Supernatural legends

Aswang is an umbrella term for various shape-shifting evil and malevolent creatures in Filipino folklore, such as vampires, ghouls, witches, viscera suckers, and transforming human-beast hybrids (usually dogs, cats, pigs). The aswang is the subject of a wide variety of myths, stories, arts, and films, as it is well known throughout the Philippines. Spanish colonists noted that the aswang was the most feared among the mythical creatures of the Philippines, even in the 16th century. Although with no specific motive other than harming others, their behavior can be interpreted as an inversion of t

folklore character

A hobgoblin is a household spirit, appearing in English folklore, once considered helpful, but which since the spread of Christianity has often been considered mischievous. Shakespeare identifies the character of Puck in his ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' as a hobgoblin.

220px|thumb|Artistic representation of the curupira The Curupira, Currupira or Korupira () is a forest spirit in the myth of the Tupí-Guaraní speaking areas in the Brazilian and Paraguaian Amazon and Guyanas. It is a guardian of the rainforest that punishes humans for overcutting.

magicians appearing in fantasy fiction

Legendary 19th century haunting in Middle Tennessee

Arthurian legendary character

thumb|upright=1.2|A representation of a Clurichaun in Thomas Crofton Croker|T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

fairy creature from European mythology

legend originating in England and France

ghost

character in Brazilian folklore

thumb|Duendecitos by Francisco Goya, 1799 thumb|Model of a duende

thumb|Costume design for a warlock for the opera Mefistofele ([[Alfredo Leonardo Edel, 1881)]]thumb|Warlocks and Witches in a dance (John Faed, 1855) A warlock is a male practitioner of witchcraft.

__NOTOC__

popular topic for ghost stories in Central and South Asia

undead creature

Georgian mansion in Montego Bay, Jamaica

thumb|right|A depiction of a Tennin. thumb|A man with an irezumi tattoo of a Tennyo.

Urban legend

a motif in folklore and mythology

thumb|Torngarsuk as depicted in the Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863 edition.

Legendary supposed afterlife

Brazilian legendary creature

thumb|right|A representation of a Bhoma head guarding the top of the portal to a Balinese temple in Singapadu.

time of day when the devil, demons or ghosts are supposed to come out

ancient Meitei folktale

A Pukwudgie, also spelled Puk-Wudjie (another spelling, Puck-wudj-ininee, translated by Henry Schoolcraft as "little wild man of the woods that vanishes"), is a human-like creature of Wampanoag folklore, found in Delaware, Prince Edward Island, and parts of Indiana and Massachusetts, sometimes said to be tall.

thumb|La Chasse-galerie by Henri Julien, 1906, [[Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec]]

indigenous folk monster

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

literary and legendary figure from the Middle Ages

sword with magical powers

Vardøger, also known as vardyvle or vardyger, is a spirit predecessor in Scandinavian folklore.

thumb|Fossegrim playing a harp in a waterfall under the statue to the violinist Ole Bull in [[Bergen]] thumb| ("The Stream Man") by Swedish painter Ernst Josephson, 1884 Fossegrim, also known simply as the grim (Norwegian) or Strömkarlen (Swedish), is a water spirit or troll in Scandinavian folklore. He is often depicted as a handsome, nude man playing the fiddle in and . Fossegrim has been associated with a mill spirit (kvernknurr) and is related to the water spirit (nokken) and is sometimes also called näcken in Sweden.

A shtriga () is a vampiric witch in Albanian mythology and folklore that sucks the blood of infants at night while they sleep, and then transform themselves into a flying insect (traditionally a moth, fly or bee). Only the shtriga herself could cure those she had drained. The shtriga is often pictured as a woman with a hateful stare (sometimes wearing a cape) and a horribly disfigured face. They usually live in hidden places in the forest and have supernatural powers. The term shtriga is used also with the common meaning of "witch", referring to a bad and ugly old woman who casts evil spells u

Incorporeality is "the state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism." Incorporeal () means "Not composed of matter; having no material existence."

In Greek mythology, Anchurus () was a Phrygian prince as the son of Midas—the heavily mythologized but still historical king of Phrygia—in whose reign the earth opened in the area of the town of Celaenae in Phyrgia.

Jamaican legend

right|thumbnail|The Mowing Devil pamphlet. The Mowing-Devil: or, Strange News out of Hartford-shire is the title of an English woodcut pamphlet published in 1678. It narrates a tale of Satan mowing a field in Hertfordshire, and presents itself as reporting the news. It has been cited as an early report of crop circles.

thumb|TIM MVLREA AND THE BUGGANE(The Phynodderree, and other legends of the Isle of Man (1882)) In Manx folklore, a (or boagane) was a huge ogre-like creature native to the Isle of Man. Some have considered them akin to the Scandinavian troll.

church in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico

cursed painting

name given by spiritualists to what they believed to be a materialized spirit

Fujianese and Taiwanese folk religion, frequently considered an aspect of Taoism

undead monster

A Baccoo (bakru in Sranan Tongo, and bakulu or bakuu in Saramaccan language) is a mythical character from Guyanese and Surinamese folklore.

or is a Japanese game popular during the Meiji era that is also a form of divination, partially based on Western table-turning. The name kokkuri is an onomatopoeia meaning "to nod up and down", and refers to the movement of the actual kokkuri mechanism. The kanji used to write the word is an ateji, although its characters reflect the popular belief that the movement of the mechanism is caused by supernatural agents (ko 狐, kitsune; ku 狗, dog/tengu; ri 狸, tanuki). The modern version is similar to a Ouija board.

ancient Meitei literary narrative work

pit cave in Isabela, Puerto Rico

Medieval legend

Folklore figure