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| x A-senee-ki-wakw |
The A-senee-ki-wakw are a race of stone giants in Abenaki mythology. They were the first race created by Gluskab. However, because they crushed so many animals and injured the earth with their great size and weight, Gluskab destroyed them.
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| x A Bao A Qu |
Á Bao A Qu is a Malayan legend described in Jorge Luis Borges's 1967 Book of Imaginary Beings. Borges claimed that he had found the legend in the book On Malay Witchcraft (1937), by C.C. Iturvuru.
The Á Bao A Qu lived in the Tower of Victory in...
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| x Abath |
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An Abath is a mythical creature resembling a unicorn, first appearing in records in the 16th centuary.
Accounts of the Abath were brought back by 16th-century European travellers to the Malay Peninsula. Described as female, with a single horn...
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| x Abyzou |
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In the myth and folklore of the Near East and Europe, Abyzou is the name of a female demon. Abyzou was blamed for miscarriages and infant mortality and was said to be motivated by envy (Greek phthonos), as she herself was infertile. In the Jewish...
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| x Agta |
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An Agta (sometimes associated to Kapre) is a Philippine mythical creature described as tall, brown, and hairy, and usually portrayed as smoking and drinking tuba wine. As to why a cave in the southeastern town of Argao in Cebu should be named Balay...
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| x Aigamuxa |
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Aigamuxa is a legendary creature from Khoikhoi mythology.
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| x Al-mi'raj |
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The Al-mi'raj is a mythical beast from Islamic poetry said to live on a mysterious island called Jezîrat al-Tennyn within the confines of the Indian Ocean . Its name can be broken up several different ways, though is generally seem truncated as Mi...
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| x Alû |
Alû is one of the Utukku, vengeful spirits in the lore of the ancient Assyrians. According to Pamela Allardice, they were feared more greatly than death itself. She describes Alû as "a horrid phantom of a leprous man with an arm and a leg missing."...
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| x Amorōnagu |
Amorōnagu (天降女子, "girl who fell from heaven"), is a tennyo (celestial maiden) from the folklore of the island of Amami Ōshima, in Kagoshima prefecture. She bathes in pools and waterfalls in ravines.
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| x Aobōzu |
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Aobōzu is a legendary creature from Japanese mythology.
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| x Apotamkin |
The Apotamkin is a bogeyman creature in Native American mythology. One interpretation of Apotamkin is that it is a myth used to instill fear into children from venturing into areas alone and without parental guidance.
The Apotamkin is sometimes...
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| x Axex |
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Axex is a legendary creature from Egyptian mythology.
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| x Bake-kujira |
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Bake-kujira is a legendary creature from Japanese mythology.
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| x Bakezouri |
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Bakezōri (化け草履) is a creature from Japanese folklore. It is a straw zōri sandal which has been transformed into a tsukumogami, a yōkai (spirit creature) which was once an ordinary household item. It runs through the house and chants "kararin,...
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| x Banshee |
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The Banshee (pronounced /ˈbænʃiː/, BAN-shee), from the Irish bean sídhe [bʲæn ˈʃiː] ("woman of the síde" or "woman of the fairy mounds") is a female spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld. Her...
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| x Betobeto-san |
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Betobeto-san is a legendary creature from Japanese mythology.
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| x Bigfoot |
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Bigfoot descends, more or less, from wildmen stories of the indigenous population of the Pacific Northwest. Its origins are difficult to discern as the legends existed prior to a single name for the creature. The legends differed in their details...
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| x Binbōgami |
A binbōgami (貧乏神, lit. "kami of poverty") is a kami who inhabits a human or his house to bring misery and poverty. Several Japanese folklores, essays, and rakugos refer to it.
Generally, binbōgami appears with a skinny, dirty old man's shape, with...
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| x Black dog |
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A black dog is the name given to a being found primarily in the folklores of the British Isles. The black dog is essentially a nocturnal apparition, often said to be associated with the Devil, and its appearance was regarded as a portent of death....
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| x Bogeyman |
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The bogeyman (also spelled boogyman, bogyman, boogieman, boogey monster) is a legendary ghost-like monster. The bogeyman has no specific appearance and conceptions of the monster can vary drastically even from household to household within the same...
