Dreq / Djall (devil)
Dreq / Djall
Elsie Devils: djall/dreq/shejtan overlay host.
Description
Abrahamic/Latin overlay host for the devil in Albanian folk speech and tales. Elsie 2001 s.v. Devils: djall ← Lat. diabolus; dreq ← Lat. draco; satan; Muslim shejtan. Arbëresh collective drëqëzit. Living speech keeps dual Christian names plus Islamic shejtan/lanet. Host page for the synonym cloud — not a pagan-core deity and not a kaiju physiology sheet. Soft contrast with dragua (serpent-slayer / storm hero kind), which is not this devil lexeme.
Features
- appear in many forms as devil in Albanian belief (Elsie Devils)
- name-cloud: djall, dreq, satan, shejtan
Lead story
Albanian speech has more than one name for the Adversary — dreq from an old dragon-word, djall from diabolus, shejtan on the Muslim tongue. Tales and curses keep him busy; Arbëresh speech gathers the pack as drëqëzit. this figure holds the names. It is not the storm hero dragua, and not a mountain god.
Aliases
Dreq · Dreqi · Djall · Djalli · Shejtan · Satan · Lanet · Djallush · Qoftëlarg
Region
Pan-Albanian Christian/Muslim overlay; Arbëresh drëqëzit collective
Relations
- Xhindi (jinn)overlay peer soft
Linked stories
- Dreq / Djall overlay hostRecorded
Elsie Devils gathers djall, dreq, satan, shejtan as the Albanian devil name-cloud. One atlas host; not a pagan deity page and not dragua.