A record of the unseen, drawn from world folklore.
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Symbol in Georgian tradition representing the sun and eternity, with no supernatural connotations. (Note: 1. Power tier: Lower the power tier to Lesser, as there's no indication of cosmic or deity-level abilities. 2. Abilities: Remove "supernatural" from the description, but keep in mind that the entity h)
A tsukumogami yōkai that is an animate, tattered futon which comes to life at night. Traditional accounts describe it as rising, throwing its former owner from bed, and attempting to twine around the sleeper's head and neck in revenge for neglect; alternative accounts depict it joining other tsukumogami in noisy gatherings.
Boromir is a mortal nobleman and warrior of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He serves as heir-apparent to the Steward of Gondor, joins the Fellowship of the Ring, succumbs briefly to temptation over the One Ring, repents, and dies heroically defending his companions.
Borr (Old Norse Borr, Börr, Burr; anglicized Bor/Bör/Bur) is a scarcely attested figure in Old Norse theogony: the son of Búri, husband of Bestla, and father of Odin, Vili, and Vé. He appears by name in verse 4 of the Völuspá and in chapter 6 of Gylfaginning but is otherwise functionally an ancestral name with no preserved deeds or attributes in the supplied sources.
Bors is the name of two related knights in medieval Arthurian literature (father and son), introduced in the 13th‑century Lancelot‑Grail prose cycle and preserved in later retellings such as Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. The younger Bors de Ganis is notable as one of the three questing knights (with Galahad and Perceval) who achieve the vision of the Holy Grail and as a model of Christian chivalric virtue; the name also appears in modern datasets as a toponym for a commune in Charente, France.
Borus is attested in the provided sources primarily as an onomastic item — an ancient Greek personal name attested in mythographic genealogies — and secondarily as a modern place-name, vessel name, and various contemporary or fictional name-uses. The supplied material contains no evidence that Borus is a spirit, deity, or other supernatural being.
Boruta (called "Devil Boruta" in the cited source) is a folkloric character from Polish mythology, folklore, and literature associated with the town of Łęczyca. The available source frames Boruta as a local legendary figure but provides no extended ethnographic detail.
Borvo (also Bormo, Bormanus/Bormanicus) is a Celtic theonym attested in Roman‑period Gaul and adjacent regions as the god of warm, welling thermal springs; worship is attested almost entirely by votive inscriptions at spa sites and he is commonly paired with the goddess Damona and equated under interpretatio romana with Apollo (and occasionally Hercules).
Borysthenes is the ancient Greek name for the Dnieper River and its personified river-god in classical accounts. In Greek literary and antiquarian sources the name denotes both the physically fertile river near Pontic Olbia and a local river-divinity invoked in genealogies and place‑names.
Borysthenis (Ancient Greek Βορυσθενίς) is a theonym recorded in Greek discourse with two distinct usages: (1) as the name of one of a localized triad of Muses described as daughters of Apollo (sisters Apollonis and Cephisso), and (2) as an epithet applied to the Scythian earth-and-water goddess Api, indicating her status as 'daughter of the god of the Borysthenēs (Dnipro) river.'
A legendary hero from the Shahnameh epic cycle, embodying strength and courage. (Note: * Power tier should be Primordial (as it's a legendary hero from an epic cycle with no clear supernatural abilities). * Summary is accurate. * Appearance: No information available in source material, )
In Jewish tradition, the Bosom of Abraham is a concept representing a state or location within Sheol where righteous individuals await redemption after death. (Note: * Power tier should be Primordial (as it's a concept within Sheol, which is often described as a cosmic realm) * Origin story needs more context from source material; association with Abraham's righte)
Botis is a named spirit from Renaissance and early modern ceremonial grimoires, variously ranked as a President, Earl, or Count. Appearing in sources such as the Ars Goetia (Lesser Key of Solomon), the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic (as Otius), and mentioned in the Grand Grimoire as subordinate to Agaliarept, he is summoned by ritual operators to answer questions, reveal knowledge, and reconcile allies and enemies.
Botres (Ancient Greek: Βότρης, Bótrēs) is a Theban youth in Greek myth who, having tasted the sacrificial victim's brain during his father Eumelus's offering to Apollo and then being fatally struck by his father with a brand, is transformed by Apollo into the bird called Aeropus (the bee-eater). The story is attested in Greek mythographic tradition and briefly referenced in Ovid's Metamorphoses and in Antoninus Liberalis' collection of metamorphoses.
