465 documented Hindu supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 153 ancient and 130 greater in power tier.
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Aurva (Sanskrit: और्व) is a Vedic/Purāṇic rishi of the Bhargava (Bhrigu) line remembered for a miraculous birth from his mother's thigh, a birth-radiance that blinded attackers, and for austere tapas that produced the submarine fire Vadavagni. He functions as a canonical sage, ancestor (father of Richika and grandfather of Vatsa), and a figure whose ascetic power threatened cosmic destruction until persuaded otherwise by the Pitrs.
In classical Hindu theology, an avatāra is a divine 'descent' — the event or fact of a superhuman being or deity making a material appearance in the temporal world to accomplish a purpose (commonly to restore dharma). The term (Sanskrit अवतार, avatāra) emphasizes crossing down from the unconditioned into conditioned existence and is central to Vaishnava theology of Vishnu's incarnations while also appearing in other Indian religious contexts.
Avatsara (Sanskrit: अवत्सार, Avatsāra) is a Vedic rṣi (seer) attested as the author of multiple hymns of the Rigveda and as a priestly figure in Brāhmaṇa passages. He is placed in Kashyapa sage lineages and is cited in Rigvedic, Sāmavedic, Yajurvedic, and Brāhmaṇa texts where his hymns and ritual actions are invoked.
Ayyappan is a Hindu deity venerated as a youthful warrior-yogi and protector of dharma, prominent in Malayalam folklore and centered on the Sabarimala pilgrimage. He is traditionally described as born of Shiva and Mohini (the female avatar of Vishnu) and functions as a reconciliatory figure between Shaiva and Vaishnava traditions.
Añjanā (Sanskrit: अञ्जना; also Anjani, Anjali) is a semi-divine figure of the Ramayana cycle, described as an apsara reborn among the vanaras and the mother of the hero Hanuman. She figures both in pan-Indian epic narratives (as wife of Kesari and devotee of Vayu) and in regional cultic practice (notably a temple tradition in Himachal Pradesh) and is adapted in Javanese wayang as Dewi Anjani.
Aśvatthāmā is a major human warrior-character in the Indian epic Mahābhārata, son of the teacher Drona and close ally of the Kaurava leader Duryodhana. In postwar narrative episodes he is depicted committing a nocturnal slaughter of sleeping rivals and attempting to use the cosmic weapon Brahmāstra, after which the sage Vyasa admonishes and curses him in the dramatic retellings cited.
Bagalāmukhī (also Bagalā, Pitambarā-devi) is a Tantric Hindu goddess counted among the ten Mahāvidyās. She is a manifestation of the Dēvī whose specialized power (stambhana) is invoked to immobilize, silence, or control enemies and hostile speech, and to grant certain siddhis to devotees.
Bahucarā Mātā is a regional Hindu goddess venerated principally at Becharaji in Gujarat, India. She is associated in the sources with chastity and fertility (in a maiden aspect), with granting favours especially of male children, with curing diseases, and with being patroness of the hijra community.
Bajrang Bali is a popular epithet of the Hindu deity Hanuman, a divine vanara revered for strength, devotion to Rama, and long life. Originating in epic literature and later elevated in medieval and modern devotional practice, the figure appears across scripture, performance, and contemporary media.
A malevolent rakshasa from Hindu mythology with supernatural strength and ferocity. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial (due to its cosmic and epic-scale impact in Hindu mythology) - Abilities: Remove "at will" as it's not present in the source material - Weaknesses: Not specified in the source)
Bala Ganapati (Sanskrit: bāla-gaṇapati) is a child-form aspect of the Hindu deity Ganesha (Ganapati), depicted and venerated as a youthful manifestation emphasizing childhood, growth, abundance and fertility. He is listed as the first of thirty-two canonical forms of Ganesha in the Sritattvanidhi and is represented in iconography and some regional shrines (notably South India, where the child form is sometimes called Pillaiyar).
