Monday, August 23, 2010

legendary beings list : E

• Each Uisge (Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
• Eachy (English and Scottish) - Humanoid lake monster
• Eagle Spirit (Many cultures worldwide) - Leadership or guidance totem
• Ebu Gogo (Flores) - Diminutive humanoids, possibly inspired by Homo floresiensis
• Echeneis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Remora, said to attach to ships to slow them down
• Edimmu (Sumerian) - Ghosts of those not buried properly
• Egbere (Yoruba) - Humanoid that carries a magical mat
• Einherjar (Norse) - Spirits of brave warriors
• Ekek (Philippine) - Flesh-eating, winged humanoids
• Elbow Witch (Ojibwa) - Hags with awls in their elbows
• Eldjötnar (Norse) - Fire giant
• Eleionomae (Greek) - Marsh nymph
• Elemental (Alchemy) - Personification of one of the Classical elements
• ‘Elepaio (Hawaiian) - Monarch flycatcher spirit that guides canoe-builders to the proper trees
• Elf (Germanic) - Nature and fertility spirit
• Eloko (Central Africa) - Little people and malevolent nature spirits
• Emela-ntouka (Central Africa) - Gigantic, elephant-killing beast
• Emere (Yoruba) - Child that can move back and forth between the material world and the afterlife at will
• Emim (Jewish) - Giant
• Empusa (Greek) - Female demon that waylays travelers and seduces and kills men
• Encantado (Brazilian) - Dolphin-human shapeshifter
• Enchanted Moor (Portuguese) - Enchanted princesses
• Enfield (Heraldic) - Fox-greyhound-lion-wolf-eagle hybrid
• Enkō (Japanese) - Kappa of Shikoku and western Honshū
• Epimeliad (Greek) - Apple tree nymph
• Er Gui (Chinese) - Hungry ghost
• Erlking (Germanic) - Death spirit
• Erymanthian Boar (Greek) - Giant boar
• Ethiopian Pegasus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Two-horned, winged horse
• Ettin (English) - Three-headed giant
• Eurynomos (Greek) - Blue-black, carrion-eater in the underworld
• Ežerinis (Lithuanian) - Lake spirit

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