Encyclopedia of Western monster

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Ahuizotl (Water Monkey)
cannibalism in the Central American myth of monsters, half man, half monkey, tail minister has a hand grab to the water for people, especially eating the eyes, teeth and nails . Sometimes the cry of the people with their own lead to water, will be caught.
Aitvaras (Chicken Long)
Lithuania, the legendary Outdoor is turned into the dragon looks like. It settled down after a certain households usually do not leave easily, and often families will bring this windfall, but because most of them stolen money, so the family will be adding to the a lot of trouble. You can buy chicken from the devil at the dragon, the cost must, like Faust did surrender his soul.
Finland legendary dragon (Ajatar) and it has the same origin, but this dragons What wealth does not give people the only reproductive snakes, manufacturing, pestilence and disease.
Al (El)
legends in the ancient Persians, El is a strange half-human half beast, covered in Phi full hair, with wild boar tusks, hard iron claws and teeth, eyes like fire two groups, usually living in the swamp, eating a newborn baby. legend in Afghanistan, Al is the number of women with long hair fluttering demon, long nails, eating the bodies of carrion.
Alan (Alan)
Philippines legendary naughty strange half-human, half bird, living in the forest, long toes in your hand, finger length in feet on, often hanging upside down on the branch side. they were very friendly, raised in the Philippines was the legendary hero of some very famous.
Alcmene (AZ ink Nirvana)
Thebes King Anfeite Law Weng wife, was born after Zeus seduced Heller Chris Hercules. Arcana Line proficient Mexican weaving, weaving techniques had challenged Athena, lost due to suicide, Athena will be reincarnated as a spider his soul, upper body as a woman, lower body for the spiders, as long as the spider has eight legs, a huge spider living in the constantly weaving. legends she parasites in the human brain, eating human will.
Ammut (Manuel Special)
ancient Egyptian crocodile head and lion body and the strange, hindquarters like hippos, eating carrion. It is the resurrection of the legendary king of Egypt, Osiris (Osiris, the performance in the painting section of the rod and the whip for handheld sit In the throne) of the men, but also the ancient Egyptian legend of Osiris in the underworld king of the world, all the dead must be approved by the trial court offerings in the world, sitting on the throne of Osiris wearing the crown, the throne is Ammut and offerings of God by the 42 jury, the court placed in the center of a large scale, scale the side of truth Yu put, put the other side of the heart is tried, found guilty of the mouth of the dead will be Ammut Chinese food.
Amphisbana (double-headed Lizard)
Greek Roman scientist Pliny the famous record of this monster has medicinal, is said to live two-headed lizard to protect pregnant women, the death of two-headed lizard to treat rheumatism.
Argus Panoptes (Argus)
Greek When there are two eyes wide open is always alert. terrible E Kade that (see Echinda) is the sleeping giant when they were one hundred killed, but Argus was eventually killed by Hermes Hermes lure their sleep and cut off his head, the wife of Zeus, Hera, his eyes gouged out, as in the peacock's tail, it will have such a beautiful peacock tail. one hundred stories in the Olympic giant Vader's who ordered the giant Atlas negative days. Hercules Hercules was ordered to steal the golden apples St. Park, when he sent Atlas Prometheus proposed to accomplish this task, so Heracles agreed Atlas himself this time leaving a negative day, did not think Atlas won the Golden Apple in the post no longer willing to shoulder from the Hercules to take over the sky, Hercules had to get away with a total .
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Ba (Ba)
Egyptian mythology, the head represents the soul of the strange bird body. The ancient Egyptians has a unique understanding of death, they were divided into two parts Ka and Ba: Ka's meaning some will be re-combined and a new life.
Bahamut (Bahamut)
Behemoth (Bashir Holmes, see below) in the plural form of Bahamut is a giant cow, cattle back carrying a ruby mountain, the mountain there is a angel, angels head is six heavy hell, hell on Earth, the Earth is above the Seventh Heaven. Bahamut's body in the open, under the sea Ocean abyss of darkness below, and then following the fire of the ocean, the bottom of a snake crawling on all fours, if not because of fear of Allah, the snake will swallow all creation is the belly. Bahamut is so great the human eye can not reach, br> , bags under the eyes deep-set woman image, dressed in a ragged white shawl, a dying person in the door of No. cried aloud, her eyes have become red because of crying constantly. witch usually patronize the historic family, each family has its own witch.
