Banshee – in Ireland, a ancestral spirit. It haunts homes and heralds the death of a relative with its cries. It appears in the form of an old woman or a beautiful maiden.
Becuma - a divine fairy, sentenced to banishment for adultery.
Boand - heroine of the Irish myth Dinnsenchus. The river Boand (Boyne) is named after her.
Boggart - an English house spirit. He loves to scare people.
Bogie - an English scoundrel who does evil to people and animals.
Cartimandua - legendary Breton queen, famous for her wisdom and talents.
Celtiber - brother of the god Arar.
Cerain Feddw - a hero of Welsh myths to whom a miraculous boar revealed the secret of brewing beer.
Creidne - a divine blacksmith from Irish myth who made a silver hand for the god Nuada.
Culann - blacksmith, owner of a monstrous dog.
Dahud - good witch, daughter of Gradlon.
Dian Cecht – a divine physician from Irish legend who is said to have given the god Nuada a silver hand in place of the one lost in battle. During the Second Battle of Moytura, Dian Cecht murdered his son, whose medical abilities surpassed those of his father. "The Judgment of Dian Cecht," an ancient Irish legal treatise, discusses duties towards the sick and wounded.
Don - a divine figure of indeterminate gender, appearing in Welsh mythology as the equivalent of the Irish goddess Danu.
Druda - English sister of the striga.
Elves - demonic creatures inhabiting Scandinavian and English meadows, caves, mountains, dungeons, and forests, often evil and hostile to humans. In fairy tales, they are good spirits.
Ellud - a hero, was to teach people how to plow.
Ferdead, Ferdia - a great warrior with a body covered with horny scales.
Fomhoir - one-eyed demons.
Fomoraig - a demonic one-eyed and one-legged creature with an animal head (probably a goat).
Fomorian - king of Irish demons.
The galleytrot – in English folklore, a ghost in the form of a monstrous dog – most often appears in cemeteries, crossroads, and wilderness areas. It guards hidden treasures and heralds death.
Gradlon - mythical king of Cornwall.
Kelpie – an evil spirit in Scottish belief. He took the form of a horse and coaxed the unwary into mounting it. Once he achieved his goal, he drowned them in rivers or lakes.
Knockers – in English folklore, so-called knocking spirits. They do this in mines, showing miners the locations of deposits. However, they request that no crosses or crosses be worn in their presence.
Mabon, Maponos - knight, hero of the Welsh epic.
Pixie - in English folklore, demonic creatures, malicious fairies.
Laundress – in Scottish folklore, the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth. She heralds death by appearing in the form of a laundress washing bloody garments.
Pwyll - a mortal, husband of the goddess Riannon in Welsh mythology.
Sidh - an underground state, the abode of the gods and the souls of the dead.
Silky – in English folklore, a spirit that takes the form of a woman. It frightens people by performing chores neglected by lazy housewives and disobedient children at night.
Tash – in Irish belief, the penitent soul of a person who committed suicide. It takes the form of humans and animals.
Threnody - ruler of the afterlife world lying in the west.
Tuatha De' Danann - divine tribes and humans, descendants of the goddess Danu. Masters of druidry and magic, the Tuatha de' Danann possess four talismans of great power: the stone of Fal, which cried out beneath the rightful heir to the throne; the spear of Lug, which made victory certain; the sword of Nuadhu, which slays all enemies, and the ever-filled cauldron of the Dagda, thanks to which no man shall go hungry.
Viviana - fairy of springs.
Wates - fortune tellers.
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