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Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines) Sky Fox (mythology), a celestial nine-tailed Fox Spirit that is 1,000 years old and has golden fur (Chinese) Shug Monkey – dog/monkey creature found in Cambridgeshire (Britain) Tanuki – Japanese raccoon dog, legends claim is a shapeshifting trickster (Japan)
Named after "Grendel [...] a legendary creature from the Old English epic, Beowulf" [162] Morlockia Garcia-Valdecasas, 1984: Crustacean: Morlocks, The Time Machine "H. J. Wells described in 'The Time Machine' the Morlocks as inhabitants of the interior of the earth. They had lost their eyes and showed other adaptations to subterranean life." [163]
The two headed eagle is holding two elephants in his claws and beaks, revealing his enormous powers.In a coin found in Madurai, he is holding a snake in his beak. [2] All 2-dimensional depictions show a symmetrical image in which he is a double-headed eagle while other images show his long tail feathers like a peafowl.
Merfolk, Mercreatures, Mermen or Merpeople are legendary water-dwelling, human-like beings. They are attested in folklore and mythology throughout the ages in various parts of the world. Merfolk, Merpeople, or simply Mer refers to humanoid creatures that live in deep waters like Mermaids, Sirens, Cecaelia etc.
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".
1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming. Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and ...
Poseidon, enraged, caused Minos's wife, Pasiphae, to fall in love with the bull; their coupling produced the Minotaur, a half-bull half-human creature who fed on human flesh. [ 192 ] [ 193 ] Minos concealed him within the labyrinth built by Daedalus , and fed to him Athenian men and women he forced Aegeus to send him over.
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