No physical description is provided in the source material, suggesting that it is not perceived as a tangible entity but rather an intangible, spiritual presence.
Contact with a chindi is believed to cause illness and death. Chindis are drawn by the sound of the deceased's name being spoken.
Weaknesses
- conditionrefraining from speaking the deceased's name
Wards
- ritualdestroying possessions after death
- ritualallowing death to occur outdoors
- conditionrefraining from speaking the deceased's name
Children of Ilúvatar
In J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium, the Children of Ilúvatar are the two principal kinds of sentient, created beings—Elves and Men—brought into being by the supreme creator Ilúvatar (Eru) and occupying a central place within Tolkien’s cosmology.
Chimera
The Chimera (Ancient Greek Χίμαιρα) is a monstrous hybrid from Greek myth—traditionally a fire‑breathing composite described with a lion forepart, a goat in the middle, and a serpent hind—portrayed as a destructive beast from Lycia that ravaged cattle and countryside and was slain by the hero Bellerophon. In later tradition its image also appears in visionary or allegorical contexts as an omen.
Chimimōryō
A traditional East Asian class of nature‑bound spirits and monsters associated with mountains, rivers, forests, swamps, trees, and rocks. Originating in ancient Chinese chronicles, the compound term unites two paired spirit-types (chimei and wangliang/mōryō) and was later adopted into Japanese reference works as a catch‑all category for various yōkai, oni‑like beings, and nature deities.
Chiminigagua
Chiminigagua is the supreme creative principle in Muisca (Chibcha) cosmology of the Colombian Altiplano; described in sources as the primordial source of light who brought the visible world into being and from whom the Sun, Moon and other lesser deities derive. The deity is presented more as a transcendent, often bodiless origin than as a regularly culted, anthropomorphic patron; veneration in practice was channeled through solar, lunar and fertility cults and major sanctuaries.
Chimú (Chimor)
The Chimú (also terms as Chimor when referring to their polity) were a pre-Columbian coastal civilization of northwestern Peru that arose ca. 900 CE, produced distinctive material culture (ceramics, metalwork, textiles), controlled up to ~1,000 km of Pacific coastline, and persisted until conquest by the Inca under Topa Inca Yupanqui around 1470 CE. Archaeological evidence from Chimú-associated sites indicates ritual activity including human sacrifice, but the provided sources treat Chimú as a historical culture/polity rather than a supernatural being.
Chin
Chin is a named male numinous figure attested in colonial-era Spanish descriptions of certain Maya groups (notably Verapaz and reports from the Itzá) as having demonstrated sexual intercourse with other male deities and humans; his actions are cited etiologically in those sources as a precedent for regulated same-sex practices in some Maya communities. The surviving extracts do not present Chin with a full cult biography, ritual prescriptions, or iconographic identification in primary indigenous texts.
Chinese dragon (long / loong)
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Chinese ghosts
Spirits of deceased persons in Chinese folk belief, integrated with ancestor-worship and syncretic Buddhist ideas; often conceived as potentially malevolent if neglected or provoked, while some deceased become honored ancestral spirits through proper ritual care.
Chinese gods and immortals (shenxian)
A heterogeneous corpus of deities (shen) and immortals (xian) in Chinese religious and mythic thought, understood as manifestations or localizations of the cosmic principle (Tian/Tao/qì). They include celestial gods, local tutelaries, deified culture-heroes, and Taoist immortals formed and sustained by temples, ancestral ritual, and popular cult.
Chinese guardian lions (shī, 石獅)
Stone or metal sculptural guardian lions (Chinese: shī, often 石獅 shíshī "stone lion") placed in male–female pairs at thresholds to protect buildings and occupants. Originating in Chinese Buddhist and imperial symbolism, they function as apotropaic architectural emblems believed to ward off harmful spiritual influences and hostile humans when correctly placed.
Chinjugami
Chinjugami (鎮守神) are tutelary kami enshrined to protect a specific building, estate, or region. Traditionally installed at chinjusha (guardian shrines) or within temples, they function within syncretic Japanese popular religion to secure human projects and negotiate authority with older local spirits.
Chione (daughter of Daedalion)
A name-attested figure in Greek mythic genealogies listed among several women called Chione (Χιόνη, 'snow'); in the surviving summary sources the Daedalion figure is recorded as having borne sons by the gods Hermes and Apollo. The name Chione appears across multiple, distinct mythic women rather than indicating a single unified supernatural office.
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