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Gods, Goddesses, Ghosts, Ghoulies,
Heroes, Villains and Things That Go Bump In The Night
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- F. A god of war who likes a tasty human sacrifice. Mayan
- Fa, the god with 16 eyes who brought learning to the people.
Africa
- Faax. A minor angel. Enochian
- Fabulinus. The god who taught Roman children to utter their
first word. It was the god Vagitanus who taught them to utter
their first cry. Roman
- Fachea, Goddess of poetry and patron of bards. Ireland
- Fada. A fee or kobold of the south of France, sometimes
called “Hada.” These house—spirits, of which,
strictly speaking, there are but three, bring good luck in their
right hand and ill luck in their left.
- Fadda. Mahomet's white mule. Islam
- Faërie or Feerie. The land of the fays or faeries. The
chief fay realms are Avalon, an island somewhere in the ocean;
Oberon's dominions, situate “in wilderness among the
holtis hairy;” and a realm somewhere in the middle of the
earth, where was Pari Banou's palace.
- Fafner. Son of Hreidmar. He kills his father to get
possession of the Andvarenaut. He afterwards changes himself into
a dragon and guards the treasure on Gnitaheath. He is slain by
Sigurd, and his heart is roasted and eaten. Norse
- Fahfah. One of the rivers of Paradise. Islam
- Faids. The second class of Druids. Britain
- Fagus, God of beech trees. Gaul/Pyrenean
- Fairy, of nursery mythology, is the personification of
Providence.
- Fairy or Faerie, a supernatural being, fond of pranks, but
generally pleasing.
Fairies - good and bad:
- Afreet or Efreet, one of the Jinn tribe, of which there are
five.
- Apparition. A ghost.
- Ariel, oversees the sprites, the nature spirits associated
with water and is involved with healing and protecting
nature
- Banshee or Benshee, an Irish fairy attached to a house.
- Boggart. A local hobgoblin or spirit. Scotland
- Bogie or Bogle, a bugbear (Scotish form of bug).
- Brownie, a domestic fairy; the servants friend if well
treated. Scotland
- Bug or Bugbear, any imaginary thing that frightens a person.
Welsh
- Cauld Lad, the Brownie of Hilton Hall. Britain
- Djinn, Jin, Ginn, spirits of vanished ancient peoples who
acted during the night and disappeared with the first light of
dawn. Arabian
- Duende, a Spanish house—spirit.
- Dware, a diminutive being, human or superhuman.
Anglo—Saxon
- Dwerger, Dwergugh or Duergar, Gotho—German dwarfs,
dwelling in rocks and hills.
- Elf, fairies of diminutive size, supposed to be fond of
practical jokes. Anglo—Saxon
- Elle-Maid, Elle-Women, Elle-Folk, Scandinavian fairies.
- Esprit Follet, the house—spirit of France.
- Familiar, an evil spirit attendant on witches, etc.
- Fata, an Italian fay, or white lady.
- Fates, the three spirits, Clotho,
Lachesis, and Atropos, which preside over the destiny of every
individual. Greek
- Fay, similar to Fairy
- Fear Dearg, i.e. Red Man. A house—spirit of Munster.
Ireland
- Genii, genie and genius. Eastern spirits, whether good or
bad, who preside over a man or nation.
- Ghost, the immaterial body or noumenon of a human being.
Supposed to be free to visit the earth at night—time, but
obliged to return to its Hades at the first dawn.
- Ghoul, a demon that feeds on the dead. Persian
- Gnome, the guardian of mines, quarries, etc. Norse
- Goblin or Hobgoblin, a phantom spirit.
- Guardian-Angel, an angelic spirit which presides over the
destiny of each individual.
- Habundia , queen of the White Ladies.
- Hag, a female fury.
- Hamadryad, a wood—nymph. Each tree has its own
wood—nymph, who dies when the tree dies. Greek
- Horns or Hornie, the Devil.
- Imp, a puny demon or spirit of mischief.
