Demonic
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Ka Dinga Pepo/Ka Denga Pepo/Ka-Dinga Pepo/Kadinga Pepo
Ka Dinga Pepo is a phenomenon from Zanzibar. The term is Swahili with “ka” meaning ‘a form of,’ “Dinga” meaning a cramp-like seizure, and “Pepo” referring to an evil spirit or plague. The term refers to a spiritual attack causing sickness. The term was also for the origin of the name for ‘dengue fever’ in 1800. Citations: Africanderisms: A Glossary of South African Colloquial Words and Phrases and of Place and Other Names. United Kingdom, Longmans, Green and Company, 1913. Dobson, Mary. Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease. United Kingdom, Hachette Book Group, 2015. Fabes, Stephen. Signs of Life: A Doctor’s Journey to the Ends Of The Earth. United…
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Ga-Git
The Ga-Git is a demonic creature from the Haida Native Americans. They are formed when a man survives a canoe wreck and then swims back to shore. They then go off into the woods and live off berries, moss, and roots. They remove their clothes and gain super strength and the ability to fly, after which they fully transform. They have a human body with black fur, and taloned hands and feet. They continuously make a rumbling growl, attack anyone they see while hunting at night, and constantly smell like rotting meat. They can breathe on a person’s face to make them quickly undertake the same transformation. They can shape…
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Duppy
The Duppy is a form of ghost from the West Indies. They are believed to be all the evil that escapes the body after death. This evil takes a semi-corporeal form and can be summoned and bound to be used as servants or weapons. They can be summoned accidentally by playing cards near the grave of someone recently deceased. Pouring rum and some silver coins into a grave can cause the Duppy to take form. If the summoner loses control of the Duppy, it will destroy everything they love, and then brutally kill them. They cannot be stopped at night, but you can scatter tobacco seeds to distract the Duppy…
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Drakul
The Drakul is an undead form of vampire from Moldavia and Romania. The name relates to words for “devil” and “dragon” and is often used as an expletive. Drakul also served as a nickname to the father of Vlad Tepes who was associated with a group called the Order of the Dragon. This led to Vlad the Impaler to be referred to as Dracula. Along with being the name used by Bram Stokers character, there were several people in history referred to as Dracula. They’re corpses raised from the dead after being possessed by a demonic force. They have pale skin, hollow eyes, walk around naked, and carry their coffins…
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Cauchemar
The Cauchemar is a vampiric demon or witch from French myth whose name translates to “nightmare.” Sometimes they act as a succubus or incubus and enter the beds of evil people. Someone sleeping with a Cauchemar is enslaved to its will and drained of their life energy. Signs of an attack from a Cauchemar are waking up having drooled, having no energy, and having leg cramps. Attacks can be prevented by putting salt, stones, or beans under the pillow. A broom propped in the corner deters the Cauchemar as does having screens on the windows. Sleeping on one’s stomach can keep a Cauchemar away, and they cannot enter a house…
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Cagrino
The Cagrino is from Roma mythology. They are demonic yellow hedgehogs that are one and a half feet in length and width. They ride horses to exhaustion causing them sickness and tangled hair. They can be kept from horses by tying them to stakes covered in garlic juice and making a cross from red thread and laying it on the ground. They can also be repelled by making bread from the horse’s hair along with salt, meal, and bat blood, rubbing the bread on the horse’s hooves, then hiding the mixing bowl used to make this bread and saying “Tarry, pipkin, in this tree, till such time as full ye be.”…
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Büxenwolf/Boxenwolf/Böchsenwolf
This is a Werewolf from the Schaumberg region of Germany. A Büxenwolf is formed when a person makes a pact with the devil for knowledge, wealth, and power. They use a magic girdle to fully change from a human to a wolf. In wolf form they have enhanced speed, strength, and intelligence on top of their animal instincts and senses. They are known to be incredibly sadistic and will attack people from behind aiming for the neck to drag victims away. Despite their supernatural power, they can still be killed by normal weapons. Putting a piece of iron or steel above the creature’s head will break its connection with Hell.…
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Asin
The Asin is a bogeyman figure from the Pacific Northwest Alsea people. It has some relation to the Apotamkin. It is either a demon in the form of a human woman, or the female form of a species of woodland monster. It looks like a woman covered in hair with taloned fingers and wolf teeth. She preys upon children who stray too far from their villages. It rushes in, snatches up the child, and rushes back to the woods at an incredible speed. Asin enchanted some huckleberries on a particular bush and because of this, the Alsea banned all huckleberry bushes. Her laugh echoes and signifies someone’s impending death. If…
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Asag
Asag is a demonic dragon of Sumerian myth. He was thought to embody plague and sickness, and his name even means “demon that causes sickness.” He was also believed to embody the cold of winter and could cause drought, head fever, and migraines. He lives in the underworld, Kur, and holds back the primordial waters to keep them from flooding the earth. He is the son of the gods An and Ki, and was fought by Ninurta with the conclusion of that conflict being unknown. He is thought to be so hideous, that his presence causes water to boil. He is father to an army of rock demons born from…
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Aripa Satanai/Samca
The Aripa Satanai is from Romanian Folklore. Her name translates to “Satan’s Wing.” She’s incredibly bloodthirsty, and thought to be half bear and half old woman. She is often called “Queen of the Forest” because she controls everything in the woods. Citations: Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology. United States, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2017.
