Literary and Fictional Supernatural Beings

717 documented Literary and Fictional supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 329 lesser and 185 greater in power tier.

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Deianira
Lesser

Deianira

Deianira is a Calydonian princess in Greek myth, wife of the hero Heracles, whose acceptance of a deceitful 'love‑potion' from the dying centaur Nessus leads inadvertently to Heracles' agonizing death; she is portrayed as a tragic mortal figure in epic and dramatic traditions.

Deidamia
Minor Spirit

Deidamia

Deidamia is a proper name applied to multiple distinct women in Greek myth and later cultural uses (including an opera by Handel and various taxonomic and historical names). The sources treat Deidamia as a name recurring across genealogical, literary, dynastic, and cultural contexts rather than a single coherent supernatural entity.

Deiphobus
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Deiphobus

Deiphobus (Ancient Greek Δηΐφοβος) is a Trojan prince, son of King Priam and Hecuba, attested across Homeric epic and later Greek and Roman narratives as a warrior of the Trojan War. He appears in the Iliad among Trojan leaders, is given expanded roles in post‑Homeric sources (notably Euripides, Dares, Dictys, Malalas) and in Vergil’s Aeneid is depicted posthumously as a horribly mutilated corpse who recounts his death.

Deipyrus
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Deipyrus

Deipyrus (Ancient Greek Δηΐπυρον) is a mortal Achaean warrior named in Homer’s Iliad. He serves as one of the seven captains of the sentinels under Thrasymedes and is killed in close combat by the Trojan Helenus during the siege of Troy.

Delphyne Gorgon
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Delphyne Gorgon

Delphyne Gorgon is a fictional character from modern American comic books (Marvel Comics). Portrayed as an Amazon warrior, general and later queen with a Gorgon-derived physiology, she appears in The Incredible Hercules storylines and related Marvel continuity.

Demitri Maximoff
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Demitri Maximoff

Demitri Maximoff is a fictional vampire-styled character from Capcom's Darkstalkers (Vampire) franchise, depicted in franchise materials as a Makai noble and a recurring playable combatant whose lore places him in a Romanian mountain castle called Zeltzereich that is said to appear at full moon.

Demogoblin
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Demogoblin

Demogoblin is a Marvel Comics demonic, goblinoid supernatural being associated with Limbo. Presented in 1990s Spider-Man storylines, he is a self‑proclaimed holy avenger who kills those he deems sinners, and who has fused with and later been separated from the human villain Jason Macendale (Hobgoblin).

Demogorgon
Ancient

Demogorgon

A name that emerged in Latin medieval commentary and was later taken up in Renaissance and early modern literature and demonology as a powerful, primordial subterranean or infernal figure associated with fate and accountability. Modern popular culture reuses the name for monsters, but those visualizations are distinct from the medieval and Renaissance textual tradition.

Denethor II
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Denethor II

Denethor II is the twenty-sixth Ruling Steward of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium: a human political leader of great will and foresight whose secret use of a palantír and ensuing despair lead to his tragic self-destruction during the War of the Ring.

Devil Dinosaur
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Devil Dinosaur

Devil Dinosaur is a red-skinned, Tyrannosaurus-like prehistoric creature from Marvel Comics, native to the alternate-Earth 'Dinosaur World' (Earth-78411). Created by Jack Kirby, he forms a close partnership with Moon-Boy and later befriends Moon Girl in modern stories; he appears both in his home continuity and occasionally in Earth-616 and crossover narratives.

Devil Hulk
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Devil Hulk

An internal, personified alternate personality within Bruce Banner's mind in Marvel Comics that embodies his deepest resentment, self-hatred, and desire for a punitive father-figure; chiefly active in Banner's mental landscape but, when dominant, capable of manifesting physically with destructive gamma-augmented powers.

Devil horse
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Devil horse

A polyvalent folkloric and cultural label applied to horses or horse-shaped phenomena interpreted as malevolent, uncanny, or diabolically influenced in disparate literary, toponymic, and cinematic sources. The term appears in place-name folklore, fiction, film titles, and as an epithet attached to ordinary horses, but the sources do not present a single, coherent supernatural taxonomy for a discrete species called "Devil horse."

Devil-Slayer (Eric Simon Payne)
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Devil-Slayer (Eric Simon Payne)

A fictional American comic-book vigilante who is a former cult member turned occult monster-hunter; a human practitioner who combines trained martial and marksmanship skills with a mystically created "shadow cloak" that permits limited dimensional travel and other paranormal effects.

Deïmachus
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Deïmachus

Deïmachus (Greek: Δηῖμαχος/Δηϊμάχης) is a personal name borne by several mortal men in Greek myth. Bearers of the name appear as regional princes or kings and as companions of major heroes (notably Heracles), occurring across genealogical and epic narratives rather than representing a single supernatural entity.

Dhu'l‑Qarnayn
Ancient

Dhu'l‑Qarnayn

A Qur'anic figure (Surah al‑Kahf 18:83–101) presented as a powerful, God‑guided travelling ruler who journeys to the limits of the inhabited world and erects a barrier that restrains Gog and Magog until the eschatological hour.

Digory Kirke
Minor Spirit

Digory Kirke

Digory Kirke is a human fictional character created by C. S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia. He appears as a child in The Magician's Nephew, as the elderly 'Professor' in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and is included in Lewis's narrative chronology that places his death in a 1949 railway accident and his subsequent presence in the renewed Narnia/Aslan's Country within the fiction.

Dinah Soar
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Dinah Soar

Dinah Soar is a fictional superpowered humanoid pterosaur appearing in American Marvel Comics, a founding member of the Great Lakes Avengers who possesses high-speed flight, a hypersonic/inaudible voice, and an empathic calming rapport. She was introduced in 1989 and is portrayed as born in the Savage Land with her precise lineage unrevealed.

Dire Wraith
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Dire Wraith

The Dire Wraiths are a Marvel Comics extraterrestrial species, described as an evolutionary offshoot of the Skrulls. Within the comics' internal cosmology they are a sentient, shape‑shifting race with a history of exile to a home called Wraithworld, internal gendered factionalism (technology‑oriented males and magic‑oriented females), and recurring antagonism toward the Spaceknights and Earth.

Dispater (Dis Pater)
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Dispater (Dis Pater)

Dispater (classical Dis Pater) is a chthonic Roman deity originally associated with fertile soil and subterranean mineral wealth who in modern fantasy and gaming traditions is reinterpreted as Dispater, an arch‑devil and lord of the Iron City of Dis, a high‑ranking ruler within layered infernal cosmologies.

Doctor Destiny
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Doctor Destiny

Doctor Destiny is a fictional DC Comics supervillain, usually the criminal scientist John Dee (occasionally rendered John Deegan in adaptations), who acquires dream‑linked artifacts—most notably the Materioptikon/Dreamstone—and uses them to enter and manipulate dreams and, at times, to manifest dream‑content in waking reality.

Doctor Doom
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Doctor Doom

Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) is a fictional supervillain in American comic-book popular culture, created for Marvel Comics as the armored, hooded sovereign of the fictional nation Latveria who blends advanced science and sorcery. He serves as a recurring antagonist—most notably to the Fantastic Four—and functions as a narrative symbol of arrogance, technological hubris, and authoritarianism.

Doctor Druid
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Doctor Druid

Doctor Druid (Anthony Druid, originally Anthony Droom) is a fictional human mystic-scholar and supernatural investigator in Marvel Comics. Portrayed as a psychiatrist/physician who acquired enhanced mental and physical discipline through mystical training, he functions as a consultant and monster-hunter rather than a full sorcerer.

Doctor Fate
Greater

Doctor Fate

A legacy magical mantle in DC Comics fiction: a costumed heroic office conferred upon human hosts by powerful artifacts and the cosmic agent Nabu, enabling sorcerous protection and membership in superhero teams. The role blends human hosts' agency with a transpersonal patron (Nabu/Lords of Order) and has been occupied by multiple successors since its 1940 debut.

Doctor Manhattan
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Doctor Manhattan

Fictional character from the graphic novel Watchmen: Jon Osterman is an atomic physicist who, after a laboratory accident, reconstitutes as a blue-skinned being able to observe and manipulate matter at the subatomic level. In-story he functions as an unparalleled scientific asset whose existence reshapes Cold War geopolitics and raises ethical questions about absolute power.

