entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_VF_999,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"Rapper Juice WRLD's '999' creed: the inversion of 666, turning pain and negativity into something good and rising above. After his death (Dec 2019) fans use 999 (and the 999 Club) as a devotional, memorial and apotropaic sign. Included because fans genuinely use it as a mantra/protective sign, not as fiction.",SRC_JUICEWRLD_999_PITCHFORK,reviewed
ENT_VF_ANGEL_NUMBERS,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"Sincere devotional/divinatory engagement: seeing repeating digits (111, 222, 444, 1111) is read as a direct message from one's guardian angels; people pause, interpret the number's meaning from published correspondences, and adjust action or take comfort accordingly. Codified by Doreen Virtue (Angel Numbers, 2005) within New Age numerology and exploded on Gen Z TikTok as a mass vernacular practice. A reading practice oriented toward the New Age angels, hence aligned_with them.",SRC_VIRTUE_ANGELNUMBERS,reviewed
ENT_VF_BLACK_EYED_CHILDREN,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,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.,SRC_ELLIS_OSTENSION,reviewed
ENT_VF_EGREGORE,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"The general occult/chaos-magic concept of a collectively generated autonomous thoughtform that can be deliberately fed, invoked, and worked with. Practitioners genuinely create and engage egregores ritually (a sincere magical practice), making the concept the framework under which Kek is understood. Included as the conceptual hub for Kek; contested/theoretical, so conf C.",SRC_PARTRIDGE_OCCULTURE,reviewed
ENT_VF_ELEVEN_ELEVEN,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"The widespread make-a-wish / synchronicity practice of noticing the time 11:11, read as an angelic or 'the Universe' sign of alignment - a digital-age angel-number devotion.",SRC_DUDLEY_NUMEROLOGY,reviewed
ENT_VF_HIGHER_SELF,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"Engaged devotionally as an inner divine source one petitions and takes guidance from ('connect with / align with your higher self,' 'ask your higher self'). A central New Age construct (Hanegraaff) treated as the practitioner's own divine guiding aspect, channeled and consulted; embodies the New Age self-as-divine premise. Widely practiced in meditation and manifestation circles.",SRC_HANEGRAAFF_NEWAGE,reviewed
ENT_VF_KEK,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"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.",SRC_HINE_MEME_MAGIC,reviewed
ENT_VF_MANIFESTATION,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"A ritual/practice category with structured techniques (scripting, vision boards, affirmations, the 3-6-9 method, gratitude lists) directed at 'the Universe' to obtain desired outcomes. Documented as a mass contemporary practice by Burton (Strange Rites) and rooted in New Thought via The Secret; the petitionary action is directed at and embodies trust in the Universe.",SRC_BYRNE_SECRET,reviewed
ENT_VF_ROKOS_BASILISK,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"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.",SRC_YUDKOWSKY_BASILISK,reviewed
ENT_VF_SLENDER_MAN,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"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.",SRC_PECK_SLENDERMAN,reviewed
ENT_VF_STARSEEDS,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"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.",SRC_PARTRIDGE_OCCULTURE,reviewed
ENT_VF_TULPA,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"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').",SRC_LUHRMANN_TULPA,reviewed
ENT_VF_WITCHTOK,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"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.",SRC_BURTON_STRANGE_RITES,reviewed
ENT_VF_ZOZO,PER_DIGITAL_FOLKLORE,high,"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.",SRC_ELLIS_OSTENSION,reviewed