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Banba (modern spelling Banbha) is a matron goddess of Ireland in Irish mythology, daughter of Delbáeth and Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann. She forms a triad of matronal personifications of the island with her sisters Ériu and Fódla, is associated with sovereignty and the land, and appears in origin and heroic narratives linked to specific Irish landscapes.
A group of more than 20 species of small to medium-sized, largely nocturnal, omnivorous marsupials (order Peramelemorphia) endemic to the Australia–New Guinea region. The English name is an Anglicised borrowing ultimately from Telugu and was historically applied to unrelated Indian rodents before being transferred to Australasian marsupials.
Bandua is a theonym attested in Roman‑period epigraphic sources from north‑west Iberia (Galaico‑Lusitanian area). The name appears with many localizing epithets and is reconstructed by scholars as a local tutelary or protective divine figure (or a set of closely related local figures) with occasional Roman syncretism to Mars.
An ancient Egyptian ram deity worshipped at Mendes (Djedet), understood as the local 'Ba' or soul‑manifestation tied to fertility, virility, and aspects of rulership; depicted commonly as a ram or ram‑headed man and sometimes as a four‑headed ram representing multiple Bas of the sun god.
Bangpūtys is a reconstructed masculine sea-and-storm deity from Lithuanian mythology. Known from very scanty sources, modern mythologists portray him as an austere, vindictive master of winds and the sea and as the reconstructed father-figure of the cardinal wind-gods.
No primary or secondary evidence for a distinct supernatural entity explicitly called 'Banjara' or 'Banjari' (wandering gypsy spirits) is present in the supplied sources. The materials document the Banjara (Lambadi/Sugali) as a nomadic tribal community and their ethnobotanical knowledge, but they do not record descriptions, powers, appearances, or rituals directed at a spirit entity by this name.
Banjee is a social identity and performance category from urban LGBTQ+ ball culture—especially New York City voguing/ball scenes—denoting a person who embodies an urban, tough swagger and a street-presentational form of masculinity used as a judged category (e.g., 'banjee realness') in balls and related events.
Forest-dwelling shamanic supernatural beings of the Kirati and related Himalayan traditions, presented as a male wilderness shaman (Banjhākri) who trains human shamans and a complementary female shamaness (Banjhākrini) who functions as an initiatory threat.
A place-bound spirit of the Slavic banya (bathhouse) that inhabits the steam room and related spaces; he mediates divination, presides over births within the banya, and must be appeased by offerings or he may harm or otherwise vex users and the building.
A female spirit of Irish and Scottish folklore whose wail heralds an impending death in a family of Gaelic descent. Not a cause of death — a witness to it.
Important heroine in Iranian mythology, appearing in several Persian epics including the Banu Goshasp Nama. (Note: - The power tier should be Ancient, not Primordial, as there's no indication that she has cosmic-level abilities. - There are no sensory cues, weaknesses, or wards listed, but they could potentially b)
A female fairy of Scottish Highland folklore portrayed as a beautiful but deadly supernatural woman who seduces and kills lone men at night. Tales place her within the Highland sidhe corpus while linking her actions to a motif in which nighttime wishes made without invoking divine protection are answered by malevolent agencies.
A Scottish Highland vampire fairy — a beautiful woman in a green dress who appears to men alone in the wilderness and drains their blood, her deer hooves hidden beneath her skirts.
Baphomet is a mutable Western esoteric and cultural figure: in medieval inquisitorial records the name labels an alleged idol or head invoked in accusations against the Knights Templar; in 19th‑century occultism Éliphas Lévi reimagined Baphomet as a symbolic androgynous human‑goat figure embodying reconciled opposites; in modern culture the term and imagery are widely repurposed across conspiracy discourse, art, and fiction.
A colossal bird from Jewish tradition, described as having a massive wingspan large enough to block out the sun. (Note: * Power tier should be at least Ancient, given its ability to block out the sun. * Origin story section is missing, with no information provided by Source 1. * No specific weaknesses or wards mentione)
Barachiel (Hebrew: בַּרַכְאֵל, Baraḵʾēl, 'God has blessed') is an archangelic figure in Jewish mystical literature and in Byzantine Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian devotion, traditionally associated with blessings, guardianship of family and married life, and as chief of guardian angels. Mystical texts place him over the second heaven and attended by a vast retinue of ministering angels; Christian iconography portrays him with symbols of blessing such as a white rose, rose petals, a bread basket, or a staff.
