[[Image:crane-man.jpg|thumb|The crane-man or goose-headed man]]
The '''crane-man''' or '''goose-headed man''' is a character that was popular in medieval bestiaries.
247 bytes (34 words) - 08:57, 19 September 2011
...found sitting upon the tower. Now, thou must know that this ass was one of the Mazikeen.
''THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY'' BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY (1850)
824 bytes (156 words) - 10:46, 18 March 2011
...'' (also: Ossaart, Osschaard) is a waterspirit or shapeshifting demon from the Flemish and Dutch folklore.
...any animal he wants, but he usually appears in the shape of a bull with a man's head and chains in his hands.
710 bytes (106 words) - 15:04, 13 May 2011
In Melanesia there is a belief in the '''tamaniu''' or atai which is an animal counterpart to a person with which
...tence. This creature is corporeal, can understand human speech, and shares the same soul as its master, leading to legends which have many characteristics
2 KB (390 words) - 23:43, 2 February 2011
...t of his house was occupied by a spirit. After the priest recited a chant, the tree never caused any trouble again.
847 bytes (140 words) - 01:12, 9 February 2011
...s of 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
519 bytes (82 words) - 00:09, 3 February 2011
...but are deathly afraid of dogs; the best way to repel an attack is through the use of a dog to drive them away.
...protected from the Hobyahs by the family dog, Turpie. Whenever Turpie saw the Hobyahs coming, he would bark, putting them to flight.
2 KB (276 words) - 16:49, 5 May 2011
..., is the name of the [[Qliphoth]] corresponding to the Sephirah Chokmah in the Tree of Life.
...er, unwilling to 'bow down to man' and take material form, as described in the Islamic legend regarding Iblis, or Satan.
2 KB (242 words) - 16:26, 2 February 2011
...n of the the many famines of Ireland. It is emaciated, and wanders through the land begging for food. Those that give food freely are rewarded with good l
386 bytes (62 words) - 22:33, 7 April 2011
The Danish peasantry give the following account of their '''EllefoIk''' or Elve-people.
...hearts. The man may be often seen near the EIle-moors, bathing himself in the sunbeams, but if any one comes too near him, he opens his mouth wide and br
2 KB (331 words) - 19:33, 17 March 2011
...icheff''', also known as ''The Dog of the Caucasus'' or ''The Siberian Dog-Man'' was an early sideshow performer and person born with a rare condition kno
...rned on prayers to be said after their deaths. He died four years after at the age of 59.
1 KB (201 words) - 20:53, 25 September 2011
The '''Hombre Caiman''', or Alligatorman, is a legendary creature that possesse
This South American folk tale is particularly popular in Plato, Magdalena, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, especially in rural and less populated areas.
2 KB (424 words) - 13:47, 24 February 2022
[[Image:The Man Who Laughs Comprachicos.jpg|thumb|155px|right|''The Man Who Laughs'']]
...ance of human beings by manipulating growing children, in a similar way to the horticultural method of bonsai
3 KB (418 words) - 13:07, 31 January 2011
In the Hebrides the '''Loireag''' is a water-fairy, but like the lowland [[habetrot]] she is a patroness of spinning.
...la as 'a small mite of womanhood that does not belong to this world but to the world thither', and as a 'plaintive little thing, stubborn and cunning'.
803 bytes (129 words) - 15:07, 15 March 2011
...e pronunciation of the Irish words ''fear dearg'', meaning ''Red Man'', as the far darrig is said to wear a red coat and cap.
...far darrig is classified as a solitary fairy along with the leprechaun and the clurichaun, all of whom are "most sluttish, slouching, jeering, mischievous
2 KB (386 words) - 22:03, 17 March 2011
Dressed in a black suit and with no visible face, the '''Slender Man''' is an apparition with arms that stretch wide to entrap his chosen prey.
Due to his attire, the Slender Man has been linked to the notorious "Men in Black", who are thought to be government agents who haras
4 KB (664 words) - 16:38, 5 May 2011
The '''Tzadikim Nistarim''' or '''Lamed Wufniks''' are a group of thirty-six ho
...''lamed'' and ''vuv'', whose numerical value when combined is thirty-six. The term ''Nistarim'' means "concealed ones".
2 KB (317 words) - 19:54, 8 May 2011
...ntrim, Rathlin Island and parts of Donegal, were also found on the Isle of Man, where they are called ''phynnodderee''.
