Folklore

• banshee

  (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death.

• peri

  (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise...

Also contains

• evil spirit

  A spirit tending to cause harm.

• genie

  (Islam) an invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran and believed by Muslims to inhabit the...

• apparition

  A ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted u...

• control

  A spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance.

• numen

  A spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman...

• kachina

  A deified spirit of the Pueblo people.

• python

  A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit.

• thunderbird

  (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to...

• zombie

  (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body.

• familiar

  A spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard.

• sylvan

  A spirit that lives in or frequents the woods.

• presence

  An invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby.