Ramidreju are born every 100 years from a weasel or a marten. This animal has a very long body, like a snake, and their fur is slightly green-colored
...ed animal in Spanish folklore because its fur heals every sickness and the animal has a big desire for gold.
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...Central Celebes believe that the inside parts only of the man take on the animal shape, a state which they term '''lamhoyo'''.
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In Welsh foklore, '''Grims''' or '''Kegrims''' are animal and sometimes evil spirits that most frequently inhabit churches and burial
...pare a human whatever torment or servitude lay in store, the carcass of an animal would instead be buried first.
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...ielu is described as "the animal with planks growing out of its back". The animal appears to be aquatic and herbivorous, and has mostly green algal growth co
Mackal noted that the animal's triangular- or diamond-shaped planks or ridges are similar (but larger) t
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The '''hyote''' is a cryptozoological animal that was repeatedly sighted in Baltimore County, Maryland during the summer
...captured a specimen alive on August 1, 2004. Veterinarians identified the animal as a red fox infested with sarcoptic mange, a parasite that causes hair los
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* In 1946, eye witnesses allegedly reported seeing a reptile-like animal swimming in the waters of the lake. It was called lariosauro, the same name
* In September 1957 a strange animal whose head was described as similar to a crocodile head.
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...h Dragon''' or '''Pictish Elephant''') is an artistic representation of an animal, and is depicted on Pictish symbol stones.
It is not easily identifiable with any real animal, but resembles a seahorse, especially when depicted upright. Suggestions ha
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...wo different ways. When pronounced "shachihoko", it refers to the mystical animal mentioned above. When pronounced "shachi", it means grampus; a dolphin or o
It was believed that this animal could cause the rain to fall, and as such, temples and castles were often a
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The badaruc was said to be a nocturnal and very shy animal and because of the value of its fur, it was not allowed to shoot it.
...d to stand alone with a club by a cold night in a deserted place until the animal pass by. Of course, there was no hunting party and everyone go home leaving
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...ing story and the painting and asked Granberg if he could re-construct the animal. In 1918 Granberg had completed the skvader and it has since then been a ve
...for Sundsvall and when the province Medelpad was to be given a provincial animal (in addition to the provincial flower) in 1987, many locals voted for the s
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...logy|Aztec]] and [[Toltec mythology|Toltec]] mythology, '''Xolotl''' ("The Animal", Lord of the Evening Star, Lord of the [[Underworld]]) was the god of ligh
...otl" can also mean "dog" in [[Nahuatl]], the Aztec language - or a monster animal with reversed feet. He was also the patron of the Ulama game. He is identi
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...up the chase and Lepage was able to examine it through his binoculars. The animal, he says, was about 24 feet in length with a long pointed snout adorned wit
...Wetzel. While visiting with a group of pygmies they were informed about an animal called Ngoubou. Although ngoubou is also the local word for rhinoceros, the
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...l, which he "took to be a buffalo or wild ox," but he saw no traces of the animal. These statements are very wonderful, and before giving credence to them we
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...sroads from the animal whose horns or hind legs it had inhabited when that animal passes between the two fires. The ustrel cannot leave the crossroad and is
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...' (black beast) is believed to be a sorcecer that has taken a monstrous or animal shape. In Vienne, it is also the local name for [[werewolf]]. The galipote
...''courir la galipote,'' which means to turn into a werewolf or other human-animal by night and chase prey through the woods.
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...y, claw-like flippers and a large fin, which can allegedly wrap around the animal in a fashion that resembles the cloak of a clergyman. The head appears to b
...d, appealing to be released. The bishops managed to convince the king that animal should be returned to its natural habitat. Once released by the bishops, th
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...olden times an unknown lady offered food to the hunters at the moment the animal appeared she was thought to be a witch.
...the Bisclavaret'' used the idea of a werewolf, and again in this case the animal has no savage instincts except against his enemies, a faithless wife and he
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...r. Only the shells reach the ground, and if part of a shell is eaten by an animal, the latter will go mad.
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The
animal was described by [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] in his ''[[Naturalis Historia]]'
<blockquote>There are reports of a wild
animal in Paionia called the Wisent, which has the mane of a horse, but in all oth
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The '''bicho-homem''' (man-beast or man-animal) is very tall, has a single leg (some blending with the [[saci]]) with a ro
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'''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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...ching lengths of up to 50 ft. The Bobangi aboriginals have proclaimed this animal to be unlike any other they have seen, and have only compared it to other c
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...o horns, three or six horns that are placed side-by-side on the top of the animal’s head rather than the snout.
