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In addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name Homo sapiens (Latin: 'wise man', Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species have been created to refer to various aspects of the human character. The common name of the human species in English is historically man (from Germanic mann), often replaced by the Latinate human ...
The following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos.. Overview: Name.The name of the character appears first. Birth/Death.The date of the character's birth and death (if known) appears in parentheses below the character's name.
Of human female form with brown or dark blue skin, backward facing feet, and very long manes of smooth, glossy hair covering their bodies; nocturnal, hostile, to be avoided. El Cucuy – Boogeyman to scare children into being good in Spain, Portugal and South America. Name comes from the word for "head".
Werebat: Human with the ability to change into a bat-like form, appears in modern fiction. [4] [5] Werecoyote: Human with the ability to change into a coyote form comparable to a werewolf, [6] appears in modern fiction. [7] [8] [9] [6] It has been associated with America. [6]
The daevas, or Homo sanguinus, [2] is an extinct human cousin species who lived in matriarchal clan-based societies and regularly practiced human sacrifice, slavery, and thaumaturgy. Before the Common Era, the daevas founded the Daevite Empire that covered most of Eurasia, and remains a threat to humanity despite having long since fallen.
Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, 'human', and ὄνομα onoma, 'name') is the study of anthroponyms, the proper names of human beings, both individual and collective. [1]
Squid Girl, in the manga series of the same name, is a girl from the sea who has blue squid-like tentacles in place of hair. Squidface Brutes, the villains with squid-like faces and crab-like claws from Skylanders. Vilgax in Ben 10 is a Chimera Sui Generis. Exposed to water, he transforms into a giant squid-like creature, which he refers to as ...
All names in this category are human names, but they may also include fictional characters. For pages listing people with the same surname, but different given names, use {} instead; see e.g. Lunardi. Use {} to add disambiguation pages to this category. To sort by surname, use: {{hndis|Public, John Q.}}