Magical Beings and Creatures: A List of Group Names: iulia

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Magical Beings and Creatures: A List of Group Names

Jun 29, 2010 07:47

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).

magical beings/creatures: group names