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616 entries · 295 figures · 321 concepts & customs, hidden until you tick the box below
| Name | Class | Kind | Tradition | Status | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| w i n now | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| W4Ud | person | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| Wa’ab | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wa‘ahalau-ali‘i-o-ka-moku | person | individual | hawaiian | registered | 1 |
| WA-MBILIKIMO — Wa-Mbilikimo · Cincallé · Mberikimo · Mbilikimo | figure | species | — | registered | 3 |
| Wa' Ranai | spirit | individual | malay | registered | 1 |
| Wabosso — White Hare | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wac | spirit | individual | african | registered | 1 |
| Wade Alligator | deity | individual | chinese | registered | 1 |
| Wadjyt — Wadjet · Ouadjet · Uto | deity | individual | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| wafer | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Waff — waff A waff is a Yorkshire spirit-double and death omen whose threatened fate can sometimes be averted by addressing the apparition boldly. | spirit | individual | britishceltic | candidate | 2 |
| Wag-at-the-Wa' — Wag At the Wa An eccentric Scottish Border brownie who appears as a little old man, enjoys cheerful households and children, and performs nocturnal domestic work. | fairy | individual | britishenglish | candidate | 3 |
| Wagadu — Dierra · Agada · Ganna · Silla | deity | individual | african | registered | 1 |
| Waggler | deity | individual | philippine | registered | 1 |
| Wagnuka — redheaded woodpecker | spirit | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| wagon | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wahanui | person | individual | hawaiian | registered | 1 |
| Wahdelbadj — wahdeliadj | demon | individual | arab | registered | 1 |
| Waheela — Great white wolf | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wahiao | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Wahieloa | person | individual | hawaiian | registered | 1 |
| Wahieroa — Wahie-roa | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Wahn — Wähn | figure | species | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Wahroogah | figure | species | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Wahteeta | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wahwee (WA-wee) | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Waia | person | individual | hawaiian | registered | 3 |
| waienoe | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Waigeo Six-Legged Snake | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| wailing | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Waillepen | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wainola — Kalevala Wainamoinen's homeland, where barley cultivation begins with clearing and burning the forest. | place | archetype | finnish | registered | 2 |
| Waira — w aira | figure | species | japanese | registered | 1 |
| wairu or guairo | living object | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Waitoreke — KAUREHE · New Zealand otter · South Island otter · Waitoreki An unidentified otter-like creature of New Zealand whose Maori name may evoke diving, vanishing underwater, or the spirit realm. | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| waits | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| waiung-arree | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wak | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Waka — waka · auki · apu · Waqa The Oromo supreme creator and ruler of earth, whose making of night explains the nocturnal vision of certain predators. | deity | individual | africanhawaiiansouth-american | candidate | 9 |
| waka t'oqori | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wakan Tanka — Great Mystery Spirit | deity | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| wakan, wakanda | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wakan Wichohan | concept | archetype | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wakandagi — Waktchexi · Si Wakandage · Wakndagi Pezi A gigantic antlered water serpent of Omaha and Mohawk tradition, it commands fog, attacks boats, and sometimes bears deerlike legs. | figure | species | — | candidate | 3 |
| Wakandagi Pezi | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wakani | custom | species | — | registered | 1 |
| wake | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wakiash | person | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wakinyan Tanka — Great Thunderbird | deity | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| WakkAs | person | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| Waldagi An Australian dog-like animal distinguished from dingoes and feral dogs, possibly interpreted as a surviving thylacine. | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Waldgeister — Waldgeist Waldgeister are Germanic and Scandinavian tree-dwellers, benevolent or hostile, who preserve the forest's knowledge of healing plants. | spirit | archetype | — | candidate | 2 |
| Walgino | spirit | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Walichu — walichu A collective name for harmful supernatural forces in Araucanian belief, blamed for illness and misfortune and repelled through offerings or ritual mock battles. | spirit | species | — | candidate | 3 |
| Walid | person | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| Walimana | figure | species | malay | registered | 1 |
| Walinu‘u | deity | individual | hawaiian | registered | 4 |
| walking | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Walking-About-Early | spirit | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wall — wall The wall denotes protective yet limiting enclosure, threshold passage into sacred space, womb-like shelter, cosmic boundary, and architectural stability. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| Wall of Hell | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Wallet — wallet The wallet denotes feminine containment, conservation, memory, life, and health, while pilgrim and judgment imagery associates it with preserved valuables and deeds. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| Walls, a name of Mem- phis | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| walnut — Walnut The walnut denotes hidden wisdom, longevity, fertility, and strength in adversity, but also selfishness; folklore alternately uses it to encourage or prevent conception. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 3 |
| Walo | figure | individual | philippine | registered | 1 |
| Walpurgis Night | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Walrus Dog — Az-i-wû-gûm-ki-mukh-’ti · Az-I–Wu-Gum-Ki-Mukh-Ti · Az-i-wA’-giimki-mukh’tt | figure | species | — | candidate | 2 |
| Walther | custom | species | — | registered | 1 |
