Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Brownies" | Scotland | house spirits of Scotland doing the housework, guiding cows back to the farmyard and ushering their hens back to their roosts. |
God name "Bubilas" | Lithuania | A household god of bees. Later hypothetical reconstructions say that people sacrificed honey for Bubilas. People believed that doing so would make bees swarm better. Bubilas is the husband of Austeja. Lithuania |
God name "Bubilas" | Lithuanian | A household god of bees. Later hypothetical reconstructions say that people sacrificed honey for Bubilas. People believed that doing so would make bees swarm better. Bubilas is the husband of Austeja. Lithuanian |
"Bugarik" | Assam / Garos | A lovely river siren with the body and arms of a woman, but no legs. Her head floats on the current and she will kill anyone she catches. |
God name "Bugid Y Aiba" | Puerto Rico / Haiti | God of war. Clåśśed as one of the ZEMIS. The local Indians have believed that the deity can give them strength. When they smoke in a ritual ceremony in honor of the god, their arms increase in size. He will also restore failed eyesight.... |
God name "Buriyas" | Kassite / Iran | Tutelary war god. He was invoked by the Kåśśite armies which overthrew Babylonia in the sixteenth century BC.... |
Nymph name "Camenae" | Roman | Aka Casmenae, Carmenae Carmentis, prophetic nymphs. Two of the Camenae were Antevorta and Postvorta. The third was Carmenta or Carmentis, a prophetic and healing divinity. Roman |
Goddess name "Camenae" | Roman | Goddesses of springs, wells and fountains, or water nymphs of Venus . They were wise, and sometimes gave prophecies of the future. There were four Camenae: Carmenta, Egeria, Antevorta, and Postvorta. Roman |
King name "Camilla" | Roman | Of the Volsci was the daughter of king Metabus and Casmilla. Driven from his throne, Metabus was chased into the wilderness by armed Volsci, his infant daughter in his hands. The river Amasenus blocked his path, and, fearing for the child's welfare, Metabus bound her to a spear. He promised Diana that Camilla would be her servant, a warrior virgin. He then safely threw her to the other side, and swam across to retrieve her. Roman |
Goddess name "Candelifera" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for bringing the newborn child into the light. Usually åśśociated with LUCINA and CARMENTES.... |
Goddess name "Carman" | Ireland | Goddess of County Wexford and black magic. Has roots in the Greek Goddess, Demeter. Ireland |
Nymph name "Carmangr" | Greek | A Cretan of Tarrha, father of Eubulus and Chrysothemis. Received and purified Apollo and Artemis, after they had slain the monster Python, and it was in the house of Carmanor that Apollo formed his connexion with the nymph Aeacallis. Greek |
"Carme" | Greek | A daughter of Eubulus, who became by Zeus the mother of Britomartis. Antoninus Liberalis describes her as a grand-daughter of Agenor, and daughter of Phoenix Greek |
"Carmen" | Roman | Generic mame for an oracle or prophecy. Roman |
Goddess name "Carmenta" | Roman | A goddess of childbirth & midwives, prophecy & springs |
Goddess name "Carmenta aka Carmentis" | Roman | Goddess of childbirth, prophecy, charms and spells. Her soothing words ease the pains of women in labour, heal the ills of childhood, foretell the futures of brides and that of their children. Roman |
Goddess name "Carmentes" | Roman | Roman goddess of fate or fortune, one of the Camenae. Also a goddess of childbirth, |
Goddess name "Carmentes" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for bringing the newborn child into the light. Usually åśśociated with LUCINA and CANDELIFERA.... |