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The Drak is a household spirit in German folklore, attested under several regional names and frequently identified with the kobold or the devil (Teufel). Surviving references are brief and primarily classificatory, indicating a household-associated supernatural figure with variable local naming and associations.
A drakaina (Ancient Greek: δρακαίνη; Latinized dracaena) is the specifically female form of the Greek drakon — a she-serpent or she-dragon — attested in myth as a class of monstrous beings. Named exemplars (Campe, Delphyne, Echidna, Sybaris, Python in comparative accounts) appear in narratives as dangerous, often chthonic or liminal guardians and progenitors rather than as a single uniform monster.
The Drakh are a fictional extraterrestrial polity in the Babylon 5 setting portrayed as a covertly hostile, technologically capable race that conducts fleet actions, espionage, and biological/nanotechnological warfare in the post-Shadow War era.
In Nordic folklore the draugr (plural draugar; anglicized draug) is an archaic term for a malevolent revenant — a dead person who returns and remains active in the world of the living. Accounts emphasize variability: traits, behaviours, and descriptions change between stories and across regions, especially in early medieval Icelandic sagas and surviving Norwegian folklore.
Draupadi is a central figure of the Indian epic Mahabharata: princess of Panchala born from a royal yajna, the common wife of the five Pandava brothers, and in many accounts a partial incarnation of the goddess Shri and close friend (sakhi) of Krishna. Her narrative role includes the public humiliation in the Kuru court, exile, participation in the events leading to the Kurukshetra War, later queenship of Indraprastha, and final ascent toward heaven in which she falls first.
Drax the Destroyer is a fictional Marvel Comics character: a resurrected human spirit placed into a powerful new body by cosmic forces to serve as a champion created to oppose Thanos. Over decades of publication he functions as a cosmic warrior and member of teams such as the Infinity Watch and the Guardians of the Galaxy, with published power-set changes and multiple media adaptations.
A South Slavic night-haunting revenant-like creature whose name means "the screamer"; traditionally linked to the restless souls of improperly buried or unbaptised dead (including sinful adults and unbaptised children) and reported in many regional variants that foretell death or disease and frighten the living.
Drelnza is listed as a named entry on a compiled list of characters from the Greyhawk campaign setting. The sole provided source supplies only the name; no descriptive, mythological, or functional information about Drelnza is present in that source.
A Slavic spirit associated with the evening and night hours, known for interacting with children and adults. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Ancient, not Primordial, as Drioma's abilities are described as entering houses through cracks and fissures, but no cosmic or universal-level powers mentioned. 2. Add sensory c)
Drizzt Do'Urden is a fictional drow (dark elf) character created by R. A. Salvatore for the Forgotten Realms (Dungeons & Dragons). Portrayed across multiple novels and short stories, he is an atypical member of drow society who rejects its evil norms, becomes an exile, and wanders between the Underdark and the surface as a warrior and moral focal figure in the setting.
Drosera, commonly known as sundews, is a genus of carnivorous plants in the family Droseraceae. The genus contains at least 194 species distributed on every continent except Antarctica and is characterised by glandular, mucilage‑covered tentacles that trap and digest insects to supplement nutrient-poor soils.
A female nocturnal spirit in German folklore associated with causing nightmares and the sensation of being pressed in sleep (Alpdruck). Treated as a kind of alp or witch-hag in southern German and alpine traditions, with household apotropaics and local counter-practices recorded.
A human warrior and knight associated with Arthurian and medieval Welsh tradition, noted chiefly for possessing three supernatural birds (Adar Llwch Gwin) given to him by his fairy wife; a late tale records that his literal command to those birds led to his death.
A fabulous wild boar figure attested in Arthurian/Welsh tradition; the sources provided identify the well-known monster Twrch Trwyth as a 'fabulous wild boar' whose hunt is narrated in the Welsh prose romance Culhwch and Olwen. The name 'Drudwyn' appears in the query but is not attested in the supplied source excerpts.
A site-bound ghost associated with Cortachy Castle and the Ogilvy (Earls of Airlie) family, reputed to sound a martial tattoo on a drum — sometimes with ghostly pipes — as a portent of imminent death among the castle's owners. The legend appears in nineteenth- and twentieth-century collections of Scottish ghost stories and in modern summaries.
A type of Greek nymph associated with trees—especially oak—often depicted as long‑lived nature spirits whose lives are connected to particular trees in some subtypes. Dryads enforce respect for trees and may punish mortals who harm them without prior appeasement.
