A '''jenglot''' is a tiny, living human doll in Indonesian and Malaysian folklore
...ot 'keepers' feed their creature with blood, either animal blood (goat) or human blood. The jenglot is said to not drink the blood directly. The person plac
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...atural order. In the fierce battle between Mothra and Battra, the existing human civilization was destroyed in a tremendous flood.
...cean floor, until they caused a rift to open between tectonic plates. Both monsters were swallowed up into the Earth's crust.
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...e the livestock. During these attacks, Baragon was not seen, so the mutant human Frankenstein was blamed. But there was a person who survived the destructio
...alive and kept in captivity on Monsterland. Along with the rest of Earth's monsters, Baragon is brought under the control of an alien race called the Kilaaks d
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...ce in their great class of hill-spirits certain quadrumana, besides actual human beings, mountaineers alien to Chinese culture, perhaps a dying race of abor
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...ious groups in folklore who were said to change the physical appearance of human beings by manipulating growing children, in a similar way to the horticultu
...dislocating their joints, and malforming their bones. The resulting human monsters made their living as mountebanks or were sold to lords and ladies to be use
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'''Mermen''' are mythical male legendary creatures who are human from the waist up and fish-like from the waist down, whose consorts were th
*Another notable merman from Greek mythology was [[Glaucus]]. He was born a human and lived his early life as a fisherman. One day, while fishing, he saw th
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...eature associated with Native American legends, and a large range of other monsters from [[sasquatch]]s to cannibal-like Native American [[wendigo]]s or the Eu
...r Chippewa in North Dakota might have picked up the French name for "hairy human-like being" from the influence of French Canadian trappers and missionaries
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...at the same antics around another corner. This will go on and on until the human decides to give up in utter frustration. Another way they might annoy human
...0's and early 1990's representing the upper torso, hands & head of "Bogle" monsters.
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...mythology, the '''Asakku''' were one type of Mesopotamian evil spirits and monsters, classed with good spirits as [[Utukku]].
Asakku demons attack and kill human beings, especially by means of head fevers. They are mentioned in poetical
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...extent their own and to increase their strength. Often necromancers are of human kind, but that doesn’t mean humans are the only species practising [[necr
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...latter habit, the word ''ghoul'' is sometimes used to refer to an ordinary human such as a grave robbers, or to anyone who enjoys the macabre.
...netheless generally believed that vampires and zombies prefer to prey upon human beings.
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'''Ningyo''' (人魚, "human fish"), often translated as "mermaid," is a fish-like creature from Japanes
...however, peeked into the kitchen, noticed that the head of this fish had a human face, and warned the others not to eat it. So when the fisherman finished c
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...and the tissue on the sides of the mouth are manipulated to give it a more human appearance, and artificial eyes are inserted into the nostrils. The pectora
...sea monk" captured in Norway, a creature in scaly but clerical garb with a human face, a monk's shaven crown, vague appendages for arms and a fish's tail. I
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...aded annis commonly uses magic to disguise itself as an exceptionally tall human, a fair giant, or an ogre.
*'''Shrieking Hag''' - Shrieking hags are horrible, spiteful monsters who haunt desolate wastelands and barren plains.
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He is usually represented as a merman, having the upper body of a human and the tail of a fish. Ordinary Tritons were described in detail by the ge
...taur"), was described as having the forefeet of a horse in addition to the human body and the fish tail. It is probable that the idea of Triton owes its ori
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Als are demons of childbirth, interfering with human reproduction. The al is known by various other names, including ''alk'' in
In Armenian tradition, Al is described as half-human and half-animal, with a fiery eye, long thick hair, fingernails made of bra
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The Monster of Lake Fagua is described as being 20 feet long, with a human face, bull-like horns, huge donkey-like ears, lion-like teeth, bat-like win
[[Category:Sea and lake monsters]]
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...ngs as animals and rejects many social structures that he believes inhibit human instincts.
...as a vast conspiracy of elites with a predilection for child-molesting and human sacrifice. This genre regularly describes Satan as actually appearing in pe
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...general, yōkai is a broad term, and can be used to encompass virtually all monsters and supernatural beings, even including creatures from European folklore on
...lly have a sort of spiritual or supernatural power, and so encounters with human beings tend to be dangerous.
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monsters. Each of the seven were revered or feared, each possessing different abilit
#[[Luison]], a dog-like human, lord of death and protector of cemeteries
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...tion. However, the Adlet prefers to drink the warm blood of a newly-slain human (it also eats the flesh with an equal amount of relish). The Adlet may be
...ings if its preferred food is not to be had. Above all, the Adlet prefers human flesh and blood to anything else. The bones of the creature’s victims ar
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...a tilberi, a woman should go to a graveyard early on Whitsunday and dig a human rib there. Then this rib needs to be wrapped in grey wool and be preserved
...the nipple the tilberi will overexhaust itself and explode, leaving only a human rib beside the heap of droppings.
