119 documented North American Folk supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 74 lesser and 26 minor spirit in power tier.
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Agent Liberty is a fictional human operative persona in DC Comics and its television adaptation (Arrowverse). The identity—most prominently used by Benjamin 'Benjy/Ben' Lockwood—functions as a costumed, paramilitary/enforcer role tied to political movements (Sons/Children of Liberty) or official security details, driven by ideological 'liberty' rhetoric rather than supernatural agency.
A North American "fearsome critter" of lumbercamp tall-tale tradition said to dwell in hollow conifer trees and hurl broken branches and splinters at unwary people; presented in folklore as an animal-like, mischievous or predatory woodland creature rather than a deity or spirit of formal cosmology.
A New England maritime tall-tale hero and giant seafarer, Stormalong functions in sailors' oral tradition and early-20th-century tall-tale collections as a repository for exaggerated seamanship, prodigious physical size, and impossible nautical exploits rather than as a literal supernatural being.
All-Flash (originally All-Flash Quarterly) is a Golden Age American comic-book magazine series published 1941–1947 that served as the first solo magazine vehicle for Jay Garrick, the original Flash. The title is a commercial/branding name later used as an English lexical phrase in unrelated technical and web contexts.
The Altamaha-ha (also called "Altie") is a named legendary creature from coastal Georgia folklore, localized to the mouth of the Altamaha River, nearby marshes, streams, and abandoned rice fields around Darien and McIntosh County. Sources describe it as a place-linked water-associated creature that figures in local storytelling, tourist displays, and contemporary popular culture rather than as a widely attested pan-cultural spirit.
Amikuk is a Yup'ik / Alaskan Inuit spirit-creature associated with the ground and coastal waters; sources describe it as a shapeshifter that lives within the earth, can swim through earth and water, may take human form, and is dangerous to hunters and travelers.
Annie Christmas is a tall-tale character from Louisiana folklore, portrayed as a supernaturally strong keelboat (flatboat) captain who in many collected versions is an African-American woman. She functions as a folk-heroic exemplar of exceptional strength, seamanship, and defiance of conventional gender roles within Southern U.S. tall-tale tradition.
A creation spirit in Navajo tradition, involved in the formation of the world and creation of the Navajo people. (Note: - Power tier should be Primordial (no issue) - Origin story is accurate - Appearance needs to be added, stating that no physical description is available - Abilities are mostly accurate, but more deta)
Askeladden (Ash-lad, Cinderlad) is a stock human folktale protagonist from Norwegian oral tradition, typically the youngest and least-valued child who, through cleverness, patience, and boldness, succeeds where elder siblings and conventional figures fail, often by outwitting trolls or solving enchanted tasks.
Luminous aerial phenomena reported in folklore and modern observation: balls, orbs, beams, or floating fires that appear in the atmosphere without an obvious physical cause. Traditions variously interpret them as spirits of the dead, yōkai/fairy activity, signs connected to graves or buried goods, weather omens, or as natural optical/electrical phenomena.
Aunt Em (Emily "Em" Gale) is a fictional human character in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series, the married partner of Uncle Henry and the guardian/aunt of Dorothy Gale. Presented as an ordinary Kansas farmwife whose life is altered by Dorothy’s voyage to Oz, she later relocates to the Emerald City and is given a ceremonial civic occupation there.
Axehandle Hound is a North American 'fearsome critter' from Upper Midwest lumberjack folklore: a small, nocturnal, dog-like trickster whose handle-shaped body and axe-blade head are said to steal or consume unattended axe handles in lumbercamps.
A North American "fearsome critter" from woodsmen's tall tales c. turn of the 20th century: a large catlike predator with an exceedingly long tail terminating in a solid, bulbous "ball" used as a club. The creature functions as occupational folklore—an entertaining hazard-story variant on known felids rather than part of a formal cosmology.
A lake‑monster legend associated with Bear Lake on the Utah–Idaho border, attested in 19th‑century settler newspapers and later local reports. Descriptions and reports vary widely; the creature functions in sources as a local legendary animal, a subject of publicity and tourism, and an element of regional identity rather than a codified supernatural being.
