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myth-lord · 4 years ago

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Creature List

Collected on species-type

ABERRATION: A Bao A Qu / Akaname / Alp-Luachra / Amikuk / Baldanders / Bukavac / Burach Bhadi / Charybdis / Colorobetch / Cuero / Devalpa / Dijiang / Doppelganger / Ewah / Fachen / Hantu Bulan / Hyakume / Iku-Turso / Kerit / Keukegen / Lou Carcolh / Muirdris / Nurikabe / Olgoi-Khorkhoi / Papinijuwari / Planctae / Qalupalik / Scylla / Skolex / Stella / Succarath / Yara-Ma-Yha-Who /

PLANT: Abere / Aproxis / Berberoka / Cactus Cat / Jinmenju / Kayeri / Lunantishee / Mbielu-Mbielu / Rahara / Stray Sod / Umdhlebi / Ya-Te-Veo /

CONSTRUCT: Agrippa / Bubak / Caleuche / Gargoyle / Gold-Digging Ant / Golem / Invunche / Ipetam / Ittan-Momen / Jenglot / Juggernaut / Stymphalides / Wanyudo /

DRAGON: Aitvaras / Amhuluk / Asdeev / Azi-Dahaka / Bolla / Cuelebre / Fafnir / Gaasyendietha / Ikuchi / Kampe / Nidhogg / Scytalis / Tarasque / Velue / Vritra / Zirnitra /

UNDEAD: Aatxe / Banshee / Baykok / Chon-Chon / Draugr / Dullahan / Flaga / Gashadokuro / Gloson / Hongaek / Itqiirpak / Jubokko / Mekurabe / Mngwa / Osschaert / Polong / Sluagh / Tiyanak / Valravn / Wendigo / Yuki-Onna /

DEMON: Aghash / Ammut / Bushyasta / Caorthannach / Cerberus / Each Tened / Gorgon / Imp / Impundulu / Likho / Makhai / Manananggal / Mandarangkal / Marool / Musca Macedda / Nadubi / Nekomata / Nocnitsa / Nue / Omukade / Popobawa / Rawhead / Sigbin / Taotie /

ELEMENTAL: Ahl At-Trab / Banaspati / Cherufe / Dorotabo / Ebajalg / Enenra / Gaueko / Hinqumemen / Psonen / Raiju / Will o Wisp /

FEY: Agemo / Agropelter / Awd Goggie / Cwn Annwn / Eintykara / Encantado / Far Darrig / Fear Liath / Guiafairo / Kamaitachi / Kikimora / Kobold / Kumiho / Lampad / Leanan Sidhe / Lechuza / Nuckelavee / Otso / Peuchen / Phooka / Poludnica / Redcap / Shadhawar / Shinchu / Sianach / Tailypo / Yehwe Zogbanu /

BEAST: Abaia / Afanc / Ahuizotl / Akhlut / Amphisbaena / Aniwye / Basilisk / Boobrie / Bruch / Buggane / Bulgasari / Bunyip / Burrunjor / Calopus / Camulatz / Caspilly / Catoblepas / Djieien / Drop Bear / Echeneis / Ga-Gorib / Grootslang / Hydra / Ichneumon / Isonade / Jinshin Mushi / Karkadann / Karkinos / Kongamato / Leucrotta / Miraj / Mishibizhiw / Mokele-Mbembe / Muscaliet / Myrmecoleon / Piasa / Qupqugiaq / Rat King / Raudkembingur / Rock Bolter / Roperite / Salawa / Scorpios / Ulagu / Water Leaper / Xan / Xhumpedzkin / Zhenniao /

HUMANOID: Adaro / Adze / Aigamuxa / Asanbosam / Berserker / Buckrider / Dactyl / Erchitu / Fomorian / Gegenees / Girtablilu / Goblin / Harpy / Hrimpursar / Intulo / Vish Kanya / Vodyanoi

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Collected on Myth-Group

GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Amphisbaena / Cerberus / Charybdis / Dactyl / Gegenees / Gorgon / Harpy / Hydra / Kampe / Karkinos / Lampad / Makhai / Planctae / Scorpios / Scylla / Stymphalides /

NORTH EUROPEAN: Baldanders / Berserker / Buckrider / Doppelganger / Draugr / Fafnir / Gloson / Hrimpursar / Iku-Turso / Kobold / Nidhogg / Osschaert / Otso / Rat King / Raudkembingur / Valravn /

EAST EUROPEAN: Aitvaras / Bolla / Bubak / Bukavac / Ebajalg / Kikimora / Likho / Nocnitsa / Poludnica / Vodyanoi / Zirnitra /

SOUTHERN EUROPEAN: Aatxe / Agrippa / Basilisk / Colorobetch / Cuelebre / Erchitu / Gargoyle / Gaueko / Lou Carcolh / Musca Macedda / Stella / Tarasque / Velue /

WEST EUROPEAN: Afanc / Alp-Luachra / Awd Goggie / Banshee / Boobrie / Bruch / Buggane / Burach Bhadi / Caorthannach / Cwn Annwn / Dullahan / Each Tened / Fachen / Far Darrig / Fear Liath / Fomorian / Leanan Sidhe / Lunantishee / Marool / Muirdris / Nuckelavee / Phooka / Rawhead / Redcap / Sianach / Sluagh / Stray Sod / Water Leaper /

OTHER EUROPEAN: Aproxis / Calopus / Echeneis / Flaga / Goblin / Gold-Digging Ant / Ichneumon / Imp / Muscaliet / Myrmecoleon / Scytalis / Will o Wisp /

