1796 documented Greek supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 1106 lesser and 335 minor spirit in power tier.
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Pirene is attested in the provided sources as a name applied to a fountain in Corinth and as a mythological figure described simply as a nymph in Greek tradition; the supplied materials are fragmentary and give no detailed myths, attributes, or cult practices for the figure.
Among the oldest classified demon-types in Hindu tradition — flesh-eating entities of the cremation ground first named in the Atharva Veda. The Pishach inhabits fresh corpses and possesses the living, causing the specific Ayurvedic condition of 'pishachabadha': madness, speaking in unknown languages, consuming impure things.
Pisidice (Ancient Greek Πεισιδίκη, Peisidíkē) is a personal name borne by multiple mortal women in ancient Greek myth. The bearers of the name appear as princesses, queens, daughters, and wives in distinct genealogical and heroic narratives (Aeolian, Pelian, Pylian, Methymnaean, Boeotian), rather than as a single supernatural entity.
Pisidice of Methymna is a legendary mortal princess in Greek epic tradition who, according to Hellenistic summaries, fell in love with Achilles, betrayed her city of Methymna by admitting his forces, and was executed for treason after the city's capture. Her story functions as a narrative motif warning against private passion overriding civic duty.
Pisinoë (also Peisinoe, Peisithoe) is attested in Greek mythographic sources as one of the Sirens, named among the daughters of the river-god Achelous and either the Muse Melpomene or Sterope. Surviving references are genealogical; no independent narratives, descriptions, rituals, or specific powers unique to her are preserved in the supplied sources.
Pitys is an Oread (mountain) nymph from Greek myth who, pursued by the god Pan in classical accounts, was transformed into a mountain pine. Her story functions etiologically to explain the origin of a pine tree associated with rustic landscape and Pan.
The Pleiades is an asterism — the open star cluster Messier 45 — visible as a compact group of bright stars and, in many cultures, personified as a set of mythic figures (notably the Seven Sisters in Greek myth). It functions both as a concrete astronomical object and as a widespread cultural calendrical and mythic motif used to mark seasons, navigation, and genealogies.
Pleione is a name applied to a figure in Greek myth (mother of the Pleiades), a star in the Pleiades cluster (Flamsteed 28 Tauri), and a genus of small orchids named after the mythic mother. Sources treat Pleione across mythic, astronomical, and botanical taxonomies rather than as a single active supernatural being.
Pleisthenes is a mytho-historical human figure in Greek genealogical tradition, presented as a son of Atreus and Aerope and in some accounts the father of Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia. He functions primarily as a genealogical link within Mycenaean royal descent rather than as a character with a developed narrative or cult.
Pleuron (Ancient Greek: Πλευρών) is a mythic eponymous founder and ancestral figure of Aetolian genealogical tradition. Presented in literary and mythographic sources as a son of Aetolus and Pronoe, brother of Calydon, husband of Xanthippe, and father of Agenor, Sterope, Stratonice and others, he explains the place-name Pleuron and functions as a node in heroic family lines of the region.
Pleuron is an eponymous heroic founder in Greek mythic-historical tradition, remembered as the ancestral founder of the town of Pleuron in Aetolia and as a progenitor whose lineage legitimizes local dynastic claims. He is attested in genealogies as son of Aetolus and as father/husband within a named family and is commemorated by at least one heroon in later memory.
Plexippus (Ancient Greek: Πλήξιππος, lit. 'striking horses' or 'one who drives/ lashes horses') is a personal name borne by several distinct mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies (princes and nobles). The name is also reused in modern biological taxonomy as a genus of jumping spiders (Plexippus) and as the specific epithet in Danaus plexippus (the monarch butterfly).
Plouto (Greek Πλουτώ, Ploutō, 'rich one') is a minor female figure in Greek myth attested as both a local Lydian mountain nymph of Mount Sipylos—lover of Zeus and mother of Tantalos—and as one of the many Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. Her significance in the surviving references is genealogical and locative rather than narrative or cultic.
Pluto is the Roman divine ruler of the underworld, an epithet and counterpart of the Greek Hades, associated both with governance of the land of the dead and with subterranean wealth; the ancient name was later applied in 1930 to the astronomical body Pluto.
Podarces (Ancient Greek: Ποδάρκης) is a mortal heroic figure in Greek epic tradition, son of Iphiclus of Phylace and brother of Protesilaus, who leads the Phylacian contingent in the Trojan War. He is recorded as a former suitor of Helen bound by the Oath of Tyndareus and, in later epic (Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica), is killed by the Amazon queen Penthesilea. The name Podarces also appears elsewhere in the tradition as the original name of Priam.
Poeas (Ancient Greek: Ποίας) is a Thessalian heroic figure of Greek myth, named among the Argonauts in many traditions and described in some sources as an outstanding archer. He appears in narratives associating him with Heracles (lighting the hero's funeral pyre and receiving Heracles' bow and poisoned arrows) and with the episode of the bronze giant Talos (in variant accounts).
Poemenius (Ancient Greek: Ποιμένιος, Poimenios) is a personal name of Greek origin borne by multiple historical and literary figures in Late Antiquity and later periods. In the supplied sources it functions as a proper name for distinct human persons — most prominently a mid-4th-century Roman officer who seized Trier, several Christian clerics/bishops attested in patristic correspondence, and an attested name-entry as a leader of satyrs in a mythological name-list — rather than a single supernatural being.
Polyboea (Ancient Greek Πολύβοια) is a name applied to several related personae in Greek myth and local cult — most notably a maiden of Amyclae (sister of Hyacinthus) who died a virgin and was reputed to have been taken to Elysium or admitted into the train of Artemis. The same name appears elsewhere in mythic genealogies and, in modern taxonomy, as a genus of Asian nursery-web spiders.
Polybotes (Ancient Greek: Πολυβώτης) is one of the Gigantes in Greek myth, an earth-born giant who fought the Olympian gods during the Gigantomachy and — in the most attested tradition — was pursued by Poseidon and crushed beneath an island (Nisyros or, in some variants, Cos). He appears in literary summaries and in archaic and classical vase imagery as a named combatant opposing Poseidon or Zeus.
Polybule is a named female figure in ancient Greek myth presented in classical sources as the Boeotian mother of the Argonaut Leitus by Alector in one genealogical tradition; other sources give alternative parentages for Leitus (Lacritus and Cleobule, or autochthony as a son of Gaea). She functions as a mortal ancestral/progenitorial figure within regional heroic genealogies rather than as a supernatural being.
Polybus (Πόλυβος) is a personal name in ancient Greek tradition borne by multiple mortal figures; most prominently he is the king of Corinth who, with his wife (variously named Periboea, Merope, or Medusa), fostered the exposed infant Oedipus. He is portrayed as a human actor — a benign, paternal king — rather than a supernatural being.
Polycaon is a proper name in ancient Greek tradition borne by at least two mytho-historical individuals: one a son of Lelex associated with the foundation of Messenia alongside his wife Messene, and another a son of Butes who married into the descendants of Heracles. The name also appears as a modern biological genus homonym in taxonomic records.
Polycaste (Ancient Greek: Πολυκάστη) is the proper name borne by several distinct mortal women in Greek myth and genealogical tradition. The name is used for different princesses and household women (daughter, sister, wife, mother) who appear in separate narrative and genealogical contexts rather than denoting a single supernatural being.
Polyctor (Ancient Greek: Πολύκτωρ) is a proper name attested in classical Greek literary sources for several mortal figures (an Egyptian prince, a local Ithacan benefactor/father, and as an identity used in a Homeric disguise) and separately as a modern taxonomic name applied to certain butterflies/skippers. The name functions across distinct cultural and biological contexts rather than denoting a single supernatural entity.