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| x Boi-tata |
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Boi-tatá (Portuguese pronunciation: [bojtaˈta]) is a monster from Brazilian folklore. Regionally it is called Boitatá, Baitatá, Batatá, Bitatá, Batatão, Biatatá, M'boiguaçu, Mboitatá and Mbaê-Tata. The name comes from the Old Tupi language and means...
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| x Candileja |
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The Candileja is a legendary creature from Colombian folklore. It's the spirit of a vicious old woman damned to travel around the world surrounded by flames.
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| x Ceffyl-Dwr |
In Welsh folklore, a Ceffyl dŵr is a water horse similar to the Kelpie.
The water horse is known in the traditions of many countries. In Wales he's called the Ceffyl dŵr and although he has no wings he is able to fly. He may be seen above a pool or...
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Hundun (Chinese: 混沌; pinyin: Hùndùn; Wade-Giles: Hun-tun; literally "muddled confusion") is both a "legendary faceless being" in Chinese mythology and the "primordial and central chaos" in Chinese cosmogony, comparable with the World egg.
Hundun 混沌...
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| x Chinese dragon |
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Chinese dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore, with mythic counterparts among Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Turkic dragons. In Chinese art, dragons are typically portrayed as long, scaled, serpentine creatures with...
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Chinese guardian lions, also called Fu (Foo) Lions, lions of Buddha, or sometimes stone lions (石獅, Pinyin: Shíshī) in Chinese art, are a common representation of the lion in pre-modern China, which is believed to have powerful mythic protective...
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| x Chitauli |
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Chitauli is a legendary creature from Zulu mythology.
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| x Chochinobake |
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Chōchin'obake (提灯お化け, "paper lantern ghost") are a type of Tsukumogami, a form of Japanese spirit that originate from objects reaching their 100th year of existence, thus becoming animate. Chōchin'obake in particular are created from the chōchin...
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| x Chupacabra |
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The Chupacabra or Chupacabras (pronunciation: /tʃupa'kabɾa/, from the Spanish words chupar, meaning "to suck", and cabra, meaning "goat"; literally "goat sucker"), also called El Chupacabras in Spanish, is a legendary cryptid rumored to inhabit...
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| x Cinnamon bird |
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The cinnamon bird, also known as Cinnamologus, Cinomolgus and Cynnamolgus, is a mythical creature described in various bestiaries as a giant bird that collected cinnamon to build its nests.
According to Herodotus in his The History, the cinnamon...
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| x Cirein-cròin |
Ceirean, Cirein-cròin or cionarain-crò was a large sea monster in Scottish Gaelic folklore. An old saying claims that it was so large that it fed on seven whales:
According to Forbes, "[In another saying] cionarain-cro here is substituted, as Avill...
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| x Cockatrice |
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A cockatrice is a legendary creature, resembling a large rooster with a lizard-like tail, "an ornament in the drama and poetry of the Elizabethans" Laurence Breiner described it; "the cockatrice, which no one ever saw, was born by accident at the...
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| x Criosphinx |
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Criosphinx is a legendary creature from Egyptian mythology.
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| x Cuélebre |
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Cuélebre, or Culebre, is a giant winged serpent (a dragon) of the Asturian and Cantabrian mythology, that lives in a cave, guards treasures and keeps xanas as prisoners. Although they are immortal, they grow old as the time goes by and their scales...
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| x Căpcăun |
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A Căpcăun is a creature in Romanian folklore, depicted as an ogre who kidnaps children or young ladies (mostly princesses). It represents evil, as do its counterparts Zmeu and the Balaur. The Romanian word appears to have meant "Dog-head" (căp being...
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| x Cŵn Annwn |
In Welsh mythology and folklore, Cŵn Annwn (pronounced /ˌkuːn ˈænʊn/, "hounds of Annwn") were the spectral hounds of Annwn, the otherworld of Welsh myth. They were associated with a form of the Wild Hunt, presided over by Gwynn ap Nudd (rather than...
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| x Daidarabotchi |
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Daidarabotchi is a legendary creature from Japanese mythology.
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| x Daitengu |
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Daitengu is a legendary creature from Japanese mythology.
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| x Dark elf |
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Dark elves (Old Norse: Dökkálfar, usually called the Svartálfar "black elves") are known as a class of elves living underground in Old Norse mythology, the counterparts to the Ljósálfar ("Light-elves"). They are very similar to dwarfs as they mainly...
