Cafre--an enormous black man that smokes long cigars. He does very little harm, but delights in frightening people. Some say he can transform himself into almost anything from a pig to a ball of fire. He appears only at night, of course. (Pampango, Tagalog, Bicol.) Tigbalang--a demon who lives in trees, especially the baliti tree. His body is covered with long hair and one of his feet is a horse's hoof. His chief delight is to lead people astray and make them crazy, or to ravage banana plantations, to empty water jars, shake houses, and disturb people generally. (Tagalog.) Tigabulak--a demon who in the form of an old man entices children with candy and cakes. After he has led them far from home, he puts them in a sack and carries them to his dwelling. Then he kills them and makes money out of their blood. (Tagalog.) Caibaan--little mischievous field spirits who play tiny guitars. They steal dishes and hide them, and indulge in other pranks. (Pangasinan and Ilocano.) =Russian Fairies and Witches= Domovoy--the Russian brownie that lives behind the stove. If he is neglected, he waxes wroth and knocks the tables and benches around at night. Baba-yaga--an ogress who lives on the edge of the forest, in a hut built so as to turn with the wind like a weathercock. Rusalki--water sprites. Vodianoi--river genii. Lieshii and the Liesnik--forest demons. Vampires--ghosts who steal by night from their tombs, and suck the blood of the living during their sleep. =Arabian Fairies and Witches= Jinn--a sort of fairies of Arabian mythology--the offspring of fire. (The singular of jinn is jinnee.) Afreet--a sort of Arabian ghoul or demon--the epitome of what is terrible and monstrous in Arabian superstition. Peri (plural of Peris)--Peri are delicate, gentle, fairy-like beings of Eastern mythology, begotten by fallen spirits. With a wand they direct the pure in mind the way to heaven. =Miscellaneous Fairies and Other Supernatural Creatures= Esprit Follet--the house-spirit of France. Familiar spirit--a spirit or demon supposed to be summoned by a necromancer or a soothsayer from the unseen world to attend upon him as a servant. Fay--the French word for fairy, anglicised. Gnome--one of a fabulous race of dwarfed and misshapen earth-spirits or goblins, reputed to be special guardians of mines and miners. (<French _gnome_, from the Greek.) Hag--a forbidding or malicious old woman; a witch. (<A. S. _haegtes_, a fury.) Hamadryad--a wood-nymph fabled to live and die with the tree she inhabited, the oak being considered as the tree preferred. (Greek mythology.) Hornie, or Horny--the devil; so called because commonly represented with horns. Imp--an evil spirit of low rank; a small, puny, or contemptible devil. (Russian folk tales often make use of this spirit.)