'''[[Dragon]]s''' are large and powerful mythological creatures that appears throughout the world's cultures.
== Mythological dragons ==
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=Mythological creatures=
'''Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures and Fabulous Beasts'''
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==Mythological creatures==
==Fictional creatures==
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'''Rompo''' is a mythological hybrid creature found in India and Africa.
* Matthews, John and Caitlin. The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures. Pg 486. Sterling Publishing. 2006. ISBN 140273543X. Online. March 13, 2008
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...y XI there is a race of beastmen known as Qiqirin. They are funny rat-like creatures, roughly three feet tall. They are known for the over-pronunciation of the
[[Category:Mythological dogs]]
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[[Image:Mboi Tui.jpg|thumb|Mythological Museum of Capiata, Uruguay]]
Mbói Tu'i literally translates to "snake-parrot" which describes this creatures appearance.
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...ira''' is a name applied to several mythological or otherwise supernatural creatures in South and Central American Folklore.
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...eatures. The Fenghuang is the king of birds, while the Vermilion Bird is a mythological spirit creature of the Chinese constellations.
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...ppocamp''' or '''hippocampus''', often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology.
They were depicted as hybrid creatures with the head and fore-parts of a horse and the serpentine tail of a fish.
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...ject or person. Shades are sometimes thought of as strange or mythological creatures with powerful abilities, and are a commonly used phenomenon in literature a
In various games and books, shades are creatures that can control shadow movement to darken a room, engulf a creature, or ev
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...ye and one tooth among one another and were believed to be hideous looking creatures.
In one mythological story King Polydectes sent Perseus off to bring back the head of Medusa, on
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...rom Yucatec language, plur. aluxo'ob) is a type of sprite or spirit in the mythological tradition of certain Maya peoples from the Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemala
...also be enticed to move somewhere through offerings. Their description and mythological role are somewhat reminiscent of other sprite-like mythical entities in a n
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'''Werehyenas''' are mythological creatures capable of assuming the shape of hyenas. They are present in the stories of
...in his writings in ''Hawayan Al-Koubra'' (1406) that hyenas were vampiric creatures that attacked people at night and sucked the blood from their necks. Arab f
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'''Amphisbaena''' (plural: amphisbaenae) also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.
According to Greek mythology, the mythological amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from Medusa the Gorgon'
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...Triton's name and image came to be associated with a class of merman-like creatures, the Tritons, which could be male or female, and usually formed the escort
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An '''imp''' is a mythological being similar to a fairy, frequently described in folklore and superstition
They are usually described as lively dark, shadowy creatures having small stature. They are usually, but not invariably, assigned male g
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...were referred to as "Qilins". The Emperor proclaimed the giraffes magical creatures, whose capture signalled the greatness of his power.
The Qilin is the lord of all beasts or hairy creatures (mammals), while the [[Phoenix]] represents the feathered, Man the naked, t
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...eing said to have the ability to feed off the "life force" of other living creatures. The concept appears in the mythologies of many cultures, just as do blood-
...ing said to have the ability to feed off the "life force " of other living creatures (Other terms for these persons are '''pranic vampire''', '''empathic vampir
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'''Satyrs''' in [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] are woodland creatures depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a
'''Satyrs''' are mythological nature entities that roamed the woods and mountains, and were the companion
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...'''diwata''' or '''encantada''' is a mythological figure similar to fairy creatures.
[[Category:Fairy creatures]]
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...lonian art was consistent over many centuries, while those of mythological creatures changed, sometimes drastically, over the years. He also noted that the sirr
...ylonian reconstruction of sauropod remains. The griffin and other mythical creatures may have been based on similar reconstructions by this reasoning. However,
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...er, the Pombero is said to be able to imitate the sounds of various forest creatures. Many witnesses of the Pombero say that he is usually heard whistling befor
The Pombero tends to be the most widespread and pervasive of mythological figures among Guaraní speaking cultures today in the region spanning from
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...ng; Japanese: 鳳凰 hō-ō; Korean: 봉황 bonghwang; Vietnamese: Phượng Hoàng) are mythological Chinese birds that reign over all other birds.
...Shiniao, the Feng-huang is made of all the most desirable parts of earth's creatures: the snake's neck, the crane's forehead, the dragon's stripes, the fish's t
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...Chimera/Siren hybrid grapple with each other, Godzilla manages to make the mythological beast fall off of a huge cliff into the water below.
...en Sun: The Lost Age, the stronger Grand Chimera. All forms are Mars(Fire) creatures, and have a goat's body, a snake for a tail, and the head of a lion and an
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'''Sylph''' is a faux-mythological creature in the Western tradition. "Sylph" has passed into general language
...the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game, as Air Elemental fairy-like creatures.
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...est he went, glad to lie hidden beneath the ash trees. He watched the wild creatures grazing on the pasture of the glades. Sometimes he would follow them, somet
...cluding the "Rohirrim", mistook the Druedain for [[goblin]]s or other wood-creatures and referred to them as Pukel-men (Goblin-men).
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...e Edda'' Snorri specifies Níðhöggr as a serpent in a list of names of such creatures:
...ngs which live in Yggdrasill. The tree suffers great hardship from all the creatures which live on it. The poem identifies Níðhöggr as tearing at the tree fr
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...his link to the spiritual leadership of society is broken, they lose their mythological qualities and evolve into folk or fairy tales <ref>{{cite book|last=Simpson
...ling|F. W. J. Schelling]]'s ''Introduction to Philosophy and Mythology'', "Mythological representations have been neither invented nor freely accepted. The product
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...ient texts exist in which there is a clear association with those kinds of creatures. However, the Enûma Elish specifically states that Tiamat did give birth t
...role playing game thanks to earlier sources associating Tiamat with later mythological characters, such as Lotan.
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...ght blue in color. Its skin cannot be pierced by any known weapon, and the creatures themselves are invulnerable and possibly immortal, or at least very long-li
...he shadow of a man. This led many scholars of the day to assume that these creatures were the spiritual manifestations of travelers who had perished far from th
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...(also monopods, skiapods, skiapodes, Monocoli) are mythological dwarf-like creatures with a single, large foot extending from one thick leg centered in the midd
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...phorescent glow and is accompanied by demon hounds, a horned owl and other creatures of the Forest.
...ling. This also appears to have happened with another Wild Hunt-associated mythological figure, King [[Herla]].
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Wen Yiduo that jiaolong were emblems of the mythological creators Fuxi and Nüwa, who are represented as having a human's upper body
The mythological ''Shanhaijing'' "Classic of Mountains and Seas" mentions ''jiao'' and ''huj
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The mythological unicorn was a symbol of chivalry with qualities befitting this status, prou
...arwhales, along with the Indian Rhinoceros (which only has one ‘horn’) are creatures that, through travelers’ exaggerations, became the fabled unicorn. The [[
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...ve energy/emotions of humans. It is unclear when these cosmic, amoeba-like creatures first came to earth, but we know they were discovered by shamans in altered
...stance, NHC texts describe how the archons attempted to rape Eve—clearly a mythological rendition of genetic intervention. Such passages appear to support the clai
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...cal animal such as are known from similar medieval European books. All the creatures are living and observable today." (1983, p. 98)
In 1430, Hans Schildtberger recorded his personal observation of these creatures in the journal of his trip to Mongolia as a prisoner of the Mongol Khan. Sc
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...Tolkien's ''Orc''. All these words may derive from a shared Indo-European mythological concept (as Tolkien himself speculated, as cited by Tom Shippey, The Road t
* South, Malcom, ed. ''Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source Book and Research Guide.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.
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...pan, named ''Red Fox'' and ''Hondo Kitsune'', and they are both related to mythological belief in Japasese [[folklore]].
...fox spirit [[ghost]]s, however this doesn’t mean that they are not living creatures, nor that they are not foxes.
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...s otherworldly creatures, collectively referred to as '''fiends'''. These creatures are of wholly evil alignment and hail from the Lower Planes.
...f their own kind through magical means. The results were eyeless reptilian creatures with insectoid traits and neutral evil traits. As the kythons matured, they
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[[Category:Mythological horses]]
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In the mythological poems of the Poetic ''Edda'' the valkyries are supernatural deities of unkn
To what an extent this multitude of names ever represented individual mythological beings with separate characteristics is debatable. It is likely that many o
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...y a stronger version of a harpy, a "spellcastress", and takes its original mythological form.
...like [[Banshee]], her father. Both characters' names come from [[Mythology|mythological]] characters best known for their vocal abilities.
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The '''nagas''' are an ancient race of semi divine serpent creatures beings first depicted in ancient Vedic Hindu mythology and oral folklore fr
...and their sometimes benevolent, sometimes wrathful, interactions with the creatures of both heaven and earth.
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...(also "djinni" or "djini") is a member of the jinn (or "djinn"), a race of creatures. The word "jinn" literally means anything which has the connotation of conc
Amongst archeologists dealing with ancient Middle Eastern cultures, any mythological spirit lesser than a god is often referred to as a "genie", especially when
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Echidne was half-woman, half-serpent, while Typhon was the most fierce of all creatures.
Cerberus is featured in several mythological stories in his role as the watchdog of Hades. Perhaps the best known involv
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==Mythological references to reptilian humanoids==
...reptilian humanoids. Common in numerous mythologies are tales of reptilian creatures (usually not humanoid) who are hostile to human beings. Also rather common
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::''This article is about the mythological creature. For other uses, see [[Dragon (disambiguation)]]''.
