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  2. List of legendary creatures by type - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. Lists of legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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    Legendary creatures of the Argentine Northwest region; List of creatures in Meitei folklore; List of Greek mythological creatures; List of legendary creatures from China

  4. Monster - Wikipedia

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    The history of monsters in fiction is long. For instance, Grendel in the epic poem Beowulf is an archetypal monster: deformed, brutal, and with enormous strength, he raids a human settlement nightly to slay and feed on his victims.

  5. Category:American legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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    Legendary creatures of the United States. Supernatural animals, often hybrids, sometimes part human, whose existence has not or cannot be proved and that are described in folklore, but also in historical accounts written before history became a science.

  6. Are werewolves real? The facts and history behind the myth

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    The history of werewolves. Although the concept of werewolves has been around for thousands of years, nearly all our modern-day ideas of the creature come from the 1941 movie "The Wolf Man ...

  7. Legendary creature - Wikipedia

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    Several mythical creatures from Bilderbuch für Kinder (lit. ' picture book for children ') between 1790 and 1822, by Friedrich Justin Bertuch A legendary creature, also called a mythical creature, is a type of extraordinary or supernatural entity that is described in folklore (including myths and legends) and may be featured in historical accounts before modernity, but has not been ...

  8. The scariest Halloween monsters and their origin stories - AOL

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    Of all the mythical monsters, Frankenstein is probably the most famous. Brought to life by author Mary Shelley in the 1818 novel by the same name, the mythical monster was said to have been ...

  9. List of giants in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Bulltop Stormalong; Amala - Pacific Northwest Coast; Antonine Barada; Beast of Bray Road; Bigfoot; Dzunukwa - KwakwakaŹ¼wakw mythology; Febold Feboldson; Flatwoods monster; Flying Head - Iroquois mythology