Germanic Supernatural Beings

252 documented Germanic supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 139 lesser and 34 minor spirit in power tier.

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Abraun
Minor Spirit

Abraun

Abraun is an attested name in German-language plant-legend scholarship (Der abraun, ein beitrag zur pflanzensagenkunde, 1916) and a short database entry (Wikidata) labels it as a spirit from German mythology. Surviving accessible documentation is extremely limited: the principal academic treatment is a 1916 contribution to pflanzensagenkunde (plant-saga studies), but the excerpts available here contain only bibliographic metadata and do not record tales, descriptions, or rituals.

Adils
Lesser

Adils

Adils (Old Norse Aðils; also Eadgils, Adillus, Athisl, Adhel) is a semi‑legendary sixth‑century Swedish king attested in Old Norse saga material and later medieval traditions. He appears in saga episodes as a storied royal figure involved in warfare, court acts, and marriage suits rather than as a supernatural being.

Agilaz (Egil)
Lesser

Agilaz (Egil)

Agilaz (reconstructed Proto-Germanic) — commonly recorded in medieval sources as Egil or Ægil — is a legendary archer attested in Germanic heroic tradition. He appears as the brother of Völund (Wayland/Weland) in the Old Norse poem Völundarkviða and in the Thidreks saga, and his name is also inscribed on early medieval objects (Franks Casket, Pforzen buckle). The attested material presents him as a named heroic human archer within saga and inscriptional contexts rather than as a recurrent supernatural species.

Alaisiagae
Lesser

Alaisiagae

A group of Germanic female deities attested in Roman Britain, worshipped by continental auxiliary troops at a shrine near Vercovicium (Housesteads) on Hadrian's Wall. Epigraphic evidence records dedications to named members (Beda, Fimmilena, and in other lists Baudihillia and Friagabis) alongside Mars Thincsus and the numen of the emperor; modern scholarship interprets them variously as war/victory goddesses, as goddesses associated with assembly/justice, or as part of Matronae‑type fertility/ancestor cults.

Alberich
Primordial

Alberich

In Germanic heroic legend, Alberich is a dwarf associated with elven qualities and power. (Note: 1. Power tier: Reduce to Ancient as Alberich's abilities are not described beyond being a dwarf with elven qualities. 2. Origin story: Clarify that Alberich is mentioned in multiple Germanic texts, bu)

Alcis
Lesser

Alcis

A pair of youthful brother-deities worshipped by the Naharvali, attested only in Tacitus' Germania (c. 98 CE). They were venerated in a sacred grove under the care of a priest in female attire and are compared by Roman ethnography to the Graeco‑Roman Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux).

Ale the Strong
Greater

Ale the Strong

Ale the Strong (Old Norse: Áli hinn frækni; Latin: Olo Vegetus) is a legendary human king in medieval Scandinavian saga and chronicle tradition. Portrayed as a vigorous and fearsome warrior-king, he appears in Heimskringla, Gesta Danorum and the Codex Runicus cycle and is consistently slain by the hero Starkad.

Alf and Alfhild
Lesser

Alf and Alfhild

Alf and Alfhild are legendary human figures from Old Norse/early Scandinavian narrative tradition preserved principally in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. The tale presents Alf as a Danish prince and Alfhild as a Geatish princess who becomes a shieldmaiden and leader of a fleet of female raiders; their story includes combat, recognition, marriage, and later dynastic conflict.

Allerleirauh
Minor Spirit

Allerleirauh

Allerleirauh is the eponymous heroine of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale (Grimm no. 65; ATU 510B) who flees an enforced-marriage crisis by disguising herself in a mantle of many furs, takes menial service in another court, and later reveals her identity through three magnificent dresses and token objects to secure recognition and marriage.

Alp
Lesser

Alp

A German-speaking folkloric figure associated with nocturnal disturbance of sleepers. Historically tied to the broader Germanic family of 'elves' and treated variously as an eerie nature-being in medieval glosses and as a male nocturnal spirit in later folk accounts that sits on sleepers' chests and causes nightmares (Alptraum) and 'elf-pressure' (Alpdruck).

