T'an Mo A Chinese devil of
desire.
Tase In Burma, the ghosts and spirits the villagers are most
afraid of, are an army of death-fiends known as the Tase. They are
disembodied souls of dead men and women who are both vampires and
spreaders of disease.
There are several different orders of Tase, and each legion has
its own way of torturing mortals.
Thabet Tase are the malignant spirits of women who have died
during childbirth, and these come back from the dead as
succubi.
The demons make their appearance around twilight, lurking near the
dwellings of the villagers, and haunting men in particular.
The Thaye Tase are grotesque looking giants manifesting themselves
most frequently during the epidemics of smallpox and cholera. They
are the souls of those who died a violent death. Their greatest
pleasure is to materialize by the bedside of a dying person,
giggling and laughing hideously at their victim's agony.
Hminza Tase is the name of a third and lesser group of demons.
These are able to enter the bodies of certain animals such as
crocodiles, dogs, and tigers. Haunting the dwelling grounds of
their past existence, they wreak vengeance on anyone that crosses
their path for the misfortunes they themselves endured during
life.
Great precautions are taken by the Burmese to ensure that the Tase
do not come back to haunt them. Often no gravestones are erected in
the hope that the dead, forgetting who they were in life, will now
haunt the house that was formerly theirs. Sacrifices, death dances,
and festivals are all attempted to appease the Tase. If they do
appear, the people make a din by beating pans or sides of their
houses, hoping that the loud noise will repel the fiends.
Tchort (Russion) The Black God. Another name for Satan.
Tengu The Tengu is a Japanese demon mentioned in written
sources going as far back as the eighth century and in contemporary
Japanese chronicles.
In early times the Tengu often manifested himself as a crow, or as
a man with a crow's beak. In medieval times, haughty and insincere
Buddhist monks were said to be reborn as Tengu. In the course of
time the crow's beak of the demon gave way to a more human looking
shape; namely a large, round, red nose. But beak or nose, the
importance of this organ depends on its size, which is directly
proportional to the demon’s powers. This relationship allows
any aware person to judge the strength of an attacking Tengu at
first sight, so that appropriate precautions can be taken.
Although human in form, the Tengu is a winged creature, his
fingers and toes ending in long and extremely sharp nails. Tengu
has often been seen by mountain people who claim that he fells
trees and flutters around cackling madly.
He appears at times clad in the shabby garb of a strolling monk,
carrying a fan, a stick, and a sword. He does not seem to have any
definite predilection for any particular evil deed, yet he appears
to be quite an imaginative character who is able to use just about
any given situation to commit his crimes. Some of his actions
resemble the mischief of the European poltergeist. He has also been
known, especially by the mountain people, to indulge in
kidnappings. The first instance of someone abducted by a Tengu
swooping down from the sky goes back to the fourteenth century.
Even nowadays, when a child is lost, the village people assemble to
beat drums, calling upon the Tengu to bring it back.
Tezcatlipoca (Aztec) god of Hell.
Tezrian (Armenian) goddess of war.
Th'uban An Islamic demon that looks like a dragon.
Thamuz The demonic ambassador to Spain.
Thamuz (Sumerian) devil. An ambassador of hell. Said to
have started the inquisition and to have invented artillary.
Thoth (Egyptian) god of magick.
Tonga-Hiti A Polynesian head-ache demon, one of the two
Ponaturi that managed to escape Urutonga's revenge for the death of
her husband.
The wife of Hema and mother of Tawhaki and Karihi. The Ponaturi,
semi-spirits, killed her husband but saved her, having her stay
outside the house. She hid her sons until nightfall when they saw
the Ponaturi arrive, flying in from the sea, thousands of them.
They all piled up in the house and went to sleep there. When no
more came, Urutonga told her sons to close every opening and crack
in the house. When they finished, dawn was approaching. The
Ponaturi chief asked Urutonga if it was dawn yet, but she replied
that it was not. This went on until the sun rose. Then the two
brothers opened the door of the house, and all the Ponaturi died in
the bright sun rays, except Kanae, who became a flying fish, and
Tonga-Hiti, the head-ache demon.
Troian (Russian) night demon.
Tunrida (Scandanavian) devil.
Typhon Typhon was a powerful Egyptian demon who stood in
constant opposition to the beneficent Osiris.
This was during the time when Osiris was a god of fertility (later
he was brutally murdered, and his soul became the just lord of the
underworld.) When Osiris brought water to an arid tract of Egypt,
Typhon made the greatest effort to bring heat and drought. Typhon's
consort, Nepthys, fought against Isis, Osiris' wife. As the land of
Egypt, fertilized by the waters of the Nile, was the kingdom of
Isis, so the desert which lay beyond the influence of the river,
remained in the power of Nepthys.
Typhon was also associated with the wind that came up from the
Sahara, the southern blast that destroyed everything that was
vulnerable to its heat. Thus, a forceful wind became called a
typhoon.
Typhon was often depicted as a monster of enormous bulk. He had
several heads, wings sprouting from his shoulders, and his legs
ended in a tangle of serpents. Having imprisoned Osiris in an ark,
he drove Osiris' son, Horus, onto the island of Chemmis.
There, he compelled all the other deities to flee and save their
lives or to take refuge in the guise of various animals; these
later became sacred to the Egyptians in memory of the gods'
transformations. At the same time, all animals whose disposition
was fierce or untameable, such as the crocodile and the
hippopotamus, came to be known as Typhon's beasts. Typhon was
finally conquered by Osiris, who chased the monster to Sicily, and
hurled him onto Mount Etna which belches blood-red lava to this
day.
Typhon (Greek) Another name for Satan.