Ramidreju are born every 100 years from a weasel or a marten. This animal has a very long body, like a snake, and their fur is slightly green-colored
...ed animal in Spanish folklore because its fur heals every sickness and the animal has a big desire for gold.
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...Central Celebes believe that the inside parts only of the man take on the animal shape, a state which they term '''lamhoyo'''.
The lamboyo may be distinguished from an ordinary animal by being misshapen to some extent, for instance, a buffalo may have only on
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In Welsh foklore, '''Grims''' or '''Kegrims''' are animal and sometimes evil spirits that most frequently inhabit churches and burial
...pare a human whatever torment or servitude lay in store, the carcass of an animal would instead be buried first.
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...ielu is described as "the animal with planks growing out of its back". The animal appears to be aquatic and herbivorous, and has mostly green algal growth co
Mackal noted that the animal's triangular- or diamond-shaped planks or ridges are similar (but larger) t
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The '''hyote''' is a cryptozoological animal that was repeatedly sighted in Baltimore County, Maryland during the summer
...captured a specimen alive on August 1, 2004. Veterinarians identified the animal as a red fox infested with sarcoptic mange, a parasite that causes hair los
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* In 1946, eye witnesses allegedly reported seeing a reptile-like animal swimming in the waters of the lake. It was called lariosauro, the same name
* In September 1957 a strange animal whose head was described as similar to a crocodile head.
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...h Dragon''' or '''Pictish Elephant''') is an artistic representation of an animal, and is depicted on Pictish symbol stones.
It is not easily identifiable with any real animal, but resembles a seahorse, especially when depicted upright. Suggestions ha
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...wo different ways. When pronounced "shachihoko", it refers to the mystical animal mentioned above. When pronounced "shachi", it means grampus; a dolphin or o
It was believed that this animal could cause the rain to fall, and as such, temples and castles were often a
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The badaruc was said to be a nocturnal and very shy animal and because of the value of its fur, it was not allowed to shoot it.
...d to stand alone with a club by a cold night in a deserted place until the animal pass by. Of course, there was no hunting party and everyone go home leaving
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...ing story and the painting and asked Granberg if he could re-construct the animal. In 1918 Granberg had completed the skvader and it has since then been a ve
...for Sundsvall and when the province Medelpad was to be given a provincial animal (in addition to the provincial flower) in 1987, many locals voted for the s
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...logy|Aztec]] and [[Toltec mythology|Toltec]] mythology, '''Xolotl''' ("The Animal", Lord of the Evening Star, Lord of the [[Underworld]]) was the god of ligh
...otl" can also mean "dog" in [[Nahuatl]], the Aztec language - or a monster animal with reversed feet. He was also the patron of the Ulama game. He is identi
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...up the chase and Lepage was able to examine it through his binoculars. The animal, he says, was about 24 feet in length with a long pointed snout adorned wit
...Wetzel. While visiting with a group of pygmies they were informed about an animal called Ngoubou. Although ngoubou is also the local word for rhinoceros, the
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...l, which he "took to be a buffalo or wild ox," but he saw no traces of the animal. These statements are very wonderful, and before giving credence to them we
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...sroads from the animal whose horns or hind legs it had inhabited when that animal passes between the two fires. The ustrel cannot leave the crossroad and is
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...' (black beast) is believed to be a sorcecer that has taken a monstrous or animal shape. In Vienne, it is also the local name for [[werewolf]]. The galipote
...''courir la galipote,'' which means to turn into a werewolf or other human-animal by night and chase prey through the woods.
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...y, claw-like flippers and a large fin, which can allegedly wrap around the animal in a fashion that resembles the cloak of a clergyman. The head appears to b
...d, appealing to be released. The bishops managed to convince the king that animal should be returned to its natural habitat. Once released by the bishops, th
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...olden times an unknown lady offered food to the hunters at the moment the animal appeared she was thought to be a witch.
...the Bisclavaret'' used the idea of a werewolf, and again in this case the animal has no savage instincts except against his enemies, a faithless wife and he
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...r. Only the shells reach the ground, and if part of a shell is eaten by an animal, the latter will go mad.