A contemporary North American cryptid localized to Walworth County, Wisconsin, described in witness reports and popular media as a wolf-like, humanoid or hybrid creature associated with Bray Road and surrounding rural areas. It exists both as reported phenomenon and as a piece of local folklore and popular-culture storytelling.
A largely invisible, communicative haunting centered on the Bell family in early 19th‑century Robertson County, Tennessee. In nineteenth‑century accounts the presence spoke, mimicked voices, produced poltergeist‑style disturbances, caused bodily harm (pinching, hair‑pulling, paralysis), and was blamed in legend for the death of John Bell Sr.
A figure of American folk tradition, the belled buzzard is a turkey vulture described as bearing a bell and treated in popular reportage and storytelling as a singular, recurring omen that foretells disaster or death by the sound of its bell. The legend originated from actual instances of people fastening bells to buzzards in the mid-19th century and rose to prominence in the late 19th century, especially after association with the 1878 Brownsville, Tennessee yellow fever epidemic.
Belsnickel is a traditional fur-clad Yuletide visitor from the Palatinate region of southwestern Germany who inspects children's behaviour, disperses sweets to the well-behaved, and threatens or administers punishment (often symbolically) to the naughty. The figure survives in Pennsylvania Dutch and other diaspora communities and appears both as a solitary domestic visitor and as part of boisterous communal processions called 'Belsnickling' or 'Klausentreiben'.
Betsy Bobbin is a human child character in L. Frank Baum's Oz books who arrives in Oz (notably by shipwreck with her mule Hank) and becomes a resident guest of Ozma's court, appearing in several canonical Oz volumes and later adaptations.
A North American folkloric large, hairy, bipedal humanoid reported chiefly from the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The figure functions as a 'wild man' type in regional and popular traditions and is documented primarily through sightings, footprint casts, media, and a subculture of enthusiasts rather than accepted biological evidence.
Bilbo Baggins is a fictional Hobbit character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, protagonist of The Hobbit and a supporting figure in The Lord of the Rings; within Tolkien's conceit he is also presented as the in-world author/translator of parts of the Red Book of Westmarch.
Billina is an anthropomorphic, speaking hen introduced in L. Frank Baum's Ozma of Oz who becomes Dorothy Gale's animal companion in the Land of Oz. Portrayed as spunky, talkative, and domestically ordinary, she plays a decisive narrative role when one of her eggs proves lethal to the Nome King within Baum's story-world.
Bisimbi (singular Simbi) are water and nature spirits in Bakongo (Kongo) traditional religion. They are associated with waters and natural sites in the Kongo-speaking region and are attested to continue, with transformation, in Atlantic diaspora spiritual systems such as Lowcountry Hoodoo and Cuban Palo.
A class of supernatural canine apparition in British vernacular folklore, often associated with liminal places and regarded as an omen-bearing or guardian hound. Local named forms (Black Shuck, Barghest, Gurt Dog, Gallytrot) show a range from malign, death-portending hellhounds to benevolent guide-figures.
Bloody Bones (also Rawhead, Rawhead-and-Bloody-Bones) is a vernacular bogeyman figure originating in Britain and carried into regional North American traditions; it functions chiefly as a cautionary monster used to frighten children from danger and ill speech, typically associated with deep water or dark household recesses.
Blue Beetle is a recurring American comic-book superhero identity first appearing in 1939. The mantle has been borne by multiple human individuals over decades and has been explained variously by technology, a mystical scarab artifact, or legacy succession depending on publisher continuity.
A reported large feline/phantom cat alleged to inhabit the Blue Mountains region west of Sydney, Australia. Treated in local belief and contemporary folklore as an outsized cat—often described as panther-sized—sustained by repeated eyewitness reports, occasional physical traces, and periodic investigations rather than by scientific confirmation.
Br'er Rabbit is an African-American folktale trickster — an anthropomorphic rabbit/hare who survives and triumphs by cunning rather than strength. Originating in oral traditions of enslaved Africans in the American South and related Caribbean communities, the character features in story cycles that teach, entertain, and comment on social relations.
A modern folkloric and cryptozoological category in Britain referring to reported sightings of large non-native felines (panthers, pumas, lynx, 'black cats') across the United Kingdom; treated variously as escaped exotic animals, media-driven urban legend, and a continuation of older large-cat motifs in local tradition.
