465 documented Hindu supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 153 ancient and 130 greater in power tier.
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A significant ancestral line within Hindu mythology tracing the descent of the Daitya clan from sage Kashyapa through Raja Bali. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial, as the lineage is tracing back to a sage and a cosmic ancestral line. 2. Add a physical description: None is provided in the sources but typically, Daitya clan memb)
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.
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.
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 )
The 'great ghost' — in Bihar and UP folk classification, a Mahapreta is a preta of exceptional power, born from a death involving multiple injustices simultaneously: wrongful killing, incomplete rites, and unresolved family debt combined. It commands lesser spirits and can cause harm across an entire lineage.
The Mahavidya (Sanskrit: Mahāvidyā, "Great Wisdoms") are a canonical group of ten distinct goddesses or facets of the Divine Mother in post‑Puranic Shakta/Tantric traditions. They function as salvific, often paradoxical modes of Adi Parashakti (variously Mahākālī or Tripura Sundarī) and are central to Tantric sādhanā, yogini worship, and cross‑currents with Shaiva, Vaiṣṇava and Vajrayāna Buddhist practices.
Maheshvara is a Sanskrit-derived divine name meaning "Great Lord" used in Hindu/Shaiva theology as an epithet of Shiva and, in certain Buddhist commentarial texts, as the name of a powerful deva who presides over the Maheshvara Heaven (the "Great Heaven of Ease"). The figure's theological status differs by tradition: in Shaivism Maheshvara functions as a principal divine identity of Shiva, while in Buddhist cosmologies he is represented as a great sovereign deity within a multi-tiered pantheon.
Maheshvari is one of the Matrikas (mother-goddesses) in classical Hindu imagination and is identified as the śakti (feminine power-aspect) of the god Śiva (Maheshvara). She appears as a member of the Saptamatrika/Ashtamatrika grouping and is attested in both temple cult contexts and tantric/mantric fragments in the sources provided.
Mahishasura (Sanskrit: महिषासुर, IAST: Mahiṣāsura) is a bovine asura in Hindu tradition, commonly described as a shape‑shifting buffalo‑demon who wages war against the devas and is ultimately slain by a manifested goddess (Durga/Mahishasuramardini). The episode is narrated in the Devi Mahatmya (part of the Markandeya Purana) and is commemorated in festival cycles such as Navaratri and Durga Puja.
Mahādevī (Sanskrit: महादेवी, IAST: Mahādevī) is the supreme feminine divinity in Hindu Shakta theological tradition, presented in the cited sources as the primordial feminine principle (Adi Parashakti, Mulaprakrti) who is both the unmanifest absolute (nirguna Brahman) and the manifest goddess (saguna) from whom the universe and other deities proceed.
Mahāgaurī is the eighth form of the Navadurga in Hindu tradition, a radiant white aspect of the Great Goddess (Mahadevi) associated with purity, serenity, ritual purification and renewal. She is ritually venerated on the eighth day (Ashtami) of Navaratri and appears in mythic narratives as the fair form of Parvati after bathing in the Ganges.
Mahāgaṇapati is a grand, tantric and sectarian form of the Hindu god Gaṇeśa venerated in Ganapatya traditions as a supreme manifestation (Mahā‑Gaṇapati) and incorporated into tantric ritual corpora that include mantra, yantra, kavaca, a stotra and a thousand‑name litany. Tantric texts associate this form with six abhichāra rites used for coercive ends, and Ganapatya doctrine regards him as a pre‑creational and post‑dissolution supreme being who brings forth Brahmā.
Mahākālī is a powerful goddess-figure in South Asian religious traditions, most prominently in Hindu Shaktism where she embodies great Time/Death and the destructive-transformative power of Shakti. She also appears in some Jain contexts as a protective sasana-devi or yakṣiṇī and appears in tantric, Purānic, and performance literature.
A legendary aquatic hybrid creature in South Asian (primarily Hindu) tradition, the makara functions as the vehicle (vahana) of water deities, an emblem of Kamadeva, and a pervasive guardian motif in Hindu and Buddhist temple architecture.
Makaradhwaja is a figure in regional South Asian Ramayana-derived folk traditions described as an offspring produced when a drop of Hanuman's sweat entered a Makara; he is raised in Patala by the underworld-king Ahiravana and serves as a gatekeeper who confronts Hanuman during a rescue episode. The name is also used independently in Ayurvedic/rasashastra literature for a Kupipakwa herbo‑mineral preparation.
Two distinct historical/religious figures share the name Mallinātha in the supplied sources: (1) Mallinātha Sūri, a medieval South Indian Sanskrit commentator known for Sanjivani commentaries on the five mahākāvyas; and (2) Mallinātha (Mālliṇātha), the 19th tīrthaṅkara in Jain tradition, listed as a ford-maker born at Mithilā into the Ikshvaku lineage.
