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Akkorokamui – octopus monster (Ainu, Japan) Amikuk - Shapeshifting four armed 'octopus' that can swim through land as easily as water. Carbuncle – one of its many descriptions is a luminescent bivalve [4] [3] Lou Carcolh – A giant, man-eating snail with fur and tentacles (France) Kraken – squid monster (Worldwide)
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Hihi – baboon monster; Hiisi – nature guardian; Hippalectryon – a horse-rooster hybrid; Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek and Phoenician) – horse-fish hybrid; Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) – hybrid of a griffin and horse; a lion-eagle-horse hybrid; Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) – horse-hoofed humanoid
Sea monster (Worldwide) – Giant, marine animals; Sea serpent (Worldwide) – Serpentine sea monster; Sea-Wyvern – Fish-tailed wyvern; Seko – Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night; Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) – Human-seal shapeshifter
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 ...
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
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
[4] [5] The World Turtle in Hindu belief is known as Akupāra, or sometimes Chukwa, a chiranjeevi. [6] Bedawang or Bedawang Nala is a giant turtle in Balinese mythology who brought the whole world on his back. In the creation mythology of the world, it represents a change from Antaboga. He along with two dragons support the human world.