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"bai-ze", "name": "Bai Ze", "regions": [ "Sinosphere", "East Asia" ] }, { "id": "baku", "name": "Baku", "regions": [ "Sinosphere" ] }, { "id": "basilisco-chilote", "name": "Basilisco Chilote", "regions": [ "Chiloé Archipelago", "Los Lagos Region", "Southern Chile" ] }, { "id": "basilisk", "name": "Basilisk", "regions": [ "Cyrenaica", "Mediterranean", "Central Europe", "Cantabria" ] }, { "id": "bulgae", "name": "Bulgae", "regions": [ "Korean Peninsula" ] }, { "id": "buraq", "name": "Al-Burāq", "regions": [ "Hejaz", "Levant", "Jerusalem (Haram al-Sharif)" ] }, { "id": "ceasg", "name": "Ceasg", "regions": [ "Scottish Highlands", "Outer Hebrides", "Inner Hebrides", "Argyll", "West Coast of Scotland" ] }, { "id": "centaur", "name": "Centaur", "regions": [ "Thessaly", "Mount Pelion", "Mount Othrys", "Foloi (Elis)", "Magnesia" ] }, { "id": "cerberus", "name": "Cerberus", "regions": [ "Hades / the Greek underworld", "Cape Tainaron (Laconia)", "Lake Avernus (Campania)" ] }, { "id": "cheollima", "name": "Cheollima", "regions": [ "East Asia", "Korean Peninsula" ] }, { "id": "chimera", "name": "Chimera", "regions": [ "Lycia", "Mount Chimaera (Yanartaş)", "Cilicia (in some late traditions)", "Asia Minor" ] }, { "id": "cockatrice", "name": "Cockatrice", "regions": [ "Western and Central Europe", "British Isles", "Holy Roman Empire" ] }, { "id": "cyclops", "name": "Cyclops", "regions": [ "Sicily", "Mount Etna", "Argolid (Mycenae, Tiryns)", "Aeolian Islands" ] }, { "id": "dragon", "name": "Dragon", "regions": [ "Mesopotamia", "Ancient Egypt", "Greek and Roman world", "Iran", "China", "Japan", "Korea", "Vietnam", "Slavic Europe", "Norse and Germanic Europe", "British Isles", "Mesoamerica" ] }, { "id": "each-uisge", "name": "Each-uisge", "regions": [ "Scottish Highlands", "Hebrides", "Argyll", "Inverness-shire", "Skye", "Western Isles" ] }, { "id": "fenrir", "name": "Fenrir", "regions": [ "Ásgarðr", "Jötunheimr (place of his upbringing in some accounts)", "Ámsvartnir / Lyngvi (place of binding)", "Vígríðr (battlefield of Ragnarök)" ] }, { "id": "garuda", "name": "Garuda", "regions": [ "Indian subcontinent", "Southeast Asia", "Buddhist world" ] }, { "id": "gorgon", "name": "Gorgon", "regions": [ "Aegean", "Magna Graecia", "Etruria", "Roman provinces", "North Africa (Lake Tritonis tradition)" ] }, { "id": "griffin", "name": "Griffin", "regions": [ "Ancient Near East", "Aegean and Greek world", "Scythia (Central Asia)", "medieval Europe", "modern heraldic Europe" ] }, { "id": "haetae", "name": "Haetae", "regions": [ "Korean Peninsula", "Central China", "Manchuria (mythological homeland per Korean records)", "Japan" ] }, { "id": "harpy", "name": "Harpy", "regions": [ "Ancient Greece", "Ancient Rome", "Thrace", "Strophades islands (Ionian Sea)" ] }, { "id": "hydra", "name": "Lernaean Hydra", "regions": [ "Argolid", "Peloponnese", "Lake Lerna", "Spring of Amymone" ] }, { "id": "iara", "name": "Iara", "regions": [ "Amazon basin", "Amazonas", "Pará", "Maranhão", "Northern Brazil", "Central Brazil" ] }, { "id": "jormungandr", "name": "Jörmungandr", "regions": [ "Scandinavia", "North Atlantic", "Norse world" ] }, { "id": "kirin", "name": "Kirin (Qilin)", "regions": [ "East Asia", "Sinosphere" ] }, { "id": "lamassu", "name": "Lamassu", "regions": [ "Mesopotamia", "Assyria", "Achaemenid Persia" ] }, { "id": "lindworm", "name": "Lindworm", "regions": [ "Scandinavia", "Central Europe", "British Isles", "Low Countries" ] }, { "id": "manticore", "name": "Manticore", "regions": [ "Achaemenid Persia", "South Asia" ] }, { "id": "maui", "name": "Māui", "regions": [ "Aotearoa (New Zealand)", "Hawaiian archipelago", "Sāmoa", "Tonga", "Society Islands (Tahiti)", "Marquesas Islands", "Mangareva", "Cook Islands" ] }, { "id": "medusa", "name": "Medusa", "regions": [ "Mediterranean basin", "Mythic 'far west' beyond Ocean (in archaic geography)" ] }, { "id": "minotaur", "name": "Minotaur", "regions": [ "Crete", "Aegean", "Italian peninsula (through Roman reception)" ] }, { "id": "mo-o", "name": "Mo'o", "regions": [ "Oʻahu — particularly Kawainui Marsh (windward) and Waialua", "Maui — Mokuhinia fishpond, Kamalō Ridge", "Molokaʻi — windward cliffs", "Hawaii Island — various streams and pools", "Kauaʻi — streams and coastal areas" ] }, { "id": "naga", "name": "Naga", "regions": [ "South Asia", "Southeast Asia", "Mekong River basin", "Himalayas", "Indonesian archipelago" ] }, { "id": "nian", "name": "Nian", "regions": [ "Greater China", "Chinese diaspora communities worldwide" ] }, { "id": "nue", "name": "Nue", "regions": [ "Kyoto", "Hyōgo Prefecture", "Osaka Prefecture" ] }, { "id": "pegasus", "name": "Pegasus", "regions": [ "Boeotia (Mount Helicon)", "Corinth and the Corinthian Gulf", "Lycia" ] }, { "id": "phoenix", "name": "Phoenix", "regions": [ "Arabia", "Egypt", "Ethiopia", "India (in some classical sources)" ] }, { "id": "qilin", "name": "Qilin", "regions": [ "East Asia", "Southeast Asia" ] }, { "id": "raiju", "name": "Raiju", "regions": [ "Kantō", "Tōhoku", "Chūbu", "Kinki", "East Japan" ] }, { "id": "rakshasa", "name": "Rakshasa", "regions": [ "Indian subcontinent", "Maritime Southeast Asia", "Mainland Southeast Asia", "Buddhist East Asia" ] }, { "id": "roc", "name": "Roc", "regions": [ "Indian Ocean", "Arabian Sea", "East African coast (Madagascar region)" ] }, { "id": "samjoko", "name": "Samjok-o", "regions": [ "Goguryeo cultural sphere (Korean peninsula and southern Manchuria)", "Han and post-Han China", "Yamato Japan" ] }, { "id": "satyr", "name": "Satyr", "regions": [ "Ancient Greece", "Hellenistic world", "Roman Empire", "Later European culture through Renaissance" ] }, { "id": "simurgh", "name": "Simurgh", "regions": [ "Greater Iran", "Persianate world", "Alborz mountain region" ] }, { "id": "siren", "name": "Siren", "regions": [ "Tyrrhenian Sea", "Sorrentine Peninsula", "Bay of Naples", "Campania" ] }, { "id": "sleipnir", "name": "Sleipnir", "regions": [ "Asgard (mythological)", "Hel (mythological)", "Gotland", "Medieval Iceland" ] }, { "id": "sphinx", "name": "Sphinx", "regions": [ "Giza Plateau", "Thebes", "Karnak", "Memphis", "Ancient Mediterranean", "South and Southeast Asia" ] }, { "id": "swan-maiden", "name": "Swan Maiden", "regions": [ "Scandinavia", "Celtic world", "Slavic Europe", "Siberia", "East Asia", "South Asia", "Northern North America" ] }, { "id": "taniwha", "name": "Taniwha", "regions": [ "North Island", "South Island", "Hauraki Gulf", "Hokianga", "Whanganui River", "Waikato River" ] }, { "id": "unicorn", "name": "Unicorn", "regions": [ "Mediterranean classical world", "Medieval Europe", "Persia and the Arab world (karkadann)", "East Asia (qilin/kirin tradition)" ] }, { "id": "ushi-oni", "name": "Ushi-oni", "regions": [ "Ehime Prefecture (Shikoku)", "Wakayama Prefecture", "Shimane Prefecture (Izumo region)", "Coastal areas of western Japan generally", "Seto Inland Sea coastal communities" ] }, { "id": "valkyrie", "name": "Valkyrie", "regions": [ "Scandinavia (primary literary tradition)", "Iceland (primary manuscript tradition)", "Anglo-Saxon England (Old English cognate wælcyrge)", "Germanic Europe broadly" ] }, { "id": "wild-hunt", "name": "Wild Hunt", "regions": [ "Alps", "Black Forest", "Harz Mountains", "Scandinavian highlands", "Friuli (Benandanti tradition)", "Welsh borderlands", "Galicia", "Brittany" ] }, { "id": "yamata-no-orochi", "name": "Yamata no Orochi", "regions": [ "Izumo Province (Shimane Prefecture)", "Hii River valley", "Nita District (associated with iron production)" ] }, { "id": "yara-ma-yha-who", "name": "Yara-ma-yha-who", "regions": [ "Southeastern Australia", "New South Wales", "Victoria" ] }, { "id": "zmey", "name": "Zmey (Slavic Dragon)", "regions": [ "East Slavic lands (Russian and Ukrainian folktale and bylina traditions)", "Western Balkans (Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian zmaj traditions)", "Bulgaria and North Macedonia (zmei and lamia traditions)", "Poland (żmij and the Wawel Dragon of Kraków)" ] } ] }, "entity_spirit": { "name": "entity_spirit", "count": 104, "phenomena": [ { "id": "abumi-guchi", "name": "Abumi-guchi", "regions": [ "Historic samurai battlefields of the Japanese archipelago" ] }, { "id": "akaname", "name": "Akaname", "regions": [ "Old urban bathhouses and private bathrooms across Japan" ] }, { "id": "al-khidr", "name": "Al-Khidr", "regions": [ "Middle East", "Maghreb", "Central Asia", "South Asia", "Southeast Asia", "Balkans" ] }, { "id": "alp", "name": "Alp", "regions": [ "Bavaria", "Tyrol", "Swabia", "Saxony", "Alpine Europe" ] }, { "id": "ankou", "name": "Ankou", "regions": [ "Brittany", "Lower Brittany", "Finistère", "Côtes-d'Armor", "Morbihan", "Cornwall", "Wales" ] }, { "id": "ap", "name": "Ap (Apas)", "regions": [ "Sapta-Sindhu (the historical Vedic homeland in the northwest Indian subcontinent)", "Greater India", "Iranian plateau (Avestan Apąm Napāt parallel)" ] }, { "id": "bakeneko", "name": "Bakeneko", "regions": [ "Saga Prefecture (Hizen)", "Edo / Tokyo region", "Nationwide Japan" ] }, { "id": "banaspati", "name": "Banaspati", "regions": [ "Central Java", "East Java", "West Java (Sundanese cognates)", "Bali", "Madura" ] }, { "id": "bannik", "name": "Bannik", "regions": [ "European Russia", "Russian North", "Siberia (Russian peasant settler regions)", "East