alp-luachra = malevolent faerie that takes the form of a newt/salamander or other small creature; if the alp-luachra finds a sleeping person near a stream (streamside homes are not immune unless protected), it will crawl down their throat or nose, and eat the contents of the person's stomach. Although no permanent harm is caused, in times of want or privation this can be very serious.
ard sidhe = aes sidhe, daoine sidhe (the Tuatha de Danann)
asrai = mhaighdean-mhara or nereid; a local term
ballybogs (bog-dwelling bogies; can be very dangerous)
baobhan sidhe = type of leannan sidhe; does not attach to a victim, just chooses and moves on
barbegazi = type of brownie who lives in high mountains; will help travellers caught in avalanches, and warns of impending danger; sleep all spring and summer
bean sidhe (si who appears before a death, sometimes in a specific clan, other times in general, and sings the caoineadh; bean sidhe appear as beautiful, yet deeply sorrowful, women)
bendith y mamau (unseelie, ugly female si who steal human children and raise them as their own)
biasd bheulach = fachan; an especially fearful one might be called "biasd bheulach"
black annis (particularly nasty hag; this type has a dark face and long, iron-strong claws)
bledlochtana = leucrotta (Éireannach word for leucrotta)
bocan = hobgoblin
bodach (type of bogey; often appears as a decrepit old little man however has great shape-changing ability; is a dangerous si though usually content to frighten its target, especially children)
bodachan sabhaill = brownie (one who specializes in threshing and milling)
bogey (malevolent si, usually content to frighten and spread despair, some are real killers)
boggart = type of goblin but with fur and tail; usually does little good, but mischievous rather than evil
bogle (malicious little si, sometimes erroneously called a "goblin"; oval shaped head, beady eyes, sharp little fangs and green skin; some can change shape like a bodach and behave similarly, others play nasty pranks, scare children and the elderly, steal, break things, kill livestock and overturn hives (often getting stung and running off swearing in the process); usually don't fight - usually
boobrie = kelpie; actually, a shape (huge bird of prey) that the more powerful (older?) kelpie can take; slays cows, sheep
brollachan (misshapen water si,; can and often does curse; believed to be immature kelpie as it often appears like a deformed, smallish kelpie; can imitate a few words)
brown man of the moors = type of ghillie dhu, though the brown man is often wicked; glowing eyes
brownie (little fey person; male; raggedly dressed, otherwise more or less human form)
buca = type of goblin that takes up residence in mines/halls, steals tools and drink
burryman (tiny sidhe spirit that inhabits - and animates - very small plants)
caoineag = type of bean sidhe but can only be heard (invisible in the Realm of Time and Consequence) portends doom or coming sorrow for a clan
ceffyl dwr = kelpie
cluricaun = type of leath bhrogan who spends less time working, more time drinking
coblyn, coblynau = kobold
coraniad (small, gnarled si related to gnomes; can hear speech for many miles; sometimes form groups and raid, steal, kill livestock, etc. during the night
corpan sidhe = doppelganger (si that takes the form of a person; some like bean sidhe are death omens)
corpse candle (small sidhe, look like minature will-o-the-wisp but NOT dangerous; drawn to graves)
crinaeae (Rómhánach term; nymph that inhabits natural springs and pools)
cu sidhe (si that is in the form of a very large dog; often associates with high sidhe; often a war-"dog")
cuachag = water sprite of the mountains
cughtagh = bogey; cughtagh refers to bogeys found deep in caves and the Catacomb
cwn annwn (cun annun) (the hounds of the Wild Hunt; can easily be confused with a black dog)
cyheuraeth = type of bean sidhe; cannot be seen, just heard; laments those who will die far from home; sometimes moans and groans as a person is about to die
daoine sidhe = ard sidhe
daphnaie = type of dryad associated with laurel (Rómhánach term)
direach = fachan
dobhar-chu = type of kelpie; usually less dangerous than most types, it is perhaps the most frightening to behold; huge eyes, vaguely horse-like snout ends in a large mouth that is almost always open; dobhar-chu can be deadly especially if attacked, surprised or if one is ravenous; emerge at night to hunt; unlike other kelpie, almost never - if ever - changes shape; can curse
though very rarely does