Bala Tripurasundari (Sanskrit: बालत्रिपुरसुन्दरी; also called Balambika) is the youthful or child aspect of the goddess Tripura Sundari in the Tantric Śrī Vidyā tradition. She functions as a tutelary goddess invoked in sādhanā, appears in the Lalita Mahatmya episode of the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa as a martial divine agent, and is the object of kavach, mantra, and Pancharathnam devotional material.
Balarāma (Sanskrit: बलराम) is a major deity in the Indian religious tradition closely associated with the Krishna cycle and the Vrishni hero-cult. He is described as Krishna's elder brother, an agricultural patron identified with the plough (halā) and club (gaḍā), and is later associated with the cosmic serpent Śeṣa/Saṅkarṣaṇa and incorporated into Viṣṇu avatāra lists; his cult is attested in early coinage and sculpture from c. 2nd century BCE onward and in living traditions such as the Jagannātha triad and village devotional practice.
Batara Kala is a Javanese and Balinese underworld deity associated with death, time, and destruction; feared as an ogre-like devourer of the unlucky, he is also ritually propitiated to avert misfortune, especially for at-risk children.
Betal (also Vetal, Vetoba, Vetāla) is a Konkan coastal grāmadevatā and kshetrapāla identified with a Bhairava form of Śiva, venerated in small village shrines across Goa, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur and Karwar. His cult combines popular village guardian functions with assimilation into Puranic Śaiva networks.
Bhadra is a Sanskrit word meaning 'good', 'fortunate', or 'auspicious' that functions in Hindu literature as a personal name and epithet applied to multiple distinct mythic persons and forms (queens, yaksha, goddess-forms, kings, and others) rather than a single unified supernatural being.
Bhadrakali is a fierce form of the Hindu supreme goddess Adi Shakti worshipped especially in South India. She functions as a martial and protective divine person who destroys wickedness in mythic narratives, protects women and lineages, and is integrated into Shaiva, Vaishnava, and Shakta registers.
Bhagavatī is an honorific Sanskrit epithet applied to revered female divinities in Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism rather than a single individualized spirit. The title functions as a respectful form of address for goddesses such as Sarasvati, Lakshmi, Parvati and certain Buddhist female deities (e.g., Cundā) and is the feminine counterpart to Bhagavān.
A complex figure in Hindu tradition, associated with Shiva as the destroyer or transformer. He is a powerful tantric disciple of Guru Gorakshanath and appears in various contexts within Hindu mystical traditions. (Note: - Power tier should be adjusted to Greater (powerful regional) as Bhairav's abilities are related to Shiva, but he is not a cosmic being himself. - Appearance: Add that no detailed physical descriptio)
Bhairava is a fierce Shaivite deity and tantric figure—an intense manifestation of Shiva—worshipped across Hindu and Vajrayāna Buddhist traditions as executor of divine punishment, guardian of sacred sites, and a tantric teacher/meditational yidam.
Bhairavi (Sanskrit: भैरवी) is a Mahāvidya — a fierce form of the Great Mother in Hindu tantric and Puranic traditions. She appears both as a deity, consort of Bhairava, and as a title or attainment for a female tantric adept (a realized yogini). Iconography and texts portray her as awe-inspiring and ambivalently maternal: protective to devotees and terrible to the wicked.
Bharadvaja is a canonical Vedic maharṣi (sage) and eponymous progenitor of a lineage and multiple textual corpora in ancient Indian tradition. Treated as an authoritative seer, teacher, and recipient/attributor of ritual, technical, and ethical knowledge, his name appears across Vedic, epic, Purāṇic, and Buddhist literature as an individual sage and as a clan/author label.
Bharata (Sanskrit: भरत) is a legendary human emperor and ancestral king in the Indic epic tradition. Portrayed as a cakravartin‑type sovereign and progenitor, his deeds, rituals, and lineage provide an eponymous foundation for the name Bhārata and for later dynastic identity.