...[[magic]]al or [[Spirit|spiritual]] qualities. [[Mythology|Mythological]] creatures possessing some or most of the characteristics typically associated with dr
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*This mythological creature also appears as an enemy in Lufia 2, however in the English versio
*In ''Shining Force'', sword-wielding creatures who serve once as a boss and afterwards as minions bearing the aforemention
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...instream scientists and experts generally contend that the chupacabra is a mythological creature, or a type of urban legend.
...re the first was found. Specimens were studied by biologists in Texas. The creatures are thought to have been canines of undetermined species with skin problems
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...nch which originated in the Latin word "Fata" which referred to the three mythological personifications of destiny, the Greek [[Moirae]] (Roman Parcae, "sparing o
...hetype has led to their association and confusion with most other mythical creatures. Dwarves, giants, dragons, unicorns, and the like have at some point been m
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...t was You who crushed the heads of Leviathan, who left him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. (JPS edition)" God drove back the waters of the pre-exis
...ld Testament books (Isaiah 27:1) would seem to be a reference to a Semitic mythological beast mentioned in Ugaritic literature (of Ugarit, a city-state in North Sy
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...il and forming a circle. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations. M
...rtantly, that these opposites are not in conflict. A double ouroboros (two creatures swallowing one another) in alchemy signifies volatility.
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...was of some kind of spirit and not specifically associated with the Irish mythological character.
Leprechauns and other creatures of Irish mythology are often associated with "faerie forts" or "faerie ring
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The mythology and legends of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. "'''Giant'''" is the
...Aragon'', ''Young Ronald'', and Paul Bunyan. Ogres and trolls are humanoid creatures, sometimes of gigantic stature, that occur in various sorts of European fol
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...and he causes much non-Iranianism. Æshm mostly contrives all evil for the creatures of Auhramazd, and the evil deeds of those Kayân heroes have been more comp
...tensive evolution of the conceptions that are present by intimation in the mythological reminiscence found in ''Gen.'' vi.1 et seq. This evolution would seem, in a
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...s, and which is the exact equivalent of the description of lions and other creatures in heraldry as "rampant".
...nes were abundant; and when strangers approached to gather the stones, the creatures would leap on them and tear them to pieces. The Scythians used giant petrif
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...e king, not only because of its crown, but because it terrorized all other creatures with his deadly look and poison. Its color was either a greenish black or y
...he book the basilisk was portrayed as a much larger creature than the true mythological beast.
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...wang is a generic term that applied to a variety of mythical or paranormal creatures such as witches (mangkukulam), [[vampire]]s, [[ghoul]]s, [[manananggal]]s a
...feature of Aswangs which distinguish them from other Filipino mythological creatures is their propensity to replace stolen cadavers with the trunk of a banana t
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...idden fruit, she became jealous of the immortality and purity of the other creatures in the garden. Eventually, she persuaded all the animals except the phoenix
...gan to blow, the clouds came scudding across the sky, and the other living creatures crept out of their hiding places.
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The '''thunderbird''' is a large bird-like mythological creature common to Indigenous peoples of North America, either a singular e
...have claimed such a large bird could never have flown, but several flying creatures with huge wingspans are indeed known.
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'''Vampires''' are mythical or [[folklore|folkloric]] creatures, typically held to be the re-animated [[Corporeal undead|corpse]]s of human
...ampire bats, and other organisms that prey upon the bodily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to mythic animals of the same nature, including th
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...he elves are typically pictured as fair-haired, white-clad, and (like most creatures in the Scandinavian folklore) nasty when offended. In the stories, they oft
..., and will often go out of their way to see that they do not disturb these creatures. For example, just outside of Reykjavik, Iceland, a soccer game was called
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...him. All the angels did so except Iblis, who was a chief of the [[Jinn]], creatures made of smokeless fire. Iblis was proud and considered himself superior. Ib
...nsort of the Great Goddess in [[Wicca]]. These god-figures usually reflect mythological figures such as [[Cernunnos]] or [[Pan]] — the same figures which may
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...n). According to Gnostic belief, by worshipping the cosmos, nature, or the creatures of the world, one worships the True God. Gnostics do not seek salvation fro
...or Research in Archetypal Symbolism'':] A pictorial and written archive of mythological, ritualistic, and symbolic images from all over the world and from all epoc
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...with some resurrected after being turned to ashes, some mutating into new creatures, and still others exchanging natures with the snakes, becoming snakes thems
...s better to throw it off. Furthermore, there are stones of historical and mythological examples of pride to learn from. With the weight on one's back, one cannot
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