dooiney (benevolent si; appears as a misty human shape, its voice though scary warns of storms)
doppelganger = corpan sidhe
dryad (si spirits, spend most time sleeping inside their tree-home, but come out to dance; female)
duergar (look like gnarled, degenerated dwarves but are actually si; rarely amicable, often cold, can be wicked - usually duergar enjoy leading travelers, intruders as they see them, astray; some will help lost travelers, particularly those injured or ill, though this is not common; most duergar are sullen and unfriendly, some have a malicious sense of humor and inflict humiliation if not suffering; though not common, some duergar are more than nasty pranksters and actually attempt to cause grievous injury or death; duergar are similar to dwarves in many ways, appearing as shorter, gnarled dwarves, possessing a very high degree of skill at metallurgy and delving - though not quite the level of the dwarves - and a love for precious metals, jewels, and finely crafted weapons; unlike dwarves, duergar almost always rely on stealth and creep around in the shadows and the night; also their "halls" are more like manors delved in forlorn rocky places like stony hills, mountains, cavernous rifts and broken gullies - individually these are rarely large, but each often possesses its own forge, and larger communities of duergar can create the equivalent of a dwarven "hall" in size; unlike their relations with most other intelligent races, duergar can have very good relations with dwarves though dwarves tend to treat them as lessers and this can lead to conflict; duergar often dress as woodland si rather then dwarves, wearing straw hats, cloaks, furs, buckskin trousers, etc., rather than the regalia and armor of dwarves; some duergar dabble in magic - beyond any innate fairy ability they inherit - as well as alchemy)
dullahan = gan ceann
each uisge = kelpie (note: not all kelpie have the exact same true form; each uisge are the more horse-like)
eachy = type of kelpie; eachy are less horse, more bipedal in true form
éanneach (the bird-men si; often benevolent if aloof, are not nearly so rare as they seem)
eleionomae = type of naiad that lives in marshy areas; lures/seduces young males, usually not deadly; Rómhánach term
elemental spirit (often incorporeal; a primal, often primitive si that generally inhabits plants, trees, etc.)
ellylldan = will-o-the-wisp
epimeliad = dryad associated with apple trees; Rómhánach term
fachan (one eye, one arm, one leg, but extremely agile, very strong and can be deadly)
falin (mountain/mountain pass si, very rarely seen; only appear just before sunrise, but can inflict a powerful curse; those who cross his path before the sun shines on it are cursed, often doomed; falin are shapechangers, but their natural form is either an invisible mass or a large-headed, deformed humanoid)
falm = type of bean sidhe; makes no sound, but those who see it are doomed
faolchúnnach ( the wolf-si that can take three forms - man/woman, wolf, wolf-man)
far darrig = fear dearg (like a leath bhrogan but some reptilian features; mean, occ. gruesome jokes)
faun = pan, satyr, except that true faun are often innocuous and jovial, even benevolent; satyr/pan are usually mischievous, and on rare occasion malevolent; faun look almost exactly like satyr except they tend to have more joy or kindness in their expressions, while satyr often smirk or smile lustily
fear gorta (male type of bean sidhe; a famine spirit portends famine; emaciated; is a very bad omen)
fenoderee / fenodyree = brownie
fidealadh (water si, spirit that inhabits water grass and can be dangerous by tangling up swimmers)
finfolk = collective term for any group of finned water si; temperament depends on race in question
flower faeries = sprites, pixies, trooping faeries that are tied to a specific flower and exhibit certain traits
frid (mostly inactive si that inhabits stones, sleeping for millennia; can be drawn out with milk offering)
fuath(an) = type of kelpie; this one has shaggy yellow hair over its true-form body
gan ceann = dullahan (headless si rider who carries his head; red eyes fly around like fireflies - can open any lock with a wave of the hand but is chased away by gold. Human spine whip; those who get too close might have their eyes lashed out by the whip, or marked with a bucket of blood, that is, marked for death)
gancanagh = male counterpart of the leannan sidhe; charms women who waste away when he leaves; such girls and women usually die.
