All kelpie synonyms

noun kelpie

• demon — A demon is an evil spirit.
• devil — In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the Devil is the most powerful evil spirit.
• phantom — an apparition or specter.
• shadow — a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
• soul — the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
• spectre — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
• specter — a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition.
• vampire — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
• vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
• apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
• appearance — When someone makes an appearance at a public event or in a broadcast, they take part in it.
• banshee — In Irish folk stories, a banshee is a female spirit who warns you by her long, sad cry that someone in your family is going to die.
• daemon — a demigod
• haunt — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
• manes — the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
• phantasm — an apparition or specter.
• poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
• revenant — a person who returns.
• shade — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
• spook — Informal. a ghost; specter.
• visitor — a person who visits, as for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like.
• wraith — an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
• zombie — the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose. the supernatural force itself.
• eidolon — An idealized person or thing.
• ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
• doppelganger — a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
• spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
• haunter — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
• nereid — (sometimes lowercase) Classical Mythology. any of the 50 daughters of Nereus; a sea nymph.
• oceanid — any of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys; a sea nymph.
• mermaid — (in folklore) a female marine creature, having the head, torso, and arms of a woman and the tail of a fish.
• naiad — (sometimes initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. any of a class of nymphs presiding over rivers and springs.
• nix — nothing.
• water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
• bogey — A bogey is something or someone that people are worried about, perhaps without much cause or reason.
• bogeyman — A bogeyman is someone whose ideas or actions are disapproved of by some people, and who is described by them as evil or unpleasant in order to make other people afraid.
• visitant — a temporary resident; visitor; guest.
• bogle — a scarecrow
• phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).