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Kinnara – Half-human, half-bird in later Indian mythology. Kurma – Upper-half human, lower-half tortoise. Ichthyocentaurs – Creatures that have the torsos of a man or woman, the front legs of a horse, and the tails of a fish. Scorpion man – Half-man half-scorpion. Serpopard – A creature that is part-snake and part-African leopard.
Nāga – Divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half-serpent beings that reside in the netherworld (Patala), and can occasionally take human or part-human form. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism mythology. Nukekubi – Rokurokubi whose heads come off and float about. Nuno – Dwarf-like creature in Philippine mythology.
Karura in Japanese folklore, divine creatures with a human torso and a birdlike head. The Kinnara and Kinnari in southeast Asia are two of the most beloved mythological characters. They are benevolent half-human, half-bird creatures who watch over humanity. Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird ...
Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids. Some djinn in Islamic mythology are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms. Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake. Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology.
Kinnara In Hindu faith, a kinnara is a paradigmatic lover, a celestial musician, half-human and half-horse. Tārkṣya is the name of a mythical being in the Rigveda, described as a horse with the epithet áriṣṭa-nemi "with intact wheel-rims". Tumburu is a horse faced Ghandarva, a celestial musician.
However, these half-human creatures are not real as “no evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found,” the post continues. “Mermaids are fictional, of course,” echoes Dr. Compora.
Shahmaran is a mythical creature, half-snake and half-woman, portrayed as a dual-headed creature with a crown on each head, possessing a human female head on one end, and a snake's head on the other, possibly representing a phallic figure. [3] The human part is also decorated with a large necklace. [4] [5]
Experts weigh in on whether or not these half-human, half beasts come out by the light of a full moon or exist solely in the movies. ... of the creature come from the 1941 movie "The Wolf Man ...