caution should be exercised to penetrate into this world as nothing is more irritating to fairies than several human beings curiously moving around their extraordinary dominions, like spoiled tourists. Love, but also abandonment and death, may follow under their spell. Like human beings, they live in a universe of contradictions. As stated by the brilliant english playwright William Shakespeare in his Hamlet, there are on earth more things than those that can be perceived by imagination. It could also be added that, by a high percentage, the fantastic is invisible to the naked eye. The belief in the existence of fairies is common to the most diverse cultures. It origin dates back to myths and legends of each culture.
One of those legends assures that fairies are fallen angels or dead pagans not good enough to be admitted in the Eden, or not wicked enough to go to hell. That is why they were compelled to live eternally halfway. Another legend read that once Eve was on the bank of a river bathing her children when she heard God who spoke to her. Fearful, Eve hid her children who had not been bathed so God could not see them. God who sees everything, asked her whether all her children were there? Eve lied and dowed. God warned her that those children that had been hidden from him would be ever after hidden from the eyes of men. Those where children who turned out to be fairies or elfs.
Location Of The World Of Fairies.
Location of these elementary beings has varied throughout time and cultures. For the Irish, sometimes it was found in the horizon, other under their own feet, on other occasion, on hills, or in a magical island in high seas or under the ocean. Other cultures state that the world of fairies may be found in nature, a plant, a tree, the earth, a lake, the breze, the sun, the perfum of flowers and all that is nayural around us summing up, air, water, earth, and fire are the four elements where Elementary Spirits are contained.
Mythical And Folklore Names.
Abatwa - Said to be the tiniest creatures of human form in existence, these little people coexist peacefully with the ants in the anthills of south africa and live on their foragings from roots of grasses and other plants. They are shy and are so elusive, however tend to reveal themselfs to very young children, wizards, and pregnant women.
Aeval - Afaery queen of southwestern Munster. In her district a debate was launched on whether the men were satisfying the womwan's sexual needs. In a midnight court, Aeval heard both sides and decreed the men wrong and sentenced them to overcome their prudishness and accede to the woman's needs. ( Kisma ).
Angiaks - Children of the living dead of Eskimo lore. In hard times, unwanted babies were taken out in to the snow by tribal elders to die of exposure. Unless the tribe would move to a new hunting ground, they would often find themselves haunted by this small, miserable ghost.
Ankou - The faerie verson of the grim reaper. Sometimes he's portrayed as a benevolent, comforting figure.
Anthropophagi - A cannibal faerie. He has no head, but his eyes sit atop his shoulders and a mouth may be found in his trso. His lack of a nose allows him to eat human flesh without gagging.
Asparas - Usually female, also known as sky-dancers. They bless humans at important stages in their lives, and are often seen at weddings. They live in fig trees and sometimes appear to scholars, scientists, seduce and exhaust them, making sure they don't venture into areas that the spirit world deems unfit.
Asrai - Are small and delicate female faeries who melt away into a pool of water when captured or exposed to sunlight.
Aughisky - ( Agh - iski ) They are the Irish version of the Each - Uisge.
Bean - Nighe - ( ben - neeya ) Similiar to that of the Banshee. The Washing women is the type of Banshee who haunts the lonely streams of Scotland and Ireland. Washing the blood - stained garments of those about to die. It is said that these spirits are the ghost of women who died in childbirth and that they are fated to perform their task until the day when they would have normally died.
Barguest - A kind of Bogie. It has horns, dangerous teeth and claws, and fiery eyes. It can take many forms, but usually is a shaggy black dog. Upon the death of a prominent figure, it rounds up all the dogs in the community and leads them on a procession through the streets, howling.
Bauchan - Also Bogan. A type of Hobgoblin. Like most faeries, they are fond of tricks, sometimes are dangerous, and sometimes are helpful.
Bendith y Mamau ( ben-uh momay) - Mother's Blessing, which was the name of the fairies of the Carmarthenshire country in wales, this saying became a payer spoken to ward-off harm.
Black Annis - See Hags.