Baraka is a recurring fictional character in the Mortal Kombat franchise portrayed as a Tarkatan warrior and antagonist. First introduced as a playable fighter in Mortal Kombat II, he appears across multiple games and in film adaptations, varying between playable roster member and non-playable opponent depending on the installment.
The available sources do not describe a supernatural being named Barama. The string "Barama" appears in the supplied corpus as a toponym, a language name, an institutional name, and a radio-station name, but there is no folkloric, ritual, or mythological information about a goddess or spirit called Barama in these sources.
Barbad (Persian: باربد) was a celebrated late 6th–early 7th-century Persian musician-poet, music theorist and composer associated with the Sasanian court of Khosrow II. Preserved mainly through later Arabic and Persian literature and oral tradition, he functions in medieval and modern memory as the archetypal court minstrel of Sasanian musical culture.
Barbara Joan Gordon is a recurring fictional character in DC Comics' Batman mythos, introduced as the costumed vigilante Batgirl and later reimagined as Oracle, a paraplegic information broker and technical advisor to other heroes. She functions as a human, non-supernatural operative whose roles alternate between field crime-fighter and behind-the-scenes intelligence specialist across publication eras and media adaptations.
No folkloric, mythological, or supernatural documentation for an entity named "Barbara Kean" is present in the supplied sources. The available materials do not describe her as a spirit, deity, monster, or other unseen being.
Barbariccia is one of the Malebranche devils in Dante Alighieri's Inferno (Canto 22), portrayed as a corporal enforcer and a subordinate commander who supervises other devils in Bolgia Five of the Eighth Circle (the Malebolge). The name is Italian and literally means "curly beard."
Organized maritime raiders and state‑linked privateers operating from North African ports (notably Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Salé) from medieval times into the 19th century; engaged in ship capture, coastal raids, and the seizure of captives for slave markets and ransom, and in some Muslim sources framed as a form of naval jihad.
The Barbary lion was a historical North African population of Panthera leo (also called the North African, Atlas, or Egyptian lion) that inhabited the Maghreb and Atlas Mountains. Treated in sources as a zoological and conservation subject rather than a supernatural being, it is extinct in the wild and survives only in captive lineages claimed to descend from historic North African animals.
A resident wild population of Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) on the Rock of Gibraltar long associated with local identity, tourism, and formal human management. Treated in sources as biological animals—habituated to people, managed historically by the British Army and Gibraltar Regiment, and subject to legal protections and public-management practices.
The corpus contains no folkloric or mythological entity named Barbas. The term appears only as a modern surname, a French commune name, occasional Spanish common noun usage (barbas = beards), and as the name of a video-game nonplayer character in player forum discussions; no traditional origin, appearance, powers, or rituals are attested in the provided sources.
Barbatos is a named spirit in European grimoire tradition, listed among the Seventy-Two spirits of The Lesser Key of Solomon and also appearing in the Grand Grimoire. He is given a ducal rank, commands legions of spirits, and is invoked in ceremonial contexts for knowledge, revelation of hidden things, and reconciliation.
American academic and associate professor at College of William and Mary, specializing in Roman mythology. (Note: 1. Add "None" to Power tier since Barbette Spaeth's abilities as a human academic are accurately described. 2. Remove "origin story" section, as it is unnecessary for a non-mythological figure like Ba)
Barbēlō is a primary divine emanation (aeon) in several Gnostic theogonies, presented as the first thought and generative principle within the pleroma. She functions as an originating mediating principle through which subsequent divine manifestations arise and is central to certain Sethian and related Gnostic systems.
A fictional human hero from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: an archer and captain of Lake-town who kills the dragon Smaug with the family heirloom "Black Arrow," claims descent from the lords of Dale, and becomes king of the rebuilt Dale.
A Northern English uncanny presence most often described as a monstrous black dog that serves as an omen of death; the term also covers variant local beings (ghosts or household elves) in some counties, making it a fluid category of liminal, threatening presences in regional folklore.
