Sources note the name stihí (variant stuhí) literally means 'storm' in Albanian and that authors link the term to the Greek στοιχείο (stoicheion/stoicheío, 'element, spirit'). The supplied material does not record a narrative origin myth; rather, the etymology and descriptions in the sources present stihi as a named storm/elemental being in Albanian popular belief.
In south Albanian and Italo‑Albanian popular belief stihi is described as a female supernatural being. Regional accounts sometimes depict it as a fearsome fire-breathing dragon that guards treasure. The sources present these portrayals as coexisting or variant regional images rather than a single standardized form.
The sources describe stihi as fire-breathing and explicitly associate it with storms (the name meaning 'storm'). In some representations it functions as a treasure-guardian. Beyond these attributes the supplied material characterizes stihi as a dangerous, hostile force of nature but does not provide detailed behavioral narratives.
Steller's sea ape
An 18th-century naturalist's report of an unfamiliar marine animal observed near the Shumagin Islands, Alaska, on 10 August 1741. Presented in primary sources as a zoological observation (Simia marina) and later treated variously as misidentified pinniped, extinct sirenian classification, or modern cryptid.
Sterope
Sterope (Ancient Greek: Στερόπη) is a personal name borne by multiple figures in Greek mythology — including mortal princesses, a daughter of Helios, a Maenad, one of Helios’s horses, and a star of the Pleiades — rather than a single, unified supernatural species.
Stesimbrotus of Thasos
Stesimbrotus of Thasos was a 5th-century BCE Greek sophist, rhapsode, and logographer cited by later ancient authors for his interpretations of Homer and for anecdotal, often scandalous, accounts of Athenian political figures. He is attested in sources such as Plato, Plutarch, and Tatian, and has been suggested by a modern scholar as a possible author of the Derveni papyrus.
Sthenele
Sthenele (Ancient Greek Σθενέλη, 'strong one') is a personal name attested in Greek mythographic genealogies for at least two mortal women: a daughter of Danaus and Memphis (one of the Danaids) and a daughter of Acastus, named as mother of Patroclus by Menoetius of Opus. The name functions as an onomastic link within genealogical traditions rather than as an independent supernatural entity.
Sthenelus
Sthenelus (Ancient Greek: Σθένελος, Sthénelos) is a personal name borne by multiple mortal figures in Greek mythic genealogies and epic tradition. The name recurs for several princes, kings, and warrior-companions whose actions matter for succession, warfare, and the chains of events around better-known heroes such as Perseus, Heracles, and participants in the Trojan cycle.
Stheno and Euryale
Stheno and Euryale are two immortal sister Gorgons from Greek myth, members of a three‑sister triad with Medusa. In the surviving classical record they are monstrous, snake‑haired figures able to petrify with their gaze and are chiefly attested as pursuing Perseus after Medusa's beheading.
Stilbe
Stilbe (Ancient Greek: Στίλβη, Stílbē, 'glittering, gleaming') is a named female figure in Greek myth, usually presented as a nymph or mortal woman whose primary role in surviving accounts is genealogical: mother of eponymous ancestors and notable offspring by gods (principally Apollo, and in some traditions by Hermes or mortals). Sources preserve variant parentages and progeny but do not ascribe cult, powers, or iconography to her.
Stilt-owl (Grallistrix)
Grallistrix, commonly called the 'stilt-owl' or 'owl on stilts', is an extinct genus of true owls (family Strigidae) known from subfossil remains on the Hawaiian Islands. Described by paleontologists from skeletal material, these owls are reconstructed as long-legged, primarily ground-foraging predators that inhabited multiple Hawaiian islands during the Late Quaternary.
Stolas
Stolas is named in modern reference works as a demon associated with the Ars Goetia and is used as a character in contemporary media. In the animated series Helluva Boss Stolas is presented as a Goetial demon of Hell who possesses an ancient book that enables travel between Hell and the human world.
Stoneco (Stone people / Rock spirits - lesser-known stone sentinels)
No evidence in the provided sources supports the existence of a Lakota supernatural entity named "Stoneco" or a folkloric tradition of "stone people" or "rock spirits." The materials supplied refer to corporate entities or municipal contractor listings that include the string "Stoneco" or "StoneCo," and an unrelated corporate Wikipedia page; they contain no ethnographic or folkloric information about Lakota stone spirits.
Stoor Worm
The Stoor Worm (Mester Stoor Worm) is a colossal, malevolent sea‑serpent of Orcadian (Orkney) folklore known from 19th‑century preservations and later retellings. In the tradition it threatens coastal communities with physical destruction and a poisonous, putrid breath; in the central tale the hero Assipattle kills it by thrusting burning peat into its liver.
Storsjöodjuret
A regionally anchored lake monster of Jämtland, Sweden, variously attested as a bound sjöorm (lake‑serpent) depicted in local rune lore and as a troll‑created cat‑headed serpent; it figures in 17th‑century manuscripts, runestone tradition, later folktales and recurring modern eyewitness/cryptid reports from the 19th century onward.
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