'''[[Dragon]]s''' are large and powerful mythological creatures that appears throughout the world's cultures.
== Mythological dragons ==
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=Mythological creatures=
'''Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures and Fabulous Beasts'''
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==Mythological creatures==
==Fictional creatures==
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'''Rompo''' is a mythological hybrid creature found in India and Africa.
* Matthews, John and Caitlin. The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures. Pg 486. Sterling Publishing. 2006. ISBN 140273543X. Online. March 13, 2008
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...y XI there is a race of beastmen known as Qiqirin. They are funny rat-like creatures, roughly three feet tall. They are known for the over-pronunciation of the
[[Category:Mythological dogs]]
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[[Image:Mboi Tui.jpg|thumb|Mythological Museum of Capiata, Uruguay]]
Mbói Tu'i literally translates to "snake-parrot" which describes this creatures appearance.
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...ira''' is a name applied to several mythological or otherwise supernatural creatures in South and Central American Folklore.
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...eatures. The Fenghuang is the king of birds, while the Vermilion Bird is a mythological spirit creature of the Chinese constellations.
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...ppocamp''' or '''hippocampus''', often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology.
They were depicted as hybrid creatures with the head and fore-parts of a horse and the serpentine tail of a fish.
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...ject or person. Shades are sometimes thought of as strange or mythological creatures with powerful abilities, and are a commonly used phenomenon in literature a
In various games and books, shades are creatures that can control shadow movement to darken a room, engulf a creature, or ev
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...ye and one tooth among one another and were believed to be hideous looking creatures.
In one mythological story King Polydectes sent Perseus off to bring back the head of Medusa, on
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...rom Yucatec language, plur. aluxo'ob) is a type of sprite or spirit in the mythological tradition of certain Maya peoples from the Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemala
...also be enticed to move somewhere through offerings. Their description and mythological role are somewhat reminiscent of other sprite-like mythical entities in a n
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'''Werehyenas''' are mythological creatures capable of assuming the shape of hyenas. They are present in the stories of
...in his writings in ''Hawayan Al-Koubra'' (1406) that hyenas were vampiric creatures that attacked people at night and sucked the blood from their necks. Arab f
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'''Amphisbaena''' (plural: amphisbaenae) also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.
According to Greek mythology, the mythological amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from Medusa the Gorgon'
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...Triton's name and image came to be associated with a class of merman-like creatures, the Tritons, which could be male or female, and usually formed the escort
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An '''imp''' is a mythological being similar to a fairy, frequently described in folklore and superstition
They are usually described as lively dark, shadowy creatures having small stature. They are usually, but not invariably, assigned male g
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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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...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-
...ing said to have the ability to feed off the "life force " of other living creatures (Other terms for these persons are '''pranic vampire''', '''empathic vampir
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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
'''Satyrs''' are mythological nature entities that roamed the woods and mountains, and were the companion
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...'''diwata''' or '''encantada''' is a mythological figure similar to fairy creatures.
[[Category:Fairy creatures]]
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