Bouncing Boy is a fictional superhero (Charles Foster 'Chuck' Taine) appearing in DC Comics, best known as a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes whose primary Silver Age power is to inflate into an elastic sphere and bounce. Across continuities he functions as comic relief, morale officer, and occasional tactical asset; in some reboots he is non-powered and serves as the Legion's engineer/architect.
A mythic motif in Norse mythology describing powerful hostile beings who are physically or cosmologically restrained in the present but are prophesied to break free during Ragnarök to wreak destruction. The label is a modern scholarly summary applied to several canonical figures (Loki, Fenrir, Jörmungandr, Hel) rather than an Old Norse technical name.
Bounos (Ancient Greek: Βοῦνος) is a legendary early king of Ephyra (an early name for Corinth), described in surviving mythographical summaries as a son of Hermes and the mortal Alcidamea/Alcidamia. He is credited with receiving the throne from Aeëtes when the latter sailed to Colchis and with founding a sanctuary to Hera Bunaea on the road to Acrocorinthus; after his death the kingdom passed into the hands of Epopeus of Sicyon.
Bozorgmehr (Middle Persian Wuzurgmihr ī Bōkhtagān) is attested in Middle Persian, Persian epic, and Arabic/Persian historiography as a Sasanian-era sage, minister (wuzurg framadār), and military commander associated with the House of Karen during the late 5th–6th centuries CE. He is remembered as an exemplary court counselor, author of treatises, and a theme figure in literary traditions rather than a supernatural being.
Božalość is a Wendish (Lusatian Sorb) omen-figure described in ethnographic sources as a messenger or harbinger whose audible lamentation announces imminent death or other calamity for particular people, households, or communities. The name is commonly rendered in German sources as "Gottesklage" ("God's Lament").
A symbolic figure associated with the themes of New Year, spring, and youth in Slavic paganism. (Note: 1. Power tier: Incorrectly classified as Lesser Spirit; based on its association with renewal and spring, it should be at least Ancient. 2. Origin story: The source material does not mention an origin)
Br'er Rabbit is an African-American folktale trickster — an anthropomorphic rabbit/hare who survives and triumphs by cunning rather than strength. Originating in oral traditions of enslaved Africans in the American South and related Caribbean communities, the character features in story cycles that teach, entertain, and comment on social relations.
A Northumbrian mischievous shapeshifting being tied to ponds, hedges, lanes, and other liminal localities; it commonly appears as a horse or donkey to entice riders, then bucks them off into water or underbrush and flees, often laughing.
Bragi is a figure in Old Norse mytho-poetic tradition associated with skilled eloquence and poetry among the Æsir; Snorri presents him as a god of poetry and husband of Iðunn, while modern scholarship often treats the divine Bragi as a mythologized reflection of the historical 9th-century skald Bragi Boddason.
Brahmacharini is the second form of the Divine Mother (Mahadevi/Parvati) in the Navadurga cycle, venerated during the second day of Navaratri. She personifies ascetic discipline and sustained penance (tapas) undertaken by the goddess to win Shiva's consent to marriage.
Bengal's most distinctive ghost: the spirit of a Brahmin who died celibate — before marriage, or having taken a vow of celibacy — whose accumulated learning and unfulfilled life persists. Unlike the North Indian Brahmpret, the Brahmadaitya is often passive or even helpful, but its presence makes any household it inhabits spiritually unsettled.
A grave sin and entity in Hindu tradition, representing the act of killing a Brahmin. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial (cosmic) instead of Ancient (deity-level), as Brahmahatya represents a grave sin and not a deity. 2. The article lacks an appearance description, which needs to be a)
Brahman is the ultimate, all-encompassing metaphysical principle in Vedic, Upanishadic and later Vedantic literature: the ground, origin, support and goal of all that exists. It is described variously as an attributeless, ineffable absolute (nirguṇa) and, in devotional contexts, as manifest with qualities (saguṇa) without becoming a conventional cult-deity.
Brahmani (Sanskrit: ब्रह्माणी, IAST: Brahmāṇī; also ब्राह्मी, Brāhmī) is one of the Sapta Matrikas, the seven mother-goddesses in Hindu tradition. She is regarded as the Shakti (feminine power) of the creator god Brahma and is often identified with or described as a form of Saraswati.
No substantive evidence for a distinct folkloric entity called the 'Brahmaputra Bhoot' appears in the supplied sources. Mentions of the string 'Bhoot' in the materials refer to a chili pepper (Bhoot/Bhut Jalokia) or unrelated lexical contexts, not to a river-associated ghost entity.