Doctor Occult
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Doctor Occult

Doctor Occult (Richard Occult) is a fictional occult detective appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Presented as a long‑lived human magic practitioner and investigator, he investigates supernatural cases, wields a distinctive talisman called the Mystic Symbol of the Seven in many stories, and has served as a guide and team member in multiple DC storylines.

Doctor Poison
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Doctor Poison

Doctor Poison is a recurring fictional antagonist in DC Comics' Wonder Woman stories, depicted as a human toxicologist and chemical-weapons specialist who conducts bioterror and espionage operations across multiple continuities. The character appears in several incarnations (notably Princess Maru in the Golden Age) and functions as a narrative personification of scientific villainy and wartime sabotage.

Doctor Polaris
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Doctor Polaris

Doctor Polaris is a fictional DC Comics supervillain identity, most prominently used by scientist Neal Emerson, who uses mastery of magnetism to menace heroes and infrastructure. The mantle has been borne by two comic-book characters (Neal Emerson and John Nichol) and recurs across DC shared-universe storylines and villain teams.

Doctor Psycho
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Doctor Psycho

Doctor Psycho is a fictional human supervillain originating in DC Comics as a recurring antagonist of Wonder Woman. Presented across eras as a misogynistic, mentally disturbed individual who employs occult performance, hypnosis, and—in later reboots—psychic powers to further plots against women and Wonder Woman.

Donna Troy
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Donna Troy

Donna Troy is a fictional American comic-book superheroine, introduced as the original Wonder Girl and later known at times as Troia. Created within DC Comics continuity, she functions as a younger counterpart/protégé to Wonder Woman and as a founding member of the Teen Titans; her published origin has been revised multiple times by editorial continuity resets.

Dorian Hawkmoon
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Dorian Hawkmoon

Dorian Hawkmoon is a fictional human protagonist in Michael Moorcock's far-future fantasy sequence The History of the Runestaff. He is described in the texts and summaries as "a version of the Eternal Champion," a recurring heroic role in Moorcock's multiverse; his actions are shaped by that in‑universe motif and by powerful artifacts encountered in the novels.

Dormammu
Ancient

Dormammu

Dormammu is a fictional extra- and inter-dimensional supernatural being created for Marvel Comics. In Marvel continuity he is portrayed as the powerful ruler of the Dark Dimension, a recurring antagonist of Doctor Strange who commands denizens of his realm, bargains with sorcerers, and engages cosmic entities.

Dorothy Gale
Minor Spirit

Dorothy Gale

Dorothy Gale is a fictional human girl created by L. Frank Baum who serves as the primary protagonist in many Oz novels. A Kansas farm child who repeatedly travels by magical means to the Land of Oz, she becomes an honored resident and ally of Oz's rulers while remaining a mortal human who benefits from Oz's enchantments.

Double Dealing Character
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Double Dealing Character

Double Dealing Character is the fourteenth main game in the Touhou Project series (Touhou Kishinjō) and the name used in-universe for the episodic incident depicted in that game: a crisis in Gensokyo where tsukumogami appear and various youkai riot under the influence of a Miracle Mallet and an instigator, producing social upheaval resolved by the protagonists.

Dracs
Lesser

Dracs

The string "Dracs" appears in multiple unrelated modern contexts; only a single provided literary source uses it to denote lethal, man-shaped scaled draconic creatures in an alternate-historical fantasy setting. Other occurrences are proper names (a Catalan literary collective, a sports team, track titles) or technical acronyms and do not document a unified folkloric entity.

Dracula
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Dracula

Count Dracula is the singular Transylvanian aristocratic vampire of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel who preys on the living by drinking blood and exerting mental influence, relocates to England via the ship Demeter with boxes of earth from his castle, and is ultimately tracked and destroyed by a group of hunters using a mix of scientific, clerical, and folkloric measures.

Dracule Mihawk
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Dracule Mihawk

A fictional human character from Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, widely described in sources as the "Greatest Swordsman in the World" and a high-ranking pirate-affiliated combatant who has served among the Shichibukai/Warlords in the series. He functions as a benchmark and occasional mentor to other swordsmen, notably Roronoa Zoro.

