European demons

thumb|The Vampire, by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897|alt=A black and white painting of a man lying on a table, while a woman is kneeling over him.

thumb|Running Gorgon; amphora, Munich, Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2312 (c. 490 BC)

thumb|The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, ), inspired by Keats's "Lamia", depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman

thumb|upright|1900s illustration of Saint Nicholas and Krampus visiting a child The Krampus () is a horned anthropomorphic figure who, in the Central and Eastern Alpine folkloric tradition, is said to accompany Saint Nicholas on visits to children during the night of 5 December (Krampusnacht; "Krampus Night"), immediately before the Feast of St. Nicholas on 6 December. In this tradition, Saint Nicholas rewards well-behaved children with small gifts, while Krampus punishes badly behaved ones with birch rods.

Empusa or Empousa (; ; plural: Empusai) is a shape-shifting female being in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper, commanded by Hecate, whose precise nature is obscure. In Late Antiquity, the empousae have been described as a category of phantoms or spectres, equated with the lamiai and mormolykeia, thought to seduce and feed on young men.

thumb|right|upright=1.25|French illustration of imps ()

thumb|Plaque at the former town hall of Valkenburg aan de Geul|Valkenburg

Alphito () is a supernatural being first recorded in the Moralia of Plutarch, where "apotropaic nursery tales" about her are told by nursemaids to frighten little children into behaving. Her name is related to alphita, "white flour" (compare Latin albus), and alphitomanteia, a form of divination (-manteia) from flour or barley meal. She was presumably old, with white hair the color of flour.

324x324px|thumb|right|Yan-gant-y-tan in the Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863. Yan-gant-y-tan is the name of a demon from Brittany, France.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. Occultism: Its Theory and Practice, p. 160 (1994)(4 July 1857). Superstitions and Traditions, Household Words

thumb|150px|right|St. Augustine in a 6th-century portrait In the Gaulish language, Dusios was a divine being among the continental Celts who was identified with the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient Roman religion. Like these deities, he might be seen as multiple in nature, and referred to in the plural (dusioi), most commonly in Latin as dusii. Although the Celtic Dusios is not described in late-antique sources independently of Greek and Roman deities, the common functionality of the others lay in their ability to impregnate an