Blue Men Of The Minch - They dwell in strait between Long Island and the Shiant Islands. They are responible for sudden thunderstomes and shipwrecks, but their ship - sinking attempts may be thwarted if you are an adept rhymer. Some think they may be fallen angels.
Bodach - Also Bugbear or Bug - A - Boo. They slide down chimenys to kidnap naughty children.
Boggart - Brownies that have turned evil.
Bogie - This is the generic name for some different types of Goblins. Their temperments range the spectrum from benign to malevolent.
Bogles - Generally evil - natured Goblins althriugh they are more disposed to do harm to liars and murderers.
Bokwus - A fearsome spirit in the great northwestern American spruce forests. He is only seen in glimpses, but has been seen wearing totemic face paints. Hunters are very awear of his presence. He likes to push fishermen off the banks to drown, taking the victim's soul to his home in the forest.
Brown Man Of The Muirs - Protector of wild beasts.
Browine - His territory extends over the Lowlands of Sctland and up into the highlands and Islands all over the north and east of England and into the Midlands. With a natural linguistic varation, he becomes the BWCA of Wales, the highland Bodach and the Max Fenodoree. In the West Country, Pixies or Pisgies occassionally perform the offices of a brownie and show some of the same characteristics, though they are essentially different. Border brownies are most characterics. They are small men, about three feet in height, very raggedly dressed in brown cloths, with brown faces and shaggy heads, who come out at night to do the work that has been left undone by servants. They make themselves responsible for the farm or house in which they live, reap, mow, herd the sheep, prevent the hens from laving away, run errands, and give good counsel at need. A brownie can become personally attached to one member of the family.
Bugul-Noz - He's a forst dweller, a shepherded. he's very unattractive and he knows it, but he yearns for human companionship.
Bwca - The Welsh name for the Brownie. They have slightly nastier tempers and are prone to tantrums if their work is criticized. They also despise tattletales and people with long noses.
Cannered-Noz - Breton version of the Bean-Sidhe.
Cluricaun - After his day's labors the Leprechaun enjoys a night's revelry and then becomes known as the Cluricaun (kloor-knawn). He raids wine cellers and is known to take wild drunken rides through the moonlight on the backs of sheep or Shepherds dogs.
Coblynau - Welsh Mine Goblin. Cousions to the Cornish Knockers. These creatures using tools, are seen working industriously at the stream faces. The knocking of their picks and hammers is lucky, sign of heavey ore content.
Corrigan - Malignant nature spirits found in Brittany, often associated with phantoms of the dead.
Cururipur - A powerful South American spirit who owned the jungle and tortures tortoise hunters since the toryoises are his friends.
Daoine Maithe - "The Good People", Similar to the Gentry, they were said to be next to heaven at the Fall, but did not fall, Some think they are a people expecting salvation.
Disir - These ar spirits who attach themselves to a particular place, usually man made, like houses. Especially old houses. They are generally feminine ancestral Spirits.
Duergar - These are a mlicious form of Dwarf from Northern England. They revel in tricking people into dying.
Dwarfs - Germany/Isle of Rugen/Swiss mountains. Short but powerfully built, they are generally bearded and aged in appearance. This is because they reach maturity when only three years old and are grey bearded by the age of seven. Their homes are the mountains of Scandinavia and Germany where they mine for precious metals to work into armour and other artifacts which are often endowed with magic. They cannot appear above ground one ray of sunlight and they will turn to stone. Other accounts say they spend daylight hours as toads.
Dybbuk - A Jewish demonic spirit capable of possessing humans.
Each-Uisge - (Ech-ooshkya) - They are similar to the Kelpie, but far more dangerous. They inhabit lochs and seas and will eat there victims after yearing them into pieces, except for liver, which they leave. If they are ridden inland, they are safe to ride, but if they catch the slightest whiff of sea air...
Ekimmu - One of the uttuku, evil or vengeful spirits of the ancient Assyrians, the ekimmu appeared wailing and crying outside a home to signal an impending death like a Banshee.
Ellyllon - The name given to the Welsh elves. They are tiny, diaphanous fairies whose food is tosdstools and fairy butter, a fungoid substance found in the roots of old trees and in limestone crevices. their queen is Mab.
