'''Sliocha nan Ron''' meaning ''children of the seals'' are the alleged offsprings of a union between a [[selkie]] and a mortal.
...h webbing between their fingers and toes and occasionally patches of rough skin on their head and body.
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'''Niamh of the Golden Hair''' was a faery princess who loved the bard Oisin and led him away to Tir nan og.
...nd her cheeks redder than the rose, and her skin whiter than the swan upon the wave, and her lips as sweet as honey that is mixed through red wine."
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...ow a boy and a girl with green skin were found near a pit in Saint Mary of the Wolf-Pit. They would eat nothing but green food and spoke a foreign languag
...in a land that, while beautiful, was not illuminated by the full light of the sun.)
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The Indians of Waters are the fabulous beings who inhabit caves in Dominican Republic.
...amon colored skin. These beautiful women leave the waters on the nights of the full moon to detangle their long hair with gold combs.
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...guapa''' is a magical creature similar to a [[mermaid]] in the folklore of the Dominican Republic.
...e said to have brown skin and black eyes. With smooth, glossy hair flowing the length of their naked bodies, covering them as if it a long beautiful gown.
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The '''Strong Toad''' is a magical amphibian from Chilean folklore.
...ike a firefly. Its skin is so strong that it is almost impossible to kill. The only known way to destroy a Strong Toad is to burn it thoroughly, reducing
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The '''Blues''' are an alleged race of Extraterrestrial humanoids.
The Blues are said to have translucent skin, large almond shaped eyes extremely sensitive to light and small of stature
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...enes." Every era, the Noah are resurrected through reincarnation to assist the Earl.
...Noah's human body can be destroyed after suffering enough physical trauma. The Noah will reincarnate into another body in time.
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...s described as being so hideous that his presence makes fish boil alive in the rivers.
...h no neck and :several eyes covering their entire bulk. Has dark, hardened skin that :feels like rock when touched. Almost indestructible."
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...ailed ego that has released its powerful grip obscuring the 'qualities' of the Sadhaka.
...Vajrakilaya's faces are round and small compared to the tall body. Despite the large fangs and bulging eyes and his wrathful appearance, Vajrakilaya is pe
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[[Image:swan maiden.jpg|thumb|In the Völundarkviða, Wayland Smith and his brothers marry valkyries who dress i
The '''swan maidens''' were Welsh fees who could transform themselves into swan
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The six-legged salamander or ''salamandra ignis'', is a special salamander with
...eans the salamander needs many changes. This is why it has flame-resistant skin and tongue,long tail for balance and,three pair of legs to quickly scatter
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...'' (shark man in Japanese) is a creature that appears in "The Gratitude of the Samebito", a short story by Lafcadio Hearn.
It is described as a humanoid with inky black skin, emerald green eyes, a face like a demon's, and a beard like a dragon's.
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...ve been a Countess who lived in a castle called the Chateau de Deux-Forts. The story goes as follows:
...could not be removed. The next morning, much to the Comtesse's annoyance, the ugly spot was still there. If anything, it looked as if it had grown a litt
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...es as the patriarchal Moses, whose staff transformed into a snake to prove the power of God over that wielded by Egyptian priests.
.... He is considered to be the loa of creation and father of all the rest of the loa.
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The '''tilberi''' or '''Snakkur''' is an amazing magical creature of Iceland.
The tilberi is a worm-like creature with one mouth on each end.
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...cember 8, 1936) were pygopagus conjoined twins from the island of Samar in the Philippines.
...l tissue; in fact their join was so flexible that one could lie down while the other stood. Male pygopagus twins are extremely rare; most are stillborn or
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...''The Two-Headed Mexican'', was a performer with the Sells-Floto Circus in the early 1900s.
...always situated upside-down on top of the main head, as is the case with [[The Two Headed Boy of Bengal]].
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The '''hair beast''' or Hair Demon is a demonic beast in the foklore of Korea
...is city had to coat their hair in deers blood every night before sunset or the Hair Beast could get them. Those that couldn't would wake up tomorrow with
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Chaucer may have borrowed the French word ''chichifache'' (thin face) to coin ''chichevache'' (thin or me
...as reputedly fat and plump because of the plentiful supply of such men. In the ''Mystère de Sainte-Geneviève'', it is said that Chicheface was mean beca
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...Book of Imaginary Beings''. Borges claimed that he had found the legend in the book ''On Malay Witchcraft'' (1937), by C.C. Iturvuru.
...hich is the most beautiful landscape in the world. The Á Bao A Qu waits on the first step for a man brave enough to try to climb up.
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'''Silky''' is a fairy spirit of Northumberland in England, around the village of Black Heddon.
...m, accompanying them for a short while, rustling her silks (reminiscent of the glaistig) before disappearing just as suddenly. Many a late traveller was l
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...that visit Earth. They derive their name from the fact that they resemble the Scandinavians.
