Church grim

nature_spirit earth Germanic single tradition · 2

A guardian spirit from Germanic tradition. It protects churches and sacred spaces.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
500 CE
Attested period
500 – 2020
Historical notes
Germanic guardian spirit tradition.

Relationships

manifests as
black dog

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Sources

Source passages

“Church grim (Germanic) – Guardian spirit”

#4222 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Jack the Giant Killer defeats an evil church grim that takes the shape of a goat...the Grim, which she calls a 'giant spectral dog that haunts churchyards.'”

#9283 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5