Elves - In Scandinavian mythology the fairy people were elves and were divided into two classes, the lihght elves and the dark elves, like the Seelie and Unseelie Court. In Scotland the fairy people of human size were often called elves and Faeryland was Elfame, in England it was smaller Trooping Fay who were called elves, and the name was particularly applied to small fairy boys.
Erlkonig - He is the "Elf King" in Germany. He's been known to warn people of their pending deaths. How he appears will relay to that person how he or she is going to die.
Fachan, The - From the West highlands of Scotland.
Fays - The dialect name in Northumberland.
Fair Family or Fair Folk - The euphemistic name used by the Welsh for the faires. (See Tylwyth Teg).
Farisees, or Pharisees - The Suffolk name for fairies. The Suffork children used to be confused between the farisees and the biblical mentions of the Pharises.
Fary - The dialect name in Northumberland.
Feeorin - Small fairy that is indicated as being, green-coated, generally red-capped, and with usual fairy traits of love of dancing and music.
Fees - The fairies of Upper Brittany.
Fenoderee - A type of Brownie from the Isle of Man. A willing worker of prodigious strength, the Fenoderee performs many labours for the farmers of Man. The Fenoderee was a member of the Ferrishyn - the faerie tribe of Man, until he made the mistake of absenting himself from their Autumn festival to court a mortal girl. His good looks were taken from him and he became the solitary, ugle creature he is now.
Ferirs, or Ferishers - Another Suffolk name for the fairies.
Ferries - The usual name for the shetland and Ocadian fairies.
Ferrishyn ( Ferrishin ) - A Manx name for the fairie tribe, the singular is "ferrish". They are the trooping Fairies of Man, though there does not seem to be any distinction between them and the Sleih Beggey. They are less aristocratic than the fairies of Ireland and Wales, and they have no named fairy king or queen. They were small, generally described as three feet in height, though sometimes as one foot. They could hear whatever was said out doors. Every wind stirring carried the sound to their ears, and this made people very careful to speak of them favorably.
Fetes - The Fates of upper Brittany.
Fir Darrig - ( Fear dearg ) Delights in practical jokeing of a rather gruesome nature and therefore it is probably safer to humor him.
Foawr (fooar) - Manx equivalent of Highland Fomorians/giants, stone-throwing.
Frairies - The Norfolk and Suffolk, local version of the word "fairy".
Fyglia - A sort of personal spirit. They often take an animal form. The Native Americans call them "fetches" and used them as toteems. They serve mostly as personal guardians.
Gans - Apache Indian shamen offer prayers to the Gans, asking them to drive evil spirits away and to attract good fortune.
Gentry, the - The most noble tribe of all the fairies in Ireland. A big race who came from the planets and usually appear in white. The Irish used to bless the Gentey for fear of harm otherwise.
Ghillie Dhu - A Scottish solitary faerie who inhabits certain birch hickets. His clothing is made of leaves and moss.
Glaising, The - Is a water faerie and is part seductive women, part goat. The goat - loke attributes she tries to hide under a long flowing green dress. The Glaistig lures men to dance with her before she feeds, vampire-like, on their blood. Her nature is typically faerie-perverse foe she can also be bengin and gently tend children or old people. She will also sometimes herd cattle for farmers.
Goblins - A breed of small, swarthy, malicioius beings-although 'goblin' as a term is often used as a general name for thee uglier inhabitants of Faerie. They sometimes appear in a shape of animals which appropriately reflects their bestial nature. They are the thieves and villains of Faerie, companions to the Dead, especially on Halloween.
Golem - A Jewish zombie-like spirit who is to avenge a wrongful death.
Good Neighbors - One of the most common Scottish abd Irish names for the fairies.
Good People - The Irish often referred to their Sidhe in this manner. (See Daoine Maithe).
Grant - A small horse which stands upright, each Grant is attached to a particular place and when he senses danger will tun through the town shouting warnings.
The Green Children, - The fairy are recorded in the medieval chronicles under such a name.