Some individuals have suggested that because of the Nordic's similar physical appearance to humans that they could possibly be
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[[Image:Yara-ma-yha-who.jpg|thumb|The Yara-ma-yha-who]]
The '''Yara-ma-yha-who''' is a little vampiric furry creature from the Australian Aboriginal folklore.
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...dieval legend, '''Ceridwen''' was an enchantress, who was said to possess the cauldron of Poetic Inspiration (Awen).
...es, she had two children representing dark and light aspects emerging from the One Goddess her daughter '''Crearwy''' being light and beautiful, and her s
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A '''Nachzehrer''' is a sort of ghoul in the folklore of Northern Germany.
...e northern region of Germany, including Silesia and Bavaria, and also with the Kashubes of Northern Europe.
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...the fact that the Umibozu is said to have a large, round head, resembling the shaven heads of Buddhist monks.
Umibozu are believed to be drowned priests, and exhibit the shaven head and typically appears to be praying.
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The '''Pleiadians''' are a collective of extraterrestrials from the star system Pleiades.
...ten planets that circle their sun, Tayget. Other pleiadians would live on the planets Semjase, Ptaah and Quetzal.
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...nd to have eaten the liver of her victims. She supposedly haunted areas in the Appalachian Mountains, where she is said to still inhabit today.
...y much like an old woman, excepting that her whole body was covered with a skin as hard as a rock that no weapon could wound or penetrate, and that on her
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'''Moqwaio''' is a wolf spirit and the lord of the Dead in Menominee mythology
Moqwaio is usually represented in the physical form of a wolf.
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[[Image:bownessie.jpg|thumb|A snap of the creature taken on a camera-phone by Tom Pickles in February 2011 ]]
...w-Nessie''' is a sea serpent similar to [[Nessie]] that allegedly lives in the waters of Lake Windermere in England. Eight sightings have been recorded si
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The '''Pukwudgies''' are troll-like creatures that haunt the forests of New England.
...sachusetts and Southern New England and has been sighted until recently in the area of Cape Cod.
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...d in a cave, who mothered with her mate [[Typhon]] every major monster in the Greek mythos.
...ts were attacking the vines (Kerenyi 1951, p 51f). Echidna as protector of the vineyard perhaps.
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...salamander somewhat in appearance, but makes its home in fires, the hotter the better. Its alleged resistance to fire was such that it lived in volcanoes.
[[Image:Salamander.jpg|thumb|The crowned salamander of François 1er]]
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[[Image:Noppera-bo.gif|200px|thumb|The Noppera-bō]]
The '''Noppera-bō''' (のっぺら坊) is a kind of faceless ghost in Japanese
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...specific to Britanny (France). There are several types, some of which are the Korils, Poulpikans, Teuz, and Kornikaned.
...their name change according to the place they are supposed to guard. Among the other names, there are ''kornandon, ozigan, nozigan, torrigan, viltañs, po
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...“ruler”. "Wide wandering," would then refers to the moon traveling across the sky.
...lovely Thaleia, from whose eyes as they glanced flowed love that :unnerves the limbs: and beautiful is their glance beneath their brows. - Theogony (ll. 9
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...rtant deities of Nepal, sacred to Hindus and Buddhists alike. According to the Puranas, it was this aspect that severed Brahman's fifth head.
[[Image:Bhairava.jpg|thumb|Bhairava's image in the Durbar Square, Kathmandu]]
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[[Image:skin-walker.jpg|thumb|A modern rendering.]]
...an who is able to shapeshift into various animal forms through witchcraft. Skin-walkers are generally considered frightening, evil, dangerous, and difficul
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...ludde''', or '''Kleure''', is a malicious spirit or [[goblin]] which roams the Flemish countryside.
...n]] that had escaped from Hell, a [[werewolf]], or even a manifestation of the [[Devil]].
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[[Image:selkie_1.jpg|thumb|The selkie]]
...ently originated on the Orkney Islands, where ''selch'' or ''selk''(ie) is the Scots word for ''seal'' (from Old English ''seolh'').
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'''Julia Pastrana''' (1834–25 March 1860), also kown as ''the ape woman'', was a Mexican woman born with hypertrichosis and a sideshow pe
Pastrana, an indigenous Mexican, was born in 1834, somewhere in the Sierra of Sinaloa State. Her ears and nose were unusually large and her tee
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...o have played an instrumental role in the fall of Rome. It originates from the [[Book of Imaginary Beings]] by [[Jorge Luis Borges]].
...r light blue in color. Its skin cannot be pierced by any known weapon, and the creatures themselves are invulnerable and possibly immortal, or at least ve
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...an hybrid fairy creature from the Northern Scottish (Orkney) folklore from the Fuath family.
