Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Davas/ Daevas/ Devas/ Devs" | Persia | Rather malevolent spirits |
Demon name "Dimme" | Sumeria | Female demon of fever and and diseases of infants. There were seven evil spirits of this kind, who were apparently regarded as being daughters of Anu, the god of the heavens. Sumeria |
Spirit name "Dive zeny" | Bohemian | Wild women, female Forest-spirits. Bohemian |
Demon name "Dives aka Divs" | Arab | Deevs. demons of Persian mythology. According to the Koran, they are ferocious and gigantic spirits under the sovereignty of Eblis. |
Spirit name "Djinn" | Arabian | Jin, Ginn, spirits of vanished ancient peoples who acted during the night and disappeared with the first light of dawn. Arabian |
Spirit name "Dom-Daniel" | Arabian | The abode of evil spirits, gnomes, and enchanters, somewhere "under the roots of the ocean," but not far from Babylon. (Continuation of the Arabian Tales.) |
Spirit name "Eblis" | Islam | The chief of the evil spirits |
Spirit name "Eblis aka Iblis" | Islam | Chief of the evil spirits, a Jinn made of smokeless fire. In an outburst rooted in envy, Eblis disobeyed Allah and was expelled from the grace of Allah. Islam |
Spirit name "Elben" | German | nature spirits. German |
Spirit name "Elementals" | General | nature spirits of land, water, fire, etc., personifications of natural phenomena. General |
Planet name "Eloai" | Egypt | Primordial being, one of the seven planetary spirits of the Egyptians |
Spirit name "Fada" | France | A fee or kobold of the south of France, sometimes called "Hada." These house-spirits, of which, strictly speaking, there are but three, bring good luck in their right hand and ill luck in their left. |
Goddess name "Faun" | Roman | Place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people. Roman |
Angel name "Gabriel" | Hebrew / Christian | The angel of death to the favoured people of God, the prince of fire and thunder, and the only angel that can speak Syriac and Chaldee. The Mahometans call him the chief of the four favoured angels, and the spirit of truth. In medi?val romance he is the second of the seven spirits that stand before the throne of God, and, as God's messenger, carries to heaven the prayers of men. Hebrew / Christian |
Spirit name "Gahongas" | Haudenosaunee | spirits in dwarf form who like rocks and are immensely strong for their size. Haudenosaunee |
Spirit name "Gaki" | Japan | The spirits of jealous or greedy people who, as punishment for their mortal vices, have been cursed with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object. Japan |
Spirit name "Gandayaks" | Haudenosaunee | A clåśś of spirits who have power over plants and fish. Haudenosaunee |
Spirit name "Gans" | Apache | mountain spirits who became distressed by the corruption of people. Apache |