Barliman Butterbur is a human resident of Bree in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Source material classifies him simply as a man in Tolkien's legendarium and situates him within Bree-land, the village region where Hobbits and Men live side by side.
A bipedal, humanoid primate-like being reported in the mountainous regions of northern Pakistan (notably Chitral and the Karakoram). Described in local reports and modern cryptozoological literature as a 'wild man' comparable to the Yeti, Almas, or Bigfoot; accounts present it as a corporeal unknown hominid rather than a spirit.
Barnabas is an early Christian disciple and apostolic figure known from the New Testament book of Acts and later Christian tradition. Presented as an encourager, mediator, and missionary companion of Paul, he is associated with the Jerusalem and Antioch churches, missionary journeys in the eastern Mediterranean, and later traditions tying him to writings and martyrdom in Cyprus.
Barnell Bohusk is a fictional character listed in the Marvel Comics universe. The available source identifies the name as a Marvel Comics character but provides no further in-universe details.
Charles Bernard "Barney" Barton is a fictional human character from Marvel Comics, introduced in The Avengers #64 (May 1969). He is Clint Barton's (Hawkeye) older brother whose life arc spans orphanage and carnival work, military and FBI service, criminal racketeering, and costumed villainy (notably adopting the Trickshot identity and serving briefly with Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers).
A named hall-tree from the Völsunga saga (Old Norse legendary-material) standing in the centre of King Völsung’s hall; it functions as a ritual-symbolic focal object in a wedding-feast episode where a sword is thrust into its trunk and later drawn by Sigmund. Scholarship situates it among Germanic 'guardian' or household trees associated with family luck, childbirth, and marriage symbolism.
Baron Bedlam (Frederick DeLamb) is a recurring human antagonist in DC Comics who pursues political power in the fictional kingdom of Markovia. An aristocratic, militarized criminal leader and tactical commander, he organizes coups, allies with foreign armies and manipulators, and at times briefly acquires metahuman earth-manipulation or a durable stone-like body in adaptations.
Baron Blitzkrieg is a DC Comics supervillain — a wartime-era German officer (Baron Reiter) transformed by scientific experimentation into an enhanced, militarized antagonist who opposes heroes such as Wonder Woman, Superman, the All-Star Squadron, and the Justice Society of America. He functions as both an individual powered combatant and a leader of criminal/paramilitary groups (e.g., Shadowspire) across World War II and modern comic continuity.
Baron Blood is a recurring Marvel Comics supervillain identity, originally an English aristocrat transformed into a vampiric undead by Dracula. The mantle has been assumed by multiple characters across storylines; the character functions as an antagonist to heroes such as Union Jack, Captain America, and the Avengers, with origins tied to World War I/II era plots and vampiric lore.
Baron Brimstone (Walther Theodoric) is a Marvel Comics criminal who combines technological devices with occult-styled powers and theatrical satanic branding to run organized criminal enterprises. He founded and led the Satan Squad, committed thefts and arms-dealing schemes (notably stealing the Sol-Mac), and repeatedly confronted superheroes before being arrested, imprisoned, and in one storyline sent to Hell.
Baron Karl Amadeus Mordo is a recurring antagonist in Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange stories: a human Transylvanian nobleman and sorcerer trained under the Ancient One who turns to darker means—making deals with extradimensional and infernal powers—to gain magical power and oppose Stephen Strange.
A fictional literary persona created by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1785) and popularized in German by Gottfried August Bürger: an aristocratic raconteur whose first-person narratives recount outrageous, impossible adventures as satirical tall tales rather than literal supernatural events.
A principal lwa of Haitian Vodou who serves as master of the dead and psychopomp, head of the Gede family; associated with cemeteries, crossroads, resurrection/healing, and licentious, comic behavior.
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is a fictional comic-book supervillain published by Marvel Comics, introduced in mid-20th-century comics as a noble-born military officer who becomes the founder and long-time leader of the terrorist organization Hydra. He functions as a recurring human antagonist to S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, and various superhero teams, employing espionage, biotechnology, and lethal force across decades of continuity.
Baron Zemo is a hereditary title in Marvel Comics' fictional universe denoting members of a Zemo barony from Zeulniz, Germany. The title is borne across centuries by human members of a noble family; two holders—Heinrich Zemo and his son Helmut Zemo—are depicted as recurring antagonists of Captain America and the Avengers.
