From legends of India, the '''Avalerion''' is a type of mythical bird that has common features wi
...ggs, the parents drown themselves. The Avalerion is rumored to be found in India.
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The Moslems of India call a '''Choorail''' the ghost of a pregnant woman.
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'''Ganga Lai''' and '''Gaura Bai''' (1911-1949) were conjoined twins, born in India.
Ganga Lai and Gaura Bai were born in Kankanahalli, Mysore, India, in 1911 and appeared at the Paris Exposition in 1931. On July 25, 1949,
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[[Image:yali.jpg|thumb|Sculpture of a Yali in South India.]]
...mple. Generally they are positioned on both sides of an entrance. In south India, it is very common to find the image of yalis on entrances of structures (l
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...akora and Chandra has given rise to a number of folk love stories in north India.
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Megasthenes places this race in
India, near the source of the Ganges river. According to him, their bodies are r
<blockquote>At the extreme boundary of
India to the East, near the source of the Ganges, he [the Greek historian Megasth
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*Chakravarti, Balaram (2000) ''A cultural history of the North-East India'': Assam Self Employment Bureau, Calcutta,
*Frawley, David (2001) ''The Rig Veda and the history of India: Rig Veda Bharata itihasa Aditya Prakashan'', New Delhi, ISBN 8177420399 ;
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...was a mythical unicorn-like creature said to live on the grassy plains of India, Persia and North Africa. The karkadann was an extremely ferocious beast, d
...e Kargadan. Ibn Battuta in his travelogue, calls the rhinoceros he saw in India karkadann.
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...es all the ghosts, goblins and vampires that haunt cemeteries and ruins in India.
...n Gunadhya's ''Brhat-katha'' written in Paisachi dialect from the south of India.
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...shami'' (East and South India), ''Dashain'' (Nepal) or ''Dussehra'' (North India) - these words literally mean "the tenth" (day), "vijaya” means "of-victo
...d of the worship however may be over the preceding nine days Navaratri (N. India) or five days such as in the Durga Puja, one of Bengal's biggest holidays.
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'''Rompo''' is a mythological hybrid creature found in India and Africa.
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The term '''gayal''' is used by the Punjab and some other regions of India to mean the revenant of a man who dies such circumstances as:
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...es in the dense forests of Karbi Anglong and adjacent areas of Nagaland in India.
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'''Shivshankari Yamanappa Mootageri''' of Karnataka, India, born in 1978. Her third leg is a fusion of two legs, possessing nine toes
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The '''leucrota''' is a swift beast that lives in India. It is a composite animal, the result of a mating between a crocotta and a
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...being called Harginn, still believed in by the inhabitants of Northwestern India.
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...entioned by Ctesias in his book India, a record of the view of Persians of India which only remains in fragments. Pliny describes Monopods as thus (Natural
...tise Against Hierocles. Apollonius of Tyana believes the Skiapodes live in India and Ethiopia, and asks the Indian sage Iarkhas about their existence.
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The 'Ta fang hsi-yu chi' by Hsuan-tsang (a Chinese scholar who wrote about India) tells the story of Apalala. Kasyapa Buddha was a man with the power to con
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Perumal was born in Madras, India in 1888 and his images are often mistaken for fellow prodigy Indian [[Laloo
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...they were just five to honor two sacred rivers that meet in the center of India, the Ganga and Jamuna rivers.
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