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The wechuge is a man-eating creature or evil spirit appearing in the legends of the Athabaskan people. [1] In Beaver mythology, it is said to be a person who has been possessed or overwhelmed by the power of one of the ancient giant spirit animals—related to becoming "too strong". These giant animals were crafty, intelligent, powerful and ...
Akkorokamui – octopus monster (Ainu, Japan) Amikuk - Shapeshifting four armed 'octopus' that can swim through land as easily as water. Carbuncle – one of its many descriptions is a luminescent bivalve [4] [3] Lou Carcolh – A giant, man-eating snail with fur and tentacles (France) Kraken – squid monster (Worldwide)
The Kiss of the Enchantress (Isobel Lilian Gloag, c. 1890), inspired by Keats's "Lamia", depicts Lamia as half-serpent, half-woman. Lamia (/ ˈ l eɪ m i ə /; Ancient Greek: Λάμια, romanized: Lámia), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit or "daimon".
Kui – One-legged monster; Kukudhi – Female demon who spreads sickness; Kukwes – Large, hairy, greedy, human-eating bipedal monsters whose scream can kill; Kulshedra – Drought-causing dragon; Kumakatok – Death spirits; Kumiho – Fox spirit; Kun – Giant fish
Before its adaptation to the Japanese dream-caretaker myth creature, an early 17th-century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (山海異物), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with the trunk and tusks of an elephant, the ears of a rhinoceros, the tail of a cow, the body of a bear and the paws of a tiger, which protected ...
One time long ago a big Windigo stole an Indian boy, but the boy was too thin, so the Windigo didn't eat him up right away, but he travelled with the Indian boy waiting for him till he'd get fat. The Windigo had a knife and he'd cut the boy on the hand to see if he was fat enough to eat, but the boy didn't get fat. They travelled too much.
In Chinese folklore, a wangliang (Chinese: 魍魎 or 罔兩) is a type of malevolent spirit. [a] Interpretations of the wangliang include a wilderness spirit, similar to the kui, a water spirit akin to the Chinese dragon, a fever demon like the yu (魊; "a poisonous three-legged turtle"), a graveyard ghost also called wangxiang (罔象) or fangliang (方良), and a man-eating demon described ...
Pishachas like darkness and traditionally are depicted as haunting cremation grounds along with other monsters like bhutas and vetālas. Pishachas are supposed to possess the ability to shapeshift and assume any form at will, and may also become invisible. They also feed on human energy. Sometimes, they possess human beings and alter their ...