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Kinnara – Half-human, half-bird in later Indian mythology. Kurma – Upper-half human, lower-half tortoise. Ichthyocentaurs – Creatures that have the torsos of a man or woman, the front legs of a horse, and the tails of a fish. Scorpion man – Half-man half-scorpion. Serpopard – A creature that is part-snake and part-African leopard.
A centaur-like half-human, half-equine creature called Polkan appeared in Russian folk art and lubok prints of the 17th–19th centuries. Polkan is originally based on Pulicane , a half-dog from Andrea da Barberino 's poem I Reali di Francia , which was once popular in the Slavonic world in prosaic translations.
As with many liminal beings, the onocentaur's nature is one of conflict between its human and animal components. [1] The first known mention was in reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus by an officer named Pythagoras, as quoted by Claudius Aelianus in De Natura Animalium. Aelian as well uses the term onokentaura for description of the female form. [2]
Dhampir – (Albanian,Slavic) half human, half vampire, resulting from the mating of a male vampire and human woman exclusively. Dökkálfar – Dark elves in Nordic mythology. Domovoi – Protective house spirit in Slavic folklore. Doppelgänger – Look-alike or double of a living person. Drak – (German) elf partly shapeshifted into a lizard.
In Mesopotamian mythology the urmahlullu, or lion-man, served as a guardian spirit, especially of bathrooms. [4] [5] The Old Babylonian Lilitu demon, particularly as shown in the Burney Relief (part-woman, part-owl) prefigures the harpy/siren motif. Harpies were human sized birds with the faces of human women. They were once considered ...
Makara (Hindu mythology) – half terrestrial animal in the frontal part (stag, deer, or elephant) and half aquatic animal in the hind part (usually of a fish, a seal, or a snake, though sometimes a peacock or even a floral tail is depicted) Mug-wamp - (Canadian) giant sturgeon monster said to inhabit Lake Temiskaming in Ontario. Name is of ...
Icthyocentaur with trident. Hotel Sacher, Vienna. Four-legged ichthyocentaur. Fountain of the Centaurs, Missouri State Capitol. In late Classical Greek art, an ichthyocentaur (Greek: ἰχθυοκένταυρος, plural: ἰχθυοκένταυροι) was a centaurine sea being with the upper body of a human, the lower anterior half and fore-legs of a horse, and the tailed posterior half of a ...
In Germanic heroic legend, Elgfróði (Elk-Fróði) is the half-man, half-elk elder brother of the hero Bödvar Bjarki and Thorir Houndsfoot. The name is also used to describe mythical creatures with his perceived form, which have been seen as a Norse variant of a centaur, [1] [2] although it is not clear if he was intended to be depicted with two or four legs.