pm#imaginary_entity__imaginaryentity an entity that has been imagined
supertype: pm#entity_playing_some_role e.g., an agent, an owner
subtype: pm#imaginary_spatial_entity__imaginaryspatialentity e.g., a cartoon character
subtype: #imaginary_place__imaginaryplace a place said to exist in religious or fictional writings
subtype: #afterworld the place where you are after you die
subtype: #cloud-cuckoo-land a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
subtype: #Cockaigne (Medieval legend) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
subtype: #wonderland an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders
subtype: #fairyland__faerie__faery the enchanted realm of fairies
subtype: #Heaven the abode of God and the angels and the souls of those who have gained salvation
subtype: #Abraham's_bosom__bosom_of_Abraham (in the Gospel of Luke 16:22); the place where the just enjoy the peace of heaven after death
subtype: #Celestial_City__City_of_God__Heavenly_City__Holy_City other phrases used to refer to heaven; "the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'"
subtype: #Promised_Land the goal towards which Christians strive
instance: #Elysium__Elysian_Fields__Valhalla__paradise
subtype: #Hel__Hell__Hades__infernal_region__netherworld__Scheol__underworld (in various religions) the world of the dead; "he didn't want to go to hell when he died"
subtype: #perdition__Hell__Inferno__infernal_region__nether_region__the_pit__thepit (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment: "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"
subtype: #hellfire__red_region__redregion a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned
instance: #Gehenna__Tartarus
subtype: #limbo (theology) the abode of infants who die before baptism
subtype: #limbo.imaginary_place an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
subtype: #never-never_land__neverneverland__dreamland__dreamworld a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
subtype: #purgatory.imaginary_place (theology) a place where Roman Catholics think those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
subtype: #Ruritania an imaginary kingdom somewhere in central Europe; a setting for romance and adventure
subtype: #spirit_world any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide; "science has emptied the spirit world of its former inhabitants"
instance: #Annwfn__Annwn #Asgard #Garden_of_Eden__Eden #El_Dorado__eldorado #Lilliput #Midgard #Utopia__Zion__Sion
subtype: #imaginary_being__imaginarybeing__imaginary_creature__imaginarycreature a creature of the imagination
subtype: #hypothetical_creature a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist
subtype: #extraterrestrial_being__extraterrestrial__alien a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
subtype: #mythical_being an imaginary being of myth or fable
subtype: #mythical_monster__mythical_creature a monster renowned in folklore and myth
subtype: #legendary_creature__legendarycreature unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual
subtype: #abominable_snowman__yeti large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas
subtype: #Bigfoot__Sasquatch large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada
subtype: #doppelganger a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart
subtype: #Loch_Ness_monster__Nessie large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland
subtype: #sea_serpent__seaserpent huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon
subtype: #amphisbaena (classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body
subtype: #basilisk.mythical_monster (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance
subtype: #centaur (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
subtype: #cockatrice monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance
subtype: #firedrake__dragon a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
subtype: #wyvern__wivern a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs
instance: #Fafnir
subtype: #Gorgon (Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters having live snakes for hair; a glance turns the beholder to stone