Slavic peasant cultural area" ] }, { "id": "banshee", "name": "Banshee", "regions": [ "Connacht", "Munster", "Ulster", "Leinster", "Scottish Highlands (cognate)", "Wales (cognate)" ] }, { "id": "basket-woman", "name": "Basket Woman", "regions": [ "British Columbia coast", "Vancouver Island", "Pacific Northwest", "Olympic Peninsula", "Oregon Coast" ] }, { "id": "berchta", "name": "Berchta", "regions": [ "Bavaria", "Tyrol", "Salzburg", "Carinthia", "Switzerland (Alemannic regions)", "Styria", "Slovenia" ] }, { "id": "berserker", "name": "Berserker", "regions": [ "Scandinavia", "North Atlantic Norse colonies", "Iceland" ] }, { "id": "betobeto-san", "name": "Betobeto-san", "regions": [ "Nara Prefecture (Uda-gun)", "Shizuoka Prefecture", "Fukui Prefecture (related variant)" ] }, { "id": "black-eyed-children", "name": "Black-Eyed Children", "regions": [ "Texas (Abilene)", "Pacific Northwest", "United Kingdom (Cannock Chase, Staffordshire)" ] }, { "id": "bogeyman", "name": "Bogeyman", "regions": [ "Global" ] }, { "id": "caipora", "name": "Caipora", "regions": [ "Amazon Basin", "Bahia", "Ceará", "Ilhéus", "Minas Gerais", "Rio Grande do Sul", "Santa Catarina" ] }, { "id": "caoineag", "name": "Caoineag", "regions": [ "Scottish Highlands", "Hebrides", "Lochaber", "Argyll", "Islay" ] }, { "id": "chaneque", "name": "Chaneque", "regions": [ "Veracruz", "Puebla", "Oaxaca", "Tabasco", "Hidalgo", "Sierra Norte de Puebla", "Gulf Coast lowlands" ] }, { "id": "chochinobake", "name": "Chōchin-obake", "regions": [ "Edo (modern Tokyo) — primary publishing centre for the imagery", "Kyoto and Osaka — kabuki and ukiyo-e production", "Nationwide via mass-produced karuta, kusazōshi, and toy prints" ] }, { "id": "chullachaqui", "name": "Chullachaqui", "regions": [ "Loreto (Peruvian Amazon)", "Ucayali", "San Martín", "Madre de Dios", "Pastaza and Napo (Ecuadorian Amazon)", "Acre and western Amazonas (Brazil)", "Putumayo (Colombia / Peru border)" ] }, { "id": "ciguapa", "name": "Ciguapa", "regions": [ "Cordillera Central", "Cordillera Septentrional", "Sierra de Bahoruco", "Cibao Valley", "San Cristóbal Province", "Constanza and Jarabacoa highlands" ] }, { "id": "curupira", "name": "Curupira", "regions": [ "Amazon basin", "Mata Atlântica", "Cerrado", "São Paulo state", "Pará", "Amazonas" ] }, { "id": "deer-woman", "name": "Deer Woman", "regions": [ "Great Plains", "Eastern Woodlands", "Great Lakes", "Southeastern Woodlands", "Oklahoma" ] }, { "id": "djinn", "name": "Djinn", "regions": [ "Arabian Peninsula", "Levant", "Maghreb", "Sahel", "Iran", "Central Asia", "South Asia", "Southeast Asia", "Balkans" ] }, { "id": "dokkaebi", "name": "Dokkaebi", "regions": [ "Korean Peninsula", "Jeju (regional dokkaebi traditions)", "Korean diaspora worldwide" ] }, { "id": "douen", "name": "Douen", "regions": [ "Eastern Caribbean", "Trinidad", "Tobago", "Saint Lucia" ] }, { "id": "el-cadejo", "name": "El Cadejo", "regions": [ "Central America", "Mesoamerica", "Highland Maya region", "Pacific lowlands of Central America" ] }, { "id": "el-sombreron", "name": "El Sombrerón", "regions": [ "Guatemala City" ] }, { "id": "elemental-spirits", "name": "Elemental Spirits", "regions": [ "Western Europe", "global Western occult community" ] }, { "id": "eloko", "name": "Eloko", "regions": [ "Congo Basin", "central DRC", "Mongo-Nkundo cultural area" ] }, { "id": "enenra", "name": "Enenra", "regions": [ "Edo-period Japan (broad)" ] }, { "id": "futakuchi-onna", "name": "Futakuchi-onna", "regions": [] }, { "id": "golem", "name": "Golem", "regions": [ "Prague (Jewish ghetto / Josefov)", "Chelm, Poland", "Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania" ] }, { "id": "hantu-air", "name": "Hantu Air", "regions": [ "Malay Peninsula", "East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia", "Borneo", "Sumatra", "Java", "Riau Archipelago" ] }, { "id": "hantu-jerangan", "name": "Hantu Jerangan", "regions": [ "Coastal Peninsular Malaysia" ] }, { "id": "hantu-raya", "name": "Hantu Raya", "regions": [ "Malay Peninsula", "East Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak)" ] }, { "id": "hantu-tetek", "name": "Hantu Tetek", "regions": [ "Peninsular Malaysia", "Borneo (Sabah, Sarawak)", "Sumatra", "Java" ] }, { "id": "hitotsume-kozo", "name": "Hitotsume-kozō", "regions": [ "Kantō region", "Mount Hiei (Tendai tradition)", "Central and eastern Honshū" ] }, { "id": "ibaraki-doji", "name": "Ibaraki-dōji", "regions": [ "Kyoto", "Settsu", "Echigo / Niigata", "Mount Ōe", "Tanba", "Honshu" ] }, { "id": "ifrit", "name": "Ifrit", "regions": [ "Arabian Peninsula", "Mashriq", "Maghreb", "Egypt", "Levant", "Persian world" ] }, { "id": "ijiraq", "name": "Ijiraq", "regions": [ "Nunavut", "Baffin Island", "High Arctic", "Inuit Nunangat", "Bathurst Island" ] }, { "id": "impundulu", "name": "Impundulu", "regions": [ "KwaZulu-Natal", "Eastern Cape", "South African coastal and interior regions" ] }, { "id": "inugami", "name": "Inugami", "regions": [ "Kyushu", "Eastern Ōita Prefecture", "Shimane Prefecture", "Northern Shikoku (Kōchi Prefecture)", "Yamaguchi Prefecture", "Tanegashima", "Satsunan Islands", "Okinawa Prefecture" ] }, { "id": "ittan-momen", "name": "Ittan-momen", "regions": [ "Kagoshima Prefecture (primary)", "Kimotsuki District, Kagoshima", "Fukuoka Prefecture", "Kyushu broadly", "Tokyo (Higashi-Kōenji Station, Ogikubo)", "Shizuoka Prefecture" ] }, { "id": "jengu", "name": "Jengu", "regions": [ "Littoral Province, Cameroon", "Southwest Province, Cameroon", "Wouri River and estuary", "Douala" ] }, { "id": "jinn", "name": "Jinn", "regions": [ "Arabian Peninsula", "Maghreb", "Mashriq", "Iranian world", "South Asia", "Southeast Asia", "Sahel" ] }, { "id": "kappa", "name": "Kappa", "regions": [ "Kyushu", "Tōhoku (Iwate, especially Tōno)", "Kantō", "Kansai", "Shikoku" ] }, { "id": "kapre", "name": "Kapre", "regions": [ "Luzon", "Visayas", "Mindanao", "Bicol Region" ] }, { "id": "kasa-obake", "name": "Kasa-obake", "regions": [ "Edo (modern Tokyo)", "Kyoto", "Osaka", "Japan generally" ] }, { "id": "kawa-no-kami", "name": "Kawa-no-Kami", "regions": [ "all of Japan", "rural agricultural regions especially" ] }, { "id": "krampus", "name": "Krampus", "regions": [ "Austrian Alps", "Bavaria", "Tyrol", "Styria", "Carinthia", "South Tyrol", "Salzburg region" ] }, { "id": "la-diablesse", "name": "La Diablesse", "regions": [ "Trinidad", "Tobago", "Grenada", "French-Creole Caribbean" ] }, { "id": "langsuir", "name": "Langsuir", "regions": [ "Malay Peninsula", "Sumatra", "Java", "Borneo" ] }, { "id": "leshy", "name": "Leshy", "regions": [ "Russian taiga and northern forests", "Belarus forests", "Ukrainian Carpathian forests", "Polish forests", "Eastern European boreal zone" ] }, { "id": "likho", "name": "Likho", "regions": [ "Eastern Europe", "Central Europe" ] }, { "id": "madremonte", "name": "Madremonte", "regions": [ "Colombian Andes", "Antioquia", "Eje Cafetero", "Magdalena valley", "Valle del Cauca" ] }, { "id": "mama-dlo", "name": "Mama Dlo", "regions": [ "Lesser Antilles", "Caribbean" ] }, { "id": "mamlambo", "name": "Mamlambo", "regions": [ "KwaZulu-Natal", "Eastern Cape" ] }, { "id": "mara", "name": "Mara", "regions": [ "Germanic Europe", "Scandinavia", "Slavic Europe" ] }, { "id": "mare", "name": "Mare", "regions": [ "Germanic Europe", "Scandinavia", "Slavic Europe" ] }, { "id": "marid", "name": "Marid", "regions": [ "Arabian Peninsula", "Levant", "Mesopotamia", "North Africa", "Islamic world" ] }, { "id": "mogwai", "name": "Mogwai", "regions": [ "Chinese-speaking world", "Cantonese-speaking regions", "Sinosphere (Vietnam, Korea, Japan via Buddhist transmission)" ] }, { "id": "mohan", "name": "El Mohán", "regions": [ "Tolima", "Huila", "Magdalena River basin", "Andean Colombia", "Cerro del Pacandé" ] }, { "id": "nachtkrapp", "name": "Nachtkrapp", "regions": [ "Bavaria", "Tyrol", "Northern Germany", "Central Europe", "Scandinavia" ] }, { "id": "nang-kwak", "name": "Nang Kwak", "regions": [ "Mainland Southeast Asia", "Thai diaspora communities" ] }, { "id": "nang-mai", "name": "Nang Mai", "regions": [ "Mainland Southeast Asia", "Theravada Buddhist cultural sphere" ] }, { "id": "nang-tani", "name": "Nang Tani", "regions": [ "Mainland Southeast Asia" ] }, { "id": "nekomata", "name": "Nekomata", "regions": [ "Etchū Province / Toyama Prefecture", "Mainland Japan (Honshū)" ] }, { "id": "night-hag", "name": "Night Hag", "regions": [ "Global" ] }, { "id": "nightmare", "name": "Nightmare", "regions": [ "Germanic Europe", "Slavic Europe" ] }, { "id": "nuckelavee", "name": "Nuckelavee", "regions": [ "Orkney Islands", "Northern Isles of Scotland" ] }, { "id": "nuppeppo", "name": "Nuppeppō", "regions": [ "Japan (Edo-period yokai literature)" ] }, { "id": "nurarihyon", "name": "Nurarihyon", "regions": [ "Akita Prefecture", "Okayama Prefecture", "Seto Inland Sea", "Edo (modern Tokyo) — origin of the principal scrolls" ] }, { "id": "nurikabe", "name": "Nurikabe", "regions": [ "Kyushu", "Fukuoka Prefecture", "Ōita Prefecture", "Onga County (former Chikuzen Province)" ] }, { "id": "orang-minyak", "name": "Orang Minyak", "regions": [ "Selangor, Malaysia", "Various Malaysian states", "Singapore" ] }, { "id": "papa-bois", "name": "Papa Bois", "regions": [ "Lesser Antilles", "Caribbean", "West Indies" ] }, { "id": "patasola", "name": "La Patasola", "regions": [ "Andes", "Amazonia", "Orinoco basin", "Colombian inter-Andean valleys" ] }, { "id": "pee-sua-samut", "name": "Phisuea Samut", "regions": [ "Gulf of Thailand", "Rayong Province", "Ko Samet" ] }, { "id": "pelesit", "name": "Pelesit", "regions": [ "Malay world (alam Melayu)", "Peninsular Malaysia", "Kedah" ] }, { "id": "poludnitsa", "name": "Poludnitsa", "regions": [ "Eastern Europe", "Central Europe", "Slavic-speaking Lusatia" ] }, { "id": "qallupilluk", "name": "Qallupilluk", "regions": [ "Nunavut", "Alaska", "Arctic Canada", "Northwest Territories" ] }, { "id": "rokurokubi", "name": "Rokurokubi", "regions": [ "All regions of Japan historically; origin traditions also present in China and Southeast Asia" ] }, { "id": "saci", "name": "Saci", "regions": [ "Southeast Brazil", "South Brazil", "Centre-West Brazil" ] }, { "id": "satori", "name": "Satori", "regions": [ "Hida Province (modern northern Gifu)", "Mino Province (modern southern Gifu)", "Chūbu region" ] }, { "id": "shtriga", "name": "Shtriga", "regions": [ "Northern Albanian Alps", "Malësia", "Dukagjin", "Shkodër region" ] }, { "id": "stick-indian", "name": "Stick Indian", "regions": [ "Pacific Northwest", "Puget Sound", "Olympic Peninsula", "Columbia Plateau", "Yakama lands", "Coast Salish territories" ] }, { "id": "tengu", "name": "Tengu", "regions": [ "Honshu", "Kansai (Mount Kurama, Mount Atago, Mount Hiei)", "Tōhoku", "Chūbu" ] }, { "id": "tikbalang", "name": "Tikbalang", "regions": [ "Luzon", "Visayas", "Sierra Madre", "Cordillera Central" ] }, { "id": "tokoloshe", "name": "Tokoloshe", "regions": [ "KwaZulu-Natal", "Eastern Cape", "Mpumalanga", "Limpopo", "Gauteng townships" ] }, { "id": "toyol", "name": "Toyol", "regions": [ "Peninsular Malaysia", "Java", "Sumatra", "Borneo", "Riau Archipelago" ] }, { "id": "tsukumogami", "name": "Tsukumogami", "regions": [ "Japan broadly", "Particularly associated with the Heian-period (794–1185 CE) court culture where many of the originating texts were composed" ] }, { "id": "tunda", "name": "La Tunda", "regions": [ "Pacific coast of Colombia", "Chocó", "Valle del Cauca", "Cauca", "Nariño", "Esmeraldas (Ecuador)" ] }, { "id": "ubume", "name": "Ubume", "regions": [ "Honshu", "Kyushu (Saga, Kumamoto, Nagasaki)", "Tōhoku (Fukushima)", "Iki Island" ] }, { "id": "vodyanoy", "name": "Vodyanoy", "regions": [ "European Russia", "Bohemia and Moravia", "Carpathians", "Western Slavic lands" ] }, { "id": "wanyudo", "name": "Wanyūdō", "regions": [ "Kinai", "Kyoto Prefecture", "Kantō (through later transmission)" ] }, { "id": "wendigo", "name": "Wendigo", "regions": [ "Boreal forest / taiga", "Ontario", "Manitoba", "Quebec", "Labrador", "Saskatchewan", "Alberta", "Minnesota", "Wisconsin", "Michigan (Upper Peninsula)" ] }, { "id": "windigo", "name": "Windigo", "regions": [ "Boreal forest", "Subarctic Canada", "Great Lakes region", "Northern Ontario", "Northern Quebec", "Manitoba", "Saskatchewan", "Alberta", "Labrador", "Minnesota", "Wisconsin", "Michigan" ] }, { "id": "xtabay", "name": "Xtabay", "regions": [ "Yucatán", "Quintana Roo", "Campeche", "Northern Belize", "Petén" ] }, { "id": "yacuruna", "name": "Yacuruna", "regions": [ "Amazon basin", "Upper Amazon (Peru)", "Loreto region, Peru", "Ucayali region, Peru" ] }, { "id": "yama-no-kami", "name": "Yama-no-kami", "regions": [ "Throughout Japan", "Particularly prominent in central Honshu", "Significant tradition on Mount Hiei (Oyamakui no Kami)", "Mount Fuji associated with Ōyamatsumi worship" ] }, { "id": "yama-oroshi", "name": "Yama-oroshi", "regions": [ "Japan (mountain regions)" ] }, { "id": "yama-uba", "name": "Yamauba", "regions": [ "Throughout Japan", "Miyazaki Prefecture (yamahime variant)", "Hokkaido (protective maternal variant)", "Shikoku", "Kyushu", "Kagawa Prefecture (kawajoro river variant)", "Kochi Prefecture (deified household protective variant)" ] }, { "id": "yuki-onna", "name": "Yuki-onna", "regions": [ "Tōhoku (Aomori, Yamagata, Akita, Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima)", "Hokuriku (Niigata, Fukui)", "Kantō (Gunma, Ibaraki)", "Shikoku (Ehime)", "Echigo Province (historical, modern Niigata)" ] } ] }, "cryptid": { "name": "cryptid", "count": 102, "phenomena": [ { "id": "adlet", "name": "Adlet", "regions": [ "Greenland", "Baffin Island", "Labrador", "Hudson Bay coast", "eastern Canadian Arctic" ] }, { "id": "agropelter", "name": "Agropelter", "regions": [ "Maine", "Great Lakes states", "Pacific Northwest", "Oregon", "Adirondacks", "Appalachian Mountains", "Rocky Mountains" ] }, { "id": "ahool", "name": "Ahool", "regions": [ "Java", "West Java", "Salak Mountains", "Halimun-Salak National Park", "Banten" ] }, { "id": "almas", "name": "Almas", "regions": [ "Caucasus Mountains", "Pamir Mountains", "Tian Shan", "Altai Mountains", "Mongolian highlands", "Kabardino-Balkaria", "Abkhazia" ] }, { "id": "altamaha-ha", "name": "Altamaha-ha", "regions": [ "Georgia", "McIntosh County", "Altamaha River basin" ] }, { "id": "argopelter", "name": "Argopelter", "regions": [ "Maine", "Upper Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan)", "Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington)", "Boreal and northern conifer forests" ] }, { "id": "atmospheric-beasts", "name": "Atmospheric Beasts", "regions": [ "Upper atmosphere (global)" ] }, { "id": "axehandle-hound", "name": "Axehandle Hound", "regions": [ "Wisconsin", "Minnesota", "Great Lakes region", "Upper Midwest" ] }, { "id": "batsquatch", "name": "Batsquatch", "regions": [ "Pacific Northwest", "Washington State", "Cascade Range" ] }, { "id": "batutut", "name": "Batutut", "regions": [ "Annamite Range (Trường Sơn)", "Vu Quang", "Central Highlands of Vietnam" ] }, { "id": "beast-of-bray-road", "name": "Beast of Bray Road", "regions": [ "Upper Midwest", "Wisconsin", "Walworth County" ] }, { "id": "beast-of-gevaudan", "name": "Beast of Gévaudan", "regions": [ "Gévaudan", "Lozère", "Haute-Loire", "Margeride Mountains", "Auvergne (modern)" ] }, { "id": "bessie", "name": "Bessie", "regions": [ "Lake Erie", "Sandusky Bay", "Lake Erie Islands (Ohio)", "Crystal Beach / Fort Erie (Ontario)", "Buffalo–Toledo shipping lane" ] }, { "id": "bigfoot", "name": "Bigfoot", "regions": [ "Pacific Northwest", "Northern California", "British Columbia", "Cascadia", "Ohio River Valley", "Appalachian Mountains", "Florida Everglades", "Pacific Coast Range", "Olympic Peninsula" ] }, { "id": "billdad", "name": "Billdad", "regions": [ "Maine", "Northern Maine lumberwoods", "Boundary Pond" ] }, { "id": "black-dog", "name": "Black Dog", "regions": [ "East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex)", "Yorkshire", "Lancashire", "Cornwall and Devon (West Country)", "Scottish Highlands", "Isle of Man", "Wales (Cŵn Annwn — closely related)" ] }, { "id": "black-shuck", "name": "Black Shuck", "regions": [ "Norfolk", "Suffolk", "Cambridgeshire", "Essex", "East Anglia (general)" ] }, { "id": "bunyip", "name": "Bunyip", "regions": [ "Murray–Darling Basin", "Victoria", "New South Wales", "South Australia", "Tasmania", "Queensland" ] }, { "id": "cactus-cat", "name": "Cactus Cat", "regions": [ "Arizona", "New Mexico", "Texas", "Sonoran Desert", "Chihuahuan Desert" ] }, { "id": "caddy", "name": "Cadborosaurus", "regions": [ "British Columbia", "Vancouver Island", "Strait of Georgia", "Puget Sound", "Washington", "Oregon", "Alaska", "Northern California" ] }, { "id": "champ", "name": "Champ", "regions": [ "Vermont", "New York", "Quebec", "Champlain Valley" ] }, { "id": "chipekwe", "name": "Chipekwe", "regions": [ "Lake Bangweulu", "Bangweulu Swamps", "Kafue Flats", "Luapula River", "Lake Mweru basin" ] }, { "id": "chupacabra", "name": "Chupacabra", "regions": [ "Caribbean", "Latin America", "Southwestern United States", "Texas", "Yucatán Peninsula" ] }, { "id": "come-at-a-body", "name": "Come-at-a-Body", "regions": [ "White Mountains", "Northern New Hampshire", "Maine and Vermont logging country (by extension in later compilations)" ] }, { "id": "crawler", "name": "Crawler", "regions": [ "Southern Appalachia", "Pennsylvania Wilds", "West Virginia", "Eastern Tennessee", "Northern Georgia", "Ozarks", "Southern Ohio", "Internet (global propagation)" ] }, { "id": "dobhar-chu", "name": "Dobhar-chú", "regions": [ "County Leitrim", "Connemara, County Galway", "Northwest Ireland" ] }, { "id": "dogman", "name": "Michigan Dogman", "regions": [ "Michigan", "Northern Lower Peninsula", "Manistee River basin", "Great Lakes region" ] }, { "id": "dover-demon", "name": "Dover Demon", "regions": [ "New England", "Massachusetts", "Norfolk County" ] }, { "id": "dungavenhooter", "name": "Dungavenhooter", "regions": [ "New England", "Maine", "Upper Great Lakes", "Michigan", "Wisconsin" ] }, { "id": "ebu-gogo", "name": "Ebu Gogo", "regions": [ "Flores Island", "Central Flores", "Ngada Regency", "Nusa Tenggara Timur" ] }, { "id": "el-sisimite", "name": "Sisimite", "regions": [ "Toledo District, Belize", "Mountain regions of Honduras", "Guatemalan highlands", "Campeche, Mexico", "Chiapas, Mexico", "Quintana Roo, Mexico", "Darien, Colombia" ] }, { "id": "emela-ntouka", "name": "Emela-ntouka", "regions": [ "Likouala swamps", "Congo River basin", "Bangweulu Swamps (as Chipekwe)", "Lake Edward (as Irizima)" ] }, { "id": "enfield-horror", "name": "Enfield Horror", "regions": [ "White County, Illinois", "southern