Monday, December 15, 2014

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La-Llorona: The spirit of a scorned woman, who killed her children and her herself after discovering her husband's unfathiulness. Condmened to wonder the Earth to find her children at night at the side of the river, crying "My children, where are my children."


Lamia: A vampiric creature with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a serpant.

Land Wight: Germanic nature spirits 

Lares: Roman household gods

Lamassu: The gaurdian spirit with the face of a human, the body of a bull and the wings of an eagle.

Leprechaun: The most famous, and recognizable creature of Irish Folklore. The leprechaun is an expert on making shoes for faeries. If a person loose his or her focus on the leprechaun, they will vanish at will. 


Leanansidhe: A beautiful vampiric faery. She is said to give inspiration to poets, but feeds on their life force or sanity.

Leviathan: A monsterous sea creature from Jewish legend. 

 Leshy: A male woodland spirit of Slavic Mythology who protects wild animals and forests.. He can shapeshift into many different forms rom that of a blade of grass to a very tall tree. Leshies are known to be mischievous beings, they enjoy misguiding humans who wander intot their forest. 

  
Lunatishee: The faeries that guard blackthorn tree. They will pinch any mortal who will pick their berries with out their permission. 



Likho: Depicted as an old, skinny woman in black with a single eye on her forhead. 

Lindworm: A large serpentine dragon of Germanic myths. 

Longana: A water spirit depicted as a beautiful woman, the horns of a goat and the tail of a fish. They are also depicted as intelligent and, and they regularly converse with spirits, which explains their extraordinary knowledge of natural events.

Lorelei: A siren of the Rhine River for Germanic Lore. She can be seen sitting on the jaged rock, sining while combing her long golden hair. Many foolish and unwary men would become enticed by her song and would fall into the water depths. 

Lubber Fiend: A household goblin. He is typically described as a large, hairy man with a tail, who performs housework in exchange for a saucer of milk and a place in front of the fire.

Lucas: A monsterous hybrid of shark and octoupus. It makes its home in underwater gratos of Brazil, waiting to devouer its victims who are humans foolish enough to swim.