Kere
A kere is a spirit of the dead in ancient Greece. It was believed that keres escaped from the pithos, the jars used to contain the bodies…
Category: Spirits
lares
The lares were in the beliefs of ancient Romans, good spirits of the dead. Lares were believed to take up occupancy in households, cities, or…
Manes
The Manes are Rome’s deified ancestors. A modern term for “ancestor worship” is manism. Their name may mean the “kindly” or “goodly ones,” possibly an…
Seven Whistlers
Seven Whistlers In English folklore, spirits that portend death. Flying together like seven birds, they sing or whistle at night to signal that one or…
Silkies
Silkies are female spirits, dressed in rustling silk, that inhabit the borderlands between England and Scotland. According to lore, silkies perform household chores and are…
Spunkie
A spunkie is in Scottish lore, a Goblin or trickster ghost similar to the Kelpie. The spunkie, which resides in the Scottish Lowlands, is a solitary…
Vetala
The vetala is an evil spirit in Indian folklore who haunts cemeteries and reanimates corpses. The vetala is Demonic in appearance, with a human body…
Windigo
windigo (also wendigo, wiendigo) In North American Indian beliefs, a dangerous, cannibalistic being. The Al gon quian say it roams about forests, devouring hapless human…
Almaqah
Almaqah : Lord of the Horned Goats Very little information survives regarding pre-Islamic spirits of Arabia, but Almaqah appears to have been the preeminent deity…
Surem
The Surem are ancestral spirits of the Yaqui people, who are native to the Yaqui River Valley of Sonora, Mexico, but now also live in…