Alraune
Lesser

Alraune

Alraune is the German folkloric figure identified with the humanoid-shaped mandrake (Mandragora officinarum) and the eponymous female character in Hanns Heinz Ewers's 1911 novel. In folklore the mandrake/Alraune is associated with love philtres, fertility, and a medieval gallows-origin legend; in literature the name labels a woman artificially conceived from a criminal's semen, whose emotional life and actions dramatize the folk moral about such origins.

Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte

Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte

A historical survey of Germanic religious history, providing an overview of the pantheon of gods and goddesses. (Note: - Power tier is not applicable to historical surveys - The article should reflect that it's a historical survey, not an entity with abilities or appearance - Consider adding information on the signifi)

Amleth
Minor Spirit

Amleth

Amleth (Old Norse: Amlóði; Latinized Amlethus) is a legendary medieval Scandinavian prince and saga-hero best known from Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. He is a human protagonist whose story centers on feigned madness, cunning survival, exile to Britain, marriage, wealth-gathering, and eventual vengeance against his father's murderer; the tale later inspired the character of Shakespeare's Hamlet and numerous adaptations.

Anglo-Saxon Deities
Primordial

Anglo-Saxon Deities

A list of deities from the Anglo-Saxon pantheon, likely derived from Old English and other Germanic languages. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial seems too high given the sparse written record and limited information on abilities. 2. Appearance: Delete statement as no physical descriptions are provided in available sou)

Angul
Lesser

Angul

Angul is a legendary human eponymous ancestor attested in medieval Nordic origin narratives, most notably Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, where he and his brother Dan are presented as forefathers and founders of the Danes; Angul is also named as ancestor of the Angles who later migrated to Britain and gave their name to England.

Antero Vipunen
Primordial

Antero Vipunen

A giant in Finnish mythology with valuable spells and knowledge, possibly associated with underworldly powers. (Note: * Power tier should be Ancient (deity-level) due to possessing "very valuable spells and knowledge", which suggests immense magical power but not necessarily cosmic-level. * Appearance should clarify )

Aschanes
Lesser

Aschanes

Aschanes is attested in medieval and modern sources as a legendary eponymous ancestor associated with Saxon origin tales (not presented as a clearly supernatural being). The name also appears separately in biblical-commentarial material where its status as a personal name or an office is debated.

Aschenbrödel
Minor Spirit

Aschenbrödel

Aschenbrödel is the German-language name and theatrical/literary manifestation of the Cinderella heroine (Aschenputtel/Cendrillon) found in European fairy‑tale tradition and adapted in ballets, films, recordings, and stage productions. The figure functions as a narrative protagonist — the mistreated but virtuous youth who is eventually recognized and rewarded — rather than a supernatural being.

Askafroa
Lesser

Askafroa

A female tutelary spirit identified as the localized soul or guardian of an individual ash tree in southern Swedish folk belief (notably Scania). Traditionally propitiated annually on Ash Wednesday to prevent illness or damage that was believed to follow injury to the tree.

Aufhocker
Lesser

Aufhocker

The Aufhocker is a German folkloric shapeshifting 'pressure' or 'perching' spirit that leaps upon the backs or shoulders of solitary travelers, weighing them down with each step until victims become exhausted, incapacitated, or—in some variants—killed. It is associated with liminal places (bridges, crossroads, hollow paths, cemeteries) and exists in multiple narrative roles including punitive agent, nightmare embodiment, and theriomorphic attacker.

Aurvandil
Lesser

Aurvandil

Aurvandil is a named figure in medieval Germanic traditions attested across Norse, Old English, Old High German, Lombardic, and Old Danish/Latinized sources. In Norse material he figures in a cosmological episode in which Thor casts his frozen toe into the sky as the star Aurvandils-tá; in Old Danish/Latinized tradition (Saxo) a Horwendillus/Ørvendil bearing the same name appears as the father of Amlethus in a legendary-genealogical narrative.

Aurvandill
Lesser

Aurvandill

Aurvandill is a figure attested in medieval Germanic onomastics and Norse narrative, most famously remembered in an Old Norse tale where Thor carries him across icy rivers and his frozen toe is cast into the sky as the star called Aurvandils-tá. Comparative linguistic study reconstructs a Common Germanic name associated with dawn or the morning star.