Brother Jonathan is a literary and pictorial personification and stock character representing New Englanders (and at times the United States) in 18th–19th century Anglo‑American print culture. He functions rhetorically in satire, political commentary, and self‑identification rather than as a supernatural being.
A long‑reported series of unexplained nocturnal lights observed near Brown Mountain in Burke County, North Carolina. Local storytelling treats them as mysterious 'ghost lights,' while early 20th‑century USGS investigations and later skeptical accounts correlated many sightings with ordinary light sources such as locomotive and automobile headlights and brush fires.
The Bunny Man is an American urban-legend figure that grew out of two late-1970 criminal incidents in Fairfax County, Virginia (October 19 and October 31, 1970). Reported as a man associated with a rabbit costume who threatened or attacked people with a hatchet/axe, the story expanded through newspapers, school rumor, folkloristic research, and the early internet into dozens of highly variant retellings, some supernaturalized.
Button-Bright is a fictional boy created by L. Frank Baum who appears as a recurring secondary protagonist in several Oz books. He is portrayed as an absent-minded, wandering child who participates in journeys around the Emerald City and its neighbouring lands rather than as a supernatural being.
A legendary 'fearsome critter' of American Southwestern frontier folklore: a bobcat-like feline covered in thorny spines, said to slash cacti to drink their fermented juices. It appears in tall-tale storytelling among miners, cowboys, and regional compendia rather than in documented ritual or indigenous cosmologies.
Catskin is the name/title of an English and related folk-tale heroine type (ATU 510B) who escapes an unwanted marriage by disguising herself in a catskin coat. The figure functions as a narrative motif: a noble-born girl reduced to servitude by wearing an animal-derived garment, secretly appearing at court in splendid dresses, and ultimately being recognized and restored.
Cethlenn (Old Irish Cethlenn/Cethleann/Ceithlenn/Ceithlionn; modern Irish Ceithlinn/Caitlín in some treatments) is a named figure in medieval and early modern Irish narrative tradition associated with the Fomorians. She appears as a prophetess who foretells the downfall of the Fomorians, a martial actor who wounds the Dagda in the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, a mother linked to Ethniu (and thus to Lugh), and an eponymous figure tied to the place-name Enniskillen (Inis Cethlenn).
Champ (or Champy) is a named lake‑dwelling monster from regional Anglo‑American and Franco‑Canadian popular folklore associated with Lake Champlain. Presented in modern sources as a persistent local cryptid, Champ is documented through historical newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts, photographs, video, and occasional acoustic recordings, and functions as a tourism and identity emblem for communities around the lake.
Chelone is primarily documented as a botanical genus of perennial plants native to eastern North America (commonly called turtlehead or balmony) and secondarily as the name of a nymph attested in classical Aesopic fable tradition. The sources provide horticultural, taxonomic, and herbal-medicinal information for the plants and only a brief literary mention for the mythic name.
A contemporary American urban-legend narrative about a homeowner who discovers a large dog (commonly a Doberman in early tellings) choking on human fingers, which leads to the discovery and identification of a hidden burglar. Treated by folklorists as a paradigmatic "false-true" modern legend and used to signal domestic vulnerability and the prudence of protective measures.
A local Hudson Valley/Catskill folkloric monster — a large humanoid/ogre-like figure tied to Claverack and nearby sites. Appears in regional tale collections (notably McMurry) and is discussed in scholarship as part of American monstrous imagery (see the chapter title in Semon's study).
Clyte is attested across the supplied materials primarily as a proper name and literary persona rather than a single, coherent supernatural being: appearances include poetic/mythic characters in literature, a historical personal name (born Clyte Cosper), online usernames/handles, and an alias reported in criminal/news contexts. No ritual lore or consistent folkloric powers or protections are documented in the provided sources.
A cold spot is an anomalous localized drop in ambient temperature that, in contemporary paranormal discourse, is taken as an indicator of the presence of a ghost or unseen presence. It is described in modern sources as an environmental symptom rather than a personified spirit or agent.
Colonel Heeza Liar is a recurring fictional animated character created by J. R. Bray for early American silent animated shorts (debut 1913). He is a comic archetype: a boastful, retired adventurer and lion hunter, modeled mainly on Theodore Roosevelt and used in serialized film gags rather than as a supernatural being.