| waltz | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Walum Olum | tale | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Walumbe The Baganda god of death, son of the sky god Gulu, who followed humanity to earth and came to rule below. | deity | individual | africanbantu | candidate | 3 |
| Walutahanga A Solomon Islands sea serpent repeatedly restored after dismemberment, whose vengeance brought tidal destruction before she granted water and coconuts to spared survivors. | figure | species | — | canon | 3 |
| Walyalyo | deity | individual | south-american | registered | 1 |
| Wamansiri | person | individual | south-american | registered | 1 |
| Wamara | deity | — | african | registered | 1 |
| wampum | living object | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wampus Cat | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wanadi | deity | individual | south-american | registered | 1 |
| Wanagemeswak — Wana-Games-Ak Wanagemeswak are extraordinarily thin Penobscot river spirits with hatchet-shaped heads; they endanger swimmers yet leave lucky clay figures on banks. | spirit | archetype | — | candidate | 2 |
| wanagi | ghost | species | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wanagi-wachipi — ghost dance The Lakota Ghost Dance, intended to restore the dead, buffalo, Indigenous unity, and a world freed from colonial intrusion. | custom | archetype | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wanblee — Wanblee Galeshka · Wanblee Gleshka · spotted eagle The eagle friend of the Lakota who carries two stranded boys down from the summit of Devils Tower. | figure | archetype | north-american | registered | 2 |
| Wand — wand The wand denotes authority, guidance, peace, and conducted supernatural power, with traditions linking it to rulers, magicians, sleep, forgetfulness, Hermes, and Circe. | symbol | archetype | greek | registered | 3 |
| Wand Il | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wanderer | place | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Wanderer | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Wanderer/Wandering | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Wandering | other | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Wandlebury Giant | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wanga — wanga A wanga is a Haitian charm designed to work harmful magic, unlike protective charms, though the name also denotes a Baganda deified hero. | living object | archetype | african | candidate | 2 |
| Wani | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Want er-Rababi | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Wantley — The Dragon Of | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wantu | person | individual | african | registered | 1 |
| Wantu Su | deity | individual | african | registered | 1 |
| Wantu Su Sara | deity | individual | african | registered | 1 |
| Wanyūdō — wheel-monk Wanyūdō is a self-propelled wheel with a monk's face at its hub, roaming earth and sky and stealing the souls of onlookers. | figure | species | japanese | canon | 1 |
| Wapaq — wapaq Wapaq are Koryak spirits inhabiting fly agaric mushrooms, overpowering those who consume them with vivid guidance and altered identity. | spirit | species | — | candidate | 2 |
| Wappentier | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| War — war War denotes cosmic sacrifice and the struggle of order against chaos or good against evil, destroying and reintegrating toward unity and renewed fertility. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| war dances | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| War Serpent | figure | species | mesoamerican | registered | 1 |
| Warazad | person | individual | persian | registered | 2 |
| Warna | deity | individual | celtic | registered | 1 |
| Warohunuga | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Warp | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Warrigal — Australian Big Cat · Briagolong tiger · Brookton tiger · Cordering cougar A mysterious maned big cat reported in Australia and known by several regional names. | figure | species | — | registered | 2 |
| warrior | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Warrior Net | deity | individual | chinese | registered | 1 |
| Warrior-Oe-The-World | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| warrior orders — eagle knights · jaguar knights · tiger knights | custom | — | mesoamerican | registered | 1 |
| wart | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wart-hog | figure | archetype | bantu | registered | 1 |
| Waruk — Purongo | spirit | species | — | registered | 2 |
| Was | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| wasase | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wasgo — Wasco Wasgo are British Columbian sea serpents combining wolf and orca traits, powerful enough to carry whales and sometimes hunt humans. | figure | species | — | candidate | 2 |
| Washer of the Ford — Ban Nighechain · Nigheag Na H-Ath · caoineag The Washer of the Ford is a female death omen seen laundering the bloody clothes and armor of people soon to be killed. | spirit | species | — | candidate | 5 |
| Washi | person | individual | south-american | registered | 1 |
| Washin | figure | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| washing | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Washipi | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wasicong | spirit | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wasis | person | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| wasp The wasp denotes irritation, petty danger, unfavorable inversion, and love’s sting; the second citation instead describes the Iroquois wasase war dance. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| Wasps (evil spirits) | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Wasserkopf | custom | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wassermann | spirit | species | — | registered | 1 |
| waste | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wasted food | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wasteland | concept | archetype | celtic | registered | 1 |
| Wat | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wata | person | individual | philippine | registered | 1 |
| Watatsumi no Mikoto | deity | individual | east-asian | registered | 1 |
| Watawinéwa | deity | individual | south-american | registered | 1 |
| watcher | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Watchers of Pe and Nekhen | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| water | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Water | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Water | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Water | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| water | concept | — | mesoamerican | registered | 1 |
| water | concept | archetype | celtic | registered | 1 |
| Water Babies — water babies Small Great Basin water beings who haunt springs and lakes, lure people with cries, play dangerous tricks, and may drown those approaching carelessly. | figure | species | — | candidate | 3 |
