The '''epimacus''' or '''opinicus''' is a fabulous beast that belongs to the family of griffins.
In heraldry an opinicus is a beast with the body and four legs like a lion (whereas the griffin always has aqu
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...t''' (Russian: Индрик-зверь, transliteration: Indrik zver' ) is a fabulous beast, the king of all animals, who lives on a mountain known as "The Saint Mount
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'''Surma''' is a beast similar to Cerberus in the Finnish mythology of Kalevala.
Surma is a terrible beast that guards the gates of the Underworld or Tuonela to prevent escape. An of
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...m the 17th century, written by a local priest wich saw the 'fire breathing beast in the river Meuse (D: Maas)'.
A female beast with a human face, a collar of jester’s bells, pointed flappy ears as tho
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...ruelty and danger and therefore the shadhahvar was regarded as a dangerous beast.
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'''Carbuncle''', originally spelt "Carbunkel" is a term given to a mythical beast reportedly sighted in the Americas by early Spanish conquistadors.
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The name is derived from the Irish oll, "great", and péist, "worm, fabulous beast, monster, reptile". The Scottish Gaelic variant is called '''Uilepheist'''.
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[[Image:Gusukuma Portrait of the Sacred Beast Baize.jpg|thumb|Portrait of the Bai Ze on a Japanese picture scroll.]]
...; Wade-Giles: Pai Tse), or '''hakutaku''' (白沢) in Japanese, is a fantastic beast from Chinese legend which is said to advise only kings of virtue.
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...nce is subject to debate: some pretend its a three headed dragon, others a beast, others a bird, and some say it was not one but a whole swarm of three head
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The only way abate the Cherufe's appetite for destruction was to satiate the beast's taste for human flesh by throwing a sacrificial victim into the bowels of
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...rving is the first known physical representation of the Calopus, a similar beast existed in ancient Babylon, where it was sometimes called the Chatloup or t
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...'Al-mi'raj''' (generally truncated as Mi'raj or just Miraj) is a mythical beast from Islamic poetry said to live on a mysterious island called Jezîrat al
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The '''yale''' (also '''centicore''', Latin 'eale') is a mythical beast found in European mythology.
...tions vary according to bestiaries, it is viewed as being an antelope-like beast about the size of a horse with tusks, long horns, and the tail of a lion or
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The name of the beast is combined from the words "Bluat", meaning blood and "Schink", being thigh
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'''Sù''', or '''Succarath''' is a ferocious beast that lives in the cold, wild country at the tip of South America (Patagonia
...terrify its hunters, who coming close to the mouth of the pit, pierce the beast with their arrows."
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The '''three-legged bird''' (or '''tripedal bird''') is a fabulous creature usually associated with the sun that can be found in various mytho
...cient document called the Kojiki (古事記) where it was called upon to choke a beast attempting to devour the sun and as the protector to Emperor Jimmu. On many
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==The nature of the beast==
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...imes called the '''Shaggy Beast''' or '''La Velue''', is a [[dragon]]-like beast that terrorized the city of La Ferté-Bernard, France, in medieval times.
...t down and cut off its tail, in some versions of the story learning of the beast's weak spot through the aid of a local wise woman. This was the only vulner
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...d guard over the dead emperor's final resting place. Thus would the divine beast appear on the earthly plane, crouched over the tomb of the fallen king, eve
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...f India, Persia and North Africa. The karkadann was an extremely ferocious beast, driving away from its territory animals as big as the elephant.
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