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Abe (cloak phantom)

Abe / Abja

Female ghost or phantom in a coarse woollen cloak (Turk. aba) — Elsie 2001 s.v. Abe.

undead · Domain B

Aga Ymer (Ulcinj besa-return)

Aga Ymer / Aga Ymeri / Ymer Ago

Ulqin husband–wife besa-return. Motif cousin of Doruntine reunification grammar — NEVER the same ballad. Arbëresh Vogëlith name redirects here, not to Kostandin e Doruntina.

hero · Domain C

Ajkuna

Wife of Muji; mother of Omer i Mujit. Premier female subjectivity of the Kângë Kreshnikësh household and bridge to Albanian vajtim (lament) tradition.

hero · Domain C

Ali Bajraktari

Host page for secondary kreshnik song-roles in the thirty-aga cosmos.

hero · Domain C

Angu (sleeper-crusher)

Angu

Formless sleeper-crusher; green/pale face; curse «E xaftë Angu».

spirit · Domain B

Anmalfrosh (Arbëresh ferocious being)

Anmalfrosh

Italo-Albanian (Calabria/Sicily) ferocious being from Ital. animale feroce (Elsie 2001 s.v. Anmalfrosh).

monster · Domain B

Ashqiti (Gjirokastra monster)

Ashqiti

Thin southern/Gjirokastra loan-monster stub. do_not_equate with national kuçedra; Greek-contact corridor honesty.

monster · Domain B

Avullushe (vapor smotherers)

Avullushe / Avullushja

Smothering vapor / nightmare being;. ≠ Bardha; ≠ lugat grave revenant.

undead · Domain B

Baloz (epic sea-risen foe)

Baloz

Sea-rising tribute monster / epic foe. Not the same as Kulshedra. drought-dragon; ≠ lugat revenant class; ≠ besa-ballad physiology.

monster · Domain B

Bardha (white mist maidens)

Bardha / të bardhat

Elsie mist-spirit maidens (honey/cake propitiation; tread → mute). Not the same as Ora e Bardha (white Ora colour-allotment). Same colour word, two entries.

spirit · Domain C

Barefaced Man (märchen trickster)

Qose / Spano

Barefaced Man märchen trickster; proverb omen; pair of Scurfhead.

hero · Domain C

Beauty of the Sea / Sea Beauty

E Bukura e Detit

Tomor cycle Sea Beauty (day with Wind/Beauty grammar). Not the same as Flo. çkë comb-nymph; ≠ automatic perria e detit identity.

beauty · Domain C

Bolla

Bollë / Bolla

Wild aging serpent toward kulshedra; eyes open on Shëngjergji. Not the same as Vitore— Alias Bolla e Shtëpisë → Vitore (never host house-serpent here).

monster · Domain B

Bukla (weasel house-totem)

Bukla / Nuselala

House weasel totem — luck-bringer, spinner, and udder-thief; each house has its own.

spirit · Domain A

Bush (swamp steer)

Bush / Bozh

Elsie 2001 s.v. Bush (~48–49): pond/swamp steer that bellows rain (si deshi bushi, bëri koha); Shkodra bushonja; Mat child-scare bozh. Not the same as Bushtra. witch; Not the same as Lexical. bushter→kulshedra.

spirit · Domain B

Bushtra (marsh witch-monster)

Bushtra

Elsie 2001 s.v. Bushtra (~48–49): swamp female monster who howls and spits fire/brimstone; Kosova witch/hag face. Not the same as Lexical. bushter→kulshedra; Not the same as Bush. steer.

monster · Domain B

Buzmi (Yule log / midwinter fire)

Buzmi / Nata e Buzmit

Elsie Yule log: buzmi / nata e buzmit / buzmar proclamation. Tirta table-for-spirits. Calendar custom — solar grammar on Dielli/Enji.

calendar · Domain A

Daughter of the Moon and the Sun

E Bija e Hënës dhe e Diellit

Arbëresh sun-moon daughter greeted and freed by the kuçedër (Tirta/Haxhihasani).