instance: #Medusa #Stheno #Euryale
subtype: #gryphon__griffin winged monster with an eagle-like head and body of a lion
subtype: #leviathan monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament
subtype: #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
subtype: #roc mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength
subtype: #salamander.mythical_monster reptilian creature supposed to live in fire
subtype: #troll (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
subtype: #werewolf__wolfman__lycanthrope a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf
subtype: #Fury__Eumenides__Erinyes (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
instance: #Alecto #Megaera #Tisiphone
instance: #Cerberus #Chimera__Chimaera #Geryon #Harpy #Hydra #Minotaur #Nemean_lion #Python #Sphinx #Typhoeus #Typhon
subtype: #Hyperborean (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind
subtype: #houri (in Muslim belief) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
subtype: #Valkyrie (Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla
instance: #Brunhild__Brunnhilde__Brynhild
subtype: #Amazon (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
subtype: #golem (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means
subtype: #hero.mythical_being (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
instance: #Arjuna #Scylla #Dardanus #Perseus.mythical_being__perseu #Midas #Sisyphus #Narcissus #Nibelung.mythical_being__nibelung #Bellerophon #Patroclus #Pegasus__flying_horse #Phoenix.mythical_being__phoenix #Sarpedon #Siegfried #Sigurd #Enkidu #Gilgamish #Sita #Hero #Leander #Pygmalion #Galatea #Romulus #Remus #Daedalus #Icarus #Procrustes #Eurydice #Orion #Orpheus #Psyche #Heracles__Hercules__Herakles__Alcides #Pandora #Fenrir #Volund #Yggdrasil__Ygdrasil #Ymir #Wayland_the_Smith__Wayland__Wieland #Ajax #Jason #Medea #Laertes #Odysseus #Ulysses #Penelope #Theseus #Tantalus #Achilles #Aeneas #Agamemnon #Menelaus #Clytemnestra #Aegisthus #Orestes #Antigone #Creon #Jocasta #Electra #Laocoon #Laius #Myrmidon #King_Oedipus__Oedipus__Oedipus_Rex #Tiresias #Peleus #Hector #Helen_of_Troy__Helen #Leda #Priam
subtype: #Death the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"
subtype: #grim_reaper__reaper Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
subtype: #mermaid half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
subtype: #merman half man and half fish; lives in the sea
subtype: #Martian imaginary people who live on the planet Mars
subtype: #giant an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
subtype: #giantess a female giant
subtype: #ogre (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
subtype: #ogress a female ogre
instance: #Argus #Cyclops #Jotun__Jotunn #Mimir
subtype: #Humpty_Dumpty an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)
subtype: #monster an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
subtype: #bogeyman__bugbear__bugaboo__boogeyman__booger an imaginary monster used to frighten children
subtype: #mythical_monster__mythical_creature a monster renowned in folklore and myth
subtype: #witch a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
subtype: #pythoness__pythones a witch with powers of divination
subtype: #warlock a male witch or demon
subtype: #fictional_character__fictionalcharacter__fictitious_character__character an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
subtype: #Argonaut (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece
subtype: #Emile the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
subtype: #protagonist the principal character in a work of fiction
subtype: #antihero a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)
subtype: #Houyhnhnm one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
subtype: #Little_John legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength
subtype: #Little_Red_Ricing_Hood a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother
subtype: #Rodya_Raskolnikov__Raskolnikov a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil
subtype: #Robin_Hood legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor
subtype: #Robinson_Crusoe the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island
