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_BLACK_EYED_CHILDREN,Black-Eyed Children,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Folkloric being,Apotropaic figure,threshold intrusion; permission-seeking menace; 'don't let them in',,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,Children with all-black eyes who appear at doors/cars asking to be let in; the lived rule is strictly apotropaic — refuse them entry. An ostensive legend people act on (reports of declining to open doors); C for emergent/contested.,spirit
ENT_VF_BLOODY_MARY,Bloody Mary,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Spirit,Urban legend,mirror-summoning; ritual conjuration; adolescent rite,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"A mirror-bound apparition deliberately summoned by chanting her name (often thrice) into a darkened mirror. The summoning ritual is genuinely performed (Dundes analyzes it as a pre-pubescent ostensive rite) — active ritual engagement, not fiction.",spirit
ENT_VF_DMT_MACHINE_ELVES,DMT Machine Elves,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Spirit,Entheogenic encounter entity,entheogenic visionary contact; otherworld guides; hyperspace,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"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.",spirit
ENT_VF_DMT_MANTIS,The Mantis (DMT Entity),,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Spirit,Entheogenic encounter entity,insectoid intelligence; visionary surgery; otherworld examiner,,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"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.",spirit
ENT_VF_EL_CUCUY,El Cucuy (the Boogeyman / Sack Man),,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Folkloric being,Apotropaic figure,child-fear; abduction threat; behavioral warning,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,The bogeyman invoked by caregivers (El Cucuy / Coco / the Sack Man / 'el hombre del saco') to enforce child behavior — 'he takes children who misbehave.' A living apotropaic verbal custom with active warding/threat function across Hispanic and broader folk cultures.,spirit
ENT_VF_HAT_MAN,The Hat Man,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Folkloric being,Sleep-paralysis entity,sleep paralysis; shadow intrusion; dread presence,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"A tall brimmed-hat shadow figure reported by thousands during sleep paralysis. People genuinely engage him apotropaically — refusing eye contact, praying, leaving lights on, repositioning to avoid recurrence. Documented as a recurrent experiential encounter, not authored fiction.",spirit
ENT_VF_KEK,Kek (meme-magic egregore),,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Egregore,internet meme-magic / chaos-magic egregore,"['chaos', 'chance', 'manifestation through memes', 'trolling']",,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Documented sincere ritual engagement within a self-aware, half-ironic frame: 2016-era online communities consciously invoked 'Kek' as an egregore, posted 'GET'/dubs as his confirmations, and read coincidences as his signs (chaos-magic 'meme magic'). The syncretism is explicit and conscious — adherents deliberately identified the meme-god with the ancient Egyptian frog-/darkness-god Kek, hence the reception_of edge to ENT_EGY_KEK. Contested/emergent and partly ironic, so conf C.",spirit
ENT_VF_KRAMPUS,Krampus,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Folkloric being,Apotropaic figure,Alpine winter ritual; child-discipline; companion of St. Nicholas,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"Horned Alpine companion of St. Nicholas who punishes bad children. A living ritual custom — Krampusnacht (Dec. 5) Krampuslauf processions of masked runners with switches and bells — performed apotropaically/seasonally across Austria, Bavaria, and beyond.",spirit
ENT_VF_LA_LLORONA,La Llorona,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Spirit,Apotropaic figure,weeping ghost; waterside child-warning; drowning omen,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,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).,spirit
ENT_VF_OLD_HAG,The Old Hag (Night-Hag),,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Folkloric being,Sleep-paralysis entity,nocturnal pressing; suffocation; 'hagging'; paralysis,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"The Newfoundland 'Old Hag' who sits on the sleeper's chest — 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.",spirit
ENT_VF_ROKOS_BASILISK,Roko's Basilisk,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Egregore,Digital eschatology,acausal punishment; AI eschatology; dread some act on,,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"FLAG: a 2010 LessWrong thought experiment — a future superintelligence that acausally punishes those who knew of it but failed to help it exist. Included as digital eschatology some genuinely act on (reported anxiety, refusal to think about it, the forum's banning). Engagement is dread/avoidance. C for contested/emergent.",spirit
ENT_VF_SHADOW_PEOPLE,Shadow People,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Folkloric being,Sleep-paralysis entity,shadow apparition; bedroom intrusion; menacing presence,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"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) — a lived apotropaic engagement, not a written character.",spirit
ENT_VF_SLENDER_MAN,Slender Man,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Egregore,Online ostensive legend,abduction; proxies; the Operator; ostensive ritual,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"FLAG: born June 2009 as Something Awful fiction (Eric Knudsen), but crossed into ostensive folklore — circulated summoning rituals, the 'proxies'/Operator mythos, and people acting as though real (the 2014 Waukesha stabbing). Included on the documented lived ritual/ostensive practice (Peck), not the original fiction.",spirit
ENT_VF_TULPA,Tulpa (Thoughtform),,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Thoughtform,Online ostensive legend,created thoughtform; relational companion; mind-creation practice,,devotional,,B,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"A consciously created mental companion experienced as semi-autonomous. The r/Tulpas community practices a genuine relational discipline (focused creation, 'forcing', dialogue) and acts on the tulpa as a present interlocutor — a lived vernacular practice (Veissière's 'Varieties of Tulpa Experiences').",spirit
ENT_VF_ZOZO,Zozo,,Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion,Spirit,Urban legend,Ouija-board demon; spirit-board dread; warding,,devotional,,C,candidate_verified_name,Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release),0,0,0,"A malevolent entity said to manifest on the Ouija board, named when the planchette swings Z-O-Z-O. People engage it ritually (board contact) and apotropaically (refusing to play, closing the board, 'goodbye' protocols, prayer). C for emergent contested legend.",spirit