In Balinese mythology, the Barong is a panther-like creature and leader of good spirits. (Note: - Power tier: Greater (based on the description as a powerful regional entity, leader of hosts of good spirits) - Abilities: Specify that the Barong opposes Rangda's evil energies, implying a defensiv)
Barqan is a named jinn-king appearing in modern compilations of Islamic/Arabic occult and folkloric name-sets. He is listed alongside other named jinn rulers (e.g., Mudhib, Maimun, al‑Ahmar) in secondary sources and appears as a narrative antagonist in at least one Arabian Nights synopsis.
No folkloric descriptions of an entity named Barqash appear in the supplied sources. One provided source uses 'Barqash' as a toponym (an administrative district associated with Kufr Rakeb in Jordan); the other source (a Cairo travel-safety article) does not mention Barqash or any related spirit.
Barraiya is named in a single recorded account as a god in Australian Aboriginal mythology who fashioned the first vagina with a spear so that the being Eingana could give birth. The attestation presents Barraiya in a creator role connected to the origin of human birth.
Barri (also attested Barrey/Barey) is a mythic place-name in Old Norse tradition, named in Skírnismál and Snorri Sturluson’s Gylfaginning as the rendezvous-site where Freyr and Gerðr will meet nine nights after prior events. The term is etymologically ambiguous between a grove/wood and an island or a grain-field, and scholars debate whether its semantic field evokes woodland or agricultural fertility.
A wraith-like tomb-spirit coined by J. R. R. Tolkien that inhabits burial mounds (barrows). Modeled on Old Norse mound-spirits (haugbúar/draugr), Tolkien's barrow-wights animate or occupy ancient tombs and, in his narrative, can place living intruders under an enchanted sleep and arrange them with grave-goods until relieved by a powerful agent.
Barry Allen is a fictional human superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the second character to bear the Flash mantle. A forensic chemist who gains superhuman speed after a laboratory lightning accident, Barry functions as a science-oriented protagonist whose actions have driven major company-wide storylines and multiverse-level events.
Barsal-nuna is a named entry in the Sumerian King List (First Dynasty of Kish). Presented as a kingly figure—son of En-me-nuna and father of Zamug—he appears in the SKL manuscript tradition with legendary long reign lengths (one variant: 1,200 years) but is unattested in Early Dynastic administrative or monumental records and is treated by modern catalogues as likely non-historical.
Bart Allen is a fictional DC Comics speedster: a super-powered superhero from the Flash family legacy who has appeared as Impulse, Kid Flash, and briefly as the Flash. Originating in 30th-century lineage stories, he is characterized by Speed Force-derived super-speed, rapid aging/metabolic issues, and apprenticeship within an intergenerational hero tradition.
No evidence in the supplied sources identifies a supernatural entity named Barta within the Shahnameh. The name appears in disambiguation and as a family name in external records, and in unrelated Bangla/Islamic pamphlet titles, but the provided Shahnameh materials do not describe any being called Barta.
Bartholomew is presented in the supplied sources as one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, an early Christian missionary and martyr whose life functions in Christian liturgical memory, regional founding traditions (notably Armenian), and in later apocryphal and visionary narratives that expand his missionary itinerary and miraculous acts.
Baruch ben Neriah (Hebrew: Bārūḵ ben Nērīyyā) is presented in the Judaic and Christian literary tradition as the scribe, disciple, secretary, and devoted companion of the prophet Jeremiah (c. 6th century BCE). He is remembered as the recorder and public reader of Jeremiah’s prophecies and as the putative author or eponymous attributee of later deuterocanonical and pseudepigraphical works (Book of Baruch; 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch).
A huge, hairy hominid in Basque mythology that protects flocks and teaches humans skills. (Note: * Power tier: should be "Greater" instead of "Ancient", as Basajaun's abilities suggest regional power but not deity-level. * Origin story: it is actually mentioned in the source that the origin story)
Basamum is attested as a deity worshipped in pre-Islamic South Arabia, tentatively associated with healing through an etymological link to balsam; a single ancient text credits Basamum with curing two sick goats or ibexes. The evidence is limited and leaves most aspects of cult and myth undetermined.