Polydectes is a mortal king of the island of Seriphos in Greek myth who functions as an antagonistic royal figure in the Perseus cycle. In the best-known narrative he plots to remove the hero Perseus by sending him to fetch the Gorgon's head and is ultimately neutralized when Perseus reveals Medusa's severed head, which petrifies Polydectes and his nobles. An alternate tradition (recorded by Hyginus) presents Polydectes as a protector who marries Danaë and later dies peacefully.
Polydorus (Ancient Greek: Πολύδωρος, 'many-gifted') is a personal name borne by several distinct mortal figures in Greek myth and later cultural references, including Theban and Trojan princes, a warrior in the Trojan cycle, historical/legendary rulers, and a Roman-period sculptor. The name recurs across genealogies and narratives rather than denoting a single supernatural class or spirit.
Polydorus (Polydoros) is a mortal legendary king in the Theban genealogical tradition, presented as a son of Cadmus and Harmonia and the father of Labdacus. In mythographic king-lists he functions primarily as a dynastic link connecting the founders of Thebes to later generations (including Laius and the Oedipal cycle).
Polyhymnia (Greek: Πολυύμνια), also Polymnia, is one of the nine Muses in ancient Greek myth and cult, traditionally associated with sacred hymn, contemplative eloquence, and solemn poetic praise. As a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne she functions as a divine inspirer whose presence belongs to the sanctuary world of the Muses (notably Mount Parnassus and the spring above Delphi) and to the institutionalized practice of sacred song and oracular ritual.
Polyidus (also Polyeidus) is a legendary human seer in Greek myth, described in the provided sources as the son of Coeranus and a famed prophetic specialist associated with Argos or Corinth. He is treated as a mortal, not a supernatural creature, whose identity is defined by his role as a seer in local Greek tradition (Wikipedia; Wikidata).
Polymatheia (Πολυμάθεια) is a Muse-name in Greek tradition meaning "much knowledge" or "erudition," attested as one of a local triad of Muses recognized at Sicyon in Plutarch's remarks. She functions as a personification and patronal figure of abundant learning within variant local lists of the Muses, with no independent myths or documented cult practices in the cited sources.
Polymede (Ancient Greek Πολυμήδη, Polymēdē) is a mortal woman attested in Greek mythic genealogies. She is named in some traditions as the daughter of Autolycus and as a possible mother of the hero Jason by Aeson, and in other lists as a mother of Nestor by Neleus; her role is primarily genealogical rather than active or divine.
Polymele (Ancient Greek Πολυμήλη, also Polymede/Polymela/Polymede/Polypheme) is a name borne by multiple mortal women in Greek mythic genealogies; she appears in variant local traditions as daughter, wife, or mother of heroes and occasionally as a mortal beloved of a god. Her role is genealogical and narrative rather than supernatural.
Polynices is a mythic human prince of Thebes in the Greek Theban cycle. Son of Oedipus, he contests the throne with his brother Eteocles, leads the Argive expedition known as the Seven against Thebes, dies in single combat with Eteocles, and becomes the focal point of the funerary and legal conflict dramatized in Sophocles' Antigone.
Polypheme (Polyphemus) is a name applied in Greek mythic and later artistic traditions primarily to a cyclops figure tied to the Acis and Galatea narrative and secondly as a variant personal name in heroic genealogies (including as a female name-form associated with Jason's mother). Sources show the name used variably across monstrous, mortal, and artistic contexts rather than as a single unified theological being.
Polyphemus is the Homeric Cyclops — a one‑eyed giant shepherd who lives outside Greek civic norms, notorious for refusing hospitality and for blinding and being blinded by Odysseus. Later literature reframes him variously as comic, rhetorical, or lovesick, but the core tradition presents him as a liminal, semi‑divine monstrous figure (son of Poseidon).
