A record of the unseen, drawn from world folklore.
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Gallic god associated with Mars, lightning, and war; worshipped in the Rhine-Moselle region. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial is unlikely, given the lack of information about his abilities or behaviors; a more plausible tier would be Greater (powerful regional). 2. Abilities: No direct information a)
Louhi is a major supernatural ruler figure in Finnish mythology presented as the Mistress or ruler of Pohjola, an otherworldly northern realm; she is associated with death, disease, and the origin and control of calamities, and appears in traditions as a queenly or witchlike sovereign who can shapeshift into bird-forms.
A loup garou is a human afflicted with or capable of transforming into a wolf or a wolf–human hybrid (a werewolf). Sources treat it as a folkloric condition or being tied to specific persons rather than a separate species; modern fiction often depicts transformations tied to the full moon and transmissible by bite or scratch.
A supernatural being from Persian-origin tales commonly called parī or peri, depicted as a winged and beautiful creature that appears in supernatural narratives, including motifs of supernatural beings forming romantic attachments to humans. Sources contrast parīs with jinn by noting parīs typically feature in supernatural-tale contexts.
Loviatar is a figure attested in modern reference works as part of Finnish mythic material associated with death and illness; one database entry describes her as a blind daughter of Tuoni. Source material in the supplied corpus also shows nearby or overlapping traditions (notably Louhi) linked to death, disease, and wolves, but the documents provided do not settle whether Loviatar and Louhi are identical, conflated, or distinct in older tradition.
A spiritual realm or land of the dead, ruled by Milu, serving as a transition space between life and death. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial seems too high, considering the ability to only turn people to stone by staring at them; it should be revised to Greater or Lesser. - Sensory cues: while an unsettling feeling)
The luan (luanniao) is a mythological, auspicious bird in Chinese tradition described in classical lexica and mythographic sources as a divine or semi-divine bird whose appearance and song are omen-bearing and ritually significant to rulers and paradisiacal realms.
A multilayered figure whose core identity in the cited sources is the planet Venus as the brilliant morning star (Latin lucifer, 'light-bringer' / Hebrew hêlêl, 'shining one'). In later Jewish and especially Christian exegesis the Isaiah image Helel ben Shachar is reinterpreted as a mythic fall motif and becomes associated with a rebellious heavenly being identified with the adversary; this development overlays the earlier astronomical and poetic personification.
A named infernal official in grimoire and modern occult tradition, presented in later sources as a high-ranking Prince or minister of Hell often associated with oversight of Hell’s government, finances, and secret material power on Earth. The figure appears primarily in the context of the Grand Grimoire tradition and subsequent occult reinterpretations and invocations.
Lucy Pevensie is a fictional human child and one of the four Pevensie siblings in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Within Lewis's narrative cosmology she is a mortal human who travels between England and Narnia, noted for her faith, compassion, and special receptivity to Aslan; she is crowned Queen Lucy the Valiant and later enters Aslan's Country after death.
Lugal-Marada is the tutelary city god of Marad (Sumerian Marda) in Mesopotamian tradition, attested as a martial patron invoked in temple-building inscriptions and Old Babylonian oath formulas and subject to syncretic identification with other deities in scribal/theological lists.
Lugala'abba (dlugal-a-ab-ba) is a Mesopotamian theonym attested in god lists, an Akkadian incantation (Šurpu), an Old Babylonian seal, and a possible temple entry from Nippur. He is associated with the sea and in some textual contexts with the underworld, while in an incantation he is called "the exorcist of the gods, the pure god" and implored to "cast a spell of life."
Lugalbanda is a deified Sumerian royal-hero from the Uruk cycle who appears as a soldier and adventurer in early epic narratives and later as a holy ancestor-god invoked by kings and cults in Mesopotamia.
A paired divine duo in Mesopotamian religion, Lugal‑irra and Meslamta‑ea function as warrior guardian gods of thresholds and gates—especially gates of the underworld—and are identified in astronomical tradition with the 'Great Twins' (Alpha and Beta Geminorum). They were cultically paired (Maštabba, "the divine twins") and honored in temple and apotropaic contexts across multiple Mesopotamian cities.
Lugh is a prominent figure of Irish myth, a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann variously portrayed as a warrior, king, master craftsman and saviour. Epithets (e.g., Lámfada, Samildánach) stress his long arm and polyvalent skill; medieval texts place him centrally in the mythic history of Ireland (notably the Battle of Mag Tuired) and later comparative traditions identify him with the pan‑Celtic Lugus and, by interpretatio romana, with Mercury.
