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.
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...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.
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[[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
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...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
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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.
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...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
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...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
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...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.
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...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.
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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.
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...''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.
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...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
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...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.
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...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
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[[Image:Yucca Man.jpg|thumb|Joshua Tree National Park]]
'''The Yucca Man''' is a Bigfoot-like creature that supposedly live around Joshua Tree Natio
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...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
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[[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.
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...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.
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...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.
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[[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.
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