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A ghost or spirit, often malevolent, in Polynesian mythology.
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Alternative spelling of Baba Yaga [(Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder. She behaves ambivalently and may be either amiable or hostile.]
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(Slavic mythology) In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a hag who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder. She behaves ambivalently and may be either amiable or hostile.
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(Irish folklore) A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.
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Alternative form of bhoot [(India) A supernatural creature, usually the ghost of a deceased person.]
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Alternative form of bhoot [(India) A supernatural creature, usually the ghost of a deceased person.]
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(folklore) A ghost, witch or demonic spirit said to appear in a mirror if her name is chanted repeatedly.
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Devilry; supernatural matters involving evil forces.
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Alternative form of bocor [(voodoo) A voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer.]
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An evil old hag in Brazilian folklore, said to attack children who don't go to bed early.
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Alternative form of dhampir [(mythology, fiction) A half-human, half-vampire hybrid.]
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Alternative form of dhampir [(mythology, fiction) A half-human, half-vampire hybrid.]
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Alternative form of dhampir [(mythology, fiction) A half-human, half-vampire hybrid.]
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Alternative form of dybbuk [(mythology, Judaism) A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.]
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An evil or mischievous fairy or ghost sometimes said to haunt a building or household.
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(fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.
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(fantasy) An individual born with some physical or spiritual connection to dragons.
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Alternative form of draugr [(Norse mythology) An undead creature from Norse mythology, an animated corpse that inhabits its grave, often guarding buried treasure.]
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(fantasy) A monstrous hybrid of a drow or other dark elf and a spider, with a humanoid (vertical) upper body and an arachnid opisthosoma forming the (horizontal) lower part.
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(fantasy) An evil spirit or monster; a ghoul.
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(chiefly Caribbean) A ghost or evil spirit.
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Alternative form of jumbie [(chiefly Caribbean) A ghost or evil spirit.]
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A mythical, malevolent goblin-like spirit of Southeastern European and Anatolian folklore.
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A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
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A beast in the folklore of Alpine countries, said to punish misbehaving children during the Christmas season.
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A fairy tale about a young girl who walks through the forest to visit her grandmother and encounters the Big Bad Wolf (or another vicious wolf, or werewolf in archaic versions).
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(mythology, Caribbean) A creature of Caribbean mythology similar to a vampire or werewolf.
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(fantasy) A mermaid mouse; a sea mouse.
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(in Roma folklore) A vampire.
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Alternative spelling of Nazgul [(fantasy) An evil force which heedlessly destroys everything in its path, and appears like a horseman dressed all in black.]
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(folklore) a demon that gives rise to sleep paralysis
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(obsolete) An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child.
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A vampire, an evil spirit.
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In Indonesian and Malaysian folklore, a ghost that wears a burial shroud.
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A hungry ghost (a supernatural being in Buddhist folklore, the spirit of a greedy person whose divine retribution is never to be sated)
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Alternative spelling of rakshasa [(Indian mythology) A member of a race of mythical fanged demons that eat human flesh and blood, somewhat like vampires.]
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(Caribbean, folklore) A night witch who sucks people's blood, sheds her skin, and can transform into a fireball and fly.
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(folklore) A kind of spirit in Irish folklore.
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In Balkan folklore, the troubled souls of the dead rising from the grave.
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Resembling or characteristic of a succubus; wickedly seductive.
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(Buddhism, mysticism) A magical creature that attains corporeal reality, having been originally merely imaginary.
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(folklore) In Greek folklore, a harmful undead creature that eats flesh, somewhat like a vampire or zombie.
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(fantasy) A wraith-like creature.
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Alternative form of wendigo [(mythology) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.]
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Alternative spelling of wendigo. [(mythology) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.]
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Alternative form of yokai [(folklore, mythology) Any of various supernatural monsters, sometimes shapeshifters, in Japanese folklore.]
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Rare spelling of zombie. [A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.]
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Alternative form of jumbie, a ghost or spirit [(chiefly Caribbean) A ghost or evil spirit.]
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