Baduhenna
Lesser

Baduhenna

Baduhenna is a named female deity attested once in Tacitus (Annals) as having a sacred grove (lucus) in ancient Frisia; modern scholarship interprets her name as linking a battle element with the matronal name-element and therefore views her as a local matron-like goddess with associations to war and a cult-site.

Bahkauv
Lesser

Bahkauv

Aachen-area monstrous figure in Rhineland folklore depicted as an elongated or deformed calf with sharp fangs that lurks near wells, springs, sewers and fountains and traditionally ambushes intoxicated men at night, latching onto their shoulders before attacking. The creature is tied to urban water features in Aachen and appears in civic memory (notably a statue placed over an associated well in 1902 and replaced in 1967).

Baldr
Ancient

Baldr

Baldr (Old Norse Baldr; Old English Bældæġ; Old High German Balder/Palter) is a god in Germanic mythology. In the Norse branch he is named as a son of Odin and Frigg and as a member of the Aesir, attested alongside brothers such as Thor and Váli in the supplied sources.

Barnstokkr
Ancient

Barnstokkr

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.

Beaduhild (Böðvildr)
Lesser

Beaduhild (Böðvildr)

Beaduhild (Old Norse Böðvildr; Old English Beaduhild/Beadohild; also Bodil, Badhild) is a legendary human princess in Germanic heroic tradition whose life is entangled with the smith Wayland (Weland/Vǫlundr). In earlier sources she appears as a tragic victim in the Weland cycle; in later Scandinavian recensions she is recast as Wayland's wife and the mother of a heroic descendant (Viðga).

Beerwolf
Lesser

Beerwolf

Beerwolf (also attested Bärwolf, Werwolf) is a German term equated with the werewolf in folkloric vocabulary and separately used as a political-theoretical metaphor in 16th‑century Protestant resistance discourse to designate a ruler who has placed himself outside the moral and legal order.

Belsnickel
Lesser

Belsnickel

Belsnickel is a traditional fur-clad Yuletide visitor from the Palatinate region of southwestern Germany who inspects children's behaviour, disperses sweets to the well-behaved, and threatens or administers punishment (often symbolically) to the naughty. The figure survives in Pennsylvania Dutch and other diaspora communities and appears both as a solitary domestic visitor and as part of boisterous communal processions called 'Belsnickling' or 'Klausentreiben'.

Beowa (Germanic Tradition)
Greater

Beowa (Germanic Tradition)

A figure associated with barley and agriculture, appearing in Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies. (Note: - Power tier should be Primordial or Ancient, as it's associated with agriculture and fertility on a cosmic or deity-level. - The appearance section is missing, but since there's no description in the)

Beowulf
Lesser

Beowulf

Beowulf is a legendary Geatish hero preserved in the Old English epic poem Beowulf. Presented as an exceptional human warrior and later king, he undertakes dangerous journeys to aid other polities (notably the Danes of Hrothgar) and to protect his own people, confronting monstrous threats such as Grendel and Grendel's mother.

Berchta (Perchta)
Greater

Berchta (Perchta)

Berchta (also Perchta/Percht) is an Alpine and Upper Germanic female supernatural figure tied to midwinter/Christmastide customs. In surviving folkloric and folkloristic sources she appears as a polyvalent mother-earth/seasonal figure who rewards industrious household behavior and punishes neglect, and who is associated with wintertime movements and textile work (spinning/distaff).

Berchtold
Lesser

Berchtold

Berchtold is primarily a Germanic personal name; in one brief folkloric attestation from 16th‑century German sources the name Berchtold is recorded as the leader of the Wild Hunt, replacing the female figure Perchta. Beyond this isolated mention there is no sustained folkloric tradition, description, or ritual corpus for a supernatural Berchtold in the provided sources.

Berggeist
Lesser

Berggeist

A German-language term denoting a mountain-spirit: an immanent, place-bound personality associated with a specific mountain. The concept is discussed in 19th-century German folkloristic classification of nature-spirits (Mannhardt) and appears in 20th-century artistic representation (Josef Madlener's painting "Der Berggeist").

Bergmönch
Greater

Bergmönch

A German mountain spirit associated with pits and mines; described as a hooded, giant figure who aids favored miners and punishes those who offend him or violate mining-community mores. He appears in mining locales and may manifest as a monk-like giant, a miner, a horse, or become invisible.

