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Bak – Assamese aqueous creature that can take human form after killing them. Dokkaebi – A mythical being in Korean folklore or fairy tales. Although usually frightening, it could also represent a humorous, grotesque-looking ogre or goblin. Ebu Gogo – Human-like creatures in Indonesian mythology. Garuda – Vishnu's bird-like mount.
The daevas, or Homo sanguinus, [2] is an extinct human cousin species who lived in matriarchal clan-based societies and regularly practiced human sacrifice, slavery, and thaumaturgy. Before the Common Era , the daevas founded the Daevite Empire that covered most of Eurasia, and remains a threat to humanity despite having long since fallen.
Tolkien's elves were followed by Poul Anderson's grim Norse-style elves of human size, in his 1954 fantasy The Broken Sword. [7] Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry series, starting with his 1984 fantasy The Summer Tree, includes both lios alfar (light elves) and swart alfar (dark elves), using variations on the original Norse or Icelandic terms.
Films based on, or inspired by, the writings of H. P. Lovecraft include the following. [ 19 ] The Haunted Palace (1963), directed by Roger Corman , starring Vincent Price , and with Lon Chaney Jr. Marketed as "Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace ", the film is actually based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward , and also includes elements taken ...
Talking animals are a common element in mythology and folk tales, children's literature, and modern comic books and animated cartoons. Fictional talking animals often are anthropomorphic, possessing human-like qualities (such as bipedal walking, wearing clothes, and living in houses). Whether they are realistic animals or fantastical ones ...
Films based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2 C, 31 P) Pages in category "Films based on fantasy novels" The following 129 pages are in this category, out of 129 total.
The Centaurs, a 1921 animated film by Winsor McCay, features what appears to be a family of centaurs.Only fragments of the film have survived. Centaurs, among many other mythological creatures, played a key role in one in the 1940 Disney animated film Fantasia in the segment Symphony No. 6 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Films such as The Matrix and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones have featured human foetuses being cultured on an industrial scale in enormous tanks. [ 22 ] Cloning humans from body parts is a common science fiction trope, one of several genetics themes parodied in Woody Allen 's 1973 comedy Sleeper , where an attempt is made to ...