hero · Domain C

Deli Marku (stride giant)

Deli Marku

Central stride-giant; one step Kruja to Krraba Pass; footprint lore.

hero · Domain C

Dhampir (living vampire-hunter)

Dhampir / Dhampiri

Living son of a lugat and a human mother (usually a widow or living wife). Untamed dark/black hair; cunning and courage; eats normally; sees invisible vampires.

undead · Domain B

Dhëmbësuta (tooth hind / deaf helper mare)

Dhëmbësutë / Dhëmbësuta

Elsie Dhëmbësuta: deaf/dumb escape mare (tooth hind). Not the same as Dhevështrues.

spirit · Domain B

Dhevështrues (earth-observer)

Dhevështrues

Elsie Dhevështrues: spring night earth-listener. Not the same as Dhëmbësuta or cult Dheu.

spirit · Domain B

Dhrim (unlucky day-cluster)

Dhrim / Dhrimëra

March (and August) unlucky day-cluster; vines and washing taboo; weather omens.

other · Domain A

Div (loan ogre)

Div / Divi

Elsie Div: Turk. loan ogre; moustache, lice, flesh-eater. Not the same as Katallan, Gog, or Gogol.

spirit · Domain B

Djegagur (Burning Stone days)

Djegagur

August 1–12 ‘burning stone’ fear window; Labëri weather-omen days.

other · Domain A

Dordolec (rain-boy / scarecrow host)

Dordolec

Leaf-clad rain-boy procession; Devoll Dudulja; garden scarecrow names as a section.

spirit · Domain A

Drangue

Drangùe / Dragùa

Semi-human winged storm culture-hero kind of Albanian folk belief — archetype of light/order against kulshedra (darkness/chaos).

hero · Domain C

Dreq / Djall (devil)

Dreq / Djall

Elsie Devils: djall/dreq/shejtan overlay host. Lexicon page, not kaiju.

spirit · Domain B

Earthly Beauty / Beauty of the Earth

E Bukura e Dheut

Tale / place-myth Beauty (Tomor wind-bride path; Dozon Loubie collision). Not the same as Dheu. cult sheet. Not a temple earth-goddess rewrite.

beauty · Domain C

Enji (Thursday / fire name)

Enji

Albanian Thursday = e enjte / e êjte, calquing Latin Iovis dies (Bardhi 1635; Budi; dialect forms). Supports early Roman week contact.

other · Domain A

Epic fauna (horse, snake, goats, cuckoo)

Fauna e kreshnikëve

One narrative pack for animal actors in Kângë Kreshnikësh. Sections only — not four peer creatures or hero navigation ids.

other · Domain C

Father Tomorr

Baba Tomor

Mountain-father giant chapter: eagles, Wind, Beauties, Shpirag duel, Osum tears. Living pilgrimage calendars share the same massif — keep mountain-father legend distinct from later overlays.

place_sacral · Domain A

Fatia (Fate)

Fatí / Fatia

Southern fate-ladies. Fatite / të tri gratë = the third-night triad (write/bind/cut) — entry vs descriptive, same beings. Nafaka = Kosova lot/destiny lexeme (thin personhood), not a second triad. Mira ≈ soft synonym face. Jashtësme is NOT automatic Fatí (northern Zónja të Jáshtëme → Zana).

fate · Domain A

Fire (living fire cult)

Zjarri

Living fire cult: hearth continuity, calendar hinge-fires, friction living fire (zjarr i gjallë). Enji = disputed Thursday name only — not owner of the rites.

other · Domain A

Flama (disease ghost)

Flamë / Flama

The same word names illnesses (epilepsy, glanders, vine disease, sëmundja e tokës).

undead · Domain B

Floçkë (water maiden)

Floçkë

Water/bank comb-bride. Tirta 2004:134 entry Ksheta with aliases Nusja Shapulicë, Cuca e Liqenit, Nusja e Ujit, Zana e Ujit — and warns it is NOT Oriental-derived E Bukura e Dheut. Elsie Floçkë/Gërshetëza parks here. Not the same as Tomor. Sea Beauty sister; Not the same as M. ärchen Earthly Beauty.

spirit · Domain C

Gjergj Elez Alia

Legendary frontier hero of a self-standing Albanian epic subcycle inside / beside the Kângë Kreshnikësh, not of the Muji–Halili band.

hero · Domain C

Gog (podgy clumsy giant)

Gog / Gogu

Elsie Gog: podgy clumsy giant; tumuli vorra gogs. Not the same as Katallan. / gogol / div.

spirit · Domain B

Gogol (nursery bugaboo)

Gogol / Gogoli

Elsie Gogol: nursery bugaboo; Arbëresh father/son. Not the same as the tumulus giant Gog.

spirit · Domain B

Grabofç (two-headed weeping serpent)

Grabofç / Grabofci

Elsie Grabofç: N Alps two-headed weeping lure serpent.

spirit · Domain B

Halili

Younger kreshnik brother of Muji. Not the same as Kostandin. e Doruntina name collision; ≠ Aga Ymer.

hero · Domain C

Hasapi (Kreshnikësh antagonist)

Hasapi

Epic antagonist of Palaj–Kurti «Deka e Hasapit» (PK #27).

monster · Domain C

Herr (dwarf)

Herr / Herri (Thopçi)

Elsie Herr dwarf + Tirta Herri≈Thopçi; thoperc absorbed. Not the same as Xhindi— Zall-Herr toponym.

spirit · Domain B

Hija (shade / soul-shadow)

Hija / Hije

Elsie Hija: N soul-shadow + Tomor nightmare crown. ≠ lugat / makth / mauthi.

spirit · Domain B

Jelim (Çamëria giants)

Jelim / Jelimi

Elsie Jelim: Saranda/Çamëria giants; descent tradition. ≠ katallan/gog/div.

spirit · Domain B

Jevrenija (Kreshnikësh)

Jevrenija

Kreshnikësh cycle heroine — Mujo and Jevrenija (KK #16).

hero · Domain C

Jud (giant-ghost)

Jud / Judi / Xhudhi

Giant-ghost and xhudhi race; animal forms; horse-belly refuge; night beater of drunkards.

undead · Domain B

Jutbina

Jutbina is the epic plain and krahina that stages the household and assembly geography of the Kângë Kreshnikësh cycle — cycle landscape rather than a separate deity page.

place_sacral · Domain C

Karkanxholi (January iron-shirt undead)

Karkanxholi / Karkanxholl / Karkançoli

Greek καλλικάντζαρος loan adapted into Albanian/Arbëresh midwinter demonology; Ottoman kara koncolos contact also noted.

undead · Domain B

Katallan (cyclops / one-eyed giant)

Katallan / Katalla

Canonical Albanian one-eyed man-eating giant / cyclops name-cloud.

monster · Domain B

Kore (Kelmendi child-eating demon)

Kore

Elsie Kore: Kelmendi child-eating demon; Easter burn Selcë/Vukël. Not the same as Shtriga or Greek Kore.

spirit · Domain B

Kostandini and Doruntina

Kostandini dhe Doruntina

Brother–sister grave-ride / Dead Brother ballad. Not the same as Aga. Ymer (husband–wife Ulqin/Vogëlith); ≠ Halili kreshnik twin; ≠ lugat physiology. Halil Garria-type N oath-ride stays motif-family, not blood undead.

hero · Domain C

Kukudh (multi-type undead / plague)

Kukudh / Kukudhi

Southern plague/hag / chain-corpse field (Arbëresh January pair with karkanxholi). Tomorr unburned lugat→kukudh clock stays regional —

undead · Domain B

Kulshedra

Kulshedër / Kulshedra · Kuçedër / Kuçedra

Storm/drought dragon (duel with drangue; Elias bolts; bolla aging path). Not the same as Baloz sea-ogre; soft-overlap only with ljubi garden brand; loan-beasts (ashqiti/stihi/anmalfrosh).

monster · Domain B

Laurë (river hag)

Laurë / Laura

Tirana-region ugly river/pool hag (Elsie 2001 s.v. Laura ~158): amphibious transform, raucous bank voice, vanishes into water. Not the same as Floçkë the comb-maiden.

spirit · Domain B

Ljubi (garden storm-demon)

Ljubi / Lubia / Mother Lubia

Elsie dual entry / Dozon Loubie garden path. Tirta 2004:61 Labëri lakes: Lubia beside kuçedra as water supernatural — soft overlap with the kulshedra field, not a second national storm-duel axis.

monster · Domain B

Llamja (spring woman-serpent)

Llamja / Llamje

Elsie Llamja: S woman-serpent spring-guard; Mod.Gk Lamia contact.

spirit · Domain B

Lord of the Field (earth-serpent)

Zoti i arës

Field-serpent addressed in highland maize-sowing prayers.

spirit · Domain A

Lucky-Foot First Visitor

Përshëndetësi këmbëmbarë

First-visitor ‘lucky foot’ who brings yearly household fortune.

other · Domain A

Lugat (pest-revenant)

Lugat

Grave/criminal-dead revenant spine. Tomorr lugat→kukudh unburned escalation is REGIONAL, not pan-Albanian law. Not the same as Doruntina ballad physiology; ≠ Baloz; never alias Sampiro/Gjakpirë here.

undead · Domain B

Magjia (Kosova hag)

Magjia

Kosova hag who harms by wishing bad luck.

monster · Domain B

Makth (nightmare incubus)

Makth / Të rëndët e dheut

Nightmare incubus; suffocates sleepers; grants a wish if overcome.

undead · Domain B

Mauthi (gold-fez fairy)

Mauthi / Mauthia

Elsie Mauthia: gold-clad fez fairy; steal fez → lifelong luck. ≠ e_bukura / hija.

spirit · Domain C

Mira (fate fairies)

Mira

Tosk “good ones” / soft face of the Fatí triad — not a separate Olympian fate page. Elsie s.v. Mira also lists zonja të jashtime in a southern fate sense; that is a dictionary sense-split, not a license to alias all Jashtësme here. Northern/Arbëresh Zónja të Jáshtëme → another name for Zana.

fate · Domain A

Mother of the Hearth

Nëna e Vatrës

Hearth mother of each house (ash, feast food in flame, spinning by vatër). Not the same as Shtriga (incl. 'Shtriga e Vatrës' epithet trap)— Elsie optional ID with three Miras = soft overlap, not merge.

spirit · Domain A

Mother of the Sun

Nëna e Diellit

SE Devoll clay-doll burial (Rusica timing); kuleç shared for livestock luck.

spirit · Domain A

Muji

Leader of the Thirty Agas / Këngë Kreshnikësh. Wonder-tale twins (Zjermi & Handa) are motif-parallel only — never cast as Mujo–Halili.

hero · Domain C

Old Wife's Days (calendar hinge)

Ditët e Plakës / Plaka

Elsie Old Wife’s Days: Ditët e Plakës (Mar 29–30, Apr 1), last cold of winter / Ice Saints. Not the same as Nëna e Vatrës; not Rollca Plaka the witch.

calendar · Domain A

Omer, Son of Mujo

Omeri i Mujit

Next-generation kreshnik: son of Muji and Ajkuna.

hero · Domain C

Ora

Northern personal/household fate allotment and epic protectress. Colour-fates (e Bardha…) are Ora aspects — not the same as Bardha mist maidens. South cradle-fate speech defaults to Fatí/Mira — functional kinship, separate figures. House-serpent speech overlaps Vitore job without absorbing Vitore.

spirit · Domain C

Pelhure (white-shroud path-blocker)

Pëlhurë / Pëlhuraza

Elsie Pëlhuraza: Mat tall white-shroud path-blocker. Not the same as Abe or Avullushe.

