A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members. It has been a common belief...
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Domovoy (category Slavic household deities)
worship Hob (folklore) Anglo-Scots household spirit Brownie (folklore) Deities of Slavic religion Household deity Huldufolk Slavic paganism Slavic Native...
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Brownie (folklore) (redirect from Silkie (household spirit))
(Slavic) Haltija/Tonttu (Finnish) Heinzelmännchen (German) Household deity Lithuanian household gods (list) Hungry ghost Jack o' the bowl (Swiss) Koro-pok-guru...
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Toilet god (category Household deities)
A toilet god is a deity associated with latrines and toilets. Belief in toilet gods – a type of household deity – has been known from both modern and...
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Candomblé. Gate guardian – Symbolic guardian at a military facility Household deity – Deity or spirit associated with the home Liminal being – Being that cannot...
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and granaries. Each Roman home had a set of protective deities: the Lar or Lares of the household or familia, whose shrine was a lararium; the Penates who...
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List Fairy Tale (color) Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit Abodes and structures Fairy fort...
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(magic) Black cat Boye (dog) Daemon (mythology) DMT Genius (mythology) Household deity Imp İye Kuladevata Nagual Pelesit Pillan Power animal Púca, Irish folklore...
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Hecate (category Household deities)
in Sicily. Hecate was one of several deities worshipped in ancient Athens as a protector of the oikos (household), alongside Zeus, Hestia, Hermes, and...
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dedicated to Ashapura Mata, the household deity of former Jadeja rulers of kutch State. She is also considered patron deity of Kutch. The village is located...
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List Fairy Tale (color) Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit Abodes and structures Fairy fort...
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Di Penates (category Household deities)
(English: /pɪˈneɪtiːz/ pin-AY-teez) were among the dii familiares, or household deities, invoked most often in domestic rituals. When the family had a meal...
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List Fairy Tale (color) Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit Abodes and structures Fairy fort...
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Lares (redirect from Lares (Roman deities))
them with ancestor-deities, domestic Penates, and the hearth. Because of these associations, Lares are sometimes categorised as household gods, but some had...
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Dimstipatis (mentioned by Jokūbas Lavinskis), is a masculine deity (genius loci). It is a household god, the guardian of houses and caretaker of the hearth...
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Hobgoblin (category Household deities)
the free dictionary. Bogeyman Dobby (Harry Potter) Hob (folklore) Household deity Kobold Niuli A hob, is also flat metal shelf at the side or back of...
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Iratxoak (category Household deities)
Iratxoak (sing.: iratxo) are the imps of Basque mythology. Usually benevolent, they help with farming labours in the night if given presents of food. Galtxagorriak...
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intended to bestow fertility on a female member of the household, or been an offering to a household deity. Concealed shoes have been found in many types of...
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Meldi Mata is a Hindu goddess and household deity who protects farmland. A legend says that she can grant any wish. She is mainly famous in the western...
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1550–1069 BCE), household deities like Taweret gained even more importance. Taweret's image has been found on an array of household objects, demonstrating...
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depending on the story and country of origin, ranging from mischievous household spirits to malicious, bestial thieves. They often have magical abilities...
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Kobold (category Household deities)
and the word assumptively also meant "household spirit" in MHG, and certainly something of a "household deity" in the post-medieval period (gloss dated...
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Kitchen god (redirect from Kitchen deity)
believer. Di Penates Hestia Household deity Jowangsin is a Korean kitchen god. Kōjin is a Japanese kitchen god. List of deities Ông Táo is a Vietnamese kitchen...
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Hera (category Household deities)
named Hera) was celebrated at Knossos in Crete. In Near East the solar-deity and the moon-goddess are often represented as a bull and a cow and Roscher...
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Teraphim (category Household deities)
ancestor figurines rather than household deities, and that the "current interpretation of the teraphim as household deities suffers from a one-sided use...
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Erdhenne (category Household deities)
The Erdhenne (German: lit. Earth Hen; German: [ˈeːɐ̯tˌhɛnə]), alternatively called Coluber domesticus, Erdhühnlein, Erdglucke, Erdglutsch, or Herdhendl...
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Agathodaemon (category Household deities)
lesser deity (daemon) of classical ancient Greek religion and Graeco-Egyptian religion. In his original Greek form, he served as a household god, to...
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Hanja: 廁神) is the toilet goddess of Korean mythology. Unlike better-known household deities such as Jowangshin, god of the hearth, her worship forms a minor part...
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Gnome (category Household deities)
century, such as goblin, brownie, leprechaun and other instances of the household spirit type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground...
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List Fairy Tale (color) Familiar Genius loci Household deity Hungry grass Nature spirit Tutelary deity Water spirit Abodes and structures Fairy fort...
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