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List of Gods : "W" - 171 records

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Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼
Spirit name
"White Lady"
Ireland White Lady Of Ireland the banshee or domestic spirit of a family.
Spirit name
"White Lady"
Prussia White Lady of the royal family of Prussia. A "spirit" said to appear before the death of one of the family.
Spirit name
"White Lady"
Scotland White Lady Of Avenel, a tutelary spirit. Scotland

"White Merle"
Basques Of the old Basques. A white fairy bird, which, by its singing, restored sight to the blind.
Goddess name
"Whope"
Lakota The daughter of the Sun Wi and the moon, a goddess of peace and the wife of the south wind. Lakota
Goddess name
"Whope"
Sioux / USA Goddess. The daughter of WI, the Sun god, and consort of the south wind. She is credited with giving the Sioux Indian the pipe of peace through which (narcotic) they commune with the great spirit WAKAN TANKA....
God name
"Wi"
Lakota The Sun god of the Lakota.
Goddess name
"Wi"
Sioux / USA Sun god. The father of the goddess WHOPE, his sacred animal is the bison....
Goddess name
"Widapokwi"
Yavapai Goddess of health and whirlwinds Yavapai

"Widenostrils"
French A huge giant, who subsisted on windmills, and lived in the island of Tohu. When Pantagruel and his fleet reached this island no food could be cooked because Widenostrils had swallowed "every individual pan, skillet, kettle, frying-pan, dripping-pan, boiler, and saucepan in the land," and died from eating a lump of butter. French
Goddess name
"Wigan"
Philippines Goddess of water Philippines
Demon name
"Wihmunga"
Canada A witch, or a female demon. First Nations
God name
"Wiidigo"
Ojibwa / Canada Ice god. A terrible being formed of ice who symbolizes the starvation of Winter. There are said to be many windigos, but they are always referred to in the singular. Cannibalistic, the windigo appears as an ice skeleton and a human being can be turned into one through possession....

"Wild Huntsman"
German The German tradition is that a spectral hunter with dogs frequents the Black Forest to chase the wild animals. The English name is "Herne the Hunter," who was once a keeper in windsor Forest. In Winter time, at midnight, he walks about Herne's Oak, and blasts trees and cattle. He wears horns, and rattles a chain in a "most hideous manner". Another legend is that a certain Jew would not suffer Jesus to drink out of a horse-trough, but pointed to some water in a hoof-print as good enough for "such an enemy of Moses," and that this man is the "Wild Huntsman." Various
Goddess name
"Wilden Wip"
Germanic Goddesses of healing. Germanic
Spirit name
"Will-O'-the-Wisp"
Roman A spirit of the bogs, whose delight is to mislead belated travellers.
Spirit name
"Will-o'-the-wisps"
Europe In the mediaeval ages, the will-o'-the-wisps were known as elf lights, for these tiny sprites were supposed to mislead travelers; and popular superstition claimed that the Jack-o'-lanterns were the restless spirits of murderers forced against their will to return to the scene of their crimes. Northern Europe
God name
"Willow Pattern"
s The tradition. The mandarin had an only daughter named Li-chi, who fell in love with Chang, a young man who lived in the island home represented at the top of the pattern, and who had been her father's secretary. The father overheard them one day making vows of love under the orange-tree, and sternly forbade the unequal match; but the lovers contrived to elope, lay concealed for a while in the gardener's cottage, and thence made their escape in a boat to the island home of the young lover. The enraged mandarin pursued them with a whip, and would have beaten them to death had not the gods rewarded their fidelity by changing them both into turtle-doves. The picture is called the willow pattern not only because it is a tale of disastrous love, but because the elopement occurred "when the willow begins to shed its leaves."
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