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  • ...d Midian, a semi-mythical city that offers sanctuary to monsters; both the human kind and otherwise. He hurridly sets off to seek Midian without realizing t ...ecropolis-like refuge, is set in the wilds of Canada and it’s inhabited by monsters, the so-called ''nightbreed'', hiding from the rest of the world.
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  • ...y coasts, the '''Erqigdlit''' are monsters that drink blood. If they see a human being, they’ll pursue them and tear them to pieces out of sheer lust to k
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  • Buta-kala are considered as the immediate cause of all that is injurious to human joy and comfort, physical and mental, natural and social. Wars, epidemics, ...rywhere but their absence is felt mainly when the gods are distant or when human neglect or wrongdoing has alienated the Divinity.
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  • Skeleton warriors consist of animated human skeletons with human weapons and armor such as swords and shields. Because they are already dead *Skeleton warriors are monsters in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game.
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  • ...n. He first appeared in Tomb of Dracula #10. He is half vampire and half human, which endows him with all of a vampire's strengths but none of their weakn [[Category: Movie monsters]]
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  • ...wses the categories (for example, it will be possible to browse and select monsters by a combination of shape, culture and age on Monstropedia). This category includes the primitive beasts and animal-shape monsters, from the numerous dragons and snakes of the first creation myths to the le
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  • ...along his body which may afford protection. His skin is also impervious to human bombs. ...u including Godzilla. Varan is seen in the climax, joining the other Earth monsters to fight against the King Ghidorah, though he does not actually participate
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  • '''Lake Tianchi monster''' is the name given to one or several lake monsters that allegedly live in Heaven Lake (known as Cheonji in Korean) or Lake Tia More recent reports describe the monster as having a human-like head attached to a 1.5 m neck. It is said to have a white ring around
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  • The Pugot can transform into a hog, dog or human though it usually looks like a black, giant headless being. It typically li ...Nimputul: The Self-Beheaded'', the pugot was cited to have appeared to the human hero. He was fed with chopped chicken meat with blood.
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  • ==Monsters in history== ...tand. In the Enlightenment, the cabinet of curiosities would often include monsters in amongst the scientific instruments and toys. Similarly, the monstrous wa
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  • [[Category:Human Monsters]]
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  • ...ra''' (ガバラ) is a oni-like kaiju that first appeared in the 1969 film ''All Monsters Attack'' where he plays the main antagonist of Godzilla. ...ty to electrocute Minya, and later, Godzilla. Promotional photos for ''All Monsters Attack'' also depict Gabara shooting lightning bolts from his hands, though
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  • ...a similar species or if Godzilla was somehow Minilla's biological parent; (human character dialogue might suggest that Godzilla had been to Sogell Island pr ...eyes are larger and placed further forward on his head, giving him a more human-like appearance. The dorsal fins on his back are small and unformed, and he
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  • ...the American historian and novelist Mark Mirabello. They stand above the human race as “we stand above apes." "The [[monsters]] eat only meat. Not dead meat--not freshly killed meat--but “raw flesh,
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  • Kelpies are very malevolent in nature. They are known to drown their human victims, who would never be seen again. The heart and liver (it is the hear ...of kelpies evolved into the present day legends of lake-monsters where the monsters "changed the appearance" to a more "realistic" and "modern" version since t
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  • According to some tales, rokurokubi were once normal human beings but were transformed by karma for breaking various precepts of Buddh Rokurokubi look like normal human beings by day, but at night they gain the ability to stretch their necks to
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  • ...described as an ape or a wild man. The Barmanu is supposed to possess both human and apelike characteristics and is said to abduct women and attempt mating ...to wild men may be those of the Almas which is always described as a wild human whereas those describing a large bipedal ape may be referring to the Yeti.
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  • ...at crossroads and were believed to attack young children and to mate with human men, giving birth to children born as vampires. ...155 Guiley, Rosemary ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters'']
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  • ...Drudwas ap Tryffin by his fairy wife. These birds were said to understand human speech and to obey whatever command was given to them by their master. Howe Rose, Carol. (2000). ''Giants, Monsters and Dragons''. Norton
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  • A '''jenglot''' is a tiny, living human doll in Indonesian and Malaysian folklore ...ot 'keepers' feed their creature with blood, either animal blood (goat) or human blood. The jenglot is said to not drink the blood directly. The person plac
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  • ...atural order. In the fierce battle between Mothra and Battra, the existing human civilization was destroyed in a tremendous flood. ...cean floor, until they caused a rift to open between tectonic plates. Both monsters were swallowed up into the Earth's crust.