subtype: #Rumpelstiltskin a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself
subtype: #Shylock__shylock a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare
subtype: #Tristan__Tristram (medieval legends) the nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
subtype: #Iseult (medieval legends) the bride of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
subtype: #Scaramouch__Scaramouche a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward
subtype: #Sweeney_Todd__Todd fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers
subtype: #Walter_Mitty fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs
subtype: #Yahoo one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
instance: #Aladdin #Babar #Beatrice #Beowulf #Bluebeard #James_Bond__Bond #Paul_Bunyan__Bunyan #John_Henry #Cheshire_cat #Chicken_Little #Cinderella #Colonel_Blimp #Dracula #Don_Quixote #El_Cid #Fagin #Sir_John_Falstaff__Falstaff #Father_Brown #Faust__Faustus #Frankenstein #Frankenstein's_monster__Frankenstein #Goofy #Gulliver #Hamlet #Captain_Horatio_Hornblower__Horatio_Hornblower #Iago #Inspector_Maigret__Commissaire_Maigret #Kilroy #King_Lear__Lear #Lilliputian #Philip_Marlowe__Marlowe #Wilkins_Micawber__Micawber #Mother_Goose #Mr._Moto #Othello #Pangloss #Pantaloon #Perry_Mason #Peter_Pan #Pierrot #Pluto.fictional_character__pluto #Huckleberry_Finn__Huck_Finn #Tarzan_of_the_Apes__Tarzan #Tom_Sawyer #Uncle_Tom #Uncle_Sam #Sherlock_Holmes__Holmes #Simon_Legree #Sinbad_the_Sailor__Sinbad #Snoopy #Ali_Baba #King_Arthur__Arthur #Sir_Galahad__Galahad #Sir_Gawain__Gawain #Guinevere__Guenevere #Sir_Lancelot__Lancelot #Merlin
subtype: #psychopomp a conductor of souls to the afterworld; "Hermes was their psychopomp"
subtype: #sylph an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
subtype: #Tom_Thumb.imaginary_being__tomthumb English folklore: an imaginary hero who was no taller than his father's thumb
subtype: #unicorn an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
instance: #Jack_Frost #Mammon
subtype: #spiritual_being__spiritualbeing__supernatural_being an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events
subtype: #deity__divinity__god any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
subtype: #Demogorgon (Greek mythology) a mysterious and terrifying deity of the underworld
subtype: #demigod__daemon a person who is part mortal and part god
instance: #Adonis
subtype: #sea-god a deity believed to live in or to control the sea
subtype: #sun-god__sungod a god associated with the sun
subtype: #Celtic_deity a deity worshipped by the Celts
instance: #Amaethon #Ana #Angus_Og__Aengus__Oengus__Angus #Arawn #Arianrhod__Arianrod #Boann #Brigit #Dagda #Danu__Dana #Don.Celtic_deity__don #Dylan #Epona #Fomor__Fomorian #Gwydion #Gwyn #Lir__Ler #Llew_Llaw_Gyffes #LLud #Llyr #Lug #Manannan #Manawydan__Manawyddan #Morrigan__Morrigu__morrigu #Tuatha_De_Danann__Tuatha_de_Danann__Tuatha_De
subtype: #Egyptian_deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Egyptians
instance: #Amen__Amon #Amen-Ra__Amon-Ra #Anubis #Bast #Geb__Keb #Horus #Isis #Khepera #Min #Nephthys #Nut #Osiris #Ptah #Ra__Re #Sekhet__Eye_of_Ra #Set__Seth #Thoth
subtype: #Semitic_deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Semites
instance: #Adad #Adapa #Anshar #Antum #Anu #Anunnaki__Enuki #Apsu #Aruru #Ashur__Ashir #Ashtoreth #Astarte #Ishtar__Mylitta #Baal #Bel #Dagon #Dagan #Damkina__Damgalnunna #Dumuzi__Tammuz #Ea #Enki #Enlil__En-lil #Ereshkigal__Eresh-kigal__Ereshkigel #Girru #Gula #Igigi #Inanna #Ki #Kishar #Lilith #Mama #Marduk__Merodach__Baal_Merodach__Bel-Merodach #Molech__Moloch #Nabu__Nebo #Nammu #Namtar__Namtaru #Nanna #Nergal #Nina #Ningal #Ningirsu #Ningishzida #Ninkhursag__Ninhursag__Ninkharsag #Ninurta__Ninib #Nusku #Ramman #Sarpanitu__Zirbanit__Zarpanit #Shamash #Sin #Tashmit__Tashmitum #Tiamat #Utnapishtim #Utu__Utug #Zu__Zubird
subtype: #Hindu_deity a deity worshipped by the Hindus
subtype: #avatar the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form; "the Buddha is considered an avatar of the god Vishnu"
subtype: #Rama avatar of Vishnu; any of three incarnations: Ramachandra or Parashurama or Balarama