NORTH AMERICAN: Agropelter / Akhlut / Amhuluk / Amikuk / Aniwye / Baykok / Cactus Cat / Djieien / Ewah / Gaasyendietha / Hinqumemen / Itqiirpak / Mishibizhiw / Piasa / Psonen / Qalupalik / Qupqugiaq / Rock Bolter / Roperite / Tailypo / Ulagu / Wendigo /

SOUTH AMERICAN: Ahuizotl / Caleuche / Camulatz / Cherufe / Chon-Chon / Cuero / Eintykara / Encantado / Invunche / Kayeri / Lechuza / Peuchen / Rahara / Succarath / Xan / Xhumpedzkin /

AFRICA: Adze / Agemo / Aigamuxa / Asanbosam / Catoblepas / Ga-Gorib / Grootslang / Guiafairo / Impundulu / Intulo / Kerit / Kongamato / Mbielu-Mbielu / Mngwa / Mokele-Mbembe / Popobawa / Umdhlebi / Ya-Te-Veo / Yehwe Zogbanu /

MIDDLE EASTERN: A Bao A Qu / Aghash / Ahl At-Trab / Ammut / Asdeev / Azi-Dahaka / Bushyasta / Caspilly / Devalpa / Girtablilu / Golem / Juggernaut / Karkadann / Leucrotta / Miraj / Salawa / Shadhawar / Skolex / Vish Kanya / Vritra /

CHINESE AND OTHER ASIAN: Bulgasari / Dijiang / Hongaek / Ipetam / Jinmenju / Kumiho / Olgoi-Khorkhoi / Taotie / Zhenniao

JAPANESE: Akaname / Dorotabo / Enenra / Gashadokuro / Hyakume / Ikuchi / Isonade / Ittan-Momen / Jinshin Mushi / Jubokko / Kamaitachi / Keukegen / Mekurabe / Nekomata / Nue / Nurikabe / Omukade / Raiju / Shinchu / Wanyudo / Yuki-Onna /

OCEANIA: Abaia / Abere / Adaro / Banaspati / Berberoka / Bunyip / Burrunjor / Drop Bear / Hantu Bulan / Jenglot / Manananggal / Mandarangkal / Nadubi / Papinijuwari / Polong / Sigbin / Tiyanak / Yara-Ma-Yha-Who

VARIANTS / SUB-TYPES: Khalkotauroi (Aatxe) Necronomicon (Agrippa) Kulshedra (Bolla) Einherjar (Berserker) Odontotyrannus (Burrunjor) Cactus Lion (Cactus Cat) Rumptifusel (Cuero) Topielec (Draugr) Coiste Bodhar (Dullahan) Gold-Digging Warrior (Gold-Digging Ant) Gorgon Queen (Gorgon) Fury (Harpy) Ladon (Hydra) Abominable (Invunche) Saratan (Karkinos) Ropen (Kongamato) Bakekujira (Raudkembingur) Ly Erg (Redcap) Sandwalker (Scorpios) Hungry Grass (Stray Sod) Nachtkrapp (Valravn) Bolotnik (Vodyanoi) Moskitto (Xan)

SAME CREATURE DIFFERENT REGION/NAME Abaia = Inkanyamba Ahl At-Trab = Seitaad Aitvaras = Pukis Akhlut = Amarok Awd Goggie = Gooseberry Wife Basilisk = Cockatrice Bubak = Tatty Boggle Bunyip = Dingonek Burrunjor = Kasai Rex Caorthannach = Ajatar Draugr = Zombie Ebajalg = Hala Goblin = Eloko + Duende Impundulu = Xexeu Isonade = Yagim Karkadann = Indrik Kumiho = Nogitsune Lechuza = Strix Nocnitsa = Boo Hag Stymphalides = Asipatra Tiyanak = Myling Will o Wisp = Luz Mala Zhenniao = Melalo

FAMOUS SECOND NAMES: Addanc (Afanc) / Joint Eater (Alp-Luachra) / Bokkenrijder (Buckrider) / Wizard Shackle (Burach Bhadi) / Old Man Of The Sea (Devalpa) / Headless Horseman (Dullahan) / Remora (Echeneis) / Boto (Encantado) / Grey Man (Fear Liath) / Gargouille (Gargoyle) / Aqrabuamelu (Girtablilu) / Gravso (Gloson) / Medusa (Gorgon) / Engulfer (Hinqumemen) / Frost Giant (Hrimpursar) / Hydrus (Ichneumon) / Ayakashi (Ikuchi) / Lightning Bird (Impundulu) / Nandi Bear (Kerit) / Crocotta (Leucrotta) / Aswang (Manananggal) / Al’miraj (Miraj) / Underwater Panther (Mishibizhiw) / Bakeneko (Nekomata) / Night Hag (Nocnitsa) / Death Worm (Olgoi-Khorkhoi) / Centipede (Omukade) / Puca (Phooka) / Symplegades (Planctae) / Lady Midday (Poludnica) / Kokogiak (Qupqugiaq) / Bloody Bones (Rawhead) / Slide-rock Bolter (Rock Bolter) / Set Animal (Salawa) / Indus Worm (Skolex) / Su (Succarath) / Vildervn (Valravn) / Peluda (Velue) / Llamhigyn Y Dwr (Water Leaper) / Man-Eating Tree (Ya-Te-Veo) / Zhen (Zhenniao)

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themonsterblogofmonsters · 8 years ago

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myth-lord replied to your post “Hey. Maybe you should re-write the Akhlut article to tie more into its...”

