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- imaginary being, imaginary creature
a creature of the imagination - hypothetical creature
a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist - extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial, alien
a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere - mythical being
an imaginary being of myth or fable - legendary creature
a monster that is unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual - abominable snowman, yeti
a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas - doppelganger
a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart - sea serpent
huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon - booger, bugbear, bugaboo, bogeyman, boogeyman
an imaginary monster used to frighten children - giant
an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength - hobbit
an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet - mermaid
half woman and half fish - merman
half man and half fish - Argus
(Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes - Cadmus
(Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia - Calypso
(Greek mythology) the sea nymph who detained Odysseus for seven years - sea nymph
(Greek mythology) a water nymph who was the daughter of Oceanus or Nereus - Cyclops
(Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead - giantess
a female giant - ogre
(folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings - ogress
(folklore) a female ogre - monster
an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts - mythical monster, mythical creature
a monster renowned in folklore and myth - amphisbaena
(classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body - basilisk
(classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance - centaur
(classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse - Cerberus, hellhound
(Greek mythology) the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades - Charon
(Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades - Chimera, Chimaera
(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail - Chiron
(Greek mythology) the learned centaur who tutored Achilles, Asclepius, Hercules, Jason, and other heroes - Circe
(Greek mythology) a sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine - cockatrice
monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg - dragon, firedrake
a creature of Teutonic mythology - Geryon
(Greek mythology) a mythical monster with three heads that was slain by Hercules - Gorgon
(Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair - Grace
(Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm - Aglaia
(Greek mythology) one of the three Graces - Euphrosyne
(Greek mythology) one of the three Graces - Thalia
(Greek mythology) one of the three Graces - griffon, gryphon, griffin
winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion - Harpy
(Greek mythology) vicious winged monster - Hydra
(Greek mythology) monster with nine heads - leviathan
monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament - Medusa
(Greek mythology) a woman transformed into a Gorgon by Athena - Stheno
(Greek mythology) one of the three Gorgons - Euryale
(Greek mythology) one of the three Gorgons - manticore, mantichora, manticora, mantiger
a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion - Minotaur
(Greek mythology) a mythical monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man - Nemean lion
(Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as the first of his 12 labors - Nibelung
(German mythology) any of the race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard that was stolen by Siegfried - phoenix
a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix - roc
mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength - salamander
reptilian creature supposed to live in fire - Sphinx
(Greek mythology) a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body - troll
(Scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains - Typhoeus
(Greek mythology) son of Gaea and Tartarus who created the whirlwinds - Typhon
(Greek mythology) a monster with a hundred heads who breathed out flames - werewolf, wolfman, lycanthrope, loup-garou
a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again - witch
a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil - wyvern, wivern
a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry - nature
a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe - occult, supernatural
supernatural forces and events and beings collectively - spiritual being, supernatural being
an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events - theurgy
the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs - first cause, prime mover, primum mobile
an agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause - control
a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance - destiny, fate
the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman) - spiritual leader
a leader in religious or sacred affairs - god, divinity, deity, immortal
any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force - daemon, demigod
a person who is part mortal and part god - Alecto
one of the three Furies - Megaera
one of the three Furies - Tisiphone
one of the three Furies - sea god
a deity that personifies the sea and is usually believed to live in or to control the sea - sun god
a god that personifies the sun or is otherwise associated with the sun - Celtic deity
a deity worshipped by the Celts - Fomor, Fomorian
one of a group of Celtic sea demons sometimes associated with the hostile power of nature - Lir, Ler
the sea personified - Llew Llaw Gyffes
son of Gwydion and Arianrhod - Tuatha De Danann, Tuatha De
race of Celtic gods or demigods - Egyptian deity
a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians - Amen, Amon, Amun
a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath - Semitic deity
a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites - Anunnaki, Enuki
any of a group of powerful Babylonian earth spirits or genii - Lilith
in ancient Semitic folklore: a female demon who attacks children - Hindu deity
a deity worshipped by the Hindus - Aditya
one of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi - Ahura
(Zoroastrianism) title for benevolent deities - Asvins
(literally `possessing horses' in Sanskrit) in Hinduism the twin chariot warriors conveying Surya - Dharma
basic principles of the cosmos - Garuda
a supernatural eagle-like being that serves as Vishnu's mount - Marut
any of a group of Hindu storm gods - Ribhus, Rhibhus
one of three artisans of the Hindu gods - Soma
personification of a sacred intoxicating drink used in Vedic ritual - Vajra
Indra's thunderbolt - avatar
the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form - Persian deity
a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians - Buddha
one who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment - Chinese deity
a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese - Japanese deity
a deity worshipped by the Japanese - goddess
a female deity - earth-god, earth god
a god of fertility and vegetation - earth-goddess, earth goddess
a goddess of fertility and vegetation - earth mother
the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility - eon, aeon
(Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe - Trinity, Holy Trinity, Blessed Trinity, Sacred Trinity
the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead - messiah, christ
any expected deliverer - hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ
any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united - demiurge
a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe - faun
ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail - angel
spiritual being attendant upon God - archangel
an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy - Gabriel
(Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God - Michael
(Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews - Raphael
an archangel of the Hebrew tradition - cherub
an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge - seraph
an angel of the first order - guardian spirit, guardian angel
an angel believed to have special affection for a particular individual - genius loci
the guardian spirit of a place - divine messenger
a messenger from God - faerie, faery, fairy, fay, sprite
a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers - hob, brownie, elf, gremlin, pixie, pixy, imp
(folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous - fairy godmother
a female character in some fairy stories who has magical powers and can bring unexpected good fortune to the hero or heroine - dwarf, gnome
a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man - undine
any of various female water spirits - leprechaun
a mischievous elf in Irish folklore - sandman
an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy - Morgan le Fay
(Arthurian legend) a wicked enchantress who was the half sister and enemy of King Arthur - Puck, Robin Goodfellow
a mischievous sprite of English folklore - evil spirit
a spirit tending to cause harm - bad fairy
a fairy that tends to cause harm - bogy, bogie, bogey
an evil spirit - devil, daemon, fiend, demon, daimon
an evil supernatural being - cacodemon, cacodaemon
an evil spirit - eudemon, eudaemon, good spirit
a benevolent spirit - incubus
a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women - succubus, succuba
a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men - dybbuk, dibbuk
(Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior - ghoul
an evil spirit or ghost - hob, hobgoblin, goblin
(folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings - kelpie, kelpy
(Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders - vampire, lamia
(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living - banshee, banshie
(Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death - genie, jinni, jinnee, djinni, djinny, djinn
(Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals - shaitan, shaytan
(Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray - eblis
(Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology - houri
(Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise - familiar, familiar spirit
a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard - spirit, disembodied spirit
any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings - trickster
a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people - ghost
the visible disembodied soul of a dead person - poltergeist
a ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder - Oberson
(Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore - Titania
(Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore - tooth fairy
a fairy that is said to leave money at night under a child's pillow to compensate for a baby tooth falling out - water sprite, water nymph, water spirit
a fairy that inhabits water - peri
(Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done - apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre
a ghostly appearing figure - Flying Dutchman
the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day - presence
an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby - Adonis
(Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone - Greco-Roman deity, Graeco-Roman deity
a deity of classical mythology - satyr, forest god
one of a class of woodland deities - silenus
any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs) - nymph
(classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden - Echo
(Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained - Hesperides, Atlantides
(Greek mythology) group of 3 to 7 nymphs who guarded the golden apples that Gaea gave as a wedding gift to Hera - Hyades
(Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Pleiades - Oread
(Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs - Pleiades
(Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades - Sterope, Asterope
(Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades - water nymph
(Greek mythology) any nymph of the water - Daphne
(Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo - naiad
(Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains - Nereid
(Greek mythology) any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus - Thetis
(Greek mythology) one of the 50 Nereids - Oceanid
(Greek mythology) sea nymph who was a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys - dryad, wood nymph
a deity or nymph of the woods - Salmacis
nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body - hamadryad
the nymph or spirit of a particular tree - Greek deity
a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks - Roman deity
a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans - Aether
personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians - Rhea Silvia, Rea Silvia
(Roman mythology) a vestal virgin who became the mother by Mars of the twins Romulus and Remus - Moirai, Moirae
any of the three Greek goddesses of fate or destiny - Parcae
any of the three Roman goddesses of fate or destiny - Muse
in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne - Pontus, Pontos
(Greek mythology) ancient personification of the sea - Rhadamanthus
(Greek mythology) a judge of the dead in the underworld - vestal virgin
(Roman mythology) one of the virgin priestesses consecrated to the Roman goddess Vesta and to maintaining the sacred fire in her temple - Epimetheus
(Greek mythology) brother of Prometheus - Leto, Latona
wife or mistress of Zeus and mother of Apollo and Artemis in ancient mythology - Norse deity
a deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen - Aesir
(Norse mythology) the chief race of gods living at Asgard - Andvari
(Norse mythology) a dwarf who possessed a treasure that was stolen by Loki - Vanir
(Norse mythology) race of ancient gods sometimes in conflict with the Aesir - Jotun, Jotunn
(Norse mythology) one of a race of giants often in conflict with the Aesir - Mimir
(Norse mythology) giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom - Nanna
(Norse mythology) wife of Balder - Norn, weird sister
(Norse mythology) any of the three goddesses of destiny