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Lurchi is the advertising comic character of the German Salamander shoe factories. He is a fire salamander. His adventures are told (in German) in small booklets titled Lurchis Abenteuer (Lurchi's adventures). They are targeted mainly at primary schoolers, written in calligraphic handwriting in simple rhyming couplets.
Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...
Inmyeonjo – A human face with bird body creature in ancient Korean mythology. Karura – A divine creature of Japanese Hindu-Buddhist mythology with the head of a bird and the torso of a human. Kuk – Kuk's male form has a frog head while his female form has a snake head. Meretseger – The cobra-headed Egyptian Goddess.
A later alchemical text, the Book of Lambspring (Das Buch Lambspring, 1556), depicts a salamander as a white bird, being kept in fire by a man with a polearm. The text in German states the salamander while in fire exhibits an excellent color hue, while the Latin inscription connects this to the philosopher's stone (lapidis philosophorum). [96]
Articles relating to avian humanoids in folklore and fiction, people with the characteristics of birds. Subcategories This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total.
Stymphalian Bird – Metallic bird; Suangi – Cannibalistic sorcerer; Succubus (Medieval folklore) – Female night-demon; Sudice – Fortune spirit; Sunakake-baba – Sand-throwing hag; Sunekosuri – Small dog- or cat-like creature that rubs against a person's legs at night; Surma – Hellhound
The investigation identified that the individual had come into contact with sick and dead birds, which are suspected to have been infected with H5N1. ... presumptive positive human case of H5N1 ...
Top half human, bottom half fish, able to control and predict the weather and travel between the human world and the underworld through water. Anishinaabeg myth refers to one trying to take a human husband, the act of bringing him to their world and going through with the marriage turning him into one of them. Sasquatch – see Bigfoot.