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Lists Of Legendary Creatures
The following is a list of lists of legendary creatures, beings and entities from the folklore record. Entries consist of legendary and unique creatures, not of particularly unique individuals of a commonly known species. Alphabetical lists * List of legendary creatures (A) * List of legendary creatures (B) * List of legendary creatures (C) * List of legendary creatures (D) * List of legendary creatures (E) * List of legendary creatures (F) * List of legendary creatures (G) * List of legendary creatures (H) * List of legendary creatures (I) * List of legendary creatures (J) * List of legendary creatures (K) * List of legendary creatures (L) * List of legendary creatures (M) * List of legendary creatures (N) * List of legendary creatures (O) * List of legendary creatures (P) * List of legendary creatures (Q) * List of legendary creatures (R) * List of legendary creatures (S) * List of legendary creatures (T) * List of legendary creatures (U) * List of legenda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, myths, legends, proverbs, Poetry, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also includes material culture, such as traditional building styles common to the group. Folklore also encompasses customary lore, taking actions for folk beliefs, including folk religion, and the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas, weddings, folk dances, and Rite of passage, initiation rites. Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a Cultural artifact, folklore artifact or Cultural expressions, traditional cultural expression. Just as essential as the form, folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts from one region to another or from one generation to the next. Folklore is not something one can typically gain from a formal school curriculum or study in the fine arts. Instead, thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Legendary Creatures (P)
# Paasselkä devils ( Finnish) – Spectral fire # Pakhangba (Meitei mythology and Sanamahism) – Serpentine dragon, ruler of the universe # Pamola (Abenaki) – Weather spirit # Panes (Greek) – Human-goat hybrids descended from the god Pan # Pandi ( Medieval Bestiary) – White-haired humanoid with giant ears and eight fingers and toes # Panis (Hindu) – Demons with herds of stolen cows # Panlong ( Chinese) – Water dragon # Panotti ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Humanoid with gigantic ears # Panther ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Feline with sweet breath # Parandrus ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Shapeshifting animal whose natural form was a large ruminant # Pard ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Fast, spotted feline believed to mate with lions to produce leopards # Pardalokampoi (Etruscan) – Fish-tailed leopard # Patagon ( Medieval folklore) – Giant race reputed to live in the area of Patagonia # Patasola (Latin America) – Anthropophagous, one-legged humanoid # Patupairehe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Greek Mythological Creatures
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology. Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before modernity. Something mythological can also be described as mythic, mythical, or mythologic. Mythological creatures * Aeternae: creatures with bony, saw-toothed protuberances sprouting from their heads. * Amphisbaena: a serpent with a head at each end. * Arae: female demons of curses, called forth from the underworld. * Basilisk: a snake that kills anyone who lays eyes on it. * Catoblepas: a buffalo-like creature with shaggy fur, large horns, and a heavy head whose toxic breath or ugly looks could kill. * Centaur and Centauride: creatures with a head and the torso of a human, and the body of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Creatures In Meitei Folklore
Meitei people, being the predominant ethnic group in the Himalayan kingdom of Manipur, has diverse cultural contacts with diverse communities of other nations since ancient times. The case is the same with Meitei folklore as well as Meitei culture. This is a list of the creatures of Ancient Meetei folklore. This doesn't include the list of deities in Meitei mythology, for which see Lists of deities in Sanamahism and Meitei deities. Mythological Animals Dragons Evil Creatures References {{Meiteimyth navbox long Folklore Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, myths, legends, proverbs, Poetry, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also ... Meitei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legendary Creatures Of The Argentine Northwest Region
The Argentine Northwest region (NOA) is composed of the territory of the Argentinian provinces of Tucumán, Salta, and Catamarca. The region's center is in the area of Santiago del Estero. During the NOA's aboriginal period, the various communities within the area shared a complex culture that was further enriched by constant contacts and exchanges with the Tawantinsuyu or Inca Empire The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (, ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The History of the Incas, Inca ..., which was part. From this early culture numerous myths and legends arose. Two well known Argentine writers, Ricardo Rojas and Julio Carreras, have written works on these myths. Ricardo Rojas major work on this subject is entitled ''The Country of the Forest'' (''El País de la Selva''). Carreras' book on this subject is entitled ''The Bad Love' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Legendary Creatures (Z)
# Zahhak (Persian) – Dragon # Žaltys (Baltic) – Serpentine fertility spirit # Zamzummim (Jewish) – Giant # Zana e malit (Albanian) – Mountain fairy who bless warriors # Zână (Romanian) – Nature spirit # Zashiki-warashi (Japanese) – House spirit # Zburator (Romanian) – Wolf-headed dragon # Zduhać (Slavic mythology) – Disembodied, heroic spirit # Zeus (Greek) – God of lightning and storms # Zennyo Ryūō (Japanese) – Rain-making dragon # Zhar-Ptitsa ( Slavic) – Glowing bird # Zhulong ( Chinese) – Pig-headed dragon # Zhū Què ( Chinese) – Fire elemental bird # Žiburinis ( Lithuanian) – Forest spirit in the form of a glowing skeleton # Zilant (Tatar) – Flying chicken-legged reptile # Zin (West Africa) – Water spirits # Ziz (Jewish) – Giant bird # Zlatorog (Slovenia) – White golden-horned deer # Zmeu (Romanian folklore) – Giant with a habit of kidnapping young girls # Zmiy – Slavic dragon # Zombie ( Vodou/Worldwide) – Re-an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Legendary Creatures (Y)
# Yacumama (South America) – Sea monster
# Yacuruna (Indigenous people of the Amazon Basin, Amazon) – Mythical water people, with backwards heads and feet
# Yadōkai (Japanese mythology, Japanese) – Malevolent, nocturnal spirit
# List of legendary creatures from Japan#Y, Yagyō-san (Japanese mythology, Japanese) – Demon who rides through the night on a headless horse
