Entity Index

A record of the unseen, drawn from world folklore.

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Eridanos / Eridanus

Eridanos / Eridanus

Eridanos (Latin Eridanus) is a name attested across multiple domains — a river and river-god mentioned in ancient Greek poetry, a southern constellation in astronomy, a geological palaeoriver in northern Europe, and a recurring place-name in modern fiction and music. The supplied sources do not support a single, coherent folkloric supernatural entity under this name; instead the name functions as a toponym applied to waterways, a star-pattern, and various fictional locales.

Erigone (daughter of Aegisthus)

Erigone (daughter of Aegisthus)

Erigone (Ἠριγόνη) in these sources is a mortal figure of Greek heroic genealogy: daughter of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, placed in the post‑Trojan‑War cycle of kin‑slaying, prosecution, and succession. She is attested as both an accuser associated with bringing a charge regarding matricide before Athenian judicial memory and, in several accounts, as the later wife of Orestes.

Erik Josten

Erik Josten

Erik Josten is a fictional human character from Marvel Comics whose physiology and identity have been altered by technological and pseudo-scientific procedures, producing ionic-energy powers, size manipulation, and episodic shifts between villainy and attempted heroism under aliases including Power Man, Smuggler, Goliath, and Atlas.

Erinyes

Erinyes

The three avenging Furies of Greek myth — Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone — who pursued and tormented those guilty of crimes against blood kin, especially murder of family members.

Eriphyle

Eriphyle

Eriphyle (Ancient Greek: Ἐριφύλη, Eriphúlē) is a mythic Argive woman whose acceptance of a bribe (the Necklace/peplos of Harmonia) persuaded her husband Amphiaraus to join the doomed Seven against Thebes. Her decision triggers familial vengeance—her son Alcmaeon murders her—and post‑mortem traditions depict her as a source of haunting or as a punished dead in the underworld.

Eris

Eris

Eris is the Greek goddess and personification of strife and discord who acts to stir up jealousy, envy, and conflict among gods and humans. She appears in mythic narratives as an instigator of disputes (notably the wedding of Peleus and Thetis) and is genealogically credited in Hesiod with at least one offspring, Lethe.

Eris Morn

Eris Morn

Eris Morn is a human non-player character in Bungie’s Destiny video-game series who serves as the Vanguard’s specialist on the alien faction called the Hive. A Hunter and member of the Hidden, she is portrayed as the sole survivor of an ill-fated fireteam and functions in-game as an advisor, quest-giver, and vendor whose trauma-informed knowledge shapes Guardians' operations against the Hive.

Erkliğ Han

Erkliğ Han

Erkliğ Han is a Turkic–Altai celestial lord associated with space, stars, meteorites (falling stars), and the planet Venus. Traditionally titled a Han (ruler), he is described in source material as responsible for visible stellar phenomena, linked in some lists with virility and read as a martial symbol by analogy to his action at sunrise.

Erlang Shen

Erlang Shen

Erlang Shen (二郎神) is a Chinese folk-religious and Daoist divine warrior associated with flood control, justice, hunting, and the subdual of demons. Venerated as a local river/irrigation protector who was later incorporated into Daoist pantheons and popular literary cosmologies, he is commonly depicted as a third-eyed spear-wielding hero accompanied by a celestial hunting dog.

Erlik

Erlik

Erlik (Erlig, Erlik Khan; Mongolian Erleg/Yerleg) is the chthonic ruler of the underworld in Turkic and related steppe mythologies, associated with death, disease, and malignant spirit-agents. He functions as judge and lord of the lowest realm (Tamag), opposes upper-world figures like Ülgen, and demands sacrifices to avert his taking of souls.

Erlking

Erlking

A sinister Germanic spirit of forest and mist who takes children — appearing to them as a welcoming figure while adults see nothing, the child dying in its parent's arms.

Erlkönig (Erlkönig / Erlenkönig)

Erlkönig (Erlkönig / Erlenkönig)

A supernatural, kingly figure in Goethe's ballad who addresses, lures, and ultimately causes the death of a child during a night ride. Presented in the sources as a 'king of the fairies' or a demonic, otherworldly ruler who speaks promises and threats while his manifestations are ambiguously perceived as natural phenomena.

