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A Bao A Qu is a legendary Malay creature described in Jorge Luis Borges's 1967 Book of Imaginary Beings.Borges claimed to have found it either in an introduction to the Arabian Nights by Richard Francis Burton, or in the book On Malay Witchcraft (1937) by C.C. Iturvuru. [1]
Betobeto-san – Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps; Bhūta (Buddhist and Hindu) – Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide; Bi-blouk – Female, cannibalistic, partially invisible monster; Bies – Demon; Bigfoot (American Folklore) – Forest-dwelling hominid cryptid.
The Book of Imaginary Beings was written by Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero and published in 1957 under the original Spanish title Manual de zoología fantástica ("Handbook of fantastic zoology"). [1] [3] [4] It contains descriptions of mythical beasts from folklore and literature.
[2] [3] It has been suggested that the legend of the nurikabe was created to explain travelers losing their bearings on long journeys. [4] Some nurikabe-like experiences that have been recorded have been attributed as the doing of tanuki, known as tanuki no nurikabe. These happenings, instead of involving a wall, are instances where the ...
The only known source for legends on yumboes is Thomas Keightley's book The Fairy Mythology. Keightley received his account from a woman who had lived on Goree Island, off the coast of Senegal, when she was a child. She had heard about the yumboes from a Wolof maid. Keightley remarked on the yumboes’ resemblance to European fairies. [2]
Christians came to dub these mythical creatures as "The Hounds of Hell" or "Dogs of Hell" and theorised they were therefore owned by Satan. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] However, the Annwn of medieval Welsh tradition is an otherworldly place of plenty [ 7 ] and eternal youth [ 8 ] and not a place of punishment like the Christian concept of Hell.
Torngarsuk is the master of whales and seals and most powerful supernatural being in Greenland. He appears in the form of a bear, or a one-armed man, or as a grand human creature like one of the fingers of a hand. He is considered to be invisible to everyone but the angakkuit (the medicine men or shaman among Inuit peoples).
English-language books take up the legend with the lake named as one of the most dangerous waters due to the beast's presence. [30] [31] Some local versions don't give a very divergent account on its appearance, and adds minutiae, such as throwing rocks at it may be met with the irritable and ferocious beast's reprisal (lore of Coinco). Or it ...