The Anglish Moot
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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


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