earth spirits
Land-dwelling supernatural beings
Earth spirits are supernatural beings believed to inhabit or embody the land, soil, rocks, or natural features.
Found across world mythologies and folklore, they include gnomes, dwarves, and various nature entities thought to dwell underground or within stones and mountains.
In animist traditions, earth spirits may be guardians of specific places requiring respect or offerings: The villagers left gifts for the earth spirits before breaking ground.
- elementalsSpirits of natural forces
- dryadsTree-dwelling nature spirits
- gnomesMythical earth-dwelling dwarfs
- little peopleMythical diminutive beings
- ancestor worshipReligious honoring of forebears
kobolds · animism · green man · forest floor · Gaia · genius loci · trolls · dwarves · geomancers · faeries · fairy mound · kami · old growth · sacred grove · stone · standing stones · ancestral wisdom · soil
- African folkloreAnansi, folktales, ancestors, trickster stories, griots
- earth loreGaia, geomancy, ley lines, sacred stones, standing stones
- elementalsfire elemental, water elemental, elemental, elemental beings, sylph
- indigenous beliefsshamans, spirit world, sacred rituals, ritual offerings, ancestor veneration
- nature spiritualitynature worship, pantheism, nature deities, paganism, druids
- paganismWicca, pagan, heathen, polytheist, polytheism
earth spiritssylphs
Airy mythical beings
fire spirits · water spirits · salamanders · nymphs · zephyrs
earth spiritscelestial beings
Divine heavenly inhabitants
angels · seraphim · cherubim · sky gods · solar deities