| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Bahr Geist" | Scotland | A banshee or grey-spectre. Scotland |
| Spirit name "Banshee" | Ireland | Grey Lady of death who haunts certain Irish families. A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. Ireland |
| King name "Binzuru-Sonja" | Japan | One of the pupils of Buddha, the first of the sixteen Rakan. Rakan with grey hair and long eyebrows. Originally he was a retainer of the king, Uuten. He became a priest and attained miracle power by performing Arakan's vow. It is said that he was praised by Shaka for he used the miracle power for the world and that he didn't enter Nirvana and made efforts cultivating ordinary people. He was worshipped on the above in Theravada Buddhism, however, many are worshipped in restaurants in China. He is enshrined in front of a temple in Japan. It is believed that stroking him eliminates distresses. Japan |
| Goddess name "Cally Berry" | Ireland | Maiden goddess who, whilst her husband grew old and grey, she remained young and beautiful. Ireland |
"Graeae" | Greek | That is, " the old women," were daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. They had grey hair from their birth. Hesiod mentions only two Graeae, viz. Pephredo and Enyo; Apollodorus adds Deino as a third, and Aeschylus also speaks of three Graeae. Greek |
| Spirit name "Khoromozitel" | Slavic | A house spirit in Slavic folklore. They are masculine, typically small, and sometimes covered in hair all over. According to some traditions, they take on the appearance of current or former owners of the house and have a grey beard, sometimes with tails or little horns. |
"Liath" | Scottish | The Grey Man of the Cairngorm mountains. A Scottish Yeti |
"Merry Dun of Dover" | Scandinavian | A large mythical ship, which knocked down Calais steeple in påśśing through the Straits of Dover, and the pennant, at the same time, swept a flock of sheep off Dover cliffs into the sea. The masts were so lofty that a boy who ascended them would grow grey before he could reach deck again. Scandinavian |
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