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  2. Likho - Wikipedia

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    Likho, liho, lykho (Belarusian: лі́ха, Polish: licho, Russian: Лихо, Ukrainian: Лихо) is an embodiment of evil fate and misfortune in Slavic mythology, a creature with one eye, often depicted as an old, skinny woman in black (Лихо одноглазое, One-eyed Likho) or as an evil male goblin of forests.

  3. List of one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction - Wikipedia

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    Dajjal, a figure in Islam akin to the Antichrist, who has one eye; Duwa Sokhor, an ancestor of Genghis Khan, according to The Secret History of the Mongols, who had one eye in his forehead [1] Fachan, a creature from Celtic mythology with one eye, one arm and one leg; The Eye of Providence is a representation of Divine Providence

  4. Kasa-obake - Wikipedia

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    A figure of a kasa-obake from the 1968 film Yokai Monsters: One Hundred Monsters A two-legged kasa-obake from the "Hyakki Yagyo Zumaki" by Enshin Kanō. [1] Kasa-obake (Japanese: 傘おばけ) [2] [3] are a mythical ghost or yōkai in Japanese folklore. They are sometimes, but not always, considered a tsukumogami that old umbrellas

  5. Graeae - Wikipedia

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    Perseus and the Graeae by Edward Burne-Jones (1892). In Greek mythology, the Graeae (/ ˈ ɡ r iː iː /; Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι Graiai, lit. ' old women ', alternatively spelled Graiai), also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides (' daughters of Phorcys '), [1] were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them.

  6. List of Great Old Ones - Wikipedia

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    Priests of his cult have built up secret subterranean mausoleums to access the Great Old One's body, and please the slumbering god by giving cattle as sacrificial victims. Aphoom-Zhah: The Cold Flame, Lord of the Pole: Appears much like Cthugha, but grey and cold. Apocolothoth The Moon God: Lunar entity that dwells in the Dimension of Enno-Lunn ...

  7. Baby with extremely rare defect born with one eye in middle ...

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    A tragic photo of a baby born with only one eye and no nose has been circulating the Internet. The baby is being referred to as "baby cyclops" due to the comparisons drawn with the mythical cyclops.

  8. Monocular vision - Wikipedia

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    Monocular vision is known as seeing and using only one eye in the human species. Depth perception in monocular vision is reduced compared to binocular vision, but still is active primarily due to accommodation of the eye and motion parallax. The word monocular comes from the Greek root, mono for single, and the Latin root, oculus for eye.

  9. Hitotsume-kozō - Wikipedia

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    Also in rakugo, people with one eye (including children) would appear, and in the program "Ichigankoku (一眼国, "One Eyed Country")", it told of how a charlatan heard about a one-eyed person witnessed about 120 or 130 ri north of Edo on an empty field. He went out to capture one to show as an exhibit for the sake of profit.