spirit · Domain B

Perëndi (living God-word — essay)

Perëndi / Perëndia

Lexicon and supreme-being sheet for the Albanian God / deity / sky / heaven word — not a hero biography and not a Zeus/Perkʷunos person page.

other · Domain A

Perria

Perría

Label: loan stratum; secondary only — thinner vs zana.

spirit · Domain C

Prende (dawn / love / Friday)

Prende

Dawn/Friday women’s cult with saint absorb. Not the same as the Fatí/Mira cradle triad; not the same as Hëna.

saint · Domain A

Rozafa

Place-myth for Rozafa / Rozafat Castle (Shkodër): two separate layers must not be collapsed.

place_sacral · Domain C

Saint Elias (thunder / rain saint absorber)

Shën Ilia / Shëndelli

Rainmaking songs invoke Ilia alongside Dielli and Perëndi as ritual speech, not a chart of gods.

saint · Domain A

Saint George (spring calendar saint)

Shëngjergji / Shën Gjergji

Cave near Besh–Dajti: pilgrimage on feast (historic ethnography only).

saint · Domain A

Saint John (summer solstice fire hinge)

Shën Gjin / Shën Gjon

Tirta ≈ 260 summer solstice (24 Jun): straw/byk fires, ash to fields, shearing. Saint shell over solar-fire work calendar — not a pagan Gjin god-name.

calendar · Domain A

Sari Saltik (Krujë / Pashtrik mountain sacral)

Sari Salltëk

Sari Salltëk is a legendary Bektashi holy man whose Albanian cult is especially tied to Krujë and to pilgrimage graves on Mount Pashtrik.

saint · Domain A

Scurfhead (märchen hero)

Qeros / Qerosi / Gël

Scurfhead märchen hero — golden apple, youngest brother, kulshedra rescue.

hero · Domain C

Shëndreu (Tirana iron marsh bogey)

Shëndreu

Tirta 2004:135 Tirana iron marsh bogey; zhunk walk; horseshoe charm that turns harm aside. Christian month-name shell only. Not the same as Laurë.

spirit · Domain B

Shpirag

Mount Shpirag is the rival mountain mass in the Baba Tomor legend — a sacral place in the Tomor–Shpirag story, not an independent mountain-father cult biography and not a merge with Baba Tomor.

place_sacral · Domain A

Shpirt i keq (Evil Spirit)

Shpirt i keq

Elsie Shpirt i keq: tall shroud demon; dog bark; → serpent. ≠ pelhure/abe.

spirit · Domain B

Shtojzovalle (dance spirits)

Shtojzovalle

Elsie 235–6: woodland dance-spirit entry (distinct page). Tirta 2004:115 also lists Shtojzovallet among polite other names for Zana — sense-split: polite name → Zana; dance-spirit entries stay here. Revel-to-death second page still blocked.

spirit · Domain C

Shtriga (vampiric witch)

Shtrigë / Shtriga

Blood-witch / night predator entry. Not the same as Nëna e Vatrës hearth mother. NMK strige = dialect/alias traffic into shtriga — not a new being.

monster · Domain B

Shurdh (northern storm / hail cluster)

Shurdh / Shurdhi

The cluster absorbs local storm names (I Verbti / Shën Verbti in Zadrima; Rmoria in Shala) as dialect faces rather than three separate gods.

other · Domain A

Songs of the Frontier Warriors

Kângë Kreshnikësh

Performance: traditionally sung from memory by lahutarë accompanying themselves on the lahutë (bowed monochord); some singers use çifteli.

cycle · Domain C

Stars (agricultural asterisms)

Yjet

Agricultural asterisms (Tirta ≈ 264–265): Kashta e Kumbares, Dorazi, Lëmi, Shejezet, Ylli i çobanit, Dy Hajdutët e dy Qetë. Peer ≠ swallow Dielli/Hëna.

other · Domain A

Stihi (storm–treasure demoness)

Stihi / Stihí

Southern/Arbëresh fire-breath / treasure-cave demon adjacency. related ashqiti;

monster · Domain B

Summer Day (spring new-year feast)

Dita e Verës / Verëza / Kryeviti

Tirta Kryeviti: 1 March pan-Albanian new-year rites (fires, bread, first visitor). Elsie March 14 Elbasan = regional overlay. Calendar feast — not a deity. Peer ≠ swallow shengjergji/buzmi.

calendar · Domain A

Syqenëz (four-eyed oven hag)

Syqenëz / Syqenëza

Daughter Maro resembles her (Hahn Griechische und Albanesische Märchen — Augenhündin / Vajza e Syqenëza).

monster · Domain B

Syqeni (dog-eyed ogre, male)

Syqeni / Syqenhjanjeri

Male dog-eyed man-eating ogre; peer of four-eyed Syqenëz.

monster · Domain B

Talas (sea-wind personification)

Talas / Talasi

Northern sea-wind / whirlwind personification (Turk. talaz).

spirit · Domain A

The Blessed of the Night

Të Lumet Natë

Night fairies under a blessed gentler name — infant swap and sweat-soaked horses.

spirit · Domain A

The Earth / Lady of the Earth

Dheu / Zonja e Dheut

Cult / taboo earth (pregnant spring, foundation payments). Not the same as E. Bukura e Dheut (märchen Earthly Beauty / Tomor consort path).

place_sacral · Domain A

The Holy Shepherd

Bariu i Shenjtë

Tirta 2004 Kreu V: male mountain/forest counterpart to Zana — wolf-lord and flock protector. Heavy saint overlay (Martin, George attributes). Soft related link to Zana; separate figure.

spirit · Domain C

The Moon

Hëna

Hënë; Gheg Hana / Hanë) is the animistically personified female Moon of Albanian pagan belief — the celestial counterpart of Dielli (the Sun).

other · Domain A

The Sun

Dielli

Tirta (2004) treats the solar complex as primary among traditional festivities.

other · Domain A

The Twins (Zjermi and Handa)

Zjermi e Handa

Arbëresh wonder-tale twins (Schirò). Motif parallel to epic brother-pair theme ONLY — Not the same as Muji. Halili cycle identity.

hero · Domain C

Vitore (Household Serpent)

Vitore / Vitorja

House/hearth guardian serpent. Not the same as Wild. bollë / kulshedra ladder. North often speaks the same job as ora e shtëpisë — homology, not merge. Çamëria: Vitore may play Fatí birth-fate/spinner role — regional bridge only.

spirit · Domain A

Vurkollak (southern corpse-vampire)

Vurkollak

Southern corpse-vampire (Elsie distinct entry): animal-jumped corpse never rots; tomb light; rises after forty days; Friday-night cremation.

undead · Domain B

Xhindi (jinn)

Xhind / Xhindi

Elsie Jinn: Alb. xhind ← Turk. cin; night forms. Qipull absorbed. Not the same as the northern dwarf Herr.

spirit · Domain B

Xhixhibreshka (turtle fairy)

Xhixhibreshka

Elsie Xhixhibreshka: beautiful turtle-form fairy (Çabej). Not the same as the water-maiden Floçkë.

spirit · Domain B

Xhuxhmaxhuxh (bearded dwarf)

Xhuxhmaxhuxh / Xhuxh

Elsie Xhuxhmaxhuxh: Turk. bearded underworld dwarf; Snow White role.

spirit · Domain B

Zana (mountain nymph)

Zana

Mountain nymph / epic empowerer (milk-gift to Muji). Zónja të Jáshtëme is the usual northern polite name for Zana. Do not dump onto Mira/Fatí; Elsie southern fate gloss of zonja të jashtime is a different sense.

spirit · Domain C

Zojz (sky / lightning name)

Zojz

Zojz is the Albanian sky and lightning name of folk oath and storm fear — not a reconstructed Zeus-saga.

other · Domain A