The Death-Criers
18 creatures confidence: high community #14
death-omen wailers and spectral hounds whose cry foretells a passing (banshee, barghest, cù sìth, moddey dhoo, gwrach y rhibyn); death-omen×10, mournful-wail-predicts-death-of-kin×3 [named families-04 kinship-03] [carried from v14, overlap 0.50] [carried from v15, overlap 0.50]
What binds them
The shared documented vocabulary this family coheres around — each link lists every carrier of that motif or power.
- death omen (power, shared ×16)
- portent of disaster (motif, shared ×5)
- mournful wail predicts death of kin (motif, shared ×3)
- spectral black dog either guides or misleads travelers (motif, shared ×3)
- glowing red eyes (motif, shared ×2)
- supernatural construction speed (power, shared ×2)
- aids household or construction tasks for the respectful (motif, shared ×1)
- bound to a specific family lineage (motif, shared ×1)
Spans 6 tradition families: european ×6 · celtic ×4 · east-asian ×4 · none ×2 · norse-germanic ×1 · oceanian ×1
Members
- Badalisc
- Banshee
- Barghest
- Black Dog
- Excalibur
- Gwrach y Rhibyn
- Gytrash
- Kludde
- Krampus
- Lamiak
- Melusine
- Menehune
- Moddey Dhoo
- Ningyo
- Nue
- O Goncho
- Ōkubi
- Plat-Eye
Affinity families assert documented resemblance — shared motifs and powers that beat a null model — never genealogy. Descent is a different claim, made only by the gold curated-kinship edges on the constellation. Discovered by deterministic community detection; see all affinity families.