Modern and Internet Supernatural Beings

791 documented Modern and Internet supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 380 lesser and 197 minor spirit in power tier.

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Gibborim
Lesser

Gibborim

A Hebrew term (plural of gibbor) meaning "mighty ones," used in the Hebrew Bible to denote exceptional martial valor (e.g., David's mighty men) and, in later interpretation, applied to legendary or antediluvian "men of renown" sometimes associated with giants or Nephilim. The concept spans ordinary elite warriors to interpretive traditions of larger‑than‑life ancient figures.

Gideon Stargrave
Minor Spirit

Gideon Stargrave

Gideon Stargrave is a fictional comics character created by Grant Morrison in 1978 who functions as a pulp‑style 1970s spy archetype and as a metafictional persona adopted by other characters (notably King Mob) within Morrison's The Invisibles. The character exists as a literary construct and metatextual device rather than a supernatural being.

Gingerbread Man
Minor Spirit

Gingerbread Man

A cultural motif that exists both as a human‑shaped gingerbread biscuit and as an anthropomorphic figure in European fairy‑tale and modern media: in tales a baked gingerbread cookie 'comes to life', speaks, runs from pursuers, and in the canonical story is ultimately eaten by a fox. The figure functions as a seasonal culinary object and as a narrative character rather than a systematic spirit-type in traditional cosmologies.

Glinda the Good Witch
Greater

Glinda the Good Witch

Fictional benevolent sorceress created by L. Frank Baum for his Oz novels; depicted as the most powerful sorceress in the Land of Oz, ruler of the Quadling Country, and protector of Princess Ozma who aids protagonists such as Dorothy.

Glorian (Thomas Gideon)
Greater

Glorian (Thomas Gideon)

Glorian is a modern fictional supernatural/cosmic character from American comic-book fiction: the transformed human Thomas Gideon who serves as the Shaper of Worlds' apprentice and functions as a craftsman/creator figure capable of reshaping matter and constructing dreamlike realities.

Goatman (urban legend)
Lesser

Goatman (urban legend)

A modular North American roadside/woods urban legend about a half-goat/half-human figure tied to specific local sites (notably Prince George's County, MD; Denton County/Old Alton Bridge, TX; and Nags Head Woods, NC). The Goatman functions as a liminal, threatening presence in stories—blending animal and human traits—and is used to explain local misfortunes and to police risky spaces.

Godform (tradition)
Lesser

Godform (tradition)

A contemporary occult and artistic category: a created or assumed divine persona evoked by ritual, visualization, or creative practice. 'Godform' appears across modern occult instruction, paid ritual offerings, online forums, and artistic projects as a technique or object for psychospiritual work, group ritual, or aesthetic deification.

Good Witch of the North (Baum)
Lesser

Good Witch of the North (Baum)

A benevolent, regional witch and ruler of the Gillikin Country in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz who appears briefly in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) to aid Dorothy with counsel and limited magic. Later stage and film adaptations renamed or conflated her (Locasta/Locusta/Tattypoo; film conflation with Glinda) altering popular memory of the character.

Gorgo
Lesser

Gorgo

Gorgo is a polyvalent Greek mythic name applied to several related usages: a member of the gorgon/gorgoneion monstrous vocabulary (frightful phantom/monster), a goatish monster variant called Gorgo Aix associated with Titanomachy narrative, and a personal name borne by various mortal figures (e.g., a woman of Aegyptus, a Spartan queen). The term circulates between monstrous imagery, apotropaic iconography, and onomastic use, and was later reused in modern popular culture for monsters and namesakes.

Gorgythion
Lesser

Gorgythion

Gorgythion is a minor Trojan prince in Homer’s Iliad, a son of King Priam by Castianeira of Aisyme, remembered chiefly for a poetically rendered death-simile (the poppy image) in Book VIII. The personal name was later reused in modern biological taxonomy for a genus of Pyrginae skippers.

Gorilla-Man
Lesser

Gorilla-Man

Gorilla-Man is a recurring Marvel Comics construct: multiple distinct human individuals who become or inhabit gorilla-bodied humanoids (not a spirit). Incarnations range from heroic/ally (Kenneth Hale) to criminal/antagonist (Dr. Arthur Nagan, Franz Radzik), with origins described as mystical curse, surgical transplant, or technological mind-transfer.

Gorr the God Butcher
Greater

Gorr the God Butcher

A Marvel Comics supervillain — a mortal who, after awakening the All-Black Necrosword, wages a multitemporal campaign to kill gods across past, present, and future. Portrayed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor: Love and Thunder.

