Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Bali Penyalong" | Borneo | The beneficent supreme being who is never addressed without the slaughter of one or more pigs, and also that no domestic pig is ever slaughtered without being charged beforehand with some message or prayer to him, which its spirit may carry up to him. But the most important function of the pig is the giving of information as to the future course of events by means of the markings on its liverHe is also god of war. The Kenyahs, Borneo |
Spirit name "Bannik" | Slavic | The spirit of the bath house who flits amongst the dense steam of the sauna bath. |
Spirit name "Banshee" | Ireland | Grey Lady of death who haunts certain Irish families. A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. Ireland |
Spirit name "Barong" | Bali | The name of the king of the spirits, leader of the hosts of good, and enemy of Rangda. Bali |
Demon name "Bathym aka Bathim" | Greek | Bathin, Marthin. One of the three demons in the service of Fleuretty. Duke of the Infernal regions he has the appearance of a robust man but his body ends in a serpent's tail. He is well versed in the virtues of herbs and precious stones according to Wierius. He is able to transport men from one place to another with wondrous speed. He commands thirty legions. One of the 72 spirits of Solomon. |
Spirit name "Bazalicek" | Bohemian | A spirit born out of the egg of a black çõçk, with a look is so poisonous that no one can look at it and live. Bohemian |
Spirit name "Belas" | Indonesian | Indonesian tree spirits who should be asked to move before chopping a tree down |
Goddess name "Bereginy" | Slavic | Goddesses and spirits of nature. Slavic |
Spirit name "Berlic" | Swiss | A mischievous nature spirit. Swiss |
Spirit name "Bhagavan (the lord)" | Northern / central Indian | Tutelary god. Worshiped by the Bhils and other tribes as the original creator spirit and a judge of the dead soul. Also an epithet of VISNU and KRSNA. Also Bhagwan.... |
Deities name "Bhumi (the earth on which all things are formed)" | Buddhist / Varyana | Collective name for a group of deities. Twelve personifications of the spiritual spheres through which a BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate påśśes in his quest for perfection of knowledge. Common attribute: a staff.... |
Ghost name "Bhut" | India | A type of evil spirit. It is especially the evil ghost of a man who has died due to execution, accident, or suicide. People protect themselves by lying on the ground, because the bhutas never rest on earth. In the Bhagvad Gita, Krishna the Avatar declares that the humans who worship bhutas become bhutas themselves. India |
Spirit name "Bhutadamara" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Turmoil of the spirits four-armed God. Buddhist / Mahayana |
Spirit name "Bileth" | Hebrew | One of the 72 spirits of Solomon. Hebrew |
Spirit name "Bilwis" | Teutonic | A maleficent spirit who was active on Walpurgis night and wrought havoc to the crops. Teutonic |
Goddess name "Birrahgnooloo" | Australian aboriginal | Creator goddess. She is recognized by several aboriginal clans as the chief consort of BAIAME, the creator god. Revered as the all-mother of humankind and creator of living things on earth, her role largely parallels that of Baiame. Traditions suggest that during the Dreamtime she planted vegetation as she moved through the primordial world, fashioning creatures from clay and breathing spirit into human beings. Her eldest son is DARAMULUM or Gayandi, regarded as an intermediary between Baiame and humankind.... |
Spirit name "Bmola" | Abenaki | bird spirit. Abenaki |
Spirit name "Bodachs" | Scotland | Malicious house spirits of the Scottish Highlands in the form of a shriveled old man who lives up the chimney in the daytime and comes out at night to punish naughty children. Scotland |