- Jack A-Lantern, a bog or marsh spirit who delights to
mislead. These Arabian spirits were formed of “smokeless
fire.”
- Kelpie. In Scotland, an imaginary spirit of the waters in the
form of a horse.
- Kobold, a German household goblin, also frequenting
mines.
- Lamia, a hag or demon. Keats's
Lamia is a serpent which had assumed the form of a beautiful
woman, beloved by a young man, and gets a soul.
- Lamies, African spectres, having the head of a woman and tail
of a serpent.
- Leprechaun, a fairy shoemaker. Ireland
- Mab, the faries' midwife. Sometimes incorrectly called
queen of the fairies. Welsh
- Mermaid, a sea—spirit, the upper part a woman and the
lower half a fish.
- Merrows, both male and female, are spirits of the sea, of
human shape from the waist upwards, but from the waist downwards
are like a fish. The females are attractive, but the males have
green teeth, green hair, pig's eyes, and red noses. Fishermen
dread to meet them.
- Monaciello or Little Monk, a house—spirit of Naples.
Italian
- Naiads, water—nymphs. Greek
- Nis or Nisse, a Kobold or Brownie. A Scandinavian fairy
friendly to farmhouses.
- Nix, Nixie, a water—spirit. The nix has green teeth,
and wears a green hat; the nixie is very beautiful.
- Oberon, king of the fairies.
- Ogre, an inhabitant of fairyland said to feed on infant
children.
- Oreads, mountain nymphs. Greek
- Ouphe, a fairy or goblin.
- Peri, a Persian fairy. Evil peris are called
“Deevs.”
- Pigwidgeon, a fairy of very diminutive size.
- Pixy, Pixie, pisgy, pisgie, a Devonshire fairy, same as
Puck.
- Puck, a merry little fairy spirit, full of fun and harmless
mischief. Icelandic
- Salamander, a spirit which lives in fire. Greek
- Shades, ghosts.
- Spectre, a ghost,
- Spook, an elemental in Theosophy.
- Sprite, a spirit.
- Stromkarl, a Norwegian musical spirit.
- Sylph, a spirit of the air; so named by the Rosicrucians and
Cabalists.
- Triton, a sea deity, who dwells
with Father Neptune in a golden
palace at the bottom of the sea. The chief employment of tritons
is to blow a conch to smooth the sea when it is ruffled.
- Troll, a hill—spirit. Hence Trolls are called
Hill—people or Hill—folk, supposed to be immensely
rich, and especially dislike noise. Norse
- Undine, a water—nymph.
- Vampire, the spirit of a dead man that haunts a house and
sucks the blood of the living. Hungarian
- Were-Wolf, a human
being, sometimes in one form and sometimes in another.
- White Lady of the royal family of Prussia. A
“spirit" said to appear before the death of one of the
family.
- White Lady Of Avenel, a tutelary spirit. Scotland
- White Lady Of Ireland the banshee or domestic spirit of a
family.
- White Merle, of the old Basques. A white fairy bird, which,
by its singing, restored sight to the blind.
- Wight, any human creature, as a “Highland wight.”
Dwarfs and all other fairy creatures.
- Will-O'-the-Wisp, a spirit of the bogs, whose delight is
to mislead belated travellers.
- Wraith, the ghost of a person shortly about to die or just
dead, which appears to survivors, sometimes at a great distance
off. Scotland
- Faivarongo, Grandsire of the Ocean and the god of sailors.
Polynesia
- Fakavelikele The supreme god of the Futuna who, with Songia
and Fitu, was considered the source of all good and evil.
Polynesia
- Falacer, an ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, considered to be the same as Jupiter.
- Falhofner [Hollow-hoof]. One of the horses of the gods.
Norse
- Fama. The personification of rumour or
report. Roman
- Fan K'uei, God of butchers. China
- Fand, an early Irish sea goddess, later described as a
"Queen of the Fairies". Her name is variously
translated as "Pearl of Beauty" or "A Tear".
She is seen as the most beautiful of goddesses.
