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Mahwot
Variations: Mahwot’, Mawhot’ The Mahwot is a monstrous creature that makes its home in the Meuse River snaking through the French Ardennes. A lizard-like amphibious monster the size of a calf, it runs...
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Hoga
Variations: Andura Tenochtitlan, the great city of Mexico, is built on pilings on Lake Texcoco, much like Venice. In that lake is found numbers of the fish known as Hoga by the natives of the land and...
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Bjarndýrakóngur
Variations: King of the Bears, Einhyrningur (Unicorn) The Bjarndýrakóngur, the “King of the Bears”, is the undisputed monarch of the polar bears of Iceland. It is born from a female polar bear and a...
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Ebigane
An Ebigane, in the folklore of the Fang of Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea, is an ambiguous monster that can be animal or human in form, or a mix of both. It commonly appears in legends and...
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Itqiirpak
Variations: Fireball The Itqiirpak or Fireball is a creature from Alaskan Yupik folklore, notably from the Scammon Bay area. It appears as a crimson fireball flickering in the West over the sea, or,...
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Bès Kotak
Variations: Hantu Kotak (Malay), Box Spirit Bès Kotak, “box spirit”, is a bès or spirit from the folklore of the Jah Hut people of Malaysia. It is apparently box-like in appearance and is a river...
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Slide-rock Bolter
Variations: Macrostoma saxiperrumptus (Cox) The greatest hazard of the Colorado mountains is not avalanches or bears, but rather the Slide-rock Bolter. This is a colossal creature the size of a whale....
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Beast of Barrisdale
Variations: Wild Beast of Barrisdale, Loch Hourn Monster The Beast of Barrisdale lives near Loch Hourn in Scotland. Unlike other lake monsters, it has three legs, two in front and one in back, which...
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Asp
Variations: Aspic, Aspis, Egyptian Asp, Egyptian Cobra, Egyptian Viper, Aspic Viper, Chersaiai, Chelidoniai, Hypnalis, Ptuades; Akschub, Pethen, Zipheoni (Hebrew); Plasyos, Hascos (Arabic); Aspe,...
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Bès Chèm
Variations: Hantu Burong (Malay), Bird Spirit Bès Chèm, “Bird Spirit”, is applied to a number of Malaysian spirits. One of them is a jungle bird-spirit that lives on big branches touching each other....
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Amixsak
According to Spencer, the term amixsak refers to any skin covering, such as the covering of an umiak or kayak. A modern Yupik dictionary gives amiq as meaning “skin” and amirkaq as a sealskin ready...
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Ayotochtli
Variations: Aiotochth, Aiochtochth, Armato, Contexto, Tatus Ayotochtli, “tortoise-rabbit”, is Nahuatl for armadillo. Two somewhat mangled forms of the word appears in Topsell’s work. Topsell...
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Worm of Haftvad
Among the many stories told in the Shahnameh, the Persian Book of Kings, is that of Haftvad. Haftvad had seven sons, as his name indicates, and lived in a poor but hard-working town on the Persian...
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Vatnaormur
Variations: Water Serpent, Lake Serpent; Lagarfljotsormurinn, Lagarfljot Worm; Lyngorm, Slug The lakes of Iceland are home to a wide variety of Vatnaormar, “water serpents”. These serve as the...
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Nope, no update today or for a while. I’m taking a break for the holidays. It’s been a miserable month at the end of a miserable year trapped in the most wretched country on Earth with no hope of...
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Loch Oich Monster
Somewhat less famous than its neighbor in Loch Ness, the Loch Oich Monster is known from the Great Glen of Scotland and Inverness-shire. It was notably spotted on August 13, 1936 by Alderman Richards...
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Beast of the Charred Forests
Tradition holds that the dense, impenetrable forests of Scotland once covered most of the Highlands and Outer Hebrides, but fell to the Norsemen. The Scandinavians burned down the forests to dominate...
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Paoxiao
Variations: Baoxiao Mount Gouwu in China has much jade at its peak and much copper at its base. It is the dwelling-place of a beast called the Paoxiao. A Paoxiao looks like a goat with a human face...
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Pairío
The Kúbání-kikáva reef in Papua New Guinea is home to Pairío, an enormous catfish. She attacks anyone who dares approach the reef by raising up her back, which is armed with spines that can rip a...
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