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From legends of India, the '''Avalerion''' is a type of mythical bird that has common features wi ...ggs, the parents drown themselves. The Avalerion is rumored to be found in India.

The Moslems of India call a '''Choorail''' the ghost of a pregnant woman.

'''Ganga Lai''' and '''Gaura Bai''' (1911-1949) were conjoined twins, born in India. Ganga Lai and Gaura Bai were born in Kankanahalli, Mysore, India, in 1911 and appeared at the Paris Exposition in 1931. On July 25, 1949,

[[Image:yali.jpg|thumb|Sculpture of a Yali in South India.]] ...mple. Generally they are positioned on both sides of an entrance. In south India, it is very common to find the image of yalis on entrances of structures (l

...akora and Chandra has given rise to a number of folk love stories in north India.

Megasthenes places this race in India, near the source of the Ganges river. According to him, their bodies are r <blockquote>At the extreme boundary of India to the East, near the source of the Ganges, he [the Greek historian Megasth

*Chakravarti, Balaram (2000) ''A cultural history of the North-East India'': Assam Self Employment Bureau, Calcutta, *Frawley, David (2001) ''The Rig Veda and the history of India: Rig Veda Bharata itihasa Aditya Prakashan'', New Delhi, ISBN 8177420399 ;

...was a mythical unicorn-like creature said to live on the grassy plains of India, Persia and North Africa. The karkadann was an extremely ferocious beast, d ...e Kargadan. Ibn Battuta in his travelogue, calls the rhinoceros he saw in India karkadann.

...es all the ghosts, goblins and vampires that haunt cemeteries and ruins in India. ...n Gunadhya's ''Brhat-katha'' written in Paisachi dialect from the south of India.

...shami'' (East and South India), ''Dashain'' (Nepal) or ''Dussehra'' (North India) - these words literally mean "the tenth" (day), "vijaya” means "of-victo ...d of the worship however may be over the preceding nine days Navaratri (N. India) or five days such as in the Durga Puja, one of Bengal's biggest holidays.

'''Rompo''' is a mythological hybrid creature found in India and Africa.

The term '''gayal''' is used by the Punjab and some other regions of India to mean the revenant of a man who dies such circumstances as:

...es in the dense forests of Karbi Anglong and adjacent areas of Nagaland in India.

'''Shivshankari Yamanappa Mootageri''' of Karnataka, India, born in 1978. Her third leg is a fusion of two legs, possessing nine toes

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

...being called Harginn, still believed in by the inhabitants of Northwestern India.

...entioned by Ctesias in his book India, a record of the view of Persians of India which only remains in fragments. Pliny describes Monopods as thus (Natural ...tise Against Hierocles. Apollonius of Tyana believes the Skiapodes live in India and Ethiopia, and asks the Indian sage Iarkhas about their existence.

The 'Ta fang hsi-yu chi' by Hsuan-tsang (a Chinese scholar who wrote about India) tells the story of Apalala. Kasyapa Buddha was a man with the power to con

Perumal was born in Madras, India in 1888 and his images are often mistaken for fellow prodigy Indian [[Laloo

...they were just five to honor two sacred rivers that meet in the center of India, the Ganga and Jamuna rivers.

* Parpola, Asko: 1988, ''The Coming of the Aryans to Iran and India and the Cultural and Ethnic Identity of the Dasas; The problem of the Aryan

...s an aquatic reptile said to have lived in Jiro valley, Arunachal Pradesh, India. ...ian subcontinent. Heuvelmans notes similar reported creatures from Western India, where they seem to merge into the Iranian traditional dragon or ahi (Azi D

...to Nagaraja exists in Poojappura of Thiruvananthapuram District in Kerala, India. It is known as Poojappura nagarukavu Temple. The uniqueness of this temple

...the '''rakoshi''' (singular: rakosh) are demon-like creatures from ancient India.

...vation. Garo Hills have some of the deepest forest and uncharted jungle in India. The concentration of flora and fauna is excellent. Garo Hills can also boa

...emalik ul Mirat'' by Ottoman admiral Sisi Ali Reis on his return trip from India to Istanbul in 1557. His account suggests that the hurruz he observed was a

[[Image:Nandi-mysore.jpg|250px|thumb|right|An idol of Nandi in Mysore, India.]] Largest Nandis in India

Radica and Doodica were born in Orissa, India in 1888. While the birth of conjoined twins was often viewed as highly unus

* Manna, Sibendu, ''Mother Goddess, Chaṇḍī, Punthi Pustak'', Calcutta, India, 1993. (ISBN 81-85094-60-8) ...rayanan, S., ''Glory of the Divine Mother (Devī Māhātmyam''), Nesma Books, India, 2001. (ISBN 81-87936-00-2)

Laloo Ramparsad was born in the state of Oudh (now Awadh), Northern India around 1873 as the second of four siblings in 1874. Laloo was a Muslim, but

...'' (or '''corocotta, crocuta''', or '''yena'''), is a mythical dog-wolf of India or Ethiopia, said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs.