...s would point to a ceratopsian; this group's rostral bone is unique in the animal kingdom. Finally, the horn could be made of keratin, as are the horns of Af
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'''Animal elementals''' or thought-forms were employed by magicians in the remote age
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...meat in local markets. They told me that they used to have a skull of the animal in the village, but it was destroyed along with everything else when rebels
...as this November 2007, someone was attacked and killed by a large unknown animal near a village called Gelema, on that river. The United Nations police went
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...ropy'' is also sometimes used for the delusion that one has turned into an animal in general and not specifically a wolf.
...they have transformed, or are in the process of transforming into another animal. It has been linked with the altered states of mind that accompany psychosi
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...pe." A local newspaper quoted an unidentified woman, who claimed that the animal was only the size of a cat, and had decomposed to a skeleton by the time of
...riment from the nearby government animal testing facility, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
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...ow, which was one of the old-fashioned sort, tipped with bone, entered the animal's jaw. The tiger raised its paw, broke off the weapon and vanished into the
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The navajo word ''mai-cob'' for ''wolf'' (animal) is a synonym for a ''witch''.
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...ds (especially "oo"). They share similar characteristics with the mythical animal since they can cause the status effect "Amnesia" on players and will run aw
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...was so heavy that the beast could only look down. In his description, the animal's gaze was not lethal, but its breath was poison, since it ate only poisono
...is found in Ethiopia near to the source Nigricapo. It is not a very large animal, is sluggish in all its parts, and its head is so large that it carries it
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This animal was included in numerous medieval bestiaries, and also appeared in works of
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...gy to describe a sorcerer that is able to take on animal forms, or have an animal spirit ('''Tonal''') to whom they are spiritually linked throughout their l
...s in order to cause harm to others. The normal practice is to refer to the animal companion itself as a Tonal, following the Aztec practice.
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...sion, and one of the adventurers later commented that "there was nothing...animal about them."
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...it tightly, the ashi-magari is said to feel something like the tail of an animal. While it is not generally visible, it is often believed to be a trick play
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A gigantic animal -from west African folklore- that trespasses into villages and kidnaps girl
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...o appear to be men and women who have reverted or been transformed into an animal- or monster-like state via withdrawal from human society.
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...ce to show the entire
animal, so the end of the tail was depicted over the
animal’s back, instead of extending out straight or drooping in a more natural p
<blockquote>This
animal is the mortal enemy of the asp. It is a native of Egypt and when it sees an
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...n the prey happens by, Gulchers will leave their hiding place to stalk the animal. Once within range the Gulcher will put on a burst of speed and attack. The
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...nown creature in the trawl. The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal (Bord, 1990), but despite the potential biological significance of the curi
...greed with Shimaka that "the photographs show the remains of a prehistoric animal" (Sjögren, 1980).
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The Peuchen is a shapeshifter that can instantly change into animal form.
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...of "fair-play" when hunting. It is told that it scares away prey and hides animal tracks or makes hunters lose their way in the jungle.
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...Papa Bois in the forest when an animal is trapped and injured by imitating animal calls to throw hunters off track.
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...eek and continued on across toward the road. The navy seaman observed the animal for a while, and then it moved on into the surrounding brush.
...eir car to get a good look at it. It was described again as a large white animal with woolly fur about the size of a bear. In this instance, it was describ
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...ld War (1939 to 1949), it was dubbed 'Old Yellow Top', probably due to the animal's (older) age. The earliest reported sighting of this creature was on Sept
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...tail of a catfish, perhaps betraying a trick played by a tanuki or another animal shapeshifter.
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..., noting that it had a line of plates on its back, like a Stegosaurus. The animal was called a ‘Row’ because its hiss sounds like ‘roow.’ Miller also
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The '''leucrota''' is a swift beast that lives in India. It is a composite animal, the result of a mating between a crocotta and a lioness, the same size as
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...ant creature would be identified as living in the home by listening for an animal that cries like a new born baby.
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...ous for stealing the life-force of cows by sucking their milk, leaving the animal with none to give.
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...laid on the ground in the form of a cross, or else some of the hair of the animal is mixed with salt, meal and the blood of a bat and cooked to bread, with w
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...e found the surrounding earth in movement, and an enormous worm-like black
animal in the middle of it, about twenty-five meters long, and with two horns on i
<blockquote>... saw lying on the bank of the Rio das Caveiras a strange
animal of gigantic size, nearly one meter in thickness, not very long, and with a
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...hese all involve the same principles as cat punishment. But the cat is the animal most consistent in seeking revenge for its death.
