ABSP - Gods, Spirits, Fairies etc.

Gods, Spirits, Fairies etc.

Words

aesir	the Norse gods.
afreet afrit	in Arabian mythology, an evil spirit or giant monster.
aitu	in Polynesia, a demigod.
alastor	an avenging deity in Greek tragedy.
amazon	one of a fabulous race of female warriors in Scythia; hence, a female warrior, a tall, powerful woman.
amoretto	a cherub or spirit of love > AMORETTOS or AMORETTI.
angel	a divine messenger.
angelic angelical	of or like an angel.
anguiped anguipede	having feet or legs in the form of snakes; used of mythical giants etc. [L. anguis, snake, + pes, foot].
apsaras	a divine water sprite > APSARASES. N.B. no APSARA*.
archangel	a top-ranking ANGEL.
atua	(Maori) a spirit, a demon.
auf	an elf's child. [ON alfr, elf].
baal	a false god > BAALS or BAALIM.
bacchic	relating to the worship of Bacchus; orgiastic.
banshee banshie	in Irish folklore, a female spirit who wails and shrieks before the death of a member of a family. [Irish bean sidhe, woman of fairyland].
bodach	(Gaelic) a goblin or spectre.
bogeyism bogyism	the creation of bogies.
boogyman boogieman	a goblin, a bugbear, an object of special dread.
boggard boggart bogle boggle	a spectre or goblin.
brownie	a benevolent creature who may secretly help with domestic work.
bugaboo	a bugbear. [Welsh bwci bo, bogey].
buggan buggane buggin	an evil spirit, a hobgoblin.
cacodaemon cacodemon	an evil spirit; a devil. [Gk. kakos, bad + daimon, spirit].
celestial	a celestial being.
changeling	a child substituted for another, especially one supposed to be left by the fairies.
cherub	in Christian theology, a member of the second order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, ranking directly below the SERAPHIM and above the THRONES > CHERUBS or CHERUBIM.
daemon daimon	a spirit holding a middle place between gods and men.
daemonic daimonic	having the qualities of a DAEMON or DAIMON.
deev div	in Iranian (esp. Zoroastrian) mythology: a demonic power.
dei	pl. DEUS, god.
deil	(Scots) devil.
deity	a god.
demigod	a half-god; a person whose nature is partly divine, esp a hero fabled to be, or idolized as, the offspring of a god and a mortal.
demigoddess	a half-goddess; a woman whose nature is partly divine, esp a heroine fabled to be, or idolized as, the offspring of a god and a mortal.
demiurge demiurgus	an inferior god who created world; a creative power or spirit. [Gk. demiourgos, from demos, the people + ergon, a work]. The pl. of DEMIURGUS is DEMIURGUSES.
demon	an evil spirit or devil.
demoness	a female demon.
demoniac	a person possessed by a demon or evil spirit.
demoniacal	like a DEMONIAC.
demonian	relating to, or having the nature of, a demon.
demonic demonical	of or like a demon.
demonry	demonic activity.
deus	a god > DI or DEI.
dev deva	a Hindu god; a divine being.
devil	a chief evil spirit; (verb) to season highly and broil. Pt. DEVILED or DEVILLED.
devildom	the realm of devils.
deviless	a she-devil.
devilet devilkin	a little devil.
devilship	the character or person of a devil or the Devil.
devling	a small devil, a DEVILET.
dibbuk dybbuk	a dead person's soul inhabiting a living person > DIBBUKS or DIBBUKIM; DYBBUKS or DYBBUKIM.
div	see DEEV.
divineness	the quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.
divinity	the quality of being divine; a spirit possessing this quality.
divinise divinize	to invest with a divine character.
djinn etc.	one of a class of spirits in Muslim theology. The forms of this word are a total mess with great confusion over plural and singular, but possibilities can be tabulated as follows:
Singular	Plural
DJINN	DJINNS
DJIN	DJINS
DJINNI	DJINN (not DJINNIS*)
DJINNY	DJINN (not DJINNIES*)
GENIE	GENIES or GENII or GINN
JIN	JINS
JINN	JINNS
JINNI	JINN or JINNIS
JINNEE	JINN (not JINNEES*)

dobbie dobby	a brownie.
