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Calais and Zetes, the sons of the North Wind Boreas. [3] Chareng, also called Uchek Langmeidong, a mythical creature from Meitei mythology that is part-human and part- hornbill, having an avian body and a human head. The Ekek from Philippine mythology is depicted as a humanoid with bird wings and a beak. Eos is often depicted as winged in art.
Fairy – Mythical spirits or legendary creatures in European folklore, also known as fae or fair folk among many other names. Commonly depicted as having beautiful insectoid wings. Faun – Humanoid beings with the horns and lower bodies of goats. Fetch – an exact, spectral double of a living human; can appear as an omen.
This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures. Angel. Arkan Sonney. Basilisk. Boobrie. Cockatrice. Djinn.
Kappa - A Japanese humanoid creature with the legs of a frog and the head and shell of a turtle. Lamassu – A deity that is often depicted with a human head, a bull's body or lion's body, and an eagle's wings. Longma – A winged horse with the scales of a dragon. Manticore - A creature with the face of a human, the body of a lion, and the ...
The siren was sometimes drawn as a hybrid with a human torso, a fish-like lower body, and bird-like wings and feet. [87] [88] While in the Harley 3244 (cf. fig. top right) the wings sprout from around the shoulders, in other hybrid types, the style places the siren's wings "hanging at the waist". [90] [93] Comb and mirror
The konoha-tengu are noted in a book from 1746 called the Shokoku Rijin Dan (諸国里人談), as bird-like creatures with wings two meters across which were seen catching fish in the Ōi River, but this name rarely appears in literature otherwise. [23] Creatures that do not fit the classic bird or yamabushi image are sometimes called tengu.
Garuda (Sanskrit: गरुड, romanized: Garuḍa; Pali: गरुळ, romanized: Garuḷa; Vedic Sanskrit: गरुळ, IAST: Garuḷa) is a Hindu deity who is primarily depicted as the mount (vahana) of the Hindu god Vishnu. This divine creature is mentioned in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain faiths. [1][5][6] Garuda is also the half-brother ...
Like most mythical reptiles, the Catalan dragon (Catalan drac) is an enormous serpent-like creature with four legs and a pair of wings, or rarely, a two-legged creature with a pair of wings, called a wyvern. As in many other parts of the world, the dragon's face may be like that of some other animal, such as a lion or a bull.