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  • ...e the livestock. During these attacks, Baragon was not seen, so the mutant human Frankenstein was blamed. But there was a person who survived the destructio ...alive and kept in captivity on Monsterland. Along with the rest of Earth's monsters, Baragon is brought under the control of an alien race called the Kilaaks d
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  • ...ce in their great class of hill-spirits certain quadrumana, besides actual human beings, mountaineers alien to Chinese culture, perhaps a dying race of abor
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  • ...ious groups in folklore who were said to change the physical appearance of human beings by manipulating growing children, in a similar way to the horticultu ...dislocating their joints, and malforming their bones. The resulting human monsters made their living as mountebanks or were sold to lords and ladies to be use
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  • '''Mermen''' are mythical male legendary creatures who are human from the waist up and fish-like from the waist down, whose consorts were th *Another notable merman from Greek mythology was [[Glaucus]]. He was born a human and lived his early life as a fisherman. One day, while fishing, he saw th
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  • ...eature associated with Native American legends, and a large range of other monsters from [[sasquatch]]s to cannibal-like Native American [[wendigo]]s or the Eu ...r Chippewa in North Dakota might have picked up the French name for "hairy human-like being" from the influence of French Canadian trappers and missionaries
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  • ...at the same antics around another corner. This will go on and on until the human decides to give up in utter frustration. Another way they might annoy human ...0's and early 1990's representing the upper torso, hands & head of "Bogle" monsters.
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  • ...mythology, the '''Asakku''' were one type of Mesopotamian evil spirits and monsters, classed with good spirits as [[Utukku]]. Asakku demons attack and kill human beings, especially by means of head fevers. They are mentioned in poetical
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  • ...extent their own and to increase their strength. Often necromancers are of human kind, but that doesn’t mean humans are the only species practising [[necr [[Category:Human Monsters]]
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  • ...latter habit, the word ''ghoul'' is sometimes used to refer to an ordinary human such as a grave robbers, or to anyone who enjoys the macabre. ...netheless generally believed that vampires and zombies prefer to prey upon human beings.
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  • '''Ningyo''' (人魚, "human fish"), often translated as "mermaid," is a fish-like creature from Japanes ...however, peeked into the kitchen, noticed that the head of this fish had a human face, and warned the others not to eat it. So when the fisherman finished c
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  • ...and the tissue on the sides of the mouth are manipulated to give it a more human appearance, and artificial eyes are inserted into the nostrils. The pectora ...sea monk" captured in Norway, a creature in scaly but clerical garb with a human face, a monk's shaven crown, vague appendages for arms and a fish's tail. I
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  • ...aded annis commonly uses magic to disguise itself as an exceptionally tall human, a fair giant, or an ogre. *'''Shrieking Hag''' - Shrieking hags are horrible, spiteful monsters who haunt desolate wastelands and barren plains.
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  • He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish. Ordinary Tritons were described in detail by the ge ...taur"), was described as having the forefeet of a horse in addition to the human body and the fish tail. It is probable that the idea of Triton owes its ori
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  • Als are demons of childbirth, interfering with human reproduction. The al is known by various other names, including ''alk'' in In Armenian tradition, Al is described as half-human and half-animal, with a fiery eye, long thick hair, fingernails made of bra
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  • The Monster of Lake Fagua is described as being 20 feet long, with a human face, bull-like horns, huge donkey-like ears, lion-like teeth, bat-like win [[Category:Sea and lake monsters]]
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  • ...ngs as animals and rejects many social structures that he believes inhibit human instincts. ...as a vast conspiracy of elites with a predilection for child-molesting and human sacrifice. This genre regularly describes Satan as actually appearing in pe
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  • ...general, yōkai is a broad term, and can be used to encompass virtually all monsters and supernatural beings, even including creatures from European folklore on ...lly have a sort of spiritual or supernatural power, and so encounters with human beings tend to be dangerous.