Bharata is the younger half-brother of Rāma in the Hindu epic Rāmāyaṇa, who refuses the throne after Rāma's exile and serves as regent of Ayodhyā from Nandigrāma, ruling in Rāma's name while living an ascetic life. In devotional and pilgrimage traditions he is also assimilated into divine schema—described in some sources as an incarnation of Viṣṇu's Panchajanya and presented among the quadruple expansion of Rāmācandra.
Bhardwaja (Sanskrit Bharadvaja) is an ancient Vedic rishi and eponymous ancestor of a pastoralist gotra whose members contributed many hymns to the Rigveda and served as sacrificial officiants and ritual specialists for early Vedic pastoral communities.
A Brahmin race or dynasty founded by the legendary sage Bhrigu in Hindu mythology. (Note: - Power tier should be Ancient (deity-level), not Primordial, as there's no indication of cosmic powers. - Abilities section needs clarification that the source doesn't provide specific information on)
Bhartṛhari was a classical Indian grammarian, philosopher of language, and poet associated with the Vākyapadīya exposition of Śabdādvaita and the theory of sphoṭa. He is traditionally credited with the Vākyapadīya and with three collections of short poems (Śatakatraya), though modern scholarship often distinguishes the grammarian from the poet.
Bhasmasura is an asura in Shaiva-derived regional lore who was granted a boon by Shiva that made anyone whose head he touched with his hand instantly turn to ash (bhasma). His arrogance leads Vishnu (in the form Mohini) to trick him into placing his hand on his own head during a dance, causing him to burn himself to ashes.
Bhavānī (भवानी) is an aspect/epithet of the Hindu Mother Goddess (Devī/Shakti) revered as a giver of life and a warrior who defeats demons; she is both a cultic tutelary deity (notably at Tulja Bhavani, Tuljapur) and a pan-Indian manifestation identified with forms such as Durgā, Katyayani and Mahalakshmi in the cited sources.
An aspect of the Hindu god Shiva manifested as the 'Supreme mendicant' — a naked, wandering ascetic who begs for alms as a penitential and pedagogical form. Presented in Puranic narratives and South Indian iconography, Bhikshatana enacts a Kapali vow of expiation and provokes sages and householders as part of a revelatory drama.
Primordial earth deity in Balinese mythology associated with fertility and vegetation. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial, which is correct. 2. Appearance description matches source material; no corrections needed. 3. Abilities: Add "liminal space between wilderness and human settlement)
A bhoot (also bhoota, bhoot, bhut) is the culturally specific term across parts of the Indian subcontinent for a perturbed, restless spirit generally understood to be the ghost of a deceased person. Sources describe bhoots as arising when a person's death or post-death circumstances prevent them from moving on — for example violent death, unresolved affairs, or failures in funerary rites — and the term appears frequently in modern South Asian media and discussions.
A bhoota (Sanskrit: भूत, bhūta) is a class of supernatural beings in South Asian traditions most commonly identified as the restless ghost of a deceased person. Depending on region and context a bhoota may be feared as a harmful, perturbing spirit or worshipped and integrated as a local protective spirit or demigod (notably in Tulu Nadu practices).
Bhramari is a theomorphic form of the supreme goddess (Mahādevī) in Hindu/Shakta Purāṇic literature associated with bees and similar stinging/biting insects; she manifests to command swarms that defeat a demon (Arunasura) and is also the name given to a humming breathing practice in yoga traditions.
Bhrigu (Bhṛgu) is a Vedic rishi — one of the Saptarṣi and a mānasaputra (mind-born son) of Brahmā — remembered in Hindu tradition as a progenitor (Bhārgava), Upanishadic inquirer, contributor to legal and ritual corpus, and the attributed compiler of the astrological compendium Bhrigu Saṃhitā.
