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The lamassu was a human-headed winged bull or lion in the Sumerian, Akkadian and other Babylonian folklore.
Lamassu, refers to a protective deity, who wards off evil spirits...
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Futakuchi-onna is the Japanese woman with two mouths.
This monster is monsterhas got two mouth; a normal one located on her face and second one on the back of the head beneath the hair.
There, the woman’s skull can split apart and form lips, teeth and a tongue, creating a monstrous second mouth...
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The primeval cow on whose milk the Giant Ymir fed.
She was created from the melting ice at the beginning of time.
She sustained herself by licking the salt and hoar frost from the ice of Niflheim.
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Little dwarf men from the Abenaki folklore.
This mischievous dwarfish race can increase or decrease body size at will....
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Dragon of Ladon is a great creature from the folklore of Greece and Rome.
This mighty serpent-like dragon has an enormous body with many heads each with a pair of fiery eyes...
It guards the golden apples of Greek legend...
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Johul is a Scandinavian Frost Giant whose name means ‘Glacier’.
He is the son of Thrym and sibling ot Frosti, ...
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A faun is a place-spirit (genie) of untamed woodland.
Fauns have horns and goats below the waist, humans above...
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Feng and huang are supernatural Chinese birds that reign over all other birds.
The males are called Feng and the females Huang.
In modern times, however, such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and the Feng and Huang are blurred into a single feminine entity so that the bird can be paired with the Chinese dragon, which has male connotations.
The Fenghuang is also called the "August Rooster" since it sometimes takes the place of the Rooster in the Chinese Zodiac.
In the West, it is commonly referred to as the Chinese Phoenix.
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THE HARPYIAI (or Harpies) were the spirits of sudden, sharp gusts of wind.
They had the bodies of birds sometimes with hag like faces, drooping breasts, bear’s ears and clawed tal...
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Persephone was titled Kore (the Maiden) as the icon of spring’s bounty.
Once upon a time when she was playing in a elaborate meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was grabbed by Haides and carried off to the underworld as his bride.
Her mother Demeter despaired at her dissappearance and searched for her the throughout the world complemented by the goddess Hekate bearing torches.
When she discovered that Zeus had conspired in her daughter’s abduction she was furious, and declined to let the earth fruit until Persephone was returned....
More: http://www.paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Persephone.html http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/PersephoneGoddess.html
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Also known as a unipeg, alicorn, winged unicorn, horned pegasus, portmanteaus unipeg and unisus is a breed of the pegasus and unicorn.
That is an equine/horse with a set of wings and a horn.
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unipeg http://wiki.avirtualhorse.com/wagn/Unipeg
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The Indian Cartazonon and the Cartazoon were sometimes linked as the same thing, based on name and location, but they look drastically different.....
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Jaguar man is lycanthrope shapeshifter from the folklore of the Olmec people (Mesoamerica).
This werejaguar prey upon humans at night...
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In Irish-Celtic folklore, the Tuatha Dé Danann ("People of the goddess Danu") are the Irish race of gods, founded by the goddess Danu.
These gods, who originally lived on 'the islands in the west', had perfected the use of magic.
They traveled on a big cloud to the land that later would be called Ireland and settled there.
Shortly after their arrival they defeated the Firbolg at the first battle of...
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Arimaspians or Armisapi are One-eyed, shaggy-haired tough cyclop-warriors of northern Scythia that fought off winged griffon like creatures for gold...
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The Hombre del Saco, or Sack Man is a variation of the evil bogeyman that hails from Spain.
This creature sppears as a humanoid with a sack on his back to get the naughty children and never give them back...
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Deerman is a half-human and half-deer who is said to reside in the area around Johnson Sauk Trail State Park.
Deerman is described as a creature with the upper body and partial torso of an antlered buck deer and the legs and lower torso of a man.
Deerman walks upright and as legend has it, comes out at night to often scare young couples who go to the park for some, shall we say, alone time....
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A fire-breathing creature, which, according to the Homeric poems, was of divine origin.
The fore part of her body was that of a lion, and the hind part that of a dragon, while the middle was that of a goat.
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THE NAIADES are fresh-water Nymphs who inhabit the rivers, streams, lakes, marshes, fountains and springs of the earth.
The essence of a naiad was bound to her spring, so if a naiad's body of water dried, she would die...
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The dryads are the beautiful tree-nymphs; very closely associated with trees and each dryad has a particular tree with which she herself is closely linked.
The dryads live close to these trees always but they do not live in the tree.
A subclass of these demigoddesses is well known as the hamadryads and they were always associated with a particular tree and it is these nymphs who live within the tree itself....
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NIKE (or Nicé) was the winged goddess or spirit (daimon) of victory, both in battle and peaceful competition in Greece.
Nike was appointed his charioteer, and all four were appointed as sentinels standing beside the throne....
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Gulltoppr is mighty Norse horse of Heimdal* with a mane of gold.
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Also known as the water horse in Wales. Although he has no wings, he is able to fly.
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The kelpie is a supernatural water horse from Celtic folklore that is believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland and Ireland.....
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