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List of Gods : "Mania" - 4 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Goddess name "Bibi the Child-Strangler"	Bibi	Sometimes affectionately known as "Aunty Bibi," is a Romany witch-goddess. Bibi is an old crone who either wears torn black garments or is entirely naked. Like the Romanian goddess Dschuma, Bibi is disease incarnate, particularly cholera. She is referred to as "the child-strangler" because it is believed that disease often effects children, who are young and weak.
Ghost name "Chagrin aka Harginn"	Romania	A mischievous ghost that most often takes the form of a large yellow hedgehog, which always foretells some impending disaster. Romania
"Mania"	Etruscan	An ancient and formidable Italian, probably Etruscan, divinity of the lower world, is called the mother of the Manes or Lares
Spirit name "Mania"	Etruscan	An ancient and formidable Italian, probably Etruscan, divinity of the lower world, is called the mother of the Manes or Lares. As regards her being the mother of the Manes or Lares, the idea seems to have been, that the souls of the departed on their arrival in the lower world became her children, and either there dwelt with her or ascended into the upper world as beneficent spirits.

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