...''king of the serpents''', is a fabulous beast which has been depicted as the most dangerous serpent that ever existed on Earth.
...eged to be hatched by a cockerel from the egg of a serpent (the reverse of the cockatrice, which is hatched from a hen's egg incubated by a serpent's nest
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...ies of Northern England and Lowland Scotland, associated with spinning and the spinning wheel.
...s ''Scantlie Mab''. Habetrot spun yarn for a local girl and then convinced the girl's new husband that she should never spin again.
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The '''tatzelwurm''' is a dragon-like beast and cryptid reported from the Alps mountains areas covering part of Austria, Bavaria and Switzerland.
...s, possibly juveniles, are considerably smaller. Local folklore holds that the Tatzelwurm is able to defend itself by expelling poisonous fumes that are c
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[[Image:Cynocephali.jpg|thumb|A cynocephalus. From the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).]]
The '''Cynocephali''' are dog-headed bipedal creatures in the mythologies of Europe, India and China.
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...e real creatures, mainstream scientists and experts generally contend that the chupacabra is a mythological creature, or a type of urban legend.
...o Pérez, who intended the name to be a joke. This claim is doubtful, since the word had already been used in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park,
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[[Image:changeling.jpg|thumb|Henri Fuseli 'The Changeling' 1780]]
...for this conduct stems from the desire to have a human servant (domestic), the love of a human child, or from malice. Some people believed that trolls wo
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...nits (PRU) of RAF Benson, Wick and St Eval. The story attempted to explain the accidents which often occurred during their flights.
...author of the first article was Hubert Griffith, although he suggests that the stories have been in wide circulation for some time and are very well known
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...1703), about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.
...he fictional Marquis of Carabas. The cat continues making gifts of game to the king for several months.
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...s is more a reflection of fiction's influence than an authentic feature of the folk [[legend]]s. Werewolves are sometimes held to become [[vampire]]s afte
==Origins and variations of the word==
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Similarly to the other [[cryptid]]s, no one has produced proof of the existence of reptilian humanoids, and allegations of their existence can at
...mmon are the myths of "Serpents of Wisdom" who enlightened humanity before the dawn of civilization; but it has been noted by mythologists that here "serp
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...Spriggans, Welsh Knockers, Cornish Knockers, German Kobolds and Wichtlein, the Irish Phooka and even Shakespeare's infamous Puck .
...to some traditions, ''goblin'' comes from ''Gob'' or ''Ghob'', the king of the [[gnome|gnomes]], whose inferiors were called ''Ghob-lings''.
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...n modern fantasy literature and role-playing games, trolls are featured to the extent of being stock characters.
The meaning of the word ''troll'' is uncertain. It might have had the originally meaning of ''supernatural'' or ''Magic'' with an overlay of ''ma
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...ns) from numerous organic components. The term is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system.
...id in the ground surrounded by horse manure for forty days, at which point the embryo would form.
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...although these fictional depictions often do not bear much resemblance to the original mythology.
The word “Wendigo” (pronounced wehn-dee-go) comes from the Native American Algonquian language, meaning “evil spirit that devours ma
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'''Anansi''' (/əˈnɑːnsi/ ə-nahn-see) the trickster is the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.
...He is also known as Ananse, Kwaku Ananse, Kweku Ananse, and Anancy; and in the southern United States he has evolved into Aunt Nancy. He is a spider, but
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[[Image:daleknew.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A Dalek from the 2005 series]]
...so, collectively, the greatest alien adversaries of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Their most infamous catchphrase is "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!", with each syl
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