...ntered by Sahadeva, a Pandava general who led a military campaign to south India.

...py round faces and full breasts and hips. In the state of Kerala, in South India, Yakshis are depicted as vampire enchantresses.

...యేశ్వర స్వామి), is a popular Hindu deity Tamil among Tamil Hindus in South India, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Mauritius. ...he is seen as the elder son of Shiva and Ganesha as the younger. In South India, it is believed that he is the younger of the two. A Puranic story has Gane

...ocephali''' are dog-headed bipedal creatures in the mythologies of Europe, India and China. Isidore of Seville and most classical writers give them India as homeland.

...th the more traditional demons from occult grimoires and described as "an India demon with long and crooked nails that watches over the souls who wander in In northern India, a canine deity was formerly worshipped by certain Dravidians. So too were

...n the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on

...d-pathway cave"), he was commissioned by Guan Yin to accompany Xuanzang to India and given the new name Zhu Wuneng.

...re known for more than two thousand years to the religious art of southern India, where it is invoked against evil forces. This in its most typical form res

...were later taken to Shanghai. From there, they were taken to Korea, Japan, India, Australia and then spent three years touring Europe.

...ke creature that was appearing at night and attacking people in New Delhi, India in 2001.

[[Image:Naga.jpg|thumb|Sculpture India]] ...ry much a part of contemporary cultural traditions in predominantly Hindu (India, Nepal, and the island of Bali) and Buddhist (Sri-Lanka and South-East Asia

Many great masters both in India and Tibet, but especially in Tibet, have practiced Vajrakilaya (especially

...s of extremely high poverty and overpopulation, such as parts of China and India [http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html]. Female infants, then and

...rain, fertility and the cycle of the seasons, whilst in ancient Greece and India, snakes were considered to be lucky and snake-amulets were used as talisman In the state of Kerala, India, snake shrines occupy most households. Snakes were called upon by the creat

===India=== *[[Thug Behram]] - leader of a gang of Thugs in Avadh, India, who confessed to participating in 931 individual murders and to having per

In India, Makara-Shankranti occurs at the terminal cusp of Capricorn indicating tha

...began asking his sister to have sex with him. He claimed a desire to go to India to study religion, although he never did so.

[[Image:Andhaka.jpg|thumb|Halebid (India) hoysalesvara temple Lord Shiva killing Andhaka.]]

...rth. The places designated for them to do this was Bali, Hawaii, Samoa and India. Civilizations came and went on Earth with many wars, peaceful cycles and n

*North India - Children are sometimes threatened with the ''Bori Baba'', who carries a s *South India - In the state of Tamil Nadu, children are often mock threatened with the '

* Sri Laxmi Narasimha Temple, 1420 Sadashiv Peth, Pune, India * Sri Edappurathu Lakshmi Narasimha Moorthi Temple,Puthuruthy,Kerala-680623,India. This temple is one the famous Narasimha moorthi Temples in kerala

...ble by their yellow complexion, hollow eyes and dry tongue. The Garrows of India are said to tear their hair when they are seized with the complaint, which

...hasas of the epic poems were the rude and cannibalistic barbarian races of India who were subdued by the Aryans.

...be found in the Konjaku Monogatarishu, a Japanese collection of tales from India, China, and Japan. In this version, however, the rabbit's friends are a fox

...so-called Pangboche Hand, by hiding them in his luggage when he flew from India to London. ...nd produced by Shyam and Tulsi Ramsay, infamous for their horror movies in India.

The manticore is reputed to roam in the jungles of India and Indonesia, and is known to have an appetite for humans. ...ian court of King Artaxerxes II in the fourth century BCE, in his notes on India ("Indika"), which circulated among Greek writers on natural history, but ha

...century anti-Muslim pamphlet protesting the slaughter of the sacred cow in India portrays Kali as a brown-skinned demon with a dog-like face, protruding fan ...s, in slaughtering places and in gold”.[19] And as long as Parikshit ruled India, Kali stayed within the confines of these five places. This act allowed Dha

...ve been known also in Mesopotamia, the main center of civilization between India and Greece, and it becomes probable that the figure Sui-Jen has been derive

In the South and East of India, this entity is also known respectively as ''raktabhija'' and ''raktabij''.