Resembling a very small elderly man, though covered in coarse, dense reddish hair or fur, he wears no clothes,
1 KB (248 words) - 19:18, 17 March 2011
...'' (shark man in Japanese) is a creature that appears in "The Gratitude of the Samebito", a short story by Lafcadio Hearn.
...ed [[Kojin]] by Kyokutei Bakin. The kojin are creatures thought to live in the South China Sea, which resemble [[ningyo]], are always weaving at their loo
2 KB (308 words) - 15:25, 13 May 2011
...s''' or '''Wulvers''' are a peculiar kind of werewolves in the folklore of the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
The wulver is described as a man, covered with short brown hair but with a wolf's head and most of his or he
1 KB (166 words) - 17:26, 23 February 2011
Many of the Indians in Guiana believe that '''Kanaima''' are possessed by human spirits
...jaguar, kanaima approach the lonely sleeping-places, or waylay Indians in the forests and devour what pass nearby.
1 KB (229 words) - 15:46, 3 February 2011
...cktree Brag''' is a shapeshifting goblin who haunts ''Picktree hamlet'' in the North of England.
...s a calf, with a white handkerchief around its neck; as an ass; as a naked man without a head; and as four men holding up a white sheet.
806 bytes (121 words) - 18:54, 8 April 2011
[[Image:Gancanagh.gif|thumb|155px|right|The Gancanagh]]
The Gancanagh usually appears as a debonair little man in lonely glens, with a purse in one of his pockets, and a dudeen (short Ir
1 KB (188 words) - 22:42, 7 April 2011
...is the ancestor of the Yao people (a tribe located at the lower reaches of the Chang Jiang in China) and a canine shapeshifter that married an emperor's d
...picted as a shapeshifter, all of him can become human except for his head. The race(s) descended from P'an Hu were often characterized by Chinese writers
3 KB (592 words) - 22:55, 2 February 2011
The '''Albastor''' is an [[incubus]] or [[succubus]] spirit from Russian folklo
...he shape of a shooting star that trails sparks. On the ground, it can take the form of any creature, although humans are its favorite shape.
1 KB (212 words) - 14:07, 18 May 2011
...n in Prussian mythology. He was one of the three main deities worshiped by the Old Prussians.
...Peckols. He was also depicted on the Flag of Widewuto as as a young, merry man with a wreath of grain on his ears. As creatures of Potrimpo, snakes were w
773 bytes (119 words) - 05:29, 7 February 2011
...ved. According to a later account by Thomas Bartholinus, if someone pushed the breast of Joannes Baptista, he moved his hands, ears and lips.
...es Baptista Colloredo quite diligently and personally observed the man for the purpose of documentation. Lazarus Colloredo and his parasitic twin, Joannes
2 KB (319 words) - 22:05, 9 October 2011
...anubis was popular during the period of Roman domination over Egypt. He is the son of Osiris and Nephthys.
...was placed upon his role as a guide, leading the souls of the dead through the underworld.
2 KB (242 words) - 17:34, 3 February 2011
...Book of Imaginary Beings''. Borges claimed that he had found the legend in the book ''On Malay Witchcraft'' (1937), by C.C. Iturvuru.
...tiful landscape in the world. The Á Bao A Qu waits on the first step for a man brave enough to try to climb up.
2 KB (382 words) - 15:48, 17 May 2011
Radica and Doodica were xiphopagus twins, joined at the chest by a band of cartilage, similar to Chang and Eng.
...turning them over to a local temple. The monks of the temple looked after the twins and gave them their names.
2 KB (250 words) - 12:42, 29 September 2011
...''vjeshtitze'' and sometimes spelled as ''vestizsa'') is a female witch in the lore of Montenegro and Serbia, whose main prey was infants but were also so
...oth, or a fly. In this form, she enters houses and feeds upon the blood in the heart of her victims.
2 KB (262 words) - 22:47, 30 April 2012
...ilton ''' was a ghost or brownie that lived in Hilton Hall, in the vale of the Wear, in England.
...e frequently the case. They were resolved to banish him if they could, and the spirit, who seemed to have an inkling of their design, was often heard sing
2 KB (334 words) - 21:32, 17 March 2011
...y (the Northwest of England) which was exceptionally beautiful and gentle. The Asrai only rose from their depths once every hundred years and had to retur
...and turn into a pool of water. They are, however, said to enjoy bathing in the moonlight.
3 KB (554 words) - 21:38, 7 April 2011
...rn with a conjoined twin and displayed in sideshows as ''The Double-Bodied Man''.