| Water Beetle | figure | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Water-brides — water-maidens · Wellamo's maidens · sea-maids | fairy | species | finnish | registered | 1 |
| water-cress | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| water drum | living object | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Water-Elephant A mouse-sized Burmese aquatic beast whose tusks repel elephants and whose strength lets it kill them and consume their brains. | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| water-fly | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Water-god | other | — | egyptian | registered | 3 |
| Water gods | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| Water-horse — Water Horse Water-horses are shape-changing aquatic predators that entice riders onto adhesive backs before carrying them into deep water to drown and devour them. | figure | species | britishpersian | candidate | 4 |
| water-jug | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Water Kelpie | fairy | species | english | registered | 1 |
| water lily — water-lily The water lily denotes purity and, in Maya art, standing water, the sustaining sea, earth’s emergence, and the boundary between sky and underworld. | symbol | archetype | mesoamerican | registered | 2 |
| Water Lily Serpent | figure | species | mesoamerican | registered | 1 |
| Water Lion | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Water-man | spirit | archetype | european | registered | 1 |
| water-mill | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| water mingled | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| water of life | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Water-Olla Boy | person | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Water Serpent | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Water-snake | figure | archetype | bantu | registered | 2 |
| Water-sprites | spirit | species | bantu | registered | 1 |
| Water-wraith | spirit | individual | british | registered | 1 |
| WATERBOBBEJAN — Waterbobbejan · Fudu | figure | species | — | registered | 2 |
| Waterbogy Man | other | individual | chinese | registered | 1 |
| watercress | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Waters of the World | place | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wathatotarho | person | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wati Kutjara — Men Iguana · Wati-Kutjara Wati Kutjara are twin iguana men who awaken underground and create animals, plants, rocks, and waterholes during their Dreaming travels. | deity | individual | — | candidate | 2 |
| Watikki | figure | individual | finnish | registered | 1 |
| Wattle | custom | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Watu Wa Miti — Chimanimani | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| waulking | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wave | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Waves | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Waw | symbol | archetype | jewish | registered | 1 |
| Wawilak | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wawn Wawn is a nat recognized in the spiritual traditions of Burma's Kachin people. | spirit | species | — | candidate | 2 |
| wax | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wax | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wax | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| waxwing | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Way — way The Way denotes passage, ascent, descent, or pilgrimage, including the narrow route to eternal life and labyrinthine movement through the mind. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| way-goose, wayzgoose, or ways-goose | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wayambeh — Wayarnbeh | figure | individual | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| wayang wong | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wayeand Smith | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wayland Smith — Weiland Smith · Weland Smith | custom | species | — | registered | 2 |
| Wazir | living object | archetype | persian | registered | 1 |
| Waziya | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| We rewolf — Esakar-Paki | figure | species | — | registered | 2 |
| Weagan | deity | individual | philippine | registered | 1 |
| weapon | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| weaponry | concept | — | mesoamerican | registered | 1 |
| Weapons | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Weasel — weasel The weasel denotes childbirth, snakebite resistance, and highly variable omens, ranging from roof-top good luck to poison, blindness, blight, and dangerous conjuring. | symbol | archetype | bantu | registered | 4 |
| WEASELS | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| weather | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| weathercock | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| weaving | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| weaving | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Weaving | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Web | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| wedding | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wedding anniversary — anniversary, wedding | custom | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| Wednesday | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wee Folk, the | concept | — | british | registered | 1 |
| Wee Oichy | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wee Willie Winkie Wee Willie Winkie is a British nursery spirit who oversees children's bedtime and sleep. | spirit | species | british | candidate | 2 |
| weed | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Weedah — Weedall | figure | individual | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Weeoombeen — Weeoonibeens · Weeownbeen | figure | species | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Weeping — weeping Weeping denotes grief and mourning, especially ritual lament for dying fertility powers, while sympathetic magic treats tears as rain that encourages renewal. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| weeping bitch or bitch and pepper | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| weeping salutation | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| weggis dance | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wei-Te-Lun-Kai | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Weieand Smith — Weeand Smith | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Weighing | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Weighing of words | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| Weir-Wolf | heraldic | species | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| Weird Sisters | spirit | species | — | registered | 1 |