Graf Toren
Minor Spirit

Graf Toren

Graf Toren is documented in the supplied source set only as a modern cataloged label (Wikidata: "fictional character") with no folkloric description in the provided materials. Available documents do not supply origin myths, appearance, powers, rituals, or a living cultural context for an entity by this name.

Grafton Monster
Lesser

Grafton Monster

A modern local cryptid from Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia, first publicized after a cluster of roadside sightings in June 1964. Commonly described in secondary sources as a very tall (7–9 ft), pale, smooth-skinned, apparently headless biped that produced an unusual sound and became a local media sensation and later tourist/entertainment motif.

Grass snake (Natrix natrix)
Lesser

Grass snake (Natrix natrix)

A Eurasian semi‑aquatic, non‑venomous colubrid snake (primarily Natrix natrix and closely related taxa) commonly found near water, compost heaps and field edges. Treated in the provided sources as a biological species with well‑documented natural history rather than a mythic or supernatural being.

Gravekeeper (modern usage)
Minor Spirit

Gravekeeper (modern usage)

A modern English-language title or name used in diverse contemporary media (music production credits, videogame title, and tabletop/fantasy character name) rather than a coherently documented traditional folkloric entity. The supplied sources show the term functioning as branding or a character title with grave-related connotations but do not record a folk belief, origin myth, or ritual tradition tied to a specific culture.

Grayven
Ancient

Grayven

Grayven is a DC Comics supervillain and New God, described as a son of Darkseid who functions as a warlike, planet‑destroying commander in multiple comic crossover storylines. He appears across DC continuity (comics and animated adaptations) as an antagonistic, near‑immortal combatant whose arcs include being banished, incapacitated, killed, and later resurrected in continuity relaunches.

Greater spot-nosed monkey
Minor Spirit

Greater spot-nosed monkey

The greater spot-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans) is a small Old World guenon native to West Africa, typically found in forest–savannah transition zones. Described in zoological and natural-history sources, it is notable for its prominent white nose, small size among Old World monkeys, and complex vocal behaviour including combinatorial alarm calls.

Green Arrow
Lesser

Green Arrow

Green Arrow is a fictional, non‑superpowered costumed crime‑fighter (Oliver Jonas Queen) appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Portrayed as an expert archer and vigilante who uses specialty arrows, gadgets, and vehicles, he operates in urban settings (Star City, Seattle) and frequently teams with other superheroes.

Green Lantern
Greater

Green Lantern

Green Lantern is a title used by multiple superhero characters in DC Comics. The name denotes either the original mystical ring‑wielding hero (Alan Scott) of the Golden Age or members of the later Green Lantern Corps, an interstellar law‑enforcement body empowered by power rings linked to willpower and imagination.

Greenbrier Ghost (Elva Zona Heaster Shue)
Minor Spirit

Greenbrier Ghost (Elva Zona Heaster Shue)

A locally famous Appalachian case in which the spirit of Elva Zona Heaster Shue is reported to have communicated to her mother the circumstances of her own 1897 death, prompting an exhumation and autopsy that produced medico-legal evidence and a subsequent murder conviction.

Gremlin
Minor Spirit

Gremlin

A modern machine-age folkloric creature, first attested in Royal Air Force slang in the 1920s, invoked by airmen to personify and explain inexplicable mechanical malfunctions in aircraft and other machinery. Gremlins function socially as scapegoats that reduce interpersonal blame and bolster morale in high-stress technical settings; later popularized in fiction by authors such as Roald Dahl.

Grey Hulk
Greater

Grey Hulk

A distinct persona/alter of Bruce Banner within mainstream American comic-book continuity and adaptations, identified by grey skin in many iterations and a temperament that differs from other Hulk personae. The Grey Hulk is an internal, emergent identity that manifests during Banner's transformations rather than an external spirit or traditional folkloric being.

Grim Reaper
Minor Spirit

Grim Reaper

A Western cultural personification of death depicted as a hooded, often skeletal figure bearing a scythe. The Grim Reaper functions primarily as a symbolic emblem in art, literature, and popular media to represent death, mortality, and the process of dying rather than a discrete ritual agent in a documented traditional religion.