Malyavan is a rākṣasa elder-counsellor in the Rāmāyaṇa tradition, portrayed as a learned adviser versed in polity who urges Rāvaṇa to return Sītā and avoid war with Rāma. He is presented as a member of a leadership family of rākṣasas and later serves as chief counsellor to Vibhīṣaṇa after Rāvaṇa's death in some accounts.
The ghost of a Muslim person in Bengali Hindu folk belief — 'Mamdo' deriving from 'Mahmood.' The Mamdo Bhoot occupies a unique place in Bengal's supernatural taxonomy: a cross-religious ghost in a deeply syncretic tradition, with its own distinctive characteristics and ward practices that follow the ghost's religious tradition rather than the observer's.
Manasā is a Hindu goddess associated primarily with snakes, widely worshipped across large parts of India as a protector against snakebite and as a source of fertility and prosperity. In mythic genealogies she is a daughter of the sage Kaśyapa, sister of the nāga king Vasuki, wife of the sage Jaratkaru, and mother of the sage Aṣṭaka/Astika.
Mandavi (Sanskrit: Māṇḍavī) is a princess of Videha (Mithila) in the Ramayana tradition, wife of Bharata, and is regarded in some retellings as an incarnation of the shankha (conch shell) of goddess Lakshmi. She functions as an exemplary pativrata (dutiful wife) noted for sacrifice and perseverance and figures in narratives that link Mithila and Ayodhya through dynastic marriage.
Mandodari is the principal queen-consort of Rāvaṇa in the Rāmāyaṇa tradition: a beautiful, pious, and morally clear-sighted royal woman of mixed supernatural parentage who functions as a counselor, protector, and ritual exemplar (one of the Pancha-kanyā). Her story appears in multiple regional retellings with variant origin accounts.
A sacred site in Hindu tradition associated with the mythological story of Goddess Sati's self-immolation, marking the spot where her wrists are believed to have fallen. (Note: 1. Power tier: Change "Lesser Spirit" to "Primordial" since Manibandh Shaktipeeth is a sacred site associated with the mythological story of Goddess Sati's self-immolation, implying a powerful and cos)
A Dayan witch of approximately 400 years — named for the scheming Manthara of the Ramayana, her power has shifted from seduction to manipulation, able to bend the fates of entire families through whispered influence.
Mariamman is a South Indian village mother-goddess venerated chiefly as a bringer of rain and as a protector against epidemic pustular fevers (historically smallpox, chicken pox, cholera). Rooted in Dravidian folk religion, she is often identified with pan-Indian Shakti figures (Parvati, Durga, Kali) and functions as a kaval deivam (village guardian deity).
Maricha (Sanskrit: मारीच, Mārīca) is a rakshasha in the Ramayana narrative who, with his family, terrorizes sages and sacrificial rites and later takes the form of a golden deer to help Ravana abduct Sita. He is variously depicted as a cursed forest-dweller, a shape‑changer, a sorcerer, and — after an encounter with Rama — briefly as an ascetic devotee.
A troop of Vedic storm-deities portrayed as violent, young warrior-gods associated with thunder, lightning, cloud-splitting and rain; they act as a martial retinue attendant to higher gods (notably Indra) and are variably described as offspring of Rudra and Prisni or, in later tradition, born from Diti.
Cremation ground spirit of North India — born from improperly conducted last rites, the Masaan haunts funeral pyres and can possess the living, causing wasting illness. Referenced in classical Ayurvedic texts and the subject of the acclaimed 2015 film.
Matangi (Sanskrit: मातङ्गी, Mātaṅgī) is a Hindu Tantric goddess, one of the ten Mahavidyas. She is an esoteric form of the Divine Mother associated with speech, music, learning and the arts and—within Tantric contexts—invoked for worldly and occult powers such as mastery of the arts, attraction of people and control over enemies.
Matrikas (Sanskrit: mātṛkā, 'mothers') are a group of related mother-goddess figures in Hindu tradition, commonly rendered as seven (Saptamatrikas) or eight (Ashtamatrikas). They function ambivalently as protectors and as dangerous female powers tied to fertility, child mortality, disease, and martial activity, and were incorporated into temple and tantric/Shakta practice by the Kushana–Gupta and early medieval periods.
Mayasura (Maya, Mayāsura, Maya Danava) is a legendary master‑builder and king among non‑Vedic supernatural lineages in Hindu narrative tradition, famed as the architect of the Mayasabha (Hall of Illusions) and the three cities Tripura, and as a transmitter/possessor of specialised astronomical knowledge in late mythic accounts.
