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Bee – a mythical creature; Buzz – a bee mascot for the Georgia Institute of Technology; Flooty – a butterfly in Suzy's Zoo; Emmet – a heraldic beast; Loopy – a bee mascot from Honey Loops cereal; Mundi - a ladybug from Doki; Jollibee – a red bee who is the mascot of the fast-food company of the same name. Tickle – a ladybug in ...
Maiden Stone, detail of eastern face. Line drawing of Pictish beast. The Pictish Beast (sometimes Pictish Dragon or Pictish Elephant) is an artistic representation of an animal, distinct to the early medieval culture of the Picts of Scotland.
Anggitay – is a creature with the upper body of a female human and the lower body of a horse from waist down (Philippines) Arion – Talking immortal horse (Greek) Balius and Xanthus Greek – offspring of harpies, immortal; Buraq – Al-Burāq, steed from the heavens that transported the prophets (Islam, Persian Art)
9. Chimera. Origin: Greek The mythological Chimera is a terrifying creature that features a fire-breathing lion’s head attached to a goat’s body, ending in a serpent tail. There are varying ...
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 ...
For children he was cute and friendly, getting into harmless situations. Created by Australian born and raised ventriloquist Lee Dexter (1904-1991), [ 3 ] Bertie was a bunyip (a mythological Australian creature), described by Dexter as "a cross between a bunny , a collie dog and a duck billed platypus ."
One strategy they use for hunting is to emit an ethereal hum that will draw children closer to the water so they can be pulled in. Accounts vary as to what actually happens to the taken children. Some versions say that the child is simply devoured, while others say that they are held in a stasis-like state and used to fuel the youth of the ...
In Zen and Japanese Culture, D. T. Suzuki describes the hakutaku as "a mythical creature whose body resembles a hand and whose head is human. It was anciently believed that the creature ate our bad dreams and evil experiences, and for this reason, people, wishing it to eat up all the ills which we are likely to suffer, used to hang its picture ...