tradition_profile: Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion
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| tradition | tradition_class | prevalence | status_note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion | vernacular-folklore | emergent | Contemporary vernacular & digital folklore — emergent supernatural beings people genuinely engage ritually (summoning), devotionally (petition/veneration), or apotropaically (warding/protection), outside any organized religion: urban legends, cryptids, sleep-paralysis and entheogenic encounter-entities, meme-magic egregores, and New Age / Gen-Z devotional currents. Lived belief and practice (ostension), NOT fiction — purely fictional creepypasta and franchises are excluded. |