Mayūrabhaṭṭa (Sanskrit: मयूरभट्ट) is a 7th‑century Sanskrit poet and Hindu scholar traditionally credited with composing the Sūryaśataka, a one‑hundred‑verse hymn to the Sun (Sūrya). In the narrative preserved in later tradition he performed a vowlike penance at the Sūrya temple in Deo, tied one hundred threads to a peepal tree and composed one verse per day; according to the account, this devotional composition is said to have cured his leprosy and liberated a Brahmarākṣasa that haunted the tree.
The fish-eating ghost of Bengal — the spirit of a fisherman or a person obsessively fond of fish in life, condemned to haunt river banks and fishing boats, stealing the catch and causing boats to capsize. Distinctly Bengali: a ghost shaped by the culture of a river civilization.
Meenakshi is a South Indian Hindu goddess, principal deity of the Meenakshi–Sundareswarar Temple in Madurai. Regarded as a regional manifestation of Parvati/Adi Shakti, she is portrayed in literary legend as a warrior-queen and is the focus of major public festivals and hymnody.
A Dayan witch who has survived approximately 200 years — the first named threshold, when her glamour is at its most potent and her seductive powers allow her to pass freely among the living.
Modheshwari (Gujarati: મોઢેશ્વરી) is a localized tutelary form of the Great Goddess worshipped as the clan deity (kuldevi) of the Modh communities of Gujarat. Described in source materials as a martial incarnation of the Goddess (linked variably to Parvati/Adi Parashakti and to the devi Matangi), she is credited in tradition with slaying a local demon and promising protection to her devotees.
South Indian spirit of a beautiful woman who died of a broken heart or by betrayal — she appears on roadsides at night, enchants men into following her, and leads them to ruin or death.
Sacred, five-peaked mountain at the center of all physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universes in Buddhist cosmology. (Note: 1. Power tier: Downgrade to "Primordial" to "Greater". A Primordial entity would be a fundamental aspect of the universe's creation or structure, rather than a specific geographical location. Mount Me)
Muneeswarar is a Tamil folk Hindu rural guardian deity venerated especially in Tamil Nadu and Tamil diaspora communities as protector of plantations, estates, and as an attendant or emanation connected to Shiva and to major folk goddesses such as Mariamman. His cult exists in both orthodox Vedic/Agamic temple modes and in non-Vedic folk modes, and much of his history and attributes are preserved in oral tradition and temple practice rather than in Vedic or Purāṇic texts.
Spirit of a Konkani boy who died before his sacred thread ceremony, forever trapped between childhood and adulthood — mischievous, lonely, and hungry for belonging.
In Hinduism, Mānasaputras are considered the 'mind-children' or 'mind-born' sons of Brahma, associated with creation and cosmology. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Ancient (deity-level), as they are associated with creation and cosmology but not necessarily with cosmic or universal forces. 2. Appearance: state that no specific description)
Māyā Sītā or Chāyā Sītā is an illusory substitute for the goddess-heroine Sītā found in later Purāṇic and bhakti retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa. Created within the epic world by divine agency (often Agni or Rama), she functions as an ontological replica who endures the abduction and captivity in Sītā’s stead in order to preserve the real Sītā’s purity and to reconcile devotional concerns about Rama’s and Sītā’s reputations.
Personification of death in Hindu tradition, often associated with Mara and Yama. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial may be an overestimation; although Mṛtyu is associated with deities like Mara and Yama, its specific role as personification of death implies a more local or regional power le)
Divine serpent beings of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain cosmology — powerful guardians of water, earth, and underground treasures. Revered as deities in South and Southeast Asia.
A class of super-humans inhabiting a subterranean world in Sri Lankan tradition, often depicted as serpents. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial instead of Ancient, given their association with serpent symbolism and cosmic significance in Sri Lankan and Indian mythology. 2. Add sensory cues based on source ma)
Nagin refers in the supplied sources to the female form of the South Asian serpent-being (Nāginī / Nagini) and to popular-media uses of that figure (film and television). Sources identify Nāginī as the feminine form of Nāga, note a locally worshipped form (Nagini or Naiṇī Devī) in the Central Himalaya, and link the term to folkloric shape‑shifters called Ichchadhari Nāgas as well as to multiple cinematic and television adaptations.
Nāginī denotes a female member of the Naga, a class of semi-divine serpent beings in Indian religion and mythology. The form Nāgnī or Naiṇī Devī is recorded as the name of a serpent goddess worshipped in the valley of the Pindar river in the Indian Himalaya. The lexical form also appears in unrelated modern usages listed on the same disambiguation page.