Drakh
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Drakh

The Drakh are a fictional extraterrestrial polity in the Babylon 5 setting portrayed as a covertly hostile, technologically capable race that conducts fleet actions, espionage, and biological/nanotechnological warfare in the post-Shadow War era.

Drax the Destroyer
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Drax the Destroyer

Drax the Destroyer is a fictional Marvel Comics character: a resurrected human spirit placed into a powerful new body by cosmic forces to serve as a champion created to oppose Thanos. Over decades of publication he functions as a cosmic warrior and member of teams such as the Infinity Watch and the Guardians of the Galaxy, with published power-set changes and multiple media adaptations.

Drelnza
Minor Spirit

Drelnza

Drelnza is listed as a named entry on a compiled list of characters from the Greyhawk campaign setting. The sole provided source supplies only the name; no descriptive, mythological, or functional information about Drelnza is present in that source.

Drizzt Do'Urden
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Drizzt Do'Urden

Drizzt Do'Urden is a fictional drow (dark elf) character created by R. A. Salvatore for the Forgotten Realms (Dungeons & Dragons). Portrayed across multiple novels and short stories, he is an atypical member of drow society who rejects its evil norms, becomes an exile, and wanders between the Underdark and the surface as a warrior and moral focal figure in the setting.

Drífa
Minor Spirit

Drífa

No folkloric or mythological account of a supernatural entity named Drífa is present in the provided sources. The string Drífa/Drifa appears in the materials as a modern Icelandic personal name, a fictional princess in a novel, and as a biological genus name; no indigenous cosmology, appearance, abilities, or rituals for a spirit called Drífa are documented in the source set.

Drúedain
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Drúedain

The Drúedain are a fictional ancient people (a race of Men) in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium: a small, secretive, wood-dwelling group portrayed as remnants of an older human type, associated with wild places and woodwose/wild-man folklore. They appear in the First Age (some entering Beleriand) and survive in the Third Age chiefly in the Drúadan Forest and on the cape of Andrast, noted for woodcraft and enmity with Orcs.

Duela Dent
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Duela Dent

Duela Dent is a fictional, non-supernatural character from DC Comics who adopts multiple villain‑linked aliases (notably Joker's Daughter and Harlequin) and alternately appears as ally and antagonist to the Teen Titans and related teams. Her identity, age, and parentage vary across continuities and she is most often portrayed as a human acrobat who uses clown‑themed gadgets and is frequently institutionalized.

Duergar
Lesser

Duergar

Two distinct uses of the name appear in the sources: (1) a traditional English folk designation for the Simonside Dwarfs — a local small‑folk or hill spirit group associated with the Simonside Hills of Northumberland (also called Brownmen and Bogles); and (2) a modern fantasy role‑playing race: a subterranean dwarf people in tabletop RPGs (Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder and related SRD material) with defined physiology, resistances, and subterranean culture.

Duffer (Narnia)
Minor Spirit

Duffer (Narnia)

A brief, secondary-source attestation names 'Duffer' as an invisible dwarf-type being in the fictional setting of The Chronicles of Narnia. Available sources supply only a single-line identification and do not provide canonical details from the primary texts.

Durin's Bane
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Durin's Bane

Durin's Bane is the named Balrog encountered by the Fellowship in the Mines of Moria in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. It belongs to the class of powerful, malign beings called Balrogs, described as tall, menacing creatures wreathed in fire and shadow and armed with fiery whips and sometimes swords.

Dvalinn
Lesser

Dvalinn

Dvalinn is an Old Norse mythic name attested in the Poetic Edda and several sagas applied to at least two distinct figures: a named dwarf among the dwarf-kind (craftsman, rune‑figure, leader in some lists) and one of the four harts/stags that feed among the branches of the world‑tree Yggdrasill. The corpus does not reconcile these uses of the same name into a single coherent biography.

Dwarves (Middle-earth)
Ancient

Dwarves (Middle-earth)

A distinct, long-lived mortal people of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, created by the Vala Aulë, famed for subterranean dwelling, exceptional craft and masonry, and martial stubbornness. They play a persistent cultural and historical role across the Ages of Middle-earth, notably as miners, smiths, and builders of great halls and treasures.