Gryneus
Lesser

Gryneus

Gryneus is a polysemous name attested in modern biological taxonomy (Callophrys gryneus, the juniper/olive hairstreak), as an epithet of the classical god Apollo in data records, as the name of a centaur slain in the Lapith–centaur fight in a mythic source, and as the Latinized surname of an early modern theologian (Ioannes/ Johann Iacobus Grynaeus). The supplied sources do not present Gryneus as a single supernatural entity within a living folk cosmology.

Guruguru Medaman (Amanojaku)
Lesser

Guruguru Medaman (Amanojaku)

Guruguru Medaman is identified in the supplied sources with the Amanojaku — a demon-like, contrarian being in Japanese folklore classed among wicked ogre-gods (akukijin), small ogres (ko-oni), and yōkai. The name also appears as a media character title in an archived audiovisual clip, but the supplied material contains no detailed traditional narratives, rituals, or specific physical descriptions for this named form.

HMS Friday
Lesser

HMS Friday

HMS Friday is an urban myth — a contemporary maritime legend that purports to tell of a Royal Navy ship deliberately commissioned and sailed on Fridays to disprove the superstition that beginning a voyage on a Friday is unlucky. The story is false: there was never a Royal Navy ship named HMS Friday, and the tale functions as a folkloric cautionary anecdote rather than a historical event.

Hamet (Hamut)
Minor Spirit

Hamet (Hamut)

The name Hamet (variant Hamut) appears in modern reference sources as a personal name and in several toponyms. The provided sources do not document any folkloric or supernatural entity called Hamet/Hamut, so no reliable ethnographic or mythological description is available from the supplied material.

Hank Pym
Greater

Hank Pym

Hank Pym is a fictional American comic-book character: a biochemist-inventor who discovered ‘Pym particles’ that allow dramatic size alteration, who has appeared under multiple costumed identities (Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, Yellowjacket, briefly Wasp), is a founding member of the Avengers, and is the creator of the robotic villain Ultron. He appears in serialized Marvel comics since 1962 and in Marvel Cinematic Universe films portrayed by Michael Douglas.

Hannikel (Jakob Reinhard)
Minor Spirit

Hannikel (Jakob Reinhard)

Hannikel was the nickname of Jakob Reinhard (c.1742–17 July 1787), an 18th‑century German outlaw who led a gang active in the Northern Black Forest and adjacent borderlands. Documented as a criminal leader whose career ended in arrest, imprisonment, escapes and a public hanging, his persona was later adopted into Swabian‑Alemannic carnival and literary/radio retellings.

Hasshaku-sama
Lesser

Hasshaku-sama

Hasshaku-sama (八尺様) is a contemporary Japanese urban-legend figure depicted as a very tall, pale womanlike spirit associated with isolated rural zones; circulating since the late 2000s in internet folklore, she is said to target children and young people and is warded in stories by sealed rooms, talismans, salt, and boundary Jizō statues.

Hat Man
Lesser

Hat Man

A modern popular-paranormal variant of the 'shadow person' phenomenon: described in sources as a humanoid, shadow-like figure discussed in paranormal communities and occasionally linked in contemporary notes to drug- or sleep-related experiences.

Hatme
Lesser

Hatme

A highly fragmentary attestation: one metadata entry (Wikidata) labels Hatme as a "Spirit of the Prophet Muhammad," while the remainder of the provided corpus uses the lexeme "hatme/hatme yapmak" in non-ethnographic contexts (ritual-event names, building names, course tags, forum posts). No corroborating ethnographic description of a folkloric being is present in the supplied materials.

Hauras
Minor Spirit

Hauras

Hauras is a name attested in modern cultural metadata and appears in secondary compilations connected to the Ars Goetia name-lists. The available sources do not provide historical folkloric descriptions, powers, or rituals for Hauras; its documented uses are primarily as a contemporary artist/track name and an entry-string in name-lists derived from goetic compilations.

Hawaiian hoary bat (ʻŌpeʻapeʻa)
Lesser

Hawaiian hoary bat (ʻŌpeʻapeʻa)

An endemic vespertilionid bat of the Hawaiian Islands (Lasiurus semotus) known in Hawaiian as ʻōpeʻapeʻa ('half‑leaf'). It is treated in scientific and conservation literature as the only extant native terrestrial mammal of Hawaiʻi, with nocturnal insectivorous habits and a solitary roosting ecology. Conservation documents frame protections and management measures rather than any traditional ritual or supernatural role.