Dryalus (Ancient Greek: Δρύαλόν) is an individual centaur named in Hesiod's Shield of Heracles and later summaries; he is listed among the centaur combatants at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodameia who fought the Lapiths in the Centauromachy. Surviving attestations are brief genealogical and catalogue-type mentions rather than extended mythic narratives.
Dryas is an ancient Greek personal name borne by multiple mythic figures (heroes, princes, hunters). Etymologically linked to the Greek word for oak (drus, δρῦς) and by extension to dryads, the name recurs across genealogies and heroic lists rather than denoting a single supernatural species.
Dryope (Ancient Greek: Δρυόπη) is a personal name borne by several distinct female figures in ancient Greek and Roman literature rather than a single consistent supernatural type. Bearers of the name include a mortal daughter of Dryops who bore Amphissus to Apollo, a figure identified with the Roman Fauna mothering Tarquitus by Faunus, a nymph said to have seized Hylas in accordance with Hera's will, a Theban woman who joins the Maenads and gives birth during Bacchic rites, and a Lemnian mother of the Oenotropae by Anius.
In Greek myth Dryops is presented as the eponymous ancestor of the Dryopians; the surviving source material records his role as a name-giver rather than a narrative character, spirit, or deity.
No folkloric or mythological account of a supernatural entity named Drífa is present in the provided sources. The string Drífa/Drifa appears in the materials as a modern Icelandic personal name, a fictional princess in a novel, and as a biological genus name; no indigenous cosmology, appearance, abilities, or rituals for a spirit called Drífa are documented in the source set.
The Drúedain are a fictional ancient people (a race of Men) in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium: a small, secretive, wood-dwelling group portrayed as remnants of an older human type, associated with wild places and woodwose/wild-man folklore. They appear in the First Age (some entering Beleriand) and survive in the Third Age chiefly in the Drúadan Forest and on the cape of Andrast, noted for woodcraft and enmity with Orcs.
Duamutef is one of the four Sons of Horus in ancient Egyptian funerary religion, a jackal‑headed mummiform guardian whose primary role is to protect the internal organs of the deceased (most commonly the stomach) and to ensure restoration of the body in the afterlife. He appears on canopic jar lids, amulets, and tomb furnishings across a long chronological span from the New Kingdom through the Late Period and beyond.
Duela Dent is a fictional, non-supernatural character from DC Comics who adopts multiple villain‑linked aliases (notably Joker's Daughter and Harlequin) and alternately appears as ally and antagonist to the Teen Titans and related teams. Her identity, age, and parentage vary across continuities and she is most often portrayed as a human acrobat who uses clown‑themed gadgets and is frequently institutionalized.
Duende is a polyvalent category of Iberian and Ibero‑American household and nature spirits comprising many regional types (Anjanas, Busgosos, Diaños, Enanos, Trasgos, Nuberos, etc.). They range from benevolent water‑nymphs and shepherd‑helpers to mischievous household intruders and shapeshifters, and are rooted in rural popular cosmologies where specific places (springs, forests, homes) are inhabited by agents with varied moral dispositions.
Two distinct uses of the name appear in the sources: (1) a traditional English folk designation for the Simonside Dwarfs — a local small‑folk or hill spirit group associated with the Simonside Hills of Northumberland (also called Brownmen and Bogles); and (2) a modern fantasy role‑playing race: a subterranean dwarf people in tabletop RPGs (Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder and related SRD material) with defined physiology, resistances, and subterranean culture.
A brief, secondary-source attestation names 'Duffer' as an invisible dwarf-type being in the fictional setting of The Chronicles of Narnia. Available sources supply only a single-line identification and do not provide canonical details from the primary texts.
Adversary of God in Slavic mythology, embodying qualities and actions of Roman emperor Diocletian. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Lower (consistent with his role as an adversary, not a cosmic being). 2. Summary needs to include that Dukljan is in Serbian mythology, not Slavic. 3. Appearance, Abilities, Se)
The headless horseman of Irish legend who carries his own rotting head under one arm, stops at the door of those about to die, and cannot be kept out by any lock.
Dumah (Heb. דּוּמָה, dūmā, 'silence') is an angelic figure in Jewish rabbinic and mystical literature and later Islamic reports, associated with the silence of death and with authority over the wicked dead and the punitive agents of the netherworld. In Zoharic material Dumah is depicted as a chief or prince over attendants who punish souls, and in a hadith compilation reported by Al‑Suyuti Dumah receives the souls of deceased unbelievers from Azrael.