doppelganger	a ghostly counterpart of a living person.
dryad	a wood nymph > DRYADS or DRYADES. [Gk. dryas, wood-nymph].
dryadic	like a DRYAD.
duppy	in the West Indies, a ghost.
dwarf	in folklore, a small manlike creature, esp a metalworker > DWARFS or DWARVES.
dybbuk	see DIBBUK.
elf	in European folklore, a supernatural being, generally of human form but diminutive size, sometimes more malignant than a fairy; (verb) to tangle hair > ELFS, ELFING, ELFED.
elfhood elfishness+ elvishness	the state of being an elf.
elfin	a little elf.
elfish elvish	like an elf.
elfishly elvishly	in the manner of an elf.
elfland	the land of the elves or fairies.
elflike	like an ELF.
elvish	see ELFISH.
empusa empuse	a phantom or specter sent by Hecate; a genus of fungi parasitic on houseflies.
ephialtes	an evil spirit supposed to cause nightmares; nightmare > EPHIALTES.
erlking	a spirit that does mischief or evil, esp. to children. [Ger. Erlkonig, alder-king].
eten ettin	a giant.
eudaemon eudemon eudaimon	a benevolent spirit.
faerie faery	the world of fairies, fairyland.
fairily	in the manner of a fairy.
fairy	a creature of folklore, an imaginary being, generally of diminutive and graceful human form, capable of kindly or unkindly acts towards man.
fairydom	the world of fairies.
fairyhood	the state of being a fairy.
fairyism	the state of being a fairy.
fairyland	the land of the FAIRIES.
fairylike	like a FAIRY.
fantasm phantasm	an airy or insubstantial figure, an apparition, a spectre.
fantom	a PHANTOM.
faun	a rural deity represented as a man with a goat's ears, horns, tail, and hind legs.
faunlike	like a FAUN.
fetch	a WRAITH or DOPPELGANGER.
fiend	a devil.
flibbertigibbet	orig. an imp; now more usually a gossipy, flighty person.
garuda	a Hindu demigod, part man, part bird.
genie	see DJINN.
genius	the tutelary or attendant spirit in classical pagan belief allotted to every person at birth, or to a place, institution, etc > GENIUSES or GENII.
ghoul	in Arabic mythology, a desert demon preying on travellers; gen. an evil spirit or demon supposed to rob graves and devour corpses. [Arabic ghul].
ghoulie	a ghoul.
giantry	the race of giants.
glendoveer	a heavenly spirit.
gnome	a mythical sprite guarding the inner parts of the earth and its treasures; a dwarf or goblin; a pithy saying > GNOMES or (in the sense of a saying) GNOMAE.
gnomelike	like a gnome.
gnomish	like a gnome.
gobbeline	a goblin.
goblin	an unpleasant or mischievous sprite in the form of an old man.
god	a superhuman being, an object of worship; (verb) to deify, treat as a god > GODDED, GODDING.
goddess	a female GOD.
godlily	in a godly manner.
godliness	the quality of being GODLY.
godling	a diminutive god.
godly	like a god > GODLIER, GODLIEST.
godship	the rank or character of a god; divinity.
golem	an artificial human endowed with life by supernatural means. [Yiddish goylem f. Heb. golem shapeless mass].
gremlin	a goblin accused of vexing airmen, causing mischief and mechanical trouble to aircraft; any imaginary mischievous creature.
gytrash	a ghost or apparition.
hamadryad	a wood nymph associated with one particular tree; also, a king cobra > HAMADRYADES or HAMADRYADS. [Gk. hamadryas, from hama, together + drys (oak) tree].
hob	a supernatural creature or fairy, such as Robin Goodfellow.
hobbit	one of a race of imaginary beings, half human size, hole-dwelling and hairy-footed, invented by JRR Tolkien in his novel The Hobbit.
hobbitry	the state of being a HOBBIT.
hobgoblin	a mischievous fairy; a frightful apparition.
hobgoblinism hobgoblinry	the state of being a HOBGOBLIN. (Curious when there is no GOBLINISM* or GOBLINRY*, but there you go...).
hoblike	suggestive of an elf.