instance: #Ramachandra #Balarama #Parashurama
instance: #Jagannath__Jagannatha__Jagganath__Juggernaut #Kalki #Krishna
instance: #Aditi #Aditya #Agni #Asura #Ahura #Asvins #Bhaga #Brahma #Brihaspati #Bhumi_Devi #Devi #Chandi #Dharma #Durga #Dyaus-pitar__Dyaus #Ganesa__Ganesha__Ganesh__Ganapati #Garuda #Gauri #Hanuman #Indra #Ka #Kali #Kama #Mara #Kartikeya__Karttikeya #Lakshmi #Marut #Mitra #Parjanya #Parvati__Anapurna__Annapurna #Prajapati #Pushan #Rahu #Ribhus__Rhibhus #Rudra #Sarasvati #Savitar #Shakti__Sakti #Siva__Shiva #Skanda #Soma #Surya #Uma #Ushas #Vajra #Varuna #Vayu #Vishnu #Yama
subtype: #Persian_deity a deity worshiped by the ancient Persians
instance: #Mithras__Mithra #Ormazd__Ormuzd__Ahura_Mazda #Ahriman
subtype: #Bodhisattva__Boddhisatva Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others
subtype: #Avalokitesvara__Avalokiteshvara a male Bodhisattva; widely associated with various gods and people
instance: #Maitreya
subtype: #Arhat__Arhant__lohan a Buddhist who has attained nirvana
subtype: #Chinese_deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese
subtype: #Kwan-yin__Kuan_Yin (Buddhism) a female Bodhisattva; often called Goddess of Mercy and considered an aspect of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara; identified with Japanese Kwannon
instance: #Chang_Kuo-lao__Chang_Kuo #Wen_Ch'ang__Wen-Ti #Taoist_Trinity #Tien-pao__Heavenly_Jewel #Ling-pao__Mystic_Jewel #Shen-pao__Spiritual_Jewel
subtype: #Japanese_deity a deity worshipped by the Japanese
instance: #Amaterasu_Omikami__Amaterasu #Hachiman #Hotei #Izanagi #Izanami #Kami #Kwannon #Ninigi__Ninigino-Mikoto
subtype: #goddess__goddes a female deity
subtype: #earth-goddess__earthgoddes a goddess of fertility and vegetation
subtype: #earth_mother__earthmother the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility
subtype: #earth-god__earthgod a god of fertility and vegetation
subtype: #demiurge a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe
subtype: #Greco-Roman_deity__Graeco-Roman_deity a deity of classical mythology
subtype: #nymph (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; "the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water"
subtype: #Oread (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs
subtype: #Asterope__Sterope (Greek mythology) one of the 7 Pleiades
subtype: #water_nymph__waternymph (Greek mythology) any nymph of the water
subtype: #sea_nymph__seanymph (Greek mythology) a water nymph who was the daughter of Oceanus or Nereus
subtype: #Nereid (Greek mythology) any of the 50 sea nymphs who were daughters of the sea god Nereus
instance: #Thetis
subtype: #Siren a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived; "Odysseus ordered his crew to plug their ears so they would not hear the Siren's fatal song"
subtype: #Lorelei a siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction
instance: #Calypso #Oceanid
subtype: #naiad (Greek mythology) a nymph of lakes and springs and rivers and fountains
subtype: #dryad__woodnymph a deity or nymph of the woods
subtype: #hamadryad the nymph or spirit of a particular tree
instance: #Napaea__Napea
instance: #Echo #Hesperides__Atlantides #Hyades #Pleiades.nymph__pleiade #Daphne #Salmacis
instance: #Aesculapius #Bacchus #Priapus #Leto__Latona
subtype: #Greek_deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks
subtype: #Grace (Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors
instance: #Aglaia #Euphrosyne #Thalia
subtype: #forest_god__satyr one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns
instance: #Silenus
subtype: #silenus__silenu any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs)
subtype: #Olympic_god__Olympian a classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans
subtype: #Muse in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
instance: #Calliope #Clio #Erato #Euterpe #Melpomene #Polyhymnia #Terpsichore #Thalia.Muse__thalia #Urania
subtype: #Titan (Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus; the Titans were offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth)
instance: #Cronus #Hyperion #Oceanus #Cocus #Crius #Iapetus #Atlas #Epimetheus #Prometheus
