...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.
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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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...mal is a dog with blazing eyes. It could also manifest as the ghost of the human it once was, a cat, a cow, or a person with no head. At other times the spi
*Rose, Carol [November 2001]. Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth (in English). W
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...was one of the offspring of [[Typhon]] and [[Echidna]] and sister of such monsters as [[Cerberus and the Lernaean [[Hydra]]. While there are different genealo
...ech Overdragon''. A multi-headed monstrosity fused from many other machine monsters, it emits an evil aura and is constructed out of pitch-black metal.
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...ormy nights to wreak havoc and destruction. It is also capable of assuming human form.
*Aatxe is used as the name of horned shadow monsters in the ''Guild Wars'' franchise.
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<blockquote>In 1966, Henson drew three monsters that ate cookies and appeared in a General Foods commercial that featured t
...hich point the monsters briefly turn into people and then dissolve back to monsters again.</blockquote>
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...y animal or human that ventures near their abodes. Their favourite prey is human women. They also carry diseases.
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Baobhan Sith are very dangerous and evil and they act preying on human being, mostly hunters but unwary travellers passing by the Highlands as wel
*Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, ''An Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and other Monsters'', Checkmark Books, ISBN 0816046859
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..., an '''ogre''' (feminine: ogress) are large humanoid creature who feed on human flesh. The word was first used (and probably invented) by Perrault in his '
...haracter worries that the women he encounters are actually female ogres in human form.
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...ythical city. Some interpretations claim that the monsters were originally human survivors of the disaster who could never come home again. After their deat
Most modern depictions of the peryton keep the human shadow, but sometimes change details of the description, such as the arrang
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...engages in conflict with the King of Monsters due to his anger toward the human race. Mothra has achieved the greatest success rate in battle save Godzilla
..., and her surprising levels of strength can help her to drag and even lift monsters like Godzilla. Her final strategy is to emit "scales", a yellow poisonous p
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A '''mermaid''' is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish. The male version of a mermaid is called a [[
...he earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as being a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian [[Enki|Ea]]. The Greeks recognized
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...egree of the Devil's disfigurement. In some stories, the Devil is merely a human child which Mrs. Leeds confined to her cellar or attic, only to have it esc
...lso report that the creature has glowing bright red eyes and emits a high, human-like scream.
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...any number of druidic and barbaric cults. She is also worshiped by the non-human species of the mythos, such as the "Fungi from [[Yuggoth]]" (the [[Mi-Go]])
...ormally be, and puckered maws, dripping green goo, cover their flanks. The monsters roughly resemble trees in silhouette — the trunks being the short leg
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...e-shifters; for example, North American snake-spirits could change between human and serpentine forms whilst keeping the characteristics of both.
...ip. The presiding deity here is Nagaraja - a five-headed snake god born to human parents as a blessing for their caretaking of snakes during a fire. It is b
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...e Yowie is said to be a bizarre, hybrid beast resembling a cross between a human and an ape with big red eyes on the side of his head, big canine teeth and
...the "Yowie" as a species of "bunyip", an Aboriginal term used to describe monsters said to dwell in many Australian rivers and lakes.
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...god", the ruler of seas and oceans, was a dragon capable of changing into human form, and who lived in ''[[Ryūgū-jō]]'' 竜宮城 "dragon palace".
...e dragon ''Ya-hiro no kuma-wani'' 八尋熊鰐 "8 fathom bear ''wani''" fathered a human daughter who married Emperor Jimmu.
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...ually for each memeber of the band by their leader to look like real, live monsters and to hide their true appearances.
...nges gradually with each new album Lordi present leaving the basic idea of monsters remain the same:
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...of the world can be traced back to Aristotle. Each advance in the scale of human knowledge has presented new challenges in classification and new responses
...nly belong to one branch of the hierarchical tree. However, in th realm of monsters, such formal ordering is neither feasible nor desirable. For example, a wel
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...prerequisite for activity with non-living material, sexual activity with a human corpse is taboo and frequently labelled ''abuse'', based on the presumption
...in their orgasmic release of choice as do ''normal' couples" and that "all human rights cease the moment a person draws their last breath
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...e the form of a wolf and go out on bloodlust hunts. Once it returns to its human form the werewolf is said to be exhausted.
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Leanan was believed to have taken human form, such was the poetess Eodain by whom Eugene, king of Munster, gained c
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...ioned in Rashi's commentary on Genesis 1:21: "God created the '''great sea monsters''' - '''''Taninim'''''." Jastrow translates the word "Taninim" as a "sea mo
...ingdom of Israel. Others liken the mention to [[Tiamat]] and other similar monsters who represented the sea as a foe to the gods in [[mythology|myth]]s of near
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The Baykok is a hunter, stalking and killing human prey without a hint of guilt or remorse. However, this ghoulish creature n
Fortunately, the Baykok never willingly approaches a human civilization, as the creature itself is extremely reluctant to leave the sa
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...raw flesh for their ravenous bellies, they would inevitably descend on the human farming settlements in the fertile valleys below, to raid the wretched inha
As fearsome as they may have been in human eyes, the other beasts of prey were unable to stand up to the Nian's unrele
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...in the TV series ''Monsters''. Actress Rae Dawn Chong played a gargoyle in human form in ''Tales from the Darkside: The Movie''. A gargoyle named Firebrand
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'''Trolls''' are fictional monsters in the ''[[:Category:Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]'' roleplayin
...and Linda Hankins. "The Dragon's Bestiary: Those Nonhuman creatures - with human form." ''Dragon'' #141 (TSR, 1989).
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...eaten UFO witnesses, and who some believe to be aliens themselves who take human form.
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*The Imp is one of the enemies in [[Doom]]. They are human-sized, muscular, brown creatures with large claws and a gaping maw. In the
*In the game Rule Of Rose, Imps are the only non-boss monsters in the game and there are various types: Bird Imps, Pig Imps, Rat Imps, Fis
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...attracted by child birth when there is a plenty of blood flowing out from human body. In the olden days, measures are taken by the people to prevent the va
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