Creatures by Type
: Harbingers
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
)
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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