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Lavellan A Lavellan, làbh-allan, la-mhalan or la-bhallan etc. is a mythological creature from northern Scotland. It was generally considered to be a kind of rodent, and indeed the name "làbh-allan" is also used for a water shrew or water vole in Scottish Gaelic.
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.
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 ...
9. Chimera. Origin: Greek 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 ...
Äbädä – Forest spirit. Abaia – Huge magical eel. Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) – Savage humanoid with backward feet. Abath – One-horned animal. Abura-sumashi – Creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture. Acephali – Headless humanoids. Acheri – Disease-bringing ghost.
Baba Yaga – Forest spirit and hag; Babi ngepet – Monster boar; Baccoo (Guyanese/Surinamese) – Malevolent little people; Badalisc – Goat-like creature from the southern central Alps; Bagiennik – Malevolent water spirit; Bahamut – Giant fish
Berstuk, evil Wendish god of the forest; Jarilo, god of vegetation, fertility, spring, war and harvest; Leshy, a tutelary deity of the forests. Porewit, god of the woods, who protected lost voyagers and punished those who mistreated the forest; Veles, god of earth, waters and the underworld; Mokosh, East-Slavic goddess of nature
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts is a 1910 fantasy field guide by William Thomas Cox (1878–1961), Minnesota’s first State Forester and Commissioner of Conservation, with illustrations by Coert du Bois (1881–1960; US Consul and forester) and Latin classifications by George Bishop Sudworth (1862–1927; Chief Dendrologist of the Forest Service ...