| Banshee | they look like extremely thin women with long black hair and a greenish complexion. Their wail or keen may be fatal, or they may be prescient and keen to announce an impending death. The result is the same, they wail and someone dies. [also spelled: Bean Sidh] Ireland |
| Boggart | an empathic metamorph [emotion sensing shape-shifter] living in dark spaces that assumes the shape most frightening to the individual that sees one. While they are relatively easy to dispel, the problem is determining that they are nothing more dangerous. It is best to approach a suspected boggart in a group. The group will confuse a boggart and be better able to cope if it isn't a boggart. Britain |
| Ghost | the echo of a witch or wizard who has died but isn't ready to go on to the final stage. |
| Grim | known as the Kirk Grim in Scotland and Padfoot in Yorkshire, this phantom black dog is supposed to be a sign of impending death. This is probably a guilty conscience at work as there was a widespread belief in Britain that the first grave in a cemetary contains the guardian for those buried there. To avoid burdening their relatives, people often killed and buried a large dog in a new cemetary to serve as the guardian. |
| Poltergeist | more corporal than a ghost while still able to pass through solid walls, dedicated to causing disturbances by moving and throwing objects, something a true ghost cannot do. Europe |