# Yaksha (Buddhist mythology, Buddhist, Hindu mythology, Hindu, and Jainism) – Male nature spirit
# Yakshini#Yakshis in Kerala, Yakshi (Keralite) – Vampire
# Yakshini (Buddhist mythology, Buddhist, Hindu mythology, Hindu, and Jainism) – Female nature spirit
# List of legendary creatures from Japan#Y, Yakubyō-gami (Japanese mythology, Japanese) – Disease and misfortune spirit
# Yale (mythical creature), Yale (Bestiary, M ...
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List Of Legendary Creatures (X)
# Xana ( Asturian) – Female water spirit # Xanthus (Greek) — Man-eating horse # Xecotcovach (Mayan) – Bird # Xelhua (Aztec) – Giant # Xiao (mythology) ( Chinese) – Ape or four-winged bird # Xing Tian ( Chinese) – Headless giant # Xiuhcoatl (Aztec) – Drought spirit # Xhindi (Albanian Albanian may refer to: *Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular: **Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans **Albanian language **Albanian culture **Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...) – Elves {{legendary creatures X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Legendary Creatures (W)
#Waldgeist (German) – Forest spirit # Wana-games-ak (Abenaki) – Water spirits # Wangliang ( Chinese) – Malevolent spirit or monster # Wani (Japanese) – Crocodilian water monster # Wanyūdō (Japanese) – Demon in the form of a burning human-headed ox cart # Warak ngendog ( Indonesian Muslim) – Egg-laying bird # Warg ( English and Scandinavian O.N. ''vargr'') – Giant, demonic wolf # Warlock (Worldwide) – Male witch # Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak (Abenaki) – Aurora spirits # Water monkey ( Chinese) – Water spirit # Water sprite (Alchemy) – Water elemental # Wati-kutjara ( Australia Aboriginal) – Goanna spirits # Wa-won-dee-a-megw (Abenaki) – Shapeshifting snail spirit # Wechuge (Athabaskan) – Human-eating supernatural creature # Weiße Frauen (German) – Female spirit # Wekufe (Mapuche) – Demon # Wendigo ( Algonquian) – Cannibalistic evil spirit # Wentshukumishiteu (Inuit) – Water spirit # Werecat (Worldwide) – Feline-human shapeshifter # Werehye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Legendary Creatures (V)
# Vadātājs ( Latvian) – Spirit that misleads people # Vahana (Hindu) – Divine mounts # Vaibhavi ( Indian) – Deadly snake # Valkyrie ( Norse) – Female spirit that leads souls of dead warriors to Valhalla # Vâlvă (Romanian) – Female nature spirit # Valravn ( Danish) – Supernatural raven # Vampire (Slavic) – Reanimated corpse that feeds on blood # Vanara (Hindu) – Human-ape hybrid # Vântoase (Romanian) – Female weather spirit # Varaha (Hindu mythology) – Third Avatar of Vishnu in the form of a boar # Vârcolac (Romanian) – Vampire or werewolf # Vardøger ( Scandinavian) – Ghostly double # Vedrfolnir ( Norse) – Hawk sitting between the eyes of an eagle in the crown of the World Tree Yggdrasil # Veļi ( Latvian) – Ghost, shade, formed after a death of a human # Věri Şělen – Chuvash dragon # Vetala (Hindu) – Corpses possessed by vampiric spirits # Víbria ( Catalan) – Dragon with breasts and an eagle's beak # Vielfras (German) – Glut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Legendary Creatures (U)
# Ubume (Japanese) – Ghosts of women who died in childbirth # Uchek Langmeidong (Meitei mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature # Ukko ( Finnish) – Finnish sky deity # Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) – Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks passersby # Umibōzu (Japanese) – Ghost of drowned priest # Umi-nyōbō (Japanese) – Female sea monster who steals fish # Undead (Worldwide) – Dead that behave as if alive # Underwater panther ( Native American) – Feline water spirit #Undine (Alchemy) – Water elemental # Unhcegila (Lakota) – Dragon # Unicorn ( Medieval Bestiaries) – Horse-like creature with the legs of an antelope, the tail of a lion and a single magical healing horn. # Unktehi (Lakota) – Serpentine rain spirit # Unktehila (Lakota) – Reptilian water monster # Upinis ( Lithuanian) – River spirit # Ur ( Mandaean) – King of the World of Darkness, often portrayed as a dragon or snake # Urayuli ( Native American) – Hairy giant #Uriaș ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Legendary Creatures (T)
# Tachash (Jewish) – Large land animal # Tailypo (American Folklore) (Appalachia) – Powerful animal, that takes revenge on those who steal its tail # Taimatsumaru (Japanese) – Tengu surrounded in demonic fire # Takam (Persian) – Nature spirit # Taka-onna (Japanese) – Female spirit which can stretch itself to peer into the second story of a building # Talos (Greek) – Giant made of bronze # Tangie (Scottish) – Shapeshifting water spirit # Taniwha (Māori) – Water spirit # Tantankororin (Japanese) – Unharvested persimmon which becomes a monster # Tanuki (Japanese) – Shapeshifting raccoon dog # Taotao Mona (Mariana Islands) – Ancestral spirits # Taotie ( Chinese) – Greed spirit # Tapairu (Mangaia) – Nature spirit # Tapio ( Finnish) – Forest deity # Tarantasio (Italian) – Dragon # Tarasque ( French) – Dragon with leonine, turtle, bear, and human attributes # Tartalo (Basque) – One-eyed giant # Tartaruchi (Christian) – Demonic punisher # T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
