| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Wamala" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | God of plenty. A sanctuary has existed near the royal palace and Wamala is propitiated to give the boon of children, domestic animals and crops. He is also seen in an oracular capacity and has an official intermediary.... |
| Goddess name "Wang Mu Niang" | China | Goddess of female energy, very fond of peaches. China |
| Goddess name "Wang Mu Niang Niang" | China | A goddess of female energy |
"Wang the Pure" | China | The lord of sport and gambling. China |
| Demon name "War Hsuan" | China | God of wild beasts, prison, robbers, enemies and demons of all kinds. China |
| God name "War Pin" | China | A god of shoemakers |
| God name "War Pinx" | China | God of shoemakers. Usually portrayed as a kindly, respectable old man, he sees to it that the shops under his protection run smoothly. China |
| God name "War Ssu miao" | China | A god of Druggists |
"We-duo" | China | Divine ruler of the southern hemisphere. China |
| Deity name "Wei Cheng" | China | deity who guards the back door. China |
| Goddess name "Weiwobo" | China | Goddess of female Energy China |
| God name "Wen-chang" | Chinese | God of literature and writing. Chinese |
| God name "Wenchang Wen-ch'ang" | China | Wen Ch'ang, god of literature. China |
| God name "Weng Shiang" | Taoist / Chinese | God of literature. His name tablet hangs on the wall in many Chinese houses.... |
| God name "Were Luo'" | A chief god | |
"Werwolf" | Europe | Werewolf. A bogie who roams about devouring infants, sometimes under the form of a man, sometimes as a wolf followed by dogs, sometimes as a white dog, sometimes as a black goat, and occasionally invisible. Its skin is bullet-proof, unless the bullet has been blessed in a chapel dedicated to St. Hubert. This superstition was once common to almost all Europe, and still lingers in Brittany, Limousin, Aurergne, Servia, Wallachia, and White Russia. In the fifteenth century a council of theologians, convoked by the Emperor Sigismund, gravely decided that the Werwolf was a reality. |
"Whaitiri" | Maori | A personification of thunder, and the grandmother of Tawhaki and Karihi, who married a mortal chief. She invented the toilet, showed humans how to use it, and returned to the sky, where she still lives. Maori |
| God name "Whiro" | Oceanic | The Maori god of mischief and evil. Oceanic |
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