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...he put his head through the hole in the donkey's neck and the body of the animal fitted around his hips. The "rider" wore a satin shirt and a large matador'
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The Tarbh Uisge is described as a black animal, with a velvety, soft appearance, and no ears at all. Only coming out at ni
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The '''Hodag''' is a fictional animal that is part of the folklore of the American state of Wisconsin. Its histor
Sheperd rounded up a group of local people to capture the animal. The group reported that they needed to use dynamite to kill the beast. A p
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...e a new victim, and, because she could be tricked by drowning some sort of animal, it was considered appropriate to make proprietary sacrifices of small bird
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...cept for its fiery eyes, which were considered the best way to identify an animal as being a disguised Plat-eye. Sometimes the spirit takes no shape at all,
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...rm of a variety of animals and as beings with a grotesque mix of human and animal characteristics. They could act like human beings, dancing for example, or
...with half the face covered by a jaguar pelt. The glyph is interpreted as "animal companion spirit" and The concept of the wayob later also included the abil
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...creature to the cart. By means of an artfully contrived bridle he led the animal home, and used it as a cart-horse. But one day the bridle became unfastened
...thunderheads. It is said that a St Bride's Bay just after a storm such an animal was seen. Somehow a local farmer managed to catch it and put it to the plou
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...y being described as an old man dressed up for winter in warm coat made of animal fur and holding small silver or crystal ax in his hand, Lausks is only ment
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...within its limited reach, once its food sources were depleted however, the animal would soon perish. Reportedly a favorite food of wolves as well as humans,
...by means of its navel: if its navel be cut, it cannot live. ...this is the animal called Jeduah."
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...[[Nahual]], an evil sorcerer who can transform himself into a supernatural animal, usually a goat, dog or deer, in order to prey upon livestock.
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'''Osschaart''' can take the shape of any animal he wants, but he usually appears in the shape of a bull with a man's head a
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...spirit that guards the home in the Lithuanian mythology. It is the sacred animal of the sun goddess Saule that symbolizes fertility. With a belief that it w
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Yaoguai are mostly malevolent animal spirits or fallen celestial beings that have acquired magical powers throug
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...des can come in many forms, anything from a deceased or living person's or animal's imprint left on something or someone, to something invoked into the "poss
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...th element in the Japanese elemental system is Void. So there cannot be an animal representing it. Because of this, Huang Long is often forgotten. However, s
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...cat previously thought to be extinct. Locals in mid-Cornwall believe the animal could be just one of a number of big cats roaming the area. Paul Tyler, MP
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In the Ming dynasty of China the Qilin is represented as an oxen-hooved animal with a [[dragon]]-like head surmounted by a pair of horns and flame-like he
...ina's subsequent Manchurian dominated Qing dynasty is a much more fanciful animal. Manchurian depictions of the qilin depict a creature with the head of a [[
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...tations of the creature have been retrieved; all depict a long, serpentine animal with small forelimbs and a dog like or crocodilian head. Reports that the c
*It can shapeshift from animal to man at anytime. Sisiutl can even change itself in to a self-propeled can
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...l (with consciousness on a level of organic synergy of an individual human/animal), or a (superior) mind/soul with synergetically extremely complex/sophistic
...an soul, where "nephesh" (''animal'') refers to the physical being and its animal instincts. Similarly, both the Danish and the Chinese language uses the ter
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Alanna Aquinos can change from a human to an animal form, usually as a bat, a pig or a black dog. Some Alanna Aquinos can chang
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They often appear in half-human, half-animal shapes and are active during the time from the beginning of Christmas to Ne
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By donning animal skins or believing themselves transformed into animals by their rage of [[T
[[Category:Norse mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]]
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This category includes the primitive beasts and animal-shape monsters, from the numerous dragons and snakes of the first creation
Animal and humanoid species that are supposed to exist but remain elusive. Dinosau
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...pouliet''' or ''teursta poulict'' appears in the likeness of some domestic animal.
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...reer of evil while still alive - his soul would leave his body at night in animal form and fly through the air to attack people or to magically do other harm
While he lived, his soul left his body in animal form at night to fight against both living and undead Kudlaks.
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...ho fell out with one of his colleagues. The two fought, taking a series of animal and human forms, before finally becoming two worms who were swallowed by tw
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...s mostly to be found in Caithness. Thomas Pennant made enquiries about the animal while in Ausdale in the county, and it is also mentioned in the work of Rob
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...4 families and 189 known Snouter species descended from a small shrew-like animal, which gradually evolved and diversified to fill most of the ecological nic
...me, 1905). The Great Morgenstern's Nasobame (Nasobema lyricum), a dog-size animal that walked on four snouts, was named in his honor.
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...d ''garou'' from Frankish ''garulf'', meaning a man who transforms into an animal.
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...l has ever been found. Controversy continues about the authenticity of the animal, with critics contending the de Loys' Ape is a hoax and that the photograph
...his companions recognized that they had encountered something unusual. The animal resembled a spider monkey, but was much larger: 1.57 meters tall (compared
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...mlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. Whether Gef was a poltergeist, a strange animal or cryptid or a hoax remains an open debate.