The Green Lady of Carphilly, - Takes on the appearance of Ivy when she is not walking through the ruined castles she haunts.
Greencoaties - The name for the fairies that dwell in Lincolnshire Fen country.
Greenies - The euphemistic name used for the fairies in Lancashire, associated with the Jacobean Fairies.
The Gery Neighbours, - One of the euphemistic names for the fairies given by the Shetlanders to the trows, to the small gray-clad goblins whom the Shetlanders used to propitiate and fear, using against them many of the means used all over the islands as protection against fairies.
Guillyn Veggey - The Little Boys is a Manx term for the fairies who dwell on the Isle of Man.
The Gwragedd Annwn - Are Welsh water faeries, beautful Lake Maidens who occassionally take mortals to be their hubands. One well-known legend tells of a young man who used to graze his cattle by a small lake near the Black Mountains. One day he saw a most enchanting creature rowing gently to and fro in a golden boat on the surface of the lake. He fell deeply in love with her and offered her some bread he had brought from home for his midday meal. She answered that the bread was too hard and disppeard into the depths. The young man's mother gave him some unbaked dough to take the next day and he offered this to the faerie but she answered that it was too soft and again disappeared. On the third day he took some lightly baked bread, which passed. Three figures rose from the lake, and old man with a beautiful daughter on either side of him. The girls were identical and the father told the young man that he was willing to offer him the daughter with whom he was in love if he could point her out. The farmer would have given up in despair but one slightly moved her foot and he, recognizing her sliper, won her hand. The young farmer was warned that he would lose his wife if he ever should strike her three times causelessly. The Gwragedd Annwn had some curious faerie ways, would weep at weddings and laugh at funerals, which led her husband to strike her, and she was forced to leave him. Though her sons she had left behind with all of their faery teachings they became great physicians.
Gwyllion (gwithleenon) - The evil mountain fairies of wales. They are hideous female spirits who waylay and and mislead travelers by night on the mountain roads. They were friends and patrons of the goats, and might indeed take goat form.
Hags - Inhabiting the British Isles, who seem to personify winter, are probably survivals of the oldest goddesses. Some turn, like winter into spring, from hideously ugly women into beautiful young maidens, and others like Black Annis are cannibalistic.
Henkies - One of the names given to the Trows of Orkney and Shetland.
Hobgoblin - Used by the puritans and in later times for wicked goblin spirits, but its more correct use is for friendly spirits of the brownie type. Hobgoblin was considered an ill omened word. "Hob" and "Lob" are words meaning the same kind of creature as the Hobgoblin. They are on the whole good-humored and ready to be helpful, but fond of practical joking.
The Host- See Unseelie Court.
Huacas - Incan myth speaks of Huacas, stone forms of spirits or divine beings who watched over fields.
Huldafolk - The huldafolk are fairly reclusive Scandinavian faerie folk.
Hyster - Sprite - Lincolnshire and East Anglian fairies/small and sandy - colored, with green eyes.
Jack-In-Irons - A Yorshire giant who haunts lonely roads.
Jenny Greenteeth - Yorshire River Hag who drowns children.
Jimmy Squarefoot - Frightening appearance but reletively harmless.
Kachina - Ancestor spirits of the Pueblo in North America. The Hopi also believed in Kachinas, believing them to be the souls of virtuous dead people.
The Kelpie - Is a Scottish water faerie. Althrough sometimes appearing in the guise of a hairy man, this is more often seen in the form of a young horse. The kelpie hauntes rivers and streams and, after letting unsuspecting humans mount him, will dash into the water and give them a dunking. Each - Uisge (ech-ooshkya) or Aughisky (agh-iski) as he is known in Ireland, inhabits seas and lochs and is far more dangerous.
The Killmoulis - Particular ugly Brownie who haunts mills. He is characterized by an enormous nose and no mouth. To eat he presumably stuffs the food up his nose. Althrough a Killmoulis works hard for the miller, he delights in practical jokes and can therefore be a hindrance rather than a helper.
klaboutermannikin - They inhabit the figuerheads of ships, giving them guidance and protection.
