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The Encyclopedia of Monsters is a book about creatures from folklore, legend, and documented sightings. The book is divided into chapters about humanoids like Bigfoot, land-based monsters, flying monsters, phantoms, "strange visitors", sea monsters, and creatures from folklore. [2]
Christopher Ross McNab (born March 10, 1980) is an author, computer hacker, and founder of AlphaSOC. McNab is best known for his Network Security Assessment books, which detail practical penetration testing tactics that can be adopted to evaluate the security of networks in-line with CESG CHECK , [ 1 ] PCI DSS , [ 2 ] and NIST SP 800-115 [ 3 ...
Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on ...
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
Goddess Hel and the hellhound Garmr by Johannes Gehrts, 1889. A hellhound is a mythological hound that embodies a guardian or a servant of hell, the devil, or the underworld.. Hellhounds occur in mythologies around the world, with the best-known examples being Cerberus from Greek mythology, Garmr from Norse mythology, the black dogs of English folklore, and the fairy hounds of Celtic mythol
The mythical Kraken is one of the scariest monsters ever imagined. One of the earliest mentions of the gigantic cephalopod came from Swedish King Sverre of Norway in 1180. Some said the creature ...
A Hydra.The 16th-century German illustration. A giant animal in mythology is unusually large, either for their species or in relation to humans. The term giant carries some ambiguity; however, in mythology, definitions of what constitutes 'large' vary, with definitions ranging from 40 kg (88 lb) upwards. [1]
Sidney Paget's illustration of The Hound of the Baskervilles.The story was inspired by a legend of ghostly black dogs in Dartmoor. The black dog is a supernatural, spectral, or demonic hellhound originating from English folklore, and also present in folklore throughout Europe and the Americas.