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Asin – (Pacific Northwest) Often called the Basket Woman, this was an ogre-like monster who sneaked up on and captured naughty children, throwing them into a basket on her back to take home and eat. Bigfoot – Large, hairy, and bipedal ape-like creature taller than a human and said to inhabit forests in North America.
Bahamut – Whale monster whose body supports the earth. Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail
For instance, Grendel in the epic poem Beowulf is an archetypal monster: deformed, brutal, and with enormous strength, he raids a human settlement nightly to slay and feed on his victims. The modern literary monster has its roots in examples such as the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Nāga – A term referring to human/snake mixes of all kinds. Onocentaur – A creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a donkey and is often portrayed with only two legs. Ophiotaurus – A creature that has the upper body of a bull and the lower body of a snake. Peryton – A deer with the wings of a bird.
For the first time Psyche sees the true form of her lover Eros; darkness had hidden his wings. A human disguise (also human guise and sometimes human form) [1] is a concept in fantasy, folklore, mythology, religion, literature, iconography, and science fiction whereby non-human beings — such as gods, angels, monsters, extraterrestrials, or robots — are able to shapeshift or be disguised to ...
Grendel is called a sceadugenga – "shadow walker", in other words "night goer" – given that the monster was repeatedly described to be in the shroud of darkness. [8] [9] After Grendel's death, Hroðgar describes him as vaguely human in shape, though much larger:
Modern monster blockbusters like Godzilla vs. Kong struggle with memorable human characters. Here are some simple ways to fix that. The post How to Fix the Human Problem in Blockbuster Monster ...
In Greek mythology, Scylla [a] (/ ˈ s ɪ l ə / SIL-ə; Ancient Greek: Σκύλλα, romanized: Skýlla, pronounced) is a legendary, man-eating monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart, the sea-swallowing monster Charybdis. The two sides of the strait are within an arrow's range of each other—so ...