Demons, Monsters, and Entities Rooted in European Myth and Legend
The Infernal Dictionary
This section offers a comprehensive catalog of mythical creatures, demons, entities, and monsters, primarily rooted in European folklore but extending to global traditions. Organized alphabetically, each entry is classified by Creature Types, Mythological or Cultural Origins, Roles or Functions, Literary Sources, Historical or Legendary Time Periods, Attributes or Powers, and Alignments or Moral Standings. From ancient myths to medieval legends, this guide explores the multifaceted roles these beings play in love, conflict, and morality. Designed for enthusiasts of folklore and mythology, it provides a structured and accessible reference for understanding the mythical lore across cultures and eras.
Alphabetical list of Cryptid Creatures
- Caaba (See Kaaba)
- Cabadès (See Zoubdadeyer)
- Cabale or Cabbale
- Cabanda, Hideous Demon of India
- Cabires, Ancient Deities of the Dead
- Cacodémon, Malevolent Spirit
- Cacoux (See Caqueux)
- Cactonite, Talismanic Stone
- Cacus, Ogre-like Figure of Antiquity
- Cadiere
- Cadmea or Cadmia
- Cadmus
- Caduceus
- Cadulus
- Caeculus
- Caf
- Cagots
- Cain
- Cainan
- Cainites
- Caiumarath (Kaid-Mords), First Man in Persian Mythology
- Cala (Charles), 17th Century Calabrian Writer
- Calamités, Public Calamities Attributed to Supernatural Causes
- Calaya, Third Heavenly Realm in Hindu Cosmology
- Calcerand-Rochez, Visionary Nobleman
- Calchas, Ancient Greek Seer
- Calegueiers, Powerful Genies in Indian Lore
- Calendrier, Ancient Pagan Calendar
- Cali, Queen of Demons in Indian Hell
- Calice du Sabbat (Chalice of the Sabbath)
- Calice du Soupçon (Chalice of Suspicion)
- Caligula, Roman Emperor
- Callo, Reference to Spes
- Calmet (Dom Augustin), Benedictine Scholar
- Calvin (Jean), Protestant Reformer and Magician
- Camaieu (Magical Object)
- Cambions, Children of Demons
- Camel
- Caméléon (Chameleon), Reptile with Magical Associations
- Camephis, Ancient Egyptian Triple God
- Camnuz (Spirit)
- Campetti the Hydroscope
- Camus, Devin d’Acarnanie
- Canate Mountain
- Cancer (The Crab)
- Cancer the Crayfish
- Candelier: The Devil’s Name in the Witches’ Sabbat
- Candle
- Candle of Death
- Candles in Breton Marriage Ritual
- Cang-Hy
- Canicida
- Canicule
- Canidia
- Canigou Mountain
- Canterme
- Canwyll-Corph
- Caous
- Caperon
- Capnomancy
- Cappautas
- Capricorn (The Goat)
- Carabia
- Caracalla
- Caractères
- Caradoc (Saint)
- Cardan (Jérôme)
- Carenus Alexandre
- Carlostad André Bodenstein de
- Carmentes
- Carnival Devil Encounter in Paris
- Carniveau
- Carnoet
- Caron
- Carpentier Richard
- Carpocratiens
- Carra Jean-Louis
- Carreau
- Carrefours
- Cartagra
- Cartes
- Cartomancie
- Casi Pagoda
- Casmann (Othon)
- Caspar Peucer
- Cassandre
- Cassius de Parme
- Casso or Alouette
- Cassotide
- Castaigne (Gabriel de)
- Castalie
- Castalin (Diégo)
- Castellini (Luc)
- Castor
- Castor and Pollux
- Castro (Alphonse de)
- Cat
- Cataboliques
- Catalde, bishop of Tarente
- Catalepsie
- Catalonos or Babailanas
- Cataramonachia
- Catelan (Laurent)