Polyxenus (Greek Πολύξενος / Πολύξεινος) is a personal name attested across multiple mortal figures in ancient Greek mythic-historical tradition — notably early priests of Demeter, kings of Elis, a suitor of Helen who fought at Troy, and an alternate name for a son of Jason and Medea. The bearers are placed within legendary genealogies and cultic topography rather than the category of supernatural beings.
Polyxo (Greek Πολυξώ) is a recurring personal name in ancient Greek mythic genealogies and narratives. Rather than a single consistent supernatural being, multiple distinct figures bearing this name appear as Oceanid or Naiad water-nymphs, a Lemnian seeress/nurse, a Maenad, and mortal queens or wives tied to cycles such as the Argonautica, the Danaids, and the aftermath of the Trojan War.
Pontus is attested in the supplied sources primarily as a Greek theonym meaning "sea" (Πόντος, Póntos) and as a geographic/ethnic designation for the region on the southern coast of the Black Sea. The corpus does not provide evidence of Pontus functioning as a discrete, living folkloric spirit with attendant rituals or abilities.
Porphyrion (Ancient Greek: Πορφυρίων) is a Giant (one of the Gigantes) in ancient Greek myth who is repeatedly marked as one of the greatest of his kind and a principal combatant against the Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy. Ancient authors variously describe him as attacking gods (notably Hera and Heracles) and as being slain by divine force or a hero.
Porthaon is a mortal king in Greek mythic genealogies, ruler of Calydon and a dynastic progenitor whose primary role is as ancestor of Oeneus and other members of the Calydonian/Pleuronian royal houses.
Poseidon is a principal deity of the ancient Greek pantheon, counted among the Twelve Olympians; he presides over the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses and functions as protector of seafarers and guardian of cities and colonies.
Praxithea (Ancient Greek Πραξιθέα) is a personal name borne by multiple women in classical Greek narrative traditions: several distinct figures include a freshwater nymph (Naiad), an Athenian queen or royal matron in different genealogical accounts, a daughter who with her sisters was linked to a civic-sacrificial legend at Athens, and a named witness who cries out during Demeter’s attempt to make Demophon immortal. The name thus indexes liminal roles between natural/divine landscapes and Athenian civic and household myth.
Presbon (Ancient Greek Πρέσβων, lit. 'elder, senior') is a name applied to multiple mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies. Surviving references present several distinct or variant persons called Presbon who function primarily to articulate lines of descent, dynastic succession, or etiological tales rather than as supernatural beings.
Priam is the legendary king of Troy in Greek and Roman epic tradition, an aged sovereign and father figure whose grief, supplication, and death are central episodes in the narratives of the Trojan War. He is portrayed as a mortal ruler embedded in a cosmos of gods and fate rather than as a supernatural being.
Priapus is a minor rustic Greco-Roman fertility deity and household/garden protector associated with livestock, fruit, gardens, male virility and apotropaic phallic imagery. He is a localized, non‑Olympian divine presence worshiped in domestic, rural and maritime contexts and known for an exaggerated permanent erection that serves both as emblem of fecundity and as protective symbol.
Procne is an Athenian princess of Greek myth who, after discovering her sister Philomela's rape by Tereus, murders her own son Itys in revenge and is transformed into a nightingale; the tale functions as an aetiology for the bird's mournful song.
Proetus (Ancient Greek: Προῖτος, Proitos) is a personal name borne by several legendary mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies and local traditions—principally kings or princes associated with Argos/Tiryns, Corinth, Thebes, and Nauplia—rather than a single supernatural being.
Promachus (Ancient Greek Πρόμαχος, "who leads in battle" or "champion") is a name applied to multiple mortal figures in Greek epic and myth, and as a surname/epithet of deities (e.g., Athena, Heracles, Hermes). The term also appears in modern scientific and astronomical nomenclature (a genus of robber flies and asteroid 173117 Promachus). It is not a single unified supernatural being in the cited material.
