Today's June prompt answer may be read at
Dreamwidth,
InsaneJournal, and
LiveJournal; it's for Shiv. After posting it, I started thinking about group names for magical beings and creatures. In my personal canon, there are dirges of Jobberknolls and horrors or harpies;
here's my working, incomplete list of other group names for magical beings and creatures.
- banshees, a wail of
- biting fairies, a gnash of
- Bundimun, a Bane of
- crows, a cacophany of (instead of a murder of crows, which I expect that wizards would also use)
- crups, a cuteness of (because they're fierce toward Muggles, and I think wizards would enjoy the irony of the name)
- Dementors, a Death of
- Doxies, a Damning of, a Danger of (Doxies are biting fairies)
- erklings, a lilt of
- erumpents, an explosion of
- flobberworms, a flop of
- fwoopers, a flap of/a madness of
- ghouls, a gruesomeness of
- glumbumbles, a glum of/a glumness of
- gnomes (garden), a knot of/an annoyance of
- griffins, a greatness of
- grims, a ghost of
- grindylows, a grasp of/a grasping of
- hags, a harrying of/a hatred of/a hunger of
- harpies, a horror of
- hellhounds, a heat of
- hinkypunks, a hop of
- Inferi, a Rot of
- jobberknolls, a dirge of
- kappas, a captivation of
- knarls, a nastiness of
- kneazles, a sneeze of/a kneading of
- leprechauns, a luck of
- lethifolds, a smothering of/a death of
- lobalugs, a burst of/a spout of/a spouting of
- manticores, a menace of/an inhumanity of
- mokes, a mote of
- mooncalves, a waltz of
- mummies, a curse of
- murtlaps, a salve of
- nifflers, a nosing of, a dig of
- nogtails, a suckling of, a suck of
- nundu, a nightmare of (I'm assuming that nundu is to moose in terms of its plural form)
- nymphs, a nattering of (derogatory)
- pixie, a pest of/a pestering of/a pestilence of
- plimpies, a bind of
- pogrebin, a hopelessness of/a despair of
- porlocks, a grooming of/a shyness of/a wealth of
- puffskeins, a fluff of/a lick of/a purring of
- Red Caps, a Wreaking of/a Wrath of
- Re'em, a Stubborness of (I'm assuming that re'em is to nundu in terms of its plural form)
- sirens, a lure of
- shrakes, a spine of
- slugs(flesh-eating), a slide of/a slip of/a slipperiness of
- snidgets, a snatch of
- sphinxes, a riddle of
- thestrals, a death of/a mourning of
- trolls (general), a truculence of
- trolls (mountain), a crash of
- trolls (river), a splash of
- unicorns, a purity of
- vampires, a suck of (derogatory)
- Veela, a Vexation of (derogatory).
Please feel free to add to the list, or to offer other suggestions for the listed beings and creatures' group names. :D