Mythical Creatures Folklore Monsters

Medusa a disciple of athena who was turned into a gorgon.

Mythical creatures folklore monsters. It is first mentioned in the örvar oddr a 13th century icelandic saga involving two sea monsters the hafgufa sea mist and the lyngbakr heather back. According to scandinavian mythology the kraken is a giant sea creature said to be 1 mile 1 61 km long that attacks ships and is so huge that its body could be mistaken for an island. She had the hair of snakes and could turn men to stone with her gaze. Centaurs also known as ixionidae are mythical creatures in greek mythology with the torso and head of a human being and the body of a horse.

In arkansas folklore this tall shaggy monster has a knack for killing local livestock. As one of the most popular greek monsters in mythology centaurs are known as the children of nephele a cloud created in hera s image and ixion a king of lapiths the most ancient tribe of thessaly. This category contains all the beasts and strange creatures in mythology folklore and literature to add a category to this category add category mythological creatures to the bottom of the page other related categories are humanoids animals monsters and spirits creatures can also be referenced via culture. They were usually portrayed as capricious and often simply as evil.

Manticore a mythical beast with a lion s body and a human s head. After his death the gods decided to punish him and turned him into a flame ghost. He was an oil merchant who stole oil from an andon oil lamp set on the sacred ksitigarbha statue located at a crossroad. Water afanc amefurikozō aspidochelone bloody bones buggane bunyip camenae capricorn cetus charybdis chinese dragon crinaeae davy jones locker draug each uisge elemental fish people fur bearing trout gargouille grindylow haetae hippocamp hydra ichthyocentaur jasconius jengu kappa kelpie kraken lake.

Abura akago is a spirit from japanese folklore creatures that haunted the province of omi now known as the shiga prefecture. One of the most forbidding of all mythical creatures the manticore was a bloodthirsty quadruped that supposedly sported the head of a blue eyed man the auburn body of a lion and the stinging tail.