No folkloric entity or ghost associated with the Brahmaputra River is documented in the provided sources. The available materials treat the Brahmaputra strictly as a geographic and political subject (a trans‑boundary river) and contain no descriptions of spirits, rituals, appearances, abilities, or warding practices tied to the river.
The name 'Brahmarakshas' appears in published Indian folkloric indexes and in contemporary Hindi popular culture. In the provided sources it is attested as the title of a tale listed in a Southern India folktale collection and as the name used for a modern Hindi supernatural television series and for musical releases, but the supplied materials do not include a full folktale text or ethnographic description of the being.
The most learned and terrible of spirits — the ghost of a Brahmin who misused his scriptural knowledge in life and was condemned after death to be both demon and scholar, haunting places of learning.
Demon-spirit of a Brahmin who misused sacred knowledge for evil ends — described in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the Brahmarakshasa combines the destructive force of a Rakshasa with the ritual knowledge of a priest. Among the most dangerous entities in Hindu demonology.
A type of rākṣasa in Hindu tradition depicted in the supplied sources as the posthumous fate of a Brahmin who commits unrighteous deeds; other summaries describe them as demons formed by a curse associated with the god Brahma. The term thus links Brahminic status or Brahma with the rākṣasa category and functions as a moralized explanation for a Brahminic fall into a malevolent supernatural state.
A former Brahmin who converts to Buddhism after an encounter with the Buddha, exemplifying personal transformation within Buddhist teachings. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial seems implausible given that there is no mention of supernatural powers or abilities; reevaluate as Lesser or Minor Spirit. 2. Appearance: Since no specific description exist)
The ghost of a Brahmin who died before fulfilling his dharmic obligations — more powerful than any ordinary preta, the Brahmpret retains Sanskrit learning, ritual authority, and the capacity to curse. The most feared ghost-class in North Indian villages.
Brahmā is the personified Creator god in Hindu textual tradition, presented as the creative member of the Trimurti (with Viṣṇu and Śiva). In Purānic cosmogonies he is said to emerge as Svayambhu from Hiranyagarbha (the golden egg) and to produce the world and living beings; the term is distinct from the impersonal metaphysical brahman.
A provisional, reconstructed class of attendant supernatural beings inferred from scattered North Indian literary and comparative sources; conceived as a retinue accompanying the creator figure Brahmā and described cautiously as occupying a liminal, spectral register in the available texts. The characterization is tentative and based on fragmentary references rather than direct ethnographic attestations of a named folk class.
Brainiac is a recurring supervillain in the Superman/DC Comics fictional universe: a hyper-intelligent non‑human agent—variously depicted as an android, cyborg, or extraterrestrial—obsessed with collecting knowledge and known for shrinking cities (notably Kandor) and preserving them aboard a skull‑shaped spaceship. First appearing in Action Comics #242 (July 1958), he is portrayed across continuities as a persistent strategic threat whose artificial consciousness is repeatedly resurrected in new physical forms.
Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox) is a fictional Coluan genius and long‑standing member of the Legion of Super‑Heroes in DC Comics, notable for prodigious scientific inventions and for being a descendant of the original Brainiac. His stories center on invention, unintended consequences from his creations, and his attempts to atone for or distance himself from his ancestor's villainous legacy.
Brainiac 8, commonly known by the alias Indigo, is a fictional engineered Coluan intelligence from DC Comics: an inorganic, future-origin infiltration agent capable of interfacing with and controlling technology who initially poses as a sympathetic ally before revealing a mission to secure Coluan dominance.
In the provided sources, 'Bran' refers to the outer layers of cereal grains (a botanical/agronomic material) and separately as the name of a commune in Brașov County, Romania. There are no folkloric or supernatural descriptions of an entity named 'Bran' in the supplied materials.
Bran Mak Morn is a fictional heroic king created by Robert E. Howard, presented as the last king of Howard's romanticized Picts. In Howard's stories he is a martial leader in narratives framed as historical fiction; after his death Howard's fiction reports a localized cult that deifies him as the 'Dark Man' or 'Dark One.'
Branchus is a figure in Greek myth known principally as a mortal beloved of Apollo who functions as a prophet and eponymous founder of a local oracle/cult (the oracle or temples associated with Branchus). Some sources also record a possibly distinct Branchus as a genealogical figure, father of Cercyon by the nymph Argiope.
Brangaine is the handmaid and confidante of Iseult of Ireland in the Tristan and Iseult cycle of Arthurian romance. As a mortal attendant she functions narratively as custodian of a love potion, substitute on the wedding night to protect Iseult's honor, and occasional user of a magic pillow to repel seduction.