Dáin II Ironfoot
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Dáin II Ironfoot

Dáin II Ironfoot is a named Dwarven king and military leader of the Iron Hills in J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium, presented in sources as a kinsman of Thorin Oakenshield who brings reinforcements to the Lonely Mountain and who is reported to have warned that Moria remained dangerous because of Durin's Bane.

Dúnedain
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Dúnedain

The Dúnedain are a lineage of Men in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium descended from the Edain and the Númenóreans. They are renowned for their long lifespans (in earlier generations), martial skill, keen senses, and historical role as rulers of Númenor and later as the kingdoms and rangers of Arnor and Gondor; the name in Sindarin literally means 'Men of the West.'

Eagle (Middle-earth)
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Eagle (Middle-earth)

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium, the Eagles or Great Eagles are exceptionally large avian beings depicted as more than ordinary animals: described in some sources as 'spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles,' they act with intelligence and occasional independent agency, intervening episodically in key events as rescuers or omens.

Ector
Minor Spirit

Ector

Ector (also Hector, Ectorius) is a named human noble and knight in the Arthurian tradition, best known as the foster (adoptive) father of King Arthur and the father of Sir Kay. Portrayed across medieval and later retellings as the head of a knightly household responsible for raising Arthur in concealment at Merlin's arrangement, he functions as a social guardian and narrative caretaker rather than a supernatural being.

Edain (Men)
Minor Spirit

Edain (Men)

The Edain, rendered in sources as Man or Men, are the human peoples of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. They are the 'second' or younger people, created after the Elves and distinguished chiefly by their mortality; they are counted among the 'free peoples' of Middle-earth alongside other autonomous races.

Edern ap Nudd
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Edern ap Nudd

Edern ap Nudd is a Welsh medieval literary figure presented as a noble warrior and member of King Arthur's retinue. Presented in native Welsh romances and in continental Arthurian adaptations under variant names, he is described as a son of Nudd and brother of figures such as Gwyn ap Nudd; later medieval/local tradition also attests a Saint Edern with church dedications in Wales.

Edmund Pevensie
Minor Spirit

Edmund Pevensie

Edmund Pevensie is a fictional English schoolboy created by C. S. Lewis who appears as a principal human character in The Chronicles of Narnia. He begins as a spiteful, selfish child, betrays his siblings under the influence of the White Witch, is redeemed through Aslan's sacrificial intervention, and later reigns as King Edmund the Just in Narnia before returning to England.

Edward Mordake
Lesser

Edward Mordake

A late-19th-century apocryphal case popularized in sensational journalism and medical miscellany describing a supposedly well-born Englishman born with a second, allegedly malign face on the back of his head. Modern researchers treat the account as a likely hoax or urban legend rather than a documented historical or folkloric supernatural being.

Ego the Living Planet
Ancient

Ego the Living Planet

Ego the Living Planet is a fictional sentient planet created for American comic-book mythology (Marvel Comics) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Presented as an individual, planetary-scale organism, Ego appears across Marvel cosmic stories as a thinking, willful celestial body that can interact with gods, heroes, and galactic civilizations.

Eidolon
Minor Spirit

Eidolon

In classical Greek literature an eidolon (Ancient Greek: εἴδωλον) is a spirit-image or phantom double of a living or dead person — an appearance or image that may stand in for the person without being their full bodily or ontological self. The concept functions as a poetic and narrative device in Homeric and later poetry to handle problems of presence, absence, and reputation.

El Borak (Francis Xavier Gordon)
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El Borak (Francis Xavier Gordon)

El Borak is a fictional American adventurer created by Robert E. Howard, known by the Arabic epithet meaning "The Swift" for his exceptional speed, martial skill, and guile. Set in early 20th‑century pulp adventure contexts across Afghanistan and adjacent regions, he is portrayed as a legendary human operative whose reputation mediates tribal and political conflict rather than a supernatural being.

Elders of the Universe
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Elders of the Universe

A class of individual immortals in Marvel Comics defined as the last surviving members of otherwise extinct races; each pursues an obsessive passion that shapes their abilities and actions, often with cosmic-scale consequences within Marvel continuity.