Ermac

Ermac

Ermac is a fictional character from the Mortal Kombat video game franchise, presented in‑universe as an amalgam of the souls of deceased warriors who serves as a supernatural combatant. The character originated from a developers' diagnostics label and fan rumor which the franchise later incorporated into official canon; Ermac is noted for a red ninja appearance and telekinetic powers.

Ermanaric

Ermanaric

Ermanaric is a historically attested Greuthungian Gothic king of the fourth century who later becomes a central figure of Germanic heroic legend (Old English Eormenric, Old Norse Jǫrmunrekkr). Sources present him as a powerful, warlike ruler whose cruelty (notably the execution of Svanhild/Sunilda) provokes cycles of violent vengeance in later poetry and saga.

Ernmas

Ernmas

Ernmas is an ancestral maternal figure among the Tuatha Dé Danann recorded in medieval Irish sources. She is attested chiefly as the mother of two important triads (Ériu, Banba, Fódla and Badb, Macha, Mórrígan) and several sons, and is said in at least one source to have been killed during the first battle of Mag Tuired.

Eros

Eros

Eros (Ancient Greek: Ἔρως) is a Greek divine figure associated with love and sexual desire. In Greek sources he appears in two primary registers: as a primordial generative principle in early/Orphic cosmogonies and as a younger deity—often called the son of Aphrodite—who causes desire among gods and mortals.

Erra

Erra

Erra (also Irra) is an Akkadian/Babylonian deity associated with mayhem, pestilence and episodes of political upheaval. Centerpiece of the first-millennium BCE Erra epic, he is attended by the advisor Išum and the destructive group called the Seven (Sibitti/Sebetti), and in tradition is sometimes assimilated to the god Nergal.

Erragal

Erragal

Erragal (also Errakal, Errakalkal, Errakar, Erkal) is a Mesopotamian deity attested from the Isin‑Larsa through Neo‑Babylonian periods. He is polyvalent in function: identified with a star in the MUL.APIN tradition and invoked apotropaically in incantation series, associated in some texts with storm/destructive power and, in some contexts, linked to the underworld; scholarly opinion differs on whether he is distinct from, derived from, or an epithet of Erra.

Erriapus

Erriapus

Erriapus (Saturn XXVIII) is a mid-sized irregular prograde moon of Saturn, a member of the Gallic group of satellites. It is an astronomical object with measured orbital and physical properties and a name taken from a figure in Gaulish mythology; it is not treated as a living spirit in the provided sources.

Ertnii Ezen ("Old Lord")

Ertnii Ezen ("Old Lord")

Attested in a single poetic stanza in Mongolian, Ertnii Ezen (ertnii = ancient, ezen = lord) appears as an evocative epithet linking antiquity, patrimony, and nature. The source presents the phrase as poetic language within a stanza celebrating horses, hereditary value, and Mother Nature's ancient memory, not as a described supernatural being or detailed mythic figure.

Erudinus

Erudinus

Erudinus is a named local pagan god attested by a single Roman-period votive altar inscription found at Monte Dobra near Torrelavega in Cantabria. The altar, discovered in 1925, bears a dedicatory text placing an altar "DEO ERVDINO" and is dated by Roman calendrical and consular formulae (sources disagree whether the inscription was once thought to date to 399 AD but is now dated to 161). No myths, attributes, iconography, or ritual prescriptions for Erudinus survive beyond the inscription and its archaeological context.

Erulus

Erulus

Erulus is a martial-royal figure attested only in Vergil's Aeneid (Evander's reminiscence). Described as king of Praeneste and unusually endowed at birth with three lives (animae) and three sets of arms by the goddess Feronia, he appears as a past opponent whom Evander recalls having slain by taking all three lives.

Erymanthian boar

Erymanthian boar

A singular monstrous wild boar of Arcadian myth associated with Mount Erymanthos; a primeval, destructive animal subdued by Heracles during his Fourth Labour. The creature personifies dangerous wilderness tied to a sacred mountain landscape rather than a personal named monster.

Erymede

Erymede

Erymede (Ancient Greek: Ἐρυμήδη, romanized Erymēdē) is a minor figure in Greek mythographic genealogies, recorded as daughter of Damasiclus (a son of Icarius) and as the mother of the eponym Taenarus by Elatus. She functions etiologically to link familial descent with the place-name Taenarus (Cape/Mount/City Taenarum) and has no attested cult, deeds, or supernatural attributes in the surviving sources.

