Supports the weight of the world and its angelic counterpart, carrying additional celestial structures on its back.
Kubera
Kubera is the Hindu deity associated with wealth and the lord-king of the semi-divine yakshas, serving as the regent (dikpala) of the north and a protector of the world. His character evolves in textual history from a chief of evil spirits in Vedic sources to a respected lokapala and patron of wealth in later Puranic and epic literature.
Kubikajiri
Kubikajiri (首かじり) is a head-eating ghost from Japanese folklore described as a headless spirit that haunts graveyards at night seeking and consuming heads of the living or the dead. Its presence is often associated with the smell of fresh blood and with searching graves for its own missing head.
Kuchisake-onna
Kuchisake-onna (口裂け女, "mouth-slit woman") is a Japanese urban-legend figure and modern folkloric yōkai/onryō: a mutilated woman who asks victims whether she is beautiful and whose revealed slit mouth leads to killing or mutilation in variant accounts. The legend emerged in the late 1970s and circulates with multiple survival tactics reported in popular sources.
Kui (Māori mythology)
Chthonic demigoddess in Māori mythology associated with the underworld and natural world. (Note: * Origin story: none provided in source material * Appearance: no physical description mentioned * Abilities: fertility/protection not explicitly stated; connection to underworld implies association w)
Kuino
In Guinean (West African) folklore, a kuino is described as an evil spirit whose life or heart is placed in a material object called a sambio; destruction of that sambio by a wizard is said to cause the death of the spirit.
Kuippana (Tapio)
Kuippana, also attested as Tapio or Hippa, is a Finnish forest spirit attested in Finnish tradition as the named sovereign or 'King of the Forest.' Hunters in the tradition addressed him ritually before hunts; he is represented as bodily merged with forest vegetation.
Kukudh
Kukudh (definite Kukudhi) is an Albanian undead revenant variably depicted as the restless soul of a miser haunting his house, a disease-carrying female demon, or a chain-borne January corpse in some regional accounts. The term also functions as a moral label for an evil person and as a name for a severe sickness in southern traditions.
Kukulkan
Kukulkan is the Maya Feathered Serpent deity — a plumed serpent figure functioning as a divine animal, a mediator in Classic royal ritual (the Vision Serpent), and a territorial/political divinity in Postclassic Yucatán (notably Chichén Itzá and Mayapán). The cult circulated across the Maya area and appears in archaeological, iconographic, and folkloric sources.
Kuladevata
A kuladevata (Sanskrit: कुलदेवता) is an ancestral tutelary deity in Hinduism and Jainism bound to a specific clan (kula), gotra, family line, or household. Kuladevatas function as lineage guardians invoked for family well‑being, protection, vow‑fulfilment, and communal identity; they are distinct from ishta‑devata (personal chosen deity) and grāmadevatā (village deity).
Kullervo
Kullervo is a tragic heroic figure from Finnish and Estonian runic-song tradition and the Kalevala epic: a surviving scion of a destroyed clan whose life is marked by enslavement, mistreatment, latent magical powers, vengeance, and self-destruction.
Kumakatok
The Kumakatok are a trio of robed, hooded door‑knockers in Philippine popular belief who visit houses at night; their knock is regarded as an omen of imminent death for the household, typically affecting the eldest member or someone already ill. Reports situate them chiefly in Luzon and the Visayas and record a vernacular practice of painting white crosses on doors to keep them away.
Kumbhakarna
Kumbhakarna is a gigantic rakshasa featured in the Hindu epic Ramayana as a younger brother of Ravana, famed for prodigious size, an enormous appetite, great martial prowess, and a supernatural sleep pattern produced by a divine curse/boon; he recognizes Rama's divinity but fights out of loyalty and is slain by divine weapons during the war.
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