...an impression of his teeth marks. Pocock could not match them to any known animal, though he conceded that one of them might have been "conceivably made by a
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...es many foolish and/or mischievous things in Abenaki folktales, but unlike animal tricksters in some other tribes, is not dangerous or malevolent. Azeban dec
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[[Category:Celtic mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]]
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Some yōkai possess part animal and part human features (e.g. Kappa and Tengu). Yōkai generally have a sor
===Animal shapeshifters===
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The Glashtin is a shapeshifter that can appear as a man, an hybrid or an
animal (cow or horse). In each form he is incredibly muscular and looking for some
<blockquote>"In 1859 it was reported that an
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...its stare alone. This odd power gives the small and otherwise inoffensive animal its name.
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...e zoologists at Royal Museum in Edinburgh could not identify the snakelike animal, and they agreed that is must have been an unknown species of [[sea serpent
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...to distant lands, they ride horses, usually the entire group upon a single animal, sitting from the neck to the tail, one behind another. If they fail to mak
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The horn is the most valuable part of the animal, which machis use to plant small pieces in the earth from which other camah
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Memphre has been described as a whale or a sauropterygian-like animal, a cliché commonly brought up for other lake monsters.
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...ometimes it's simply called Storsjödjuret, which translates to "great lake animal" instead of unanimal. In the English language Storsjöodjuret is usually ca
...ailing, a groaning and a crying, then suddenly came a loud bang. A strange animal with a black serpentine body and a cat-like head jumped out of the cauldron
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...t can reveal its hideous nature and suck his blood or devour him as a wild animal. However, la Tunda's shapeshifting abilities are not perfect, as this doppe
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...s widely used in China and other Asian countries. Sculpture of this sacred animal may have different meanings but are usually placed outside palaces to act a
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...nked to Žvorūnė or Žvorūna ((from žvėris (beast)). The hare was her sacred animal.
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The '''serpopard''' is a fabulous animal known from Ancient Egyptian depictions.
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[[Category:Category:English mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]]
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...'''zoosadism''' for those who derive pleasure from inflicting pain on an animal, sometimes with a sexual component. Some extreme examples of zoosadism incl
==Zoosadism contrasted with animal cruelty==
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...holes. At night their blood-curdling cries can be heard as they devour any animal or human that ventures near their abodes. Their favourite prey is human wom
...inent's peculiar fauna, regarded the bunyip as one more strange Australian animal, and sometimes attributed unfamiliar calls or cries to it. At one point, t
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The animal is a common motif in the Pata-Chitra style of painting, of the Indian state
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...re river-dwelling spirits who can take either human form or the form of an animal; especially the [[boto]], the bizarre long-beaked freshwater dolphins of th
The following is a free excerpt from the book Half Human, Half Animal: Tales of Werewolves and Related Creatures:
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The '''Demon Cat (DC)''' is a spectral animal that is said to haunt the United States Capitol of Washington D.C.
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...ching any known creature, some argue the sirrush could have been a genuine animal.
...around Africa, this means the Babylonians could have heard of or seen the animal somewhere else in Africa. The cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans notes that
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...Egyptian god represented solely as an animal, and never as a human with an animal's head.
...s had stronger influence. Nethertheless, the Greeks had little respect for animal-headed figures, and so a Greek statue was chosen as the idol, and proclaime
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...has produced a number of different descriptions. Most accounts report the animal as being a large cat either resembling a puma or a panther. It is recorded
...slaying of the Beast. By 1987, the creature was connected to over 200 farm animal deaths.
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In February 2011, IT graduate Tom Pickles, 24, said an animal the size of three cars sped across the lake in front him last Friday. 'It w
...as like a seal's but its shape was completely abnormal - it's not like any animal I've ever seen before.'
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...but also could appear to be treasure or various floating objects or as an animal; most commonly in the form of a "brook horse".
If you brought the nix a treat of three drops of blood, a black animal, some brännvin (Scandinavian vodka) or snus (wet snuff) dropped into the w
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The Mourioche can make himself invisible and transform himself into any animal shape he chooses.
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...y idol/figurine") also known as "figures of prayer" are small humanoid and animal figures made in the Jomon period (10000 B.C. - 5th century B.C.) of prehist
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...rge farm in Robertson County, on the Red River, near Adams, Tennessee. The animal, described as having the body of a dog and the head of a rabbit, vanished w
...the body. When some of the contents were force-fed to the family cat, the animal died immediately; the bottle was then thrown into the fireplace. At the fun
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...to abduct women and attempt mating with them. It is also reported to wear animal skins upon its back and head.
