Search the encyclopedia for beings, cultures and practices. Filter by class of being (gods, demons, spirits, light beings) and culture, or enter a search term. The matches are shown directly in the card grid.
The search function searches all profiles of beings, culture overviews, means of protection and background texts on iwell-guard.com. You can enter terms in German or in the original language (for example: “Pazuzu”, “Yaksha”, “Genius”, “Tjukurpa”).
If you do not get a direct match for a profile, the detour via the culture hubs often helps: on the overview pages for Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Germanic peoples, India, the Celts, Japan, China, Rome, Greece, Afro-Caribbean traditions and the indigenous traditions of North America, all beings of a culture are grouped into tiles.
If you are not looking for a particular name but for a class of beings, the overview pages Gods, Spirits, Demons and Light beings serve as a starting point.
For the defensive and protective side, you can use protective symbols, amulets, talismans, incense and the central collection page, the Protection Compass, which presents all 36 means of protection filterable by their principle of action.
There can be several reasons for this: a differing transcription (such as “Lilith” versus “Lilitu”), an epithet in brackets instead of the main name, or simply a gap in our collection.
In that case it helps to write to us via the contact form: missing beings are usually added within a few weeks. You will find an alphabetical overview of all profile pages in the sitemap.
The encyclopedia search searches all beings, cultures, protective practices and protective symbols of the iWell Guard encyclopedia. Use the encyclopedia search with keywords such as the name of a being, a culture or a practice.
The search results show the corresponding detail pages with a card preview. Filters by class of being and cultural area refine the encyclopedia search further.
The iWell Guard encyclopedia documents supernatural beings, magical practices and protective traditions from the major cultural areas studied in the history of religions.
It records gods, demons, spirits and light beings, as well as culture hubs on individual mythologies and entries on magical practices such as malevolent magic, necromancy or love magic. Added to this are protective symbols of various traditions. Each entry is a self-contained article with source references, not a collective overview.
The search above searches all entry titles and short descriptions. You can enter a term directly or narrow your selection through the filters by class of being (gods, demons, spirits, light beings) and cultural area.
The matches appear immediately as a card grid, and each card links to the full entry. If you have not yet decided, you can also browse using the filters alone, without a search term, and so gain an overview of an entire cultural area.
Each entry on a being follows a fixed structure: historical context, designation and spellings, characteristics, traditional protective practice, and parallels in other cultures. At the end of each entry there is a selected bibliography.
This allows you to read on systematically from a single match, for example from a Mesopotamian protective deity to the related figures in the Greek or Slavic area.
The classification follows comparative religious studies: supernatural phenomena are described as consistent cultural facts, without moralizing value judgement and without any statement about their objective reality.
The basis is academic secondary literature, ethnographic sources and, where available, primary texts. The site is aimed at researchers, practitioners and readers with an academic interest in paranormal phenomena who are looking for reliable contextual knowledge.
