Haunts and Haints! Vocabulary List 4

apparition Ghost

banshee A female spirit whose screams foretell someone’s death Washes bloody clothes by the river Can get a wish from them, but I can’t tell you what you have to do to get it.

Chimera fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail

fiend An evil spirit

ghoul A grave robber and corpse eater

golem A creature made up of parts, usually clay Frankenstein’s monster is a flesh golem Made by Jewish rabbis

incubus A male demon who visits women in their sleep and gets them pregnant The female version is called a succubus

lycanthrope A were-wolf

Sasquatch Big Foot’s name

zombie a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force 

teratophobia Oh, come! You didn’t expect me to give away the extra credit word, did ya?