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Communities act on it (livestock protection, vigilance, reporting) as a real present threat; Radford traces the lived legend.", "SRC_RADFORD_CHUPACABRA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_DMT_MACHINE_ELVES", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "The 'self-transforming machine elves' (Terence McKenna) / autonomous entities reported by DMT users. People ritually occasion the encounter (set, setting, ceremony) and act on the perceived contact as relational/communicative; Strassman's clinical study and the Davis/Griffiths survey document the recurrent, agentic experience.", "SRC_STRASSMAN_DMT", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_DMT_MANTIS", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "A recurrent insectoid/mantis-like entity reported in DMT encounters, often performing 'operations' on the experiencer. Documented as a distinct recurring entity-type in the Davis et al. survey; people engage it as an autonomous being. C for emergent/contested status.", "SRC_DAVIS_DMT_ENTITY", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_EL_CUCUY", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "The bogeyman invoked by caregivers (El Cucuy / Coco / the Sack Man / 'el hombre del saco') to enforce child behavior \u2014 'he takes children who misbehave.' A living apotropaic verbal custom with active warding/threat function across Hispanic and broader folk cultures.", "SRC_ELLIS_OSTENSION", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_HAT_MAN", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "A tall brimmed-hat shadow figure reported by thousands during sleep paralysis. People genuinely engage him apotropaically \u2014 refusing eye contact, praying, leaving lights on, repositioning to avoid recurrence. Documented as a recurrent experiential encounter, not authored fiction.", "SRC_ADLER_SLEEP", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_JERSEY_DEVIL", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "Winged hooved creature of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, tied to the Mother Leeds birth legend. A durable regional belief people invoke and search for; the 1909 sighting panic shows lived apotropaic engagement (schools closed, people stayed indoors).", "SRC_ELLIS_OSTENSION", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_KRAMPUS", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "Horned Alpine companion of St. Nicholas who punishes bad children. A living ritual custom \u2014 Krampusnacht (Dec. 5) Krampuslauf processions of masked runners with switches and bells \u2014 performed apotropaically/seasonally across Austria, Bavaria, and beyond.", "SRC_RIDENOUR_KRAMPUS", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_LA_LLORONA", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "The Weeping Woman who drowned her children and seeks others by water. Invoked apotropaically to keep children away from rivers/canals after dark; a living warning-spirit with active protective function (Perez documents the lived tradition).", "SRC_PERLOFF_LLORONA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_MODERN_CRYPTIDS", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "Hub for the venerated/feared cryptids of vernacular belief that people engage as harbingers or threats (not mere believed animals): Mothman, Chupacabra, Jersey Devil.", "SRC_RADFORD_CHUPACABRA", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_MOTHMAN", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "Winged red-eyed being of the 1966\u201367 Point Pleasant sighting wave, treated as a harbinger of the Silver Bridge collapse. Engaged experientially and as an omen/portent (Keel); people interpret sightings as warnings \u2014 an apotropaic/divinatory reading, not fiction.", "SRC_KEEL_MOTHMAN", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_NEWAGE_ANGELS", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "Devotional engagement is documented and sincere: practitioners petition personal guardian angels by name, ask for signs, thank them, and seek their guidance through angel cards, automatic writing, and prayer. Codified in Doreen Virtue's best-selling angel literature and angel oracle decks, and earlier in Hanegraaff's account of New Age angelology. Distinct from the Christian doctrine: here every person has assignable, nameable angels reachable on demand, blended with reincarnation and the 'ascended masters.' A real historical taproot is the Zoroastrian guardian-spirit complex (fravashis / amesha spentas), widely cited as ancestral to the Judeo-Christian guardian-angel idea, hence the reception_of edges to both the Christian and Zoroastrian anchors.", "SRC_HANEGRAAFF_NEWAGE", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_OLD_HAG", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "The Newfoundland 'Old Hag' who sits on the sleeper's chest \u2014 Hufford's core case for an experience-centered, cross-cultural assault tradition. People take protective measures ('being hagged' is acted upon). A genuine continuation of the older mare/night-mare and Lilith-as-strangler complex.", "SRC_HUFFORD_NIGHT", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_SHADOW_PEOPLE", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "Dark humanoid figures perceived at the bed or in peripheral vision, frequently during sleep paralysis. Experiencers describe protective responses (prayer, invocation of guardian angels, banishing) \u2014 a lived apotropaic engagement, not a written character.", "SRC_HUFFORD_NIGHT", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_SLEEP_PARALYSIS_ENTITIES", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "Hub for the recurring figures of the supernatural-assault tradition documented by Hufford and Adler: cross-culturally stable, experience-centered encounters during sleep paralysis that people interpret and ward against (light left on, prayer, sleeping position changes).", "SRC_HUFFORD_NIGHT", "reviewed"], ["ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE", "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE", "high", "Genuinely petitioned, thanked, and trusted as a providential agent ('the Universe has my back,' 'thank you, Universe,' 'asking the Universe for X'). Functions as a quasi-deistic provider in Law-of-Attraction practice; Rhonda Byrne's The Secret (2006) instructs the practitioner to ask the Universe, believe, and receive, treating it as a responsive personal force. Rooted in 19th-c. New Thought, hence Modern-Folklore period; the vernacular gratitude/petition idiom is ubiquitous online.", "SRC_BYRNE_SECRET", "reviewed"]], "truncated": false, "filtered_table_rows_count": 17, "expanded_columns": [], "expandable_columns": [[{"column": "period_id", "other_table": "periods", "other_column": "period_id"}, "period_name"], [{"column": "entity_id", "other_table": "entities", "other_column": "entity_id"}, "canonical_name"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "period_id", "confidence", "rationale", "source_id", "review_status"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id", "period_id"], "units": {}, "query": {"sql": "select entity_id, period_id, confidence, rationale, source_id, review_status from entity_periods where \"period_id\" = :p0 order by entity_id, period_id limit 101", "params": {"p0": "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE"}}, "facet_results": {}, "suggested_facets": [{"name": "source_id", "toggle_url": "http://deitydb-explorer.fly.dev/deitydb/entity_periods.json?period_id=PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE&_facet=source_id"}], "next": null, "next_url": null, "private": false, "allow_execute_sql": true, "query_ms": 483.29823999847576, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}