Klippe - The Forarshire name for a fairy.
Kobolds - These are the German version of Knockers. They are known for causing problems for the miners and undoing their progress. To keep the miners guessing, they occasionally help them.
Korred - Bizarre - looking and capricious but generally good - natured guardians of Brittany's standing stones.
Kubera - King of the Yakshas, the god of wealth. Usually depicted as a dwarfish figure with a paunch, bearing a money bag or pomegranate and seated on a man.
Kul - A water spirit of the Eskimos in the Arctic, kul may be malevolent but generally helps the Northern peoples with their fishing. As a show of gratitude, it is customary to offer him some of the fish caught at the beginning of the season.
Leannan Sidhe - This has two definitions.
Leprechaun - Generally described as a fairy shoemaker, this creature is a red-capped fellow who stays around pure springs and is known to haunt cellars. He spends his time drinking and smoking. One branch of the Leprechaun is known as the Fir Darrig, who is a practial joker, both are of the Solitary Fairies. When so done, is described as being a merry little fellow dressed all in green, in stead of wearing a red cap, a leather apron, drab clothes and buckled shoes, and a boy, who has fairy blood in him, succeeds in winning a wealth of treasure from an underground cave, keeps his gain secret, and is the founder of a prosperous family.
The Li'l Fellas - Another Manx euphemistic name for The Good neightbours.
Little Fork - See Sleight Beggey.
The Little People of the Passamaquoddy Indians - There are two kinds of Little People among the Passamaquoddy Indians, The Nagumwa-suck and Mekumwasuck. Both kinds are two and a half to three feet in height, and both are grotesquely ugly. The Passamaquoddy Indains, who live close to the canadian border, used to migrate to the ocean in the summer and move inland in the winter. When they moved, their fairies moved with them. The little People can only be seen by the Indains. they live in the woods and are fantastically and individually dressed. Their faces are covered with hair, which strikes an alien note to the indains. Oral tradition has it that they were made of stone.
Lunantishess - The tribes that blackthorn trees or sloes in Ireland, they let you cut no stick on the eleventh of November (the original November Day), or on the eleventh of may. The original May Day).
Ly Erg - This faerie yearns to be a soldier. He dresses like one and cannot be distinguished from human soldiers except by his red-stained hands, red from the blood he has shed.
Mazikeen - Also known as the shideem or shehireem, these Jewish faeries know much of the magic and enchantment. They were born when Adam and Eve were excommunicated for 130 years for eating from the tree of knowledge. Female spirits layed with Adam and male spirits with Eve, and of these unoins were born the Mazileen. They are a rank between man and angels. They have wings and can fly, tell the future, and like to feast and drink, marry and have children. They can also shapeshift.
Mermaids - Entice human lovers with their songs of enchantment. They cause ship-wecking storms and are most frequently seen combing their long hair whilst admiring themselves in mirrors.
Merrows - The Irish Merpeople are called Merrows and they can be distinguished from other sea-dwelling faeries in that they wear feather caps to propel themselves down to their homes in the depths. Should their caps be stolen, they can no longer return to their watery homes. The female Merrow are very beautiful and like other mermaids, appear before storms as an omen, but they are gentle by nature and often fall in live with mortal fishermen. This can partly be explained by extreme ugliness of the male Merrows. Despite their alaming aspect, the males too have redemming features as they generally jovial in character.
Moorinjer Veggey (moo-in-jer vegar) - The Little people is a familiar Manxman term for the faeries who dwell on the Isle of Man, see Sleigh Beggey.
Mother Holle - A crone who lives at the bottom of old wells. She dispenses justice and might aid you with guidance and divination if she likes you.
Mumiai - Best known for persecuting peasants, especially those of the lowest castes, who had stolen from their neighbors or demonstrated their dirty habits. The Mumiai toss their belongings in the air, break their pottery and trample on their gardens, finally forcing them to move out of their villages.
Muryans - Muryan is the Cornish word for ant. The Cornish belief about the fairies was that they were souls of ancient heathen people, too good for Hell and too bad for Heaven, who had gradually declined from their natural size, and were dwindling down until they became the size of ants, after which they vanished from this state and no one knew what became of them.
