It is said to have the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse. Wilkinson, P. (2019). Capacun: Monstrous humanoid associated with evil (Romanian Mythology/Folklore). Tiresias and Evenius received the gift of prophecy, and the poet, Several blind characters have been created by, This page was last edited on 29 December 2022, at 22:35. Phoenix: A mythical bird with long life (Greek Mythology), 49. Pukwudgie is a symbol and a name of one of the houses in the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that is said to represent the heart of a wizard, and favor the healers. Ammit: Human devourer with a body believed to be part hippopotamus, crocodile, and lion (Egyptian Mythology), 54. The griffin is a familiar example of a hybrid mythical beast. This was used to explain early misunderstood cases of Alzheimers. Belief in the existence of mythical beings is strong because of the mention of certain mythological creatures in holy books. His winged sandals flew him home. Charybdis: Deadly Sea Monster (Greek Mythology), 32. As the sightings grew in number, so did the variety of descriptions. The centaur or hippocentaur is a legendary creature from Greek mythology. A large-headed spirit who lives on a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture. She can easily turn anyone into stone with a glance. Mapinguari: Ape-like giant sloth (Brazilian Mythology/South American Folklore), 82. Lamia (/lemi/; Greek: ), in ancient Greek mythology, was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit (daemon). The Pukwudgie. Some yokais, in the Japanese folklore, have a single giant eye: Magnus the Red,the one-eyed primarch of the Thousand Sons legion Warhammer 40k, Naga and his tribe of one-eyed violent mutants in the 1956 B-movie. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Its generally described as an aquatic ambush predator that jumps out at you from the water in Australia. steeldraco, The penanggalan. Its more like how a person in a 2d world would have no idea what to make of us as a 3d person. Azatoth, from H.P Lovecrafts cthulhu mythos. The 1982 novel Lamia by Tristan Travis sees the mythological monster relocated to 1970s Chicago, where she takes bloody vengeance on sex offenders while the cops try to figure out the mystery. An example is the Kyubi no kitsune, found in Japanese folklore. Lou Carcolh: Hybrid of Snake-Mollusk (French Mythology/Folklore), 91. A gypsy curse associated with him has Lamia torment the victim for three days before having its minions drag them into Hell to burn in its fires for all eternity. In that work, Tiresias retained his prophetic gifts even in the underworld, where the hero Odysseus was sent to consult him. Serpopard: Mythical animal with body of a leopard and neck of a snake (Egyptian Mythology), 64. Asterius, a giant. They were born as old women and their names were Deino (dread), Enyo (horror), and Pemphredo (alarm). Zeus gave Lamia the power of prophecy and the ability to take out and reinsert her eyes, possibly because she was cursed by Hera with insomnia or because she could no longer close her eyes, so that she was forced to always obsess over her lost children.[1]. Only two lochs in Scotland are reported to have monsters: Loch Ness and Loch Morar, but the Kelpies are a whole other thing. They were forced by Perseus, by stealing their eye, into revealing the location of Medusa. Among the ancient authors who mention him are Sophocles, Euripides, Pindar, and Ovid. Almops, a giant son of the god Poseidon and the half-nymph Helle. [18][26] Such practices are recorded by the 1st century Diodorus,[9] and other sources in antiquity. This page was last edited on 4 December 2022, at 17:38. One man called to say he had seen a big animal in the pitch dark with eyes that glowed like embers. They the envious Little People, Image credit: Doorway To Other Worlds. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on their journey. Fairy: Metaphysical form of spirit (European Folklore), 14. "Where Do Myths, Legends and Folktales Come From?" A number of theories that make mythical creatures real, or rather seem real, are based on accounts of the real-life encounters of man in early times. This material may not bepublished, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or part without the express written permission of AncientPages.com, Edith Hamilton, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Bernard Evslin,Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, Surprising Discovery Replica In The Field Museum Is A 3,000-Year-Old Sword, Drinking Milk Increased Ancient Human Body Size New Study, Eating And Social Habits Of People In The Balearic Islands 3,000 Years Ago Reconstructed. Geryon: Monster with three human-like heads (Greek Mythology), 39. According to an ancient legend, Perseus was sent by the king to get Medusa's head. Larrington, Carolyne. Fenrir: Gigantic monstrous wolf (Norse Mythology), 25. Here, Lamia is the common vulgar term and empousa the proper term. There was a ferryman out in his boat one evening. [11], The Vulgate used "lamia" in Isaiah xxxiv:14 to translate "Lilith" of the Hebrew Bible. They appear usually as beautiful white horses and lure you in, then, they trap you and drag you below water to drown you. She then presumably kills them or just scares the ever loving shit out of them I love legends that very clearly arose from wives trying to scare their husbands into not straying when they went out drinking with da boys. Krov_Koshka, Ive always had a dark fondness for the ghoul of Persian folklore; basically a shape shifting monster who lurks in wastelands and/or graveyards, with a fondness for dead human flesh. The Pukwudgie is also native to America: a short, grey-faced, large-eared creature distantly related to the European goblin. A mermaid is a hybrid mythological being that is half human female, half fish. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tiresias, Odysseus consulting the shade of Tiresias. [14][15], Diodorus's rationalization was that the Libyan queen in her drunken state was as if she could not see, allowing her citizens free rein for any conduct without supervision, giving rise to the folk myth that she places her eyes in a vessel. Basically a mass of teeth, tentacles and milky blind eyes sitting in the center of reality, being soothed by his demonic chorus. This category includes witches, elves, fairies, nymphs, and house spirits. DK. Corrections? In Greek: " , ", Cupid refers to Psyche's sisters as Lamiae, Apul. Masslive.com, Masslive.com, 2 Feb. 2018, www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/02/son_of_caveman_springfield_boo.html. Al-mi'raj is a mythical creature in Islamic mythology which is basically a hare (rabbit) with a single horn on its forehead much like a unicorn. The plant was also used in the Middle Ages for magical potions. There are different variations of it, but basically its a waterspirit that can either do terrible or good things to you. [95] Worded another way, Lamia was emblematic of the hypocrisy of such scholars. When they consulted Tiresias, he asserted that women had greater pleasure than men, and Hera thereupon struck him blind. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. [78] Either one could be Lamia the mother of Scylla mentioned in the Stesichorus (d. 555 BC) fragment, and other sources. Indrik: One-horned gigantic bull with deer legs and head of a horse vaguely resembling a rhinoceros (Russian Mythology/Folklore), 95. In his 9th-century treatise on divorce, Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, listed lamiae among the supernatural dangers that threatened marriages, and identified them with geniciales feminae,[74] female reproductive spirits. At Thebes, Tiresias played an active part in the tragic events involving Laius, the king of Thebes, and his son Oedipus. And those analogues that exhibit a serpentine form or nature have been especially noted. The glawackus is one of the fearsome critters, a group of legendary creatures in the folklore and traditions of lumberjacks during the 19th and early 20th centuries in North America. [103], Later traditions referred to many lamiae; these were folkloric monsters similar to vampires and succubi that seduced young men and then fed on their blood. Traditionally thedoppelgngerwas seen as a sign of bad luck, but those sightings were likely caused by hallucinations since no one who truly believed in this phenomenon would spot themselves in public and not confront the other person unless the other person simply didnt exist. [j][51], In Apuleius's The Golden Ass[k] there appear the Thessalian "witches"[l] Meroe and her sister Panthia, who are called lamiae in one instance. The Harpe is featured in mythological stories and statues of Greek and Roman heroes. If they answers no, she walks away, then murders them in their bed that night. EnkoNeko. And to be specific, slow zombies. Psyclopps, the one-eyed guitarist for the costumed comedy punk band, Black Shuck - a one-eyed demon dog in the song. List of one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction, List of many-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction, "History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th Century", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_one-eyed_creatures_in_mythology_and_fiction&oldid=1125561846, Legendary creatures with absent body parts, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. [103] The contemporary Greek proverb, " " ("the Lamia's sweeping"), epitomises slovenliness;[103] and the common expression, " ' " ("the child has been strangled by the Lamia"), explains the sudden death of young children. Im gonna go national, La Segua, shes a beautiful woman drunk men would encounter while riding home late at night on rural roads, shed ask if she could hitch a ride on the back of their horse and if and when they turned back to look at her, perhaps to try and kiss her, theyd find sitting behind them the woman but with the rotting face of a horse skull. 1st century BC), for instance, describes Lamia of Libya as having nothing more than a beastly appearance. Shuma Gorath in Marvel Comics first appearance in Marvel Premiere #10 September 1973. One story holds that Hera and Zeus disagreed about which of the sexes experienced more pleasure during sex, with Hera arguing that the answer was men, by far. These scary spirits are said to come from the west, and they fly in groups. [54][55][m][n], Meroe has seduced a man named Socrates, but when he plots to escape, the two witches raid his bed, thrust a knife in the neck to tap the blood into a skin bag, eviscerate his heart, and stuff the hole back with sponge. Besides longevity, another of Tiresiass features involves his having lived as a man, then as a woman, and then as a man again. Scylla and Charybdis were both sea monsters, while Cyclops was a one-eyed giant. Relentlessly. The Glawackus is described as looking something between a bear, a panther, and a lion. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on their journey. In the cthulhu mythos this thing is god, a blind, constantly dreaming entity, and our universe is but one of his many dreams. [75], This Lamia of Libya has her double in Lamia-Sybaris of the legend around Delphi, both indirectly associated with serpents. [9] Heraclitus's euhemerized account explains that Hera, consort of Zeus, gouged the eyes out of the beautiful Lamia. The queen, as related by Diodorus, was born in a cave. Born as the daughters of the Sea Gods, sea godsPhorcysandCeto, and sisters of theGorgons, the Graeae were powerful creatures and they appear in the myth of Perseus, the hero who killed Medusa, a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with a hideous face and living venomous snakes in place of hair. The queen, as related by Diodorus, was born in a cave. Clodhna [90][81] The identification has also been built (using transitive logic) since each name is identified with empousa in different sources. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins. A beautiful woman wearing one of those cloth masks, roaming the streets at night. 12. 1st century BC) gave a de-mythologized account of Lamia as a queen of Libya who ordered her soldiers to snatch children from their mothers and kill them, and whose beauty gave way to bestial appearance due to her savageness. This is given in the concluding paragraph of the chapter. Perseus went to the three Graeae, that shared one eye between them, and through stealing it he made them tell him where the nymphs of the north lived. Its said to exist in the forests starting in the east coast mountains and all through to Kentucky. However, the presence of these creatures has often been described in folklore, legends, fables, poetry, mythology, fairy tales, novels, myths and other varied forms of fiction. [16], Lamia was the daughter born between King Belus of Egypt and Lybie, according to one source. Later legend told that he lived for seven (or nine) generations, dying after the expedition of the Seven Against Thebes. The ghoul then takes on your appearance, and returns to live your life, but in reality it drains and destroys those you loved. Nash_Rambler. Traditional mythologies associated with different regions of the world have varied mythical creatures that are fascinating and beyond the realms of understanding and imagination. The Book of Fabulous Beasts: A Treasury of Writings from Ancient Times to Present. Longma: Winged Horse that had scales of a dragon (Chinese Mythology), 89. I like the Wendigo a lot. Lowell Thomas, a radio network commentator, who was popular nationwide, reported the Glawackus had been named by a "Connecticut scientist.". The griffin was a favourite decorative motif in the ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean lands. When Tiresias returned to the site of the transformation seven years later to see if the spell could be reversed, Tiresias did indeed see the same snakes coupling and was changed back into a man. Flying vampiric heads trailing their innards behind them as they float around at night. blinkyzero. The Graeae are also called Grey Sisters, Graiai, and Graiae. The ferryman called out with a trembling voice. In the 1st-century Life of Apollonius of Tyana the female empousa-lamia is also called "a snake",[40] which may seem to the modern reader to be just a metaphorical expression, but which Daniel Ogden insists is a literal snake. Who now had reached the harbor, and said, You do not escape, but you will die a peaceful death. The old crone stepped on board the boat and seated herself in the prow. Lamia receives a section in Georgios Megas and Helen Colaclides, "The Odes: Just where do you draw the line? Teju Jagua: Lizard-dog hybrid with seven dog heads (Guarani Mythology), 94. "How Did Our Legends Really Begin?" [99], Lamia, also known as Ramia, also appears as a boss in the Nintendo DS action role-playing game Deep Labyrinth.[100]. Theres a lot of stories told about Pesta, one of which is about a ferryman. Horace makes a related joke, referring to the aforementioned Lucius Aelius Lamia the praetor as "Lamus", in this instance regarded as the founding figure of the city of the Laestrygonians. Im gonna have to go with Pesta, an anthropomorphic personification of the Black Death from Norwegian folklore. Monsters of the Sea. No man dared to strive with Kwasind, [42][38] The use of the term lamia in this sense is however considered atypical by one commentator. Chariclo begged her to help him, so Athena, instead of restoring his ability to see the physical world, gave him the ability to see the future. I was working as a young reporter on the Hartford Courant that year when World War II was in the wings. 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