Prometheus is a Titan of ancient Greek myth credited as a benefactor and culture-bringer to humanity, most famously for stealing fire from the Olympian gods and giving it to people. He is portrayed as intelligent and forward-looking (etymologically associated with 'forethought'), and as punished by Zeus for his transgression.
Pronoe is a personal name applied to multiple distinct female figures in Greek myth — including a Nereid, various Naiads and river-daughters, mortal royal women, and at least one seer. The name (Προνόη) is glossed as 'forethought' or 'the provident' and functions across traditions as an identity marker linking genealogy, local foundation myths, and occasional prophetic role.
A mortal Greek heroic figure and local cult hero remembered as the first Greek to leap ashore at Troy and therefore the first to die there; venerated at tomb-shrines (notably Phylace in Thessaly and Elaeus in the Thracian Chersonese) and integrated into literary memory and local civic cult. The name is also reused in modern taxonomy for an insect genus (homonymous, non-mythic).
Proteus is an ancient Greek sea-associated divine figure—an 'Old Man of the Sea'—noted for prophetic knowledge and the ability to assume many forms. He is typically portrayed as a subordinate sea-deity (often described as a son of Poseidon) who resists disclosure of hidden truths unless compelled by capture.
Prothoenor (Ancient Greek Προθοήνωρ) is a mortal Boeotian leader in the Homeric Trojan War tradition, named in the Catalogue of Ships and recorded in the Iliad as being wounded and slain by the Trojan warrior Polydamas. Later mythographic summaries preserve variant genealogies and local associations with Thespiae in Boeotia.
Prothous is a personal name borne by several distinct mortal figures in Greek mythic narrative traditions — including an Arcadian prince (one of Lycaon's sons), a Calydonian hunter, various warriors in the Theban and Trojan cycles (notably a commander of the Magnetes who led forty ships to Troy), and one of the suitors of Penelope. The bearers are ordinary heroic-age mortals whose actions are recorded in different episodic contexts rather than a single supernatural entity.
Protogeneia (Ancient Greek: Πρωτογένεια, 'the firstborn') is a name borne by several mythic women in Greek genealogical tradition. Rather than a single supernatural being, the name functions as an etiological marker used in local foundation myths to link Zeus, post‑deluge human stock, and the eponymous ancestors or ruling houses of regions such as Elis, Aetolia, Opus/Locrian lines, and Attica.
Prymno is one of the Oceanids in Greek myth, a daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Her name is etymologically linked to the lowermost part of things and to downward-flowing water, and sources gloss her name with senses such as "undermost, root" and a "cascade which falls down over a great height." She is attested only in name-lists of the Oceanids and has no surviving independent myths or rituals in the supplied material.
Ptah‑Patek (Greek Pataikos) is a protective dwarf figure in late ancient Egyptian practice, represented primarily as small faience amulets and household figurines that safeguard wearers from danger and assist in childbirth. From the Late Period onward the figure is syncretic with Bes, Taweret, and aspects of Ptah and Horus/Harpocrates in popular iconography and use.
Pterelaus is a mytho-historical king of the Taphians (Taphos) in Greek heroic legend whose family’s cattle-raid and defeat are narrated as antecedents to Amphitryon’s expedition and the circumstances of Heracles’ birth. In some variants he is described as invulnerable while a single magical golden hair remained in his head; removal of that hair (by his daughter Comaetho in some summaries) permitted his death.
Pylades (Ancient Greek: Πυλάδης) is a mortal Phocian prince in Greek myth, best known as the steadfast companion, counsellor, and co-actor of Orestes across the Orestes cycle (revenge on Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, the Tauris episode, and related episodes). He functions as a loyal attendant, caregiver, and occasional combatant, and later traditions emphasize the depth of his devotion to Orestes.
Pylaemenes is a proper name attested in ancient Greek literary traditions for at least two mortal characters — a Paphlagonian king allied with Troy and a suitor of Penelope — and is also used in modern zoological taxonomy as the genus name for a group of stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea). The name is not presented as a supernatural entity in the supplied sources.