Nagas - Nagas are human from the waist up and snake from the waist down and are often seen wearing canopies or with seven heads. Both sexes are extraordinarily beautiful and several royal Indain families claim to be descended from them. They bite humans who are evil or destined to die prematurely. Buddhists regard them as minor deities and door guardians.
Nuckelavee - Is surely the most awful of the Scottish sea fairies. A monstrous horse with legs that are part flipper, a huge mouth and one eye and rising from its back joined to it at the waist, a hideous torso with arms that nearly reach the ground, topped by a massive head that rolls from side to side as though its neck was to weak to hold it up right. Worse than this is the horrible appearance of the creatures flesh, for it has no skin. Black blood coursing through yellow veins, white sinews and powerful red muscles are exposed. The Nuckelavee has an aversion to fresh running water and the pursued have only to cross it to escape.
Nunnehi - Cherokee version of elves. They live in towns beneath the ground. Nunnehi are saddened by the suffering incurred by the Cherokee and occasionally offer assistance. Nunnhei led the Cherokee to Pilot Knob, North Carolina, where they through the realm of the Nunnhei and were safe.
Oannes - Fish-headed beings from another world, these were considered to be sea-gods by the ancient Chaldeans. Oannes lived amoung men by day, building the great Sumerian civilization and teaching art, science, and religion, while at night they returned to the Persian Gulf to swim in the ocean.
Ohdows - A race of small, well-form people with the features of the Native Americans who live underground in North America. They use their magic to subdue the earth spirits who cause earthquakes.
The Old People - Another name for the fairies.
Pechs, or Pehts - The Scottish Lowland names for fairies and are confused in tradition with the Picts, the mysterious people of Scotland who built the Pictish broughs and possibly also the round stone towers. The Pechs were considered termendous castle builders and were credited with the construction of many of the ancient castles. They could not bear the light of day and so only worked at night, when they took refuge in their brougs or "sitheans" at sunrise. It seems likely that some historic memory of an aboriginal race contributed one strand to twisted cord of fairy tradition.
Peg Powler - One of the many Green Hags with sharp teeth who drag their victims down to watery graves.
People of Peace - The Irish often refered to the Sidhe in this manner. The word sidhe means peace. See Daoine Sidhe in Faery Lineage.
The People in the Hills - Fairies who live under the green mounds, or tumuli, all over England.
Phooka - An Irish Goblin with a variety of rough beast-like forms. He appears sometimes as a dog or a horse, or even a bull, but is generally jet-black with blazing eyes. As seemingly, shaggy, sway-back pony Phooka offers the unwary traveller a welcome lift, but once astride he is taken for a wild and terrifying gallop across the wettest and most throny country, eventually to be dumped headlong into the mire or deposited in a ditch. The chuckle is that of the Phooka as he gallops away.
Picts - The original peoples who dwelled in the northeastern coast of Ireland. They were called the "Cruithne" and migrated down from Gaul or galia (France). As the conquering waves of invaders arrived in Ireland, eventually the Picts retreated to the woods and lived in caves and underground forts. They were a small, dark people and became known as the classic Faery-people. See Pechs.
Pigsies - See Pixies.
Pixies, or Pigsies, or Piskies - These are the West Country fairies belonging to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. There are varing tradions about the size, appearance and origin of the Pixies, but all accounts agree about their being dressed in green and about their habit of misleading travelers.
Plant Rhys Dwfen (plant hree thoovn) - The family name of a tribe of fairy people who inhabited a small land which was invisible because of certain herb that grew on it. They were handsome people, rather below the average in height, and it was their custom to attend the market in Cardigan and pay such high prices for the goods there that the ordinary buyer could not compete with them. They were honest and resolute in their dealings, and grateful to people who treated them kindly.
Polevik - A polish ferie, he appears as a two-foot goat and helps to bring in the harvest.
Portunes - Small agricultural fairies. It was their habit to labor on farms, and at night when the doors were shut they would blow up the fire, and taking frogs from their bosoms, they would roast them on the coals and eat them. They were like very old men with wrinkled faces and wore patched coats.