I would keep it, Final Fantasy turns every sea monster into coral, and Harry Potter has SO many myth monster wrong and made in their own unique way, no sense in turning the Akhlut (which has an impossible name in the real myth btw: Kăk-whăn’-û-ghăt Kǐg-û-lu’-nǐk) suddenly into a creature from the real myth. I think it is cool to be creative with myth creatures, no sense in keeping them all 100% the same as the myth. (which is impossible)

And blaming it on white-west-culture is silly, the Pyrausta/Pyrallis, is made-up by cyprus culture and it is also a victim of change. It isn't a insect dragon, just a insect that lives in flames. Same for Minotaurs and Medusa's, which became entire species instead of being unique creatures. Nothing to do with white or colored-culture, sometimes myth/cryptid/folklore creatures are changed to fit more into modern stories, or artists are just creative with them.

Conclusion: If you change the Akhlut, then also change the Pyrausta, Minotaur, Gargoyle, Ly Erg, Redcap. All have modern-features that aren't in the real myths. Also wikipedia has a lot of things wrong, I learned on this site: https://abookofcreatures.com/

Okay, but you see there’s a difference between remixing a myth (and a vast majority of the myths which HP remixes, at least in the original canon, are distinctly western) and changing and utterly appropriating them. A lot of the recent stuff from JKR has really shown a lot of the flaws of it, as well, as having a wide streak of appropriation and general disregard for native groups and what they’ve been through.

I will pretty much never keep something 100% the same as the myth. Simply to rework them into the framework of HP lore makes that impossible but at the same time I want to be respectful and to avoid appropriation. When its almost impossible to find lore on a thing that tends to indicate one of two things. 1) very little is known or recorded about it 2) if its from a Native American group they don’t want people stealing still more from them. I did Akhlut’s very much leaning more towards the Cryptid side of things here because I didn’t want to steal Inuit lore. HP has done Cryptids - Big-Foot for example, and the Yeti, and leaning from what I can tell often more towards the Cryptid side than any lore.

Literally every culture is a victim of change. Every culture. And then there’s the ones which are extinct - Ancient Greek for example, or Ancient Egypt - and that weren’t closed that give you some leeway to play with what they’ve left behind. Key words: Leeway. Left behind.

Native groups still live, my dude, and we can’t just go trampling all over them. That’s what America has been doing since the first Europeans started colonising.

Besides which some of your other points here... I’m not doing Minotaurs, and HP doesn’t have “Medusas” it has Gorgons which is the actual term for the serpentine and snake-haired creatures. I have one (1) article where I called an OC a “Modern day Medusa” but that was more referencing myth than stating a species, because the character is a human who used Metamorphmagi and Parselmouth talent to change her appearance so. I have literally pointed out the problem of the fandom calling Three-Headed Dogs “Cerberus” and the Winged Horses “Pegasus” before. But this is another issue.

Besides, I have additional ideas for Gargoyles, playing more to the Gargouille - which again is a culture which, while changed (specifically: modernised), is not one that can be appropriated, Ly Erg are from an extant culture which remains in control of it’s lore in large part, ditto Red Caps.

There is a difference here. You’re drawing a false equivalent between cultures which have changed since the myths first happened and cultures which are still alive and struggling to remain in control of their history, their culture and their lives due to staggering amounts of racism.

Yeah, that site is a great one and very helpful. I’ve used it myself for reference before. But sources here, is not the issue. Whether I’ll be rewriting (Western! White! Not Appropriated!) creatures is not the issue. The issue here is about how to respect marginalised or maltreated cultures, find a way to allow these groups to be included in this project while not appropriating them or speaking over them. And it’s a hard line to strike sometimes. There’s a reason why, where I can, where I know people of a culture, I’ll try to ask them to look stuff over and make sure its ok. There’s a reason that in a lot of posts where I’m discussing creatures from extant cultures that are often dismissed by the West and White culture as a whole I purposefully make colonials and white people stupid, wrong and ignorant when it comes to the creatures. Because there’s an arrogance there, a certainty that the West knows best. And it’s bullshit, pardon my French.

I get where you’re coming from @myth-lord. If this was one of those Western posts I probably wouldn’t be nearly as inclined to change it. But there is a difference here, between cultures still in command of their lore and culture and those who were very nearly systematically stripped of it and have spent generations fighting to reclaim it, and to demand recompense and right-treatment from those who did that. I’m sorry, but there IS difference between majority-white Western culture and how those myths can be played with and native lore from people who’ve been horribly treated by colonialism.

If someone of the culture tells me to take it down, change it in some way, or, as has been relayed to me by a wonderfully helpful nonny, to reformat the post to do a Western and an Inuit perspective... y’know I’m kind of inclined to listen to them.

Sorry, this got long. Nonny who sent in an ask to relay the opinion of their friend, if you feel able to come forward off-anon and tell me who you are, I’ll gladly make a note to credit you and your friend when I finish reworking the post. Myth-lord, sorry but we disagree pretty heavily on some things, namely the importance of a present and marginalised culture’s voices regarding their lore, as opposed to that of an extinct culture or a still-present and majority culture.

#replies #myth lord #akhlut

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marlynnofmany · 4 years ago

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Accidentally Human, Chapter 12

Remember this thread, about medusas as a species? I figured out which version fits best in this world! I’ve been waiting to share it.