genius loci = general term (Rómhánach) for si spirits that inhabit plants, objects, trees, etc.
ghillie-dhu = green man (guardian si of the forest, trees; usually kind, will viciously defend his forest)
glaistig (beautiful female si, wears green dress but under dress has goat's - satyr-like lower body; can be beneficial and protect herds from monsters; however she DOES dine on blood and if denied can become ravenous)
gnome (males look like gnarled little men, usually red hat and blue suit but varies; incredibly stealthy)
goblin (ugly little faerie that often takes residence in a home; mischievous, annoying, can be helpful)
grave sow = type of grim that appears when a murdered child is buried in secret
green lady (human-like but usually shrouded in ivy; can meld form into ivy; often lives among ruins)
green man = woodwose, ghillie-dhu (dark hair, wears and usually shrouded in leaves)
grig (among the smallest faeries; sprite-like, no larger than a grasshopper)
grim (beneficial si that take form of animal; protect places, usually graves, and inflict terrible justice)
grindylow ("jenny greenteeth", et al - evil water hag who seizes and drowns victims)
gruagach = brownie (variety covered in hair; usually wears no clothes; cuts and threshes wheat, grasses and rye in exchange for bowls of milk; will leave if he does not receive regular bowls, and will throw a tantrum if encountered and asked to don clothing)
gunna = brownie (one who specializes in protecting herds)
gwnragedd annwn (the "ladies of the lake"; beautiful female si, blonde hair, fair skin; benevolent)
Gwrach y Rhibyn = bean nighe
gwyll (nasty sprite that rides horses in the night, leaving them exhausted)
gwyllion = hag; the gwyllion often takes goat form; unlike other hags usually only steal and scare
hag (ugly, crone-shaped si who are almost always malevolent, often murderous)
hamadryad = type of dryad that is so tied to its tree, if the tree is destroyed, the si dies; Rómhánach term
harpy (monstrous winged female si; evil and destructive; males, rare, result from union with male si)
helead (bog nymph; Rómhánach term)
hesperides (garden nymphs; varying demeanor; Rómhánach term)
hobgoblin (ugly, even more so than goblins - usually scaled, etc - but often more helpful than goblins)
hogboon = brownie, those who specialize in tool repair
jack-in-irons (type of bogey, giant-sized; haunts lonely pathways and forlorn stretches of trails and roads at night, killing travellers and collecting skulls)
joint eater = killmoulis
kallikantzaroi (type of bogie that lives underground; smallish, with animal traits; cause trouble; Rómhánach term)
kelpie (infamous water si; true form varies but always some equine element, shape-changer; alien evil)
killmoulis (like a brownie in size; bipedal; long snout, long tongue, alien appearance; helpful and a pain)
kitty-with-a-wick = will-o-the-wisp
kobalos = Rómhánach term for goblins, who seem to be much more malevolent there
kobold = coblyn, coblynau (similar to killmoulis in appearance, though mouth runs much of snout and is full of razor-sharp teeth; live underground in the Catacomb and dig mines, rarely appearing in the surface world, and then almost always only at night; will raid cellars for food and drink - especially drink; trade with dwarves, often requesting some mundane in exchange for jewels and precious metals; often become mischievous and can be a huge pain but if attacked, any kobold survivors or witnesses will return with more of their kind to curse the guilty parties; their curse is one of the most powerful known, and is greatly feared, so much that a cursed individual will often be exiled - even among dwarves)
korrigan (true form is like a gnarled dwarf; can change shape to beautiful woman, kills those beguiled)
laignech faelad = faolchúnnach; specifically those around Degad
lamia (true form is half female, half serpent; can change shape to be beautiful female; usually wicked)
lammikin = bogey that drinks blood, causing death and especially pestilence
lampades (underworld nymphs; almost never seen in the Realm of Time and Consequence; Rómhánach term)
lanthorn = will-o-the-wisp