The spirit of the Brahmaputra river itself — 'Luit' being the Assamese name for the Brahmaputra and 'Xuri' meaning spirit or essence. One of the few major rivers in Hindu tradition that is male (Brahma's son), his spirit in Assamese folk belief is unpredictable, powerful, and must be addressed before any seasonal beginning.
Luke Cage is a fictional African-American comic-book superhero created for Marvel Comics in 1972. Portrayed as a formerly incarcerated man who gained superhuman strength and highly durable skin through an experimental procedure, he operates as a street-level hero—originally a 'Hero for Hire'—whose stories engage themes of race, class, and the criminal justice system.
Lulal is a Sumerian-origin divine figure attested as a minor god and as an anthropomorphized protective being in Mesopotamian ritual practice. He functions mythically as an attendant or bodyguard of Inanna and pragmatically as an apotropaic presence deployed on amulets, bells, reliefs and clay statues to guard thresholds, baths, and courtyards.
Lumma is a minor Mesopotamian deity attested in temple lists and incantations, functioning as a warrior-farmer and a guardian of the Ekur (Enlil’s temple) often invoked to seize or restrain harmful supernatural beings.
A magical Finnish incantation in Kalevala meter, serving as a tool for magic users to cast powerful spells. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial is too high, given that it's used for "powerful spells" rather than cosmic or deity-level effects. 2. Summary: Luote is an incantation, not a tool; it's the magic users who u)
In Roman tradition, Lupae refers to a female wolf or prostitute symbolizing fertility and protection. (Note: - Power tier: Change to Ancient (deity-level) as Lupae's abilities and symbolism suggest a higher level of power than Primordial. - Abilities: Clarify that Lupae is associated with fertility and prote)
A Primordial entity associated with the mythological origins of Rome, connected to fertility and nurturing through its relationship with the she-wolf (Lupa). The Lupercal entity is linked to a cave at the southwest foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome. (Note: 1. The power tier should be reevaluated; being associated with fertility and nurturing through a mythological context does not necessarily imply Primordial-level powers. 2. Sensory cues are unknown ba)
A Caribbean folkloric sea monster associated especially with the blue holes and submerged limestone caverns of Andros Island, The Bahamas; described as a large mollusk-like or hybrid cephalopod predator said to seize swimmers, fishermen, and boats and drag them into underwater sinkholes.
Luxovius (Latinized Luxovios) is a local Gallo‑Roman god associated with the waters of Luxeuil (the sanctuary at Luxeuil‑les‑Bains). He is attested in votive inscriptions as a place‑bound healing/spring deity and is paired in the cult with a female consort, Bricta (Brixta). Etymology links his name to a Proto‑Indo‑European *leuk‑ 'light/whiteness', suggesting combined associations of light and curative waters in his character.
Lwa, also spelled loa, are spirit beings venerated within the African diasporic religion of Haitian Vodou and incorporated into some revivalist forms of Louisiana Voodoo. Many lwa identities derive in part from deities of West African traditions, especially Fon and Yoruba.
Lycaon is a legendary early king of Arcadia in Greek myth, portrayed as an archetypal impious ruler whose filicidal crime and attempt to deceive Zeus function as a moral and etiological tale linking Arcadian genealogy to mythic origins.
Lycaon is a mythic king of Arcadia who, in the commonly attested classical version, murders and cooks his son to test Zeus's omniscience and is by divine retribution transformed into a wolf; the tale functions as an etiological and moral narrative about impiety and metamorphosis in Greek myth.
Lycastus (Greek Λύκαστος) is a personal name attested in Greek mythic and geographic tradition for several human figures and an eponymous place: a Cretan king in the Minos genealogies, an Arcadian twin/hero (son of Ares and Phylonome) exposed and suckled by a she‑wolf, a lover in a sacrificial tale, and an autochthonic eponym for a town in Crete.
Lycomedes is attested in the provided sources as a human figure from Greek myth — the king of the Dolopians on the island of Scyros during the Trojan War — and as a modern reuse of the name in biological taxonomy and as an online contact/handle. The supplied material contains no evidence treating Lycomedes as a supernatural spirit.
A legendary Arcadian king of Tegea known chiefly from genealogical notices in classical sources. Presented in the supplied materials as a mortal member of Aleus' family who functions within mythic kinship networks (brother to figures tied to the Argonaut cycle and father to named descendants such as Ancaeus), rather than as a divine or chthonic being.
Lycurgus (Anc. Greek: Λυκοῦργος) is a legendary king of Tegea in Arcadia celebrated in Greek epic and local tradition for ambushing and killing the famed warrior Areithous. He is remembered in Arcadian ritual as the honoree of the Moleia feast and figures in variant genealogies and succession accounts.
