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Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird; Cinnamon bird – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon; Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death; Gagana – a miraculous bird with an iron beak and copper claws
Its name is Latin for "horned goat" or "goat horn" or "having horns like a goat's", and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea goat: a mythical creature that is half goat, half fish. Capricornus is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy.
The following is a list of lists of legendary creatures, beings and entities from the folklore record. Entries consist of legendary and unique creatures , not of particularly unique individuals of a commonly known species.
The mythological Chimera is a terrifying creature that features a fire-breathing lion’s head attached to a goat’s body, ending in a serpent tail. There are varying versions of what a Chimera ...
The story goes that one day all the creatures of the sea must offer themselves to the monster Leviathan. It is reported that a sailor encountered a sea goat while far at sea. On its horns was carved the sentence, translated as "I am a little sea-animal, yet I traversed three hundred parasangs to offer myself as food to the leviathan." [9] [10]
List of Paradoxa, cryptids or mythical creatures, in Carolus Linnaeus' 1735 Systema Natura.Detail from large Table. Table of the Animal Kingdom ("Regnum Animale") from a facimile of the 1st edition of Systema Naturæ (1735)
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 ...
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