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..., animal symbols and animal masks in the cult, and finally the consecrated animal destined for sacrifice." (Burkert 1985 p 64). Many sacred bulls and goats,
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In the form of the child it predicts someone's death, but in the form of the animal, it predicts cattle disease. Generally it is believed that Drekavac can not
...eported that in the Krvavicka river the villagers have found remains of an animal which doesn't look like any known, and claimed that it is drekavac; it look
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*The earliest known encounters with this animal can be traced to the Nahuel Huapi's native population, which for centuries
*Modern reports of this strange animal can be traced back to 1897, when a Patagonian farmer reported that he had w
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...ing. After the sighting, both Sanderson and Gerald Russell agreed that the animal had a wingspan of at least 12'. Sanderson later added that the bat's head w
...n to West Africa. Their sighting was first published in Sanderson's book ''Animal Treasure'' (1937). Jørgen Birket-Smith, a comparative anatomist at the Uni
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...in one direction. Legend attributes various differing descriptions to the animal, including the laevogyrous dahu (which has shorter legs on the left side, a
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...hree-headed beings with wings and a body of a snake. Lamya often has other animal features in addition to her dragonish form: she may have a dog’s head (or
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The splintercat is a nocturnal feline animal of great ferocity. It flies through the air with terrific speed and when it
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...are usually portrayed as monstrous, with missing or excessive body parts, animal features and the usual fangs, bulging eyes and potbellies.
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It is a nocturnal animal and is said to attack humans only on dark moonless nights. It has been said
...oulder. "The back," they said, "sloped steeply to the hindquarters and the animal moved with a shambling gait which can best be compared with the shuffle of
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...t air and then submerge again beneath the depths. Others who have seen the animal say that it has dull gray skin and looks to be spotted in some places.
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Wentshukumishiteu fiercely protected the young of various animal species from human hunters. It is particularly fond of otters. One of his h
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Some Gandharvas are part animal, usually a bird or horse, other appears as beautiful dancers with handsome
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...three hunters, and saw a mother, father and child, of apparently a similar animal species, walk across the further side of a bush clearing. The natives loudl
Charles Cordier, a professional animal collector who worked for zoos and museums, followed the tracks of the kakun
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Jenglot 'keepers' feed their creature with blood, either animal blood (goat) or human blood. The jenglot is said to not drink the blood dir
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...scapegoat, the evil or lower side of man can be transferred from him to an animal. In this process of removing disease or sin, the bad spirit is expelled fro
...ritual involves the whole community. Such 'elimination rites', in which an animal, without confession of sins, is the vehicle of evils (not sins) that are ch
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...me region. Many of the local caves are rich in the fossilised bones of the animal, although whether Gigantopithecus was capable of any meaningful bipedal mot
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...er than those created by you, nor by any weapon, nor by any human being or animal. Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving. Grant
...er one of these, as he is a form of Vishnu incarnate as a part-human, part-animal. He comes upon Hiranyakashipu at twilight (when it is neither day nor night
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...crocodile, brought back long ago from a strange and distant land when such animal was unknown by most Europeans.
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...efleurs'' backgrounds or settings of buildings and gardens. They bring the animal to bay with the help of a maiden who traps it with her charms, appear to ki
...ad. Whether because it was an emblem of the Incarnation or of the fearsome animal passions of raw nature, the unicorn was not widely used in early heraldry,
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...adfoot seems to have originated with the old practice of sealing up a live animal, usually a boar or dog, to act as a guardian spirit for a churchyard.
...r at their side, and uttering a roar totally unlike the voice of any known animal. Sometimes the trail of a chain would be heard, accompanying the light quic
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...yptian god of darkness and chaos, [[Seth]], who had a pet called Set. This animal is described as a creature with squared ears, downward snout and a canine b
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* Animal: Pigeon*
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Anyone who had a hideous appearance, was missing a finger, or had animal appendages, etc. was believed to be a [[vampire]].
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[[Image:Tanuki 4.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Picture of the animal.]]
'''Tanuki''' (狸, alternatively タヌキ) is an animal shapeshifter in Japanese mythology.
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...y, along with several other locals, began to encounter a strange wolf like animal.
...o an archived article on the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Website this animal has since been identified as a 4 year old male wolf with unusually red colo
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...lic of the antediluvian monster seemed to be part bird, part fish and part animal.
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Other pretend that the sigbin is a spiritual animal with no physical form, which could be the reason for the varying or conflic
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...e vitality within all liquids - therefore they play a vital role in plant, animal, and human life. Undines appear to human most often in full human shape, as
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...holes. At night their blood-curdling cries can be heard as they devour any animal that ventures near their abodes.
...scribes it as having an :awkward shambling gallop; the forequarters of the animal were very large in proportion to the hindquarters, and it had a large tail.
