entities: ENT_VF_SLENDER_MAN

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use category to filter by functional type (146 values: Underworld Deity, Hero, Adversarial Being, Revealer Figure, etc.). Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

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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_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

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