Lycurgus (Lykourgos) is a legendary king of the Edoni in Thrace, son of Dryas, remembered in Greek mythic tradition for his opposition to the arrival or cult of Dionysus. Classical and modern reference sources record episodes in which he persecutes Dionysus' followers and is punished by the god, and other traditions place him in chronologies of the mythic past.
Lycus (Ancient Greek: Λύκος, lit. 'wolf') is not a single supernatural being but an ancient Greek personal name and toponym applied to multiple mythological human figures (notably regents and rulers in Theban cycles) and to several rivers across the classical world. The extant sources present Lycus primarily as mortal mythic actors or as geographic names rather than as an independent class of spirit or creature.
Lynceus is a recurring proper name in Greek myth borne by several distinct human figures (and once by a hound) rather than a single supernatural class. Bearers of the name appear across heroic and founding narratives — notably as a son of Aegyptus who survives the Danaid massacre and becomes king of Argos, and as Lynceus son of Aphareus, an Argonaut noted for his role as lookout of the Argo.
Lynceus of Argos is a mythic human figure in Greek legendary genealogy: a prince of Egypt, son of Aegyptus, who marries the Danaid Hypermnestra and thereby begins the Danaid dynasty that, in mythic descent, leads to Perseus. He is presented as a mortal king of Argos who succeeds Danaus on the throne and functions as an ancestor/founder figure in Argive dynastic legend.
Lyrcus (Ancient Greek Λύρκος) is a mythological human figure in Greek tradition known from two principal strands: a Hellenistic romantic episode preserved by Parthenius (Lyrcus son of Phoroneus) and a local eponymic tradition (Lyrcus son of Abas) that explains the name Lyrceia. He appears as an eponymous founder/hero and as a mortal actor in stories of exile, marriage, oracular consultation, and dynastic recognition; no supernatural powers or ritual prescriptions directed specifically at him are recorded in the cited sources.
Lysianassa (Ancient Greek: Λυσιάνασσα) is a personal name borne by multiple figures in Greek myth, including one of the Nereids (sea-nymphs) and several mortal princesses who appear in genealogical traditions (an Egyptian-linked consort of Poseidon, a Sicyonian princess who married into Argive royalty, and a daughter of Priam). The name functions as an individual personal/epithet across different local myths rather than denoting a single type of supernatural being.
Lysidice (Greek: Λυσιδίκη) is a minor mortal figure in Greek mythic genealogies, attested as a daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia and appearing as an ancestress in Pelopid family trees (for example as mother of Hippothoe by Mestor and as a kin‑link to Alcmena). She is preserved in classical genealogical summaries rather than in independent narrative or cultic contexts.
Lysinomus (Ancient Greek: Λυσίνομον) is a Mycenaean prince in Greek mythic genealogy, one of the sons of King Electryon of Mycenae and Anaxo. He is recorded as having been killed in the feud between Electryon’s sons and the sons of the Taphian king Pterelaus; his death functions etiologically in the succession-disputes that precede the generation of Heracles.
Lysithea is a name applied to multiple unrelated referents in classical myth, modern astronomy, biological taxonomy, and contemporary fiction. In Greek mythic genealogies she appears as a daughter of Oceanus and is listed among lovers of Zeus; separately, Lysithea is the name of an irregular satellite of Jupiter, a genus of red algae, and a modern fictional character in the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
Lyssa Drak is a DC Comics character, a Talokian member of the Sinestro Corps who serves as a trainer and recorder for recruits, keeper of the Book of Parallax, and later becomes bound to and associated with the Book of the Black during Blackest Night/Brightest Day storylines.
Læraðr (also Léraðr; anglicized Laerad) is a named sacred tree in Old Norse mythic geography described as standing over Odin’s hall/Valhöll. In the Poetic Edda (Grímnismál) and Prose Edda (Gylfaginning) it is the tree browsed by the goat Heiðrún and the stag Eikþyrnir; modern scholars sometimes identify it with or as an aspect/name of the central world-tree Yggdrasill.
Two human individuals in Old Norse eschatology who are foretold to survive Ragnarök by hiding in Hoddmímis holt, subsisting on morning dew, and who repopulate the renewed world thereafter.
Lúthien and Beren are two central figures in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium: Lúthien is a half-elven princess, daughter of the Elven King Thingol and the Maia Melian, and Beren is a mortal man of the House of Bëor. Their tale is an archetypal story of transgressive love and quest — including the bride-price of a Silmaril, enchantments and confrontations with Sauron and Morgoth — and it functions as a foundational myth within the First Age histories and later genealogies of Middle-earth.