...ation, using the X-ray, and in his report he declares there is imbedded in the normal body a formation that resembles a rudimentary head; this he claims h
1 KB (199 words) - 12:13, 9 October 2011
[[Image:Yucca Man.jpg|thumb|Joshua Tree National Park]]
'''The Yucca Man''' is a Bigfoot-like creature that supposedly live around Joshua Tree Natio
4 KB (756 words) - 22:43, 12 December 2011
...hee''' or '''Lannan Shee''' is a vampiric spirit of the Isle of Man taking the form of a beautiful woman in order to seduce them and drink their blood.
Corporeal to the beloved, but invisible as for spirit or ghost to anybody else, Lhiannan She
4 KB (610 words) - 00:04, 8 April 2011
[[Image:Machlyes.jpg|thumb|From the Nurenburg Chronicle of 1493]]
...n tribe of hermaphrodites whose bodies were male on one side and female on the other.
2 KB (327 words) - 22:36, 18 September 2011
...i mythology, '''Nuku-mai-tore''' are forest-dwelling spirits that sit upon the branches of trees or on parasitical plants such as wharawhara and kiekie pl
...f the nuku-mai-tore are delivered by Caesarean section, guaranteed to kill the mother.
1 KB (213 words) - 10:40, 21 April 2022
...a species of beings who have a striking and surprising correspondence with the Gothic Fairies.
as every thing preternatural is in Africa. The Africans call the Yumboes, Bakhna Rakhna, or Good People.
2 KB (415 words) - 11:00, 18 March 2011
[[Image:bigorne.jpg|thumb|Bigorne devours a man in a landscape - 1621]]
The '''bigorne''' or '''bicorn''' is a mythical beast in the folklore of Anjou, Normandy and Auvergne in France.
815 bytes (123 words) - 20:19, 5 November 2021
...o live underground, in mushrooms, or else are household spirits helping in the home.
...ng to the [[gnome]]s family and are akin to the Scandinavian [[Tomte]] and the German [[kobold]].
1 KB (198 words) - 09:23, 4 September 2007
...Ramparsad''' was born with a parasitic twin and displayed in sideshows as the ''Handsome, Healthy, Happy Hindoo''.
...n finery. He referred to the twin as a "sister" in order to add a touch of the risque to his act.
2 KB (260 words) - 10:52, 9 October 2011
...tephan Bibrowski Lionel the Lion-Faced Man.jpg|thumb|Lionel the Lion-Faced Man]]
'''Stephan Bibrowski''' (1891–1932), better known as '''Lionel the Lion-Faced Man''', was a famous sideshow performer and a person born with a rare condition
3 KB (529 words) - 21:15, 25 September 2011
The '''Blemmyes''' (Latin ''Blemmyae'') are a race of legendary acephalous (hea
...s traduntur capita abesse, ore et oculis pectore adfixis ("It is said that the Blemmyes have no heads, and that their mouth and eyes are put in their ches
3 KB (497 words) - 20:47, 18 September 2011
...ve been a Countess who lived in a castle called the Chateau de Deux-Forts. The story goes as follows:
...could not be removed. The next morning, much to the Comtesse's annoyance, the ugly spot was still there. If anything, it looked as if it had grown a litt
2 KB (381 words) - 18:00, 29 December 2011
'''Pondoro''' are shapeshifters in the folklore of the Makololo people in Africa.
...for days and sometimes even for a month, during which time he wandered in the woods where his wife had built a den for him and took care that he was prov
2 KB (325 words) - 14:23, 3 February 2011
[[Image:Hermaphroditos.jpg|thumb|Hermaphroditos and the nymph]]
...ermaphroditos''' (or ''Hermaphroditus'') is a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, the gods of male and female sexuality.
2 KB (309 words) - 21:33, 9 December 2011
[[Image:urisk.gif|thumb|The urisk]]
An '''urisk''' or '''ùruisg''' is a goblin of Lowland Scotland similar to the [[Brownie]]
2 KB (295 words) - 20:25, 8 April 2011
...e same bed with him. He played most beautifully on the harp, and he was in the habit of staking great sums of money at dice.
...s, he went away without offending any one. Some call him King Vollmar, and the chamber in which he lived is still said to be called Vollmar’s Chamber.
2 KB (379 words) - 20:56, 17 March 2011
'''Hödeken''' is a Kobold (House-spirit) that used to live in the palace of the bishop of Hildesheim.
...ld the bishop and others of what was to happen, and he took good care that the watchmen should not go to sleep on their post.