Hawk's Eye
Lesser

Hawk's Eye

Hawk's Eye is a named antagonist from the Sailor Moon SuperS-era antagonists and appears in the Sailor Moon Eternal adaptation. Presented as a humanoid member of the Dead Moon Circus ensemble, Hawk's Eye fights the Sailor Guardians, uses disguise/deception in the manga, and is defeated in combat by Super Sailor Jupiter in the supplied summaries.

Hawkeye
Minor Spirit

Hawkeye

Hawkeye is a polyvalent English-language cultural label applied to multiple non-supernatural referents including literary and comic-book characters (notably Natty Bumppo and Marvel's Clint Barton and Kate Bishop), regional nicknames and place-names in the United States (e.g., Iowa, 'Hawkeye State'), and various commercial or artistic uses. The supplied sources treat Hawkeye as a modern/pop-cultural name rather than a spirit or mythic being.

Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams
Minor Spirit

Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams

A paired duo of fictional twelve-year-old child detectives who appear as protagonists in the children's puzzle-mystery book series Can You Solve the Mystery? (originally published 1983–1985) credited to the pseudonym M. Masters. The books invite readers to solve short investigative puzzles by using narrated clues and a sketch attributed to 'Hawkeye' Collins, with mirror-printed solutions provided at the back.

Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders)
Greater

Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders)

Kendra Saunders is a DC Comics character who assumes the mantle Hawkgirl within the Hawk legacy. Introduced in 1999 as a modern incarnation in a long cycle of Hawkman/Hawkgirl identities, she is portrayed as a winged, melee‑focused superheroine whose flight and gear are commonly associated with the fictional material Nth metal.

Headless Ghost
Lesser

Headless Ghost

An apparition motif in modern folklore and popular media in which a once-living person manifests in the world of the living without a head. Attestations in the supplied sources include localized English hauntings (e.g., Faringdon churchyard, a Wiltshire lane), a claimed photograph, and a 1959 fictional film in which the spirit's head is reunited with its body.

Headless Rider (Kubinashi Rider)
Lesser

Headless Rider (Kubinashi Rider)

A modern urban-legend revenant of a motorcyclist who suffered a decapitating accident and is said to reappear along the route or at the time of death, often riding a motorcycle without a head. The cycle adapts older headless‑rider motifs to motorized roadways and functions as a contemporary cautionary and liminal apparition.

Heavenly Executioner Chiwoo
Lesser

Heavenly Executioner Chiwoo

Heavenly Executioner Chiwoo is a fictional human protagonist of a Korean manhwa (comic) series titled 치우천하, presented as an action-fantasy story set in an imagined ancient-Korean milieu. The character is a streetwise youth who discovers his father was a mangnani (executioner) and adopts that stigmatized social role amid imperial persecution of executioners; the series is partly inspired by legends of the mythic figure Chiyou but treats Chiwoo as a literary/fictional character rather than a pre-modern supernatural being.

Hegai
Lesser

Hegai

Hegai is a human court official attested in the Book of Esther (Hebrew Bible), described as the eunuch chamberlain charged with the 'house of the women' (the king's harem) in Shushan. He supervised the preparation and custody of young women presented to King Ahasuerus/Xerxes and is credited with favoring and provisioning Esther prior to her audience with the king.

Hero City Kids Force
Lesser

Hero City Kids Force

Hero City Kids Force is a Philippine animated short-form television series produced by ABS-CBN in collaboration with Monaural Studio and Tres Puntos Studio. The series follows child-focused adventures in which the superheroes Darna, Captain Barbell, and Lastikman team with their playmates (Maya, Andres, and Nono, aka "The McCoolits") to confront the supervillain Dr. Sternberg/Steinberg and his sidekick Cyborgana.

Herobrine
Lesser

Herobrine

A modern internet-born urban legend and creepypasta from the Minecraft community: an uncanny, player-like presence (a Steve-like avatar with solid white eyes) alleged to appear in single-player worlds and to alter the environment. Herobrine is a community-created motif used in stories, videos, and mods rather than an official game entity.

Heroes United
Minor Spirit

Heroes United

Heroes United is a modern media title/brand used for multiple animated crossover productions and unrelated creative or civic projects. Most prominently it denotes a short series of Marvel Animation direct-to-video/streaming feature animations pairing established superheroes, and a Cartoon Network crossover special between Ben 10 and Generator Rex.

Hibagon
Lesser

Hibagon

The Hibagon is a regional cryptid reported around Mount Hiba in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, described as a large, bipedal, hairy humanoid. Reported since the 1970s, it is presented in sources as a local analogue to North American Bigfoot and the Himalayan Yeti and treated primarily as a cryptozoological/folkloric curiosity rather than a being embedded in traditional religious cosmology.