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...ccusation". Other theories pretend that the Mamlambo is an elasmosaur-like animal or some kind of very primitive archaeocete, occupying a place in cetacean e
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...ate Forest has reportedly been the site of various cult activity including animal sacrifice, ritualistic murders committed by admitted Satanists, as well as
* '''Animal Mutilations''': Various incidents of animal mutilation have been reported, particularly in Freetown and Fall River, whe
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...a lion or leopard, and her back part in the form of a hippopotamus. These animal were considered as the most dangerous to the ancient Egyptians.
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Mermecolion is an inconceivable animal defined by Flaubert in this way: "lion in its foreparts, ant in its hindpar
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...e ''balams'' (magicians) of Yucatán were said to guard the maize fields in animal form. Variants of this belief assert that the shapeshifter does not recogni
The foremost were-animal in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures was the were-jaguar. It was associat
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The Sanskrit word makara refer to the amphibian animal we know as the crocodile.
If ever there actually existed an animal resembling the makara as depicted beside the gates of mediaeval Indian temp
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...g a noun; it thus indicates that Behemoth is the largest and most powerful animal. Metaphorically, the name has come to be used for any extremely large or po
...e that he was definitely a demon, whereas Delancre sees him as a monstrous animal, who can disguise himself as a dog, elephant, fox, or wolf. Behemoth is not
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...years, has interviewed hundreds of witnesses, and alleges to have seen the animal personally on several occasions.
...e set wide apart and the nose is distinctly humanoid. When frightened, the animal exposes its teeth — revealing oddly broad incisors and prominent, long ca
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...ian newspaper reported that several witnesses had seen a large baboon-like animal that stood taller than a man. In 1894, another individual claimed to come f
...oka when he saw a strange creature on all fours drinking from a creek. The animal rose up on its hind feet to a height of seven feet and looked at Summerell.
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...d one, and try to lure them into the forests so it could then reveal their animal-like features and devour them or just mangle them, leaving their wretched b
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...oncept. The word is derived from Greek ''therion'' (Θηριον), meaning "wild animal" or "beast", and ''anthrōpos'' (ανθρωπος), meaning "man".
...olf]]), the term is often used to refer to shape changing to any non-human animal form.
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...he hills of the region, an area that came to be known as "wormington". The animal retreated to its lair to die, its thrashing tail bringing down the mountain
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...ll out with a fellow pig-keeper. The two fought, transforming into various animal and human forms, ultimately becoming two worms which were swallowed by two
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...th and her duty includes nourishing of all life on earth, human, plant and animal.
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...ami supposedly could, at the onmyoji's command, take a variety of human or animal forms, possess or bewitch people, and even cause bodily harm or death. Howe
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...//www.slate.com/id/2132747/ "Quagga Quest Can we bring back a long-extinct animal?"]
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...appearance of Kallikantzaroi, but some Greeks have imagined them with some animal parts, like hairy bodies, horse legs, or boar tusks.
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An etheral representation of human/animal which look supernatural or frightening. Ghosts can come in a variety of for
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...rly turned over. According to newspaper accounts, the head and neck of the animal were sighted afterward about a 100 feet from the ship.
...traveling on a ferry across the lake. Richard Spear, one witness, said the animal was "dark brownish-olive" in color with "the size and shape of a barrel in
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...s head that shines like the sun and can shapeshift in the human or various animal forms.
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...into Loveland, when he saw an animal in the road. Thinking that it was an animal hit by a car, he stopped to move it. It suddenly stood up, but in a crouche
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...n that it is simply a strange breed of wild dog. The alleged corpse of the animal was found in Tolapa, Nicaragua, and forensically analyzed at UNAN-Leon. Pat
...y with venom. Unlike conventional predators, the chupacabras sucks all the animal's blood (and sometimes organs) through a single hole or two holes.
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...or '''yeenaaldlooshii''' is a human who is able to shapeshift into various animal forms through witchcraft. Skin-walkers are generally considered frightening
...skin, or wolf skin. Some Navajos describe them as a mutated version of the animal in question. The skin may just be a mask, like those which are the only gar
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The book ''Omar: A fantasy for animal lovers'' by Wilfrid Blunt (ASIN B0006BVCT6) states that ''bandersnatch'' is
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*A 1947 sighting by a French colonist, refers to the animal as a [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/wildman/kontum47.html ''L'HOMME SAUVAG
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...s cave, it was still extremely dangerous. If a living creature, whether an animal or a person, strayed too near the tentacles, they would quickly be snatched
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...ged from behind a yucca in front of their car. According to the driver the animal, which had "a chest the size of a refrigerator and arms that hung down belo
...nt of their car. As was the case 9 years earlier in Desert Hot Springs the animal in question was so large that the men could only see it’s lower half.
