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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'':
** The Gelth, from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E3 The Unquiet Dead|The Unquiet Dead]]''.
* ''[[Supernatural]]'':
** Lilith, [[Big Bad]] of Seasons 3 and 4.
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** Wraith, a type of ghost.
* Sith (pronounced shee) is Gaelic for fairy (being derived from Sidhe). Not to say that you shouldn't run away real fast, as Sidhe are known for being cruel pranksters and kidnapping people and livestock.
* [[The Bible]] and related sources have a lot of this; the reason for this is that many Hebrew words end in the letter ''[http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taw |tav]]'', as it is a marker for feminine gender (both in the singular and in the plural form ''-ot''). The ''-ot'' version is particularly common, thanks to the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralis_excellentiae:Pluralis excellentiae|pluralis excellentiae]], i.e. "calling the singular thing plural to emphasize how awesome/terrible (classical sense) it is".<ref>Examples: ''Behemot''="Wild Beasts"="One hell of a wild beast"; ''Elohim''="gods"=[[God]] Almighty Himself, trying not to piss him off by saying His name.</ref> In Biblical Hebrew, final tav was pronounced ''-th'', which morphed to ''-s'' in Ashkenazi and ''-t'' in many Sephardi/Mizrahi dialects (which eventually became the model for Standard Hebrew).
** Demon names, which include Astaroth, Balberith, Berith, Bileth, Lilith and Obizoth.
** Goliath, a Philistine champion of Gath and all-around badass "whose height was six cubits and a span". During a war he [[Throwing Down the Gauntlet|issued a challenge]] to his enemies: King Saul and the armies of Israel, and he instilled fear in all of them.
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* Mammoth. Just ask your Ice Age ancestors.
** Or perhaps you should [[Humans Are Cthulhu|ask the mammoths about said ancestors]]--they were probably more scared of humans than the other way around, given that we snacked on them to the point of extinction.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Coelacanth |Coelacanth]] looks pretty terrifying, too. It's actually your closest relative among the fish (with the lungfish), and fairly harmless.
* Some English words like "death", "wrath", [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|"math"]], etc.
* The Goths, while a rather ordinary European barbarian tribe, gave their name to some art styles traditionally associated with something scary: e.g., gothic architecture, gothic script, and gothic literature (not to mention a certain youth subculture).
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