1796 documented Greek supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 1106 lesser and 335 minor spirit in power tier.
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Iphis is a mythological person from a Cretan tale preserved most fully in Ovid's Metamorphoses: born female and secretly raised as male, Iphis is transformed into a man by the goddess Isis so that he may lawfully marry his beloved Ianthe. The narrative functions as a mythic exemplum addressing gender, social expectations, and divine intervention.
Iphitus (Iphitos) of Oechalia is a mortal prince in Greek myth, son of King Eurytus and brother of Iole, sometimes counted among the Argonauts. He is best known as the named victim whom Heracles kills during a fit of madness, an act that precipitates Heracles' search for purification and eventual servitude to Omphale.
Irus (Ancient Greek: Ἶρος) is a name applied to two distinct mortal figures in Greek myth: a genealogical figure (son of Actor, father of Eurytion and Eurydamas) attested in mythographic/dictionary sources, and Arnaeus, the beggar of Ithaca nicknamed Irus in Book 18 of Homer’s Odyssey. Both are human personae within classical narrative traditions rather than supernatural beings.
Ischepolis is a minor mortal figure in Greek mythology, named as a son of Alcathous of Megara and counted among the hunters who joined the Calydonian boar hunt; he is recorded as having been killed by the boar and is claimed in Megarian tradition to be buried in the prytaneum.
Ischys (Ancient Greek: Ἰσχύς, lit. 'strength') is a mortal figure in Greek myth known as a son of Elatus and the lover of Coronis. His affair with the pregnant Coronis provoked divine retribution that resulted in Coronis's death and Ischys's own killing in differing accounts.
Isis is a major goddess of ancient Egyptian religion, a member of the Heliopolitan Ennead who functions as sister and consort of Osiris, mother and protector of Horus, a funerary and royal protector, and a locus of potent magic whose cult spread through the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean.
Ismene is a mortal Theban princess in the Oedipus/Seven Against Thebes cycle of Greek myth and tragedy, usually presented as a daughter (and half‑sister) of Oedipus and sister of Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. In classical tragedy she functions as a ritual participant and a cautionary, law‑respecting foil to Antigone; earlier poetic and iconographic traditions record divergent, often violent fates.
Ismenis (Ancient Greek Ἰσμηνίς) is a naiad — a freshwater nymph — associated with the Boeotian river Ismenus. In the surviving literary tradition (notably Statius' Thebaid as summarized in modern reference works) she is named as the mother, by Pan, of Crenaeus and is described searching for and lamenting his body after he is slain in the war of the Seven against Thebes.
Ismenus is the personified river (potamos) of the Boeotian stream Ismenus/Ismenos, both a geographical river of Thebes and a mythic river-god whose genealogy and episodic agency appear in Greek epic and mythographic traditions (notably Statius' Thebaid and later summaries).
Istrus is not attested in the provided sources as a mythological being; the only direct occurrence in the corpus is a 1932 auction catalogue phrase referring to "Istrus Münzen" (a find of Istrus coins), suggesting a toponymic or numismatic usage rather than a spirit or creature. Possible connections to classical place-names (e.g., Histria/Ister) are explicitly uncertain given the available material.
Itonus is an eponymous figure in Greek myth, appearing in two distinct genealogical traditions as a king and ancestor tied to the settlement Iton in Phthiotis and to a local sanctuary of Athena. The name is glossed in modern summaries as Ἴτωνος (romanized Itonos / Itonus) and has been interpreted as having willow associations in some scholarly reconstructions, but classical sources present him primarily as a mortal founder/ancestor rather than an independent supernatural spirit.
Jason (Ancient Greek: Ἰάσων, Iásōn) is a mortal hero of Greek myth, leader of the Argonauts whose quest for the Golden Fleece establishes his place in the heroic age. He is depicted as a prince of Iolcos, son of Aeson, and husband of the sorceress Medea.
Jocasta (Ancient Greek: Ἰοκάστη Iokástē; also rendered Epicaste) is a mortal queen of Thebes in the Greek Theban cycle. Wife first of King Laius and later (unwittingly) of her son Oedipus, she is mother of Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polynices; her story illustrates themes of oracle, fate, incest, and dynastic catastrophe in Greek myth and literature.
John Hyrcanus (Yoḥānān Hurqanos) was a historical Jewish high priest and Hasmonean ruler of Judea (born c.164 BCE; reigned 134–104 BCE) who combined religious and secular authority, expanded Hasmonean territory, and negotiated with Hellenistic powers. He is presented in the sources as a human political and cultic leader rather than a supernatural being.