Barbegazi (ice beard)
legends come and go in the mountains of France and Switzerland, shy little elf, Gnome, a branch of their own living at the top of the cave or dug the tunnel. time to appear. Their feet are very large and can be used as snow shoes, to prevent ourselves into the thick snow, but also can be used as skis, but also can be used as shovels to dig the tunnel. they like to control the avalanche, the human is friendly, in the avalanche about to happen will be issued a warning, and it will help those who are trapped in an avalanche of people to dig them from the snow.
Basilisk (poisonous lizard, chicken snake)
Gila with the dragon, alone horned beast, the giant is familiar to everyone as a monster, had appeared among a large number of historical data.
detailed description of this monster is the Roman scientist Pliny, his book Pliny first introduced to kill the other monster can look Cato Black Pass (see Catoblepas), then began the Gila: Province (Note: Gulibiya Northeast Mediterranean Sea area, the 7th century BC, the Greeks ruled the 1st century BC became a Roman province), about 12 inches, with bright white spots on the head, like a crown. It is in the face When on the other snakes without fear, will be a hissing sound to scare off the threat to the enemy. It is not that winds along the snake, but the central uplift of the body forward. lizard poison not only breath through contacts can also killed or burnt vegetation, crushed rock, it is the same for other animals, without hesitation, someone riding on horseback with a spear in the assassination of a poisonous lizard, the results of toxin along the spear quickly transmitted to that person body, and it eventually fell down dead horse. Although the creature is very deadly, but many still hope that the king can get it after the death of the specimens it. poisonous lizard's venom is the most poisonous nature of a thing. ;
ancient Greeks use the term works had written: the eyes are the symbol of the sacred and noble, like the Sphinx carved on the forehead of a similar mark cobra; three Gila usually come and go in the desert, but that does not mean it like to live in the desert, but because it has the look and smell so much destructive power, that the place where it could not escape the bad luck of desertification, so means For example, Shakespeare's looked up and attack the former will be head high, after one of these characteristics have been greatly exaggerated rumors. It is said to drive away the skin of poisonous lizards snakes and spiders, in the Apollo (sun god) temple, and Diana (Luna and Artemis ) door of the temple was poisonous lizard skin hanging for drive away the snakes, spiders and the dark life. recorded in the alchemy of the Renaissance, said the gray lizard with a drug can be points of friction silver gold silver.
Greece Gila mentioned myth Medusa from the blood of Medusa, Perseus killed Medusa by the blood fell on earth after it become the Gila, the Gila can kill with a glance. to kill poison lizards in three ways: First, do use the mirror as Perseus; Second, according to records of the 3rd century BC, the natural enemies of weasels poisonous lizard, the Gila thrown into the weasel's hole, weasel will use ozone the Gila smoked die; third, according to Claudius. Eye even the Gila together. Since then the legend on the Gila was beginning to change.
after the destruction of the Roman Empire, the legendary Gila is no longer a poisonous snake, Lawrence. Branagh has been explained through this change: began to think of a Gila monster whole body covered with feathers. > Legend poisoning lizard has a very special, the earliest record appears in the The egg will break the wind found a poisonous lizard in there. Nai Kamu written in the 12th century in a book of 80 years, but not income upper body for the chicken, lower body as the snake, covered with a thick layer of skin. and this must be toad eggs hatch, which would hatch such a very highly toxic monster cock mm a toad and the characteristics of a snake. ; Cockatrice tail, the body like a bird, but it does not cover the feathers, but covered with snake scales. Interestingly, despite the large numbers of chickens in the art among the snakes, but the story has very little about it, perhaps because it the power to kill with a look too strong, not in literature to find the right position (only with the eyes of Medusa turned people into stone). in modern fantasy fiction can be found in some of the content on the chicken snake, Smith Kline Will the company's classic game Ireland, Scotland and Brittany, the legend, is known as the legend in the Scottish Highlands, only to die people will see her, if she saw the look on her own before, people can escape unharmed, and if after she found her at her door, then certain death .
Behemoth (Bashir Holmes)
Old Testament Like cattle grazing, and its power concentrated in the waist, concentrated in the abdomen near the navel. It's like a straight tail, such as fir, stone fruit, such as muscle, bone, such as copper and iron as hard. ; it calmly drained a whole river, and if it is willing, it can swallow the whole Jordanian mouth. you can see, it lives in water, grazing, and large mouth, also suggested that Bashir Holmes is a similar creature elephant. Etymologically speaking, Levin A monster Leviathan (see Leviathan) linked to the record keeping on the Leviathan in the , Leviathan and the perch (see Ziz) will work together to become a holy person food. Enoch's prophecies have put together these two monsters are described: the female is called Leviathan, which live in the fountain abyss; male known as Bashir Holmes, Dan, it takes up the whole desert on behalf of Grace. Division into a demon, some people think it is the incarnation of Satan.