Erysichthon of Thessaly

Erysichthon of Thessaly

A legendary Thessalian king (or wealthy man in rationalizing accounts) whose sacrilege against a grove of Demeter results in a divine affliction of insatiable hunger. His tale functions as a moral exemplum about reverence for sacred land and the consequences of violating cult sanctuaries.

Erytheis (Erytheia)

Erytheis (Erytheia)

Erytheis (also rendered Erytheia) is attested in modern summaries of Greek myth as one of the Hesperides, the nymphs who tend the garden containing Hera's trees that bear golden apples. She is presented only as a member of that collective role; the cited sources give no independent narratives, descriptions, or rituals specific to her.

Eryx (king of Sicily)

Eryx (king of Sicily)

Eryx is a mythic/eponymous king of western Sicily associated with the Elymians and the mountain-city called Eryx (modern Erice). Ancient Greek and Roman writers present variant genealogies for him and link the name to the cultic site and temple of Aphrodite (the Paphian Venus) on Mount Eryx.

Erzulie Dantor

Erzulie Dantor

Erzulie Dantor (Èzili Dantò) is a senior Petro lwa (spirit) in Haitian Vodou, a dark-mother manifestation within the Erzulie family associated with womanhood and maternal protection. She is prominent in Haitian folk art and is sometimes iconographically syncretized with images of the Black Madonna (Our Lady of Czestochowa) in popular devotional contexts.

Erzulie Freda

Erzulie Freda

Erzulie Freda is a manifestation within the Ezili/Erzulie family of loa in Haitian Vodou associated with aspects of love and femininity. She is named among the prominent incarnations of Erzulie alongside Erzulie Dantor and Lasirenn in the cited sources.

Esfandiyār

Esfandiyār

Esfandiyār is a legendary human prince and warrior in the Iranian epic tradition (the Shahnameh). Presented as a Kayanian crown prince and a divinely supported champion who aids the cause of Zarathustra, his career includes seven labors, receipt of heavenly armor and a binding chain, and a fatal duel with the hero Rostam that functions as a moral and providential pivot in the epic.

Eskandar (Alexander the Great) — Shahnameh tradition

Eskandar (Alexander the Great) — Shahnameh tradition

In Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh Eskandar (Sikandar/Alexander) is a legendary royal-hero integrated into the Iranian royal sequence: a world-conquering monarch who also undertakes spiritual journeys and erects a barrier against apocalyptic forces. The episodes function as a narrative and cosmological bridge from the poem’s mythic Kayanian age to a more historical time-frame.

Espanoi (Shahnameh) — unresolved

Espanoi (Shahnameh) — unresolved

The supplied sources do not support the existence of a supernatural or mythological entity named "Espanoi" in the Shahnameh. The term appears in the materials only as the English ethnonym "Spaniards" and as a bracketed label in an archival item title; no Shahnameh or Persian-folklore descriptions, attributes, or rituals for an "Espanoi" are present in the provided research notes.

Esterka

Esterka

Esterka is a legendary medieval Jewish woman in Polish tradition, famed as the beloved, mistress, or in some accounts wife of King Casimir III (Kazimierz) the Great (reigned 1333–1370). In chronicles and later literature she functions as a bridge between royal/political history and Jewish communal memory in Poland, credited with influencing royal policy toward Jews and memorialized in place‑names and artistic works.

Esther

Esther

Esther is the eponymous human heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible (Megillat Ester). Presented as a Jewish woman who becomes queen in the Persian royal court, her strategic concealment of identity, intercession with King Ahasuerus, and the communal fast she requests are narrated as securing the survival of the Jewish people in that story and underpin the festival of Purim.

Estries

Estries

Supernatural being in Jewish folklore that preys on infants, associated with blood consumption. (Note: - Power tier should be revised to Ancient (deity-level) as Estries' focus on a specific community and their vampiric nature suggests a significant level of power. - The article should include the prov)

Esu (Eshu, Elegbara)

Esu (Eshu, Elegbara)

Esu (also attested as Eshu, Elegbara, Elegua/Elegguá, Exu) is a named Orisha — a deity — in the Yoruba traditional religious system and its diasporic continuations. The provided source identifies Esu principally as an Orisha associated with roads and notes the figure's presence across Ifa/Orisha practice and several Afro-diasporic religions.

