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In Hausa mythology, Ba-Maguje is the spirit of drunkenness.
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In Canaanite mythology, Baal was the god of fertility. He was the son of El. In Phoenician mythology, Baal was the god of fertility, the storm, and winter rains, whose annual struggle with Mot, the god of harvesting crops, symbolized for Phoenicians the renewal of the earth's vegetation each spring.
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In Arapesh mythology, Babamik is a cannibal ogress who is eventually lured to her death and she then becomes a crocodile.
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In Persian mythology, Bahram Gur is the legendary Sassanian king, renowned as a hunter and lover, credited with the invention of poetry, and a frequent figure in Persian poetry and iconography. He married the seven daughters of the Kings of the Seven Climates, sleeping with a different one each night of the week, and each one telling him a different tale. The tales, telling of natural and fantastic events, are seen in Persian Islamic tradition as symbolic of the purification of the mystic's soul on its way to God.
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In Malaysian mythology, the bajang is an evil spirit which usually takes the shape of a polecat. When it mews at night a child will die. It is said that a bajang is obtained from the newly buried body of a still-born child, and can be lured from it by incantations of a sorcerer.
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In Christian mythology, Balthazar was one of the three wise men who travelled from the east to pay homage to the baby Jesus.
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In Scottish folklore, a banshee is a fairy who forewarns of death by wailing.
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In Balinese mythology, Barong is a protective spirit portrayed as a lion or tiger.
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In mythology the Basilisk was a fabulous creature formerly believed to exist, and variously regarded as a kind of serpent, lizard, or dragon, and sometimes identified with the cockatrice. It inhabited the deserts of Africa, and its breath and even its look was fatal.
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In Indonesian mythology, Batara Guru is the great god who made the earth.
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In Philistine mythology, Beelzebub was the supreme god. The name Beelzebub in Hebrew means 'the god of flies'. The use of Beelzebub in the New Testament has been the subject of much discussion, some asserting it to be an opprobrious form of Beelzebub, meaning the 'lord of dung,' others translating it 'lord of the dwelling'.
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In Italian mythology, Befana is the good-fairy who fills children's Christmas stockings with toys while they sleep on Twelfth Night. According to Legeb, Befana was too busy with her housework to look after the three Kings when they went to offer their gifts to the baby Jesus, and said she would wait to see them on their return. However, they went another way and now every Twelfth Night Befana watches out for the three Kings.
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In Batak mythology, begu are ghosts which wander the after world formless and starving. They approach humans by way of mediums demanding sacrifices to feed on. They may also steel the soul of a living person for a husband/ wife.
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In Melanau mythology, Belam are protective spirits who catch the souls of sick people and return them to their bodies thereby curing them.
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Ben was the Saxon god of the sea, similar to the Roman Neptune.
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In the mythology of Southern Germany Berchta was the goddess of benign influence. After Christianity took over she became represented as an evil spirit, a hobgoblin, and was used to frighten children.
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In English folklore, the Bicorn was a monster that fed on husbands bullied and commanded by their wives. According to lore, the Bicorn was fat and well fed. A rival beast, the Chichevache fed on obedient wives, but unlike its rival it was thin and emancipated.
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In the mythology of the Democratic Republic of The Congo, Biloko are spirits which live in hollow trees in the forest. They dress only in leaves and are devoid of hair, instead grass grows on their body. They have piercing eyes and a snout with a mouth which can open wide enough to swallow a man dead or alive. They have long sharp claws and can put a spell on passers by except those protected by strong counter magic.
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In Slavonic mythology, Bjelbog is the pale or white god, as opposed to Tshernybog, the black god or god of darkness.
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In Chibcha mythology, Bochica was the supreme being.
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A Bodhisattva is someone who has transmuted his personal human nature and raised it into impersonality.
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In Kwakiutl mythology, Bokwus is a wild spirit of the woods who draws the spirits of the drowned to his home.
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In English folklore, the Bolton ass was a mythical creature said to chew tobacco and take snuff.
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In Bororo mythology, Bope are evil spirits who attack the souls of the dead.
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In Batak mythology, Boraspati ni Tano is an earth spirit. Sacrifices are made to him when a new house is built.
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In Ghanaian mythology, Bossum was one of the two chief gods. Bossum was the principle of good.
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Brer Rabbit is the arrogant, but cunning and clever, hero of a number of folk tales told by the North American Negro slaves, and probably originating from Africa. The stories were padded out and documented by Joe Chandler Harris during the late 19th century.
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In Scotland, brownies are imaginary spirits believed to haunt houses, particularly farmhouses. Rather than doing damage, they are believed to be helpful to the family, particularly to the servants if they treat the
brownie well.
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The buckle of Isis was an ancient Egyptian amulet representing the
buckle of Isis and affording eternal protection to the wearer. It was traditionally made from carnelian, red jasper, red glass or another red substance (representing the blood of Isis), and sometimes of gold.
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The Bulla is an ancient amulet for protection against fascination.
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In Tongan mythology, Bulotu is the paradise where the spirits of the dead live amidst richly laden fruit trees and blossoms in eternal bliss.
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In Islamic mythology, Buraq was the beast that carried the Prophet Muhammad to heaven. Buraq was a white coloured animal, half-mule and half-donkey with wings at its sides.
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In Slav mythology, Byelobog was the White god who fought and was balanced by the Black god Chernobog.
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