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The
animal was described by [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] in his ''[[Naturalis Historia]]'
<blockquote>There are reports of a wild
animal in Paionia called the Wisent, which has the mane of a horse, but in all oth
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The '''bicho-homem''' (man-beast or man-animal) is very tall, has a single leg (some blending with the [[saci]]) with a ro
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'''Trunko''' is the nickname for an animal reportedly sighted in Margate, South Africa on October 25, 1924, according
...water by about 20 feet. One of the witnesses, Hugh Ballance, described the animal as looking like a "giant polar bear" during a final fight.
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...d itself sufficiently after leaving the water". Mackal also noted that the animal's triangular- or diamond-shaped ridges were similar (but smaller) to those
...ent places where you find hippos, for it kills them". Finally in 1945, the animal's tracks were spotted near Ndélé, by Blancou's gun carrier.
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In Melanesia there is a belief in the '''tamaniu''' or atai which is an animal counterpart to a person with which his life is bound up.
...him with the ceremony of examination. He told his friend to go and see the animal, using the words " Look at me," referring to the lizard as himself.
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The Water Tiger is an aggressive aquatic animal said to have pointed teeth and webbed, human like hands.
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...lamb or calf (or whatever animal the vessel is carrying). Should an adult animal then stray over to investigate, the Boobrie would grasp it in its horrid ta
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...said to live in New Zealand. It is usually described as a small otter-like animal that lives on the South Island of New Zealand. There are many theories on t
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'''Raijū''' (雷獣,"thunder animal" or "thunder beast") is a demon from Japanese mythology.
The myth of the thunder animal probably came about as a way of explaining the natural phenomenen of ball l
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...raft and does not need to suck blood. Also the nahual looks like a natural animal when shapeshifted.
...uchi attack. The tlahuelpuchi are able to avade capture by turning into an animal so small, like tick, that the glowing is not noticable.
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...ast, but had become very rare in the recent years. They then butchered the animal and the villagers, including Samuel, ate it.
Samuel described the animal as being between 15-20 feet long. One of its most notable features is the t
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...983 by John Wall. Cryptids may also be known as an Unidentified Mysterious Animal (UMA).
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...iver Monster has a gray skin, three-toed tracks, summer molting and a farm animal's call.
...as suggested that the creature is "a clear-cut instance of a known aquatic animal outside its normal habitat or range and therefore unidentified by the obser
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...n front. Others saw it vice-versa. One man called to say he had seen a big animal in the pitch dark with eyes that glowed like embers.
It was clear to us that this weird, unknown animal needed a name. One editor coined the word, Glawackus. "Gla" for Glastonbury
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It is a person who can change themselves into a half animal from the torso down; and can also alter its size from tiny to very large in
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...nacking on roadkill. The moment one of the men rolled his window down, the animal spotted them and immediatly attacked the car. The two men fled and reported
...rewolf to the occult activities and mutilated animals (which may have been animal sacrifices in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
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Musimon can also refer to the real animal also known as the mouflon (Ovis musimon), a wild short-fleeced mountain she
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...ds and witches. It is also said to be able to shapeshift into a variety of animal forms (black dog, toad, crow,...).
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Described as the size of a donkey, the animal looks like a hybrid of a lion and a leopard with a grey fur.
English contact with this animal first began in the 1900s.
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...poor health and nothing could be done, and it was decided to euthanize the animal.
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There is an animal on the mountain which looks like a long-tailed ape, but it has white ears.
There is a green animal with a human face. Its name is live-lively.—''Book Eighteen--The Classic
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However, their was one animal that would not be frightened away and which the karkadann tolerated: the ri
...uch, they drink wine, water, or anything else from these beakers . . . The animal is exceedingly swift and powerful, so that no creature, neither the horse n
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...ching lengths of up to 50 ft. The Bobangi aboriginals have proclaimed this animal to be unlike any other they have seen, and have only compared it to other c
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...o horns, three or six horns that are placed side-by-side on the top of the animal’s head rather than the snout.
...s would point to a ceratopsian; this group's rostral bone is unique in the animal kingdom. Finally, the horn could be made of keratin, as are the horns of Af
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'''Animal elementals''' or thought-forms were employed by magicians in the remote age
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...meat in local markets. They told me that they used to have a skull of the animal in the village, but it was destroyed along with everything else when rebels
...as this November 2007, someone was attacked and killed by a large unknown animal near a village called Gelema, on that river. The United Nations police went
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...ropy'' is also sometimes used for the delusion that one has turned into an animal in general and not specifically a wolf.