First chapter Previous chapter Next chapter The latest chapter is already up on Patreon!

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Chapter 12 1610 words

Windmane had never seen so much as a tailtip of a medusa, and she very much wanted to keep it that way. From what little she knew, they could usually be trusted not to murder anyone who offended them — usually! — but that was a lot to risk. They could kill with a look and a thought. The magic that turned their victims into stone was irreversible.

Windmane turned to Razorscale, the unofficial alpha of the group. She hoped that he would either say that they should leave, or that he had a some magical charm to keep them safe.

He said neither. The dragon was inspecting the moonlit beach in silence, looking at the the chunks of statues that Windmane was just now seeing. She wondered if his temporarily-human eyes were any better than hers.

“These are likely fake,” he said. “Meant to scare people off.”

“What if they’re not?” Windmane demanded, floating higher on the pixie dust.

“Stay close.” Razorscale muttered something to his young apprentice, then glided toward the forest. Silver obligingly took the lead.

Beak and Twig followed the two dragons, leaving Windmane alongside Stomp. Windmane cast an adrenaline-spiked glance at the minotaur, who looked just as wide-eyed as she felt.

Stomp silently held out a hand. Windmane took it.

Herd solidarity.

Together they drifted after the others, all of them gliding silently on pixie dust with varying levels of fear. Windmane knew Razorscale had been worried. He hadn’t hidden it quickly enough.

Anything that worried a dragon, even one so inconvenienced as this, was something that worried a centaur severely.

Windmane held Stomp’s hand tightly, eyes darting everywhere, and took deliberately deep breaths as the treeline approached. It was extremely dark between the trees.

It was also, Windmane was startled to discover, hot.

“I know,” Razorscale whispered at the chorus of surprised noises. “Hush. We’re inside the area of a spell. I thought it did something else, but … Hush.”

Windmane’s hand was already sweaty in Stomp’s. That alone wouldn’t have been reason to drop it, but the spaces between the trees were narrow. The centaur exchanged looks with the minotaur, then separated into single file.

Windmane went first, just so she didn’t have to be last. She silently apologized for putting Stomp at the back of the herd. She said nothing out loud.

Progress through the unexpectedly tropical forest was slow. Windmane didn’t object to the caution, but the suspense was agonizing. She realized at one point that there were no sounds of nighttime creatures — no birds or frogs or whatever else usually lived in this kind of terrain. Just breeze shifting the leaves, and the occasional noise she or her companions made. It was beyond eerie.

In the faint moonlight that filtered between the trees, Windmane watched the ground for more remains. That white sand was everywhere. At first it looked like the broken sculptures were only on the beach — a distraction, like Razorscale had said — but no, there was a bird. Mostly intact, its wings folded, laying on the ground where it had fallen from a branch at the moment it turned to stone.

Windmane shuddered and fought the urge to run.

Then came the tree heavy with fruit, a type Windmane was unfamiliar with. She smelled it before she saw it: a thick scent of fruit both ripe and rotting. When it finally came into view, Windmane stared at the dozens of fruits scattered around its base. Some had been eaten down to cores, then cast aside. Most hadn’t been touched. Fuzzy mold was rampant on the fruit along the ground.

Is this poisonous too? Windmane wondered, keeping a careful distance. Then she realized, No, there are just no scavengers alive to clean it up. That bird probably wanted some.

Ahead of her, Silver paused to pick something up and show it to Razorscale. The two said nothing. When Silver set it down to move on, Windmane floated over to have a look.

She expected remains, or a weapon. She didn’t expect art. Carved out of wood, sanded smooth but not varnished, it appeared to be a stylized figure of a medusa. Standard two-arm body, snake tail, many snakelets instead of hair. It was simplistic but lovely.

Why is this here? Windmane stared as Stomp moved forward to join her. Are those toothmarks??

With thoughts of breaking the silence to ask the dragons what they thought it meant, Windmane floated around the tree in pursuit. Razorscale was worming his way through a dense bush. Windmane didn’t catch him in time to ask, and had to follow. She kept the figure clenched in one fist. The rustle of leaves was far too loud. Something would hear.

On the other side of the bush, Windmane suddenly had new questions.

Bright moonlight shone down on a clearing full of nameless shapes — her first assumption was large statues that had once been flesh, but they were more amorphous than that. It was only when she saw the slide that it all clicked into place.

This was a playground. A playground with, she saw now, snake motifs carved into everything. Windmane spun to face the dragons, overshooting with the pixie dust and spending a panicked moment trying to orient herself while the rest of the group gathered in the clearing.

“What’s all this?” Beak whispered.

“Aggravating,” Razorscale snapped. Windmane settled to find the dragon visibly angry. He worked his fingers like they were still tipped with claws, ready to rend someone specific. “We are all in an immense, infuriating amount of danger.”

“What?” Windmane squeaked.

The dragon spoke in a hiss. “This island is a gorgon hatchery. I cannot believe those wizards had the audacity to build a safehouse under this.”

Twig floated over the slide. “Why is that so dangerous? Babies aren’t scary. I guess the adults are overprotective…”

“No, it’s the babies,” Razorscale interrupted. “They kill anything they see that isn’t their own species. They haven’t learned not to yet.”

“Oh,” Twig said. He drifted back from the slide. “Oh.”

Windmane again thought of all the white sand, this time imagining the number of generations that had passed while it built up. An untold number of animals and people rendered to dust.