3 KB (559 words) - 20:52, 17 March 2011
...s. In later tradition, the role of king of Annwn was largely attributed to the Welsh psychopomp, [[Gwyn ap Nudd]]. However, Arawn's memory is retained in
...places with him for a year and a day and defeat Hafgan, Arawn's rival, at the end of this time, something Arawn has attempted but has been unable to do.
3 KB (568 words) - 21:32, 7 April 2011
The '''Shriker''', also known as '''Skriker''' or '''Striker''', is a monstrous
...ker'' is a local term for a complainer or a whining person, a reference to the creature's cry. Instead of barking, it only whines or moans constantly, as
2 KB (380 words) - 15:23, 9 May 2011
The '''hair beast''' or Hair Demon is a demonic beast in the foklore of Korea
...is city had to coat their hair in deers blood every night before sunset or the Hair Beast could get them. Those that couldn't would wake up tomorrow with
2 KB (457 words) - 09:37, 11 March 2011
...he Dog-Faced Boy''', he was a famous sideshow performer who was brought to the United States of America by P.T. Barnum.
...s Reynolds. Reynolds advertised the boy as having been raised by wolves in the wilderness of Siberia.
2 KB (386 words) - 10:25, 25 September 2011
'''Alice Elizabeth Doherty''' (the ''Minnesota Woolly Girl'') is a person born with a rare condition known as
..."She has pretty blue eyes, and is as frolicsome as a kitten." She also, at the time, had no teeth, and no signs that she would ever grow any.
1 KB (195 words) - 09:48, 25 September 2011
'''Wesakechak''' is a trickster character, hero of the Cree tribe.
...current world with magic, either on his own or with powers given to him by the Creator for that specific purpose.
4 KB (654 words) - 15:22, 17 May 2011
The '''Padfoot''' or '''Padfooit''' is a monstrous shapeshifting [[Black Dog]]
The Padfoot's name comes from the padding sound it makes as it walks behind someone.
3 KB (601 words) - 13:18, 25 January 2011
...ly Blin''' is an English and Lowland Scottish household spirit, similar to the [[brownie]].
...anic mythology, and later evolved into ''Blind Harie'', the "blind man of the game" in Scotland.
2 KB (330 words) - 19:15, 19 April 2011
...'Succarath''' is a ferocious beast that lives in the cold, wild country at the tip of South America (Patagonia).
Half tiger and half wolf, the Sù has the head of a beautiful but malicious woman. Its tail looks like a large, flat,
3 KB (560 words) - 21:26, 9 December 2011
'''Blanche Dumas''' is a prodigy born in the French Carribeans with three legs and two genitalia.
...b; it's unknown at this time whether this stump was naturally occurring or the site of a surgical amputation, but promoters sought to maximize its appeal
2 KB (293 words) - 13:10, 2 October 2011
...the fairies. Due to Shakespeare's influence, later fiction has often used the name "Titania" for fairy queen characters.
...itania' from Ovid's '’Metamorphoses'', where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans.
3 KB (460 words) - 20:14, 8 April 2011
...ns Danny and Larry. Chuy is married and has two daughters, one of whom has the condition. His sister, Lili, was also born with hypertrichosis. She is marr
...'' for the BBC. Chuy has worked backstage on Circus Vargas and is now with the Brothers Grim Side Show, in Dallas, Texas
2 KB (263 words) - 09:36, 25 September 2011
...shape-shifting water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland.
...h hairy man who would grip and crush travellers, but it most commonly took the form of a beautiful tame horse standing by a stream or river.
3 KB (434 words) - 15:33, 13 May 2011
...(including areas of Mississippi and Tennessee), an area once populated by the Chickasaw people.
===The Wildcat Clan===
6 KB (1,202 words) - 18:14, 15 January 2012
[[Image:Arimaspian.jpg|thumb|155px|right|Arimaspian from the Nurenburg Chronicle, 1493]]
...bly the Carpathians) in northern Skythia. They were constantly at war with the gold-guarding,
3 KB (491 words) - 21:36, 18 September 2011
...in Saw Massacre movies. He is a six foot four inch tall mentally disturbed man who wields a chainsaw.
...y suggested Robert Sawyer. His older brother Chop Top calls him "Bubba" in the second movie.