A Hindu rishi and devotee of the deity Shiva, known for his spiritual insight and authority. (Note: * Power tier: Based on source material, it seems that Bhringi's status as a "great devotee" suggests he may have achieved some sort of spiritual or divine connection with Shiva, which would elevate hi)
The female guardian-spirit of agricultural fields in Bihar and eastern UP — her presence ensures fertile soil and good harvest, but she is territorial and punishes those who plough without permission, steal crops, or use chemical methods that poison the soil she inhabits.
Bhuta (also rendered Bhoot or Bhoota) is a South Asian lexical term with at least two related senses in the cited source: a 'bhoota' as the ghost or spirit of a deceased person (a disembodied spirit), and 'mahābhūta' as the term for the classical elements or primordial states of matter (and related Bhuta-Shakti). The supplied source treats the term primarily as a lexical/definitional entry rather than an ethnographic account of regional cults.
A set of carved yakshi reliefs on stone railing pillars from the Bhuteshwar (Bhutesvara/Bhutesar) mound near Mathura, dated to the 2nd century CE and associated with a Buddhist stupa. The figures are art-historical representations of female yakshis incorporated into the decorative program of a sacred Buddhist enclosure; backs of the same pillars bear Buddha-life and Jataka narrative reliefs.
Bhuvaneshvari (Sanskrit: Bhuvaneśvarī) is a principal form of the Great Goddess (Mahadevi) in Hindu/Shakta tantric theology, listed as the fourth of the Ten Mahavidyas and treated in some traditions as an aspect of Adi Parashakti/Tripura Sundari. She is conceived as the sovereign, pervading feminine power who sustains and directs the tri-bhuvana (three worlds) and is the object of temple cult and liturgical recitation (stotram, kavacha, suprabhatam).
Bhuvaneśvarī (also spelled Bhuvaneshvari) is a Hindu goddess identified in Shaktism as the fourth of the ten Mahavidya goddesses and described in sources as an aspect of the supreme feminine principle (Mahadevi/Adi Parashakti). She is theologically regarded as a sovereign cosmic goddess—summarized in linked data as the 'Queen of the Universe'—and is the subject of devotional stotras preserved in modern published collections.
Bhīma (Bhīmasena) is one of the principal heroes of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata: the second of the five Pāṇḍava brothers, a semi‑divine warrior famed for prodigious physical strength, mastery of the gada (mace), and ferocious devotion to family and vows. He is presented as the mythic son of the wind god Vāyu, whose divine paternity explains his extraordinary attributes and role in the Kurukṣetra War, where he slays the hundred Kaurava brothers among other foes.
Bhīṣma is a central heroic prince and commander in the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata: son of King Śantanu and the river‑goddess Gaṅgā, famed for a severe lifelong vow (Bhīṣma‑pratigya) and the boon of icchā‑mṛtyu (choice of moment of death). He functions as martial exemplar, regent, and moral counsellor whose fall and long deathbed of arrows structure the Bhīṣma Parva.
Bhūmi (Bhūmi/Bhūdevī, also Dharanī, Vasundharā, Prithvī etc.) is the Hindu earth-goddess: the personified, sentient Earth who is source of fertility and sustenance, appears in Vedic and Purānic narratives, and is closely associated with Viṣṇu and his avatars (notably Varāha). She is depicted as a maternal cosmic power whose being reflects the moral and ecological condition of the world.
Bidadari is a Southeast Asian regional term related to the South Asian apsara: a class of celestial/ethereal female beings originally associated with clouds and water in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology, later represented in regional art and performance as nymph- or fairy-like figures. The term is also widely used in modern Southeast Asian toponymy and popular culture (place names, media, vessel names), distinct from detailed mythic narratives in the provided sources.
The boar principally denotes the species Sus scrofa (wild boar) in natural-history contexts and a recurring mythic motif in which monstrous or divine boars ravage lands or act as avatars of deities. Appears across Greek heroic myths (Calydonian, Erymanthian), Indic theistic narrative (a divine boar-form assumed by the Lord), and modern fiction (horror film, comics).