She was shaking. It made her fly crooked. She realized she was still holding the wooden carving … which now appeared to be a teething toy. She dropped it and scrubbed her hands on her clothes.

Beak pointed back toward the beach. “Should we leave before they find us? Come back with some kind of protection?”

Razorscale shook his head. “No time. If we don’t find the wizards before they leave, we may never get them all in once place again. We’re lucky; the young gorgons should be asleep. We’ll just have to be stealthy. Speaking of which—” He turned to Silver. “I’m using one of the last invisibility charges. I’ll be watching you. If you sense anything, point it out to me and I’ll scout it. If they can’t see me, or hear any footsteps, I should be safe.”

Windmane whimpered. “Should be?”

He gave her a withering look. “It’s the best option we have. Now everyone be silent. Follow Silver toward the strongest source of magic.”

With a flare of blue lines, he winked from sight.

The small silver dragon pointed toward the exit from the clearing. Not waiting for confirmation, Silver undulated through the air, wings folded tight. They had clearly gotten the hang of the pixie dust.

Windmane wasn’t nearly as graceful as she exited the clearing, but at least she didn’t knock anyone into a bush. The constant fear-shivers didn’t help.

In as much silence as they could manage, the group glided down a well-trodden forest path, not touching a thing. Windmane didn’t like the idea of using actual paths, since that raised their odds of meeting someone, but it also lowered their chances of making noise. And theoretically the one dragon’s keen senses would spot any dangers, which the other would assess. Theoretically.

Windmane didn’t much care for “theoretically” right now.

But Silver did hear something — or see, or smell, Windmane couldn’t tell — and when that lithe silver form reared to backpedal, the rest of the group instantly shot back the way they had come. Silver hid behind a tree and pointed. Then they all waited for someone invisible and silent to tell them it was safe.

Windmane was huddled behind a different tree with Stomp when she heard the faintest of whispers. Her racing heart clenched in terror before she realized Silver was whispering back. Razorscale had done his scouting. She caught what sounded like “sleeping outside” and “go around.”

Silver swam back down the pathway in the opposite direction, waving the others along. A safer direction. Right.

The path did curve around the area that they were avoiding, and the trees above let in enough light to see well. Windmane’s heart rate showed signs of slowing just a hair.

Then they reached the crossroads, and something shrieked.

Windmane spun, trying to figure out which direction was safe to run. She saw them then: two small forms with wings — medusas didn’t fly; what was this?

Gargoyles, she realized. He said “gorgon hatchery.” These are gorgons too. They can’t do the stone magic?

But they could scream loud enough to rouse whoever had been sleeping outside. Children’s voices, then female, then male. Thunderous crashing through bushes.

Then Windmane was fleeing in terror, and knew nothing other than the speed and panic and trees flashing by. Cold air. Sand underneath. Water.

Speed. Panic. Run.

Run until limbs or lungs fail, whichever comes first.

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The next chapter is here, and the latest is up on Patreon. It’ll be the pixie’s turn to react to alllll this.

#Accidentally Human #my writing #writeblr #amwriting fantasy #centaurs #pixie dust #annnnnnd #medusas #medusa #as a species #gorgons #gargoyles #worldbuilding

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myth-lord · 8 years ago

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Creatures From Around The World

My Favorite Mythology/Folklore and Cryptid monsters collected by Country/Continent.

MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN MYTHOLOGY / FOLKLORE (Book of Imaginary Creatures, Heraldry, Alchemy, Medieval Bestiary, Roma, Left-Over European)

The Muscaliet is so hot it will inflate everything it touches into a burning column of fire. Entire forests burn away when they find their way into earthly forests.

A Bao A Qu / Barometz or Vegetable Lamb / Basilisk / Cagrino or Chagrin / Carbuncle / Catoblepas / Echeneis or Remora / Flaga / Goblin / Gold-Digging Ant or Formica Aurum / Hypnalis / Ichneumon or Hydrus / Imp / Incubus / Leontophone / Leucrotta or Crocotta / Muscaliet / Myrmecoleon or Antlion / Nependis / Nightmare or Mare / Odontotyrannos / Pard / Peryton / Salamander / Scitalis or Scytale / Seps / Succubus / Undine / Will o Wisp / Wyvern / Yale or Centicore / Ziphius

Abarimon / Aspidochelone / Bicorn / Blemmyes / Bonnacon / Cerastes / Chichevache / Cockatrice / Cynocephaly / Haermorrhois or Blood-Letter / Indus Worm / Keythong / Musimon / Onocentaur / Panotti / Parandrus / Sandman / Wild Hunt / Ypotryll / Zitiron

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GREEK MYTHOLOGY (Ancient Greek/Roman Mythology)

Nemean Lions (named Golden Lion or War Lion in Mythika) are powerful hunters with very tough skin which is almost impossible to pierce with normal weapons. Their manes are covered with arrows and the weapons from their victims.

