{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_BALT_RAGANA", "Ragana", null, "Baltic", "spirit / witch figure", "Spirit", "witchcraft; shape-shifting; disease; night; owls", null, null, null, "B", null, null, null, null, null, "Witch-spirit of Baltic folk tradition; Lithuanian ragana (from ragana, witch, seer; related to reg\u0117ti, to see / perceive). Ragana is a shapeshifting being who can transform into an animal (typically a hare, toad, or owl), fly at night, cause disease in livestock, and steal the milk of cattle. In folk songs she is sometimes associated with the moon and darkness, and sometimes identified with the souls of dead women who did not die a natural death. She occupies an ambivalent position between deity and spirit; Gimbutas treats her as a demonized survival of an older chthonic goddess tradition. Evidence is primarily from 17th-18th century folk accounts and ethnographic collection; classified confidence B (folk tradition, not direct chronicle attestation). Gimbutas (1963) pp. 207-208.", "spirit"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_BALT_RAGANA"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0212000001956767, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}