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Sazae-oni (栄螺鬼, lit. shellfish ogre) are creatures from Japanese mythology, resembling large mollusks. [1] They are a type of obake that forms when turban snails, especially Turbo sazae, reach 30 years of age.
Shuma Hiroyuki, later known as Jiraiya, using a heavy gun to defeat a huge snake that preyed on his toads. Jiraiya (自来也 or 児雷也, literally "Young Thunder"), originally known as Ogata Shuma Hiroyuki (尾形周馬寛行), is the toad-riding protagonist of the Japanese folk tale Katakiuchi Kidan Jiraiya Monogatari (報仇奇談自来也説話, The Tale of the Gallant Jiraiya).
Lou Carcolh, or the Carcolh, is a mythical beast from French folklore.It's described as a large, slimy, snail-like serpent with hairy tentacles and a large shell.It is said to live in a cavern beneath Hastingues, a town in the Les Landes region in southwestern France.
Appears as a giant three-eyed slug with metallic spines, and tiny pyramid-like feet underneath. Gleeth The Blind God of the Moon: An eyeless and deaf Lunar deity worshiped in the ancient continent of Theem'dra, as well as in the Dreamlands, often mentioned as similar to Mnomquah, though apparently not related to each other. [12] Gloon [13]
In Greek mythology, Nerites (Greek: Νηρίτης, romanized: Nērítēs) was a minor sea deity, the son of "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris [1] and brother of the fifty Nereids (apparently their only male sibling). He was described as a young boy of stunning beauty.
In February 2012, the Icelandic national broadcaster, RÚV, published a video thought to show the Lagarfljót Worm swimming in snow-covered icy water. [1] But according to a frame-by-frame analysis of the footage by Finland-based researcher Miisa McKeown, the filmed object actually made no progress through the water, although optical illusion made it appear to propel forward.
The Scottish Gaelic name Slúagh stems from the Old Irish slúag (≈ slóg), meaning 'host, army; crowd, assembly'.Variant forms include slógh and sluag. [3] It derives from the Proto-Celtic root * slougo-(cf. Gaul. catu-slougi 'troops of combat', Middle Welsh llu 'troop', Old Bret.-lu 'army'), whose original meaning may have been 'those serving the chief', by comparing with Balto-Slavic ...
In the Star Wars universe, space slugs, also called exogorths or "giant asteroid worms", [14] are silicon-based gastropods, capable of surviving in a vacuum. First seen in The Empire Strikes Back. The Graboids in the Tremors films and television series. [1] Jeff, the giant subway worm in the film Men in Black II.