Akheilos / Amphisbaena / Anteros / Argus / Cacus / Centaur / Cerberus / Charon / Charybdis / Chimera / Chrysaor / Dactyl / Echidna / Empusa / Erinyes or Fury / Faun or Satyr / Gorgon or Medusa / Harpy / Hekatonkheires or Hundred-Handed One / Hippocampus / Hydra / Kampe / Karkinos or Cancer / Ketos or Cetus / Ladon / Lamia / Lampad / Makhai or War Daemon / Minotaur / Narcissus / Nemean Lion / Nosoi or Pandora Box / Phobetor / Scylla / Sphinx / Thriae

Aegipan or Capricorn / Aetos or Caucasian Bird / Antaeus / Arachne / Celedon / Circe / Cyclops / Dryad / Erote or Cupid / Erymanthian Boar or Dire Boar / Eurynomos / Gegenees / Geryon / Graeae or Stygian Hag / Griffon or Griffin / Khalkotauroi / Maenad / Mormo / Pytho or Delphyne / Scorpios / Skolopendra / Spartoi / Stymphalian Bird / Symplegades or Planctae / Talos or Bronze Colossus / Teumessian Fox / Triton / Typhon / Zelus

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NORSE MYTHOLOGY (Ancient Norse Mythology)

Fenrir are said to be ancestors of all canine species, and in Mythika they are among the most powerful, only Cerberi stand a chance. Their skin is riddled with ice crystals and their breath is cold as winter.

Berserker / Draugr / Fafnir / Fenrir or Fenris / Hraesvelgr / Jormungandr / Jotunn or Frost Giant / Nidhogg / Svartalfar or Dark Elf / Troll / Valkyrie

Alberich / Dwarf / Elf / Hell / Hrimfaxi / Naglfar / Ratatoskr / Skinfaxi / Ymir

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CELTIC MYTHOLOGY / WESTERN EUROPE MEDIEVAL MYTHS (English, Welsh, Manx, Scottish, Irish, Breton and Arthurian)

Tatty Bogle are evil animated Scarecrows which can control birds and animate objects they touch. It is said that they are created by evil Hags which use the hearts of humans and the soul of a bogeyman to animate them.

Afanc or Addanc / Alp-Luachra or Joint Eater / Ankou / Awd Goggie / Banshee / Barghest or Black Dog / Boobrie / Brobinyak / Brollachan / Brucha / Buggane / Cirein Croin / Cu Sith / Cwn Annwn / Dullahan or Headless Horseman / Fachen / Fear Liath or Grey Man / Fomorian / Gancanagh / Grindylow / It / Jack-in-Irons / Kelpie / Knucker / Lavellan / Leanan Sidhe / Marool / Muirdris / Nuckelavee / Phooka or Pucca / Questing Beast / Rawhead or Bloody Bones / Redcap or Dunter / Shellycoat / Sianach / Sluagh / Spriggan / Springheel or Spring-Heeled Jack / Stray Sod / Tatty Bogle / Water Leaper or Llamhigyn Y Dwr / Wizard’s Shackle or Burach Bhadi

Arkan Sonney / Black Annis / Bluecap / Bodach / Boobach or Bugaboo / Bugbear / Cat Sidhe / Cath Palug / Ceffyl Dwr / Clurichaun / Curnunnos / Dobhar-Chu / Far Darrig / Fear Dorcha / Fear Gorta / Gwyllion / Kilmoullis / Leprechaun / Lunantishee / Ly Erg

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NORTHERN EUROPE MEDIEVAL MYTHS (Germanic, Scandinavian, German, Norwegian, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Dutch, Belgian and Danish)

Osschaart are bizarre constructs made by the Jack-in-Irons. Osschaarts dangerous aura’s increase gravity and they can animate and control the chains that form most of their bodies.

Ajatar / Alraune / Buckrider / Colorobetch / Doppelganger or Fetch / Erlking or Erlkonig / Gloson or Gravso / Gulon / Horerczy / Hrokkall / Ice Worm or Lagarfljot Worm / Iku-Turso / Kraken / Land Wight or Landvaettir / Osschaart / Pesta / Swamfisk / Valravn or Vilderavn

Askafroa / Baldanders / Fossegrim or Nakken / Helhest / Hrosshvalur / Huldra / Kludde or Aufhocker / Kobold / Lorelei / Mandragora or Mandrake / Nachtkrapp / Norn / Otso / Skotumodir / Snow Queen / Traicousse / Vatnagedda / Waldgeist

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EASTERN EUROPE MEDIEVAL MYTHS (Slavic, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Lithuanian and Serbian)

Combining the most feral features of both wolves and dragons the Zburator is a nocturnal hunting dragon that unlike most other dragons hunt in packs, they mostly hunt for other dragons.

Aitvaras / Bagiennik / Bauk / Bukavac / Fext / Hala or Ala / Karzelek / Kikimora / Leshy or Leshii / Lich / Moroi or Vampire / Nocnitsa or Night Hag / Planetnik or Demon Storm / Poludnica or Lady Midday / Shtriga / Veela or Vila / Vodyanoi or Vodnik / Zburator / Zirnitra / Zlatorog or Goldhorn / Zmey or Gorynych

Abaasy / Alkonost / Baba Yaga / Balaur / Bolotnik / Domovoi / Drekavac / Ebajalg / Indrik / Likho / Nosferatu / Ovinnik / Psoglav / Rusalka / Sarkany / Tculo / Ziburinis

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SOUTHERN EUROPE MEDIEVAL MYTHS (Spanish, Basque, Maltese, Sardinian, Italian, French, Swiss, Austria, Cyprus and Medieval Greek)

Every year the scales on a Cuelebre’s body become harder, until after a 1000 years they reach Adamantium hardness, once they reach this age they are almost impossible to destroy with normal weapons and most spells will simply bounce of their shimmering iron scales.

