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A Bao A Qu is a legendary Malay creature described in Jorge Luis Borges's 1967 Book of Imaginary Beings.Borges claimed to have found it either in an introduction to the Arabian Nights by Richard Francis Burton, or in the book On Malay Witchcraft (1937) by C.C. Iturvuru. [1]
Hihi – baboon monster; Hiisi – nature guardian; Hippalectryon – a horse-rooster hybrid; Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek and Phoenician) – horse-fish hybrid; Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) – hybrid of a griffin and horse; a lion-eagle-horse hybrid; Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) – horse-hoofed humanoid
British weird fiction author China Miéville credits Borges for inspiring The Tain, his 2002 fantasy novella, which features "imagos" that resemble the Fauna of Mirrors entry in The Book of Imaginary Beings. The title of Caspar Henderson's 2012 book The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a reference to Borges's book. [12]
Bukavac – Six-legged lake monster; Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) – Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster; Bunny Man (American Folklore) Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Urban Legend – Spirit/Maniac that wears a bunny costume and wields an ax; Bush Dai Dai – Spirit that seduces and kills men
A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. Cabeiri – Smith and wine spirit; Cacus – Fire-breathing giant; Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid; Cailleach – Divine creator and weather deity hag; Caipora – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
The Adventures of Puss in Boots, the TV series includes an episode that is an interactive video game called Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale. Puss was voiced by Eric Bauza in the six-season series, The Adventures of Puss in Boots, and by Andé Sogliuzzo [8] & Christian Lanz [9] in the video games. Sogliuzzo also voiced Puss in the series ...
Sea monster (Worldwide) – Giant, marine animals; Sea serpent (Worldwide) – Serpentine sea monster; Sea-Wyvern – Fish-tailed wyvern; Seko – Water spirit which can be heard making merry at night; Selkie (Faroese, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish) – Human-seal shapeshifter
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