Bieresel
Lesser

Bieresel

A German household/local spirit associated with beer, breweries, inns and cellars, the Bieresel alternates between helping by performing chores in exchange for a nightly portion of beer and causing mischief or harm when neglected; some regional variants in Thuringia and former German‑speaking Bohemia depict street‑roaming, aufhocken behavior.

Bilwis
Lesser

Bilwis

A Germanic field- and corn-spirit (one of the Feldgeister/Korndämonen) associated with grain, harvest and weather; portrayed variously in sources as a mischievous household sprite, a healer if propitiated, or a crop‑stealing bogeyman.

Bishop-fish
Lesser

Bishop-fish

The bishop-fish (also called the sea bishop) is a legendary marine prodigy recorded in 16th-century European accounts and natural histories. Reported incidents include specimens exhibited to rulers and clerics — one taken to the King of Poland and another shown to Catholic bishops, which allegedly made the sign of the cross and returned to the sea — and a 1531 capture near Germany of a specimen that refused food and died in captivity.

Black Spider
Lesser

Black Spider

Black Spider is a name applied to distinct cultural entities: (A) a costumed human vigilante/assassin (Eric Needham) in DC Comics continuity, and (B) a supernatural figure around which Jeremias Gotthelf's nineteenth‑century Swiss novella The Black Spider is framed. The usages are separate: one is a modern fictional vigilante within superhero narratives, the other a literary supernatural motif tied to plague and a Faustian pact in a rural Swiss setting.

Blenda
Lesser

Blenda

Blenda is the eponymous heroine of a Småland legend (Blendasägnen) who, according to local tradition, rallied the rural women of Värend to defeat a pillaging Danish force; the tale functions as an aetiological foundation for certain local social rights and ritual markers rather than describing a supernatural being.

Boars in Heraldry
Lesser

Boars in Heraldry

The boar (including the wild boar and the boar's head) is a recurring emblematic animal charge within European heraldry and related civic and family identity systems. Treated as a conventional heraldic device rather than a supernatural being, the boar functions as a visual signifier of lineage, allegiance, martial reputation and canting (name-play) across antiquity, the medieval period and into the early modern era.

Boromir
Lesser

Boromir

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.

Brangaine
Lesser

Brangaine

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.

Brittia
Ancient

Brittia

In Germanic tradition, Brittia is a mythological concept and physical location associated with the afterlife, where souls of the dead are transported. It exists as both an island and an Isle of the Blessed. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial since Brittia is associated with the afterlife and its description implies a cosmic or transcendent level. 2. Add sensory cues: Brittia's association with death and )

Brook horse
Minor Spirit

Brook horse

No attested folkloric entity called 'Brook horse' appears in the supplied sources. The corpus contains a general note on Germanic water-spirits (nixie family) and several toponymic references to brooks and places named with 'Horse' or 'Brook'; any linking of these materials into a distinct 'Brook horse' folk-entity is not documented in the provided research notes.

Brunhild
Unknown/Not applicable

Brunhild

A female character in Germanic heroic legend, associated with royal or noble status. (Note: * Power tier: Unknown/Not applicable -> Minor Spirit (as there are no specific abilities mentioned) * Origin story: Add that Brunhild is associated with several sources, including historical figures s)

Brynhildr (Brunhild / Brunhilda)
Greater

Brynhildr (Brunhild / Brunhilda)

Brynhildr (Old Norse) — also known as Brunhild or Brunhilda in Germanic tradition — is a named valkyrie and tragic heroine of the Sigurd/Brunhild cycle in Old Norse-Icelandic heroic poetry. She appears in the Poetic Edda and related heroic lays as a fateful, martial woman associated with the valkyrie class and the narrative of Sigurðr (Sigurd) and Guðrún.

Buschgroßmutter
Lesser

Buschgroßmutter

A female wood/forest spirit of German folklore, especially attested in Thuringia, Saxony, German Silesia and parts of Bohemia and Transylvanian Saxon tradition. She is an ancient, ambivalent grandmotherly figure of the underwood who may reward respectful helpers or punish mockery and transgression of forest norms.

Bysen
Lesser

Bysen

Bysen is a legendary gnome-like being from the island of Gotland, Sweden, associated with woods, boundaries, and mischief. Accounts portray Bysen both as a small forest guardian/agent and, in some variants, as a restless deceased person condemned for moving boundary markers.