Dumuzi (Dumuzid; Tammuz/Adon/Adonis in Levantine reception) is an ancient Mesopotamian pastoral and fertility deity, shepherd and consort of the goddess Inanna/Ishtar, whose death/abduction and seasonal absence are tied to vegetation cycles and annual cultic mourning and renewal.
Dumuzi-abzu is a Mesopotamian city tutelary deity worshiped in the state of Lagash, attested as the patron goddess of the city Kinunir. She appears in offering lists connected to the Nanshe cultic circle, is associated with temples and sanga priests, and is listed among deities thought to confer virtue on rulers in Lagash texts.
Dumuzid (Sumerian Dumuzi; Akkadian Duʾūzu/Dûzu; later Tammuz) is an ancient Mesopotamian deity associated with shepherding, plant fertility, and seasonal renewal. He functions as the primary consort of the goddess Inanna/Ishtar, an etiological figure for summer barrenness and autumnal return, and appears in king lists as an antediluvian/early ruler.
No evidence in the supplied source materials links a South Asian folkloric entity named 'Dund' to any attributes, rituals, or cultural role. The occurrences of the letter sequence 'dund' in the provided documents appear as OCR or transcription fragments in unrelated English-language texts and do not constitute documentation of a folkloric being.
Duolu Qaghan (born Ashina Nishu) was a historical Turkic ruler of the Western Turkic Khaganate who held the khaganate title associated with the Duolu tribal faction for roughly one year in the early 630s (reign dated 632–634; some sources give 633–634). He is presented in sources as a political-military actor in factional succession struggles between the Duolu and Nushibi tribes.
No supernatural entity called 'Dupo' is attested in the provided sources. The term appears in the materials only as a toponym — the village of Dupo, Illinois — and as a lexical item related to the surname 'Dupont.' There is no folkloric description, cosmology, rituals, or protective practices for a being named Dupo in the available documentation.
Duppy is a Caribbean spirit/ghost figure, common in Jamaican folklore and also attested in The Bahamas and Barbados, generally regarded as a malevolent unseen spirit associated with misfortune and nocturnal hauntings. The term and concept show links to West African linguistic and ritual ideas transferred to the Caribbean, and the category overlaps regional notions such as jumbies.
Durga is a major Hindu goddess, central to the Shakta tradition as an aspect of the Divine Feminine (Mahadevi). She is venerated as a protective, martial mother-goddess who combats demonic forces (notably Mahishasura) to uphold dharma, and is celebrated in major festival cycles such as Navaratri and Durga Puja.
Durgamasur is a hostile asura/demon in Purana-derived Hindu narratives whose seizure of the four Vedas and warfare against a form of the Goddess (Durga/Shakambhari/Parvati/Kalaratri in different tellings) causes ritual and social disorder; his defeat by the goddess restores Vedic knowledge and ritual order and is commemorated in temple and festival traditions.
An asura king in Hindu mythology, often depicted as powerful and malevolent, who engages in struggles against the gods. (Note: - Summary: accurate - Power tier: Greater (as a powerful regional being, lower than Primordial) - Abilities: too vague; needs more specific details on what abilities are associated with Durgamasura in)
Durgasur (also Durgama or Durgamasura) is an asura king in Hindu mythic narratives whose threat to cosmic order is answered by the mother‑goddess Durga (and in some variants other forms such as Shakambhari or Kalaratri). His defeat is invoked in multiple sources to explain aspects of the goddess’s name and cultic authority.
Durinn is an early named dwarf (Old Norse: dvergr) attested in the medieval Norse corpus; counted as the second-created dwarf after Mótsognir and associated in saga tradition with exceptional smithcraft, including a role in forging the magic sword Tyrfing.
In Hindu mythology, Durukti is the sister and wife of the asura Kali, associated with the complexities of human society. (Note: * The power tier is likely incorrect, considering Durukti's association with an asura (a type of demonic being) but not explicitly described as cosmic or deity-level. * Appearance and abilities are mi)
Durvasa is a legendary rishi in Hindu scriptural tradition, famed for an irascible temper and the real effects of his blessings and curses. He functions as a moral tester of hospitality and ritual propriety, appearing in hermitages, royal courts, and divine assemblies; narratives record that his words can alter fortunes of humans and gods alike.
