Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Supreme god name "Ti'hmar" | Kolyma Tungus / Siberia | Supreme god. The name by which the Christian god was still addressed after local culture was influenced by Russian Orthodoxy.... |
"Ved Ava" | Russia | A personification of the water. Russia |
Spirit name "Vejopatis" | Lithuanian | The spirit of wind. He is the father of the winds, usually described as a wrathful, inexorable, evil spirit with a beard, wings and two faces. Lithuanian and Prussian |
God name "Veles/ Volos" | Russia / Slavic | A god of flocks & herds, death & the underworld |
Supreme god name "Vere-pas" | Russia | The supreme god, the god who is above'. The Ezra, Russia |
"Werwolf" | Europe | Werewolf. A bogie who roams about devouring infants, sometimes under the form of a man, sometimes as a wolf followed by dogs, sometimes as a white dog, sometimes as a black goat, and occasionally invisible. Its skin is bullet-proof, unless the bullet has been blessed in a chapel dedicated to St. Hubert. This superstition was once common to almost all Europe, and still lingers in Brittany, Limousin, Aurergne, Servia, Wallachia, and White Russia. In the fifteenth century a council of theologians, convoked by the Emperor Sigismund, gravely decided that the Werwolf was a reality. |
Spirit name "White Lady" | Prussia | White Lady of the royal family of Prussia. A "spirit" said to appear before the death of one of the family. |