- Fangle Rainbowweb. A fairy bringer of fortune who lives at
the bottom of my tangled garden and is only seen in the mist of
an early morning. She wears tangled dresses of multicoloured
petals and has multicoloured wings like a butterfly.
- Farbaute [Ship-destroyer]. The father of Loke. Norse
- Farbauti, father of Loki, Byleifstr, and Helbindi.
Farbauti's wife was either Laufey or Nal. Norse
- Faro, purified the earth by sacrificing himself to atone for
his twin Pemba's sin. Mande. Weat Africa
- Fascinus,
an early Latin divinity, and identical with Mutinus or Tutinus.
He was worshipped as the protector from sorcery, witchcraft, and
evil daemons and represented in the form of a phallus, the
genuine Latin for which iafascimtm, this symbol being believed to
be most efficient in averting all evil influences. He was
especially invoked to protect women in childbed and their
offspring.
- Fata-Morgana,
goddess of the sea, illusion, enchantment, fate and death and
Queen of the Fortunate Isles. Celtic
- Fate. One of the Discworld's most implacable gods who
looks like a pleasant, middle-aged man, but his eyes are starry
voids.
- Fates, properly signifies "a
share," and as a personification "the deity who assigns
to every man his fate or his share," or the Fates. Homer
usually speaks of only one Moira, and only once mentions the
Motpai in the plural. In his poems Moira is fate personified,
which, at the birth of man, spins out the thread of his future
life, follows his steps, and directs the consequences of his
actions according to the counsel of the gods. Homer thus, when he
personifies Fate, conceives her as spinning, an act by which also
the power of other gods over the life of man is expressed.
Greek
- Fatima, the great goddess of the moon and fate, the source of
the Sun and the virgin Queen of Heaven. Syrian
- Fatit, Female entities who are in charge of the individuals
destiny. Albania
- Fatua, a Roman goddess identified
with Gaea. Known as the kind goddess because of her benevolence
towards all creatures.
- Faula, was, according to some, a
concubine of Heracles in Italy while, according to others, she
was the wife or sister of Faunus. Latinus, who is called a son of
Heracles by a concubine, was probably considered to be the son of
Faula whereas the common tradition describes him as a son of
Faunus. Faula was identified by some of the ancients with the
Greek Aphrodite. Greek
- Faumea, Goddess of fertility. Polynesia
- Faun, place-spirits (genii) of
untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek
satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus.
However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different
creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the
waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns
goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a
goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people. Roman
- Fauna. Goddess of the earth, wildlife, forests, and
fertility. Symbolizes prosperity as well. Etruscan
- Faunus, the son of Picus and father
of Latinus, was the third in the series of the kings of the
Laurentes. In his reign Faunus, like his two predecessors, Picus
and Saturn, had promoted agriculture and the breeding of cattle
among his subjects, and also distinguished himself as a hunter.
Roman
- Fe Gai, goddess who guards certain islands of the Ivory
Coast.
- Faustulus, The royal shepherd of
Amulius and husband of Acca
Laurentia. He found Romulus and
Remus as they were nursed by the she-wolf. Roman
- Faustus. A son of Saturn and
Entoria. and the brother of Janus, Hymnus and
Felix. Roman.
- Fe'e, a huge octopus War-God. Samoan
- Fea or fee, a war goddess. Ireland
- Febris, the goddess of fever, or
rather the averter of fever. Roman
- Februus, an ancient Italian
divinity, to whom the month of February was sacred, for in the
latter half of that month great and general purifications and
lustrations were celebrated, which were at the same time
considered to produce fertility among men as well as beasts.
Roman
- Fedecks. Fedecks is the Messenger of the Gods, who appears as
a radiant figure in a winged hat, winged sandals and a winged fig
leaf. Discworld
- Fedelma, a fairy Queen who can be invoked to increase psychic
abilities. Ireland
- Fei Lien, a demigod, one of the Counts of the Winds.
China
- Felicitas, the personification of
happiness and is frequently seen on Roman medals, in the form of
a matron, with the staff of Mercury (caduceus) and a cornucopia.