...ower of the Shakti, or female energy. However the Aryan Invasion Theory of India's origin is still in dispute amongst historians. *The Aryan introduced patriarchal gods in India, but various matriarchal tribes, such as the Shabara of Orissa , continues

...it into two parts, both ideologically and geographically, one migrating to India and the other to Persia. At important festivals, perhaps for new-year celeb

*[http://www.geocities.com/indianpaganism/hornedgod.html The Horned God in India and Europe.]

...an werecats usually become tigers.<ref name="summerswerejaguartiger" /> In India, the weretiger is often a dangerous sorcerer, portrayed as a menace to live

===India=== ...arpa" (Devnagri: सर्प). The Syrictæ (Greek : Skiritai, Latin: Sciritae) of India were a tribe of men with snake-like nostrils in place of noses and bandy se

=== India ===

...ccompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India.

...) Mike Harding gives some examples of similar figures in Borneo, Nepal and India: the earliest is a foliate head from an 8th century Jain temple in Rajastha

...e in a classic work of anomalistic psychology published in English as From India to the Planet Mars (1899). ...he events of the Martian invasion as experienced in France, Italy, Russia, India, China, Texas, Alaska, Equatorial Africa and other locations.

...(Gittin 57a). Yet this idea may be originally Persian; it is found also in India (W. Crookes, in "Folk-Lore," vii.) ...pisode of the "Thankful Beasts," which Benfey traced across Europe through India ("Kleine Schriften," i.). Even in the tales having a comic termination and

In India the scape-animal may be a pig, buffalo, a goat or a black cock.

Presence and illustrations of centaurs date back to Assyria (2000 BC) and India (3000 BC). Some have traced the Greek centaur origins back to the Gandharva

...y originated in Ethiopia; and Bulfinch wrote that their native country was India. Herodotus said that legends of griffins came from the Issedonians who live ...elieved to guard hidden treasures and in particular the vast gold mines of India and Scythia. The Arimaspians, a bold, one-eyed race of humans, constantly t

The basilisk originated from the horned adder or hooded cobra from India. Plainly described simply as a snake with a golden crown. By the Middle Age

...er a monarchy, such a copyright is, of course, not called Crown Copyright. India has a government copyright of sixty years from publication, to coincide wit

...the [[demon]]ic Lament Configuration, which he picked up from a market in India in 1921. In the ''Hellraiser'' comic book series, Pinhead is depicted as th

...dead bodies at night and attacks the living like a [[ghoul]]. In northern India could be found the '''Brahmaparusha'', a vampire-like creature with a head *India is home to beliefs in a spirit called the [[vetala]], a [[wraiths|wraith]]l

...ualities. European [[colonialism]], which put Westerners in contact with [[India]] and [[Egypt]], re-introduced exotic beliefs to Europeans at this time. [[ ...[mantra]]s that can be used for both good and bad. The word [[mantrik]] in India literally means "magician" since the mantrik usually knows mantras, spells,

...into the ocean to fight a demon. A statue in Keshava temple in Somnathpur, India depicts Matsya as a fish from the waist down. The fish form may be consider

...in several other cultures worldwide, including Japan, China, the Pacific, India, and even the Native Americans.

...ustralian aborigines. There are high incidence reports of AIP in areas of India and Scandinavia and over 200 genetic variants of AIP, some of which are spe

...h of Ahriman: Culture, Identity and Theological Change Among the Parsis of India. Bombay: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute. pp. 182ff.

...sign of God's anger at [[America (continent)|America]], [[Israel]], and [[India]].

...phy]]" refers to the broad traditions that originated or were popular in [[India]], [[Persia]], the [[Middle East]], and [[China]]. In nineteenth century [[South India]], there developed [[Ayyavazhi]] which applies a common formula of creation

...gulkhar,) the ruins of which are still there in the upper Sutlej Valley of India.

|Usually seen in temples of South India

...ery is [[vertebrate paleontology]] with new discoveries in countries like; India, South America, Antartica and the stupendous discovery of well preserved fe

...n of the vine. The most famous part of his wanderings is his expedition to India, which is said to have lasted several years. Returning in triumph he under

...dwarfs mentioned by Pliny and Aristotle who inhabited the mountains beyond India, waging war on the cranes that attacked them for three months a year. The C

...and ''Enma'' in Japan. He is from Chinese Buddhism, and before that, from India. Enma rules the [[Underworld]], which makes him similar to [[Hades]], and h

...1990s, a string of man-eating wolf attacks were reported in Uttar Pradesh, India. Frightened people claimed, among other things, that the wolves were werewo

...hey ate their offspring. Prince, a Bengal tiger, was even reported by an [[India]]n war correspondent to have started eating himself &mdash; gnawing at his

...rt. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, [[Ancient Egypt]], Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic empire, and then i