BestiarypediaThe bestiary of every mythology
Curated catalog of supernatural beings in 10 languages. Mythology, demonology, cryptozoology and folklore documented with relationships, taxonomies and sources.
Iblis
Iblis Fallen King of the Jinn
Iblis is the primordial jinn who refused to prostrate before Adam and became the father of the shayatin and cosmic adversary of humanity.
Shaitan
Shaitan Whisperer Tempter, common soldier of Iblis's rebel legion
Shaitan is the invisible tempter who whispers waswasa into the human heart to turn it away from Allah.
Shiqq
Shiqq, pre-Islamic Arab demon of half-body that stalks desert paths
The shiqq is a pre-Islamic demon of the Arabian Peninsula that appears as a human being split lengthwise in half and attacks travelers on desert roads.
Ghaddār
Yemeni jinn who tortures desert travelers
Ghaddār ambushes lone travelers in the deserts of Yemen and the Hejaz, captures, tortures and leaves them to die; cousin of the ghūl and siʿlā.
Umm al-Sibyan
Umm al-Sibyan, Arabic-Islamic female demon of infant mortality
Umm al-Sibyan causes miscarriages, childbirth deaths, infant mortality, and seizures in nursing infants.
Qarīn
Qarīn, male spirit-double who whispers temptations according to Islamic tradition
Male spirit-double assigned to each person at birth who accompanies them throughout life whispering temptations.
Si'lat
Si'lat Desert Seductress
Female shapeshifting jinn who seduces lone travelers in the form of a beautiful woman to devour or enslave them in her illusory palace.
Qarinah
Qarinah, soul companion linked to the human man in pre-Islamic Arabian folklore
Female jinn spirit that bonds from birth to a human man and intervenes in his dreams and relationships causing jealousy and psychological infertility.
Estrie
Estrie, medieval Ashkenazi Jewish vampire that takes the form of a bird or cat
Living woman of the community who flies at night to drink blood and dies if she eats bread and salt from her victim.
Alukah
Alukah, the insatiable leech of Proverbs 30:15
The Alukah is the bloodsucking demon of Jewish folklore, born from the insatiable leech of Proverbs 30:15.
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