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  • monsters. Each of the seven were revered or feared, each possessing different abilit #[[Luison]], a dog-like human, lord of death and protector of cemeteries
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  • ...tion. However, the Adlet prefers to drink the warm blood of a newly-slain human (it also eats the flesh with an equal amount of relish). The Adlet may be ...ings if its preferred food is not to be had. Above all, the Adlet prefers human flesh and blood to anything else. The bones of the creature’s victims ar
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  • ...a tilberi, a woman should go to a graveyard early on Whitsunday and dig a human rib there. Then this rib needs to be wrapped in grey wool and be preserved ...the nipple the tilberi will overexhaust itself and explode, leaving only a human rib beside the heap of droppings.
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  • Although the Beast of Bray Road has not been seen to shapeshifting from a human into a wolf in most of the sightings, it has been labeled a werewolf in new There is one witness who claims to have seen it morph from a wolf-headed human form into an ape-headed form. There has been other paranormal phenomenon re
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  • ...ht upon its feet, which are :shaped like hoofs. Its face and body are more human like than anything :else and its mouth is like that of a raccoon, garnished [[Category: Sea and lake monsters]]
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  • ...canny knowledge about the past, present and future and a deep insight into human nature. Hence, many sorcerers seek to capture them and turn them into slave ...155 Guiley, Rosemary ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters'']
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  • ...g flight. The hands cannot grasp while flying, but are nearly as useful as human hands when an aarakocra is perched and its wings folded back. Their powerfu *Wyatt, James and Rob Heinsoo. ''Monstrous Compendium: Monsters of Faerun'' (Wizards of the Coast, 2001).
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  • ...ltitudes of probably around 1,000-1,500 meters, and does not tolerate well human encroachment, logging and other disturbances. ...ren & Clark, Jerome (1999): Cryptozoology A to Z: the encyclopedia of loch monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabaras, and other authentic mysteries of nature. Fireside
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  • Tzitzimimeh means ''Monsters descending from above''. ...ring a solar eclipse, the tzitzimime would descend to the earth and devour human beings. The Tzitzimimeh were also feared during other ominous periods of th
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  • ...sm. A female rakshasa is called a '''rakshasi''', and a female rakshasa in human form is a manushya-rakshasi. ...o haunt cemeteries, disturb sacrifices, harass priests, possess and devour human beings, and vex and afflict mankind in all sorts of ways. They are said to
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  • ...who married a human man, and Pania was a woman from the sea who married a human and gave birth to a taniwha (Orbell 1998:150). [[Category: Sea and lake monsters]]
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  • The '''Craquehhe''' is one of the [[undead]], a creature that was once human but now exists beyond death without a soul, doomed to kill and feed on the ...has been known to utterly destroy nearby towns in its constant search for human prey.
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  • ...ying Hollows, human ghosts who lose their sanity and become soul-devouring monsters. In Bleach, they are portrayed as humans who have been born in the Soul Soc ...s in their notebooks, or if they kill someone to extend the life span of a human out of affection, as seen by Gelus's death for Misa Amane, or if they get t
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  • ...where orco refers to a kind of monster found in fairy-tales that feeds on human flesh and similar to the The French word ogre (appearing first in Charles P
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  • Her name comes from the ''gullet'' (Greek: Laimos), since she devoured human children. ...ability to change herself into a beautiful young woman. Here she assumes a human form to win a man's love.
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  • ...an was the only one who could see it. It was a chimera-like creature, with human head and parts from different species of animals. It was dangerous, it migh The tupilaq was manifested in real, human-made object. It was made by people to the detriment of their enemies. It wa
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  • '''Echidna''' was called the "Mother of All Monsters" and described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mother *In Disney's Hercules, Echidna also appeared as the mother of monsters.
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  • ...an Hu were often characterized by Chinese writers as monsters who combined human and dog anatomy.
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  • ...a formidable creature, it is incongruously small, usually no bigger than a human child. It might have a bird-like beak or a pointed mouth, but sometimes it ...gs, especially cucumbers, the only food kappa are known to enjoy more than human children. Japanese parents sometimes write the names of their children (or
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  • They are also said to enter a human body and make sicken it until death. ...155 Guiley, Rosemary ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters'']
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  • ...Millennium series starting with Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. ...eries, Godzilla stayed a hero, protecting Japan against attacks from other monsters, aliens, etc. At one point, Godzilla even adopted a son, Minilla, in Son of
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  • The Noppera-bō appear at first as ordinary human beings, sometimes impersonating someone familiar to the victim, before caus ...adio Hearn used the animals' name as the title of his story about faceless monsters, probably resulting in the misused terminology.