Illinois" ] }, { "id": "fearsome-critters", "name": "Fearsome Critters", "regions": [ "Great Lakes", "Wisconsin", "Michigan", "Minnesota", "Pacific Northwest", "Appalachian Mountains", "Ozarks", "Canadian boreal forest", "Maine" ] }, { "id": "fresno-nightcrawlers", "name": "Fresno Nightcrawlers", "regions": [ "Central Valley, California", "Sierra Nevada foothills, California" ] }, { "id": "fur-bearing-trout", "name": "Fur-Bearing Trout", "regions": [ "Colorado (Arkansas River folklore)", "Montana", "Lake Superior region", "Ontario, Canada", "Alberta, Canada", "Iceland" ] }, { "id": "gillygaloo", "name": "Gillygaloo", "regions": [ "Great Lakes lumberwoods", "New England", "Pacific Northwest" ] }, { "id": "globster", "name": "Globster", "regions": [ "North Atlantic", "South Atlantic", "Pacific", "Tasman Sea", "Caribbean", "Bermuda" ] }, { "id": "goatman", "name": "Goatman", "regions": [ "Mid-Atlantic", "Texas", "Kentucky" ] }, { "id": "goofang", "name": "Goofang", "regions": [ "Minnesota", "Wisconsin", "Great Lakes region" ] }, { "id": "grafton-monster", "name": "Grafton Monster", "regions": [ "West Virginia", "Appalachia" ] }, { "id": "grootslang", "name": "Grootslang", "regions": [ "Northern Cape", "Richtersveld", "lower Orange River" ] }, { "id": "gumberoo", "name": "Gumberoo", "regions": [ "Pacific Northwest", "Oregon", "Washington", "British Columbia" ] }, { "id": "hidebehind", "name": "Hidebehind", "regions": [ "Upper Midwest", "Pacific Northwest", "New England", "Appalachian Mountains", "Boreal forest" ] }, { "id": "hodag", "name": "Hodag", "regions": [ "Wisconsin", "Oneida County", "Rhinelander" ] }, { "id": "hoopsnake", "name": "Hoop snake", "regions": [ "Virginia", "West Virginia", "Minnesota–Wisconsin border", "North Carolina", "Prince Edward Island", "British Columbia" ] }, { "id": "hugag", "name": "Hugag", "regions": [ "Northern Minnesota", "Western Wisconsin", "Canadian wilderness (Hudson Bay region)" ] }, { "id": "jackalope", "name": "Jackalope", "regions": [ "American West", "Wyoming", "Great Plains", "Bavaria" ] }, { "id": "jersey-devil", "name": "Jersey Devil", "regions": [ "Pine Barrens", "South Jersey", "Delaware Valley", "Philadelphia metropolitan area" ] }, { "id": "joint-snake", "name": "Joint Snake", "regions": [ "Southern Virginia", "North Carolina", "South Carolina", "Georgia", "Alabama", "Mississippi", "Louisiana", "Texas", "Wisconsin", "Iowa" ] }, { "id": "kongamato", "name": "Kongamato", "regions": [ "Mwinilunga District", "Bangweulu wetlands", "Jiundu Swamp", "Kafue floodplain", "Caprivi Strip" ] }, { "id": "kraken", "name": "Kraken", "regions": [ "Norwegian Sea", "North Atlantic Ocean", "Waters off the coast of Nordland, Norway", "Greenlandic shelf" ] }, { "id": "lizard-man-scape-ore", "name": "Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp", "regions": [ "South Carolina", "Lee County", "Pee Dee region" ] }, { "id": "loch-ness-monster", "name": "Loch Ness Monster", "regions": [ "Scottish Highlands", "Great Glen", "Inverness-shire" ] }, { "id": "loveland-frog", "name": "Loveland Frog", "regions": [ "Ohio", "Cincinnati metropolitan area", "Little Miami River valley" ] }, { "id": "luferlang", "name": "Luferlang", "regions": [ "Great Lakes", "Northeast United States", "Pacific Northwest logging country" ] }, { "id": "lusca", "name": "Lusca", "regions": [ "Andros Island", "Bahamas Banks", "Caribbean Sea" ] }, { "id": "man-monkey", "name": "Man-Monkey", "regions": [ "Shropshire", "Staffordshire", "English Midlands" ] }, { "id": "mapinguari", "name": "Mapinguari", "regions": [ "Amazon basin", "Acre", "Rondônia", "Pará", "Amazonas (Brazil)" ] }, { "id": "marozi", "name": "Marozi", "regions": [ "Aberdare Range", "Kinangop Plateau", "Mau Escarpment", "Virunga Mountains" ] }, { "id": "minhocao", "name": "Minhocão", "regions": [ "Santa Catarina", "Paraná", "São Paulo", "Goiás", "Rio Grande do Sul" ] }, { "id": "mngwa", "name": "Mngwa", "regions": [ "Lindi region, coastal Tanzania", "Mchinga area, coastal Tanzania", "Zanzibar (folklore tradition)" ] }, { "id": "moehau-man", "name": "Moehau Man", "regions": [ "Coromandel Peninsula", "Moehau Range", "North Island", "Karangahake Gorge" ] }, { "id": "mokele-mbembe", "name": "Mokele-mbembe", "regions": [ "Likouala", "Lake Tele", "Congo River basin", "Sangha River basin" ] }, { "id": "momo", "name": "Momo the Missouri Monster", "regions": [ "Missouri", "Pike County", "Louisiana, Missouri" ] }, { "id": "mongolian-death-worm", "name": "Mongolian Death Worm", "regions": [ "Gobi Desert", "Southern Mongolia", "Western Mongolia" ] }, { "id": "mothman", "name": "Mothman", "regions": [ "West Virginia", "Ohio", "Ohio River Valley", "Appalachia" ] }, { "id": "nandi-bear", "name": "Nandi Bear", "regions": [ "Nandi Hills and surrounding highlands", "Western Kenya", "East Africa" ] }, { "id": "nguoi-rung", "name": "Người Rừng", "regions": [ "Vu Quang National Park (Hà Tĩnh Province)", "Annamite Range", "Central Highlands", "Vietnam-Laos border" ] }, { "id": "nguruvilu", "name": "Nguruvilu", "regions": [ "Araucanía", "Los Lagos", "Los Ríos", "Neuquén Province (Limay River, Aluminé Lake)" ] }, { "id": "ninki-nanka", "name": "Ninki Nanka", "regions": [ "Lower Gambia", "Senegambia" ] }, { "id": "ogopogo", "name": "Ogopogo", "regions": [ "Okanagan Valley", "British Columbia", "Pacific Northwest interior" ] }, { "id": "orang-bati", "name": "Orang Bati", "regions": [ "Seram Island, Maluku Province, Indonesia", "Mount Kairatu (Gunung Binaiya) area" ] }, { "id": "orang-dalam", "name": "Orang Dalam", "regions": [ "Johor, Malaysia", "Endau-Rompin National Park area, Johor", "Singapore (occasional reports)" ] }, { "id": "orang-gadang", "name": "Orang Gadang", "regions": [ "Rokan area, Riau province, Sumatra", "Sumatran highlands" ] }, { "id": "orang-pendek", "name": "Orang Pendek", "regions": [ "Kerinci Regency, central Sumatra", "Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS)", "Bukit Barisan mountain range, Sumatra", "Jambi province, Sumatra", "South Sumatra province" ] }, { "id": "owlman", "name": "Owlman", "regions": [ "Cornwall", "South-west England", "Helford River / Falmouth Bay area" ] }, { "id": "ozark-howler", "name": "Ozark Howler", "regions": [ "Ozark Mountains", "Northern Arkansas", "Southern Missouri", "Eastern Oklahoma" ] }, { "id": "pope-lick-monster", "name": "Pope Lick Monster", "regions": [ "Kentucky", "Louisville metropolitan area", "Fisherville", "Jefferson County" ] }, { "id": "ropen", "name": "Ropen", "regions": [ "Umboi Island", "Finschhafen area", "Southwest Pacific islands" ] }, { "id": "roperite", "name": "Roperite", "regions": [ "California", "Sierra Nevada foothills" ] }, { "id": "rumtifusel", "name": "Rumtifusel", "regions": [ "Great Lakes lumber country", "Pacific Northwest", "New England" ] }, { "id": "sidehill-gouger", "name": "Sidehill Gouger", "regions": [ "New England", "Vermont (Mount Mansfield as Wampahoofus)", "Appalachian Mountains", "Great Lakes lumber country", "Driftless Area (Wisconsin)", "Pacific Northwest" ] }, { "id": "skunk-ape", "name": "Skunk Ape", "regions": [ "Florida", "Everglades", "Big Cypress National Preserve", "Georgia", "Alabama", "Southeastern United States" ] }, { "id": "skvader", "name": "Skvader", "regions": [ "Medelpad", "Sundsvall" ] }, { "id": "slide-rock-bolter", "name": "Slide-Rock Bolter", "regions": [ "Colorado", "Rocky Mountains", "San Juan Mountains", "San Miguel County", "Dolores County" ] }, { "id": "snallygaster", "name": "Snallygaster", "regions": [ "Maryland", "Frederick County", "Middletown Valley", "South Mountain", "Blue Ridge", "Berkeley County, West Virginia", "Washington, D.C. metro area" ] }, { "id": "splintercat", "name": "Splintercat", "regions": [ "Pacific Northwest", "Oregon", "Great Lakes region", "Nova Scotia" ] }, { "id": "squonk", "name": "Squonk", "regions": [ "Pennsylvania", "Allegheny Plateau" ] }, { "id": "tailypo", "name": "Tailypo", "regions": [ "Appalachia", "American South" ] }, { "id": "tatzelwurm", "name": "Tatzelwurm", "regions": [ "Swiss Alps", "Austrian Alps", "Bavarian Alps", "French Alps", "Italian Alps", "Styria", "Tyrol" ] }, { "id": "teakettler", "name": "Teakettler", "regions": [ "Great Lakes states", "New England", "Pacific Northwest", "Eastern Canada" ] }, { "id": "thunderbird", "name": "Thunderbird", "regions": [ "Pacific Northwest Coast", "Great Lakes", "Great Plains", "Ohio River Valley", "Mississippi River Valley", "Allegheny Mountains", "American Southwest" ] }, { "id": "tote-road-shagamaw", "name": "Tote-Road Shagamaw", "regions": [ "Maine north woods", "Aroostook County", "northern New England lumber camps" ] }, { "id": "tripodero", "name": "Tripodero", "regions": [ "California chaparral", "Sierra Nevada foothills" ] }, { "id": "van-meter-visitor", "name": "Van Meter Visitor", "regions": [ "Van Meter, Dallas County, Iowa" ] }, { "id": "wampus-cat", "name": "Wampus Cat", "regions": [ "Southern Appalachia", "Ozarks", "Piedmont", "Cherokee homelands" ] }, { "id": "whirling-whimpus", "name": "Whirling Whimpus", "regions": [ "Appalachian Mountains", "Tennessee", "Great Lakes lumberwoods", "Eastern United States", "Canadian timber country" ] }, { "id": "wolpertinger", "name": "Wolpertinger", "regions": [ "Bavaria", "Baden-Württemberg", "Bavarian Alps", "Bavarian Forest", "Black Forest" ] }, { "id": "yeren", "name": "Yeren", "regions": [ "Shennongjia Forestry District", "Hubei Province", "Fang County", "Shaanxi Province", "Yunnan Province", "Daba Mountains", "Qinling Mountains" ] }, { "id": "yeti", "name": "Yeti", "regions": [ "Himalayas", "Khumbu", "Mustang", "Makalu-Barun", "Tibet", "Sikkim", "Bhutan", "Karakoram fringes", "Pamirs" ] }, { "id": "yowie", "name": "Yowie", "regions": [ "Queensland (Gold Coast hinterland, Springbrook, Gympie, Cape York)", "New South Wales (Blue Mountains, NSW south coast, north coast)", "Australian Capital Territory (Brindabella Ranges)", "Northern Territory (Acacia Hills)", "Victoria", "Western Australia" ] } ] }, "undead": { "name": "undead", "count": 28, "phenomena": [ { "id": "adze", "name": "Adze", "regions": [ "Volta Region (Ghana)", "Maritime Region (Togo)", "Ewe cultural area" ] }, { "id": "asanbosam", "name": "Asanbosam", "regions": [ "Ashanti Region", "Central Region (Ghana)", "Eastern Region (Ghana)", "Akan-speaking forest belt of West Africa", "Maroon communities of 18th-century Jamaica" ] }, { "id": "bake-kujira", "name": "Bake-kujira", "regions": [ "Shimane Prefecture", "Izumo Province (historical)", "Oki Islands", "Sea of Japan coast", "former whaling villages of western Japan" ] }, { "id": "bhoot", "name": "Bhoot", "regions": [ "North India", "Bengal (West Bengal and Bangladesh)", "Punjab", "Sindh", "Kashmir", "South Asian diaspora communities" ] }, { "id": "draugr", "name": "Draugr", "regions": [ "Iceland (Icelandic sagas)", "Norway (sjødraug tradition)", "Faroe Islands (dreygur)", "Northern Isles of Scotland (hogboon)" ] }, { "id": "dullahan", "name": "Dullahan", "regions": [ "Munster", "County Cork", "County Kerry", "County Sligo", "County Galway", "Connacht" ] }, { "id": "gashadokuro", "name": "Gashadokuro", "regions": [ "Kanto region", "Tokyo area (formerly Shibasaki / Edo)" ] }, { "id": "ghul", "name": "Ghul", "regions": [ "Arabian Peninsula", "Levant", "Mesopotamia", "Maghreb", "Iranian plateau", "Central Asia" ] }, { "id": "hantu-bungkus", "name": "Hantu Bungkus", "regions": [ "Java", "Sumatra", "Malay Peninsula", "Borneo" ] }, { "id": "jiangshi", "name": "Jiangshi", "regions": [ "Xiangxi (Western Hunan)", "Southern China", "Sinosphere" ] }, { "id": "krasue", "name": "Krasue", "regions": [ "Isan (northeastern Thailand)", "Central Thailand", "Northern Thailand", "Cambodia", "Laos", "Malay Peninsula", "Java and Bali", "Philippine archipelago" ] }, { "id": "leak", "name": "Leak", "regions": [ "Bali", "Lombok", "Java" ] }, { "id": "nachzehrer", "name": "Nachzehrer", "regions": [ "Northern Germany", "Silesia", "Bavaria", "Kashubia" ] }, { "id": "penanggalan", "name": "Penanggalan", "regions": [ "Malay world (alam Melayu)", "Peninsular Malaysia", "Sumatra", "Borneo", "Java" ] }, { "id": "pishacha", "name": "Pishacha", "regions": [ "South Asia", "Himalayan / northwestern frontier", "Southeast Asian Indic-influenced cultures" ] }, { "id": "pocong", "name": "Pocong", "regions": [ "Java", "Sumatra", "Borneo / Kalimantan", "Malay Peninsula", "Sulawesi" ] }, { "id": "pontianak", "name": "Pontianak", "regions": [ "Malay Peninsula", "Kalimantan", "Java", "Sumatra", "Borneo" ] }, { "id": "revenant", "name": "Revenant", "regions": [ "England", "Wales", "Normandy", "Scandinavia" ] }, { "id": "rolling-calf", "name": "Rolling Calf", "regions": [ "Rural Jamaica", "Caribbean" ] }, { "id": "rusalka", "name": "Rusalka", "regions": [ "East Slavic lands", "Polesia", "Carpathian foothills", "Volga and Dnieper basins" ] }, { "id": "sasabonsam", "name": "Sasabonsam", "regions": [ "Ashanti Region", "Central Region (Ghana)", "Western Region (Ghana)", "Volta Region", "Akan-speaking parts of southeastern Côte d'Ivoire" ] }, { "id": "soucouyant", "name": "Soucouyant", "regions": [ "Caribbean", "French Caribbean", "Anglophone Caribbean", "Surinamese Caribbean", "Caribbean diaspora communities" ] }, { "id": "strigoi", "name": "Strigoi", "regions": [ "Transylvania", "Wallachia", "Moldavia", "Oltenia", "Banat" ] }, { "id": "strzyga", "name": "Strzyga", "regions": [ "Rural Poland", "Broadly: Eastern Europe and former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth territories" ] }, { "id": "upyr", "name": "Upyr", "regions": [ "East Slavic Rus'", "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth lands", "Habsburg Military Frontier (18th-century vampire-epidemic zone)", "Balkans" ] }, { "id": "vampires", "name": "Vampires", "regions": [ "Southeastern Europe (Balkans) — primary folkloric region", "Eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, Ukraine)", "Romania and Transylvania", "Southeast Asia (Malay penanggalan, Philippine mandurugo)", "China (jiangshi tradition)", "West Africa (Ashanti asanbosam, Ewe adze)", "Caribbean (soucouyant, Haitian folklore)" ] }, { "id": "vetala", "name": "Vetala", "regions": [ "South Asia", "Konkan coast", "Goa", "Maharashtra", "Karnataka" ] }, { "id": "vrykolakas", "name": "Vrykolakas", "regions": [ "Aegean islands", "Crete", "Cyclades", "Mainland Greece", "Southern Balkans" ] } ] }, "ghost_haunting": { "name": "ghost_haunting", "count": 26, "phenomena": [ { "id": "aka-manto", "name": "Aka Manto", "regions": [ "Osaka", "Tokyo", "Kitakyushu", "Korean Peninsula (under Japanese administration in 1940)" ] }, { "id": "duppy", "name": "Duppy", "regions": [ "Greater Antilles", "Bahamas", "Caribbean coast of Central America", "Gold Coast (historic, present-day Ghana)" ] }, { "id": "el-silbon", "name": "El Silbón", "regions": [ "Llanos (Orinoquía)", "Portuguesa State", "Guárico State", "Apure State", "Eastern Llanos (Colombia)", "Casanare Department", "Meta Department" ] }, { "id": "ghosts", "name": "Ghosts and Hauntings", "regions": [ "British Isles", "New England", "Old South (USA)", "East Asia", "South Asia", "Latin America" ] }, { "id": "grey-lady", "name": "Grey Lady", "regions": [ "England", "Scotland", "Northern Ireland", "New England and the Midwest US", "Otago" ] }, { "id": "hanako-san", "name": "Hanako-san", "regions": [ "Kantō (including Tokyo)", "Kansai", "Hokkaidō", "Kyūshū" ] }, { "id": "hantu-pontianak", "name": "Pontianak", "regions": [ "Malay Peninsula", "Java", "Sumatra", "Borneo (Kalimantan and East Malaysia)" ] }, { "id": "hasshaku-sama", "name": "Hasshaku-sama", "regions": [ "rural Japan (canonical story setting)" ] }, { "id": "headless-horseman", "name": "Headless Horseman", "regions": [ "Sleepy Hollow / Tarrytown, New York", "Isle of Mull, Scotland", "Cape Breton, Nova Scotia", "Rhineland, Germany", "Wales (multiple)", "Dartmoor, England", "South Texas (El Muerto)" ] }, { "id": "hungry-ghost", "name": "Hungry ghost", "regions": [ "South Asia", "East Asia", "Southeast Asia", "Tibetan plateau", "Sinosphere", "Theravāda Buddhist countries" ] }, { "id": "jumbie", "name": "Jumbie", "regions": [ "English-speaking Caribbean broadly", "Guyana", "Trinidad", "Antigua", "The Bahamas", "US Virgin Islands", "British Virgin Islands" ] }, { "id": "la-llorona", "name": "La Llorona", "regions": [ "Central Mexico", "U.S.-Mexico border", "Southwestern United States", "Central America", "Andean South America", "Río de la Plata" ] }, { "id": "mae-nak", "name": "Mae Nak Phra Khanong", "regions": [ "Bangkok", "Phra Khanong", "Suan Luang" ] }, { "id": "nightmarchers", "name": "Night Marchers", "regions": [ "Hawaiian Islands" ] }, { "id": "phantom-armies", "name": "Phantom Armies", "regions": [ "Britain", "Crete", "Pennsylvania (Gettysburg)", "Northern France (Western Front)", "Scottish Highlands" ] }, { "id": "phantom-ships", "name": "Phantom Ships", "regions": [ "Cape of Good Hope", "North Atlantic", "Indian Ocean", "Pacific Ocean" ] }, { "id": "phi-am", "name": "Phi Am", "regions": [ "Mainland Southeast Asia" ] }, { "id": "phi-tai-hong", "name": "Phi Tai Hong", "regions": [ "Mainland Southeast Asia" ] }, { "id": "poltergeist", "name": "Poltergeist", "regions": [ "Western and Central Europe", "Anglophone North America", "Brazil" ] }, { "id": "resurrection-mary", "name": "Resurrection Mary", "regions": [ "Cook County, Illinois", "Chicago metropolitan area", "Archer Avenue corridor" ] }, { "id": "screaming-skull", "name": "Screaming Skull", "regions": [ "Dorset", "Derbyshire", "East Yorkshire", "Greater Manchester", "Somerset", "Cumbria", "East Sussex" ] }, { "id": "siguanaba", "name": "La Siguanaba", "regions": [ "Cuscatlán (El Salvador)", "Pacific Guatemala", "rural Honduras", "rural Nicaragua", "Costa Rican countryside" ] }, { "id": "sundel-bolong", "name": "Sundel Bolong", "regions": [ "Java", "Sumatra", "Kalimantan", "Indonesian archipelago broadly" ] }, { "id": "teke-teke", "name": "Teke Teke", "regions": [ "Hokkaidō (Kashima Reiko origin)", "Honshū", "Japanese urban areas generally" ] }, { "id": "wewe-gombel", "name": "Wewe Gombel", "regions": [ "Central Java", "Semarang", "East Java (broader Javanese cultural area)" ] }, { "id": "white-lady", "name": "White Lady", "regions": [ "Bohemia", "Brandenburg", "English country houses", "Welsh borderlands", "Low Saxon Netherlands", "Northeastern United States", "Quezon City, Metro Manila" ] } ] }, "ufo_uap": { "name": "ufo_uap", "count": 12, "phenomena": [ { "id": "aliens", "name": "UFOs / UAPs and Alien Encounters", "regions": [ "American Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada)", "Pacific Northwest", "Hessdalen, Norway", "Belgian airspace (Belgian