...as sometimes indistinguishable with its own body. Some storytellers merged the two monsters so that rider and horse become one - a vile hybrid of man and
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...ry kind of elf popular in folklore around Scotland and England (especially the north).
Tiny, shaggy-looking man with wrinkled brown skin about 25 inches in height. They wear little ragged suits of green, blue, or
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...laced the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur.
...ible. This translation was later appropriated in the King James Version of the Bible.
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...or [[death]] of the victim. From [[mythology]] and fantasy, [[Lilith]] and the [[Lilin]] (Jewish), [[Lilith|Lilitu]] (Sumerian) and [[Rusalka]] (Slavic) w
...gnate women. Children so begotten were supposed to be more susceptible to the influence of demons.
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...s''' (or '''Greys''') are alleged extraterrestrial beings, named for their skin color.
...unter and are able to provide detailed reports of the grey beings anatomy. The information about these creatures varies from source to source.
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...ed with specific real-life persons, such as serial killer [[Albert Fish]]. The term ''bogeyman'' is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of
...or under the bed). The bogeyman is said to lurk like this and then attack the sleeper.
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...ginal novel — Frankenstein was the name of the creature's creator, and not the monster itself.
..., and completely unaware of who or what he is, the monster wanders through the wildnerness searching for someone who would understand and shelter him.
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...''king of the serpents''', is a fabulous beast which has been depicted as the most dangerous serpent that ever existed on Earth.
...eged to be hatched by a cockerel from the egg of a serpent (the reverse of the cockatrice, which is hatched from a hen's egg incubated by a serpent's nest
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...ies of Northern England and Lowland Scotland, associated with spinning and the spinning wheel.
...s ''Scantlie Mab''. Habetrot spun yarn for a local girl and then convinced the girl's new husband that she should never spin again.
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The '''tatzelwurm''' is a dragon-like beast and cryptid reported from the Alps mountains areas covering part of Austria, Bavaria and Switzerland.
...s, possibly juveniles, are considerably smaller. Local folklore holds that the Tatzelwurm is able to defend itself by expelling poisonous fumes that are c
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[[Image:Cynocephali.jpg|thumb|A cynocephalus. From the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).]]
The '''Cynocephali''' are dog-headed bipedal creatures in the mythologies of Europe, India and China.
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...e real creatures, mainstream scientists and experts generally contend that the chupacabra is a mythological creature, or a type of urban legend.
...o Pérez, who intended the name to be a joke. This claim is doubtful, since the word had already been used in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park,
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[[Image:changeling.jpg|thumb|Henri Fuseli 'The Changeling' 1780]]
...for this conduct stems from the desire to have a human servant (domestic), the love of a human child, or from malice. Some people believed that trolls wo
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...nits (PRU) of RAF Benson, Wick and St Eval. The story attempted to explain the accidents which often occurred during their flights.
...author of the first article was Hubert Griffith, although he suggests that the stories have been in wide circulation for some time and are very well known
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...1703), about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master.
...he fictional Marquis of Carabas. The cat continues making gifts of game to the king for several months.
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...s is more a reflection of fiction's influence than an authentic feature of the folk [[legend]]s. Werewolves are sometimes held to become [[vampire]]s afte
==Origins and variations of the word==
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Similarly to the other [[cryptid]]s, no one has produced proof of the existence of reptilian humanoids, and allegations of their existence can at
...mmon are the myths of "Serpents of Wisdom" who enlightened humanity before the dawn of civilization; but it has been noted by mythologists that here "serp
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...Spriggans, Welsh Knockers, Cornish Knockers, German Kobolds and Wichtlein, the Irish Phooka and even Shakespeare's infamous Puck .
...to some traditions, ''goblin'' comes from ''Gob'' or ''Ghob'', the king of the [[gnome|gnomes]], whose inferiors were called ''Ghob-lings''.
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...n modern fantasy literature and role-playing games, trolls are featured to the extent of being stock characters.
The meaning of the word ''troll'' is uncertain. It might have had the originally meaning of ''supernatural'' or ''Magic'' with an overlay of ''ma
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...ns) from numerous organic components. The term is often used to illustrate the functioning of a system.
...id in the ground surrounded by horse manure for forty days, at which point the embryo would form.
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...although these fictional depictions often do not bear much resemblance to the original mythology.
The word “Wendigo” (pronounced wehn-dee-go) comes from the Native American Algonquian language, meaning “evil spirit that devours ma
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'''Anansi''' (/əˈnɑːnsi/ ə-nahn-see) the trickster is the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.
...He is also known as Ananse, Kwaku Ananse, Kweku Ananse, and Anancy; and in the southern United States he has evolved into Aunt Nancy. He is a spider, but
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[[Image:daleknew.jpg|right|thumb|200px|A Dalek from the 2005 series]]
...so, collectively, the greatest alien adversaries of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Their most infamous catchphrase is "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!", with each syl
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