Roman
- Fene, a demon oppososed to light and an inventor of unusual
contraptions and devices. Fene is also the name of the place
where demons roam. Hungarian
- Feng Po Po, Goddess of the wind and embodies the elements of
air and water. China
- Fenja, a female slave giantess who was tied to a mill and
asked to grind gold, peace and happiness. Norse
- Fenrer, Fenri or Fenris-wolf. The
monster-wolf. He is the son of Loke, who bites the hand of Tyr.
The gods put him in chains, where he remains until Ragnarok. In
Ragnarok he gets loose, swallows the sun and conquers Odin, but
is killed by Vidar. Norse
- Fensalir or Fensal. The abode of Frigg. Norse
- Feretrius, a surname of Jupiter, which is probably derived from
ferire, to strike; for persons who took an oath called upon
Jupiter, if they swore falsely, to strike them as they struck the
victim they sacrificed to him. Roman
- Feronia, Goddess of the autumn, fire and volcanoes. She also
served as a goddess of travel, fire, and waters. Erilio, the king
of Preneste, was her son according to one tradition. According to
another tradition her son was the underworld god Herulus.
Etruscan
- Feronia, Goddess of orchards and
protects freed men. Roman Also regarded as a goddess of the earth
or the lower world because she is said to have given to her son
three souls, so that Evander had to kill him thrice before he was
dead. Roman
- Fharlanghn. A god of horizons and long-distance travel.
Blobbie
- Felix. Son of Saturn and Entoria, brother of Ianus, Faustus and
Hymnus. Roman
- Fideal, a sprite of water who haunts lonely pools and hides
herself in the grasses by the water. Scotland
- Fides, the personification of
fidelity or faithfulness. She was represented as a matron wearing
a wreath of olive or laurel leaves, and carrying in her hand corn
ears or a basket with fruit. Roman
- Fidius, the son of Zeus, that is, Hercules. Greek
- Fidi Mukullu, supreme being and sky god of the Basonga.
- Fimafeng. The nimble servant of Æger. He was slain by
the jealous Loke. Norse
- Fimbul. It means mighty great. In the Norse mythology it
appears as:
- Fimbulfambe. A might fool.
- Fimbultyr. The mighty god, great helper (Odin)
- Fimbul-winter. The great and awful winter three years'
long preceding the end of the world.
- Fimbulthul. A heavenly river.
- Fimbulthuler. The great wise man.
- Finncaev, a goddess of love, beauty and fertility.
Ireland
- Finnguala aka Nuala, in some legends as Queen of Faerie.
Irish
- Finvarra, is the High King of the Daoine Sidhe in Irish
folklore. In some legends, he is also the King of the Dead.
Finvarra is a benevolent figure who ensures good harvests, strong
horses, and great riches to those who will assist him.
Ireland
- Finweigh, God who made man. Bilan
- Fionn Mac Cumhal, Ancient hunter-warrior god.
Ireland/Scotland/Manx
- Firie A supreme sky god who controls the elements. Zaire
- Fjalar. A misnomer for Skrymer, in whose glove Thor took
shelter. Norse
- Fjalar. A dwarf, who slew Kvaser, and composed from his blood
the poetic mead. Norse
- Fjalar. A cock that crows at Ragnarok. Norse
- Fjolner. One of Odin's many names. Norse
- Fjorgyn. A personification of the earth; mother of Thor.
Norse
- Flandal Ironhands. Gnomish god of mining and iresmiths.
- Folkvang. [Paradise, a field]. The folk-field. Freyja's
dwelling. Norse
- Fjorgynn, God mentioned in Snorri's Edda. Norse
- Fland, the delinquent daughter of Flidais who grew up to
become an evil water sprite who lures swimmers to their deaths.
Ireland.