A malevolent goblin-like creature in Greek and related Balkan and Anatolian traditions that dwells underground sawing at the world‑supporting tree for most of the year and emerges during the Twelve Days of Christmas (25 December–6 January) to harass households and people.
A name attested in modern descriptions of Southeastern European and Anatolian folk belief referring to a malevolent household/forest goblin figure associated in comparative accounts with the Greek kallikantzaros tradition. The available sources describe the being only in general terms as a 'malevolent creature' or 'malevolent goblin' and do not provide detailed indigenous origin myths, appearance, powers, or ritual responses.
In Greek myth the Keres (Κῆρες; singular Κήρ) are night-born, malevolent death-spirits associated with violent death, pestilence, and the ravaging aspects of mortality; they are often portrayed as a swarm of blood‑thirsty female spirits that hover over battlefields and seize the dead and dying.
Keroessa is a mythic heroine in Greek tradition credited as a genealogical link in the foundation story of Byzantium. She is presented as the daughter of Io and Zeus, sister of Epaphus, and mother of Byzas by Poseidon (her uncle).
Kleobule (Ancient Greek: Κλεόβουλη), also rendered Cleobule, is a historical Athenian woman known from classical Athenian legal speeches and later biographical anecdotes about her son, the orator Demosthenes. The surviving references situate her within Athenian family, dowry, and inheritance practices rather than within any supernatural framework.
A confraternity of armed, crested ritual dancers attached to the Cybele/Rhea mystery traditions in Phrygia and related Anatolian–Greek cults. They perform drumming, stamping and an armored (pyrrhic) dance used in guardianship myths, male initiation and ecstatic cult practice; ancient authors and modern scholars often confuse or conflate them with nearby ritual groups (Kouretes, Idaean Dactyls, Kabeiroi).
Kreios (also attested Crius or Krios) is a figure in classical Greek mythology identified in the supplied sources as one of the Titans, offspring of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth). The available material provides only genealogical identification and an etymological gloss that the name means "ram."
Kydnos (Greek KYDNOS; Latin Cydnus) is the local river-personification of the River Kydnos/Cydnus in Cilicia, centered on the city of Tarsus. Attested in brief encyclopedic entries and in local numismatic and monumental imagery, Kydnos functions in the sources as the named divine embodiment (potamos) of that specific watercourse rather than as an abstract class of spirits.
Labdacus (Ancient Greek: Λάβδακος, Lábdakos) is a legendary/mythic king of Thebes in Greek tradition. He is chiefly significant as a dynastic ancestor — grandson of Cadmus, son of Polydorus, and father of Laius — and appears in variant accounts that place his brief rule and early death within the genealogical history that leads to Oedipus.
Lacedaemon (Lakedaimon, Lacaedemon) is a mythic eponymous king in classical Greek tradition: the legendary founder whose name is given to the region and polis of Lacedaemon/Sparta. He is presented genealogically as a son of Zeus and the Pleiad Taygete and as husband of Sparta, serving an etiological function linking the city to divine ancestry.
Lacritus (Ancient Greek: Λάκριτος) is attested in classical sources as a historical sophist from Phaselis, best known from a forensic speech of Demosthenes brought against him concerning a disputed loan; he was a pupil of Isocrates and tutor of Archias of Thurii.
Ladon is listed in the provided sources as "one of the dragons in Greek mythology." The available materials are disambiguation-style and also show the name Ladon applied to other, distinct referents (a husband/father figure, a hunting-dog, rivers, and a French commune); the supplied excerpts contain no narrative details about the dragon Ladon.
Laertes is the mortal father of Odysseus in the Homeric tradition, an aged Ithacan farmer/retired king who embodies ancestral authority, patronymic identity (Odysseus = Laertiades), and appears in the Odyssey's recognition and post-suitors conflict scenes.
A tribe of giant, man‑eating people from Homeric Greek myth who attack ships and crews; encountered by Odysseus in the Odyssey (Book 10) and later associated by ancient writers with parts of Sicily and Italy.
In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia is described as a child-eating monster who, in later tradition, came to be regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or 'daimon'. The supplied sources do not provide a full physical description or detailed mythic genealogy, and some modern fictional portrayals recast her with serpentine features which are not attested in the provided classical summary.
Lamiai (singular Lamia) are a class of malignant, night‑haunting female phantoms in Greek tradition, originally attested as a child‑devouring monster and later generalized into a type of daimon or spectre associated with seduction and the predation of young men and children.
Lampetia is a figure in ancient Greek myth, described as a daughter/attendant of the sun-god Helios who, with her sister Phaethusa, guards Helios's sacred herd on the island Thrinacia. She functions as a divine herdswoman and reporter of transgressions against divine property in Homeric narrative and appears in variant genealogies in later mythography.