Hippeia
Ancient

Hippeia

Hippeia (Ἱππεία) is a Greek name applied both to a mortal woman in heroic genealogies and to a cultic epithet of the goddess Athena meaning 'of horses' or 'equestrian'. As an epithet (Hippeia Athena) the name marks Athena's association with horses and chariotry; as a proper name it appears in mythic genealogies (wife of Elatus).

Hippolyta
Lesser

Hippolyta

Hippolyta is a figure of Greek myth traditionally described as queen of the Amazons, daughter of Ares and Otrera, and a participant in heroic-cycle narratives involving Heracles and Theseus. In classical sources she is a royal human/divine-adjacent personage associated with a distinctive war-belt (zoster); later literature and modern popular culture adapt her as a dramatic or superheroic figure.

Hippotion
Minor Spirit

Hippotion

Hippotion is a scientific genus of sphinx or hawk moths (family Sphingidae) erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. The genus groups several species of moths found across multiple regions and is treated in entomological, natural-history, and pest-management sources rather than folkloric tradition.

Howard the Duck
Minor Spirit

Howard the Duck

Howard the Duck is a fictional anthropomorphic duck character created for American comic books published by Marvel Comics, featured in satirical and metafictional stories about a sentient duck 'trapped' in a human-dominated Earth. Created by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik, he first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973) and has appeared in comics, a 1986 film, and later cameo roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and animation.

Huecuva
Lesser

Huecuva

A fictional undead monster attested in Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder bestiaries, depicted as the reanimated corpses of former religious practitioners who violated vows or embraced heresy. Bestiary entries describe it as a robed, decaying corpse with abilities and auras tied to the corruption of faith.

Hulkbusters
Lesser

Hulkbusters

Hulkbusters is the name applied to three distinct organized human groups in Marvel Comics whose purpose is to confront, capture, or neutralize the Hulk. The label is used for a U.S. military task force, a Bruce Banner–led scientific/operational team based at Gamma Base, and a S.H.I.E.L.D. unit; each iteration functions as an instrument of state or agency policy within the fictional Marvel Universe.

Hylaeus
Minor Spirit

Hylaeus

Hylaeus is a name attested across unrelated referents in classical myth, biological taxonomy, and popular culture rather than a single supernatural being: brief mythic proper names (a centaur and one of Actaeon’s dogs), a cosmopolitan genus of bees (yellow‑face or masked bees), and a named pet dog in the videogame Caves of Qud.

Hyrtacus
Lesser

Hyrtacus

Hyrtacus is an obscure mortal figure of Greek myth associated with the Trojan War cycle. He is described as a comrade of King Priam, husband of Arisbe after Priam divorced her, and father of fighters who appear in epic narratives; the name is also used in modern biological taxonomy for a genus of insects.

Ide
Minor Spirit

Ide

Not attested as a supernatural entity in the provided sources. The term 'Ide' in the supplied materials appears as a Wikipedia disambiguation headword, a toponym for a village in Devon, England, and as the acronym 'IDE' in modern computing contexts (Integrated Development Environment) or as part of archival filenames.

Idomeneus of Crete
Lesser

Idomeneus of Crete

Idomeneus is a Cretan king and military leader of the heroic generation associated with the Trojan War cycle. Remembered as commander of the Cretan contingent and later as the focus of local hero-tomb veneration on Crete, he also appears as the protagonist of the operatic work Idomeneo, re di Creta.

Iggwilv
Greater

Iggwilv

Iggwilv is a fictional human arch‑mage from the Greyhawk campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons, presented across editions as a powerful practitioner of arcane magic, author of in‑setting treatises on demons (the Demonomicon/Nethertome) and a manipulator of Abyssal/demonic politics. She is identified with other personas such as Tasha and Natasha in various sources and has a mutable biography across publications.

Igopogo
Lesser

Igopogo

Igopogo is a modern Canadian lake‑monster legend said to dwell in Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Presented in popular folklore and cryptozoological sources, it is a place‑bound mysterious aquatic creature variously reported by witnesses, invoked in local media, and represented in civic art.

Iry (as-attested-uses)
Minor Spirit

Iry (as-attested-uses)

No coherent folkloric or mythological entity called 'Iry' is attested in the supplied sources. The string 'Iry' appears only as an element of personal names, modern nicknames/handles, a taxonomic component, and as an administrative label in archival materials.