| welcomed | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Well — well · holy wells · tober The well denotes the feminine womb and psyche, underworld access, healing, wishes, prophecy, fertility, contemplation, truth, wisdom, purification, and salvation. | symbol | individual | celtic | registered | 4 |
| well dressing | custom | archetype | celtic | registered | 1 |
| Well of Knowledge | place | individual | irish | registered | 1 |
| Wellamo | deity | individual | finnish | registered | 1 |
| Wellerisms | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Welsh Winged Snake | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wemicus — Wisakedjak, Wisa'ka, or Whiskey Jack Wemicus is the Temagami Ojibwe trickster identified with Wisakedjak. | deity | individual | — | candidate | 3 |
| Wen Ch'ang | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| wench | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wendigo In Algonquin tradition, a starving lost hunter becomes the Wendigo after resorting to cannibalism. | figure | species | — | canon | 1 |
| Wendigo In Algonquin tradition, a starving lost hunter becomes the Wendigo after resorting to cannibalism. | figure | species | — | canon | 1 |
| Wendigo In Algonquin tradition, a starving lost hunter becomes the Wendigo after resorting to cannibalism. | figure | species | — | canon | 1 |
| Wene-boozhoo | spirit | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wepwawet — Upwaut | deity | individual | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Werdandi | other | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Bear | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Boar | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Creature — Anjing Ajak (Java) · Azeman (Surinam) · Bleiz-Garv (Brittany) · Den-Bleiz (Brittany) | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Crocodile | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Dog | concept | species | — | registered | 1 |
| were especially worshipped at | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Fox | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Hare | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Hyena | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Jagkal | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Were-Jaguar — were-jaguar A human-feline shapeshifter of South American tradition, the were-jaguar also appears in the hybrid imagery of ancient Olmec art. | figure | species | mesoamerican | candidate | 2 |
| Were-Leopard — Were-leopard A were-leopard is the African counterpart of the werewolf, a person believed capable of assuming a leopard's form. | figure | species | bantu | registered | 2 |
| Were-Tiger An Asian shapeshifter who becomes a tiger, often through magical clothing, then hunts travelers or livestock by night. | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Weret-Hekau | deity | individual | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Werewolf — BEAST OF GÉVAUDAN · BRAY ROAD BEAST · Garwalf · Guerulfus A human transformed into a wolf, commonly through curse or magic, who prowls at night and may hunger for human flesh. | figure | species | — | candidate | 4 |
| west — West West denotes sunset, autumn, death, and the otherworld, with regional associations including sorrow, metal, the White Tiger, and magical western islands. | symbol | archetype | celtic | registered | 3 |
| West Beast | heraldic | individual | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| West, horn of | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Westcar Papyrus | tale | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| Wetehinen | deity | individual | finnish | registered | 1 |
| weza | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wh | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whaiapu | figure | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whakaoti-rangi | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whakapapa-tuakura | figure | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whakatau-potiki — Whakatau | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whakatauihu | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whakaturia | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whakaue-Kaipapa — Whakaue · Wakaue | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| whale The whale denotes cosmic waters and an engulfing grave that enables death and rebirth; Christian readings alternate between resurrection and the Devil’s hell. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whale | heraldic | archetype | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| Whale | figure | species | persian | registered | 1 |
| Whale | figure | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| Whale | figure | species | persian | registered | 2 |
| Whale The whale denotes cosmic waters and an engulfing grave that enables death and rebirth; Christian readings alternate between resurrection and the Devil’s hell. | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Whale | figure | individual | jewish | registered | 1 |
| whale | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whanaunga | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whappernocker A nocturnal American lumberwoods beast resembling an oversized red-brown weasel, it eats birds and worms and resists every attempt at taming. | figure | species | — | candidate | 2 |
| Whatitiri-matakataka — Watitiri-mata-ka-taka | deity | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whatukura — Apa-Whatu-Kura | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wheat of Horus | deity | individual | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Whee-me-me-ow-ah — Great Chief Above | deity | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| wheel | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wheel | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wheel | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| wheel | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wheel | living object | individual | celtic | registered | 1 |
| wheelbarrow | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whelk | heraldic | archetype | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| whetstone | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| while he | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whimpus | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Whip — Bahram Gur's Whip · Royal Whip | symbol | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| Whip/Lash | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| whip(ping) | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| whipping | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whirligig Fish | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Whirling Goblins | spirit | species | welsh | registered | 1 |
| Whirlpool — whirlpool The whirlpool denotes emotional entanglement and fallen time in one source, but creative, life-giving spiral energy and embryonic enclosure in others. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| whirlwind — Whirlwind The whirlwind denotes circular creative energy, divine speech, rain, and soul-transport, but also violence, punishment, destruction, and demonic movement. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 3 |
| Whiro | demon | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Whiro-te-tupua | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whiskered Swift | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Whiskey, Johnny | tale | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whisky Jack | spirit | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| whisper | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| whistling | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| white | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| white | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| WHITE | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| White | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| white | concept | archetype | celtic | registered | 1 |
| White Angel — Mala'ikat Puteh | spirit | individual | malay | registered | 1 |
| white animals, white Coyote | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| White-Backs | figure | species | irish | registered | 1 |
| White Body | deity | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| White Brocket Deer — Veado branco | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| White Buffalo Chief — Buffalo Chief · White Buffalo | spirit | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| White Buffalo Woman — Ptesan-Wi · Buffalo Woman · Buffalo Maiden | deity | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| White Chest | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| White Corn | person | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| White Corn Maiden | person | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| White Crown | other | — | egyptian | registered | 7 |
| White Div | demon | individual | persian | candidate | 7 |
| White Divinity — 'Toh Mambang Puteh · Mambang Puteh | deity | individual | malay | registered | 1 |
| White divs — white demons | demon | species | persian | registered | 1 |
| White Doe | figure | individual | european | registered | 1 |
| White Dwarfs of Rugen — White Dwarfs | fairy | species | european | registered | 1 |
| White Earth | spirit | individual | south-american | registered | 1 |
| White Elephant | figure | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| White Genie — Jin Puteh · Maharaja Dewa · Mahadewa | spirit | individual | malay | registered | 1 |
| white hawthorn | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| White Horse | deity | individual | chinese | registered | 1 |
| White Hound | deity | individual | chinese | registered | 1 |
| White Isle | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| White Isle | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| White Lady | custom | species | celtic | registered | 2 |
| White Mare — Lair Bhan | symbol | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| White Merle | fairy | species | — | registered | 1 |
| White Nekhen | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| White-Painted-Woman or White-Shell-Woman — Yolkai Estsan | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| White Panther | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| White Shell Woman White Shell Woman is a Southwestern Indigenous culture heroine and Pueblo spirit associated with female fertility, conception, pregnancy, and birth. | deity | individual | north-american | candidate | 2 |
| White Tiger | heraldic | individual | japanese | registered | 1 |
| White Wall | other | — | egyptian | registered | 3 |
| whitethorn | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whitey — Wewiwilemitá Manetú · White-Flippered Beaked Whale · Msí kinépikwa · WEWIWILEMITA MANETU An Arkansas river monster described as a huge smooth gray swimmer with a pointed forehead, spiny back, and thrashing tail. | figure | species | american | candidate | 5 |
| Whitinakonako | person | individual | maori | registered | 1 |
| Whitsunday | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whole Bird | deity | individual | chinese | registered | 1 |
| Whoopity Stoorie — Fittletrot · Whippity Stourie | spirit | species | — | registered | 3 |
| whore | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| whore | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Whore | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Whowie The Whowie is a huge, slow Australian Aboriginal monster resembling a six-legged goanna with a canine head that ambushes people. | figure | species | — | canon | 1 |
| 'Whuppity Stoorie' | tale | — | british | registered | 1 |
| Wi Kramadatta | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wi-Lu-Gho-Yuk (WEE-Loo-Go-Yuk) | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wicca | custom | archetype | celtic | registered | 1 |
| Wichtlein — Haus-Schmiedlein · Wicht · Little Wights Wichtlein are bearded German mine spirits dressed as miners, whose stone-throwing reveals ore and whose invisible work-noises warn of cave-ins. | figure | archetype | european | candidate | 3 |
| wick | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wiedemann | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| Wielant — Völundr | person | individual | european | registered | 1 |
| Wife of Bath's Tale, The | tale | — | british | registered | 1 |
| Wife of Ruotus | person | individual | finnish | registered | 1 |
| wig | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wigan — Wigan of the Skyworld | person | individual | philippine | registered | 1 |
| Wight — Wicht Wight is a Germanic term for a being that narrowed toward spirits, elves, fairies, household haunters, or dangerous imps in medieval usage. | concept | — | britisheuropean | registered | 4 |
| Wihwin A fanged amphibious horse of Honduran Caribbean tradition, the Wihwin leaves the sea during dry weather to hunt people ashore. | figure | species | — | canon | 3 |
| wiikita | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wikatcha — Wi Katcha An underwater feline of Creek tradition, Wikatcha flooded the Coosa country to protect a human mate and their child. | figure | species | — | candidate | 2 |
| Wilbour, Mr. C. | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Wild Beast Of Gevaudan | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wild boars | figure | species | persian | candidate | 2 |
| Wild Edric | tale | — | british | registered | 1 |
| Wild Hunt | custom | species | — | registered | 2 |
| Wild Hunt, the | concept | — | british | registered | 1 |
| Wild Huntsman — Wild-Huntsman · Odin · Wodin · Wode | custom | individual | englisheuropean | registered | 3 |
| wild man | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wild People — Wood-people · Timber-people · Moss-people | fairy | archetype | european | registered | 1 |