Puck - Thanks to Shakespeare, the most famous of the mischievous shap-shifting hobgoblins. He is closely related to the Welsh Pwca and the Irish Phooka.
Rakshasas - Shapeshifting demon-goblins. they can appear as mosters, animals, or beautiful women to seduce holy men and eat them. They have side tusks, ugly eyes, curling awkward brows, bull's heads, bloated bellies, tangled hair, and nackward pointing hands. They can cause leprosy, raise the dead, and regenerate severed limbs.
Redcap - Is one of the most evil of the old Border Goblins. He lives in old ruined towers and castles, particularly those with a history of wickedness. He re-dyes his cap in human blood.
Roane - Irish name for the Selkie.
Seelie Court - Blessed Court, Name of the kindly fairy host, or benovolent Faery of the postiive polarity, and is generally used to describe the Scottish fairies. The malignant fairies were sometimes called the Unseelie Court.
Selkies - The seas around Orkney and Shetland harbor the selkies or Seal-Faeries (known as Roane Ireland) A female selkie is able to discard her seal-skin and come ashore as a beautiful maiden. If a human can capture this skin, the selkie can be forced to become a fine, if wistful, wife. Howerver, should she ever find her skin she immediately returns to the sea, leaving the husband to pine and die. The males raise storms and upturn boats to avenge the indiscriminate salaughter of seals.
Shellycoat - A Scottish bogie who haunts water streams and is festooned with shells which clatter when he moves. He takes pleasure in tricking and bewildering travelers and leading them astray.
Side, Sith, or Si (shee) - The Galic name for fairie, both in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland. Very tall beings seem to either shine or appear opalescent. The shining beings belong to the earthly realm, while the opalescent beings belong to the heavenly world. As with any shamanic practice there are three great worlds which we can see while we are stll in the body. The heavenly, the earthly, and the underworld realms.
Silent Moving Fork - The Scottish fairies who live in green knolls and in the mountains fastnesses of the Highlands. See Still-folk.
Sleigh Beggey (sleigh Beargar) - The Little Fork. A name given to fairies in the Manx tongue.
Sluagh (slooa) - The most formidable of the Highland fairy people. The host of the Unforgiven Dead. By some scholars, they are regarded as the fallen angels, not the dead, but on the whole their accounts correspond closely to that given by Alexander Carmichael in "Carmina Gadelica".
The Small People of cornwall - Fairies were sometimes spoken of this way in Cornwall.
Solitary Fairies - The fairies who are chiefly malignant or ominous creatures, comprise this group, althrough there may be a few nature spirits or dwindled gods among them. An exception is the Brownie and its variants though there are few family groups among the Brownies some think that they were unacceptable in Faeryland because of their ragged, unkept appearance, and that they went off to the Seelie Court when they were proplely dressed. Howerver, this is only one school of thought on the subject. Other creatures, such as the Lepracaun, Pooka, and Bean Si, also comprise this group.
Spriggans - Grotesque and ugly in shape. Although quite small, they have the ability to inflate themselves into monstrous forms which has led humans to believe them to be ghost of old giants. Apart from their useful function as guardians of hill treasure. Spriggans are an infamous band of villains, skilled thieves, thoroughly destructive and often dangerous. They are capable of robbing human houses, kidnapping children (and leaving a repulsive baby Spriggan in exchange) causing whirlwinds to destroy fields of corn, blighting crops and all manner of other unpleasat mischief.
Spirtes - A general name for fairies and other spirits such as Sylphs and nerieds.
Still-Fork - The Scottish name for the Highland fairies. See Silent Moving Folk.
Themselves, They, or Them that's in it - The most common Manx names used in place of the word "fairy" which was generally considered an unlucky word to use. It is sometimes said that "themselves" are the souls of those drowned in Noah's flood.
Tiddy Ones, Tiddy Men, or Tiddy People - The Lincolnshire fenman's nature spirits, which are also referred to as the Yarthkins or Strangers. Most of them were undifferentiated, a drifting mass of influenced and powers rather than individuals. The one among them personally known and almost beloved was the Tiddy Mun, who was invoked in times of flood to withdraw the waters.
