THE CONCORDANCE

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3 records across 3 traditions carry this current.

Africa & the Middle East · 1

AlbastiNight visitor · Central Asia · TurkeyAlbasty (Albastı, Albasly, Albarsty and many local forms) is a female being known across Turkic Central Asia, the Volga, the Caucasus, and Anatolia. On the steppe she is foremost a childbed demon; in some regions a disease-presser or, in older layers, a guardian of birth later recast as harmful.

Asia & the Isles · 1

TikbalangWildwood · PhilippinesA Philippine forest being, now usually pictured as a tall, bony horse-headed humanoid, that misleads travellers. Early Spanish records call it a mountain phantom; the werehorse face arrived after horses did.

Europe & the North · 1

PúcaShapeshifter · IrelandA mercurial shape-changing being in Irish folklore, sometimes frightening, sometimes helpful, and rarely reducible to a single moral.