Romanian Supernatural Beings

15 documented Romanian supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 8 greater and 5 lesser in power tier.

Aradia

Aradia is a name and motif appearing in late-19th-century folklorist literature (notably Charles G. Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches) and in Italian, Sardinian, and adjacent regional folklore where cognate names (Arada, Araja, Erodiade/Irodiada) are attached to a nocturnal female host associated with Diana/Herodias. Sources portray Aradia variously as a messianic teacher of witchcraft (Leland) and as part of a tradition of night-flying female spirits and regional fairy-queen figures (folklore surveys).

Greater

Balaur

In Romanian folklore the balaur is a monstrous serpentine or dragon‑like being, often many‑headed, that functions as predator/abductor, treasure‑guardian, and an agent of meteorological phenomena; in some regional variants it is said to be ridden or controlled by weather‑sorcerers (Solomonari).

Lesser

Căpcăun

A monstrous antagonist in Romanian folktales, the căpcăun is typically depicted as a dog-headed ogre who kidnaps and eats people (especially children and young women). It functions narratively as an embodiment of evil alongside other Romanian monsters such as the zmeu and balaur.

Greater

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.

Lesser

Făt‑Frumos

Făt‑Frumos is the archetypal heroic youth in Romanian folktales: a princely, handsome knight-hero who undertakes superhuman trials, travels between the human world and the tarâmul celălalt, and restores order by defeating monstrous foes.

Greater

Ileana Cosânzeana

Ileana Cosânzeana is a central feminine figure in Romanian folklore, presented variously as an idealized beautiful princess and as a powerful fairy. She commonly appears as the heroic object of quests (kidnapped by a Zmeu and rescued by Făt‑Frumos) and is associated with healing, floral/vegetal motifs, and astral/seasonal imagery in variant traditions.

Minor Spirit

Mara (Iza)

Mara (Iza) is a geographic feature — a left-bank tributary of the river Iza in northern Romania. The supplied sources document it as a physical river with measured length, basin area, and a noted tributary; no supernatural or folkloric being named "Mara (Iza)" is attested in the provided materials.

Lesser

Moroi

A moroi is a revenant or undead spirit in Romanian and neighbouring Central/Eastern European folklore associated with failed birth/death rites and nocturnal harm. Traditions variously describe it as a phantom, a kind of vampire or ghost, or the spirit of an unbaptized infant or malformed child born of supernatural conception.

Greater

Pricolici

A Romanian folkloric revenant that combines lupine characteristics with vampiric, post-mortem hostility; typically represented as a wolf- or dog-like attacker associated with violent deaths, werewolves, and other harmful undead in rural tradition.

Greater

Slavic dragon

A class of serpent‑like supernatural beings in Slavic oral tradition and epic literature, often associated with snakes, water, weather, and liminal places. Regional vernaculars (e.g., Russian zmei, Polish smok/żmij, Romanian zmeu) describe variants that range from multi‑headed, regenerating monsters to humanoid or ambivalent figures who may help or court humans.

Greater

Solomonari

Solomonari are weather-controlling magic-workers in Romanian folklore, described as human practitioners trained at a secret school who ride dragons (zmeu or balaur) and cause rain, thunder, or hail. They appear in 19th‑century ethnographic accounts from Transylvania, Bukovina, and adjacent Romanian regions and are associated with an institutionalized craft of magic (Scholomance/Şolomanţă) in several variants.

Greater

Strigoi

The vampire of Romanian folklore — either a living witch (strigoi viu) or an undead blood-drinker (strigoi mort). The source tradition from which the literary vampire emerged.

Minor Spirit

Sânziană

Sânziene are Romanian seasonal fairies associated with the June 24 Sânziene festival and the Galium verum flower; they bless crops and health, enable potent magic on midsummer night, and can punish humans (especially men) who see them. Their cult is tied to rural Carpathian customs, floral crowns, bonfires, and divinatory crown-throwing over houses.

Lesser

Ura (not attested as a folkloric entity)

The sources consulted do not document a supernatural being named 'Ura.' The string "Ura" appears across place-names, language names, an English disambiguation page, a Romanian common noun (ură = 'hate'), and as part of a contemporary VTuber stage name, but none of these sources presents a traditional mythic or folkloric agent called Ura.

Greater

Vampire (tradition)

A class of revenant beings in southeastern and eastern European folk belief that subsist by feeding on the vital essence (generally blood) of the living. Recorded chiefly in early modern to modern oral traditions, these vampires are typically described as reanimated corpses whose presence explains unexplained illness, death, and post-mortem disturbances in their communities.