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Suppon No Yurei: A turtle-headed human ghost from Japanese mythology and folklore. Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs. Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, had a hundred snake-heads in Hesiod, [4] or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
Nāga – A term referring to human/snake mixes of all kinds. Onocentaur – A creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a donkey and is often portrayed with only two legs. Ophiotaurus – A creature that has the upper body of a bull and the lower body of a snake. Peryton – A deer with the wings of a bird.
A Chalcidian hydria (c. 540 –530 BC), depicts Typhon as a winged humanoid from the waist up, with two snake tails for legs below. [19] Aeschylus calls Typhon "fire-breathing". [ 20 ] For Nicander (2nd century BC), Typhon was a monster of enormous strength, and strange appearance, with many heads, hands, and wings, and with huge snake coils ...
Minotaur – A human with the head and sometimes legs of a bull. Moirai – Lesser trio of female deities assigned with deciding and weaving the fates of humans. Usually called the Fates, this is a pan European concept, with the Roman Parcae, the Scandinavian Norns, the Anglo-Germanic Wyrd Sisters, the Bulgarian Orisnizi and Slavic Rozhanitsy ...
Nehebkau is most often represented in Ancient Egyptian art, carvings and statues [9] as an anthropomorphised snake: half human and half serpent. [12] He is also commonly depicted as a falcon headed snake with human arms and legs and an erect penis, depicted as such in multiple hypocephali.
Scitalis (Medieval Bestiaries) – Snake which mesmerizes its prey; Scorpion Man – Human-scorpion hybrid; Scylla – Human-snake hybrid with a snake's tail, twelve legs, and six long-necked snake heads; Sea-bee – Fish-tailed bee; Sea-lion; Sea monk (Medieval folklore) – Fish-like humanoid
The Anguiped (Latin: angui, 'snake'; ped-, 'foot') is a kind of divinity that is often found on magical amulets from the Greco-Roman period, and is characterized by having serpents for legs. Abraxas, the most common kind of Anguiped, is depicted as a creature with the head of a rooster and snakes for legs, symbolism thought to be of Persian origin
In South Asian and Southeast Asian mythology, the Nāga are semi-divine creatures which are half-human and half-snakes. [1] Claims of sightings of reptilian creatures occur in Southern United States, where swamps are common. In the late 1980s, there were hundreds of supposed sightings of a "Lizard Man" in Bishopville, South Carolina. [2]