Bäckahäst
Lesser

Bäckahäst

A Scandinavian water-horse figure: a horse-shaped water spirit associated with streams, rivers, lochs and other watery edges. Presented in comparative folklore as a member of the wider water-spirit or ‘water-horse’ family that functions as a cautionary figure about the hazards of water and unknown horses at the water’s edge.

Böðvildr
Minor Spirit

Böðvildr

Böðvildr is a human princess of Germanic heroic legend, daughter of a king (Níðuðr / Niðhad / Niðung) whose fate is entwined with the smith Wayland (Völundr). In older poetic sources she is presented as a tragic figure—victim of the smith's revenge (murder of her kin and rape)—while later prose redactions (Þiðrekssaga) report that she bore Wayland a son (Viðga) and later married him.

Christkind
Minor Spirit

Christkind

The Christkind is a Central European cultural personification of the Christ Child who functions as the traditional bringer of Christmas gifts in many domestic and civic seasonal practices. Originating in Reformation-era promotion of the infant Jesus as focus of Christmas giving, it persists in diverse regional forms (e.g., Ježíšek, Jézuska) and in civic pageantry such as the Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt.

Christman Genipperteinga
Lesser

Christman Genipperteinga

A late 16th-century German pamphlet figure presented as an extraordinarily prolific outlaw and murderer whose lurid deeds (mass killings, infanticide, cannibalism) are recorded in a 1582 pamphlet by Caspar Herber and later popular summaries; modern scholars treat his historicity as uncertain and view the story as part of a cycle of sensational bandit narratives in early modern German print.

Christmas elf
Lesser

Christmas elf

A modern English-language folkloric figure: a diminutive humanoid helper associated with Santa Claus, depicted as Santa's workshop workforce who assist in toy-making, reindeer care, and seasonal logistics. The figure is a syncretic, commercialized descendant of older household-spirit traditions (álfar, tomte/nisse, kobolds, brownies).

Christmas gift-bringer (tradition)
Lesser

Christmas gift-bringer (tradition)

A culturally variable class of midwinter personae across Europe (and diasporic regions) who deliver gifts to children or the poor during seasonal celebrations (Saints' feast days, Christmas Eve, Epiphany, Yule). Treated variously as saintly figures, household spirits, childlike or old-person figures, or secularized modern personae, they function in ritual exchange and moral pedagogy rather than as a single, uniform supernatural being.

Cinderella's stepsisters
Lesser

Cinderella's stepsisters

Human antagonists in the Cinderella tale-cycle: the stepdaughters of the heroine's stepmother who persecute and compete with the heroine for status and marriage. They function as social and moral foils, varying across Perrault, Grimm, Chinese (Ye Xian) and pantomime traditions in name, appearance, and narrative fate.

Cofgod
Lesser

Cofgod

An Old English term attested as a gloss for the Roman penates, used to denote a household god or domestic spirit in Anglo-Saxon context. The concept is fragmentarily attested and reconstructed largely by analogy with Roman Penates and later household spirits such as kobolds, hobs, and brownies.

Cold Higham

Cold Higham

A village in Northamptonshire, England with a long history dating back to Roman times. It lacks any associated mythology or supernatural significance. (Note: * Power tier: Not specified or implied in source material. * Origin story: Summary already covers the historical background; consider removing the duplicate information. * Appearance, Abilities, Senso)

Companions of Saint Nicholas
Lesser

Companions of Saint Nicholas

A family of regionally variable folkloric figures who accompany Saint Nicholas across territories formerly in the Holy Roman Empire and culturally influenced areas. Acting as a punitive or corrective foil to the gift-giving saint, these companions threaten, punish, or carry away disobedient children in seasonal performances and visits around Saint Nicholas Day (December 6). Individual regional forms range from cloak‑and‑staff servant types to goat- or devil-like figures.

Dag the Wise
Lesser

Dag the Wise

Dag the Wise (Old Norse Dagr spaki) is a legendary Swedish king in the Yngling dynasty attested in skaldic and saga sources. He is noted for understanding the speech of birds and for keeping a sparrow that gathered news; the bird's death prompted a vengeful expedition to Reidgotaland in which Dag was ambushed and killed.