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[rojse]

Mongolian Death Worm



A bright, fat worm, between 0.6 and 1.5m long. Apparently, it spits out a bright yellow poison that is lethal on contact, and can kill victims at a distance with an electrical discharge. It is believed to reside in the Gobi Desert, that lies in both Mongolia and China.

[Azakel]

Manticore

by Micha F. Lindemans
A monstrous creature which inhabits the forests in Asia, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia and India. The manticore, considered to be the most dangerous predator in these regions, has the body of a lion and a head with human resemblance. The mouth is filled with three rows of razor-sharp teeth and the scaled tail ends in a ball with poisonous darts. The monster stalks through the forest in search of humans. Upon an encounter with a human, the manticore fires a volley of darts at the victim, who dies immediately. This unfortunate person is devoured completely, even the bones and clothing, as well as the possessions this person carried, vanish. When a villager has completely disappeared, this is considered proof of the presence of a manticore.

[Hema]

Soucouyant

Soucouyant - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters

Soucouyant, also known as Soucoyah, in Trinidad lore appears as an old woman who sheds her skin at night. The skinless phantom flies through the air, usually appearing as a ball of fire and sucks the blood from her victims.

Origin
This blood-sucking shapeshifter belongs to a class of evil spirits known as jumbies.
Thought to be an old woman, the Soucouyant is said to hide her skin under a stone mortar, the one she uses to grind her food.

Main Belief
Skins shed by the Soucouyant are very valuable in order to practice the Obeah magic.
If too much blood is drained, some theories say victims may die and become Soucoyant themselves.
Soucouyant may turn into a fire ball, then enters the house of victims though a hole or a keyhole.

Behaviour/Features
It’s still debatable whether the victim becomes a new Soucoyant or an existing Soucouyant possesses the dead victim's skin.
The Soucouyant must return to her skin by morning, hence possession of the skin by an Obeah gives control over the Soucouyant.
Soucouyants may be stopped by scattering rice or flour at the front of the doorway. They will be forced to stop and count all the grains. As this can’t possibly be achieved before dawn comes so they will lose their power.

How to kill a Soucouyant
A Soucouyant can be killed by visiting her place when she left her skin and sprinkling it with hot pepper, for she will burn to death once they try to put it back on.

[Azakel]

Thank you all for adding some Creature I love Mythical Beasts.

[nutshell]

I've always been partial to the kobold: Kobold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[MidnightBlue]

CENTAUR

In Greek mythology, the Centaurs (Greek: Κένταυροι (Kéntauroi)) are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attic vase-paintings, they are depicted as the torso of a human joined at the (human's) waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be.

The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele (the cloud made in the image of Hera). Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either the son of Ixion and Nephele (instead of the Centaurs) or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the latter version of the story his twin brother was Lapithus, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.

The most common theory holds that the idea of centaurs came from the first reaction of a non-riding culture, as in the Minoan Aegean world, to nomads who were mounted on horses. The theory goes that such riders would appear as half-man, half-animal. (Bernal Díaz del Castillo reported that the Aztecs had this misapprehension about Spanish cavalrymen.) Horse taming and horseback culture arose first in the southern Horse taming and horseback culturesteppe grasslands of Central Asia, perhaps approximately in modern Kazakhstan.

The Lapith tribe of Thessaly, who were the kinsmen of the Centaurs in myth, were described as the inventors of horse-back riding by Greek writers. The Thessalian tribes also claimed their horse breeds were descended from the centaurs.

Of the various Classical Greek authors who mentioned centaurs, Pindar was the first who describes undoubtedly a combined monster. Previous authors (Homer etc) only use words such as Pheres (Beasts) that could also mean ordinary savage men riding ordinary horses. However, contemporaneous representations of hybrid centaurs can be found in archaic Greek art.

Though female centaurs, called Kentaurides are not mentioned in early Greek literature and art, they do appear occasionally in later antiquity. A Macedonian mosaic of the C4th BCE is one of the earliest examples of the Centauress in art. Ovid also mentions a centauress named Hylonome who committed suicide when her lover Cyllarus was killed in the war with the Lapiths.

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I would imagine that centaurs, with half of their spines perpendicular to the other half, must have had a lot of back problems.

[Nick Soapdish]

As a kid my favorite was always the Cyclops. I'm not sure why... having two eyes seems like a great advantage over having one ...

[rojse]

Minotaur:


A part man, part bull creature, that resided at the centre of a labyrinth in Crete, built to house this fearsome creature.

[kai]

for me its the vampire theres, something about existential despair

[Azakel]

Kitsune: It's easist to just give a link. ^_^

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