mistillid
Mistillid is a term used in Estonian-language folklore studies and contemporary literary discourse to describe a class of mythic beings associated with fog, mist, and liminal spaces. The concept centers on entities that emerge from weather phenomena or fog banks and inhabit thresholds between nature and human activity. Descriptions vary across sources, but mistillid are generally portrayed as elusive and ambiguous rather than clearly benevolent or malevolent.
Etymology and usage of the term are not universally fixed. Some scholars treat mistillid as a traditional
In traditional contexts, mistillid are associated with outdoor borderlands such as forests, moorlands, and shoreline margins.
In modern usage, mistillid appear in literature, film, and game design as atmospheric symbols of uncertainty,
See also: folklore, myth, liminality, weather-related spirits.