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The '''epimacus''' or '''opinicus''' is a fabulous beast that belongs to the family of griffins. In heraldry an opinicus is a beast with the body and four legs like a lion (whereas the griffin always has aqu

...t''' (Russian: Индрик-зверь, transliteration: Indrik zver' ) is a fabulous beast, the king of all animals, who lives on a mountain known as "The Saint Mount

'''Surma''' is a beast similar to Cerberus in the Finnish mythology of Kalevala. Surma is a terrible beast that guards the gates of the Underworld or Tuonela to prevent escape. An of

...m the 17th century, written by a local priest wich saw the 'fire breathing beast in the river Meuse (D: Maas)'. A female beast with a human face, a collar of jester’s bells, pointed flappy ears as tho

...ruelty and danger and therefore the shadhahvar was regarded as a dangerous beast. [[Category: Fabulous beasts]]

'''Carbuncle''', originally spelt "Carbunkel" is a term given to a mythical beast reportedly sighted in the Americas by early Spanish conquistadors. [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

The name is derived from the Irish oll, "great", and péist, "worm, fabulous beast, monster, reptile". The Scottish Gaelic variant is called '''Uilepheist'''.

[[Image:Gusukuma Portrait of the Sacred Beast Baize.jpg|thumb|Portrait of the Bai Ze on a Japanese picture scroll.]] ...; Wade-Giles: Pai Tse), or '''hakutaku''' (白沢) in Japanese, is a fantastic beast from Chinese legend which is said to advise only kings of virtue.

...nce is subject to debate: some pretend its a three headed dragon, others a beast, others a bird, and some say it was not one but a whole swarm of three head [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

The only way abate the Cherufe's appetite for destruction was to satiate the beast's taste for human flesh by throwing a sacrificial victim into the bowels of [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...rving is the first known physical representation of the Calopus, a similar beast existed in ancient Babylon, where it was sometimes called the Chatloup or t [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...'Al-mi'raj''' (generally truncated as Mi'raj or just Miraj) is a mythical beast from Islamic poetry said to live on a mysterious island called Jezîrat al [[Category: Fabulous beasts]]

The '''yale''' (also '''centicore''', Latin 'eale') is a mythical beast found in European mythology. ...tions vary according to bestiaries, it is viewed as being an antelope-like beast about the size of a horse with tusks, long horns, and the tail of a lion or

The name of the beast is combined from the words "Bluat", meaning blood and "Schink", being thigh [[Category:Fabulous beasts]] [[Category:Austrian mythology]] [[Category:water]] [[Category:bloo

'''Sù''', or '''Succarath''' is a ferocious beast that lives in the cold, wild country at the tip of South America (Patagonia ...terrify its hunters, who coming close to the mouth of the pit, pierce the beast with their arrows."

The '''three-legged bird''' (or '''tripedal bird''') is a fabulous creature usually associated with the sun that can be found in various mytho ...cient document called the Kojiki (古事記) where it was called upon to choke a beast attempting to devour the sun and as the protector to Emperor Jimmu. On many

==The nature of the beast== [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...imes called the '''Shaggy Beast''' or '''La Velue''', is a [[dragon]]-like beast that terrorized the city of La Ferté-Bernard, France, in medieval times. ...t down and cut off its tail, in some versions of the story learning of the beast's weak spot through the aid of a local wise woman. This was the only vulner

...d guard over the dead emperor's final resting place. Thus would the divine beast appear on the earthly plane, crouched over the tomb of the fallen king, eve [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...f India, Persia and North Africa. The karkadann was an extremely ferocious beast, driving away from its territory animals as big as the elephant. [[Category:fabulous beasts]]

The beast is mentioned nine times in the Bible (Job 39:9,10, Deuteronomy 33:17, Numbe [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...d bone and blood, as it were a lyttle lambe without wolle, and men eat the beast and fruit also, and sure it seemeth very strange." as fabulous, the accounts of it were confirmed to me by so many

...acherib (reigned 704-681 BC) brought the motif to Assyria, normally as the beast of the state god Assur. On Sennacherib's rock reliefs at Maltai, however, t *Another possibility is the Elasmotherium, or "Giant Unicorn," another beast fitting the approximate description.

