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The Capelobo has two forms, an animal form and a humanoid form. In its animal form, it is like a tapir with attributes of a dog. In its humanoid form, it has the head of a giant anteater (or a tapir or dog, depending on the version of the myth), the body of a human, and rounded, bottle-shaped legs.
Yama advances to smite Ravana with the weapon of death. Kaumodaki, the mace of the Hindu god Vishnu, found in iconography of some of Vishnu's avatars. Kaladanda, the staff of Death [12] is a club used by Yama, the god of death in Hindu mythology. Once fired, it could kill anyone, no matter what boons they had to protect themselves.
A mythical city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. Vyraj: A mythical place in Slavic mythology, where "birds fly for the winter and souls go after death". Westernesse: A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn. Xibalba: The underworld in Mayan mythology. Yomi: The land of the dead according to Shinto mythology, as related in ...
The Grimms clarify that Sîfrit's kappe is a cape that covers not just the head but enshrouds the body, though in later times tarnkappe came to be regarded as a cap of invisibility. The tarnkappe (or tarnkeppelin [ 8 ] ) is also owned by the dwarf king who is the title character in Laurin .
Cu Sith (or Cusith) – Hellhound, harbinger of death (Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland) Crocotta – mythical dog-wolf, related to the hyena (India, Ethiopia) Cynocephaly – having the head of a dog or jackal; Dogs of Actaeon – Hunting dogs that turned on Actaeon after he was turned into a deer
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 ...
The Flying Dutchman (Dutch: De Vliegende Hollander) is a legendary ghost ship, allegedly never able to make port, but doomed to sail the sea forever.The myths and ghost stories are likely to have originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) [1] [2] [3] and of Dutch maritime power.
A modern-day depiction of Aka Manto. Aka Manto (赤マント, "Red Cloak"), [1] also known as Red Cape, [2] Red Vest, [1] Akai-Kami-Aoi-Kami (赤い紙青い紙, "Red Paper, Blue Paper"), [3] or occasionally Aoi Manto (青マント, "Blue Cloak"), [3] is a Japanese urban legend about a masked spirit who wears a red cloak, and who appears to people using toilets in public or school bathrooms. [3]