Etana

Etana

Etana is a legendary early king of Kish in Mesopotamian tradition who, according to epic texts and the Sumerian King List, aided an eagle and was conveyed to the heaven of the god Anu to seek a 'plant of birth' enabling him to sire an heir. He functions as a culture-hero whose narrative situates kingship, divine favor, and animal intermediaries within Mesopotamian cosmology.

Eteocles

Eteocles

Eteocles is a mytho-historical Theban king of the Greek tradition, son of Oedipus, who becomes central to the dynastic feud with his brother Polynices that culminates in the war of the Seven against Thebes and the mutual killing of the two brothers.

Eteocretans

Eteocretans

The Eteocretans are referred to in classical and modern sources as an indigenous, pre-Greek people of the island of Crete; the name also denotes the pre-Greek language attested in a few alphabetic inscriptions from Crete. In the cited accounts they are treated as an early settler population in a legendary‑historical sequence rather than as a supernatural being.

Eteriani

Eteriani

A Georgian folk epic romance and cultural phenomenon, featuring themes of love, heroism, and chivalry in its oral prose and poetry. (Note: 1. The summary is accurate. 2. Power tier should be Ancient (deity-level) rather than Primordial (cosmic), as Eteriani is a cultural phenomenon tied to human history and not a cosmic entity. 3. Sensor)

Eternal Champion

Eternal Champion

A recurring archetypal hero created by Michael Moorcock who appears as many incarnations across a fictional Multiverse to maintain a metaphysical Balance between the forces of Law and Chaos. The Eternal Champion is described as different facets or incarnations of a single semi‑conscious archetype rather than a single individual.

Ethiopian pegasus

Ethiopian pegasus

A legendary monstrous animal attested in classical and medieval bestiary summaries: a breed of winged, two-horned horse said to come from Aithiopia (ancient 'Ethiopia') and reportedly located on an island in the Red Sea off the coast of Eritrea. It appears in the corpus of Greco‑Roman natural‑history marvels (Pliny is cited in secondary summaries) and later bestiary compilations rather than as a spirit or deity.

Ethniu

Ethniu

Ethniu (also Ethne, Ethliu, Eithne, Ethnea, etc.) is a figure of Irish myth, presented as the daughter of the Fomorian leader Balor and the mother of the hero Lugh. Her story centers on imprisonment to avert a prophecy and the clandestine conception and rescue of her child, motifs that link her to dynastic and prophetic conflicts in the mythic cycles.

Etinṣib Ziwa

Etinṣib Ziwa

Etinṣib Ziwa (also Ītinṣib Ziwa) is an uthra — a divine being or 'messenger of the light' — attested in the Mandaean Book of John (Chapter 3) where he initiates a battle with the figure Nbaṭ and fights with members of Yushamin's lineage.

Etiäinen

Etiäinen

In Finnish folklore, an etiäinen is a harbinger that precedes a person, performing actions they will later undertake. (Note: 1. Factual claim in summary about "preceding a person" not explicitly supported by source material. 2. Power tier should be Primordial, as etiäinens are part of everyday life and associated with every)

Etrigan the Demon

Etrigan the Demon

A fictional infernal being from the DC Comics cosmology: a Hell-origin demon bound to the human Jason Blood by the wizard Merlin. Portrayed as a powerful, rhyming-speaking infernal warrior who alternately opposes and allies with Earth's heroes and participates in conflicts within Hell's hierarchy.

Etruscan Supernatural Entities

Etruscan Supernatural Entities

A pantheon of gods and goddesses heavily influenced by Greek and Roman mythology, worshipped by the Etruscan civilization. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial is not plausible given the described abilities (control over nature and influence over human affairs). A more accurate power tier would be Ancient, as these abilities are simi)

Etügen Eke

Etügen Eke

Etügen Eke (also Etügen, Itügen, Etügen Ekhe) is an earth-mother goddess in Turkic and Mongolic Tengrism traditions, personifying the earth, fertility, homeland and natural forces. She is described in the sources as occupying a high place in the cosmic order, subordinate only to Kök‑Tengri, and is propitiated with seasonal sacrifices tied to pastoral and agricultural cycles.

Euaechme

Euaechme

Euaechme (also Evaechme, Euaichme) is a personal name borne by mortal women in Greek mythic genealogies. The figures so named appear as princesses, wives, and mothers within dynastic narratives (not as supernatural beings) and are recorded primarily to establish lines of descent and marital alliances.