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  • ...snake with a beard and a mane; others say it looks like a huge furry half-human beast with a long neck and a head like a bird. Common features in Aborigina Like other beasts in Dreamtime, the Bunyip was malevolent towards human beings. At night the Bunyip was said to go and prey upon women and children
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  • ...'''Typhon''') was a monstrous primitive Storm-Giant, father of many other monsters who was defeated and imprisoned by Zeus in the pit of Tartaros. For us, he Typhon fathered many monsters upon Echidna: Cerberus, the Chimaera, Orthus, the Dragon of the Esperides,
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  • Pinhead was not always a Cenobite, but was in fact once human. Pinhead originated as '''Captain Elliott Spencer''', who was born into the ...s comrades perish in horrific circumstances. He had also lost faith in the human race after witnessing the inhumanity one individual could enact upon anothe
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  • “They also commonly assert, that the Dracs assume the human form, and come early into the public market-place without any one being the ...the Dracs lived on people they had carried off, and turned themselves into human forms; and she said that one day, when the Drac gave her an eel-pasty to ea
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  • The older brother had other monsters to slay, and he left Mokwayo to seek his own way. Left to his own devices, ...called Naq'pote (which signifies an expert marksman). He was formed like a human being, but, being a manido, could assume the shape of a wolf, in which form
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  • ...head. Reports that the creature has an identical head at each end, with a human face are mistaken. ...hich are sometimes pointed. The heads at the protruding ends are less like human heads and display a mouth with well-defined canine teeth and a long tongue
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  • The Cyclopes were a race of huge one-eyed monsters that resided on an island with the same name. Commonly, the term "Cyclops" ...gend is that prehistoric dwarf elephant skulls - about twice the size of a human skull were found by the Greeks on Crete. Due to the large central nasal cav
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  • ...mal is a dog with blazing eyes. It could also manifest as the ghost of the human it once was, a cat, a cow, or a person with no head. At other times the spi *Rose, Carol [November 2001]. Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth (in English). W
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  • ...was one of the offspring of [[Typhon]] and [[Echidna]] and sister of such monsters as [[Cerberus and the Lernaean [[Hydra]]. While there are different genealo ...ech Overdragon''. A multi-headed monstrosity fused from many other machine monsters, it emits an evil aura and is constructed out of pitch-black metal.
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  • ...ormy nights to wreak havoc and destruction. It is also capable of assuming human form. *Aatxe is used as the name of horned shadow monsters in the ''Guild Wars'' franchise.
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  • <blockquote>In 1966, Henson drew three monsters that ate cookies and appeared in a General Foods commercial that featured t ...hich point the monsters briefly turn into people and then dissolve back to monsters again.</blockquote>
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  • ...y animal or human that ventures near their abodes. Their favourite prey is human women. They also carry diseases. [[Category:Sea and lake monsters]]
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  • Baobhan Sith are very dangerous and evil and they act preying on human being, mostly hunters but unwary travellers passing by the Highlands as wel *Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, ''An Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and other Monsters'', Checkmark Books, ISBN 0816046859
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  • ..., an '''ogre''' (feminine: ogress) are large humanoid creature who feed on human flesh. The word was first used (and probably invented) by Perrault in his ' ...haracter worries that the women he encounters are actually female ogres in human form.
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  • ...ythical city. Some interpretations claim that the monsters were originally human survivors of the disaster who could never come home again. After their deat Most modern depictions of the peryton keep the human shadow, but sometimes change details of the description, such as the arrang
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  • ...engages in conflict with the King of Monsters due to his anger toward the human race. Mothra has achieved the greatest success rate in battle save Godzilla ..., and her surprising levels of strength can help her to drag and even lift monsters like Godzilla. Her final strategy is to emit "scales", a yellow poisonous p
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  • A '''mermaid''' is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish. The male version of a mermaid is called a [[ ...he earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as being a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian [[Enki|Ea]]. The Greeks recognized
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  • ...egree of the Devil's disfigurement. In some stories, the Devil is merely a human child which Mrs. Leeds confined to her cellar or attic, only to have it esc ...lso report that the creature has glowing bright red eyes and emits a high, human-like scream.