houri	any of the virgins of the Muslim paradise, promised as wives to believers; hence, a voluptuously beautiful woman > HOURIS.
imp	a little devil; (verb) to graft, to splice a falcon's broken feathers.
impish	like an IMP, mischievous.
incubus	an evil spirit that lies on women in their sleep; a nightmare > INCUBI or INCUBUSES.
jann	the least powerful order of JINN.
jin	see DJINN.
jinnee	see DJINN.
jinni	see DJINN.
jotun jotunn	a giant (in Norse myth).
jumbie jumby	a ghost or evil spirit.
kami	a Japanese divine being > KAMIS.
kehua	(Maori) a ghost, a spirit.
kobold	a mischievous elf in German folklore, found esp. in mines.
lar	the god relating to a house > LARES or LARS.
leprechaun leprechawn	a small supernatural creature in Irish folklore.
leprechaunish	like a LEPRECHAUN, a small supernatural creature in Irish folklore.
maelid	an apple nymph. [Gk. melon apple, soft-skinned fruit].
mana	an impersonal supernatural force.
manes	spirits of the dead; ghosts.
manito manitou manitu	a name given by tribes of American Indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship. [Ojibwa manito].
marid	a JINN of the most powerful class.
menshen	(Chinese) a door god.
merchild	the child of a mermaid > MERCHILDREN.
merfolk	mermen and mermaids.
mermaid mermaiden	a mythical creature with a woman's upper body and a fish's tail.
merman	a male of the MERMAID kind.
merpeople	mermaids and mermen. Cf. MERFOLKS.
monopod monopode	a one-footed person of fabulous Ethiopian race, with foot large enough to be a sunshade.
morphean morphetic	relating to Morpheus, the god of sleep.
naiad	a water-nymph; also, an aquatic larva of dragonfly > NAIADS or NAIADES. [GK. naias, -ados, plural -ades, from naein, to flow].
nereid	a sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, attendant upon Neptune > NEREIDES. Also, a marine polychaete worm, pl. NEREIDS.
nereis	a sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus > NEREIDES.
nimrod	any great hunter. [From the son of Cush in Bible, Genesis 10.8].
nis nisse	in Scandinavian folklore, a brownie or goblin > NISSES.
nix	a water sprite (cf. NIXIE) > NIXES or NIXE; (verb) to veto or cancel.
nixie nixy	a female NIX or malignant water-spirit.
numen	a local or presiding divinity; a god in human form > NUMINA.
numinous	supernatural, mysterious; filled with a sense of the presence of divinity; (noun) something filled with a sense of the presence of divinity.
nymph	one of the divinities who lived in mountains, rivers, tree etc.
nymphal nymphean nymphic nymphical nymphish	relating to nymphs.
nymphlike	like a nymph.
nymphly	resembling, or characteristic of, a NYMPH.
oceanid	an ocean nymph > OCEANIDS or OCEANIDES.
ogre	a cannibalistic giant.
ogreish ogrish	like an ogre.
ogreism ogrism	the character or manners of an ogre.
ogress	a lady ogre.
ogrishly ogreishly	in the manner of an ogre.
ondine undine	a female water spirit.
oread	a mountain nymph > OREADS or OREADES. Cf. NAIAD, DRYAD.
orphic orphical	mystical, oracular.
panisc panisk	an inferior god, attendant upon Pan.
penates	the household gods of a Roman family. Cf. LARES. N.B. no PENATE*.
peri	in Persian mythology, a fairy > PERIS.
phantasm	an airy or insubstantial figure, an apparition, a spectre.
phantasma	a phantasm > PHANTASMATA.
phantom	an immaterial form, a spectre.
phantomy	like a phantom.
phantosme	(Spenser) a phantom.
phoebus	a sun god; the sun.
pisky pixie pixy	a small fairy.
pixieish pixyish	like a pixie.
pixiness	the state of being like a PIXY.
plutonian	of, relating to, or characteristic of Pluto or the lower world > infernal.
poltergeist	a spirit believed to manifest itself by making noises and moving physical objects.
pooka	in Irish folklore, a malevolent goblin.
pouke puck	a mischievous sprite.
promachos	a champion or defender; a tutelary god > PROMACHOSES.
puck	see POUKE.
puckish	like a PUCK, impish.
