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Illithids are hermaphroditic creatures [34] who each spawn a mass of larvae two or three times in their life. [35] The larvae resemble miniature illithid heads or four-tentacled tadpoles. Larvae are left to develop in the pool of the Elder Brain. The ones that survive after 10 years are inserted into the brain of a sapient creature. [5]
Asin – (Pacific Northwest) Often called the Basket Woman, this was an ogre-like monster who sneaked up on and captured naughty children, throwing them into a basket on her back to take home and eat. Bigfoot – Large, hairy, and bipedal ape-like creature taller than a human and said to inhabit forests in North America.
Tikbalang – creature with the body of a man and the head and hooves of a horse, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines) Uchchaihshravas – seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu) Unicorn – horse-like creature with a single horn, often symbolizing purity (Worldwide) Winged unicorn
As are many magical creatures in the book, the boggart is mortally afraid of cats. The boggarts in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter are shape-shifters whose true form is unknown, that change shape to resemble their beholder's worst fear (possibly inspired by the "clutterbumph" in Paul Gallico's Manxmouse). They are unlike most boggarts of British ...
Harvey relates a myth that the fear gorta was a harbinger of famine during the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, and that the spirit originally arises from a patch of hungry grass (féar gortach). [2] In the region of Kiltubbrid , the term is also used to refer to a sudden hunger that can seize people traveling in the mountains, that will become ...
The strīx (στρίξ, στριγός) [b] was a nocturnally crying creature which positioned its feet upwards and head below, according to a pre-300 BC Greek origin myth. [c] [5] It is probably meant to be (and translated as) an owl, [6] but is highly suggestive of a bat which hangs upside-down.
A pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin, discovers that the tingling of the spine in states of extreme fear is due to the growth of a creature that every human being seems to have, called a "tingler," a parasite attached to the human spine. It curls up, feeds, and grows stronger when its host is afraid, effectively crushing the person's spine if ...
They were seen as creatures that worked with the devil. In Valle-Arizpe's story, Un duende y un perro (An Elf and a Dog), which takes place in the late 1500s, the creature that pesters Dona Luisa is described as a "demon". The duende would beat her leaving her with bruises and would torment her so much that Dona Luisa lived in fear. [8]