...they have transformed, or are in the process of transforming into another animal. It has been linked with the altered states of mind that accompany psychosi
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...pe." A local newspaper quoted an unidentified woman, who claimed that the animal was only the size of a cat, and had decomposed to a skeleton by the time of
...riment from the nearby government animal testing facility, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
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...ow, which was one of the old-fashioned sort, tipped with bone, entered the animal's jaw. The tiger raised its paw, broke off the weapon and vanished into the
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The navajo word ''mai-cob'' for ''wolf'' (animal) is a synonym for a ''witch''.
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...ds (especially "oo"). They share similar characteristics with the mythical animal since they can cause the status effect "Amnesia" on players and will run aw
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...was so heavy that the beast could only look down. In his description, the animal's gaze was not lethal, but its breath was poison, since it ate only poisono
...is found in Ethiopia near to the source Nigricapo. It is not a very large animal, is sluggish in all its parts, and its head is so large that it carries it
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This animal was included in numerous medieval bestiaries, and also appeared in works of
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...gy to describe a sorcerer that is able to take on animal forms, or have an animal spirit ('''Tonal''') to whom they are spiritually linked throughout their l
...s in order to cause harm to others. The normal practice is to refer to the animal companion itself as a Tonal, following the Aztec practice.
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...sion, and one of the adventurers later commented that "there was nothing...animal about them."
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...it tightly, the ashi-magari is said to feel something like the tail of an animal. While it is not generally visible, it is often believed to be a trick play
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A gigantic animal -from west African folklore- that trespasses into villages and kidnaps girl
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...o appear to be men and women who have reverted or been transformed into an animal- or monster-like state via withdrawal from human society.
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...ce to show the entire
animal, so the end of the tail was depicted over the
animal’s back, instead of extending out straight or drooping in a more natural p
<blockquote>This
animal is the mortal enemy of the asp. It is a native of Egypt and when it sees an
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...n the prey happens by, Gulchers will leave their hiding place to stalk the animal. Once within range the Gulcher will put on a burst of speed and attack. The
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...nown creature in the trawl. The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal (Bord, 1990), but despite the potential biological significance of the curi
...greed with Shimaka that "the photographs show the remains of a prehistoric animal" (Sjögren, 1980).
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The Peuchen is a shapeshifter that can instantly change into animal form.
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...of "fair-play" when hunting. It is told that it scares away prey and hides animal tracks or makes hunters lose their way in the jungle.
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...Papa Bois in the forest when an animal is trapped and injured by imitating animal calls to throw hunters off track.
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...eek and continued on across toward the road. The navy seaman observed the animal for a while, and then it moved on into the surrounding brush.
...eir car to get a good look at it. It was described again as a large white animal with woolly fur about the size of a bear. In this instance, it was describ
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...ld War (1939 to 1949), it was dubbed 'Old Yellow Top', probably due to the animal's (older) age. The earliest reported sighting of this creature was on Sept
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...tail of a catfish, perhaps betraying a trick played by a tanuki or another animal shapeshifter.
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..., noting that it had a line of plates on its back, like a Stegosaurus. The animal was called a ‘Row’ because its hiss sounds like ‘roow.’ Miller also
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The '''leucrota''' is a swift beast that lives in India. It is a composite animal, the result of a mating between a crocotta and a lioness, the same size as
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...ant creature would be identified as living in the home by listening for an animal that cries like a new born baby.
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...ous for stealing the life-force of cows by sucking their milk, leaving the animal with none to give.
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...laid on the ground in the form of a cross, or else some of the hair of the animal is mixed with salt, meal and the blood of a bat and cooked to bread, with w
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...e found the surrounding earth in movement, and an enormous worm-like black
animal in the middle of it, about twenty-five meters long, and with two horns on i
<blockquote>... saw lying on the bank of the Rio das Caveiras a strange
animal of gigantic size, nearly one meter in thickness, not very long, and with a
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...hese all involve the same principles as cat punishment. But the cat is the animal most consistent in seeking revenge for its death.