Lākhe (Nepal Bhasa: लाखे, lā-khé) is a type of demon in Newar (Kathmandu Valley) folklore. Lākhe appear as ferocious masked figures in public festival performances; some named Lākhe, notably Majipa Lakhey, are ritually worshipped and function as civic protectors during festivals such as Yenya (Indra Jatra) and Gunla.
A mythical creature in Vietnamese culture, considered the national bird of Vietnam. (Note: * Remove "national bird of Vietnam" from summary, as it only mentions the Lạc bird is considered one. * Power tier should be set to Unknown or Unspecified, as no information is available on its abilit)
Ma are wandering souls or spirits of the dead in Vietnamese cultural belief who, depending on ritual treatment, may become protective ancestors or remain restless ghosts that affect the living's luck and daily life. They are embedded in practices of ancestor worship, domestic offerings, and the work of spirit mediums.
The supplied source corpus does not contain ethnographic or textual descriptions of Ma Da (ma đói) in Vietnamese tradition. Only two relevant fragments appear: the Vietnamese name for the Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī (Chú đại bi / Đại bi tâm đà la ni) and a note that auspicious/inauspicious days are recognized in Vietnam. No direct sourced information about ma đói’s attributes, rituals, or role is present in the provided materials.
Maaemä (Finnish) / Maaema (Estonian) is the personification of the earth as a maternal, generative principle in Finnish and Estonian runic-song and folk-ritual material; she functions as the 'earth mother' who receives offerings and is invoked regarding fertility, harvest, and things that come from the ground.
Maara is attested in the provided materials not as a traditional supernatural being but as a contemporary proper name: the title and central character of a 2021 Tamil film and its soundtrack, and as a modern personal/artist/place name in several publications. No folkloric cosmology, rituals, or mythic origin are documented for Maara in the supplied sources.
Maat is the ancient Egyptian concept and personified goddess of truth, balance, law, morality, and justice. As both an abstract ordering principle and a divine personification, she underlies cosmic order, legitimizes kingship, and functions as the judicial standard in life and the Weighing of the Heart in the afterlife.
Macar (Ancient Greek: Μάκαρ; Latin Macareus) is a personal name borne by multiple distinct mortal figures in Greek myth—kings, princes, companions, and eponymic ancestors—rather than a single supernatural species. The name literally means "happy, blissful," and its bearers appear in varied local genealogies, foundation myths, and heroic narratives (e.g., sons of Lycaon, a Heliad of Rhodes, a Lapith warrior, and a companion of Odysseus).
Macareus (Macar, Macareas) is an onomastic cluster: a name borne by several distinct mortal personages in Greek myth (e.g., a son of Lycaon, a son of Aeolus, a Heliad, island kings, a Lapith warrior, and a companion of Odysseus). The attested figures are narrative and genealogical characters rather than a single coherent supernatural being.
A modern, English-language label used in contemporary psychedelic discourse for visionary entities reported during DMT or ayahuasca experiences. The term appears across media, forum discussion, and artistic works rather than in a documented traditional cosmology.
Mada (Sanskrit मद) is both a technical vice in Hindu soteriological discourse — one of the six Arishadvargas denoting arrogance or intoxication of mind — and a personified asura in the Mahabharata, created by the sage Chyavana whose cosmic appetite is used to compel Indra to yield. As a vice it denotes a psychological obstacle to moksha; as a mythic being it functions as an overwhelmingly powerful, coercive force within a single epic episode.
Madam Koi Koi is a Nigerian urban-legend apparition — a vengeful, site-bound female ghost associated with boarding schools, known for the distinctive clicking of red high heels. Tales present her as a punitive presence that haunts dormitories, hallways and toilets at night and as a cultural warning about nocturnal transgressions and unresolved injustice.
A named White Lady ghost of Newport and Chetwynd Park, Shropshire, said to be the restless spirit of a deceased woman tied to the Pigott family and to specific local landmarks; traditions describe repeated nocturnal appearances, interactions with riders, and two different local remedies (clerical Psalm-reading exorcism and a Romani-style bottling and drowning).
Madame Goliath is attested only as a terse label in a single database entry describing a "giant from Ath." The provided source set contains no narrative, ethnographic, or ritual information about this figure; all other consulted items do not reference the entity.
Madame Morrible is a fictional experienced sorceress and administrator in Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked and its stage and film adaptations; she serves as headmistress (novel) or Dean of Sorcery Studies (film) at Shiz and acts as a political agent allied with the Wizard of Oz, using institutional authority and, in some adaptations, explicit magical powers to further state aims.
Madhusudana is an epithet of Vishnu, a major deity in Hinduism, associated with qualities and actions attributed to Vishnu. (Note: * Power tier: Lower to Primordial is too strong, given the lack of information about specific powers; Greater would be more suitable. * Abilities: Delete "However" sentence as it implies there's some )