A Misthy or Wonderful Wight , is an afinding or fathomed and often otherworldly deer or manlike beings, many times thwarsebred and sometimes a share were whose being has not or cannot be shown and that is told of in folklore or afindwrit but also in eretidely writs before eretide became a lore. Below follow wights from syndry folklores.
For sundry otherwordly beings from more than just mistlore, see List of otherworldly beings and words .
Basic abbreviations
OE = Old English
NHG = New High German
Du. = Dutch
OS = Old Saxon For a full list of etymological and other abbreviations used in these wordlists, see: Offshortenings
Greekish Wights [ ]
English
Anglish
Bewriting
Cyclops
Oneeye
One-eyed ent
Dragon
Drake, Wyrm
Mighty winged ask-like wight
Giant
Ent
Overly stour man
Griffin
Ernelee
Body of a lee, wings and head of an erne
Gorgon
Dread
Dreadful woman with snakehair
Hippocampus
Horsefivel
Head and forelimbs or a horse, rear of a fish
Hippogriff
Horseerne
Half ernelion, half horse
Hydra
Lakewyrm
Wyrm-like deerwight with many heads
Siren
Merfolk (Mermaid, Merman)
Water-dwelling man with a fish tail
Minotaur
Mazebull; Bullman
Man with a bull head
Monster
Thurse
Dreadful wight
Pegasus
Winged Horse, Winghorse
Horse with wings
Titan
Strain
Godly ent
Unicorn
Onehorn
Horse with one twisting horn on its forehead
Norse Wights [ ]
English
Anglish
Bewriting
Draugr
Drow, Drog (OS gidrog )
Undead wyeman
Dwarf
Dwarf
Short underground stout harsh man
Elf
Elf
Fair wilderness man with pointy eartips
Jötunn
Ettin
Ent
Troll
Troll
Ugly barrow-dwelling ent or man
Valkyrie
Walkury (<ME walkyrie )
Womanly ghost leading fallen wyemen
Hebrewish Wights [ ]
English
Anglish
Bewriting
Angel
Errander
Errand ghost of God
Behemoth
Wight
Stour ox
Golem
Rawman
Soulless man of clay
Leviathan
Wreathwyrm
Stour water wyrm
Nephilim
Fallen
Fallen errander, ent
Satan
Smearer
Underwordly fiend