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...he put his head through the hole in the donkey's neck and the body of the animal fitted around his hips. The "rider" wore a satin shirt and a large matador'
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The Tarbh Uisge is described as a black animal, with a velvety, soft appearance, and no ears at all. Only coming out at ni
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The '''Hodag''' is a fictional animal that is part of the folklore of the American state of Wisconsin. Its histor
Sheperd rounded up a group of local people to capture the animal. The group reported that they needed to use dynamite to kill the beast. A p
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...e a new victim, and, because she could be tricked by drowning some sort of animal, it was considered appropriate to make proprietary sacrifices of small bird
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...cept for its fiery eyes, which were considered the best way to identify an animal as being a disguised Plat-eye. Sometimes the spirit takes no shape at all,
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...rm of a variety of animals and as beings with a grotesque mix of human and animal characteristics. They could act like human beings, dancing for example, or
...with half the face covered by a jaguar pelt. The glyph is interpreted as "animal companion spirit" and The concept of the wayob later also included the abil
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...creature to the cart. By means of an artfully contrived bridle he led the animal home, and used it as a cart-horse. But one day the bridle became unfastened
...thunderheads. It is said that a St Bride's Bay just after a storm such an animal was seen. Somehow a local farmer managed to catch it and put it to the plou
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...y being described as an old man dressed up for winter in warm coat made of animal fur and holding small silver or crystal ax in his hand, Lausks is only ment
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...within its limited reach, once its food sources were depleted however, the animal would soon perish. Reportedly a favorite food of wolves as well as humans,
...by means of its navel: if its navel be cut, it cannot live. ...this is the animal called Jeduah."
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...[[Nahual]], an evil sorcerer who can transform himself into a supernatural animal, usually a goat, dog or deer, in order to prey upon livestock.
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'''Osschaart''' can take the shape of any animal he wants, but he usually appears in the shape of a bull with a man's head a
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...spirit that guards the home in the Lithuanian mythology. It is the sacred animal of the sun goddess Saule that symbolizes fertility. With a belief that it w
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Yaoguai are mostly malevolent animal spirits or fallen celestial beings that have acquired magical powers throug
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...des can come in many forms, anything from a deceased or living person's or animal's imprint left on something or someone, to something invoked into the "poss
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...th element in the Japanese elemental system is Void. So there cannot be an animal representing it. Because of this, Huang Long is often forgotten. However, s
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...cat previously thought to be extinct. Locals in mid-Cornwall believe the animal could be just one of a number of big cats roaming the area. Paul Tyler, MP
Some experts speculate that the animal could be a species of wild cat which was supposed to have become extinct in
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In the Ming dynasty of China the Qilin is represented as an oxen-hooved animal with a [[dragon]]-like head surmounted by a pair of horns and flame-like he
...ina's subsequent Manchurian dominated Qing dynasty is a much more fanciful animal. Manchurian depictions of the qilin depict a creature with the head of a [[
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...tations of the creature have been retrieved; all depict a long, serpentine animal with small forelimbs and a dog like or crocodilian head. Reports that the c
*It can shapeshift from animal to man at anytime. Sisiutl can even change itself in to a self-propeled can
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...l (with consciousness on a level of organic synergy of an individual human/animal), or a (superior) mind/soul with synergetically extremely complex/sophistic
...an soul, where "nephesh" (''animal'') refers to the physical being and its animal instincts. Similarly, both the Danish and the Chinese language uses the ter
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Alanna Aquinos can change from a human to an animal form, usually as a bat, a pig or a black dog. Some Alanna Aquinos can chang
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They often appear in half-human, half-animal shapes and are active during the time from the beginning of Christmas to Ne
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By donning animal skins or believing themselves transformed into animals by their rage of [[T
[[Category:Norse mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]]
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This category includes the primitive beasts and animal-shape monsters, from the numerous dragons and snakes of the first creation
Animal and humanoid species that are supposed to exist but remain elusive. Dinosau
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...pouliet''' or ''teursta poulict'' appears in the likeness of some domestic animal.
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...reer of evil while still alive - his soul would leave his body at night in animal form and fly through the air to attack people or to magically do other harm
While he lived, his soul left his body in animal form at night to fight against both living and undead Kudlaks.
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...ho fell out with one of his colleagues. The two fought, taking a series of animal and human forms, before finally becoming two worms who were swallowed by tw
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...s mostly to be found in Caithness. Thomas Pennant made enquiries about the animal while in Ausdale in the county, and it is also mentioned in the work of Rob
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...4 families and 189 known Snouter species descended from a small shrew-like animal, which gradually evolved and diversified to fill most of the ecological nic
...me, 1905). The Great Morgenstern's Nasobame (Nasobema lyricum), a dog-size animal that walked on four snouts, was named in his honor.
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