| Wild-woman — Wild-women · Wilde Frauen · Elle-maids | fairy | archetype | european | registered | 1 |
| Wildcat | figure | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wilde, Lady, Jane Frances | other | individual | british | registered | 1 |
| wilderness | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wildman — Wild Man Of The Woods | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| WILDMEN | other | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wilkie Wilkie is an obscure Orkney spirit linked to the dead and honored with milk at burial mounds bearing his name. | spirit | species | british | candidate | 2 |
| Will | other | archetype | african | registered | 1 |
| Will Am Alone | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Will o' the Wykes | concept | — | british | registered | 1 |
| Will the Smith | custom | species | — | registered | 1 |
| William Not | person | individual | european | registered | 1 |
| William Tell | tale | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Willie Dawson — William Dawson | other | individual | english | registered | 1 |
| Willington Ghost | ghost | individual | english | registered | 1 |
| Willopus-Wallopus | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Willow — willow The willow denotes lunar femininity, mourning, unhappy love, spring, grace, and parting, while its flexibility signifies patience, meekness, and survival through adversity. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| Willow Flower | person | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wilser Dragon | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wilson | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wimere | spirit | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wimple | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Winalagilis | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| wind — Wind Wind denotes creative spirit, vital breath, fertility, and divine presence, while also conveying transience, invisibility, elusiveness, and communication. | symbol | archetype | mesoamerican | registered | 3 |
| Wind God | deity | individual | japanese | registered | 1 |
| Wind-gods | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Wind Old Woman | spirit | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wind Spirit | spirit | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wind, winds | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Windmill — windmill The windmill combines wind, air, and wheel symbolism to denote harvest and fertility; paired with scales, it can represent Christian Temperance. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| window | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| windrose | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Winds | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| winds (ill winds of Typhoeus) — boisterous winds | spirit | species | greek | registered | 1 |
| wine — Wine Wine denotes life, revelation, truth, wisdom, and divine possession, yet also sacrificial blood and death through libation, Dionysian rites, and the Eucharist. | symbol | archetype | mesopotamian | registered | 3 |
| Wine-growers | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Wine-jar of the centaurs | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Wine of the gods | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| winepress | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wineskin | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wing | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wing | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Winged Bull | heraldic | species | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| Winged Cat — Winged C at · Caucasian Black Cat · Pauca billee | figure | species | — | registered | 3 |
| winged disc | symbol | individual | mesopotamian | registered | 1 |
| winged gate — bull and 'winged gate' | concept | individual | mesopotamian | registered | 2 |
| Winged Goat | heraldic | species | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| Winged Hare | heraldic | species | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| Winged Sea-Horse — Sea-Pegasus | heraldic | species | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| Winged Sea-Unicorn | heraldic | species | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| Winged Stag The Winged Stag is a crowned French royal device and heraldic supporter adopted by Charles VI and his successors. | heraldic | species | heraldic | candidate | 2 |
| Wings | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Wings of angels | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Winnipogo — Weewilmekq · Wiwil’mékq · Wiwilmeku A small-headed freshwater monster reported from Manitoba’s lakes Winnipegosis and Winnipeg, named in imitation of Ogopogo. | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| winnow | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Winnowing | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Winnowing-fan | other | individual | greek | registered | 2 |
| winter | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| winter | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Winter | concept | archetype | finnish | registered | 1 |
| Winter Solstice | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| wintergreen | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Winterkolbe | other | — | — | registered | 1 |
| winti or wintima | spirit | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wirakocha — Wizrakocha | deity | individual | south-american | registered | 1 |
| Wirreenun | person | individual | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Wirwir | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wisa — Wi'sa | person | individual | persian | registered | 5 |
| Wisdome of Doctor Dodypol, The | tale | — | british | registered | 1 |
| Wise One | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| wish | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wish Hound — Wisht hound · Witch hound · Yell hound · Yeth hound Wish Hounds are headless spectral dogs roaming southern English moors and ancient roads, their fatal baying linked to the Wild Hunt. | figure | species | british | candidate | 4 |
| Wish Maidens | other | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Wish Wife | custom | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wishpoosh — Wishpooshi A gigantic, possessive beaver of Nez Perce tradition, Wishpoosh battled Coyote so violently that their struggle reshaped and drained its lake. | figure | species | — | candidate | 2 |
| Wisht Hounds | other | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Wissler, Clark | other | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| wisteria | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Witch — witch · div-witch · Witches | demon | archetype | celticeuropeanpersian | candidate | 7 |
