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Female evil spirits or malicious monsters in folklore, legends, and mythology. These monstrous women are often portrayed as predatory creatures, who are usually seen seducing male humans or snatching young children in order to kill, eat, or otherwise harm them.
Echidna, half-woman and half-snake; Electra, an oceanid and mother of the Harpies; Eurynome, an oceanid and the third wife of Zeus; The three Gorgon sisters (Medusa, Euryale, and Stheno), with hair made of venomous snakes, turn anyone who looks at them to stone; The Harpies, birds with the heads of women; Lamia, a child-eating, disfigured monster
The Charles Mill Monster, found in Charles Mill Lake in Mansfield, is another lake-dwelling beast said to call Ohio home. This huge, glow-eyed monster is shaped like a human but doesn’t have arms.
Paagak – (Anishinaabeg) skeletal monster. Ghost of human cursed for horrific acts in life. Pombero – Mythical humanoid creature of small stature being from Guaraní mythology. Qalupalik – (Inuit) female entities with green skin, webbed hands and claws that emit shrieks that paralyze men.
Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
Bahamut – Whale monster whose body supports the earth. Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail
On July 2, 1996, the Menendez brothers were found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole. In the years since their conviction, the brothers have attempted to appeal the ...