- Flatulus. The Ephebian God of the Winds. His name comes from
"flatus", Latin for breaking wind. Discworld
- Flauros. A Great Duke of Hell who gives true answers of all
things past, present and future, but he must be first commanded
to enter a magic triangle for if not he will lie, deceive the
conjurer, and beguile him in other business. Christian
Demonology
- Flidais (Watch-Out-Dear), a huntress and archer fond of the
chase. A Celtic Artemis except,
whereas Artemis was a virgin goddess, Flidais was very fond of
jolly bonking. Ireland
- Flins. The god of death. Wendish
- Flipplopa. The god who grants forgiveness to politicians.
Pan-cultural
- Flora, Goddess of gardens, plants,
flowers, love, prostitution,spring and youth. Her festival was
celebrated from the 28th of April till the first of May, with
extravagant merriment and lasciviousness. The resemblance between
the names Flora and Chloris led the
later Romans to identify the two divinities. Roman
- Fluonia, a surname of the goddess
Juno. Roman
- Fo, Name for Buddha China
- Focalor, a Great Duke of Hell who kills men, drowns them, and
overthrows warships and has power over wind and sea and hoped to
return to heaven after one thousand years, but he was deceived in
his hope. Focalor is depicted as a man with the wings of a
griffin. Christian demonology
- Fogatza aka Robboqua. The supreme being of the Gumuz.
Ethiopia
- Fomore, Adversaries of the Tuatha De Danann, and called it
demons Ireland
- Fons, Goddess of fountains Roman
- Fontus, a Roman divinity connected
with a well and he was the personification of the flowing
waters.
- Foras aka Forcas, Forrasis, a powerful Great President of
Hell who teaches logic and ethics, the virtues of all herbs and
precious stones, can make a man witty, eloquent, invisible, live
long and discover treasures and recover lost things. Christian
demonology
- Fornax, a divinity who presided over ovens. Roman
- Foorgol. The Ephebian God of Avalanches. Discworld
- Fornax, a Roman goddess, who is said
to have been worshipped that she might ripen the corn, and
prevent its being burnt in baking in the oven. Roman
- Forneus, a Great Marquis of Hell, and has twenty-nine legions
of demons under his rule. He teaches Rhetoric and languages,
gives men a good name, and makes them be loved by their friends
and foes. He is depicted as a sea-monster. Christian
demonology
- Fornjot. The most ancient giant. He was father of Æger,
or Hler, the god of the ocean; of Loge, flame or fire, and of
Kaare, wind. His wife was Ran. These divinities are generally
regarded as belonging to an earlier mythology, probably to that
of the Fins or Celts. Norse
- Forsete. [The fore-sitter, president, chairman]. Son of
Balder and Nanna. His dwelling is Glitner, and his office is that
of a peacemaker. Norse
- Forso, ghosts of the dead. They are tiresome attracting
attention and causing accidents and illness. Gururumba
- Fortuna, the goddess of chance or
good luck, was worshipped both in Greece and Italy, and more
particularly at Rome, where she was considered as the steady
goddess of good luck, success, and every kind of prosperity.
Roman
- Fotla. A patron goddess of Ireland and the wife of the Tuatha
King MacCeacht.
- Fraananger-Force. The force or waterfall into which Loke, in
the likeness of a salmon, cast himself, and where the gods caught
him and bound him. Norse
- Framanthen, the soul of the primal ocean, the embodiment of
its power and energy.
- Frau Holle, Goddess of winter. German
- Frau Welt, a female fairy mistress according to the medieval
church, the devil.
- Fraus, the Roman personification of
fraud and deceit, counterpart of the Greek Apate.
- Fravasi or Fravartin, denotes the spirit of the pre-existence
of the believer who watches over him as Protective spirit.
Iran
- Freke. One of Odin's wolves. Norse
- Frey. He is son of Njord, husband of Skade, slayer of Bele,
and falls in conflict with Surt in Ragnarok. Alfheirn was given
him as a tooth-gift. The ship Skidbladner was built for him. He
falls in love with Gerd, Gymer's fair daughter. He gives his
trusty sword to Skirner. Norse
- Freya or Freyja [Feminine of Freyr]. The daughter of Njord
and sister of Frey. She dwells in Folkvang. Half the fallen in
battle belong to her, the other half to Odin. She lends her
feather disguise to Loke. She is the goddess of love. Her husband
is Oder. Her necklace is Brisingamen. She has a boar with golden
bristles. Norse
- Frigg. [Love]. She is the wife of Odin, and mother of Balder
and queen of the gods, and reigns with Odin in Hlidskjalf. She
exacts an oath from all things that they shall not harm Balder.