Euaemon (Euaimon)

Euaemon (Euaimon)

Euaemon (Ancient Greek Εὐαίμων) is a recurring personal name and toponym in Greek literary and mythographic sources. It designates several distinct mythic persons — notably a son of Poseidon in Plato's Atlantis myth, one of the fifty sons of Lycaon in Arcadian tradition, and the father of the Homeric warrior Eurypylus — and once appears as a city-name in Stephanus of Byzantium.

Euboea

Euboea

Euboea is primarily the name of a large Greek island (Ancient Greek: Εὔβοια) with longstanding geographic, historical, and mythic associations; it is also the personal name borne by several minor mythological women (notably an Argive naiad who, with her sisters, served as a nurse of Hera). The material does not present Euboea as a single coherent supernatural being.

Euboeus

Euboeus

Euboeus is not a folkloric supernatural being but a name attested in two distinct contexts in the supplied sources: (1) a Linnaean genus of Palaearctic darkling beetles (Euboeus Boieldieu, 1865) and (2) a fragmentary classical author, a comic/parodist poet (presumably Euboeus of Paros, fl. c. 359–336 BC) known from scant citations. No traditional myths, rituals, or cosmological roles attaching supernatural agency to the name are recorded in the provided material.

Euchenor

Euchenor

Euchenor (Greek: Εὐχήνωρ) is a personal name borne by multiple mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies and epic tradition. The name appears for at least: a son of Aegyptus slain on his wedding night, a son (or grandson) of the seer Polyeidos who chose to die at Troy, a son of Aeolus of Lipara, and as the father of the king Echetus in some accounts. The name is also attested in modern reception (poetry, taxonomy, and an asteroid entry).

Eucleia

Eucleia

Eucleia (Ancient Greek Εὐκλεία, 'Good Repute') is a personified virtue‑deity in Classical Greek religion whose cult protected public reputation, family honour, and aspects of civic wellbeing. She appears both as an independent local goddess and as an epithet or aspect of Artemis; her worship is attested in multiple Greek communities and linked to weddings, childbirth, civic festivals, and military votives.

Eudaf Hen

Eudaf Hen

Eudaf Hen (Eudaf "the Old") is a legendary dynastic figure in medieval Welsh and Breton literature, remembered as a king of the Britons and an ancestral founder used in royal and saintly genealogies. He appears in narrative sources (notably The Dream of Macsen Wledig and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia) and in various pedigrees where his identity organizes claims to rulership, descent, and regional foundation (including links to Brittany).

Eudoros

Eudoros

Eudoros (Ancient Greek Εὔδωρος) is a Homeric heroic-age leader, the second of Achilles' five commanders in the Iliad. Presented as a demigod son of Hermes and the mortal Polymele, he commands a contingent of Myrmidons and is praised for speed and fighting skill.

Eufydd fab Dôn

Eufydd fab Dôn

A minor figure in medieval Welsh mythic genealogies and bardic poetry, named among the children of the mother-goddess Dôn and remembered as a skilled practitioner of magic in the Book of Taliesin and the genealogical tract Bonedd yr Arwyr.

Euippe (daughter of Tyrimmas)

Euippe (daughter of Tyrimmas)

Euippe (Ancient Greek: Εὐίππη, Euíppē or Evippe, literally 'good mare') is a mortal woman in Greek mythic genealogies identified as a daughter of Tyrimmas, king of Dodona, who bore Odysseus a son, Euryalus, later mistakenly slain by his father. She functions in surviving sources as a genealogical link tying Odysseus into local dynastic traditions rather than as a supernatural figure.

Eumaeus

Eumaeus

Eumaeus is a mortal character of the Homeric Odyssey: the loyal swineherd and household attendant of Odysseus, raised in his master's household and notable for his hospitality, fidelity, and practical skill in animal husbandry during Odysseus's return to Ithaca.

Eumelus (name borne by several mythic figures)

Eumelus (name borne by several mythic figures)

Eumelus (Ancient Greek: Εὔμηλος, 'rich in sheep') is a personal name applied to multiple mytho-historical figures in Greek tradition — including a son of Poseidon and co‑ruler of Atlantis (called Gadeirus/Eumelus in Plato's account), a king of Pherae and Achaean charioteer who succeeded Admetus and fought at Troy, and several local founders, poets, and family figures in genealogical and epic fragments. These bearers are mortal or semi‑divine actors within mythic narratives rather than a recurring supernatural class.