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
ENT_VF_APOTROPAIC_BOGEYS,Apotropaic Bogeys,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Collective,Apotropaic figure,child-warding; threshold dread; 'don't let them in',,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Hub for the warning-figures invoked to control behavior or guard thresholds — El Cucuy/the Boogeyman and the Black-Eyed Children — engaged through avoidance, refusal, and protective ritual.",collective
ENT_VF_MODERN_CRYPTIDS,Modern Cryptids,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Collective,Cryptid,sighting waves; omen; rural menace,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Hub for the venerated/feared cryptids of vernacular belief that people engage as harbingers or threats (not mere believed animals): Mothman, Chupacabra, Jersey Devil.",collective
ENT_VF_SLEEP_PARALYSIS_ENTITIES,Sleep-Paralysis Entities,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Collective,Sleep-paralysis entity,nocturnal assault; chest-pressure; intruder presence; paralysis,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"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).",collective
ENT_VF_STARSEEDS,Starseeds,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Collective,UFO-religion identity,"['cosmic origin', 'spiritual mission', 'awakening', 'identity']",,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"A UFO-religion devotional identity: adherents believe their souls originated on other worlds (Pleiades, Sirius, Arcturus) and organize practice around 'activating' their starseed mission, connecting with their star families, and reading galactic-origin signs. Documented within New Age/UFO-religion scholarship (Partridge, occulture); sincere identity-and-practice engagement, but emergent and contested, so conf C.",collective
ENT_VF_WITCHTOK,WitchTok / Online Neopagan Devotion,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Movement,digital-age neopagan devotion,"['deity worship', 'witchcraft', 'devotional practice', 'divination']",,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"A digital devotional movement node: Gen Z devotees on TikTok/Instagram genuinely venerate ancient deities — building altars, leaving offerings, doing 'deity work,' interpreting signs, and reporting being 'called' by a god. Documented by Burton (Strange Rites) and digital-religion scholarship (Campbell). Wired reception_of to the specific ancient deities documented as WitchTok-popular; this models contemporary reception, not duplication, of those still-attested entities.",collective