2 KB (384 words) - 17:53, 19 January 2012
[[Image:The Sacred Hairy Family of Burma.jpg|thumb|The Sacred Hairy Family of Burma]]
'''The Sacred Hairy Family of Burma''' is a family of people suffering from hypert
4 KB (691 words) - 23:10, 26 September 2011
...e legs and two hearts and appeared in sideshows as the ''Only Three Legged Man on Earth''
...told doctors in 1885; in his sideshow pitch, he claimed that he had broken the leg in a train accident in France, rendering it useless. Additionally, Lipp
2 KB (339 words) - 12:08, 2 October 2011
'''Dracs''' are fairy creatures in the folklore of South France.
...is apparently derived from ''Draco'' or ''Duerg''. We must recollect that the Visigoths long occupied Provence and Languedoc. ''Fa le Drac'', in Provenç
5 KB (853 words) - 10:01, 18 March 2011
...'''fenoderee''' is a [[brownie]]-like creature that dwells on the Isle of Man
[[Image:fenoderee.gif|thumb|The fenoderee ]]
3 KB (599 words) - 22:13, 17 March 2011
...'''Moddey Dhoo''' or '''Mauthe Doog''' is a black dog haunting the Isle of Man, especially Peel Castle.
...he eponymous anti-heroic vicious ship's dog in an 1837 novel ''Snarleyyow, the Dog Fiend'' by Captain Frederick Marryat.
6 KB (1,218 words) - 13:20, 24 May 2011
'''Percilla Bejano''', also known as ''The Monkey Girl'', was a sideshow performer and a person born with a rare condi
...ld Percilla's hirsuteness drew attention from both the public at large and the medical community. As a baby, Percilla and her parents traveled to New York
2 KB (390 words) - 22:47, 25 September 2011
...epicted as a little horse or a donkey, which changes form into a man under the conjurer's request.
...ng with a rough voice. He also answers what is asked about, and stays with the conjurer until he or she is satisfied.
2 KB (349 words) - 09:14, 5 May 2022
[[Image:Noppera-bo.gif|200px|thumb|The Noppera-bō]]
The '''Noppera-bō''' (のっぺら坊) is a kind of faceless ghost in Japanese
5 KB (908 words) - 14:33, 19 March 2011
The '''cucuy''' or '''el cucuy''' is the boogeyman of Latin American cultures.
...ies such as Mexico, Argentina and Chile. In the Mexican-American community the creature is known as ''El cucuy''. Other names include '''coco, cocu, cuco,
3 KB (441 words) - 18:31, 15 March 2011
In demonology, '''Paimon''' is one of the Kings of Hell.
...demons under his rule, half of them from the Angelic Order, and half from the Order of Powers.
4 KB (709 words) - 15:24, 28 February 2022
[[Image:Morbach Monster.png|thumb|The Morbach Monster Shrine]]
...' (''Munster Von Morbach'') is a werewolf that has been allegedly haunting the area of Wittlich in Germany.
3 KB (527 words) - 23:49, 9 February 2011
...road monster and [[Black Dog]] from Belgian folklore, found in and around the town of Hamme.
...abbit. It was a road monster with elements of the [[Barghest]], but unlike the Barghest it had no set form. There was no sure way to identify an animal as
2 KB (404 words) - 14:27, 23 May 2011
[[Image:Yara-ma-yha-who.jpg|thumb|The Yara-ma-yha-who]]
The '''Yara-ma-yha-who''' is a little vampiric furry creature from the Australian Aboriginal folklore.
4 KB (605 words) - 15:46, 17 May 2011
...y to the West''. He is called "Pigsy" or "Pig" in many English versions of the story.
...kes use of constant alchemical imagery and Bajie is most closely linked to the Wood element, as seen by another one of his nicknames, Mùmǔ (木母, "Woo
3 KB (457 words) - 22:00, 30 January 2011
The '''Monaciello''', or Little Monk is a house-spirit in the Napolitan Folklore.
...aciello is usually depicted as a short thick kind of little man dressed in the long garments of a monk with a broad brimmed hat.
5 KB (845 words) - 00:23, 18 March 2011
...ggy Beast''' or '''La Velue''', is a [[dragon]]-like beast that terrorized the city of La Ferté-Bernard, France, in medieval times.
...an for "hairy". "La Velue" means "The Hairy One" in French, a reference to the dragon's main method of defense.
5 KB (803 words) - 16:39, 5 May 2011
...how they are uncannily well informed, UFOlogists claim that they work for the government, although US intelligence agencies have denied all knowledge of
...of deadly force if necessary. They usually confiscate any "evidence" that the contacted might have collected.
