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=Mythological creatures= '''Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures and Fabulous Beasts'''

...firm eyewitness accounts are available, they have been described as small creatures, either birds or mammals. It is certain that they wear gems on their forehe [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

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...an obscure word. One translator interprets it as a "swarm of three-headed creatures"; Whitley Stokes offered a "monstrous triple-headed bird" (Old Irish én, " [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

The '''Chickcharney''' or '''chickcharnie''' is a fabulous creature that lives in the forests of Andros Island in the Bahama Islands. Chickcharnies are supposed to be forest-dwelling elfin creatures resembling birds, furry or feathered and rather ugly looking. Their nesting

...rpent found in European heraldry. It derives from the '''[[Jaculus]]''', a fabulous snake that is said to guard Frankincense trees in Arabia. [[Category: Winged creatures]]

...sharp that they could cut down trees, a skill which came in handy when the creatures prey would use their climbing skills as a means of escaping the voracious p [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...ang Di a guide to the forms and habits of all 11,520 types of supernatural creatures in the world, and how to tame and exorcise the bad ones and deal with the g [[Category: Fabulous beasts]]

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The '''Fauna of Mirrors''' are a mythical race of creatures in Chinese mythology. They are described in the [[Book of Imaginary Beings] ...ther sea creatures. The Fish, in some versions of the tale a leader of the creatures, is a shimmering animal visible deep in mirrors that is impossible to catch

The '''glashtin''' is fabulous creature and a shapeshifter in the folklore of the Isle of Man. ...is likely to arise out of joy not fear and some people suspect that these creatures may actually cause harsh weather. They get very riled up with thunderstorms

They were depicted as hybrid creatures with the head and fore-parts of a horse and the serpentine tail of a fish. ...iled goat). The last was the form of the constellation Capricorn. Fabulous creatures of this type were also believed to inhabit the Indian Ocean.

The '''Ropen''' or '''kor''' is a fabulous creature and a flying cryptid in the Umboi and Manus islands near Papua New ..."indava." Paul Nation believed the lights were from the bioluminescence of creatures similar to the ropen of Umboi Island. The video was analyzed by a missile d

...were referred to as "Qilins". The Emperor proclaimed the giraffes magical creatures, whose capture signalled the greatness of his power. The Qilin is the lord of all beasts or hairy creatures (mammals), while the [[Phoenix]] represents the feathered, Man the naked, t

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The '''Makara''' is a fabulous beast in Hindu mythology close to the water horse with the body of a fish a Makara is linked to other mysterious water creatures such as the Kelpie, the Silkie and the Seahorse because of certain common c

'''Satyrs''' in [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] are woodland creatures depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a As Dionysiac creatures they are lovers of wine, women and boys, and are ready for every physical p

...f this little lamb was described as being "very white." Once hatched these creatures could only attain maturity if their umbilical "stem" remained attached to i as fabulous, the accounts of it were confirmed to me by so many

...lonian art was consistent over many centuries, while those of mythological creatures changed, sometimes drastically, over the years. He also noted that the sirr ...ylonian reconstruction of sauropod remains. The griffin and other mythical creatures may have been based on similar reconstructions by this reasoning. However,

The '''Peryton''' or '''Perytion''' is a fabulous animal that came from the lost continent of Atlantis and was aaid to have p ...ght blue in color. Its skin cannot be pierced by any known weapon, and the creatures themselves are invulnerable and possibly immortal, or at least very long-li

*A bull with a man's head is found among the creatures that make up Aslan's army in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Like the [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

belonging to the Emperor; embalmed; trained; sloppy; sirens; fabulous; stray dogs; included in this classification; trembling like crazy; innumer ...this brings to mind are a useful reminder to anyone trying to implement a creatures taxonomy that the world does not fit easily into neatly labelled boxes. Tha

It has similarities to many different legendary creatures. ...werewolf" (which is also the origin of the Romanian]] ''[[varcolac]]'' - a fabulous creature that feeds off the Sun and Moon).

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Gargoyles are mostly grotesque figures. Statues representing gargoyle-like creatures are popular sales items, particularly in goth and New Age retail stores. [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

* Dave. Amphisbaena. Dave's Mythical Creatures and Places. Available: URL http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/amphisbaena.htm. [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...that on the fifth day, after God had commanded the water to create living creatures: Then you kept in existence two living creatures; the name of one you called Behemoth and the name of the other Leviathan. A

...''', also known as a '''cockatrice''' or '''king of the serpents''', is a fabulous beast which has been depicted as the most dangerous serpent that ever exist ...e king, not only because of its crown, but because it terrorized all other creatures with his deadly look and poison. Its color was either a greenish black or y

...arwhales, along with the Indian Rhinoceros (which only has one ‘horn’) are creatures that, through travelers’ exaggerations, became the fabled unicorn. The [[ [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

* South, Malcom, ed. ''Mythical and Fabulous Creatures: A Source Book and Research Guide.'' Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987. [[Category:Fairy creatures]]

