Mazikeen
Also called Mazzikin.
Mazikeen are shape-shifting demons of Jewish tradition, born of unions between the first humans and spirits and occupying a middle rank between angels and mortals.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Jewish folkloreBiblical folklore
- Trait family
- The Unseen-Walkers
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Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Behaviour
- Causes nightmares and sleep paralysis
why
Because mazikeen are usually invisible, tradition credits them with responsibility for a wide run of everyday misfortunes that have no other obvious cause: sudden illness, ruined food, spoiled wells, nightmares, and household accidents.
Utility powers
- Invisibility
why
They are described as occupying an intermediate order of creation: like angels they can fly, see without being seen, and know something of what is to come, but like humans they eat, drink, reproduce, and eventually die.
- Precognition
why
They are described as occupying an intermediate order of creation: like angels they can fly, see without being seen, and know something of what is to come, but like humans they eat, drink, reproduce, and eventually die.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Shadow carries both readings
3 citations
- Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins, s.v. "Mazikeen."
- Robert Lebling, Legends of the Fire Spirits, p. 2010.
- Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology.
- Trickster carries both readings
3 citations
- Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins, s.v. "Mazikeen."
- Robert Lebling, Legends of the Fire Spirits, p. 2010.
- Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology.
- Father meets
3 citations
- Carol Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins, s.v. "Mazikeen."
- Robert Lebling, Legends of the Fire Spirits, p. 2010.
- Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology.