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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