wave)", "Brazilian Amazon and São Paulo state" ] }, { "id": "cash-landrum-incident", "name": "Cash–Landrum incident", "regions": [ "Texas", "Greater Houston" ] }, { "id": "flatwoods-monster", "name": "Flatwoods Monster", "regions": [ "Braxton County, West Virginia", "Central Appalachia" ] }, { "id": "foo-fighters", "name": "Foo Fighters", "regions": [ "Western Front airspace (Alsace, Rhineland, Hungary)", "Mediterranean Theater", "Pacific Theater (Marianas, Japanese home islands)" ] }, { "id": "greys", "name": "Grey Aliens (Greys)", "regions": [ "northeastern United States", "American Southwest", "rural Britain", "Australian outback" ] }, { "id": "hopkinsville-goblins", "name": "Hopkinsville Goblins", "regions": [ "Kentucky", "Christian County", "Kelly", "Hopkinsville" ] }, { "id": "kecksburg-incident", "name": "Kecksburg UFO Incident", "regions": [ "Western Pennsylvania", "Westmoreland County", "Ohio", "Michigan", "Ontario" ] }, { "id": "men-in-black", "name": "Men in Black", "regions": [ "New England", "American Midwest and Mid-Atlantic", "Pacific Northwest" ] }, { "id": "mystery-airships", "name": "Mystery Airships (1896-1897)", "regions": [ "California", "Pacific Northwest", "Midwest", "Texas", "Kansas", "Nebraska", "Michigan" ] }, { "id": "phoenix-lights", "name": "Phoenix Lights", "regions": [ "Arizona", "Nevada", "Sonoran Desert" ] }, { "id": "rendlesham-forest", "name": "Rendlesham Forest Incident", "regions": [ "Suffolk", "East Anglia" ] }, { "id": "roswell-incident", "name": "Roswell Incident", "regions": [ "New Mexico", "Lincoln County", "Chaves County" ] } ] }, "fae_folklore": { "name": "fae_folklore", "count": 29, "phenomena": [ { "id": "alux", "name": "Alux", "regions": [ "Yucatán Peninsula", "Quintana Roo", "Campeche", "Petén" ] }, { "id": "aos-si", "name": "Aos Sí", "regions": [ "Ireland (especially the west: Connacht, Kerry, Donegal)", "Scottish Highlands and Hebrides", "Isle of Man", "Irish and Scottish diaspora communities" ] }, { "id": "baba-yaga", "name": "Baba Yaga", "regions": [ "East Slavic forests", "West Slavic lands", "South Slavic Balkans" ] }, { "id": "brownie", "name": "Brownie", "regions": [ "Scottish Lowlands", "Scottish Borders", "Scottish Highlands", "Northern England (Yorkshire, Northumberland, Lancashire)", "Wales", "Isle of Man" ] }, { "id": "changeling", "name": "Changeling", "regions": [ "British Isles", "Scandinavia", "German-speaking central Europe" ] }, { "id": "clurichaun", "name": "Clurichaun", "regions": [ "Munster", "Leinster", "Ulster", "Connacht", "Tipperary", "Cork", "Waterford", "Kildare", "Donegal" ] }, { "id": "cu-sith", "name": "Cù Sìth", "regions": [ "Scottish Highlands", "Hebrides", "Argyll", "Isle of Skye" ] }, { "id": "dames-blanches", "name": "Dames Blanches", "regions": [ "Lorraine", "Normandy", "Brittany", "Pyrenees", "Wallonia" ] }, { "id": "domovoi", "name": "Domovoy", "regions": [ "East Slavic lands", "West Slavic lands", "South Slavic lands" ] }, { "id": "duende", "name": "Duende", "regions": [ "Cantabria and Asturias", "Galicia", "Andalusia", "Yucatán Peninsula", "Oaxaca cloud forests", "Belizean Cayo and Toledo districts", "Andean cloud forests", "Philippine archipelago" ] }, { "id": "erlking", "name": "Erlking", "regions": [ "Scandinavia", "German-speaking Europe" ] }, { "id": "fairies", "name": "Fairies / Fae Folk", "regions": [ "Ireland", "Highlands and Islands of Scotland", "Wales", "Cornwall", "Isle of Man", "Brittany", "Iceland", "Newfoundland", "Appalachia" ] }, { "id": "goblin", "name": "Goblin", "regions": [ "Yorkshire, England", "Anglo-Scottish border", "Normandy, France", "Wales", "Ireland", "Évreux, France" ] }, { "id": "gremlin", "name": "Gremlin", "regions": [ "Royal Air Force", "Allied air forces of WWII", "anglophone popular culture" ] }, { "id": "hobgoblin", "name": "Hobgoblin", "regions": [ "England (especially the North and Midlands)", "Scotland", "Wales", "Isle of Man" ] }, { "id": "huldre", "name": "Hulder", "regions": [ "Norway", "Sweden", "Sápmi", "Karlsøya (Hulderheim)", "Hinnøya (Hulderhusan)", "Djursland, Denmark (Huldremose bog)" ] }, { "id": "kikimora", "name": "Kikimora", "regions": [ "European Russia", "Northern Russia", "Belarus", "Polesia" ] }, { "id": "knocker", "name": "Knocker", "regions": [ "Cornwall", "Devon", "Wales", "Western Pennsylvania", "Colorado Front Range", "Comstock Lode (Nevada)", "California Mother Lode", "Upper Peninsula of Michigan" ] }, { "id": "leprechaun", "name": "Leprechaun", "regions": [ "Ulster", "Munster", "Leinster", "Connacht" ] }, { "id": "menehune", "name": "Menehune", "regions": [ "Hawaiian archipelago", "Kauaʻi", "Oʻahu", "Hawaiʻi (Big Island)" ] }, { "id": "nix", "name": "Nix", "regions": [ "Germanic Europe", "Scandinavia", "Baltic" ] }, { "id": "patupaiarehe", "name": "Patupaiarehe", "regions": [ "Aotearoa / New Zealand", "North Island", "South Island", "Waikato", "Coromandel", "Te Urewera", "Whanganui", "Banks Peninsula", "Fiordland and Takitimu Mountains" ] }, { "id": "peri", "name": "Peri", "regions": [ "Iranian Plateau", "Caucasus", "Anatolia", "Central Asia", "Hindu Kush", "South Asia" ] }, { "id": "puca", "name": "Púca", "regions": [ "Ireland", "Wales", "Cornwall", "Isle of Man", "Scottish Highlands" ] }, { "id": "redcap", "name": "Redcap", "regions": [ "Scottish Borders", "Northumberland", "Cumbria", "Liddesdale", "Tweeddale" ] }, { "id": "tommyknockers", "name": "Tommyknockers", "regions": [ "Cornwall", "Devon", "Wales", "Pennsylvania anthracite region", "Colorado", "Nevada", "California", "Michigan Upper Peninsula" ] }, { "id": "trolls", "name": "Trolls", "regions": [ "Norwegian mountain regions", "Swedish forests", "Danish lowlands", "Icelandic highlands", "Orkney and Shetland (trow tradition)" ] }, { "id": "tylwyth-teg", "name": "Tylwyth Teg", "regions": [ "Wales", "Snowdonia / Eryri", "South Wales", "Glamorgan", "Carmarthenshire", "Pembrokeshire", "Welsh Marches" ] }, { "id": "vila", "name": "Vila", "regions": [ "Balkans", "South Slavic lands", "Central Europe" ] } ] }, "cultural_artifact": { "name": "cultural_artifact", "count": 6, "phenomena": [ { "id": "antikythera-mechanism", "name": "Antikythera Mechanism", "regions": [ "Antikythera", "Athens" ] }, { "id": "crystal-skulls", "name": "Crystal Skulls", "regions": [ "London", "Washington D.C.", "Paris", "Mesoamerican antiquities trade" ] }, { "id": "mothman-prophecies", "name": "The Mothman Prophecies", "regions": [ "Point Pleasant, West Virginia (subject matter)", "American paranormal publishing" ] }, { "id": "nazca-lines", "name": "Nazca Lines", "regions": [ "Ica Region", "Nazca Province", "Palpa Province", "Pampas de Jumana" ] }, { "id": "piri-reis-map", "name": "Piri Reis Map", "regions": [ "Istanbul" ] }, { "id": "voynich-manuscript", "name": "Voynich Manuscript", "regions": [ "New Haven, Connecticut (current location)", "Prague (Rudolfine and post-Rudolfine ownership)", "Frascati / Villa Mondragone (Jesuit ownership)" ] } ] }, "location": { "name": "location", "count": 22, "phenomena": [ { "id": "aokigahara", "name": "Aokigahara", "regions": [ "Yamanashi Prefecture", "Fuji Five Lakes region" ] }, { "id": "area-51", "name": "Area 51", "regions": [ "Nevada", "Lincoln County", "Mojave / Great Basin desert" ] }, { "id": "bennington-triangle", "name": "Bennington Triangle", "regions": [ "Southwestern Vermont", "Glastenbury Mountain area", "Bennington County, Vermont" ] }, { "id": "bridgewater-triangle", "name": "Bridgewater Triangle", "regions": [ "Massachusetts", "Bristol County", "Plymouth County", "New England" ] }, { "id": "dyatlov-pass", "name": "Dyatlov Pass Incident", "regions": [ "Northern Ural Mountains", "Sverdlovsk Oblast", "Mansi territory" ] }, { "id": "easter-island", "name": "Easter Island", "regions": [ "Polynesia (eastern)", "Valparaíso Region", "Hanga Roa (capital)" ] }, { "id": "eilean-mor-lighthouse", "name": "Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Mystery", "regions": [ "Scotland", "Outer Hebrides", "Flannan Isles", "Western Isles" ] }, { "id": "gettysburg-battlefield", "name": "Gettysburg Battlefield", "regions": [ "Pennsylvania", "Adams County", "Mid-Atlantic" ] }, { "id": "glastonbury-tor", "name": "Glastonbury Tor", "regions": [ "Somerset", "South West England" ] }, { "id": "haunted-places", "name": "Haunted Places", "regions": [] }, { "id": "helltown-ohio", "name": "Helltown, Ohio", "regions": [ "Ohio", "Summit County", "Cuyahoga Valley" ] }, { "id": "hoia-baciu-forest", "name": "Hoia-Baciu Forest", "regions": [ "Transylvania", "Cluj County", "Cluj-Napoca" ] }, { "id": "mount-shasta", "name": "Mount Shasta", "regions": [ "Northern California", "Cascade Range", "Siskiyou County", "Shasta-Trinity National Forest" ] }, { "id": "oak-island", "name": "Oak Island Money Pit", "regions": [ "Mahone Bay", "Lunenburg County", "Nova Scotia" ] }, { "id": "roanoke-colony", "name": "Roanoke Colony", "regions": [ "Roanoke Island, North Carolina", "Hatteras Island, North Carolina", "Dare County, North Carolina" ] }, { "id": "sedona-vortexes", "name": "Sedona Vortexes", "regions": [ "Sedona, Arizona", "Verde Valley", "Coconino and Yavapai Counties, Arizona" ] }, { "id": "skinwalker-ranch", "name": "Skinwalker Ranch", "regions": [ "Uintah County, Utah", "Uintah Basin" ] }, { "id": "stonehenge", "name": "Stonehenge", "regions": [ "Wiltshire", "Salisbury Plain", "South