Norse
- Frjorgyn, Goddess with no known cult, the name suggests she
is a mountain/forest goddess and possibly revered as a goddess of
fertility norse/germanic
- Fu Hsi, God of fishing nets,vegetation, of happiness and the
inventor of writing. China
- Fu Hsing, Spirit of happiness. China
- Fu Shen, God of happiness. China
- Fuamnach, Midir's first wife and a witch goddess. When
Midir fell in love with Étaín and married her,
Fuamnach got so jealous that she cast several spells on her, but
she did not succeed. Ireland
- Fudo, God of wisdom. Likes to look at the stars. Japan
- Fudo Myoo, God who protects against catastrophes.
Buddhist
- Fufluns, God of wine and of the harvest. Etruscan
- Fugen Bosatsu God of enlightening wisdom, intelligence,
understanding, intuition, long life. Japan
- Fu-His. God of agriculture/vegetation and inventor of
writing. China
- Fu-Hsing God of happiness and bat. In charge of destiny,
fate, love, happiness, and success. China
- Fuji, Goddess of fire and volcano and chief goddess.
Japan/Ainu
- Fujin, God of winds Japan/Shinto
- Fukurokuju, god of wisdom, luck and prosperity. Japan
- Fulgora, the personification of lightning. Roman
- Fulla, [Fullness]. Frigg's attendant. She takes care of
Frigg's toilette, clothes and slippers. Nanna sent her a
finger-ring from Helheim. She is represented as wearing her hair
flowing over her shoulders. Norse
- Fulgurator, Lightning Hurler.
An epithet for Jupiter Jupiter
- Fulminator, a surname of the god Jupiter.
- Fulvius Stellus, had an
aversion to women and entertained himself with a mare, by which
he had a very handsome daughter, that he called Epona
- Fura-Chogue, the first mother. Colombian
- Furiae aka dirae, Eumenides, erinyes,, were originally nothing but a
personification of curses pronounced upon a guilty criminal. The
name Erinnys, which is the more ancient one, was derived by the
Greeks from "I hunt up or persecute", or from the
Arcadian "I am angry"; so that the Furiae were either
the angry goddesses, or the goddesses who hunt up or search after
the criminal. Greek/Roman
- Furcas, a Knight of Hell, and rules twenty legions of demons.
He teaches Philosophy, Astronomy, Rhetoric, Logic, Chiromancy and
Pyromancy. He is depicted as a cruel old man with a long beard
and hairy head, riding a pale horse. Christian demonology
- Furfur, a powerful Great Earl of Hell, being the ruler of
twenty-six legions of demons. He is a liar unless compelled to
enter a magic triangle; then he gives true answers to every
questions speaking with a rough voice. Furfur causes love between
a man and a woman, creates storms and tempests, thunders,
lightning and blasts, and teaches on secret and divine things. He
is depicted as a hart or winged hart, and also as an angel.
Christian demonology
- Furiae or Furies, the Roman name
for the Greek Erinnyes.
- Furina or Furrina, an ancient Roman
divinity, who had a sacred grove at Rome.
- Furor, Roman personification of rage and fury, counterpart of
the Greek Lyssa or Erinnys.
- Futsu-Nushi-No-Kami, God of war, fire and lightning
Japan/Shinto
- Fuwch Frech, a fairy cow who gave milk to anyone in need
until a witch milked her dry. Welsh
- Fuyengeni The powerful and only god of the Kom. British
Cameroon
- Fylgiar, a guardian doppleganger discernable only to those
with second sight. Middle Europe
- Fynmaarel. The overseer of the wild elves, outcasts and
outlaws. Jobbie
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