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Category:Female demons. Category. : Female demons. Female evil spirits or malicious monsters in folklore, legends, and mythology. These monstrous women are often portrayed as predatory creatures, who are usually seen seducing male humans or snatching young children in order to kill, eat, or otherwise harm them.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. Female entity in Near Eastern mythology This article is about the religious figure Lilith. For other uses, see Lilith (disambiguation). Lilith Lilith (1887) by John Collier Lilith, also spelled Lilit, Lilitu, or Lilis, is a feminine figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology ...
Mythology. They are normally considered to be women who have turned into oni as a result of karma and resentment, with the younger ones being called "kijo" while the ones that look like old ladies are called onibaba (鬼婆, "demon hag"). [1] They often appear in Japanese legends, folktales, fairy tales, and performing arts, and famous among ...
Succubus. A depiction of a succubus in "My Dream, My Bad Dream" by Fritz Schwimbeck, 1915. A succubus (pl.: succubi) is a female demon or supernatural entity in folklores who appears in dreams to seduce men, usually through sexual activity. According to some folklore, a succubus needs semen to survive; repeated sexual activity with a succubus ...
Naamah (demon) Naamah or Nahemoth (Hebrew: נַעֲמָה; "pleasant") is a demon described in the Zohar, a foundational work of Jewish mysticism. She originated from and is often conflated with another Naamah, sister to Tubal-cain.
Abyzou. In the myth and folklore of the Near East and Europe, Abyzou is the name of a female demon. Abyzou was blamed for miscarriages and infant mortality and was said to be motivated by envy, as she herself was infertile. In the Coptic Egypt she is identified with Alabasandria, and in Byzantine culture with Gylou, but in various texts ...
Arioch (Christian mythology) Arunasura (Hindu mythology) Asag (Sumerian demonology) Asakku (Babylonian mythology) Asb'el (Jewish mythology) Asmodai/Asmodeus (Jewish folklore, Christian mythology, Islamic folklore) Aswang (Philippine folklore) Astaroth (Christian demonology) Asura (Hindu mythology, Buddhism, Shinto)
Sumerian name in Old Babylonian cuneiform, d Dim 3-me [1] In Mesopotamian mythology , Lamashtu ( 𒀭𒈕𒈨 ; Akkadian d La-maš-tu ; Sumerian Dimme d Dim 3 -me or Kamadme [ 2 ] ) was a female demon /monster/malevolent goddess or demigoddess who menaced women during childbirth and, if possible, kidnapped their children while they were ...