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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 ...
Sybaris was a monster that terrified Crisa, near Delphi. A man named Eurybarus decided to face the beast in order to save Alcyoneus, whom he had fallen in love with, and threw Sybaris off the crags. Sybaris hit her head, and disappeared. On that spot, a spring sprang that the people thereafter called Sybaris.
Gajasimha – A creature with the head of an elephant and the body of a lion. Gye-lyong – A creature from Korean mythology with the head of a chicken and the body of a dragon. Hieracosphinx – A type of Sphinx that had a hawk head. Jinmenken - A Japanese creature with the face of a human and the body of a dog.
The Thompsons of Saint Paul wanted to teach their kids, Gunnar and Harley, about metamorphosis -- the changing of a caterpillar into a butterfly. Wesley, father to the fledgling botanists ...
The delicate charm of a butterfly, with its fabulous fluttering wings and jewel-toned hues, is a sight to behold.Even so, you may have, at some point in your life, wondered if these colorful ...
In the English county of Devon, people once hurried to kill the first butterfly of the year, to avoid a year of bad luck. [28] In the Philippines, a lingering black butterfly or moth in the house is taken to mean a death in the family. [29] An Ancient Greek myth tells of the cithara player Eunomos ("Mr Goodtune"). During a competition, the ...
A dragonfly in its final moult, undergoing metamorphosis, it begins transforming from its nymph form to an adult. Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. [1]
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