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Various traditions exist as to the origins of adder stones. One holds that the stones are the hardened saliva of large numbers of serpents massing together, the perforations being caused by their tongues. There are other claims that an adder stone comes from the head of a serpent or is made by the sting of an adder. The more modern and perhaps ...
A cockatrice overdoor at Belvedere Castle (1869) in New York's Central Park.. A cockatrice is a mythical beast, essentially a two-legged dragon, wyvern, or serpent-like creature with a rooster's head.
The Afanc (Welsh pronunciation:, sometimes also called Addanc, ) is a lake monster from Welsh mythology.Its exact description varies, being described as resembling a crocodile, beaver or dwarf-like creature, or a platypus and is sometimes said to be a demon.
We put the Kraken near the top of the list because it’s one of the most fearsome creatures in the world—and it’s based off of an animal that actually exists. Bettmann - Getty Images 2.
Bahamut – Whale monster whose body supports the earth. Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail
In early depictions, as with dragons in other cultures, the distinction between Germanic dragons and regular snakes is blurred, with both being referred to as: "worm" (Old English: wyrm, Old Norse: ormʀ, ormr, Old High German: wurm), "snake" (Old English: snaca, Old Norse: snókr, snákr, Old High German: *snako), "adder" (Old English: nǣdre, Old Norse: naðr, Old High German: nātara), and ...
If they can reach it before the beithir does then they are cured, but if the monster reaches it first then the victim is doomed. [7] [10] Another cure for the sting is water in which the head of another snake has been placed. [7] The beithir is considered one of the fuath, a general term for various monsters and spirits associated with water. [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This category contains creatures in mythologies that are classified as monsters ... Monsters in Greek mythology (8 C, 26 P) H.