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A water sprite (also called a water fairy or water faery) is a general term for an elemental spirit associated with water, according to alchemist Paracelsus. Water sprites are said to be able to breathe water or air and sometimes can fly. These creatures exist in the mythology of various groups.
A water dragon youkai in Japanese mythology. Tatsu: Dragon of Japanese mythology, and the master of the water, like the Ryu. Orochi: the eight-headed serpent slain by Susanoo in Japanese mythology. Kuraokami: A Japanese dragon and a deity of rain and snow. Ryū: Similar to Chinese dragons, with three claws instead of four. They are usually ...
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Kangla Sha (Meitei mythology) – Dragon Lion in the Kangla Palace; Kanbo – Drought spirit; Kanedama – Money spirit; Kappa – Little people and water spirit; Kapre – Malevolent tree spirit; Karakoncolos (Bulgarian and Turkish), also in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia known as Karanđoloz – Troublesome spirit
Berstuk, evil Wendish god of the forest; Jarilo, god of vegetation, fertility, spring, war and harvest; Leshy, a tutelary deity of the forests. Porewit, god of the woods, who protected lost voyagers and punished those who mistreated the forest; Veles, god of earth, waters and the underworld; Mokosh, East-Slavic goddess of nature
The dragon slayer himself, says another version of the tale, only succeeded by covering his armour with glass, and a popular telling of the story has it that the fight raged throughout the forest, with the dragon finally dying outside the village of Lyndhurst, his corpse turning into a hill (now known as Boltons Bench). Though the knight had ...
Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki, leszonky). Meliae, the nymphs of the Fraxinus (Ash tree) in Greek mythology; Metsaema, mother of the forest in Estonian mythology; Metsavana, old man of the forest in Estonian mythology
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...