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Although the Beast of Bray Road has not been seen to shapeshifting from a human into a wolf in most of the sightings, it has been labeled a werewolf in new
There is one witness who claims to have seen it morph from a wolf-headed human form into an ape-headed form. There has been other paranormal phenomenon re
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...ht upon its feet, which are :shaped like hoofs. Its face and body are more human like than anything :else and its mouth is like that of a raccoon, garnished
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...canny knowledge about the past, present and future and a deep insight into human nature. Hence, many sorcerers seek to capture them and turn them into slave
...155 Guiley, Rosemary ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters'']
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...g flight. The hands cannot grasp while flying, but are nearly as useful as human hands when an aarakocra is perched and its wings folded back. Their powerfu
*Wyatt, James and Rob Heinsoo. ''Monstrous Compendium: Monsters of Faerun'' (Wizards of the Coast, 2001).
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...ltitudes of probably around 1,000-1,500 meters, and does not tolerate well human encroachment, logging and other disturbances.
...ren & Clark, Jerome (1999): Cryptozoology A to Z: the encyclopedia of loch monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabaras, and other authentic mysteries of nature. Fireside
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Tzitzimimeh means ''Monsters descending from above''.
...ring a solar eclipse, the tzitzimime would descend to the earth and devour human beings. The Tzitzimimeh were also feared during other ominous periods of th
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...sm. A female rakshasa is called a '''rakshasi''', and a female rakshasa in human form is a manushya-rakshasi.
...o haunt cemeteries, disturb sacrifices, harass priests, possess and devour human beings, and vex and afflict mankind in all sorts of ways. They are said to
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...who married a human man, and Pania was a woman from the sea who married a human and gave birth to a taniwha (Orbell 1998:150).
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The '''Craquehhe''' is one of the [[undead]], a creature that was once human but now exists beyond death without a soul, doomed to kill and feed on the
...has been known to utterly destroy nearby towns in its constant search for human prey.
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...ying Hollows, human ghosts who lose their sanity and become soul-devouring monsters. In Bleach, they are portrayed as humans who have been born in the Soul Soc
...s in their notebooks, or if they kill someone to extend the life span of a human out of affection, as seen by Gelus's death for Misa Amane, or if they get t
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...where orco refers to a kind of monster found in fairy-tales that feeds on human flesh and similar to the The French word ogre (appearing first in Charles P
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Her name comes from the ''gullet'' (Greek: Laimos), since she devoured human children.
...ability to change herself into a beautiful young woman. Here she assumes a human form to win a man's love.
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...an was the only one who could see it. It was a chimera-like creature, with human head and parts from different species of animals. It was dangerous, it migh
The tupilaq was manifested in real, human-made object. It was made by people to the detriment of their enemies. It wa
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'''Echidna''' was called the "Mother of All Monsters" and described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mother
*In Disney's Hercules, Echidna also appeared as the mother of monsters.
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...an Hu were often characterized by Chinese writers as monsters who combined human and dog anatomy.
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...a formidable creature, it is incongruously small, usually no bigger than a human child. It might have a bird-like beak or a pointed mouth, but sometimes it
...gs, especially cucumbers, the only food kappa are known to enjoy more than human children. Japanese parents sometimes write the names of their children (or
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They are also said to enter a human body and make sicken it until death.
...155 Guiley, Rosemary ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters'']
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...Millennium series starting with Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.
...eries, Godzilla stayed a hero, protecting Japan against attacks from other monsters, aliens, etc. At one point, Godzilla even adopted a son, Minilla, in Son of
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The Noppera-bō appear at first as ordinary human beings, sometimes impersonating someone familiar to the victim, before caus
...adio Hearn used the animals' name as the title of his story about faceless monsters, probably resulting in the misused terminology.
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...snake with a beard and a mane; others say it looks like a huge furry half-human beast with a long neck and a head like a bird. Common features in Aborigina
Like other beasts in Dreamtime, the Bunyip was malevolent towards human beings. At night the Bunyip was said to go and prey upon women and children
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...'''Typhon''') was a monstrous primitive Storm-Giant, father of many other monsters who was defeated and imprisoned by Zeus in the pit of Tartaros. For us, he
Typhon fathered many monsters upon Echidna: Cerberus, the Chimaera, Orthus, the Dragon of the Esperides,
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Pinhead was not always a Cenobite, but was in fact once human. Pinhead originated as '''Captain Elliott Spencer''', who was born into the
...s comrades perish in horrific circumstances. He had also lost faith in the human race after witnessing the inhumanity one individual could enact upon anothe
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“They also commonly assert, that the Dracs assume the human form, and come early into the public market-place without any one being the
...the Dracs lived on people they had carried off, and turned themselves into human forms; and she said that one day, when the Drac gave her an eel-pasty to ea
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The older brother had other monsters to slay, and he left Mokwayo to seek his own way. Left to his own devices,
...called Naq'pote (which signifies an expert marksman). He was formed like a human being, but, being a manido, could assume the shape of a wolf, in which form
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...head. Reports that the creature has an identical head at each end, with a human face are mistaken.
...hich are sometimes pointed. The heads at the protruding ends are less like human heads and display a mouth with well-defined canine teeth and a long tongue
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The Cyclopes were a race of huge one-eyed monsters that resided on an island with the same name. Commonly, the term "Cyclops"
...gend is that prehistoric dwarf elephant skulls - about twice the size of a human skull were found by the Greeks on Crete. Due to the large central nasal cav
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