Sacred forest in Hindu tradition, mentioned in major epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata. (Note: 1. Summary needs clarification that it's specifically mentioned in Hindu epics, not "major epics" which could be misleading. 2. Power tier should be Primordial or Ancient, as a sacred forest mentioned)
Nala is a named vanara (monkey-like being) in the Ramayana tradition chiefly credited as the architect-engineer who designed and supervised the construction of the Rama Setu (the bridge from Rameswaram to Lanka). He also participates as a warrior in the Lanka campaign; traditions vary over whether certain miraculous properties (stones floating) belong to Nala alone, to his brother Nila, or to both.
Nandni Mata is a Hindu goddess name used as an epithet of Durga and worshipped in the Vagad border region of Gujarat and Rajasthan. In local tradition she is associated in epic accounts with being Yashoda's daughter in the Dvapara Yuga who killed Kamsa; her cult center is a hilltop temple near Barodiya, Banswara district.
Narada is a rishi-like sage-divinity in Hindu tradition: a travelling musician, storyteller, and divine messenger credited with transmitting devotional wisdom, juridical teachings, and news among gods and humans. He appears across epics and Puranas as a devotee-exemplar of Vishnu, a sometimes-mischievous mediator, and the attributed author of devotional and juridical texts.
The term 'Naraka Yaksha' is not attested in the provided source; it would, hypothetically, denote a yaksha-like being associated with an infernal loka. The supplied material only discusses the general loka concept and does not document any specific entity called Naraka Yaksha.
Narantaka (narāntaka, 'destroyer of men') and Devantaka (devāntaka, 'destroyer of gods') are named asuras, sons of the rakshasa-king Rāvaṇa, who fight on Rāvaṇa's side in the Yuddha Kanda of the Valmiki Rāmāyaṇa. Their roles in the surviving sources are martial: Narantaka is slain by Aṅgada and Devantaka is killed by Hanuṃan’s mace in the epic war.
Ghost of a young bride who died before her first Diwali as a wife — still wearing her wedding nose ring (nath), she haunts the marital home she never truly inhabited, causing illness in subsequent brides and making the household unwelcoming to new marriages.
Navadurga (Sanskrit: नवदुर्गा, Navadurgā) denotes nine interrelated manifestations or stages of the goddess Durga worshipped together during Navaratri, Durga Puja, and in regional jatras and masked-dance traditions (notably in Nepal). They function as collective aspects of a single divine being tied to the nine-day contest with the demon-king Mahishasura and to communal rites of protection, victory, and renewal.
Navagraha (Sanskrit: नवग्रह, 'nine grahas') is a canonical ninefold grouping within Hindu astronomy and astrology comprising seven visible planetary bodies plus the two lunar nodes; in Jyotisha tradition they are treated as deities or celestial agents whose positions and periods are believed to influence human affairs. The grouping developed over time through Vedic, Indic, and later contacts with Hellenistic and Near Eastern planetary ideas and became a standard framework for astrological calculation, temple installation, and remedial ritual by the medieval period.
Nidhi (Sanskrit: निधि, nidhi) is a Sanskrit term meaning 'treasure' and within Hindu mythological tradition denotes the set of nine treasures (navanidhi) belonging to Kubera, the god of wealth. In some tantric practice each nidhi is personified and has a guardian-spirit that may receive worship; beyond this core role their nature and characteristics are poorly explained in surviving sources.
Nila (Sanskrit: नील, Nīla; also spelled Neela) is a vanara chieftain in the Ramayana epic, described as commander‑in‑chief of the vanara army under Sugriva who leads troops in the war against Ravana and participates in the search for Sita and the building of the Rama Setu in some traditions.
In Hindu mythology, Nimi is a king and ancestor of the Janaka lineage of Mithila. He serves as an early ruler of the Videha kingdom and is connected to the Suryavamsha dynasty. (Note: - Power tier should be Primordial (cosmic) given that he's considered an ancestor of the Suryavamsha dynasty and connected to Manu (a primeval deity in Hindu mythology). - Summary needs minor adjustme)
A Vedic and later Hindu personification of decay, sorrow, and inauspiciousness. In early Vedic texts Nirṛti functions as an unwanted presence associated with the kingdom of the dead and with ritual misfortune; in later Puranic and Agamic material the name is sometimes recast as a male dikpala (guardian) of the southwest with varied iconography.
Nāgas are a class/race of semi-divine, serpentine beings in South and Southeast Asian religious and folkloric systems. Associated with the underworld (Patala / Naga-loka), water, and hidden treasures, nāgas appear as cobra-like snakes, half-human/half-snake figures, or human figures with serpent hoods; they can be benevolent protectors or dangerous, venomous beings depending on context.