Aatxe / Agrippa / Barbegazi / Butatsch-Cun-Ilgs / Codrille / Cuelebre / Erchitu / Gargoyle or Gargouille / Gaueko / Hellequin / Kaw Kaw / Lou Carcolh / Marabbecca / Nuberu / Peluda / Pyrausta or Pyrallis / Stella / Tarasque / Trenti / Vrykolakas

Aerico / Caladrius / Drac / Krampus / Tartalo / Vouivre

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NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY (Inuit, Canadian, Navajo, Cherokee, and other such Tribal American)

Psonen are beautiful, but ice-cold bird monsters that are said to be related to the Phoenix. They mostly serve the Snow Queen as aerial mounts. They summon cold weather wherever they go.

Acheri / Ahkiyyini / Akhlut / Amikuk / Aniwye / Awahondo / Baykok / Binaye-Ahani / Delgeth or Thelgeth / Djieien / Ewah / Gaasyendietha or Meteor Dragon / Haietlik or Lightning Serpent / Mahaha / Mishibizhiw or Underwater Panther / Nalusa Falaya / Nida / Oniate / Piasa / Psonen / Pukwudgie / Qalupalik / Rougarou or Werewolf / Skinwalker / Tlanusi / Tsenahale / Utlunta or Spearfinger / Wendigo or Windigo / Yeitso

Adlet / Agloolik / Amarok / Amhuluk / Aziwugum / Baxbakwala / Cervitaur / Fastachee / Hinqumemen or Engulfer / Ijiraq / Ishigaq / Isitoq / Kokogiak or Qupqugiaq / Raven Mocker / Thunderbird / Tizheruk / Tupilaq / Ugjuknarpak

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CENTRAL AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY / FOLKLORE (Aztec, Mayan, Mexican)

The Reptilian Xhumpedzkin are famous for the lethal headaches they cause with their psychic aura’s. They feed on other creatures shadows.

Ahuizotl / Camazotz / Cipactli / Lechuza / Nagual / Xhumpedzkin

Camulatz / Chaneque / Huay Chivo / Quetzalcoatl / Tezcatlipoca

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SOUTH AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY / FOLKLORE / CRYPTIDS (Brazilian, Chilean, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Patagonian, Surinam and Argentina)

Cherufe are the voice, will and mobility of a living volcano. They can take any shape they like but are always formed from lava and magma. Inside their volcanic homes these elementals are invincible, only outside the volcano the creature can be slain.

Abuhuku / Alicanto / Caleuche or Ghost Ship / Candileja / Cherufe / Chon Chon / Cuero / Curupira / Eintykara / Encantado / Inulpamahuida / Invunche / Kayeri / Mapinguari / Minhocao / Nguruvilu / Peuchen / Succarath / Tuyango

Anhanga / Ao Ao / Boitata / Bush Dai Dai / Camahueto / Capelobo / Colo Colo / Cuca / El Tunche / Huallepen / Kori / Yacuruna

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AFRICAN FOLKLORE AND CRYPTIDS (Central and South African Countries)

The Migas in Mythika kinda resembles the LOTRing’s Watcher in the Water. Swamp Octopi with more than twenty tentacles, fighting one of these aberrations is like fighting an entire army of tentacles.

Aigamuxa / Asanbosam or Sasabonsam / Bouda or Werehyena / Cagn or Mantis / Dingonek / Eloko or Biloko / Emela Ntouka / Gbahali / Impundulu or Lightning Bird / Intulo / Jba Fofi / Kongamato / Lukwata / Lunwaba / Mbielu Mbielu / Migas / Mngwa or Nunda / Nandi Bear or Chemosit / Popobawa / Umdhlebi / Ya-Te-Veo

Abada / Adze / Anansi / Aziza / Chipfalamfula / Emere / Gambo / Grootslang / Jengu / Kwamang-A / Mokele-Mbembe / Ngoubou / Nguma-Monene / Ninki Nanka / Olitiau / Rompo / Yehwe Zogbanu

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EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY (Ancient Egyptian Mythology)

Sak are strange, wingless Griffons with a beautiful lotus flower on the end of their tails. This lotus flower releases a calming fragrance which takes away aggression in its victims. Sak love the flesh of Unicorns and other equine creatures.

Ammit or Devourer / Khepri / Petsuchos / Sak / Salawa or Set Animal

Axex / Heqet / Mummy / Phoenix or Firebird / Serket / Serpopard

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LEVANTINE FOLKLORE, RELIGION, MYTHOLOGY ( Arabian, Persian, Iran, Iraq, Turkish, Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Akkadian and Middle East)

The centaur-like Urmahlullu combines the best features of the lion and a humanoid. They are the perfect hunters and both gentle and evil variants exist.

Aghash or Evil Eye / Asag / Asdeev / Bushyasta / Caspilly / Devalpa / Druj Nasu / Dybbuk / Fulad-Zereh / Ghul or Ghoul / Girtablilu or Aqrabuamelu / Golem / Ifrit or Efreet / Jidra / Karkadann / Manticore / Miraj or Almiraj / Ouktazaun / Roc or Rukh / Sandwalker / Shadhavar or Siranis / Tiamat / Urmahlullu / Zaratan

Anzu / Arzshenk / Asena / Djinn / Ghawwas / Humbaba / Lilith / Palis / Pazuzu

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HINDU BELIEFS (Hindu Religion, Buddhism)

Raktavija are masters in blood magic, they can animate and harden their own demonic blood into shields, armor and weapons. To refill their lost blood they simply drain other creatures dry of theirs.

