26+ Mythical Creatures Folklore Monsters

The earliest references to mermaids are in assyrian folklore and the creatures became well known in europe via greek adoptions of the assyrian legends.

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. She had the hair of snakes and could turn men to stone with her gaze. They were usually portrayed as capricious and often simply as evil. Loch ness monster the elusive sea monster from the loch ness in scotland. In arkansas folklore this tall shaggy monster has a knack for killing local livestock. He was an oil merchant who stole oil from an andon oil lamp set on the sacred ksitigarbha statue located at a crossroad. 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.

After his death the gods decided to punish him and turned him into a flame ghost. 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. Manticore a mythical beast with a lion s body and a human s head. 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. 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. 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. 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.