West England" ] }, { "id": "superstition-mountains", "name": "Superstition Mountains", "regions": [ "Arizona", "Sonoran Desert", "Basin and Range Province" ] }, { "id": "teotihuacan", "name": "Teotihuacan", "regions": [ "Valley of Mexico", "State of Mexico (municipio de San Juan Teotihuacan)" ] }, { "id": "tower-of-london", "name": "Tower of London", "regions": [ "England", "Greater London" ] }, { "id": "waverly-hills", "name": "Waverly Hills Sanatorium", "regions": [ "Louisville, Kentucky", "Jefferson County, Kentucky" ] } ] }, "demon_angel": { "name": "demon_angel", "count": 21, "phenomena": [ { "id": "asmodeus", "name": "Asmodeus", "regions": [ "Ancient Near East", "Mesopotamia / Babylonia (Talmudic context)", "Levant", "Iranian world (Avestan source)", "Christian Europe (medieval and early-modern grimoiric tradition)", "Islamic world (Sakhr tradition)" ] }, { "id": "astaroth", "name": "Astaroth", "regions": [ "Levant (origin of the goddess Astarte)", "Christian Europe (medieval and early-modern grimoiric tradition)" ] }, { "id": "azazel", "name": "Azazel", "regions": [ "Ancient Israel and Judah", "Hellenistic Levant", "Roman-era Judaea", "Mesopotamia (Mandaean communities)", "Christian Mediterranean", "Medieval Islamic world" ] }, { "id": "beelzebub", "name": "Beelzebub", "regions": [ "Philistia / Ekron (origin)", "Mediterranean", "Christendom", "Dar al-Islam" ] }, { "id": "belial", "name": "Belial", "regions": [ "Southern Levant (origin)", "Qumran community", "Christendom", "Western esoteric tradition" ] }, { "id": "belphegor", "name": "Belphegor", "regions": [ "Moab (origin)", "Latin Christendom", "Western esoteric tradition" ] }, { "id": "demons", "name": "Demons", "regions": [ "Mesopotamia", "Levant", "Iran", "Greco-Roman world", "Latin Christendom", "Islamic world", "South Asia", "East Asia" ] }, { "id": "div", "name": "Div", "regions": [ "Greater Iran", "Mazandaran", "Caucasus", "Central Asia", "Persianate South Asia" ] }, { "id": "drude", "name": "Drude", "regions": [ "Bavaria", "Tyrol", "Southern Germany", "Austria" ] }, { "id": "empusa", "name": "Empusa", "regions": [ "Attica", "Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean" ] }, { "id": "gello", "name": "Gello", "regions": [ "Aegean", "Anatolia", "Levant", "Balkans", "North Africa" ] }, { "id": "imp", "name": "Imp", "regions": [ "Lincolnshire, England (Lincoln Imp)", "German-speaking Central Europe" ] }, { "id": "mahaha", "name": "Mahaha", "regions": [ "Canadian Arctic", "Inuit Nunangat", "Nunavut" ] }, { "id": "mahr", "name": "Mahr", "regions": [ "Germanic-speaking Central Europe", "Scandinavia", "Slavic Eastern Europe", "British Isles (Old English mære tradition)" ] }, { "id": "mammon", "name": "Mammon", "regions": [ "Christian world", "Western literary tradition" ] }, { "id": "oni", "name": "Oni", "regions": [ "Mount Ōe (Tango Province, modern Kyoto Prefecture) — Shuten-dōji legend", "Oga Peninsula, Akita Prefecture — Namahage", "Mount Iozan / Beppu — onsen demon imagery", "Tokyo (Sensō-ji) — onigawara roof tiles" ] }, { "id": "popobawa", "name": "Popobawa", "regions": [ "Zanzibar", "Pemba Island", "Unguja", "Dar es Salaam", "Swahili Coast" ] }, { "id": "qarqash", "name": "Qarqash", "regions": [ "Arabian Peninsula", "Nejd", "Hejaz", "Gulf region" ] }, { "id": "shuten-doji", "name": "Shuten-dōji", "regions": [ "Tango Province (Kyoto Prefecture)", "Tamba Province", "Ōmi Province", "Mino Province" ] }, { "id": "succubus-incubus", "name": "Succubus / Incubus", "regions": [ "Western Europe (medieval demonological tradition)", "Central Europe (Alp tradition)", "Scandinavia (Mara tradition)", "Near East (Lilith tradition)", "West Africa (incubus analogues)" ] }, { "id": "supay", "name": "Supay", "regions": [ "Bolivian Altiplano", "Peruvian Andes", "Lake Titicaca region", "Oruro, Bolivia (Carnaval de Oruro)", "Andean mining communities broadly" ] } ] }, "shapeshifter": { "name": "shapeshifter", "count": 18, "phenomena": [ { "id": "aswang", "name": "Aswang", "regions": [ "Visayas", "Capiz Province (Panay Island)", "Southern Luzon", "Bicol region", "Mindanao" ] }, { "id": "boto-cor-de-rosa", "name": "Boto Cor-de-Rosa", "regions": [ "Amazon Basin", "Orinoco Basin", "Amazonas (Brazil)", "Pará (Brazil)", "Loreto (Peru)", "Amazonas (Colombia)" ] }, { "id": "encantado", "name": "Encantado", "regions": [ "Amazon basin", "Solimões–Amazon corridor", "Rio Negro", "Marajó region" ] }, { "id": "fox-sister", "name": "Fox Sister (여우 누이)", "regions": [ "Korean peninsula", "Korean diaspora communities" ] }, { "id": "gumiho", "name": "Gumiho", "regions": [ "Korean Peninsula" ] }, { "id": "huli-jing", "name": "Huli jing", "regions": [ "Northern China", "Hebei", "Shandong", "Shanxi", "Manchuria", "East Asia", "Sinosphere" ] }, { "id": "jorogumo", "name": "Jorōgumo", "regions": [ "Izu Peninsula", "Tōhoku", "Kansai", "Kii Peninsula" ] }, { "id": "kelpie", "name": "Kelpie", "regions": [ "Scottish Highlands", "Scottish Lowlands", "Hebrides", "Orkney", "Shetland", "Wales", "Ireland", "Isle of Man" ] }, { "id": "kitsune", "name": "Kitsune", "regions": [ "Kansai region (Kyoto)", "Tohoku region", "Japan generally" ] }, { "id": "lagahoo", "name": "Lagahoo", "regions": [ "Trinidad", "Tobago", "wider French-Creole Caribbean" ] }, { "id": "loup-garou", "name": "Loup-Garou", "regions": [ "Continental France", "Quebec", "Acadia / Maritimes", "Louisiana (Acadiana, Greater New Orleans)", "Haiti", "Caribbean Creole world", "Great Lakes (Métis, Ojibwe)" ] }, { "id": "manananggal", "name": "Manananggal", "regions": [ "Visayas", "Capiz", "Iloilo", "Antique", "Bohol" ] }, { "id": "nine-tailed-fox", "name": "Nine-Tailed Fox", "regions": [ "East Asia", "Sinosphere" ] }, { "id": "selkie", "name": "Selkie", "regions": [ "Orkney", "Shetland", "Outer Hebrides", "North-west Ireland", "Kalsoy (Faroe Islands)", "Western Iceland" ] }, { "id": "skinwalkers", "name": "Skinwalker (Yee Naaldlooshii)", "regions": [ "Navajo Nation", "Arizona", "New Mexico", "Utah", "Colorado", "Four Corners region" ] }, { "id": "tamamo-no-mae", "name": "Tamamo-no-Mae", "regions": [ "Kantō", "Tochigi prefecture", "Nasu plain" ] }, { "id": "wendigo-cree", "name": "Wendigo (Cree)", "regions": [ "Northern Ontario", "Northern Manitoba", "Northern Quebec", "Northern Alberta (Swift Runner case)", "Wisconsin and Minnesota (Ojibwe/Saulteaux territory)", "Labrador and Quebec (Innu/Naskapi territory)", "Boreal forest regions of Canada generally" ] }, { "id": "werewolves", "name": "Werewolf", "regions": [ "Holy Roman Empire", "Electorate of Cologne", "France (Burgundy, Auvergne)", "Balkans", "Transdanubia", "Styria and Carinthia", "Louisiana", "French Canada" ] } ] }, "atmospheric_phenomenon": { "name": "atmospheric_phenomenon", "count": 14, "phenomena": [ { "id": "aurora-phenomena", "name": "Aurora Phenomena (Northern and Southern Lights Folklore)", "regions": [ "Arctic Circle", "Northern Scandinavia (Lapland)", "Northern Canada", "Alaska", "Siberia", "Antarctica", "Southern Ocean regions" ] }, { "id": "ball-lightning", "name": "Ball Lightning", "regions": [ "Temperate regions with frequent thunderstorms", "Coastal storm regions" ] }, { "id": "brown-mountain-lights", "name": "Brown Mountain Lights", "regions": [ "North Carolina", "Burke County", "Blue Ridge Mountains", "Pisgah National Forest" ] }, { "id": "corpse-candle", "name": "Corpse Candle", "regions": [ "South Wales", "Mid Wales", "Carmarthenshire", "Pembrokeshire", "Glamorgan", "Monmouthshire", "Welsh Marches" ] }, { "id": "earthquake-lights", "name": "Earthquake Lights", "regions": [ "Pacific Ring of Fire", "Mediterranean–Himalayan belt", "Andean subduction zone", "East African Rift" ] }, { "id": "hessdalen-lights", "name": "Hessdalen Lights", "regions": [ "Sør-Trøndelag", "Holtålen", "Hessdalen valley" ] }, { "id": "marfa-lights", "name": "Marfa Lights", "regions": [ "Texas", "Trans-Pecos", "Presidio County" ] }, { "id": "min-min-lights", "name": "Min Min Light", "regions": [ "Channel Country (western Queensland)", "Outback Queensland", "Western New South Wales", "South Australia", "Pilbara, Western Australia" ] }, { "id": "paulding-light", "name": "Paulding Light", "regions": [ "Upper Peninsula of Michigan", "Ontonagon County" ] }, { "id": "seneca-guns", "name": "Seneca Guns", "regions": [ "Finger Lakes (New York)", "Outer Banks", "North Carolina coast", "Bay of Fundy", "Bay of Bengal", "Coastal Japan" ] }, { "id": "skyquakes", "name": "Skyquakes", "regions": [ "North Sea coast", "Ganges Delta", "Finger Lakes (New York)", "Carolina coast (USA)", "Bay of Fundy", "Lough Neagh", "Coastal Japan" ] }, { "id": "st-elmos-fire", "name": "St. Elmo's Fire", "regions": [] }, { "id": "taos-hum", "name": "The Taos Hum", "regions": [ "New Mexico", "Northern New Mexico" ] }, { "id": "will-o-wisp", "name": "Will-o'-the-Wisp", "regions": [ "English Fens", "Welsh marshes", "Irish bogs", "Louisiana bayous", "Florida Everglades", "Banni grasslands (Kutch, India)", "West Bengal river deltas", "Australian outback" ] } ] }, "psychic_phenomena": { "name": "psychic_phenomena", "count": 14, "phenomena": [ { "id": "automatic-writing", "name": "Automatic Writing", "regions": [ "Global" ] }, { "id": "bilocation", "name": "Bilocation", "regions": [ "Mediterranean Catholicism", "Iberian and Ibero-American Catholicism", "South Asian yogic traditions", "Northern