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In religion, folklore, and mythology a demon (or daemon, daimon from Greek: δαίμων daimōn) is a supernatural being that is generally described as a malevolent spirit. A demon is frequently depicted as a force that may be conjured and insecurely...
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| x Drac |
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Drac is a legendary creature from French mythology.
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A Dwarf is a creature from Germanic mythologies, fairy tales, fantasy fiction, and role-playing games. It usually has magical talents, often involving metallurgy.
The original concept of Dwarves is very difficult to determine. Sources have gradually...
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Ebu Gogo are a group of human-like creatures that appear in the mythology of the people of the island of Flores, Indonesia. In the Nage language of central Flores, ebu means 'grandmother' and gogo means 'he who eats anything'.
The Nage people of...
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| x Echeneis |
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An echeneis is a legendary creature described in medieval bestiaries. It is a described as a fish that is half a foot in length. It is said to latch on to ships, holding them back. They are said to be found in the Indian Ocean
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| x Ekek |
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In Philippine mythology, Ekek (or Ek Ek) are creatures who are bird-like humans. They are winged-humans who search for victims at night. They hunger for flesh and blood. They are usually described by old folks as flying creatures that look like the...
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An elf (plural elves) is a being of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine or semi-divine beings (wights, vættir) endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind. In...
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The Elwetritsch (also spelled Elwedritsch) is a cryptid or mythical creature that supposedly inhabits the Palatinate of Germany. It is described as being a chicken-like creature with antlers.It also has scales instead of Feathers. The Elwedritsch...
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| x Emela-ntouka |
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The Emela-ntouka is an African legendary creature in the mythology of the Pygmy tribes, and a cryptid purported to live in Central Africa. Its name is claimed to mean "killer of the elephants" in the Lingala language. In other languages it is...
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| x Enkō |
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Enkō is a legendary creature from Japanese mythology.
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| x Erinyes |
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In Greek mythology the Erinýes (Ἐρινύες, pl. of Ἐρινύς, Erinýs; lit. "the angry ones") or Eumenídes (Εὐμενίδες, pl. of Εὐμενίς; lit. "the gracious ones") or Furies in Roman mythology were female, chthonic deities of vengeance or supernatural...
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European dragons are legendary creatures in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe.
In European folklore, a dragon is a serpentine legendary creature. The Latin word draco, as in constellation Draco, comes directly from...
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A fairy (also faery, faerie, fay, fae; euphemistically wee folk, good folk, people of peace, fair folk, etc.) is a type of mythological being or legendary creature, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural....
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The Fatu-liva is a fictional species of bird invented by George S. Chappell in his travel parody The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas, by Walter E. Traprock (1921). Fatu-liva were said to be found only in the fictional "Filbert...
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| x Firedrake |
Firedrake, in Teutonic mythology, is a fire-breathing reptilian creature, occasionally winged. It is much like the dragon.
In modern fantasy, "firedrake" is widely used for any fire-breathing dragon. From this usage, various other terms have been...
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Funayūrei (船幽霊, lit. "marine spirit") are spirits found in Japanese mythology. They are the ghosts of people who have perished at sea. They approach people on boats and ask to borrow a Hishaku (ja:柄杓), a utensil for scooping up water. If they are...
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| x Fur-bearing trout |
The fur-bearing trout (or furry trout) is a fictional creature native to the northern regions of North America, particularly Canada, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and the Great Lakes. The basic claim (or tall tale) is that the waters of lakes and...
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| x Fæcce |
A fetch is a supernatural double or apparition of a living person in Irish folklore. It is largely akin to the doppelgänger. Francis Grose associated the term with Northern England in his 1787 Provincial Glossary, but otherwise it seems to have been...
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| x Gaki |
In Japanese Buddhism, Gaki (￩ﾤﾓ￩ﾬﾼ, "hungry ghost") are the spirit of jealous or greedy people who, as punishment for their mortal vices, have been cursed with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object. Traditionally, this is...
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The word Gaṇa (Devanagari: गण), in Sanskrit, means "flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, series, class" (Monier Williams's dictionary). It can also be used to refer to a "body of attendants" and can refer to "a company, any assemblage or...
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In Arabic, a Djinn (also jinn, genie, from Arabic جني jinnī) is a supernatural creature which occupies a parallel world to that of mankind, and together with humans and angels makes up the three sentient creations of Allah. Possessing free will, a...
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