| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Baron Samedi" | Haiti / Vodun | The god of death magic & the underworld |
| Goddess name "Beçúɱa" | Irish | A goddess who ruled over magical boats |
| King name "Befana" | Italian | The good fairy of Italian children, who is supposed to fill their stockings with toys when they go to bed on Twelfth night. Some one enters the children's bedroom for the purpose, and the wakeful youngsters cry out, "Ecco la Befana." According to legend, Befana was too busy with house affairs to look after the Magi when they went to offer their gifts, and said she would wait to see them on their return; but they went another way, and Befana, every Twelfth night, watches to see them. The name is a corruption of Epiphania. |
| King name "Beleth" | Hebrew | Beleth A great king and terrible, he commands eighty-five legions and is very furious when first summoned so must be commanded into a triangle or circle with the hazel wand of the Magician pointed to the South-East. Hebrew |
"Bug or Bugbear" | Welsh | Any imaginary thing that frightens a person. Welsh |
"Caligorant" | Egyptian | An Egyptian giant and cannibal who used to entrap strangers with a hidden net. This net was made by Vulcan to catch Mars and Venus, Mercury stole it for the purpose of catching Chloris, and left it in the temple of Anubis; Caligorant stole it thence. At length Astolpho blew his magic horn, and the giant ran affrighted into his own net, which dragged him to the ground. Whereupon Astolpho made the giant his captive, and despoiled him of his net. |
| Goddess name "Caolainn" | Origin | Goddess who was the guardian of a magical well in County Roscommon in western Ireland Her myth is the origin of the 'wishing well' |
| Goddess name "Carman" | Ireland | Goddess of County Wexford and black magic. Has roots in the Greek Goddess, Demeter. Ireland |
"Carne" | Celtic | A magic swan from the Lohengrin myth. Celtic |
| Demon name "Catabolignes" | Greek | demons who liked to break and crush magicians and sorcerers. |
| Goddess name "Celedones" | Greek | The soothing goddesses were believed to be endowed, like the Sirens, with a magic power of song. Hephaestus was said to have made their golden images on the ceiling of the temple at Delphi. Greek |
| Demon name "Chung K'uei" | Taoist / Chinese | God of the afterlife. He belongs to the heavenly ministry of exorcism and, though not the most senior (he is subservient to CHANG TAO LING), is probably the most popular within the category. He was originally a mortal working as a physician in the eighth century AD. He is depicted with a fearsome face, said to be so terrible that it can drive away any demonic spirit who dares to oppose him. He is engaged in combat using a sword and a fan on which is written a magical formula to ward off evil. Symbolic peaches are suspended from his hat and a bat circles his head representing happiness.... |
| Goddess name "Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli" | Aztec / Mesomerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. Using a magical vessel, she grinds bone fragments obtained from previous generations of mankind in earlier world ages into a powder. The gods then commit self-sacrifice, allowing their blood to drip into the vessel. From the resulting mix, the human race of the fifth Sun is formed.... |
"Coco Macaque" | Haitian | A Haitian magic stick |
| King name "Dactyloi" | Greek | Ancient smiths and healing magicians. In some myths, they are in Hephaestus' employ, and they taught metalworking, mathematics, and the alphabet to humans. Greek |
| Demon name "Demogorgon" | Christian | Often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually an invention of Christian scholars, imagined as the name of a pagan god or demon, åśśociated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo. |
| Angel name "Deputy Angels" | Jewish | Certain angels who, in Jewish lore and magic, act as spirit servants. Jewish scholar Eleazar of Worms declared them to be entirely good. |
"Dian-Cecht" | Irish | Physician magician of the Tuatha Dian Cecht |
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