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Ambisiangulo
Variations: Ambize Angulo, Negulla Omasa; Pezze-Mouller, Piexe Molhar (Portuguese), Meermin (Dutch), Sirene (French), Hog-fish, Ambize (erroneously), Angulo (erroneously) The travelers’ accounts of...
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Roperite
Variations: Rhynchoropus flagelliformis (Cox), Pseudoequus nasiretinaculi (Tryon) The Roperite is one of the few Fearsome Critters found outside the northern lumberwoods. Its home is in the foothills...
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Qinyuan
Variations: Qinyuan-bird, Yuanyuan, Zhiyuan Mount Kunlun is the Pillar of Heaven, a place of great energy and endowed of a fiery brilliant aura. Four rivers – Black, Red, Yellow, and Oceanic – flow...
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Fei
Variations: Fei-beast The Fei or Fei-beast can be found on Great Mountain, the eighth and last of China’s Eastern Mountains. It is shaped liked an ox, with a white head and a single eye. Its tail is...
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Devil-jack Diamond-fish
Variations: Diamond fish, Devil fish, Jack fish, Garjack, Litholepe, Litholepe adamantin, Litholepis adamantinus John James Audubon is remembered today as an artist and ornithologist of considerable...
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Obscure Modern Monsters: The Fauna of TORG
Who remembers TORG? I do but I never played it. I remember this RPG because one of the primary gamebooks – The Living Land sourcebook – somehow found its way into a second-hand bookstore in my...
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Ompax
Variations: Ompax spatuloides What would you do if your breakfast was a species new to science? Carl Theodore Staiger, director of the Brisbane Museum, was faced with this conundrum in August of 1872....
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Serra
Variations: Serre, Pristis, Vivella, Sawfish, Saw-fish, Flying Fish The Serra (“saw”) or Saw-fish is a mainstay of bestiaries. Traditionally identified with the sawfish, it also includes features of...
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Utelif
Variations: Uletif (Paré), Pristis, Saw-fish, Sawfish Thevet describes the monstrous Utelif as a fish found along the African coast, from Guinea to Ethiopia. It has a three-foot long, four-finger wide...
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No new entry today
Dealing with something worrying today, so no new entry. See you on Wednesday, if all goes well!
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ABC Reviews: Les Animaux Fantastiques
Les Animaux Fantastiques Claude-Catherine Ragache and Marcel Laverdet I seem to be stuck on sumptuously illustrated books recently. I mentioned this some time back and I thought I’d talk about it...
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Lushu
[Guest art courtesy of the awesome Arlyn Reid! Let them know how much you like it!] South of the Niu-Trees Mountain in China has red metal on its southern slope and white metal on its northern slope....
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Beisht Kione Dhoo
Variations: [Yn] Beisht [y] Kione Dhoo ([The] Beast of [the] Black Head); [Yn] Beisht Kione ([The] Beast of Head) (erroneously) Fishermen on the Isle of Man have traditionally observed a number of...
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Obscure Modern Monsters: Freund’s Mythical Monsters
Okay, I’m cheating a little. Those aren’t exactly obscure or modern – in fact, they’re some of the best-known, oldest, and most enduring mythical creatures. But they are unique renditions of those...
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Nyuvwira
Variations: Inifwira The Nyuvwira is an enormous snake restricted to the Chitipa District of Malawi. It is found in association with minerals, especially precious minerals of monetary value. It can...
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Summer hiatus is upon us
Once again, it’s time for ABC to take a well-deserved hiatus for new entries for the summer. But it’s not a complete stop, oh no! Just a pause on new content. Asides will come up sporadically....
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The Big Question
Alright, so I said I was going to pause on new entries for the moment. And that I was working on something big. Or at least planning on working on something big. Working on planning on working on...
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The Smaller Questions
Wow! Thank you! Response to my Big Question has been overwhelmingly positive, so I’m working on getting the ball rolling for the ultimate version of ABC! I still have a few questions that I would like...
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A List of Creatures
For your entertainment and general reference, here is a complete list of ABC entries thus far. Note that Fearsome Critters was an entry without a picture, and also that I have Illhveli written up but...
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