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Popobawa, a Tanzanian shetani (evil spirit) that often takes the form of a one-eyed bat-like creature; Psoglav, a one-eyed dog-headed monster in Serbian mythology; Snallygaster, a one-eyed dragon-like creature said to inhabit the hills surrounding Washington, D.C. and Frederick County, Maryland; Tepegoz, a one-eyed ogre in the Oghuz Turkish ...
"Direach Ghlinn Eiti, or Fachan" as illustrated by J. F. Campbell. In Scottish folklore, the fachan (or fachin, [1] fachen, Direach Ghlinn Eitidh or Dithreach (dwarf of Glen Etive)) is a monster or giant described by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands as having a single eye in the middle of its face, a single hand protruding from its chest instead of arms, and a ...
Although the possibility has been raised of a link between this deformity and the myth of the one-eyed Cyclopes, [131] in such cases, the eye is below the nose [132] —rather than above as in ancient Greek depictions. [133] As noted above, Walter Burkert sees the possibility of the Hesiodic Cyclopes having ancient smith guilds as their basis ...
Cyclops – Grotesque, one-eyed humanoids, sons of Uranus in Greek myth. Cynocephalus – Dog-headed humans. Dearg Due - (Irish) fairy Undead woman who committed suicide after unfair treatment by a cruel husband. Bears some mythological similarity to Slavic Rusalka.
Carbuncle – one of its many descriptions is a luminescent small dog [3] Cerberus – multi-headed dog, guards the gates of the Underworld, son/brother of Orthrus (Greek, Roman) Chupacabra (Latin American) – Alleged creature reputed to attack and drink the blood of livestock, occasionally described with bat-like features. Sometimes thought ...
The mythical Kraken is one of the scariest monsters ever imagined. One of the earliest mentions of the gigantic cephalopod came from Swedish King Sverre of Norway in 1180. Some said the creature ...
Polyphemus (/ ˌ p ɒ l i ˈ f iː m ə s /; Ancient Greek: Πολύφημος, romanized: Polyphēmos, Epic Greek: [polypʰɛːmos]; Latin: Polyphēmus [pɔlʏˈpʰeːmʊs]) is the one-eyed giant son of Poseidon and Thoosa in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclopes described in Homer's Odyssey.
Perseus and the Graeae by Edward Burne-Jones (1892). In Greek mythology, the Graeae (/ ˈ ɡ r iː iː /; Ancient Greek: Γραῖαι Graiai, lit. ' old women ', alternatively spelled Graiai), also called the Grey Sisters and the Phorcides (' daughters of Phorcys '), [1] were three sisters who had gray hair from their birth and shared one eye and one tooth among them.