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'''.
The lamboyo may be distinguished from an ordinary animal by being misshapen to some extent, for instance, a buffalo may have only on
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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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