The ghost shirt originated from the Ghost Dance movement, founded by Wovoka in response to the hardships faced by Indigenous peoples. It is believed that Wovoka received visions which led to the creation of this spiritualized object.
Unknown or unclear due to lack of physical description.
The ghost shirt possesses spiritual powers, offering protection to its wearers from harm or possession by malevolent spirits.
Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
Aba is a polyvalent name-form attested across many unrelated contexts (place names, personal names, animal names, and brief mythological listings). The provided sources do not support a single, coherent supernatural entity called "Aba" and offer no descriptive or ritual material for such a being.
Agent Liberty
Agent Liberty is a fictional human operative persona in DC Comics and its television adaptation (Arrowverse). The identity—most prominently used by Benjamin 'Benjy/Ben' Lockwood—functions as a costumed, paramilitary/enforcer role tied to political movements (Sons/Children of Liberty) or official security details, driven by ideological 'liberty' rhetoric rather than supernatural agency.
Agropelter
A North American "fearsome critter" of lumbercamp tall-tale tradition said to dwell in hollow conifer trees and hurl broken branches and splinters at unwary people; presented in folklore as an animal-like, mischievous or predatory woodland creature rather than a deity or spirit of formal cosmology.
Alfred Bulltop Stormalong
A New England maritime tall-tale hero and giant seafarer, Stormalong functions in sailors' oral tradition and early-20th-century tall-tale collections as a repository for exaggerated seamanship, prodigious physical size, and impossible nautical exploits rather than as a literal supernatural being.
All-Flash
All-Flash (originally All-Flash Quarterly) is a Golden Age American comic-book magazine series published 1941–1947 that served as the first solo magazine vehicle for Jay Garrick, the original Flash. The title is a commercial/branding name later used as an English lexical phrase in unrelated technical and web contexts.
Altamaha-ha
The Altamaha-ha (also called "Altie") is a named legendary creature from coastal Georgia folklore, localized to the mouth of the Altamaha River, nearby marshes, streams, and abandoned rice fields around Darien and McIntosh County. Sources describe it as a place-linked water-associated creature that figures in local storytelling, tourist displays, and contemporary popular culture rather than as a widely attested pan-cultural spirit.
Amikuk
Amikuk is a Yup'ik / Alaskan Inuit spirit-creature associated with the ground and coastal waters; sources describe it as a shapeshifter that lives within the earth, can swim through earth and water, may take human form, and is dangerous to hunters and travelers.
Angak (Angak'china)
Angak, or Angak'china, is a male Hopi kachina spirit represented both by spirit dancers in village ceremonies and by carved kachina dolls. He is a rain‑bringing, fertility, healing, and protective figure whose songs and slow dances are intended to bring rain and flowers to Hopi villages.
Annie Christmas
Annie Christmas is a tall-tale character from Louisiana folklore, portrayed as a supernaturally strong keelboat (flatboat) captain who in many collected versions is an African-American woman. She functions as a folk-heroic exemplar of exceptional strength, seamanship, and defiance of conventional gender roles within Southern U.S. tall-tale tradition.
Anog Ite
In Lakota mythology, Anog Ite is a complex entity associated with emotional pain and chaos. She is punished for attempting to disrupt balance. (Note: 1. Power tier should be revised based on the entity's abilities described in the source material (Primordial=cosmic, Ancient=deity-level, Greater=powerful regional, Lesser=local spirit, Minor Spirit=w)
Asdzá́ą́ Nádleehé
A creation spirit in Navajo tradition, involved in the formation of the world and creation of the Navajo people. (Note: - Power tier should be Primordial (no issue) - Origin story is accurate - Appearance needs to be added, stating that no physical description is available - Abilities are mostly accurate, but more deta)
Askeladden
Askeladden (Ash-lad, Cinderlad) is a stock human folktale protagonist from Norwegian oral tradition, typically the youngest and least-valued child who, through cleverness, patience, and boldness, succeeds where elder siblings and conventional figures fail, often by outwitting trolls or solving enchanted tasks.
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