Death Gods: An Encyclopedia of the Rulers, Evil Spirits, and Geographies of the Dead

In Australian folklore the Bunyip are evil water spirits that live in the mud at the bottom of lakes and pull victims into the water and drown them. Eumenides is an underworld spirit with blue‐skin who strips the flesh from dead bodies leaving only their bones. In Jewish folklore the Dybbuk is a disembodied spirit of a dead person who cannot find rest because at some time while it was alive it was wronged by another and still suffers from the injustice. In Hindu mythology Yanna is the god of death and justice, and in Buddhist mythology he is the...