les-bilieux (An Domlastacht; primal si spirit that has no corporeal form; instead it animates a mass of vegetation, fungus, mold, etc. and becomes an extremely dangerous monstrosity)
leannan sidhe (nasty female si that inspires artists/poets/singers/etc while it drains their life away)
leath bhrogan (male si; usually shy, occasionally mischievous, can be helpful; love drink)
leimakid (meadow nymph; Rómhánach term)
leuce (Rómhánach for spirit of the poplar)
leucrota (hideous, evil si; similar to a dog-lion hybrid; mouth opens wide, with bony ridges; imitates voices and haunts forlorn places, stalking and killing any who pass)
limnades = water nymph; Rómhánach term`
lubber fiend (terrifying but often helpful relative of goblin; works for milk, but violent if wronged)
lunantisidhe (spirit of blackthorn bushes)
mandragora (type of homunculus created by alchemists that incorporates the si spirit from a mandrake)
mandrake (most mandrake or springapple are harmless plants; some, inhabited by a si are dangerous)
meliae (Rómhánach for spirit of the ash)
melusine = Rómhánach term for mhaighdean-mhara/gwnragedd annwn living in fresh water
merrow (females are green-eyed race of mhaighdean-mhara; males are ugly, powerful, can be brutish)
mhaighdean uaine = gwnragedd annwn
mhaighdean-fearán (harpy children will be harpy, male variety, or mhaighdean-fearán; mhaighdean-fearán are beautiful, with lovely wings, except that from knees down have legs/feet of a hawk; mhaighdean-fearán never seem to be wicked like harpies and are often benevolent but as they are competition for the female harpies, they are, sadly, often murdered shortly after birth)
mhaighdean-mhara (mermaid - blue-eyed race, thickly webbed hands, smooth tail; angelic, benevolent; blue-eyed mhaighdean-mhara almost always wed humans, especially Éireannach)
mhaighdean-mhara (mermaid - green eyed race -mischievous and occasionally cruel)
morgen = siren
na fir ghorma = blue merrow; these merrow are especially foul tempered, even wicked
naiad = type of nymph that is associated with waters, both still and rushing but NOT seas or oceans
napaeae = nymph of glens, grottos, lowlands; Rómhánach term
nereid = type of nymph associated with seas and oceans; takes bipedal or mer-form; usu. helpful
nix = mhaighdean uaine = gwnragedd annwn
nuckelavee (the "top dog" of the evil sidhe, nuckelavee is widely feared by virtually everyone)
nymph (shapchanging si ; often takes female form; often tied to a specific land form, body of water, etc )
oread = nymph of mountains, ravines, etc.; Rómhánach term
panes =pan, satyr; Rómhánach term
peallaidh = type of shellycoat; the peallaidh dwells in forlorn waters; not vicious but inadvertently curses
peerie folk = trooping faeries; peerie folk are seelie
pegaeae = naiad; Rómhánach term
peryton (si, like stag-giant bird hybrid that casts shadow of humanoid; vicious killer, loves to eat hearts)
pixie (small; less human-like than sprites; often take form of hedgehog or hedgehog hybrid to escape)
pooka = puca
puca (powerful shape-changing sidhe that usually is an annoyance at most; can be deadly samhain)
rawhead-and-bloody-bones = bogeys who inhabit places of water, esp. wells, and enter homes; contrary to belief are not always murderous of children; usually attack only "naughty" children or turn them into a living stain, that is in peril of being rubbed out or thrown out by parents; some are, however, remorseless murderers of children and the enfeebled)
redcap = powrie (deadly si, appearing as a twisted little gnome or bent skinny dwarf; lightning-quick)
satyr (see faun for difference; the male si with a humanoid upper body, and two goat legs below; although head is humanoid they do have two short horns)
scaedugenga = puca
sea monk = type of kelpie found only in large waters, seas, oceans; armored carapace; immense strength
sea trow = type of trow that lives in water
seelie faeries (can be mischievous, pranksters, but on balance good and benevolent)
selkie (si who take seal and human shape, shedding seal skin; require seal skin to return to seal form)
shellycoat = type of kelpie, the least-dangerous; even innocuous, but deadly if pressed; shell-like armor
shony = type of black dog; these are actually beneficial, their appearance an omen of coming storms
sianach (carnivorous, dangerous si being probably related to leucrota, but deer-like in appearance)
sidhefro (trooping faeries, either seelie or unseelie)
silky = female brownie, called such by its propensity to wear thin garments
siren = morgen (similar to mhaighean-mhara, also beautiful, but deliberately seduces and kills)
sluagh (possibly the damned spirits or souls of wicked persons now deceased, though they do not remember their past lives, and may be malevolent entities - though they share a vulnerability to iron weapons and are probably some kind of faerie; sluagh usually congregate in groups, swooping in silently on the wind, and are notorious for attempting to waylay departing souls and spirits during wakes; excepting their perilous attacks on those recently deceased, they generally cannot cause major harm to humans, though they certainly can and do inflict potentially fatal diseases on domestic animals; slaugh prowl the night and also attempt to lead upright races astray; often coorperate with will-o-the-wisp; appear in various guises, especially as large misshapen crows that are most often silent; also can appear as ghost-like shadows or misshapen and emaciated faeries).
spriggan (small, like bogles, but more aggressive; can change form - young even more so; often "faerie guards" as well as thieves; can grow quickly to giant-sized; will steal babies and raise them, replacing baby with small spriggan; those who harm or neglect this spriggan will be mercilessly attacked - usually ambushed at night and slain terribly, as a warning to others)
sprite (small faeries, human like but usually pointed ears - typical of si; insect-like wings often ornate)
spunkie = type of corpse candle that IS dangerous; acts like a will-o-the-wisp, lives in forlorn places
swan maiden (similar to selkie but animal form is swan)
sylph (generally invisible si that is an aerial spirit; many can take the appearance of slender girls)
talking-trees (si spirit that melds with a tree and can talk but does not move)
tangie - type of kelpie
tarbh uisge ("water bull"; related to kelpie, but less overtly evil, though dangerous; will mate with regular cows, producing very powerful - and very dangerous - bulls)
tiddymun = type of ghillie-dhu who inhabits bogs and fens; usually friendly, wrathful if bog is drained
tree spirits (including spirit of the birch, old woman of the elders, old man of the hawthorne, et al; primal si spirits who inhabit trees, in many cases making them talking trees and walking
trees; demeanor often varies, and is influenced by the tree species)
troll = trow (one of the most powerful si; feared; can only be destroyed by completely destroying liver; trow are often barbaric, sometimes surprisingly civilized and clothed, but still many will fancy if not pursue a meal of human or other si flesh)
trow = troll
undine (water nymph; usually elemental in form, can take form of beautiful woman; Rómhánach term)
unseelie faeries (malevolent faeries, attack with stealth and swarm; often set traps that can be lethal)
urisk = mill brownie
uruisg = satyr
vough = nix
walking-trees (si spirit melds with a tree that becomes animate, and usually can talk as well)
watcher (strange shadowy figures; disappear if approached; might be a ghostly entity rather than a si)
water horse = kelpie
water sprite = type of undine that can also take (large) "sprite" form and fly
will-o-the-wisp (usually mischievous, often malevolent si that can appear as a light - brightness as desired - or virtually invisible like a dull soap bubble in the air; attempts to mislead others or, with increasing frequency, lure monsters to their location)
woodwose = ghillie-dhu
wrach = type of hag; has a sickly cow's head; spreads disease at night especially to children
wulver = laignech faelad / faolchúnnach; Rómhánach term
yannig an od (si who appears as an owl and hoots three times; often asks for pity after each hoot; those who attempt to help will be attacked and destroyed, leaving behind only a gust of air)