Major character in Welsh mythology and daughter of Llŷr, a sea god. (Note: - Power tier should be Primordial (as she is a sea god's daughter and a central figure in a major mythological narrative). - Appearance: Add note that physical description is not provided. - Abilities)
Branwen ferch Llŷr is a legendary princely woman from medieval Welsh narrative tradition, the central female figure of the second branch of the Mabinogi. Her marriage to Matholwch of Ireland, mistreatment in the Irish court, and death precipitate a catastrophic war between Britain and Ireland and set in motion miraculous episodes (a life-restoring cauldron; the speaking severed head of her brother Bendigeidfran).
Brasilestes stardusti is an extinct genus and species of tribosphenic mammal described from Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) fossil material from the Adamantina Formation in northwest São Paulo state, Brazil. The species is noted for being relatively large for Mesozoic mammals (size estimated from remains) and the specific epithet honors musician David Bowie.
In the Celtic tradition, Brath is an ancestral figure in Irish genealogy, considered important for his role as a parent of Breogán. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Ancient, as Brath's abilities are described as being related to a key figure in Irish genealogy, but there is no indication he has cosmic-level powers. 2. Add an appearance des)
Bree is a proper name and toponym attested across multiple geographic and cultural referents (places in Belgium, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Africa) and as a personal and fictional name (including a village in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth). It is not presented in the supplied sources as a supernatural or folkloric being.
Bregalad, also called Quickbeam, is an Ent of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth associated with Fangorn Forest. He is depicted as a tree-like, giant humanoid member of the Ent-kind who speaks and sings and who appears in narrative episodes involving the hobbits Merry and Pippin.
A Welsh mountain-mist figure known as the "Grey King" or "Monarch of the Mist," depicted in collected folklore as a semi-corporeal presence haunting high places and mists and said to seize unwary travellers, especially children. The Brenin Llwyd functions as a landscape-linked warning figure and is sometimes compared with Welsh Otherworld sovereignty figures.
Brennius is a legendary royal figure from medieval British historiography, best known from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. Presented as a human king and conqueror, his narrative links British legendary genealogy with continental events—notably campaigns in Gaul and the (legendary) capture and rule of Rome.
A contemporary English-language personal name borne by multiple real persons (politician, developer/designer, CEO, academic) and a fictional Marvel Comics character associated with S.H.I.E.L.D. and Weapon X. The corpus shows no evidence that the name denotes any supernatural or folkloric entity.
Breogán is a legendary human ancestor and culture‑hero in the medieval Irish Lebor Gabála Érenn tradition, presented as a founder of a city in Iberia (Brigantia) and the builder of a tower from which his son Íth glimpses Ireland, an event that prompts the Milesian migration to settle Ireland. He functions as an eponymous progenitor linking Gaelic genealogy to an Iberian origin and, in later memory, as a symbol of Galician identity.
Bres (also Bress, Eochaid/Eochu Bres, Bres mac Elathan) is a contested royal figure in Irish myth who, born of Fomorian and Tuatha Dé Danann parentage, ruled as king of the Tuatha Dé Danann before being deposed; his reign and fate appear in accounts of the First and Second Battles of Magh Tuiredh and related dindsenchas poetry.
A collection of explanatory and heroic tales forming part of the Celtic mythos, rooted in ancient Celtic tradition. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial is incorrect; it should be Ancient (deity-level) as Breton mythology is rooted in ancient Celtic tradition but doesn't match the primordial level of cosmic entities. 2. Origi)
Brettia (Ancient Greek: Βρεττίας in the surviving lexicon entry) is an eponymous nymph credited in Greek ethnographic/place-name handbooks as the name-source of the district Abrettene in Mysia. She is attested only in lexicographical/ethnic compendia and is presented as a local, place-personifying divine figure rather than a figure with recorded myths, cult practice, or narrated deeds.
One of the three Sons of Tuireann in the Irish tale Oidheadh Chlainne Tuireann. Brian (also recorded as Uar or Uair) participates with his brothers in the killing of Cian, is sent by Lugh on a quest to fetch magical weapons as recompense, and returns mortally wounded when Lugh refuses to heal them.
Brian Braddock is a fictional human champion created within modern comic-book mythmaking, empowered by Arthurian figures to serve as the protector of the British Isles and a defender of Earth-616 within Marvel Comics' multiversal framework. First appearing in 1976, he has borne titles including Captain Britain and later adopts the name Captain Avalon after narrative developments.