European folkloric traditions" ] }, { "id": "crisis-apparition", "name": "Crisis Apparition", "regions": [] }, { "id": "electronic-voice-phenomena", "name": "Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP)", "regions": [ "Western Europe", "North America" ] }, { "id": "exorcism", "name": "Exorcism", "regions": [ "Roman Catholic world", "Protestant evangelical world", "Sunni and Shia Islam", "Orthodox Judaism (Kabbalistic)", "Hindu South Asia", "Tibetan Buddhist world" ] }, { "id": "mandela-effect", "name": "Mandela Effect", "regions": [ "Internet-mediated cultural sphere" ] }, { "id": "near-death-experiences", "name": "Near-Death Experiences", "regions": [] }, { "id": "out-of-body-experiences", "name": "Out-of-Body Experiences", "regions": [] }, { "id": "possession", "name": "Possession", "regions": [ "Pacific (highest documented prevalence)", "Sub-Saharan Africa", "South Asia", "Middle East and North Africa", "Latin America and the Caribbean", "Europe (historical Christian cases)" ] }, { "id": "precognition", "name": "Precognition", "regions": [] }, { "id": "psychic-phenomena", "name": "Psychic Phenomena", "regions": [] }, { "id": "psychometry", "name": "Psychometry", "regions": [] }, { "id": "remote-viewing", "name": "Remote Viewing", "regions": [ "California (SRI International, Menlo Park)", "Maryland (Fort Meade, U.S. Army INSCOM)", "Princeton, New Jersey (PEAR lab)" ] }, { "id": "telepathy", "name": "Telepathy", "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "United States", "Russia", "France", "Germany", "Netherlands", "Japan" ] } ] }, "urban_legend": { "name": "urban_legend", "count": 32, "phenomena": [ { "id": "backrooms", "name": "The Backrooms", "regions": [ "Anglophone internet; English-language imageboard and wiki communities" ] }, { "id": "ben-drowned", "name": "BEN Drowned", "regions": [ "Anglophone internet horror community" ] }, { "id": "bunny-man", "name": "The Bunny Man", "regions": [ "Virginia", "Fairfax County", "Northern Virginia" ] }, { "id": "candle-cove", "name": "Candle Cove", "regions": [ "Internet (global)", "Ohio River Valley (in-fiction setting)" ] }, { "id": "charlie-no-face", "name": "Charlie No-Face", "regions": [ "Beaver County, PA", "Butler County, PA", "Allegheny County, PA", "Greater Pittsburgh" ] }, { "id": "cropsey", "name": "Cropsey", "regions": [ "Staten Island, New York", "Upstate New York", "New York City" ] }, { "id": "curse-of-the-pharaohs", "name": "Curse of the Pharaohs", "regions": [ "Valley of the Kings", "Cairo", "London", "New York" ] }, { "id": "drop-bear", "name": "Drop Bear", "regions": [ "All Australian states and territories (within the joke)" ] }, { "id": "eyeless-jack", "name": "Eyeless Jack", "regions": [] }, { "id": "gozu", "name": "Gozu (Cow Head)", "regions": [ "Japan", "Japanese-language internet" ] }, { "id": "hookman", "name": "The Hookman", "regions": [ "United States — broadly distributed" ] }, { "id": "jeff-the-killer", "name": "Jeff the Killer", "regions": [] }, { "id": "kidney-thieves", "name": "Kidney Thieves Urban Legend", "regions": [ "United States (esp. New Orleans, Las Vegas, New York)", "Latin America", "Europe", "South Asia" ] }, { "id": "kuchisake-onna", "name": "Kuchisake-onna", "regions": [ "Gifu Prefecture", "Kanto", "Kansai", "nationwide Japan" ] }, { "id": "kunekune", "name": "Kunekune", "regions": [ "rural Japan", "rice-growing prefectures" ] }, { "id": "lavender-town-syndrome", "name": "Lavender Town Syndrome", "regions": [ "Pastebin", "4chan /x/", "creepypasta wikis", "YouTube" ] }, { "id": "melon-heads", "name": "Melon Heads", "regions": [ "Lower Michigan", "Northeast Ohio", "Western Connecticut" ] }, { "id": "momo-challenge", "name": "Momo Challenge hoax", "regions": [ "WhatsApp messaging networks", "YouTube and YouTube Kids", "Mainstream tabloid news media" ] }, { "id": "not-deer", "name": "Not Deer", "regions": [ "Appalachia", "West Virginia", "Virginia", "Kentucky", "Tennessee", "North Carolina" ] }, { "id": "polybius", "name": "Polybius", "regions": [ "Portland, Oregon" ] }, { "id": "rake", "name": "The Rake", "regions": [] }, { "id": "russian-sleep-experiment", "name": "The Russian Sleep Experiment", "regions": [ "English-language internet horror communities" ] }, { "id": "scp-foundation", "name": "SCP Foundation", "regions": [ "English-language internet (origin)", "Major translation branches across East Asia, Europe and the Americas" ] }, { "id": "shadow-people", "name": "Shadow People", "regions": [] }, { "id": "sirenhead", "name": "Siren Head", "regions": [ "Rural North America (fictional setting)" ] }, { "id": "skinned-tom", "name": "Skinned Tom", "regions": [ "Tennessee", "Alabama", "Mississippi", "Georgia", "Appalachian region" ] }, { "id": "slenderman", "name": "Slender Man", "regions": [ "Internet (Something Awful, 4chan, YouTube, ARG communities)", "Anglophone fan-fiction communities" ] }, { "id": "smile-dog", "name": "Smile Dog", "regions": [ "Internet (4chan /x/, Creepypasta Wiki, YouTube)" ] }, { "id": "spring-heeled-jack", "name": "Spring-Heeled Jack", "regions": [ "Greater London", "Hampshire", "Lincolnshire", "Midlands", "Merseyside" ] }, { "id": "time-traveler-john-titor", "name": "John Titor", "regions": [ "Florida", "American internet culture" ] }, { "id": "urban-legends", "name": "Urban Legends", "regions": [ "Worldwide" ] }, { "id": "vanishing-hitchhiker", "name": "Vanishing Hitchhiker", "regions": [ "Chicago area (Resurrection Mary — most famous American version)", "Midwest United States", "Southern United States", "United Kingdom", "Scandinavian (early Swedish manuscript)", "Korea", "Sub-Saharan Africa" ] } ] }, "anomaly": { "name": "anomaly", "count": 10, "phenomena": [ { "id": "bermuda-triangle", "name": "Bermuda Triangle", "regions": [ "Florida Strait", "Bahamas archipelago", "Sargasso Sea (western edge)", "Caribbean approaches", "Bermuda island shelf" ] }, { "id": "doppelganger", "name": "Doppelgänger", "regions": [ "Northern Europe (vardøger, fetch traditions)", "Germany (modern term)", "Ancient Egypt (ka tradition)", "Islamic world (qarin tradition)" ] }, { "id": "glitch-in-matrix", "name": "Glitch in the Matrix", "regions": [ "Anglophone internet" ] }, { "id": "ley-lines", "name": "Ley Lines", "regions": [ "Herefordshire, England", "West Penwith, Cornwall, England", "Wiltshire, England (Avebury, Stonehenge area)", "Malvern Hills, Herefordshire", "Germany (Wilhelm Teudt's Heilige Linien)" ] }, { "id": "liminal-spaces", "name": "Liminal Spaces", "regions": [ "Internet (Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, 4chan, Tumblr, YouTube)" ] }, { "id": "mary-celeste", "name": "Mary Celeste", "regions": [ "North Atlantic Ocean", "Azores" ] }, { "id": "spontaneous-human-combustion", "name": "Spontaneous Human Combustion", "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Ireland", "Italy", "France", "Germany", "United States" ] }, { "id": "stone-tape-theory", "name": "Stone Tape Theory", "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Ireland", "United States", "Canada", "Australia" ] }, { "id": "time-slips", "name": "Time Slips", "regions": [ "England", "Île-de-France", "American Southwest", "Northeastern United States" ] }, { "id": "tunguska-event", "name": "Tunguska Event", "regions": [ "Central Siberia", "Krasnoyarsk Krai", "Evenkiysky District", "Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin" ] } ] }, "conspiracy_theory": { "name": "conspiracy_theory", "count": 14, "phenomena": [ { "id": "black-knight-satellite", "name": "Black Knight Satellite", "regions": [ "Low Earth orbit" ] }, { "id": "bohemian-grove", "name": "Bohemian Grove", "regions": [ "California", "Sonoma County", "Russian River area" ] }, { "id": "chemtrails", "name": "Chemtrails (chemtrail conspiracy theory)", "regions": [ "Anglophone internet" ] }, { "id": "denver-airport", "name": "Denver International Airport Conspiracy Theories", "regions": [ "Colorado", "Adams County", "Front Range Urban Corridor" ] }, { "id": "dulce-base", "name": "Dulce Base", "regions": [ "New Mexico", "Rio Arriba County", "Jicarilla Apache Nation", "Archuleta Mesa" ] }, { "id": "flat-earth", "name": "Flat Earth", "regions": [ "Online (YouTube, TikTok, Telegram)", "Lancaster, California (Charles K. Johnson era)", "Dover, England (Samuel Shenton era)" ] }, { "id": "haarp", "name": "HAARP Conspiracy Theories", "regions": [ "Gakona, Alaska (real)", "global online conspiracy networks" ] }, { "id": "hollow-earth", "name": "Hollow Earth", "regions": [ "Global" ] }, { "id": "illuminati", "name": "Illuminati", "regions": [ "Bavaria", "Ingolstadt", "Munich", "Vienna", "Warsaw", "Milan" ] }, { "id": "montauk-project", "name": "Montauk Project", "regions": [ "Long Island, New York", "Suffolk County", "Montauk Point" ] }, { "id": "moon-landing-hoax", "name": "Moon landing conspiracy theories", "regions": [ "American conspiracy media", "Russian-language media", "Online conspiracy communities" ] }, { "id": "new-world-order", "name": "New World Order", "regions": [ "North America", "Anglophone world", "Online conspiracy networks" ] }, { "id": "philadelphia-experiment", "name": "Philadelphia Experiment", "regions": [ "Pennsylvania", "Virginia" ] }, { "id": "reptilians", "name": "Reptilian Conspiracy Theory", "regions": [ "English-speaking online conspiracist communities" ] } ] } } }