Bonbibi is the Lady of the Forest venerated across Hindu and Muslim communities of the Sundarbans as a local guardian figure for people who work the mangrove (honey-collectors, woodcutters). Her cult functions pragmatically to regulate forest conduct, mediate encounters with tiger-associated spirits, and provide communal protection and meaning during crises.
Mythological figure from Bengali mythology considered the progenitor of the Bengalis, with conflicting accounts in Hindu and Muslim literature. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial is likely an overestimation given the conflicting descriptions and lack of clear abilities. 2. Appearance: Should be stated as "No physical description provided" instead of ")
The storm deity of spring in Assamese tradition — Bordoisila is the daughter of Brahma who visits her mother's home at the end of winter, and whose journey back creates the violent pre-monsoon storms of April and May. She is a goddess-spirit propitiated in Assam for thousands of years.
Brahmacharini is the second form of the Divine Mother (Mahadevi/Parvati) in the Navadurga cycle, venerated during the second day of Navaratri. She personifies ascetic discipline and sustained penance (tapas) undertaken by the goddess to win Shiva's consent to marriage.
Bengal's most distinctive ghost: the spirit of a Brahmin who died celibate — before marriage, or having taken a vow of celibacy — whose accumulated learning and unfulfilled life persists. Unlike the North Indian Brahmpret, the Brahmadaitya is often passive or even helpful, but its presence makes any household it inhabits spiritually unsettled.
A grave sin and entity in Hindu tradition, representing the act of killing a Brahmin. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial (cosmic) instead of Ancient (deity-level), as Brahmahatya represents a grave sin and not a deity. 2. The article lacks an appearance description, which needs to be a)
Brahman is the ultimate, all-encompassing metaphysical principle in Vedic, Upanishadic and later Vedantic literature: the ground, origin, support and goal of all that exists. It is described variously as an attributeless, ineffable absolute (nirguṇa) and, in devotional contexts, as manifest with qualities (saguṇa) without becoming a conventional cult-deity.
Brahmani (Sanskrit: ब्रह्माणी, IAST: Brahmāṇī; also ब्राह्मी, Brāhmī) is one of the Sapta Matrikas, the seven mother-goddesses in Hindu tradition. She is regarded as the Shakti (feminine power) of the creator god Brahma and is often identified with or described as a form of Saraswati.
The most learned and terrible of spirits — the ghost of a Brahmin who misused his scriptural knowledge in life and was condemned after death to be both demon and scholar, haunting places of learning.
Demon-spirit of a Brahmin who misused sacred knowledge for evil ends — described in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the Brahmarakshasa combines the destructive force of a Rakshasa with the ritual knowledge of a priest. Among the most dangerous entities in Hindu demonology.
A type of rākṣasa in Hindu tradition depicted in the supplied sources as the posthumous fate of a Brahmin who commits unrighteous deeds; other summaries describe them as demons formed by a curse associated with the god Brahma. The term thus links Brahminic status or Brahma with the rākṣasa category and functions as a moralized explanation for a Brahminic fall into a malevolent supernatural state.
A former Brahmin who converts to Buddhism after an encounter with the Buddha, exemplifying personal transformation within Buddhist teachings. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial seems implausible given that there is no mention of supernatural powers or abilities; reevaluate as Lesser or Minor Spirit. 2. Appearance: Since no specific description exist)
The ghost of a Brahmin who died before fulfilling his dharmic obligations — more powerful than any ordinary preta, the Brahmpret retains Sanskrit learning, ritual authority, and the capacity to curse. The most feared ghost-class in North Indian villages.
Brahmā is the personified Creator god in Hindu textual tradition, presented as the creative member of the Trimurti (with Viṣṇu and Śiva). In Purānic cosmogonies he is said to emerge as Svayambhu from Hiranyagarbha (the golden egg) and to produce the world and living beings; the term is distinct from the impersonal metaphysical brahman.