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Entity Classification
Beings that cross several categories or cannot be accurately classified as demons, ghosts, gods, monsters or spirits.
27 documented entities
Unclassified and Liminal Entities
Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Aergia is remembered as the personification of idleness, sloth, inactivity and the heavy refusal to act. Its identity becomes clearest when the oldest evidence is…
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Ancient Greek traditions
Algea is remembered as the collective Greek personifications of pain, grief and distress, sometimes divided into bodily and emotional forms. Its identity becomes clearest when…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Apate is remembered as the Greek personification of deceit, fraud and the deliberate appearance of what is not true. Its identity becomes clearest when the…
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Western esotericism and occultism
Astral Entity is remembered as a broad modern occult category for beings believed to inhabit or appear through a subtle plane of emotion, image and…
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Cross-cultural occult classifications
Astral Entity Classes is remembered as a comparative article on the many incompatible classes assigned to the astral plane by Spiritualists, Theosophists, ceremonial magicians and…
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Ancient Greek tradition
Ate is remembered as the Greek personification and condition of delusion, reckless error and moral blindness that drives a person toward catastrophe. Its identity becomes…
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Ancient Greek tradition
Deimos is remembered as the Greek personification of terror, especially the overwhelming dread that spreads through armies beside Ares and Phobos. Its identity becomes clearest…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Dolus is remembered as the personification of trickery, cunning fraud, deceptive craft and the counterfeit that almost passes as truth. Its identity becomes clearest when…
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German and broader European traditions
Doppelgänger is remembered as a supernatural or uncanny double of a living person, interpreted as omen, divided identity or impossible duplication. Its identity becomes clearest…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Eris is remembered as the Greek personification and goddess of strife, rivalry, conflict and the escalating disorder that divides families, cities and armies. Its identity…
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Ancient Chinese traditions
Feilian is remembered as an ancient Chinese wind power whose name and body shift across texts and images, later identified with Fengbo or the Earl…
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Greco-Roman and Western occult traditions
Guardian Genius is remembered as a comparative term for a personal generative or guiding power associated with identity, vocation, protection and moral direction. Its identity…
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Ancient Greek traditions
Hybris is remembered as the personification and concept of violent arrogance, insulting excess and conduct that disregards rightful limits. Its identity becomes clearest when the…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Hypnos is remembered as the Greek god and personification of sleep, brother of Thanatos and father or companion of the Oneiroi. Its identity becomes clearest…
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Cross-cultural occult classifications
Land Spirit is remembered as a comparative label for powers understood to inhabit, own, protect or express a particular landscape. Its identity becomes clearest when…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Limos is remembered as the personification of famine, starvation and consuming hunger. Its identity becomes clearest when the oldest evidence is separated from later demonology,…
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Japanese religious terminology and contested modern occult usage
Maga is remembered as a contested label connected to the Japanese term maga, expressing distortion, calamity or a condition bent away from proper order rather…
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Ancient Greek tradition
Mormo is remembered as a Greek female spectre or bugbear invoked by adults to frighten children into obedience. Its identity becomes clearest when the oldest…
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Ancient Greek tradition
Mormolykeia is remembered as a Greek class or name for frightening female phantoms closely related to Mormo, Lamia and Empusa. Its identity becomes clearest when…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Nemesis is remembered as the Greek goddess and personification of righteous indignation, proportion and retribution against undeserved fortune or hubris. Its identity becomes clearest when…
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Western esotericism and occultism
Occult Parasite is remembered as a modern occult category for a presence believed to attach to a person, group or place and sustain itself through…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Oizys is remembered as the Greek personification of misery, distress and wretchedness. Its identity becomes clearest when the oldest evidence is separated from later demonology,…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Oneiroi is remembered as the Greek collective of dream spirits who carry images, messages, deceptions and forms into sleeping consciousness. Its identity becomes clearest when…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Phobos is remembered as the Greek personification of panic fear and battlefield flight, commonly paired with Deimos beside Ares. Its identity becomes clearest when the…
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Ancient Greek and Roman traditions
Ponos is remembered as the personification of painful toil, hardship and exhausting labor. Its identity becomes clearest when the oldest evidence is separated from later…
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Ancient Greek tradition
Sybaris is remembered as a female monster or lamia-like being said to inhabit a cave near Delphi and prey upon people and livestock. Its identity…
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Chinese traditions
Ya Zi is remembered as a fierce dragon-related being counted in later traditions among the sons of the dragon and associated with battle, vengeance and…
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