Lampus (Ancient Greek: Λάμπος) is not a single mythic being but a personal name applied across a range of classical Greek mythic figures — human and animal — whose name evokes 'brightness' or 'shine.' Attestations in classical mythographic and epic materials include royal mortals, hounds, and named horses associated with dawn and sun deities and with heroes.
Laodamas (Ancient Greek Λᾱοδάμᾱς, lit. 'tamer of the people') is a personal name borne by multiple mortal figures in Greek mythic-historical traditions — princes, warriors, and a king — appearing in Theban, Trojan, and Phaeacian narratives rather than as a single supernatural being.
Laodamia (Ancient Greek: Λαοδάμεια) is a personal name borne by several mortal women in Greek myth whose stories sometimes intersect with gods, death, and brief post‑mortem visitations. Rather than a single supernatural class, Laodamia functions as an episodic figure in multiple genealogies and heroic narratives (e.g., a Lycian princess, the wife of Protesilaus).
Laodamia of Phylace is a mortal woman in Greek myth, best known as the faithful wife of Protesilaus whose intense grief and devotion prompt the gods to grant her a brief, divinely mediated visit with her dead husband returned from Hades. Her story illustrates human access to the chthonic realm only by exceptional divine pity and emphasizes marital fidelity and mourning.
Laodicus (Ancient Greek: Λαόδικος, lit. 'tried by the people') is not a singular supernatural being but a personal name attested for several minor mortal figures in Greek mythic and epic traditions — a genealogical father, a father of a sacrificial victim in the Minotaur cycle, and one of the suitors of Penelope in the Odyssey tradition.
Laomedon is a legendary mortal king of Ilium (Troy) in Greek myth. Son of Ilus and grandson of Tros, his refusal to fulfill payments promised to gods (Poseidon and Apollo) and to the hero Heracles leads to divine punishments on Troy and to Heracles' sack of the city.
Laonome (Ancient Greek: Λαονόμη) appears in classical Greek sources as a mortal woman who functions within multiple heroic-age genealogies and as an eponym in one fragmentary account. Separately, Laonome is also the modern zoological genus name for a group of sabellid polychaete worms; ecological literature treats Laonome species as marine/estuarine organisms with invasive potential.
Laophonte (Ancient Greek: Λαοφόντη) is attested in Greek mythographic genealogies as a mortal woman — daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe and sister of Agenor, Sterope, and Stratonice. Some traditions name her as wife of Thestius and mother of Iphiclus, Leda, and Althaea; other authors (e.g., Alcman) offer conflicting parentage for Leda. The name is also reused in zoological taxonomy as a genus of copepods (family Laophontidae).
Laothoe is a personal name attested for several distinct mortal women in ancient Greek mythic genealogies and, separately, a taxonomic genus name used in entomology; the sources provided treat these as distinct referents rather than a single supernatural entity.
Eponymous ancestral founder of the Lapiths in Greek mythology; a legendary figure whose name gives rise to the human people of Thessaly and who is described as brother to Centaurus, thereby accounting for the kinship and rivalry between Lapiths and centaurs.
The Lapiths (Greek: Λαπίθαι, Lapithai) are a legendary Thessalian human people in Greek myth, best known for their role in the Centauromachy at the wedding of King Pirithous. Portrayed as skilled horsemen and warriors, they function in myth and art as exemplars of civilized restraint against the bestial behavior of the centaurs.
Latreus is a named Thessalian centaur warrior who appears in accounts of the Centauromachy; he kills the Emathian Halesus, fights the Lapith Caeneus, and is slain in the wedding-battle recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses and related retellings.
Supernatural principle governing behavior and fate in Greek mythology, particularly regarding interactions with the underworld realm of Hades. (Note: - Power tier should be Ancient (a Primordial would have a more fundamental role in shaping reality) - The ability to dictate someone's fate through consumption of food/drink while in Hades suggests i)
Lebadus (also Lebadeus/Lebados) is a mythic eponymous founder associated with the Boeotian city Lebadeia. Recorded chiefly in Pausanias, he functions as a legendary ancestor whose name explains the place-name and who is said to have come from Athens and led inhabitants down into the plain where the town took his name.
Leda is a mortal Aetolian princess who becomes queen consort of Sparta by marriage to King Tyndareus. In Greek myth she is best known for the episode in which Zeus, in the form of a swan, approaches and couples with her; that union is etiologically important for producing children (notably Helen and the Dioscuri) whose identities and fates shape later mythic cycles.
