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Lamashtu. Lamia (Basque mythology) Lauma. Leanan sídhe. Legend of the White Snake. Les Lavandières. Likhoradka. Lilith (Lurianic Kabbalah) List of female monsters in literature.
The Harpies, birds with the heads of women. Lamia, a child-eating, disfigured monster. Metis, an oceanid and first wife of Zeus. The Nereids, oceanids. Scylla and Charybdis, sea monsters living on opposite sides of a narrow strait. The Sirens, women combined with birds, whose songs lured sailors to wreck their ships.
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 ...
Bibliothèque nationale de France. Mélusine (French: [melyzin]) or Melusine or Melusina is a figure of European folklore, a female spirit of fresh water in a holy well or river. She is usually depicted as a woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist down (much like a lamia or a mermaid). She is also sometimes illustrated with wings, two ...
Manticore – Creature with a man's head, a lion's body, bat wings, and a scorpion tail. Mermaid, merman – Women and men with the lower bodies of fish. Minotaur – A human with the head and sometimes legs of a bull. Moirai – Lesser trio of female deities assigned with deciding and weaving the fates of humans.
List of tree deities. Tree deities in different cultures of the world include: Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha (or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki, leszonky). Curupira, a powerful Demon/Forest Spirit in Guarani mythology and Brazilian mythology.
Archaic perfume vase in the shape of a siren, c. 540 BC The etymology of the name is contested. Robert S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin. [5] Others connect the name to σειρά (seirá, "rope, cord") and εἴρω (eírō, "to tie, join, fasten"), resulting in the meaning "binder, entangler", [6] [better source needed] i.e. one who binds or entangles through magic song.
Ancient Greek name English name Description Ἀχλύς (Akhlús) Achlys: The goddess of poisons, and the personification of misery and sadness. Said to have existed before Chaos itself. Αἰθήρ (Aithḗr) Aether: The god of light and the upper atmosphere. Αἰών (Aiōn) Aion: The god of eternity, personifying cyclical and unbounded time.