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...kalope", mounted on his wall. Reagan liked to claim that he had caught the animal himself. Reagan's jackalope hangs on the ranch's wall to this day.
...ld, which contains an animal kingdom virtually almost totally consisted of animal hybrids.
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...r Randolph, Utah, and felt the necessity of creating a suitable end to the animal that would satisfy his father’s skepticism.
Early descriptions were vague. A serpent like animal, water spurting out of its head, with the capabilities of moving about on l
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...strange foot symbolizes she may be a higher being who could shapeshift to animal form. He noticed Bertha with a strange foot exist in many languages (German
...hta, and this has become the name of her entourage, as well as the name of animal masks worn in parades and festivals in the mountainous regions of Austria.
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...ntinue to draw deeper into the woods. When the victim was beyond help, the animal would leap upon him and devour him.
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...and a doll. In some cases Hantu Raya is offered the blood of a slaughtered animal as a sacrifice. Food offerings must strictly be observed in a timely manner
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...the Nibelungs. After killing him, he bathed in the blood of this mythical animal and became an invulnerable man, except by a small weak point that was left,
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...hey may not graze in any place where the Elle-people have been; for if any animal come to a place
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In Armenian tradition, Al is described as half-human and half-animal, with a fiery eye, long thick hair, fingernails made of brass or copper, ir
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This animal had descended from mount Erymanthus (according to others, from mount Lampe,
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...him back to health using his magical powers, which entailed tying the dead animal's antlers on Herne's head. In return, however, Herne had to give up his hun
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*Animal Planet - The Most Extreme
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...e moving about on all fours quite easily. Some eyewitnesses even claim the animal was hopping along “like a monkey.” Other notable features are the Hibag
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*They can speak with any animal.
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...lors aboard sighted a "sea monster". Estimated at 45 meters in length, the animal possessed an "immense number of fins", which propelled it through the water
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<blockquote>I was brought by the Buraq, which is an animal white and long, larger than a donkey but smaller than a mule, who would pla
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...ere have also been several witnesses who have described it as a whale-like animal with a grayish epidermis and barbed like fins, a less mysterious descriptio
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:''[There] appeared a very terrible sea-animal, which raised itself so high above the water, that its head reached above o
...honic equipment since 1997. While matching the audio characteristics of an animal, it is too large to be a whale. Investigations thus far have been inconclus
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...blood-borne parasites contained in the hematophagous organism. Thus, many animal and human infectious diseases are transmitted by hematophagous species, suc
Drinking blood and manufacturing foodstuffs and delicacies with animal blood is also a feeding behavior in many societies. African Masai mainstay
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...ng its face, when it squats down. It has the head and sometimes feet of an animal, most commonly a horse.
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Ebirah, being based on the design of a normal animal, has no special or energy weapons. Instead, Ebirah uses his powerful claws
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'The animal was a fine Megalobatrachus, in perfect condition… It was between 25 and 3
...in the Trinity Alps region. The lake known to locals as Hubbard Lake. The animal handler claims to have managed to hook one of the creatures by his fishing
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The skin of the animal, which was known to resist the action of fire, came to be considered proof
...re was a good fire of oak burning, looked into the flames and saw a little animal resembling a lizard, which could live in the hottest part of that element.
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...ning eyes. It can also take the shape of a black horse or another domestic animal. In some stories it was similar to a [[werewolf]] or, more commonly, the sp
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...to incite [[Artemis]] anger at Heracles for his desecration of her sacred animal. As he was returning with the hind, Heracles encountered Artemis and her tw
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...200px|right|[[Oarfish]] that washed ashore on a Bermuda beach in 1860. The animal was 16 feet long and was originally described as a sea serpent.]]
...The Daedalus' serpent has since been classified as a Super Eel or Type 2C animal. Another skeptical suggestion for the sighting proposed that it was actuall
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...'''sea monk''', or sometimes '''monk-fish''', was the name given to a sea animal found off the coast of Denmark almost certainly in 1546.[1] At this time it
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...the ba snake with the southern ran 蚺 "python", which after eating a large animal can wind around a tree trunk and expel the bones from between its scales, a
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...ng to prevent the entrance of the bats, which are greatly able to harm any animal in whose flesh they manage to fasten their teeth."
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The '''Peryton''' or '''Perytion''' is a fabulous animal that came from the lost continent of Atlantis and was aaid to have played a
...e, the peryton's shadow will change to the shadow of a winged deer and the animal will fly away, forbidden to kill a person again. Perytons have also been se
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...to be the young god's tutor. This puts him in a company of phallic or half-animal tutors of the gods, a group that includes Priapus, Cedalion and Chiron, but
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...on horses. The theory goes that such riders would appear as half-man, half-animal. (Bernal Díaz del Castillo reported that the Aztecs had this misapprehensi
...n symbolism with Church teaching, the combination of the spiritual and the animal natures in the centaur-archer caused this image of Apollo and the sun to be
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...souls of the dead rising from the tombs (or living) that transform into an animal or phantom apparition.
