enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mythic humanoids - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythic_humanoids

    Ciguapa – Mythical women who live in the high mountains of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean. Of human female form with brown or dark blue skin, backward facing feet, and very long manes of smooth, glossy hair covering their bodies; nocturnal, hostile, to be avoided.

  3. List of Greek mythological creatures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological...

    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 ...

  4. Odontotyrannos - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odontotyrannos

    Odontotyrannos (Greek: όδοντοτύραννος), also odontotyrannus or dentityrannus [a] ("tooth-tyrant") is a mythical three-horned beast said to have attacked Alexander the Great and his men at their camp in India, according to the apocryphal Letter from Alexander to Aristotle and other medieval romantic retellings of Alexandrian legend.

  5. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hybrid_creatures...

    Gorgon – Each of them has snakes in place of their hair; sometimes also depicted with a snake-like lower body. Jorōgumo - Type of Japanese yōkai, depicted as a spider woman manipulating small fire-breathing spiders. Mothman – A humanoid moth. Selkie – A seal that becomes a human by shedding its skin on land. Karasu-tengu – A crow-type ...

  6. List of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological...

    Ancient Greek name English name Description Ἀχλύς (Akhlús) Achlys: The goddess of poisons, and the personification of misery and sadness. Said to have existed before Chaos itself. Αἰθήρ (Aithḗr) Aether: The god of light and the upper atmosphere. Αἰών (Aiōn) Aion: The god of eternity, personifying cyclical and unbounded time.

  7. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary...

    Tei Pai Wanka - (Wampanoag) Term for swamp lights in Algonquian lore. Enslaved souls of people taken by the Little People who are used to scare people who've done wrong or lure them to their deaths. Vampire; Wanagi- (Lakota) Lakota name for Siouan shadow people. Essentially ghosts. Wewe Gombel; Wili; Will o' the wisp – Jack o lantern (English ...

  8. Triton (mythology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(mythology)

    The rest of their body is rough with fine scales just as is the shark. Under their ears they have gills and a man's nose; but the mouth is broader and the teeth are those of a beast. Their eyes seem to me blue, [j] and they have hands, fingers, and nails like the shells of the murex. Under the breast and belly is a tail like a dolphin's instead ...

  9. Hyperborea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea

    The earliest extant source that mentions Hyperborea in detail, Herodotus' Histories (Book IV, Chapters 32–36), [9] dates from c. 450 BC. [10] Herodotus recorded three earlier sources that supposedly mentioned the Hyperboreans, including Hesiod and Homer, the latter purportedly having written of Hyperborea in his lost work Epigoni.