'''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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