Overview - A beast or being that foreshadows things to come.
Banshee - A female spirit or fairy being who cries out in the night to warn of impending death. (Irish)
Bird (fabulous) - Messenger from the Otherworld and the harbinger of all things. (Prevalent)
Black Dog - A canine premonitor of death with glowing red eyes. (British, Irish, Scottish)
Church Grim - A sacrificial animal buried alive beside a new church. (Scandinavian)
Ciguapa - A blue skinned woman of the Dominican Republic, a harbinger of death. (Central American)
Doppelganger - The astral duplicate of a living human, can be a death omen. (German)
Each Uisge - A supernatural water horse that predicts death by drowning and fowl weather. (Scottish, Irish)
Grave Sow - An apparition in the shape of a piglet that forebodes death and disaster. (Scandinavian)
Kelpie - A supernatural water horse found near lakes and rivers in Scotland. (Scottish)
Melusine - A sometimes winged being that appears as an omen of death for a king of France. (European)
Mothman - A human-like creature with wings and glowing eyes. Foretells death and destruction. (American)
Mermaid - A being resembling a human with a fish-like tail. Foretells stormy seas and death by drowning. (Prevalent)
Nix - A shapeshifter that can appear as a human, snake, fish, or mermaid. Predicts death by drowning. (German)
Reaper - A being who harvests human souls before their time. (Prevalent)
Wichtlein - An unsightly goblin that announces death by knocking three times. (German)
Woman in White - A female apparition that portends death. (Prevalent)
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