- Cathaï-Khann
- Cathares
- Catharin (Ambroise)
- Catherine de Médicis, Queen of France
- Catherine Landat
- Catherine Monvoisin
- Catherine Monvoisin (La Voisin)
- Catherine Naguille (Witch)
- Catherine Poniatowska
- Catillus, Mysterious Entity
- Catoblepas, Mythical Serpent
- Caton the Censor, Roman Statesman
- Catoptromancy, Divination by Mirrors
- Cattani, Demon of Malabar
- Cattéri, Demon of Malabar
- Cauche-Poulet
- Cauchemar, Nightmare Spirit
- Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais
- Caul (Coiffe)
- Causathan, Demon or Evil Spirit
- Causimomancie, Divination by Fire
- Cautzer, River of the Eighth Heaven
- Cave Ghost of Rue Saint-Victor
- Cayet (Pierre-Victor-Palma), 16th Century Scholar
- Caym, Superior Demon and Grand President of Hell
- Cayol, Marseille Landowner and Apparition
- Cazotte (Jacques), 18th Century Poet and Prophetic Writer
- Cébus (Cephus), Egyptian Monster
- Cecco d’Ascoli (François Stabili), 13th Century Astrologer
- Cécile, Lisbonne Ventriloquist Witch
- Celestial Music, the Harmony of the Spheres
- Celsius (André), Swedish Astronomer
- Cemetery Traditions in Spain
- Cenchroboles, Imaginary Nation in Lucian’s Works
- Cendres, Medieval Beliefs in Reproduction from Ashes
- Cène, Sabbath Rituals and Demon Ceremonies
- Cénéthus, Second King of Scotland and Ghostly Warfare
- Ceraunoscopie, Ancient Divination by Lightning
- Cerberus, Infernal Demon with Three Heads
- Cercles magiques, Protective and Summoning Circles
- Cercopes
- Cercueil (Divine Trial by Coffin)
- Cerdon (Heretic of the Second Century)
- Ceres (Demeter in Greek Mythology)
- Cerf (The Stag)
- Cerinthe (Heretic of the Apostolic Era)
- Cerne (Old Term for Magic Circle)
- Céromancy (Ciromancy)
- Cerveau (Brain)
- Cervelle (Animal Brains)
- Cesaire (Saint)
- Césalpin (André Césalpin)
- César (Caïus Julius Caesar)
- César Évoli: Writer on Demonic Power
- Césara (César’s Descendant in Irish Myth)
- Cesarius d’Heisterbach (Cesarius the Cistercian Monk)
- Césonie (Wife of Caligula)
- Ceurawats (Indian Sectarians)
- Cévennes
- Ceylan
- Chabbalach
- Chacon (Alphonse)
- Chacran
- Chahriver
- Chaires de magie
- Chais (Pierre)
- Chalcédoine
- Chaldeans: From Mesopotamian Dynasty to Masters of Astrology
- Cham
- Chammadai
- Chamos
- Chamouillard
- Champier (Symphorien)
- Champignon
- Chant
- Chaomancy
- Chapel of the Damned
- Charadrius
- Charity
- Charlatans
- Charlemagne
- Charles Fontenettes
- Charles II, Duke of Lorraine
- Charles IX
- Charles Lebrun
- Charles Martel
- Charles the Bald
- Charles the Bold
- Charles VI
- Chartumins
- Chasdins
- Chastity Potions: Mirage of Virtue in Historical Occultism
- Chax (Scox)
- Chemes (Ghemens)
- Chemim
- Chemistry
- Cheriour
- Cheteb or Ghereb
- Chevesche
- Chevillement
- Chibados
- Chicota
- Chicus iEscuianus
- Childbirth Rituals
- Childeric I
- Childeric III
- Children
- Children of the Devil
- Children Stolen by Fairies
- Chilperic I
- Chimera: The Hellenic Hybrid in Medieval Demonological Context
- China (Idol from Senegambia)
- Chion
- Christian
- Christian Frank, a Visionary Figure