...was said that a Strigoi Viu took animal form by stealing the form from the animal.
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...also known as '''Guytrash''' or '''Trash''', is a spectral, shapeshifting animal known in northern England to haunt lonely roads and sometimes lead people a
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“''And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people''.”
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...itude of different forms. However, the Vampire is restricted primarily to animal forms, most notably a bat, a wolf, a rat, or a mist. The Vampire is able t
...lize any abilities that an animal may have when it assumes that particular animal’s form.
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...ren from her doggy shape, but her offspring was already born and stayed in animal form.
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...s De Voragine in "The Golden Legend" ( about 1255 , it was "a dragon, haif animal, half fish, wider than an ox, longer than a horse, with teeth like swords,
Another, more likely, theory states that the beast was a crocodile. The animal may have come up the Rhône after the wreck of a ship carrying it to some n
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...ople whose houses it visited. At other times it would change into a sickly animal and trick people into carrying it on their backs, at which point it would g
Occasionally Kludde assumes the form of a cat, a frog, a bat, or any other animal. His approach may be known by two little blue flames, which fluttering and
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...ection, he found that the bag contained only the liquid remains of the sad animal.
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...ches for tusks. Recently Yallagur has come to describe individuals who act animal-like. Common slang for Yallagur is, "Sponch."
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...like the Barghest it had no set form. There was no sure way to identify an animal as Oschaert outside of strange behaviour.
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...n, but as he looked around he found no body, not of a person and not of an animal. But there was an unexplainable dent in the hood of his car."
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...d started in the 1970s when different Asian nationalities were looking for animal symbols for representations. The wolf was used among the Mongols, the monke
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...Yellow Dragon of the Center]]. The cardinal direction associated with this animal is "centre," and its element is Earth.
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...er, in a blazon, the terms hippocamp and hippocampus now refer to the real animal we call a seahorse, and the terms seahorse and sea-horse refer to the mytho
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...nto a white heifer. The goddess was not deceived and craftily demanded the animal from her husband as a gift. She then appointed Argos Panoptes to guard the
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...oles 30cm in diameter have been known to house Drop Bears 5 feet tall. The animal's extraordinary contorting ability means it is able to crawl through extrem
*Another possibility is that the myth is based on a real animal. It appears to have first appeared during the latter half of the 20th centu
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...lways embroiled in titanic struggles in which the adversaries changed into animal shapes, pigs, oxen, and horses.
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...aa, Daigoro, as his companion. Yuna gains a similar shisaa, Kogoro, as her animal partner with the Trainer dressphere.
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...as the origin of the yale, medieval mapmakers consistently depict it as an animal of the East. This does not suggest the African wildebeest which has often b
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“I started to look for the entrance to the cave. Suddenly I saw a snake like animal sprawled on the rotting foliage that covered the ground.. Its skin was almo
...de “a few years ago”. A young student of agricultural sciences spotted the animal, but at that time nobody believed her. Now an assistant researcher, she sta
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The tomte is connected to farm animals in general, but his most treasured animal was the horse. Belief had it that you could see which horse was the tomte's
..."joulupukki" (in Finland he is still called the "Yule Goat", although his animal features have disappeared) still has features and traditions that are roote
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* '''Chu-Teh''', a monkey-like animal.
...s own parasites, this indicated that the host animal is equally an unknown animal."
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...ch implies that this Basque myth has its origins in the Paleolithic. These animal-shaped geniuses represent the forces of the earth, and natural phenomena ar
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...to other parts of the swamp. Through, it is reputed as a rather aggressive animal. It is known to turn over boats, and even to have killed by biting or hitti
...t, half dragon.” Naturalist Joseph Menges had also told Hagenbeck about an animal alleged to live in Africa, described as “some kind of dinosaur, seemingly
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...hat my death not be brought about by any weapon, nor by any human being or animal. Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving. Grant
...er one of these, as he is a form of Vishnu incarnate as a part-human, part-animal. He comes upon Hiranyakashipu at twilight (when it is neither day nor night
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...arriors) the fearful presence and power of the Bakunawa (or whatever deity/animal they have on their deity hilt) when they wield their swords in combat.
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...a practitioner of witchcraft or shamanism by using various objects such as animal parts (bone, hair, etc...) and even parts taken from the corpses of childre
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==Leviathan as an animal==
...to surmise that Behemoth and Leviathan may also be mundane creatures. The animal most often proposed for Leviathan is the Nile crocodile.
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...nks these could symbolize they are "higher beings" who could shapeshift to animal form.
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