Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Kutji" | Australian aboriginal | Animistic spirits. Malevolent beings who conceal themselves in undergrowth and rock crevices and manifest as animals and birds, including eagles, crows, owls, kangaroos and emus. Kutji are considered to have taken over wild creatures if their behavior åśśumes unfamiliar patterns. Only shamans may contain the influence of these spirits. Otherwise, they possess the potential to inflict disease and death on to human beings.... |
Spirit name "Kutkhu" | Kemchadal / southeastern Siberia | Guardian spirit. The counterpart of the Koryak QUIKINN.A'QU, he fashioned the created world into its present form and is the majordomo of the creator god. His consort is Ilkxum and his sister is Xutlizic. His children include SI'MSKALIN, TI'ZIL-KUTKHU and SI'DIUKU. In mythology he is depicted as a salacious character. Also Kutq; Kutkinnaqu.... |
Spirit name "Kutkinnaku" | Koryak / Siberia | This is the spirit that taught mankind to haunt it & catch fish in addition to giving them the fire stick & the shamans drum |
Spirit name "Kwoith" | Nuer / Sudan | Creator god. The Nuer people have been affected by the expansion of Islam, and probably by Christianity, and recognize a supreme deity, or spiritual being, responsible for all creation. One of his epithets is Tutgar, meaning strong and without limit.... |
Spirit name "Kwoth" | Sudan | Is considered to be the spirit in or of the sky. Like all spirits Kwoth is invisible and omnipresent, but he manifests himself in a number of forms. Nuer, eastern Sudan |
Spirit name "Lamin" | Basque | A spirit of human form, generally female, with the feet of an animal. Basque |
Spirit name "Lar Familiaris" | Roman | Ancestral spirit. A personal and vaguely defined deity brought into the house from the surrounding land.... |
Spirit name "Lars Familiarus" | Roman | The spirit of the founder of the house, which never left it, but accompanied his descendants in all their changes. Roman |
Spirit name "Laskowice" | Slavic | These are satyr type Forest spirits with a close relationship with the Wolf |
Spirit name "Lau" | Andaman Islands / Sea of Bengal | spirit beings. Generally invisible but perceived in human form and living in the jungles and the sea. When an Andaman islander dies he or she becomes a lau.... |
Demon name "Lempo" | Finland | Originally a fertility spirit, became synonymous with demon in the Christian era. |
Spirit name "Lemures" | Greek | Spectres or spirits of the dead, which were believed by the Romans to return to the upper world and injure the living. Some writers describe Lemures as the common name for all the spirits of the dead and divide all Lemures into two clåśśes; viz. the souls of those who have been good men are said to become Lares, while those of the wicked become Larvae. Greek |
Spirit name "Lemures/ Larve" | Roman | These are evil spirits of the dead with two festivals one on nine November & 1 on 13 May |
Spirit name "Liberalitas" | Roman | Minor god. spirit of generosity, employed as a propaganda vehicle by the emperors. Worshiped particularly from the second century BC.... |
Spirit name "Lietna'irgin" | Chukchee / E Siberia | The spirit of the dawn |
Spirit name "Lietna'irgin (genuine dawn)" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | spirit of the dawn. One of four beings concerned with the dawn in different directions.See also TNE'SGAN, MRATNA'IRGIN and NA'- CHITNA'IRGIN.... |
Spirit name "Lietna'irgin Chukchee" | East | spirit of the dawn Siberia(East) |
Spirit name "Llew Llaw Gyffes" | Welsh | His mother would not name him; cursed him never to marry; and that he could only be killed a certain, secret way. The Celts equated the name with a spirit essence and true being. Llew turned into an eagle and flew away. Welsh |