| Witch-Hazel — witch hazel Witch-hazel denotes protective and divinatory hazel used against harmful spirits, while New England Indigenous medicine applied it to bleeding and impaired vision. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| Witch of En-dor | person | individual | jewish | registered | 1 |
| witch, witchcraft | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| witchcraft Witchcraft denotes harmful or socially condemned magic; Mesopotamian law punished it, while modern Celtic discussion distinguishes reconstructed Wicca from older beliefs in solitary witches. | concept | individual | celticmesopotamian | registered | 2 |
| with a head-dress in | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| With Orestes to Mycenae | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| with 'spiritual | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| With Ulysses | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| withershins | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| withershins or widdershins | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Within Babe | deity | individual | chinese | registered | 1 |
| Witico — Wiendigo · Windigo · Weetekow · Weetigo | figure | species | — | canon | 5 |
| Witico | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Witta | custom | archetype | celtic | registered | 1 |
| Wiurystheus | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Wiwilemekw — Weewilmekq · Wiwilemekq A horned crocodilian water serpent of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy lore, it haunts turbulent currents, while scrapings from its antlers are said to grant strength. | figure | species | — | candidate | 3 |
| Wiyot Wiyot is Earth's son and humanity's ancestor in Juaneño and Luiseño myth, whose poisoning and cremation precede Chingichnich's remaking of creation. | deity | individual | — | candidate | 2 |
| Wiyot or Wiamot — Sirout · Ikaiut | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wizard-land | place | individual | persian | registered | 2 |
| Wizards — Scot, Michael | concept | individual | british | registered | 2 |
| wmoden | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wo-Wakan | spirit | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| woad | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Woadd-el-Uma — Amanit | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Woclog | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wodehouse | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wodi Worm Of Lin Ion | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| woge | spirit | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wohpekumen | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Woinunggur | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wokolo A small Nigerian tree and riverbank demon that shoots people with arrows causing misfortune. | demon | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolaro | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| wolf | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wolf | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolf | heraldic | archetype | heraldic | registered | 1 |
| Wolf — Wolf of Faskun | figure | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| Wolf — Rhinoceros | figure | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| Wolf | figure | species | persian | registered | 1 |
| Wolf | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolf | figure | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolf Brother | person | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wolf Deer | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolf Society | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolf, the | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| wolfsbane | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolgendze-jumo | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wollunqua — Wallunquain | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolpertinger — Elwedritsche · JACKALOPE · Rasselbock · Skvader (Swedish) The Wolpertinger is a Bavarian chimera assembling rabbit, deer, bird, boar, hawk, squirrel, and weasel traits into one creature. | figure | species | — | canon | 1 |
| Wolphat | demon | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wolverine — Wolverine Man Wolverine is a powerful, clawed animal-man who rescued two women from a treetop, then forcibly confined them for his own gratification. | deity | individual | north-american | candidate | 2 |
| Wolverine Woman | figure | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| Wolves | figure | individual | greekpersian | registered | 2 |
| woman — Woman Woman denotes a complex feminine principle linked to moon, earth, water, instinct, nourishment, protection, and destruction; folklore also embeds patriarchal creation anxieties. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 3 |
| Woman-Beaver | spirit | individual | north-american | registered | 1 |
| woman "dies" to be with lover | tale | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Woman of the Black Mountain | fairy | individual | irish | registered | 1 |
| Woman of the Waves | spirit | individual | irish | registered | 1 |
| Womb — womb The womb denotes the generative matrix, Earth Mother, unmanifest possibility, and plenitude, symbolized by caves, wells, waters, walls, caskets, mines, and night. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| Women in Egyptian heaven | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Wondah | spirit | species | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Wonderbird | figure | species | chinese | registered | 1 |
| Wonderful ox — Ox of Kai Kaus | figure | individual | persian | registered | 1 |
| wondjina | figure | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wonungur | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wood — wood Wood denotes primordial material and wholeness, sheltering birth and death while enabling divine order, sacred flame, seasonal renewal, and construction of heaven and earth. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 3 |
| Wood-nymphs — forest maidens | fairy | species | finnish | registered | 1 |
| Wood-Pigeon — wood-pigeon The wood-pigeon denotes vanity, misplaced pride in song, monotonous speech, and victimhood in cuckoo lore; heraldry uses it only rarely. | symbol | archetype | heraldic | registered | 2 |
| Wood Wives — Holz-Frau | spirit | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| woodbine — honeysuckle | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| woodcock | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| woodcutter | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wooden Horse | living object | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Wooden Horse | living object | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Wooden Horse | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Wooden Horse to Athena | other | individual | greek | registered | 1 |