The Shaggy Beast had a taste for innocent creatures, and devoured maidens and children. It would choose the purest of young wom [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

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...en Sun: The Lost Age, the stronger Grand Chimera. All forms are Mars(Fire) creatures, and have a goat's body, a snake for a tail, and the head of a lion and an * In the video game Resistance: Fall Of Man, the monstrous creatures of the game that come in many forms are called Chimera

...act in some languages the name ''sirena'' is used interchangeably for both creatures. *Mermaids are one of the most famous creatures of popular culture, and are depicted regularly in literature and film. This

...ict the regular character of a Centaur; he just had the same body of those creatures. To the Greeks he was a close representation of a saint. He was a father fi Other hybrid creatures appear in Greek mythology, always with some liminal connection that links H

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Like many other legendary creatures, the manticore is a popular monster and allegory in fiction: ...nticores also appear in the strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic III as creatures controlable by the Overlord and Warlock player classes.

*The MMORPG World Of Warcraft features humanoid salamander creatures that can be found in the raid zone Molten Core, including several bosses. T [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

*In the game "Age of Mythology", gorgons are snakelike creatures armed as archers who work as your allies, petrified and shooting enemies at ...Curse". The game also employed the "stoning motif" of Medusa by having the creatures fire arrows of snakes at the player, turning them into stone if they were h

Like many other fabulous beasts, the Greek sphinx was thought to live in the Ethiopian mountains ...forequarters became symbols of the Biblical tetramorph and the four living creatures of Revelation. [Ezek 1:5-14; Rev. 4:6-8] These in turn represent the cherub

*In the Online PC game, Guild Wars, Hydras are hostile creatures similar to T-Rexes and have three heads. There are three different 'breeds' ...very resilient and able to attack from 3 (pre upgrade) up to all adjacent creatures, thanks for the multiple heads. It also possess a special ability - 'No ret

...r '''Simorgh''' also known as '''Angha''' is the modern Persian name for a fabulous, benevolent, mythical flying creature similar to a griffin or phoenix. The ...Beings''', Borges's fantastic compendium of more than one hundred "strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination": dragons, centaurs

...unded on grains of truth....Now, cryptozoology, the study of such fabulous creatures, can come in from the cold."</blockquote>[13]

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...make good food for the bird. Garuda immediately set off and found the two creatures. ...Garuda soon found that no mountain or tree would hold himself and his two creatures of prey so he flew two hundred thousand leagues with the speed of a gale an

==Creatures mentioned== * [[Baldanders]] - Also known as Soon-Another's, these creatures can assume many shapes. It appears to have a human head and torso, the tail

The '''nagas''' are an ancient race of semi divine serpent creatures beings first depicted in ancient Vedic Hindu mythology and oral folklore fr ...and their sometimes benevolent, sometimes wrathful, interactions with the creatures of both heaven and earth.

The mythology and legends of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. "'''Giant'''" is the ...Aragon'', ''Young Ronald'', and Paul Bunyan. Ogres and trolls are humanoid creatures, sometimes of gigantic stature, that occur in various sorts of European fol

...s, and which is the exact equivalent of the description of lions and other creatures in heraldry as "rampant". ...nes were abundant; and when strangers approached to gather the stones, the creatures would leap on them and tear them to pieces. The Scythians used giant petrif

...de of the BBC comedy ''Red Dwarf'' entitled ''Psirens'' featured repulsive creatures who could create the illusion they were beautiful women. They did this hopi [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

Echidne was half-woman, half-serpent, while Typhon was the most fierce of all creatures. *In '''Rygar''', one of the creatures Rygar is able to summon using the Diskarmor is the dog Cerberus.

...ts, is a popular stock monster, appearing in many fantasy works using such creatures, most notably ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' and the ''Percy Jackson'' series [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...bservations of the giant squid. In the earliest descriptions, however, the creatures were more crab- than octopus-like, and generally possessed traits that are ...rs, the fact that they attacked at all shows that it is possible for these creatures to mistake a vessel for a whale.

...ions of Greek myth (Hesiod in ''Theogony'' calls them two "lovely-haired" creatures), Harpies were described as beautiful, winged guardians. Later they became [[Category:Fabulous beasts]]

...elusion induced by ''a natural superabundance of melancholic''. Only small creatures such as the cat, the hare and the weasel remained for the malignant sorcere ...se themselves as very wolves, in wourrying and killing, and most of humane creatures.''Such were the views about lycanthropy current throughout the continent of

...ch states that he has a history of reporting sightings of cryptozoological creatures, and sells a self-published book and DVD claiming evidence for fairies. His ...t what fish they might be. It is a temptation to suppose they might be the fabulous Loch Ness monsters, now observed for the first time in their underwater act

...d crippled arrived in the city they were ushered into a great hall where a fabulous feast was prepared for them. The guests ate and drank late into the night. ...is deeply rooted in the Balkan region. There have always been vampire-like creatures in the mythologies of many cultures. However, the vampire, as he became kno