Conan the Barbarian (also Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword-and-sorcery heroic protagonist created by American author Robert E. Howard. Set in Howard's constructed Hyborian Age, Conan is portrayed as an extraordinary human warrior—renowned for strength, endurance, martial skill, and rugged individualism—whose adventures against human and supernatural foes form a cycle of pulp fantasy narratives and later adaptations in comics, film, and other media.
Cooties is a fictitious childhood "disease" or contagion from childlore and playground play. Functioning as a social tag and game mechanic rather than a biological or supernatural being, it marks someone as undesirable or other and is negotiated through rituals such as the playful "cootie shot."
A vegetation or field spirit associated with cereal crops (especially maize/corn and grain) that embodies plant fertility, seasonal death-and-rebirth, and the continued productivity of fields. Appears in various forms across Indigenous North American and European peasant traditions and is sustained by ritual housing, vows, and harvest rites.
Coyote is both a North American canid species and a recurring mythic trickster figure in various Native American traditions (notably Aridoamerican/Chemehuevi). As a cultural figure Coyote alternately appears as an animal or a man and functions as a morally ambivalent transformer and trickster in origin and social tales.
A supervillain team in the DC Comics multiverse composed of evil counterparts to the Justice League. Originating on alternate/antimatter Earths (notably Earth‑Three and antimatter 'Amerika'), the Syndicate has appeared in multiple continuity reboots and has been depicted as a ruling or world‑level threat in some incarnations.
Cybernary is a fictional comic-book character and the title of a WildStorm series; presented as a cybernetically enhanced human whose body and systems carry or host other consciousnesses. Originating in 1990s American comics, Cybernary functions as a cybernetic anti‑heroine and narrative construct within post‑apocalyptic / cyberpunk superhero fiction.
Daimon Hellstrom is a fictional Marvel Comics character, presented in-universe as the human son of an infernal being and a mortal woman. Portrayed variously as an occult investigator/exorcist, sorcerer, and at times ruler of an infernal dimension, his stories explore the struggle between inherited demonic heritage and chosen humanity.
The Demon Cat (also called the D.C.) is a legendary ghostly feline in Washington, D.C. folklore said to haunt government buildings—most notably the United States Capitol and the White House. Tales describe ordinary cat-sized sightings that allegedly swell to enormous proportions and appear as omens before major political events; skeptical accounts attribute sightings to misperception or occupational prank culture among guards.
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."
Diyin Dinéʼé (Navajo: "Holy People") are the central sacred personages of the Diné Bahaneʼ (Navajo creation narrative). They are active figures in the prehistoric emergence stories that locate and order the Diné people and serve as the foundation for traditional Navajo life and ceremony.
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.
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.
No supernatural entity called 'Dupo' is attested in the provided sources. The term appears in the materials only as a toponym — the village of Dupo, Illinois — and as a lexical item related to the surname 'Dupont.' There is no folkloric description, cosmology, rituals, or protective practices for a being named Dupo in the available documentation.
Fiere Margriet (Proud Margaret) is a locally venerated legendary woman of Leuven (Louvain), remembered in civic folklore and Christian cultic practice. Sources describe her as a young woman murdered by thieves whose corpse, according to the legend, did not sink when dumped in the Dijle; she is commemorated by a shrine and relics in St. Peter's Church and by public statuary and place‑names in Leuven.
A creature reported in Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia, on September 12, 1952, seen on the ground after witnesses observed a bright light cross the night sky. Treated in sources as an anomalous terrestrial/extra‑terrestrial apparition recorded in mid‑20th‑century American popular anomalistics and later reinterpreted by investigators with natural explanations (meteor + barn owl + perceptual factors).
A legendary phantom vessel in maritime folklore, said to be unable to make port and condemned to sail the oceans forever. Appearing to sailors as a full-rigged ship—sometimes ghostly-luminous, sometimes dark—its sighting functions as an omen of doom and is tied in many versions to a past crime or penance.
A contemporary American cryptid and internet-era urban-legend originating from CCTV footage in Fresno, California (2007). Described in footage and fandom as very long-legged, white, semi-humanoid figures often seen in pairs; treated in media and fan communities as a viral 'cute' cryptid rather than a being embedded in a traditional cosmology.