| Woodpecker — woodpecker The woodpecker denotes prophecy, magical guardianship, storm, and war, but Christian imagery reverses it into the Devil or heresy undermining belief. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| woodsorrel | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Woodtick | figure | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Woodwose — Woodwose, or Wild Men of the Woods | figure | species | british | candidate | 2 |
| wooing — tochmarc | tale | individual | celtic | registered | 1 |
| wool | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wool | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Woolly Cheetah | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wooo-Wooo A giant owl reported in northwestern New Jersey and named for its resonant three-part call. | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wooser | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| word — Word The Word denotes sacred sound and creative or destructive speech that makes reality; telling one’s story also enables atonement, identity, and remembered life. | symbol | archetype | mesopotamian | registered | 3 |
| Word-soul | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| Words of power | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| Words, weighing of | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| work song | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Works of | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Workshop of Ptah | deity | individual | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| World — world The World denotes the finite macrocosm mirrored in each microcosm, a transient veil that conceals truth yet can become a ladder toward eternity. | symbol | archetype | irish | registered | 2 |
| World-body | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| world egg | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| world fire | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| World Renewal | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| World-Soul | other | — | egyptian | registered | 2 |
| world trees | symbol | — | mesoamerican | registered | 1 |
| Worm — worm · the Worm · Legend of the Worm Worm denotes lowliness, mortality, earth, and bodily dissolution, but in British usage also names a serpentine dragon class with its own cult narratives. | figure | individual | mesopotamianpersian | candidate | 8 |
| Worm of Babylonia | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Worm of Sockburn — Sockburn Worm | figure | individual | english | registered | 1 |
| Worm, the | other | — | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| Worms | figure | species | british | registered | 1 |
| Wormwood — wormwood Wormwood denotes bitterness, distress, and torment, yet sources also associate the ritual herb with affection, purification, wealth, Mars, and an apocalyptic star. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| Worombi | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wosret | deity | individual | egyptian | registered | 1 |
| wound | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Woyengi | deity | individual | african | registered | 1 |
| Wrach | spirit | species | — | registered | 1 |
| wrack | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wraith — Doppelganger | spirit | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wrath | demon | archetype | persian | registered | 1 |
| Wreath — wreath The wreath denotes victory, glory, holiness, and good fortune, but also sacrifice, death, and mourning; bridal wreaths mark both ending and renewed life. | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 2 |
| wren | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| wren | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wren | symbol | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Wren | figure | archetype | south-american | registered | 1 |
| wren | figure | individual | celtic | registered | 1 |
| wrestlers | concept | individual | mesopotamian | registered | 1 |
| Wright | symbol | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wright, Thomas | other | individual | british | registered | 1 |
| Wrightson — Auld Wrightson · Wise Man of Stokesley | other | individual | english | registered | 1 |
| Writhing snakes | figure | species | persian | registered | 1 |
| writing | concept | — | mesoamerican | registered | 1 |
| Wrnach | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wry Face | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wryneck — wryneck Wryneck denotes a spring bird of fertility, resurrection, death, and snake-like prophecy in one source, but a malignant northern English spirit in others. | symbol | individual | britishenglish | registered | 4 |
| Wss | custom | species | — | registered | 1 |
| wu cults | concept | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wu Kuan | deity | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wu Kung Ching — the Centipede | demon | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wu Yo | place | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wuchowsen — The Great Wind Bird · Wochowsen An immortal white bird at the world's northern edge, Wuchowsen generates the winds simply by moving its immense wings. | figure | species | — | candidate | 2 |
| Wudéwásá — Callicantzari · Fänke · Green man · GRENDEL The Wudéwásá is Europe's medieval wild forest man, a figure represented in art, heraldry, drama, pageantry, and allegorical literature. | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wulbari | deity | individual | african | registered | 1 |
| Wulgaru | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wulleb | other | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wulungu — Wulungen | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wulver — wulver The Wulver is a solitary Scottish wolf-headed humanoid who avoids people but sometimes leaves wild food for needy households. | figure | individual | celtic | candidate | 2 |
| Wulver, the | figure | individual | british | registered | 1 |
| Wünschelweib — Wish-woman | fairy | archetype | european | registered | 1 |
| Wurrawilberoo | demon | species | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Wurrum | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wurrunnah | person | individual | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Wurrunnunnah — Wurranunnah | figure | species | australian-aboriginal | registered | 1 |
| Wurruri | tale-figure | individual | — | registered | 1 |
| Wututu | figure | — | african | registered | 1 |
| Wuwuchim | custom | archetype | — | registered | 1 |
| Wyll | other | — | — | registered | 1 |
| Wyoming Mummy — Pedro | figure | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wyrdes or Weirds | deity | species | — | registered | 1 |
| Wyvern — Guivre · Vouivre · Wivre · Givre A Wyvern is a two-legged, bat-winged heraldic dragon with a serpentine body and barbed tail, especially common in medieval England and France. | figure | species | heraldic | canon | 12 |