subtype: #Titaness (Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant goddesses who were offspring of Uranus (heaven) and Gaea (earth) in ancient mythology
instance: #Thea__Theia #Rhea #Themis #Mnemosyne #Phoebe #Tethys
instance: #Aeolus #Aether #Phoebus_Apollo__Apollo__Phoebus #Aphrodite__Cytherea #Ares #Eris #Thanatos #Nyx #Artemis__Cynthia #Boreas #Ate #Pallas_Athena__Athena__Athene__Pallas__Pallas_Athene #Chaos #Demeter #Dionysus #Doris #Erebus #Eros #Gaea__Gaia__Ge #Hebe #Helios #Hecate #Hephaestus__Hephaistos #Hermes #Hermaphroditus #Hygeia #Hera__Here #Hestia #Hymen #Minos #Ariadne #Moirai__Moirae #Clotho #Lachesis #Atropos #Momus__Momos #Nemesis #Nereus #Nike #Ouranos__Uranus #Pan__the_goat_god #Pasiphae #Pontos__Pontus #Poseidon #Proteus #Persephone__Despoina__Kore__Cora #Phaethon #Hades__Pluto__Aides__Aidoneus #Pythia__Pythoness #Rhadamnathus #Selene #Eos #Triton #Tyche #Zephyr #Zeus
subtype: #Roman_deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans
subtype: #faun ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
instance: #Venus.Roman_deity__venu__Urania #Mors #Mars #Diana #Minerva #Saturn.Roman_deity__saturn #Ceres.Roman_deity__cere #Nox__Night #Cupid__Amor #Sol #Vulcan #Mercury.Roman_deity__mercury #Janus #Juno #Vesta.Roman_deity__vesta #Parcae #Nona #Decuma #Morta #Victoria.Roman_deity__victoria #Faunus #Neptune #Proserpina__Proserpine #Dis__Orcus #Luna #Aurora #Tellus #Fortuna #Jove__Jupiter #Ops #Sylvanus__Silvanus
subtype: #Norse_deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen
subtype: #Aesir (Norse mythology) the chief race of gods living at Asgard
subtype: #Vanir (Norse mythology) race of ancient gods sometimes in conflict with the Aesir
subtype: #Norn any of the three Fates or goddesses of destiny; identified with Anglo-Saxon Wyrd; similar to Greek Moirae and Roman Parcae
instance: #Urd__Urth #Verdandi__Verthandi #Skuld
instance: #Balder__Baldr #Bragi__Brage #Elli #Forseti #Frey__Freyr #Freya__Freyja #Frigg__Frigga #Heimdall__Heimdal__Heimdallr #Hela__Hel #Hoenir #Hoth__Hothr__Hoder__Hodr #Idun__Ithunn #Loki #Nanna.Norse_deity__nanna #Njord__Njorth #Odin #Sif #Sigyn #Thor #Tyr__Tyrr #Ull__Ullr #Vali #Vitharr__Vithar__Vidar
subtype: #Teutonic_deity (Teutonic mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons
instance: #Donar #Nerthus__Hertha #Wotan
subtype: #Anglo-Saxon_deity (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons
instance: #Tiu #Woden__Wodan #the_Weird_Sisters__the_Three_Weird_Sisters #Wyrd__Weird
subtype: #Phrygian_deity deity of the ancient Phrygians of west central Asia Minor
instance: #Cybele__Dindymene__Great_Mother__Magna_Mater__Mater_Turrita
subtype: #Quetzalcoatl an Aztec deity represented as a plumed serpent
subtype: #saint a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
subtype: #patron_saint a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation
subtype: #Santa_Claus__Kriss_Kringle__Father_Christmas__Saint_Nick__St_Nick the legendary patron saint of children
instance: #Saint_Bridget__Bridget__St_Bridget__Brigid__Saint_Brigid__St_Brigid__Bride__Saint_Bride__St_Bride #St_Christopher__Christopher__Saint_Christopher
instance: #Saint_Crispin__Crispin__St_Crispin #Saint_David__David__St_David #Saint_Francis_of_Assisi__Francis_of_Assisi__St_Francis_of_Assisi__Saint_Francis__St_Francis__Giovanni_di_Bernardone #Saint_Nicholas__Nicholas__St_Nicholas
subtype: #war_god__god_of_war a god worshipped as giving victory in war
subtype: #snake_god__snakegod__zombi__zombie a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
instance: #Hypnos #Morpheus #the_Fates__Fates
subtype: #God__Supreme_Being the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
subtype: #Godhead__Lord__Creator__Maker__Divine__God_Almighty__Almighty__Jehovah the Judeo-Christian God
subtype: #Blessed_Trinity__Trinity__Holy_Trinity the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead
subtype: #hypostasis any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
subtype: #Father-God__Father God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father"
subtype: #Son__Word__Logos the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
