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  2. Shahmaran - Wikipedia

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    Shahmaran is a mythical creature, half-snake and half-woman, portrayed as a dual-headed creature with a crown on each head, possessing a human female head on one end, and a snake's head on the other, possibly representing a phallic figure. [3] The human part is also decorated with a large necklace. [4] [5]

  3. Echidna (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    She was half woman half snake, lived in a cave, and was known as a mother figure, in this case, as the progenitor of the Scythians (rather than of monsters). [61] According to Herodotus, Greeks living in Pontus, a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, told a story of an encounter between Heracles and this snaky creature.

  4. Lamia - Wikipedia

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    The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, c. 1890), inspired by Keats's "Lamia", depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman. Lamia (/ ˈ l eɪ m i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λάμια, romanized: Lámia), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon".

  5. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Mélusine is Imaginative and Thrilling

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    Mélusine, the figure from 14th century French mythology, was a half-woman/half-snake who, when her serpentine self was spied on by her betraying lover, turned into a dragon and took flight.

  6. List of reptilian humanoids - Wikipedia

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    Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake. Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology. Glycon: a Roman snake god who had the head of a man. The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair. The Lamiai: female phantoms from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half-serpent.

  7. Scythian genealogical myth - Wikipedia

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    The mother's traits are consistent across the multiple versions of the genealogical myth and include her being the daughter of either a river-god or of the Earth and dwelling in a cave, as well as her being half-woman and half-snake. [18] [19] The Scythian foremother was also an androgynous goddess who was often represented in art as being bearded.

  8. Mall pokes fun at decades-long rumor of half-snake ... - AOL

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    The post Mall pokes fun at decades-long rumor of half-snake monster in its basement appeared first on Coconuts. Robinsons Galleria, one of the oldest malls in Quezon City, yesterday released a ...

  9. Woman Freed After Being Strangled by Python for 2 Hours: 'I ...

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    Thai woman Arom Arunroj, 64, remained in a python's tight coiled grip for an hour and a half until authorities came to the scene and rescued her 30 minutes after arrival Getty Stock image of a ...