The beast composition is powerfully evocative of strength (body of lion / bull), spee [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

The '''Makara''' is a fabulous beast in Hindu mythology close to the water horse with the body of a fish and the

...known as a '''cockatrice''' or '''king of the serpents''', is a fabulous beast which has been depicted as the most dangerous serpent that ever existed on ...basilisk played many roles. Sometimes it would fall into the realm of the fabulous salamander where it would be used to symbolize the destructive fire that pr

...gerous predator in Asia, has the body of a lion and a head with human. The beast is also known as the "manticora", the "mantichor", for short "manty" or by ...buted with having a voice that was the mixture of pipes and a trumpet. The beast is very swift and makes very powerful leaps. Occasionally, a manticore will

Typhon was a gigantic winged monster that was part man and part beast. Typhon was also taller than the tallest mountain. Under Typhon's arms ther :"Typhon was a mixture of man and beast, the largest and strongest of all Ge's children. Down to the thighs he was

...hybrid grapple with each other, Godzilla manages to make the mythological beast fall off of a huge cliff into the water below. ...! card game, there is a fusion monster named ''Chimera The Flying Mythical Beast''

'''Behemoth''' is a primeval beast mentioned in the Book of Job and identified later as a demon in Christian d ...rd is most likely a plural form of ''bəhēmāh'', referring for Hebrews to a beast of use to humans or a dumb animal. It is being used here, however, as a sin

...o tame by man. Pliny, the Roman naturalist records it as "a very ferocious beast, similar in the rest of its body to a horse, with the head of a deer, the f [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...e film's climax, where it fights a losing battle with another mythological beast, a [[Dragon]]. [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...ology, the '''Lernaean Hydra''' was an ancient serpent-like chthonic water beast that possessed numerous heads;the poets mention more heads than the vase-pa ...s place. Also the stench from the Hydra's breath was enough to kill man or beast. The foul stench that the river of Elis, Anigrus, exudes is said to be the

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...yette.edu/~hollidac/jackalope.html Jackalope fans take note: Your mythical beast really does exist!] : Prof. Chuck Holliday [[Category:fabulous beasts]]

...me western direction. In Dante's Divine Comedy Geryon has become a winged beast with the tail of a scorpion but the face of an honest man. He dwells at th [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...n and propriety, forgiveness and retaliation, belief and unbelief, god and beast. [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

* [[Singing Beast]] Imagined by C. S. Lewis - An animal that sits upon its haunches like a do * [[Centaur]] - A well-known beast with the torso of a man and the hindquarters of a horse. Most are portrayed

The heraldic beast called a "keythong" much enjoyed among members of the Society for Creative Both Persians and Assyrians decorated with images of this magical beast. Images of two griffins drinking from a flaming cup were common in the Pers

...ilm "Gorgo", one of the small Gorgo's owner revealed that he had named the beast after the Gorgon. [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...ther than wolves specifically, is [[therianthropy]] (therianthrope means ''beast-man''). The term ''turnskin'' or ''turncoat'' is sometimes also used. The F *In France they actually had an encounter with were-wolves, or the Beast of Gevaudan in 1764. It got its first name from attacking a Shepard in the

...However, Pontoppidan also described the destructive potential of the giant beast: "It is said that if it grabbed the largest warship, it could manage to pul ...r. In the Eberron campaign setting for ''D&D'', the kraken is the heraldic beast of the dragonmarked Dragonmarked House Lyrandar.

...the Playstation 2 version of Altered Beast (also known as Project Altered Beast, only released in Japan and Europe) one of the creatures the main character [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...ad assigned the task to Hercules, Eurystheus was so afraid of the fearsome beast that he jumped into a pithos (large storage jar) to hide. [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

"Therefore, they did tye some dogge or other living beast unto the roots thereof with a corde ... and in the mean tyme stopped there [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...here was not more than the length of a spear-staff between the man and the beast. Then the brethren seeing that the monster had gone back, and that their co ...she at first thought was ducks fighting but as she watched she saw a large beast in the middle of the loch rolling and plunging in the water causing a great