- Christine Green, The English Familiar
- Christoph Girtanner (Doctor), The Alchemist’s Prophecy
- Christopher Marlowe
- Chthonic Spirits
- Church and Sorcerers
- Cimeriès, Marquis of the Infernal Empire
- Cimmériens, Ancestral Sorcerers
- Cimon, Athenian General
- Cincinnatus, Ventriloquist Spirit
- Ciones
- Cippus Venelius, Italian Tribal Leader
- Circonceliions, Donatist Fanatics
- Cire, Witchcraft Practices
- Citation, Spirit Summoning Formula
- Cités, The Two Cities of Saint Augustine
- Citu, Festival in Peru
- Civile (François de), Norman Gentleman
- Clairon (Claire-Josèphe-Leyris de Latude, known as Hippolyte), French Tragic Actress
- Clairvoyance
- Clarus, Figure in Saint Augustine’s Writings
- Claude Coirières
- Claude-François Menestrier
- Claude, Prior of Laval
- Clauzette, Possessed Girl in Toulouse
- Clay (Jean), German Literateur
- Cleanliness (Propreté)
- Clédonismancie, Type of Divination
- Clément
- Cleonice
- Cleopatra
- Clèves
- Climacteric Year
- Clistheret: The Demon of Illusory Day and Night
- Cloches
- Clofye
- Clotho
- Cloven Foot
- Clovis (Son of Chilperic I)
- Clurichaun (Cluricaunes)
- Coal (Houille)
- Coal of Impurity
- Coboli
- Cocconas
- Cock’s Chant
- Cock’s Herb
- Cocoto
- Cocytus (Gocyte)
- Code of the Sorcerers (Code des sorciers)
- Coelicoles
- Cohoba
- Colarbase
- Colère
- Collehites
- Collyre
- Colma
- Colokyntho-Pirates
- Colors, Ancient Augury
- Coltreni
- Column of the Devil
- Comb (Superstition)
- Comb Superstition
- Comb Superstition
- Combadaxus
- Combourg
- Comédiens
- Comet Omens
- Common Scoter (Macreuses)
- Comte de Saint-Germain
- Condé Ghost
- Conférentes
- Confucius
- Conjurateurs
- Conjuration
- Conrad Horst
- Constantine
- Constellations
- Convulsions
- Copernicus
- Copper
- Coral
- Cordeliers of Orléans
- Core (Coré), Companion of Dathan and Abiron
- Cornelian (Corneille)
- Cornelius Gemma, Scholar and Author of Divine Characters
- Cornelius Ghirardelli (Italian Astrologer)
- Cornouailles (Cornwall)
- Corpse
- Corsned
- Corybantiasme
- Cosimo Ruggieri
- Cosimo Ruggieri
- Cosingas, Prince of the Cerrhéniens
- Cosmas, Traveler of the Sixth Century
- Cosquinomancy
- Cossen, Rock of Fichtelberg
- Couberen, Idol of India
- Coucoulampons, Malagasy Spirits
- Coudais, Altaï Siberian Deities
- Coumbhacarna, Indian Mythological Giant
- Count Despilliers
- Courils, Finistère Mischievous Demons
- Court de Gébelin, Magnetism Martyr
- Courtesans
- Courtinière
- Coutellier
- Couvéra
- Crabançon (Jacques de)
- Crabs
- Craca
- Crachat
- Crapaudine
- Crapoulet
- Cratéis
- Creation, Manifestation
- Creator, Ruler
- Credulity
- Crescence
- Crespet
- Cretinism
- Crible
- Cricket, Household Spirit
- Criériens
- Cristalomancy
- Critomancy
- Crocodiles
- Croft (Elisabeth)
- Cromeruach
- Cromniomancy
- Cross
- Crow
- Crucifixion on the Sabbath
- Crusembourg (Guy de)
- Crystal Ball
- Cubomancy
- Cuckoo, Breton Folklore
- Cunégonde
- Cup Divination, Egyptian Practice
- Curdes
- Cureau de la Chambre
- Curko
- Curma
- Curtius
- Cyclopes
- Cylinders
- Cymbal
- Cynanthropy
- Cynobalanes
- Cynocephalus
- Cyprian (Saint)
- Cyrano de Bergerac