3 KB (413 words) - 19:27, 12 August 2011
...dieval legend, '''Ceridwen''' was an enchantress, who was said to possess the cauldron of Poetic Inspiration (Awen).
...es, she had two children representing dark and light aspects emerging from the One Goddess her daughter '''Crearwy''' being light and beautiful, and her s
3 KB (478 words) - 14:37, 15 March 2011
The '''Mi-go''' are a race of extraterrestrials in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] created by H. P. Lovecraft and expanded on by others.
The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story "The Whisperer in Darkness".
6 KB (938 words) - 15:53, 29 April 2011
An [[Aatxe]] is an evil spirit in the shape of a red or fiery bull which, the Basques believe, leaves its cave on stormy nights to wreak havoc and destru
The name Aatxe translates into English as ''young bull'' or simply ''calf.'' It
3 KB (455 words) - 07:52, 4 May 2022
...the fact that the Umibozu is said to have a large, round head, resembling the shaven heads of Buddhist monks.
Umibozu are believed to be drowned priests, and exhibit the shaven head and typically appears to be praying.
3 KB (491 words) - 00:33, 9 February 2011
...d, is said to bring famine, plague, fires, and other kinds of disasters to the villages it hits.
This is a legend told by many Japanese fisherman and sailors that describes the Bake-Kujira:
3 KB (592 words) - 18:17, 28 February 2022
[[Image:pangu.jpg|thumb|155px|right|Pangu Creating the World from Tui Bei Quan Tu, 1820 copied by Wu-Yi Chao Xie, circa 1900.]]
'''Pangu''' was the first living being and the creator of the universe in Chinese mythology.
5 KB (870 words) - 23:16, 2 February 2011
...on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton. Wings were not present in the original painting.]]
...that was depicted in a mural painted by Native Americans on a cliff above the Mississippi River.
5 KB (830 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2011
The '''Shunka Warakin''' (also shunka warak'in) is an American beast from crypt
In the language of the American Indian Ioway people, as discovered and collected by Loren Coleman,
4 KB (546 words) - 18:35, 9 May 2022
...human skeletons are known to be personified death in Western culture since the Middle Ages.
*The [[Grim Reaper]] is often depicted as a hooded skeleton holding a scythe and
5 KB (734 words) - 18:33, 17 May 2011
The '''Pukwudgies''' are troll-like creatures that haunt the forests of New England.
...sachusetts and Southern New England and has been sighted until recently in the area of Cape Cod.
6 KB (1,105 words) - 14:21, 19 March 2011
...ed with specific real-life persons, such as serial killer [[Albert Fish]]. The term ''bogeyman'' is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of
...or under the bed). The bogeyman is said to lurk like this and then attack the sleeper.
9 KB (1,541 words) - 10:07, 17 January 2011
[[Image:estries vampires.jpg|thumb|An estrie in the process of feeding.]]
The name derives from the French strix, a term for a night owl.
4 KB (659 words) - 13:04, 29 December 2011
In science fiction and ufology, '''insectoid''' is the name given to alien creatures or extraterrestrials/subterraneans that share
...in his files where separate witnesses reported identical circumstances in the same place and year.
3 KB (481 words) - 10:39, 8 August 2011
...azotz 3.jpg|thumb|Bat god, Zapotec, Period III-A - Mesoamerican objects in the American Museum of Natural History, NYC, USA]]
Camazotz is formed from the Kʼicheʼ words ''kame'', meaning "death", and ''sotz'', meaning "bat".
5 KB (803 words) - 22:02, 28 February 2022
...e female moss people are known as ''Moosfräulein'' and have a queen called the ''Buschgroßmutter''.
...''sceaga'', both meaning "forest", and therefore represented a cognate of the moss people in Gothic folklore. Subsequent authors, however, have related s
4 KB (714 words) - 15:07, 29 January 2023
[[Image:Black Dog pub sign Bouley Jersey.jpg|thumb|The monstrous black dog reputed to haunt Bouley Bay in Jersey is depicted on th
'''Barghest''', '''Bargtjest''' or '''Bargest''' is the name given in the north of England, especially in Yorkshire, to a mythical monstrous goblin-d
6 KB (943 words) - 20:00, 1 March 2011
...was cold enough to extinguish flames. Its spittle was so poisonous that a man's hair would fall off his body at its touch. This creature's presence was b
[[Image:Salamander.jpg|thumb|The crowned salamander of François 1er]]
7 KB (1,129 words) - 18:19, 20 January 2011