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  • ...any number of druidic and barbaric cults. She is also worshiped by the non-human species of the mythos, such as the "Fungi from [[Yuggoth]]" (the [[Mi-Go]]) ...ormally be, and puckered maws, dripping green goo, cover their flanks. The monsters roughly resemble trees in silhouette &mdash; the trunks being the short leg
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  • ...e-shifters; for example, North American snake-spirits could change between human and serpentine forms whilst keeping the characteristics of both. ...ip. The presiding deity here is Nagaraja - a five-headed snake god born to human parents as a blessing for their caretaking of snakes during a fire. It is b
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  • ...e Yowie is said to be a bizarre, hybrid beast resembling a cross between a human and an ape with big red eyes on the side of his head, big canine teeth and ...the "Yowie" as a species of "bunyip", an Aboriginal term used to describe monsters said to dwell in many Australian rivers and lakes.
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  • ...god", the ruler of seas and oceans, was a dragon capable of changing into human form, and who lived in ''[[Ryūgū-jō]]'' 竜宮城 "dragon palace". ...e dragon ''Ya-hiro no kuma-wani'' 八尋熊鰐 "8 fathom bear ''wani''" fathered a human daughter who married Emperor Jimmu.
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  • ...ually for each memeber of the band by their leader to look like real, live monsters and to hide their true appearances. ...nges gradually with each new album Lordi present leaving the basic idea of monsters remain the same:
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  • ...of the world can be traced back to Aristotle. Each advance in the scale of human knowledge has presented new challenges in classification and new responses ...nly belong to one branch of the hierarchical tree. However, in th realm of monsters, such formal ordering is neither feasible nor desirable. For example, a wel
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  • ...prerequisite for activity with non-living material, sexual activity with a human corpse is taboo and frequently labelled ''abuse'', based on the presumption ...in their orgasmic release of choice as do ''normal' couples" and that "all human rights cease the moment a person draws their last breath
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  • ...e the form of a wolf and go out on bloodlust hunts. Once it returns to its human form the werewolf is said to be exhausted. ...uiley, Rosemary Ellen ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters'']
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  • Leanan was believed to have taken human form, such was the poetess Eodain by whom Eugene, king of Munster, gained c *Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, ''An Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and other Monsters'' (Checkmark Books) ISBN 0-816-04685-9
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  • ...ioned in Rashi's commentary on Genesis 1:21: "God created the '''great sea monsters''' - '''''Taninim'''''." Jastrow translates the word "Taninim" as a "sea mo ...ingdom of Israel. Others liken the mention to [[Tiamat]] and other similar monsters who represented the sea as a foe to the gods in [[mythology|myth]]s of near
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  • The Baykok is a hunter, stalking and killing human prey without a hint of guilt or remorse. However, this ghoulish creature n Fortunately, the Baykok never willingly approaches a human civilization, as the creature itself is extremely reluctant to leave the sa
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  • ...raw flesh for their ravenous bellies, they would inevitably descend on the human farming settlements in the fertile valleys below, to raid the wretched inha As fearsome as they may have been in human eyes, the other beasts of prey were unable to stand up to the Nian's unrele
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  • ...in the TV series ''Monsters''. Actress Rae Dawn Chong played a gargoyle in human form in ''Tales from the Darkside: The Movie''. A gargoyle named Firebrand
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  • '''Trolls''' are fictional monsters in the ''[[:Category:Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' roleplayin ...and Linda Hankins. "The Dragon's Bestiary: Those Nonhuman creatures - with human form." ''Dragon'' #141 (TSR, 1989).
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  • ...eaten UFO witnesses, and who some believe to be aliens themselves who take human form. [[Category:Bipedal monsters]]
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  • *The Imp is one of the enemies in [[Doom]]. They are human-sized, muscular, brown creatures with large claws and a gaping maw. In the *In the game Rule Of Rose, Imps are the only non-boss monsters in the game and there are various types: Bird Imps, Pig Imps, Rat Imps, Fis
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  • ...attracted by child birth when there is a plenty of blood flowing out from human body. In the olden days, measures are taken by the people to prevent the va ...iley, Rosemary Ellen ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters'']
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