Editorial Policy and Source Review | Tabula Supernaturalis
Understand how Tabula Supernaturalis writes folklore entries, handles sources, separates cultural context from proof claims, and reviews corrections.
This page explains how the atlas selects, frames, sources, illustrates, and corrects folklore entries.
Selection And Framing
Entries are selected because they add a distinct place, tradition, narrative role, or comparison to the atlas—not simply because a name may attract traffic.
The site distinguishes cultural tradition, literary history, press reports, tourism-era retellings, and modern cryptid claims. A dated “sighting” records reception history; it is not treated as proof.
Categories are navigation aids. They do not replace the terms used by the communities from which a tradition comes.
Sources And Review
Every published folio includes at least one review source. Sources may include museum or university material, reference works, digitized historical texts, community cultural resources, and clearly labeled modern reporting.
A source link supports further reading; it does not imply that every sentence on the page appears in that source. Where accounts conflict, the atlas should describe the difference rather than manufacture certainty.
Sensitive traditions, Indigenous knowledge, and living religious material receive additional caution. Requests from cultural stakeholders are prioritized when an entry exposes, distorts, or harms restricted material.
Illustration, Language And Corrections
Creature portraits are synthetic illustrations made for this atlas. They are interpretive artwork, not archival images, eyewitness sketches, sacred objects, or evidence photographs.
English and Spanish pages are reviewed for meaning and cultural framing, not only literal equivalence. Names without a settled translation remain in their commonly documented form.
Corrections are evaluated against the supplied source and the wider record. Material changes update the page review date; small spelling and accessibility fixes may be made without a separate notice.