Dushana is a named rakshasa (demon) attested in Ramayana-cycle materials as one of the forest chiefs allied to Khara and counted among Ravana's kin; he is reported slain in encounters with Rama's party during the exile (Aranya/Panchavati episodes).
Dushara is a principal pre-Islamic Nabataean deity, venerated as a city and mountain-linked patron god (notably of Petra and Hegra). Represented commonly by aniconic stone symbols, he was the focus of petitionary cult practice (notably animal sacrifice) and was syncretized by classical authors with Greco‑Roman gods.
A class of continental Celtic (Gaulish) aerial/rustic fertility spirits attested in late‑antique and early‑medieval texts; equated by Christian authors with Pan/Faunus and later with incubi, they are described as aerial beings that may appear bodily, engage in sexual intercourse with women and animals, and at times damage or steal crops.
Duttur is a Mesopotamian goddess primarily attested as the mourning mother of the god Dumuzid. She appears in Sumerian and Akkadian lament literature and in god lists, where she is associated by placement or function with other mourning and underworld figures and with pastoral imagery (logogram U8, 'ewe').
A Filipino folkloric small humanoid being described in source materials as 'smaller people'—normal-looking humans of miniature stature—often compared in English-language descriptions to elves or leprechauns.
In Persian mythology, Duzakh is a place of punishment and suffering in the afterlife. (Note: 1. Power tier should be adjusted to "Lesser" as Duzakh is a specific place of punishment, not a cosmic entity. 2. The origin story and appearance are missing. 3. Abilities could be more specific about)
Dvalinn is an Old Norse mythic name attested in the Poetic Edda and several sagas applied to at least two distinct figures: a named dwarf among the dwarf-kind (craftsman, rune‑figure, leader in some lists) and one of the four harts/stags that feed among the branches of the world‑tree Yggdrasill. The corpus does not reconcile these uses of the same name into a single coherent biography.
A dvarapala (Sanskrit Dvārapāla, "door guard") is an institutionalized door- or gate-guardian figure embodied in sculpture and architectural practice across Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain contexts and their cultural spheres. Placed at thresholds of temples, shrines, and palaces, dvarapalas function as protective tutelary presences—often rendered as warrior or fearsome figures—and have local stylistic variants across South and Southeast Asia.
In Hindu tradition, a Dvipa is one of seven islands or continents surrounding an ocean within the multicontinental model of the universe. (Note: 1. Power tier should be "Ancient" as Dvipas are described as part of a multicontinental model and regions of the cosmos, suggesting they have deity-level power. 2. Origin story is accurate but could b)
A Slavic household yard spirit associated with the farmstead courtyard, stables, and pastures. Traditionally depicted in summaries as ambivalent: a guardian of animals and outer domestic space when treated with offerings, but potentially mischievous or dangerous—especially to livestock—if neglected.
A Slavic place spirit of the courtyard, farmstead grounds, cattle shed, and stable. It is treated as the yard- or stable-counterpart to the indoor domovoi and is generally described as less benevolent and potentially dangerous to livestock, especially white animals.
A type of supernatural, human-shaped being in Germanic tradition associated with subterranean places, craft (notably metalwork), and a liminal role between nature and culture. In Norse mythic sources dwarfs function as artisan-makers of powerful objects for gods and occasionally appear in folktales as magical servants bound to objects.
A distinct, long-lived mortal people of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, created by the Vala Aulë, famed for subterranean dwelling, exceptional craft and masonry, and martial stubbornness. They play a persistent cultural and historical role across the Ages of Middle-earth, notably as miners, smiths, and builders of great halls and treasures.
Dyaus (Dyáus; Dyauspitr/Dyauṣpitṛ́) is the Rigvedic daylight‑sky deity and archetypal 'Sky Father' whose union with the earth goddess Prithvi forms the prime parental pair in Vedic cosmology. He functions as a progenitor and sovereignty figure in hymns of the Rigveda and is cognate with the Proto‑Indo‑European daylight‑sky father (cf. Zeus, Jupiter).
A malicious possessing spirit in Jewish mythology, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. (Note: Power tier should be Lesser or Greater, not Primordial (the entity's power level seems too high for a dislocated soul). Origin story and Appearance sections are missing. Abilities should be more sp)
Dyesebel is a fictional Filipino comic-book mermaid character created by Mars Ravelo and drawn by Elpidio Torres, widely adapted into films and television. In her stories she inhabits the marine realm, interacts with humans (notably a love interest named Fredo), and in some versions gains full human form via a bargain with a sea-witch.