Juggernaut / Rakshasa / Raktavija / Virabhadra / Vish Kanya or Poison Girl / Vritra

Airavata / Apaosha / Garuda / Makara / Naga

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JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE (Yokai, Japanese Stories)

Oh, can I keep it? Keukegen look like fuzzy, innocent creatures made entirely from hairs, in reality they spread horrid itching diseases and in the worst case a victim will scratch its own skin off.

Akaname or Filth Licker / Ashinaga-Jin / Bakekujira or Ghost Whale / Baku / Dorotabo / Enenra / Gashadokuro / Harionago / Heikegani / Isonade / Ittan-Momen / Jinmenju / Jorogumo / Jubokko or Vampire Tree / Kamaitachi or Sickle Weasel / Kappa / Keukegen / Kurage-no-Hinotama / Muramasa Blade / Namazu / Nekomata or Bakeneko / Nogitsune or Kumiho / Nurikabe / Omukade / Otoroshi / Raiju or Thunder Beast / Rokurokubi / Sagari / Sazae-Oni / Tenaga-Jin / Tengu / Tenome / Tera-Tsutsuki / Tesso / Tsuchigumo / Umibozu or Sea Bonze / Wanyudo / Yuki-Onna or Snow Maiden

Akashita / Ame-Onna / Hahakigami / Hannya / Hyakume / Jinshin Mushi / Kamikiri / Kasa Obake / Kasha / Katsura-Otoko / Kirin or Qilin / Kitsune / Mekurabe / Nodeppo / Nue / Nure-Onna / Oni / Shachihoko / Suiko / Tanuki / Yanagi-Baba

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CHINESE MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE (China, Chinese Stories)

Xiao or Hsigo are kleptomaniac pests, they steal for the act of stealing and even attack other creatures to rob them of their possessions, especially gemstones and golden coins are wanted by the little thieves. Their leaders are called Ahools and they combine baboons with bat features.

Dijiang / Gaki or Preta / Kun Peng / Shen or Chan / Taotie / Terra-Cotta Warrior / Xiao or Hsigo / Xing Tian / Zhenniao

Azure Dragon / Bai Ze / Byakko / Dragon Turtle / Feng Huang / Genbu / Nian / Pixiu / Zheng

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POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE (Philippines, Indonesia, Melanesian, Malaysian, Solomon Islands and Vietnam)

Terrifying aberrations, the Kurita use their many arms for swift locomotion, grabbing their victims along the way, they can eat and move at the same time without much trouble.

Abaia / Abere / Adaro / Bakunawa / Batibat or Bangungot / Berbalang / Bonguru / Con Rit / Dalaketnon / Jenglot / Kurita / Mambabarang / Nuno / Orang Minyak / Polong / Pua Tu Tahi / Sigbin / Tikbalang / Tiyanak

Ahool / Anggitay / Aswang or Manananggalen / Babi Ngepet / Banaspati / Berberoka / Bungisngis / Gawigawen / Genderuwo / Imoogi or Imugi / Kapre / Pelesit / Sarangay / Siyokoy / Tiburones / Toyol / Veo

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AUSTRALIAN MYTHOLOGY, CRYPTIDS AND FOLKLORE (Australian, Aboriginal and New Zealand)

Tiddalik suck up water and spit it at great force at their prey, putting them off balance and turning them into easy prey to swallow. There are also jungle variants of the Tiddalik which shoot with poisonous water and which look like giant mutant poison-arrow frogs, they can climb in trees as well.

Burrunjor / Dheeyabery / Drop Bear / Mokoi / Muldjewangk / Nargun / Papinijuwari / Punga / Taniwha / Whowie / Tiddalik / Wulgaru / Yara-Ma-Yha-Who

Bunyip / Mimi / Minka Bird

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FEARSOME CRITTERS (North American Lumberjack Stories, Cryptids)

Argopelters live high up in the treetops where they use their bizarre tentacle-like arms as whips, they also use them to throw wood-splinters which hit their enemies like bullets, often instantly killing their prey.

Argopelter / Cactus Cat / Hidebehind / Hodag

Hoop Snake / Jackalope / Moskitto / Roperite / Splinter Cat / Squonk

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LEFTOVERS (Modern Cryptids, Caribbean, Biblical, Himalayan, Dante’s Inferno and Alien Sightings)

Rat Kings are bizarre beasts which appear like a swarm of rats which tails are all tangled together into an impossible situation. These swarms of rats have a single mind and their diseased aura will cause the pest into any creature that lives close by.

Apocalypse Locust / Chupacabra / Death Worm / Gray or Dover Demon / Mad Gasser / Morgawr / Mothman / Ooze / Rat King / Tooth Fairy / Wolpertinger / Zombie

Beelzebub / Behemoth / Bloody Mary / Boo Hag / Cecaelia / Gowrow / Gremlin / Grendel / Guardian Angel / Horseman of Death / Horseman of Famine / Horseman of Pestilence / Horseman of War / Jack-O-Lantern / Jersey Devil / Leraje / Leviathan / Lusca / Poltergeist / Reptilian or Lizardman / Tree Octopus / Tulpa / Yeti or Abominable Snowman

EDIT: While most of my follower probably already know the descriptions underneath the pictures are from my own project Mythika, they aren’t 100% like the real myth. The collected groups are from the real myths. Though I made a much better version here: https://myth-lord.tumblr.com/post/160584821204/creatures-from-around-the-world-2

ALL PICTURES FOUND ON GOOGLE-PICTURES, CREDITS TO ALL THE ARTISTS, NOT MY WORK!

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