Abraxas: The Gnostic Power Beyond Good and Evil Abraxas, also written as Abrasax, Abraxis, or Abracax, is one of the most mysterious and paradoxical figures in Gnostic, magical, and demonological tradition. He
Asmodeus (Aeshma, Ashmedai, Ashmodai, Asmoday, Asmodius, Hasmoday, Sydonay) The Demon of lust, the third of the Seven Deadly Sins, and of jealousy, anger, and revenge, and the 32nd of the 72 Spirits of Solomon. Asmodeus’ chief objectives are to prevent
The yameneko is the name the Japanese first gave to a gray-brown, small domestic-sized felid, found on the 113-square-mile island of Iriomotejima, at the southern end of the Japanese Ryukyu Islands. This
The yeren (“Wildman”) has figured in central and southern Chinese folk traditions for centuries. Many encounters are recorded in the thickly forested regions of central and south China. The Yeren is said
Megalak: According to Mathers in his 1898 translation of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, the name of this demon comes from a Hebrew term meaning “cutting off.” He is said
The Sisemite is a legendary creature from Central American folklore, bearing striking similarities to North America’s Bigfoot. Reported primarily in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, the Sisemite is described as a large, upright, hair-covered being,
SHUNKA WARAK’IN In the wilds of the upper midwestern United States lives a frightening-looking, primitive wolf-like beast known to Indians and early western pioneers. The Ioway, as well as other tribes, even
The bogle is a mischievous spirit who likes to perplex, bewilder, and frighten people rather than to hurt them. One bogle is Shellycoat, a spirit residing in the waters, who has given
Dongmyeongseong, also called Chumong, was a Korean ruler who lived at the turn of the first century C.E. He was the founder of the Goguryeo Kingdom in 37 B.C.E. In Korean mythology,
The Piasa, roughly translated from the Illini as “Giant Bird that Devours Man,” is today known from the lore that issued from near the present-day city of Alton, Illinois, in the 1600s-1700s.
In the early 1940s, near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Lake Monsters—or at least reports of them—began to show up in Lake Pend Oreille. Typically, the sightings were of a large, not clearly visible
For centuries reports of a large mystery cat have come out of the Sierra Madre Occidental range in northwestern Mexico. The Aztecs, who called it the cuitlamiztli, believed it to be a
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