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.
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The Moslems of India call a '''Choorail''' the ghost of a pregnant woman.
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'''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,
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[[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
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...akora and Chandra has given rise to a number of folk love stories in north India.
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India, near the source of the Ganges river. According to him, their bodies are r
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*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 ;
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...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.
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...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.
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...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.
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'''Rompo''' is a mythological hybrid creature found in India and Africa.
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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:
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...es in the dense forests of Karbi Anglong and adjacent areas of Nagaland in India.
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'''Shivshankari Yamanappa Mootageri''' of Karnataka, India, born in 1978. Her third leg is a fusion of two legs, possessing nine toes
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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
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...being called Harginn, still believed in by the inhabitants of Northwestern India.
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...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.
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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
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Perumal was born in Madras, India in 1888 and his images are often mistaken for fellow prodigy Indian [[Laloo
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...they were just five to honor two sacred rivers that meet in the center of India, the Ganga and Jamuna rivers.
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* 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
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...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
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...to Nagaraja exists in Poojappura of Thiruvananthapuram District in Kerala, India. It is known as Poojappura nagarukavu Temple. The uniqueness of this temple
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...the '''rakoshi''' (singular: rakosh) are demon-like creatures from ancient India.
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...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
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...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
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[[Image:Nandi-mysore.jpg|250px|thumb|right|An idol of Nandi in Mysore, India.]]
Largest Nandis in India
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Radica and Doodica were born in Orissa, India in 1888. While the birth of conjoined twins was often viewed as highly unus
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* 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)
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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
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...'' (or '''corocotta, crocuta''', or '''yena'''), is a mythical dog-wolf of India or Ethiopia, said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs.
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...ntered by Sahadeva, a Pandava general who led a military campaign to south India.
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...py round faces and full breasts and hips. In the state of Kerala, in South India, Yakshis are depicted as vampire enchantresses.
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...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
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...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.
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...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
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...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
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...d-pathway cave"), he was commissioned by Guan Yin to accompany Xuanzang to India and given the new name Zhu Wuneng.
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...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
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...were later taken to Shanghai. From there, they were taken to Korea, Japan, India, Australia and then spent three years touring Europe.
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...ke creature that was appearing at night and attacking people in New Delhi, India in 2001.
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[[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
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Many great masters both in India and Tibet, but especially in Tibet, have practiced Vajrakilaya (especially
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...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
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...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
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*[[Thug Behram]] - leader of a gang of Thugs in Avadh, India, who confessed to participating in 931 individual murders and to having per
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In India, Makara-Shankranti occurs at the terminal cusp of Capricorn indicating tha
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...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.
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[[Image:Andhaka.jpg|thumb|Halebid (India) hoysalesvara temple Lord Shiva killing Andhaka.]]
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...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
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