Tokolosh - A South African faerie, Tokolosh is a sullen spirit who lives beside streams, throwing stones into the water on still nights. He is famous for frightening lone travelers, usually by jumping on a small animal or bird and strangling it so that the poor animal's panicked cry alarms the traveler. He is described as being something like a baboon, but smaller and with out a tail, and covered with black hair.
Trolls - Cave Dwellers, Scandinavian faeries who hate sunlight.
Trooping Fay or Faery - The faery have been divided into two main classes. Trooping and Solitary. It is a distinction that hold good throughout the British Isles, and indeed valid wherever fairy beliefs are held. The Trooping Fay can be large or small, friendly or sinister. They tend to wear green jackets, while the Solitary Faery wear red jackets. They can range from the Heroic Faery to the dangerous and malevolent Sluagh, Diminutive Fairies who include the tiny nature spirits that make the fairy rings with their dancing and speed the growth of flowers.
Trows - Live on Shetland islands, similiar to Scandinavian Trolls and like them, have an aversion to daylight. They are frequently observed performing a curious lop-sided dance called "Henking".
Tylwyth Teg (terlooeth teig) - The Fair Family. The most unusual name for Welsh fairies, though they sometimes called Y Mammau, in an attempt to avert their kidnapping activities by invoking a euphemistic name. They are fair-haired, and love golden hair. They dance and make fairy rings. They are like the Daoine Sidhe. And dwell under ground or under water. The fairy maidens are easily won as wives and will live with human husbands for a time. The danger of visiting them in their own country lies in the miraculous passage of time in Faeryland. They give riches to their favourites, but these gifts vanish if they are spoken of.
Unseelie Court - Unblessed Court, They are never under any circumstances favorable to mankind. They comprise the Slaugh, or The host, that is the band of the unsanctified dead. The unseelie Court are malignant Faery of the negative polarity, made up of Solitary Faery.
Urisk - Is a Scottish solitary faerie who haunts pools. He will often seek out human company but his appearance terrifies those he approaches.
Very Volk - The name of the fairies in Grower of Wales, little people dressed in scarlet and green.
Virikas - Never more than eighteen inches tall, these unpleasant spectral entities can be recognized by their flaming red and horrible pointed, bloodstained teeth. They gather outside the homes of men soon to die and jabber excitedly. To prevent this, people can erect a small shrine in their honor and burn daily gifts of flowers and spices for them.
Water Leaper - Preys on Welsh Fishermen.
Wee Folk - One of the Scottish and Irish names for the fairies.
The White Ladies - The use of White Ladies for both ghost and fairies is an indication of the close connection between fairies and the dead. The White Ladies were direct descendants of the Tuatha De Danann.
Wichtlein - From Southern Germany behave in much the same way as goblins. They announce the death of a miner by tapping three times. When a disaster is about to happen they are heard digging, pounding and imitating miners work.
Will O' The Wisp - No one is quite sure what these distant floting balls of flame are, but they are generally associated with and are sometimes thought of as faeries in the British Isles. They are sometimes thought to be the souls of children who have died and like to cause mischief.
Yakshas - Benevolent nature spirits, they are the guardians of tresures hidden in the earth and roots of trees. Their ruler is Kubera, who lived on a mountain in the Himalayas. They are deities of cities, districts, lakes, and wells, and are thought to have originated from a cult of ancient Dravidians.
Yann-an-Od - Kindly old shephard who tends sheep. He might have once been a faerie king. He's rather shy of humans.
Yumboes - Located on Goree Island, south of the Cape Verde Peninsula in Senegal, West Africa. They are two feet tall with pearly skin and silver hair. They are also called the "Bakhna Rakhna" which translates to "The Good People". They enjoy dancing and feasting by moonlight and live in magnificent subterranean dwellings in the Paps, groups of hills about three miles from the coast. Guests to their homes report lavishly decorated and servants invisible except for their hands and feet. They like to eat fish.
