He invented and illustrated many monsters and creatures such as the doubtful guest, prune people, wuggly ump, zote, yawfle, xyke, w
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...omparable to the [[bogeyman]], [[bogey]], bugaboo, [[hobgoblin]] and other creatures of folklore. According to Webster's Dictionary, a bugbear is "an imaginary
In a modern context, the term serves as a metaphor for something which is annoying or i
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...being. In modern English today, it is also used in fiction for human-like creatures.
...h ''wicht'', German ''Wicht'', Old Norse ''vættir'' and Swedish ''vätte''. Modern German ''Wicht'' means "small person, dwarf", and also "unpleasant person";
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...Paul Wilson's novels, the '''rakoshi''' (singular: rakosh) are demon-like creatures from ancient India.
...aces, forged from iron and set with a pair of yellow stones resembling the creatures eyes, which healed them, prolonged their lives, and rendered them invisible
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...rare, instead their presence were most often announced by evidence of the creatures’ activity. It was believed the bending of the grass, the rustling sounds
== Seelie and Unseelie used in Modern Day Writing. ==
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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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==='''Serpents, dragons and fantastic creatures'''===
...d snakes of the first creation myths to the legendary hybrid and fantastic creatures
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...It is also considered to be involved in a family called the "ballybogs". A modern rendition of the Bogle is the [[Bogeyman]]. There is also a cognate term in
...thouse describes those of north Lancashire and Cumbria as ‘spine-chilling’ creatures, which could appear as ‘a light, a ball of fire, a ghostly shape, a phant
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...estern Serbia, Šumadija and in Kosovo. Also belief in Drekavac and similar creatures (Bukavac) was well spread in Vojvodina and Slavonia.
...proportionately large head; yet another is that it is some kind of bird; a modern find of supposed drekavac body looked like a dog or a fox, but with hind le
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...ther it is being used to describe spirit companions. They have passed into modern folklore in the Yucatán Peninsula, as huayes in Mexican Spanish, evil spir
...dor Pedro de Alvarado. Ceramics from most major Classic Maya cities depict creatures that were the wayob of the ruling lord.
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...; pinyin: jiāngshī) are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence (气/氣qì) from their victims.
...rn vampire stories brought the blood-sucking aspect to the Chinese myth in modern times.
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==Modern References==
[[Category:Fairy creatures]]
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...that tsukumogami are said to be repelled by electricity. Additionally, few modern items are used for the 100-year-span that it takes for an artifact to gain
...ular artist is Toriyama Sekien, but other numerous artists added their own creatures to the list of tsukumogami. Folk narratives about tsukumogami are rare but
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...eing said to have the ability to feed off the "life force" of other living creatures. The concept appears in the mythologies of many cultures, just as do blood-
===Modern Belief===
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The '''Heinzelmännchen''' are a race of fairy creatures similar to [[kobold]]s appearing in a tale connected with the city of Colog
Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods features a modern adaptation of Hinzelmann as who sacrifices children in order to protect his
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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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...er, the Pombero is said to be able to imitate the sounds of various forest creatures. Many witnesses of the Pombero say that he is usually heard whistling befor
==Modern beliefs==
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...Jenny Nyström]]'s Christmas-themed tomte paintings, a popular image of the modern tomte]]
...t was wise to shout a warning to the tomte below. Like many other mythical creatures, one was also required to please him with gifts – a particular gift was a
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People living around the volcano told him a consistent story of the hairy creatures that devoured whatever they could grasp in their long fingers. The villager
==Modern searchings==
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...ng, both the mounds and the supernatural entities became known as the síd, modern Irish sídhe.
[[Category:Fairy creatures]]
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