Leipephilene (Ancient Greek: Λειπεφιλήνη) is a figure in Greek mythographic genealogies recorded as the daughter of Iolaus and Megara, famed for her beauty and known chiefly as the wife of Phylas and mother of Hippotes and Thero. The transmitted form of her name is corrupt in the manuscripts and has been variously emended by editors; no cult, supernatural role, or ritual practice is attested in the cited sources.
Leitus is a human heroic figure of the Greek epic tradition: a Boeotian leader, admiral of twelve ships at Troy, an Argonaut, and one of Helen's suitors. He is attested in Homeric catalogues and later genealogical traditions and is remembered for martial deeds and a tomb at Plataeae.
Leleges are an autochthonous, pre-Hellenic people named in ancient Greek literature and historiography as former inhabitants of parts of the Aegean and western Anatolia. Classical authors use the category to account for older place‑names, cults, ruins, and social remnants encountered by later Greeks rather than ascribing to them supernatural status.
Lelex (Greek: Λέλεξ) is a personal name borne by multiple legendary/mortal figures in Greek mythic-historical genealogies, notably a first king of Sparta, a king of Megara, and an aged hunter from Narycus who took part in the Calydonian hunt. The name functions within foundation myths and heroic-age narratives rather than as a distinct supernatural spirit.
Lelex is a legendary ancestral king in Greek mythic genealogies, described as king of Megara and eponymous progenitor of the Leleges. Sources place him among early pre-Hellenic rulers with variant traditions about his origin (Egyptian immigrant or autochthon) and his descendants' roles in regional foundations.
Leonteus is a personal name borne by several human figures in Greek mythic tradition, most prominently a Thessalian/Lapith commander who led contingents to Troy in the Iliadic cycle. He functions as a mortal heroic leader and occasional genealogical ancestor in variant traditions rather than as an independent supernatural being.
A multi-headed serpentine chthonic water-monster of Greek myth associated with the marshes and spring of Lerna; famed as the adversary slain by Heracles in his second Labour, notable for poisonous breath and blood and for regenerative heads (accounts vary).
In ancient Greek cosmology Lethe is a river of the underworld whose waters cause forgetfulness; it functions both as an underworld geographical feature and as the personified abstraction of oblivion. Its waters are implicated in processes of post-mortem memory erasure tied to reincarnation and appear in literary, philosophical, and cultic contexts alongside an opposing memory-pool, Mnemosyne.
Lethus is not attested as a single traditional supernatural being in the supplied sources; the lexical form appears in multiple unrelated contexts: as a Greek mythic personal name (father of Pylaeus), as a taxonomic label in entomology, as modern personal/user names, and as a single modern fan-made fictional monster (the "Lethus Dragon" on a D&D wiki). No coherent folkloric ontology, rituals, or traditional powers are documented for an entity called Lethus.
Leto (Ancient Greek: Λητώ / Λατώ; Latin: Latona) is an ancient Greek goddess best known as the mother of the Olympian twins Apollo and Artemis. She functions in myth and cult as a kourotrophic (mother‑or nurse‑goddess) figure with important sanctuaries at Delos and the Letoon in Lycia, and appears in narratives that emphasize both mildness and the capacity to call down retribution when insulted.
Leuce is an ancient Greek proper name applied to a mythic nymph (daughter of Oceanus) and to multiple place-names (notably an island of the Black Sea, historically called Leuce or 'Snake Island', and other toponyms such as Leuce Come and a titular see in Thrace). In the supplied sources Leuce functions primarily as a name tied to natural features — especially the white poplar — and as a geographic designation rather than as a richly described active supernatural agent.
Leucippe (Ancient Greek Λευκίππη) is a personal name borne by multiple distinct women in Greek myth and later literature — including an Oceanid (water-nymph), a Minyad, several queens and mothers in epic genealogies, a priestess of Apollo, and literary heroines. The name functions as an anthroponym reused across mythic roles rather than denoting a single supernatural being.
Leucon (Ancient Greek: Λεύκων, Leúkōn) is a personal name attested across classical Greek myth and later usages rather than a singular supernatural entity. In the ancient sources it appears as multiple distinct referents: a mythic/genealogical male figure (son of Themisto), one of Actaeon's dogs, and a named hero in an Athenian oracle-account; the same lexical form is also used historically (Leucon I, Bosporan ruler) and in modern scientific and fictional contexts (e.g., the sponge anatomical term leuconoid and various fictional character names).
Leucopeus (Ancient Greek: Λευκωπεύς, Leukōpeús) is attested in Greek mythic genealogies as a mortal prince of Calydon, son of King Porthaon and Euryte and brother of Oeneus and others. He appears only in genealogical listings (e.g., Pseudo-Apollodorus as summarized in modern references) and no independent myths, cults, or deeds are recorded for him in the provided sources.