Entity Periods

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

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{'description': 'high / medium / low — certainty of the period assignment'}
rationale
{'description': 'Justification with source citations'}

17 rows where period_id = "PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE"

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ENT_VF_APOTROPAIC_BOGEYS,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE Apotropaic Bogeys ENT_VF_APOTROPAIC_BOGEYS Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high 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. SRC_ELLIS_OSTENSION reviewed
ENT_VF_BLOODY_MARY,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE Bloody Mary ENT_VF_BLOODY_MARY Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high 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. SRC_DUNDES_BLOODYMARY reviewed
ENT_VF_CHUPACABRA,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE Chupacabra ENT_VF_CHUPACABRA Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high The 'goat-sucker' blamed for exsanguinated livestock across Latin America and the US Southwest since 1995. 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 DMT Machine Elves ENT_VF_DMT_MACHINE_ELVES Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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 The Mantis (DMT Entity) ENT_VF_DMT_MANTIS Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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 El Cucuy (the Boogeyman / Sack Man) ENT_VF_EL_CUCUY Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high 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. SRC_ELLIS_OSTENSION reviewed
ENT_VF_HAT_MAN,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE The Hat Man ENT_VF_HAT_MAN Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high 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. SRC_ADLER_SLEEP reviewed
ENT_VF_JERSEY_DEVIL,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE The Jersey Devil ENT_VF_JERSEY_DEVIL Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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 Krampus ENT_VF_KRAMPUS Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high 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. SRC_RIDENOUR_KRAMPUS reviewed
ENT_VF_LA_LLORONA,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE La Llorona ENT_VF_LA_LLORONA Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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 Modern Cryptids ENT_VF_MODERN_CRYPTIDS Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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 Mothman ENT_VF_MOTHMAN Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high Winged red-eyed being of the 1966–67 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 — an apotropaic/divinatory reading, not fiction. SRC_KEEL_MOTHMAN reviewed
ENT_VF_NEWAGE_ANGELS,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE New Age Guardian Angels ENT_VF_NEWAGE_ANGELS Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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 The Old Hag (Night-Hag) ENT_VF_OLD_HAG Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE high 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. SRC_HUFFORD_NIGHT reviewed
ENT_VF_SHADOW_PEOPLE,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE Shadow People ENT_VF_SHADOW_PEOPLE Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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) — a lived apotropaic engagement, not a written character. SRC_HUFFORD_NIGHT reviewed
ENT_VF_SLEEP_PARALYSIS_ENTITIES,PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE Sleep-Paralysis Entities ENT_VF_SLEEP_PARALYSIS_ENTITIES Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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 The Universe ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE Modern Urban Legend & Folklore (19th–20th c.) 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

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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);