=Mythological creatures=
'''Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures and Fabulous Beasts'''
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...firm eyewitness accounts are available, they have been described as small creatures, either birds or mammals. It is certain that they wear gems on their forehe
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...an obscure word. One translator interprets it as a "swarm of three-headed creatures"; Whitley Stokes offered a "monstrous triple-headed bird" (Old Irish én, "
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The '''Chickcharney''' or '''chickcharnie''' is a fabulous creature that lives in the forests of Andros Island in the Bahama Islands.
Chickcharnies are supposed to be forest-dwelling elfin creatures resembling birds, furry or feathered and rather ugly looking. Their nesting
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...rpent found in European heraldry. It derives from the '''[[Jaculus]]''', a fabulous snake that is said to guard Frankincense trees in Arabia.
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...sharp that they could cut down trees, a skill which came in handy when the creatures prey would use their climbing skills as a means of escaping the voracious p
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...ang Di a guide to the forms and habits of all 11,520 types of supernatural creatures in the world, and how to tame and exorcise the bad ones and deal with the g
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The '''Fauna of Mirrors''' are a mythical race of creatures in Chinese mythology. They are described in the [[Book of Imaginary Beings]
...ther sea creatures. The Fish, in some versions of the tale a leader of the creatures, is a shimmering animal visible deep in mirrors that is impossible to catch
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The '''glashtin''' is fabulous creature and a shapeshifter in the folklore of the Isle of Man.
...is likely to arise out of joy not fear and some people suspect that these creatures may actually cause harsh weather. They get very riled up with thunderstorms
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They were depicted as hybrid creatures with the head and fore-parts of a horse and the serpentine tail of a fish.
...iled goat). The last was the form of the constellation Capricorn. Fabulous creatures of this type were also believed to inhabit the Indian Ocean.
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The '''Ropen''' or '''kor''' is a fabulous creature and a flying cryptid in the Umboi and Manus islands near Papua New
..."indava." Paul Nation believed the lights were from the bioluminescence of creatures similar to the ropen of Umboi Island. The video was analyzed by a missile d
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...were referred to as "Qilins". The Emperor proclaimed the giraffes magical creatures, whose capture signalled the greatness of his power.
The Qilin is the lord of all beasts or hairy creatures (mammals), while the [[Phoenix]] represents the feathered, Man the naked, t
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The '''Makara''' is a fabulous beast in Hindu mythology close to the water horse with the body of a fish a
Makara is linked to other mysterious water creatures such as the Kelpie, the Silkie and the Seahorse because of certain common c
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'''Satyrs''' in [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] are woodland creatures depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a
As Dionysiac creatures they are lovers of wine, women and boys, and are ready for every physical p
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...f this little lamb was described as being "very white." Once hatched these creatures could only attain maturity if their umbilical "stem" remained attached to i
as fabulous, the accounts of it were confirmed to me by so many
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...lonian art was consistent over many centuries, while those of mythological creatures changed, sometimes drastically, over the years. He also noted that the sirr
...ylonian reconstruction of sauropod remains. The griffin and other mythical creatures may have been based on similar reconstructions by this reasoning. However,
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The '''Peryton''' or '''Perytion''' is a fabulous animal that came from the lost continent of Atlantis and was aaid to have p
...ght blue in color. Its skin cannot be pierced by any known weapon, and the creatures themselves are invulnerable and possibly immortal, or at least very long-li
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