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The book The Golden Turkey Awards describes many bizarre and obscure films. The authors of the work state that one film described by the book is a hoax, which they challenged readers to identify. The imaginary film was Dog of Norway, supposedly starring Muki the Wonder Dog, named after the authors' own dog. (A clue is that the same dog shown in ...
imaginary companion of the anchorite St Ungulant in the novel Small Gods by Terry Pratchett: The Bear: from a book of the same name by Raymond Briggs [3] Booby unicorn in the short story The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber: Budo novel Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks [4] Dorothy Spinner's imaginary friends: comics ...
Echidna – A half-woman and half-snake monster that lives inside a cave. Fu Xi – A god said to have been made by Nu Wa. Glaistig – A Scottish fairy or ghost who can take the form of a goat-human hybrid. [8] [9] Griffin – A creature with the front quarters of an eagle and the hind quarters of a lion. Some depictions also depict it as ...
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
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Charybdis – Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth; Chenoo (Mi'kmaq/Algonquian) – Giant, human-eating ice monsters; former humans who either committed terrible crime(s) or were possessed by evil spirits, turning their hearts to ice; Chepi (Narragansett) – Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
Baroque Medusa (A gorgon) combined beauty and horror: Medusa, after 1590, by Caravaggio.. Gaasyendietha – Dragon; Gagana – Iron-beaked bird with copper talons; Gaki – Ghosts of especially greedy people
British weird fiction author China Miéville credits Borges for inspiring The Tain, his 2002 fantasy novella, which features "imagos" that resemble the Fauna of Mirrors entry in The Book of Imaginary Beings. The title of Caspar Henderson's 2012 book The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a reference to Borges's book. [12]