Japanese legends, Davis retelling
Ebisu
The fishing figure whom Davis places beside Daikoku among the Gods of Luck.
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Names and descriptions of beings change across texts and traditions. Begin with a particular account, then follow the recorded relationships, images and stories that help explain its role.
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Japanese legends, Davis retelling
The fishing figure whom Davis places beside Daikoku among the Gods of Luck.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
An otherworldly cow whose abundance ends when people try to kill her.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
The luring elf-fire that draws a wanderer into marshy ground.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
Small woodland elves associated with hollows, fairy food and flowers.
Dante, Inferno
The rebellious giant whose immense strength is confined by a repeated chain.
Celtic fairy traditions
Sidhe woman reborn as a mortal princess without her former memories.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
A golden-featured monster that Sikes reads as a legendary image of plague.
Celtic fairy traditions
The Manx helper whose farm work ends when clothes are offered.
Dante, Inferno
Virgil’s account of the appointed power that distributes changing earthly advantages.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Four elemental regents in Leadbeater’s system, associated with the cardinal directions and distinguished from rulers of the deva kingdom.
An angel of interpretation, announcement and revelation
Explore Gabriel’s roles in Daniel, the Christian Annunciation and Islamic revelation, with Jewish interpretation, Orthodox worship and a historical drawing.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
The guardian who organises the night watch around Eden.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The elephant-headed figure of success, wisdom and the removal of obstacles.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
The heavenly river whose descent joins ancestral restoration to Shiva’s restraint.
Indian traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Vishnu’s great bird mount and the feared opponent of serpents.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
A princess living in wolf form with two cubs before her restoration in an Arthurian tale.
Egyptian funerary religion
Earth god named Keb in the scanned funerary account.
Dante, Inferno
A reassuring human face joined to a dangerous composite body at the descent into fraud.
Japanese heroic legend, Davis retelling
The ghostly warriors who rise from the sea before Yoshitsune and Benkei in Davis's legend.
Japanese heroic legend, Davis retelling
The mountain goblin king defeated by Raiko and his companions in Davis's account.
Japanese heroic legend, Davis retelling
The disguised visitor whose webs and hidden influence afflict Raiko in one of Davis's spider legends.
Theosophical astral cosmology
Protective presences in Leadbeater’s system, explained through loving thought, help from people, or occasional intervention by devas.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
A winged apparition whose terrible call names the person expected to die.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
Women of the lake realm, whose encounters with humans can cross the boundary of Annwn.