subtype: #Messiah.Son__messiah Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer
instance: #Jesus_of_Nazareth__Jesus__Jesus_Christ__Christ__Savior__Saviour__Good_Shepherd__Redeemer__Deliverer
subtype: #Holy_Ghost__Holy_Spirit the third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost
subtype: #Yahweh__YHWH__Yahwe__Yahveh__YHVH__Yahve__Wahvey__Jahvey__Jahweh__Jehovah__JHVH a name for the Old Testament God as transliterated from the Hebrew YHVH
subtype: #Allah Muslim name for God
subtype: #eon (in Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
subtype: #angel spiritual being attendant upon God
subtype: #archangel an angel ranked above the highest rank in the Celestial Hierarchy
instance: #Gabriel #Michael #Raphael
subtype: #cherub an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child
subtype: #seraph an angel of the first order; usually portrayed as the winged head of a child
subtype: #guardian_spirit__guardian_angel an angel believed to have special affection for a particular individual
subtype: #genius_loci the guardian spirit of a place
subtype: #eudemon__good_spirit (Greek) a benevolent spirit
subtype: #divine_messenger a messenger from God; "angel of death"
subtype: #faery__fairy__faerie__sprite small, human in form, playful, having magical powers
subtype: #water_sprite__watersprite__waternymph a fairy that inhabits water
subtype: #undine any of various water spirits
subtype: #elf__hob__gremlin__pixie__pixy__brownie__imp (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
subtype: #leprechaun a mischievous elf in Irish folklore
subtype: #dwarf a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
subtype: #Nibelung (Teutonic mythology) any of the race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard that was stolen by Siegfried
instance: #Andvari
subtype: #Puck__Robin_Goodfellow a mischievous sprite of English folklore
subtype: #Titania (medieval folklore) the queen of the fairies
instance: #Morgan_le_Fay
subtype: #spirit any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
subtype: #control.spirit a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
subtype: #evil_spirit a spirit tending to cause harm
subtype: #bad_fairy__badfairy a fairy that tends to cause harm
subtype: #bogie__bogey__bogy an evil spirit
subtype: #daemon__devil__fiend__demon__daimon one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief
subtype: #incubus a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
subtype: #succubus__succuba a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
subtype: #dybbuk__dibbuk (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior
subtype: #cacodemon__cacodaemon (Greek) an evil spirit
subtype: #ghoul an evil spirit or ghost
subtype: #goblin__hob__hobgoblin (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
subtype: #kelpy__kelpie (Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders
subtype: #vampire__lamia (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
instance: #Mephistopheles
subtype: #banshee (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
subtype: #genie__jinni__jinnee__djinni__djinny a spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals
subtype: #Eblis the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology
subtype: #familiar_spirit__familiar a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard
subtype: #peri (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
subtype: #specter__phantom__spectre a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
instance: #Flying_Dutchman.specter__flyingdutchman
subtype: #presence.spirit an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby
subtype: #numen a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion)
subtype: #python.spirit a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
subtype: #sylvan__silvan a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
subtype: #thunderbird (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird
subtype: #zombi_spirit__zombispirit__zombi__zombie__zombie_spirit (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
instance: #Satan__Old_Nick__Devil__the_Devil__Lucifer__Beelzebub__the_Tempter__Prince_of_Darkness
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