puckishly	in the manner of a PUCK.
rakshas	in Hindu mythology, an evil spirit > RAKSHASES.
rakshasa	in Hindu mythology, an evil spirit.
rawhead	a spectre mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.
rusalka	a Russian water-nymph.
sandman	a mythical being that brings sleep.
satanic satanical	devilish.
satanicalness	the state of being SATANICAL.
satyr	a Greek god of the woodlands, with a tail and long ears, represented by the Romans as part goat.
satyra satyress	a female satyr.
satiric satyrical	of satyrs; having a chorus of satyrs.
satyrisk	a little satyr.
satyrlike	like a satyr.
seamaid	a mermaid.
seelie	good benevolent fairies. No —S.
seraph	in Christian theology, a member of the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy > SERAPHS, SERAPHIM, previously also SERAPHIMS, SERAPHIN, SERAPHINS; SERAPHIN and SERAPHIM also occur as obsolete singulars.
shaitan sheitan	an evil spirit.
shellycoat	a water goblin dressed in shells.
sidh sidhe	(Irish) fairy people.
silen silenus	a satyr-like woodland god, an attendant of Bacchus. The pl. of SILENUS is SILENI.
siren	a kind of mermaid.
skyborn	of heavenly birth.
spectre spectre	an apparition.
spook	a ghost; a spy; (verb) to frighten, startle.
spookily	in the manner of a spook.
spookish	spooky.
spooky	like a spook, ghostly > SPOOKIER, SPOOKIEST.
spright	a spirit; (verb) to haunt, bedevil.
sprite	a goblin, elf, imp, impish or implike person.
spriteful	impish.
succuba	a female demon or fiend > SUCCUBAE or SUCCUBAS.
succubine	of or pertaining to SUCCUBI.
succubus	a demon assuming female form to have intercourse with men in their sleep > SUCCUBUSES or SUCCUBI.
sylph	an elemental being without a soul believed to inhabit the air; a slim graceful woman or girl.
sylphic	of or like a SYLPH.
sylphid sylphide	a young SYLPH.
sylphine	pertaining to a SYLPH, a spirit of the air.
sylphlike	like a sylph.
sylvan	(noun) a wood-god, a forest-dweller.
syren	a siren.
taisch taish	an apparition of someone about to die. [Gaelic taibhis, apparition].
tangie	an Orcadian water-spirit, appearing as a seahorse, or a man covered with seaweed. [From tang, seaweed].
tenebrio	a night spirit, a night prowler > TENEBRIOS.
thelf	(Spenser) the elf > THELVES.
titan	(with capital) one of the elder gods overthrown by Zeus; (without capital) anything gigantic.
titaness	a female TITAN.
tokoloshe tikoloshe+ tokoloshi	in Bantu folklore, a hairy malevolent dwarflike creature with supernatural powers. [Zulu tikoloshe].
troll	an evil-tempered ugly dwarf (or, earlier, giant).
trow	another form of TROLL; also, a verb, to believe.
tutelar	a guardian spirit, god or saint.
undergod	a lower or inferior god; a subordinate deity; a demigod.
undine	see ONDINE.
undivine	not divine.
unseelie	evil malevolent fairies. No —S.
valkyr valkyrie walkyrie	in Norse mythology, a chooser of the slain.
vampire	in E. European folklore, a dead person that leaves the grave to drink the blood of the living; (verb) to prey upon as a vampire.
vampiric	like a vampire.
vampirise vampirize	to play the vampire.
vampirish	like a vampire.
vampirism	the practice of a vampire.
wahconda wakanda	a supernatural force in Sioux belief.
wairua	(Maori) a spirit, a soul.
walkyrie	see VALKYR.
wili	in the ballet Giselle, the spirit of a girl who dies before her wedding day.
wirricow worricow worrycow	the devil, a hobgoblin, anything frightening.
woodwose woodhouse	a wild man of the woods, used in heraldry as a supporter.
wraith	a spectre; an apparition, esp of a living person.
zombie zombie	in voodoo, a supernatural force or spirit that can enter a dead body; also, the soulless body that is revive. [Kimbundu nzambi (god, ghost). Kimbundu is a Bantu language of northern Angola].

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