Beholder (Eye strange)
fantasy fiction monster, floating in the air of a class of large spherical biological, look ugly, has a big mouth , the body has a central eye, around the distribution of many small eyes, strong mass destruction.
Bendith (Class Dis)
Welsh legend goblins, the ugly monster is likely to be little witch (see Faerie) and goblins (see Goblin) of the Music.
Black Annis (Black Anni Si)
living in the marshes or the Scottish Highlands on the slopes of cannibal witches, blue skin, one-eyed, old and ugly, often sitting on a pile of bones outside the cave , if no one can eat, it will grab back some of the sheep or deer eat.
Bodach (Bo Dake)
Gaelic in Scotland, where, The wizard got into the house from the chimney, and stole unsuspecting children or those who scare them, after the child entered the room it began to have nightmares. It is said that Bo Dake only harass those naughty children, in order to prevent it from chimney drilling, the salt can be sprinkled in the fireplace, because Bo Dake hate to walk across from the salt. In addition there are two similar monsters, but also from Scotland, one is Porgy (Bogie), which usually hide elf in the cupboard and wardrobe, like the dark, mischievous, will be deformed, for example, into a lot of dust. The other is Bo Jiate (Boggart), Bo Jiate often dressed in ragged dirty clothes, messy hair, grass-like not only mischievous, but also enjoy making disaster, and once settled there will be no way to completely rid of it, even moving, it will also hide in furniture, were brought together in the new house.
Bottle Imp (strange bottle)
in Aladdin's lamp that resembles a giant, also has ability to make dreams come true owner. It is said that God holds a bottle / lamp of people will be condemned to hell after death, so God bottle / lamp's the owner is always trying so hard to lose it intentionally, but it is every time his back. eliminate God bottle / lamp is the only way to fire sale it off.
Brownie (brown Wizard)
good Scottish legend elf, naughty boy (see Hobgoblin) a. small and flat, the nostrils are small, but very long hair, like to live alone, sometimes in groups. and many other naughty, like do not like brown elf prank, they want to live in harmony with others, if you they are good, they will help you do the housework, but you can not give them compensation, a reward they will ever gone to, you can return them by other means, for example, they may deliberately left the place after some food (for example, They love to drink milk.) insulted the wizard if the words of Brown (which sometimes are vulnerable to injury), will leave you and take away your good luck; if the damage was great, they will change the above said Bo Jiate (Boggart), continue to give you trouble.
Some people think that brown elves actually missing the Neolithic Age, race, suffering from external aggression and forced to flee into the ground, some people feel that they are patron saint of the Roman family Lal (Lar) offspring.
Burak (Plaka)
Arab prophet, Muhammad, founder of Islam horses, with a human face and voice of the donkey's ears, horse's body, the peacock's wings and tail, eyes as blue as sapphire, shining like stars. Muhammad rode every night travel paradise.
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Cait Sith (Casey Cat) < br> Casey of England, Ireland and Scotland legend of the King the cat, the cat in the cat state has its own wisdom, to understand human language, but also has a complete social system, including the royal members of the common people of peace, they will those cats back to their own human abuse of the country. Casey is a cat, black cat white hair chest, hind foot stand, green eyes flashing with intelligence, like in a dark place haunted, most people can not see . Later, the Gila (see Basilisk), we have referred to Blair Pass Cato, Pliny the Younger in the Lai Pasi produced in the source of the Nile at the living by eating poisonous shrubs, some people think it is the prototype of wildebeest (South Africa produced a large antelope like cattle). because you can kill with a glance, so that by the Middle Ages, Cato Brian Pass has also been one that was a snake demon.
Cecrops (engraved Chloe Phillips)
legendary first king of Athens, with the human body, the snake's tail. legends about him in Virgil's Freud, A strange half-man half-horse, is affixed to spread in King Ixion and cloud products (Ixion days for reckless pursuit of the love of Hera, Zeus was kept tied in hell forever turn the wheel on the penalty) . Centaur There are many categories, some with the human body and limbs, but was extended to run for the back waist, torso and legs, some have a pair of wings, and some long ears and a pair of horses, which are derived from Onocentaur, Bucentaur and Leontocentaur such names. In addition to Ken Ross family Chiron Tao (Hakata Xuezhi of strange men, Achilles, and Asclepius Hermes teacher, who gave their lives to save Prometheus) and the lower ones Puhe Luo tribe, most men are strange and alcohol abuse, violence, sex linked.
in the Near East some of the people of ancient sculptures and paintings are also found in men in the strange The trail, which is usually half man and half horse hunter costume, bows and arrows is their main weapon, the Near East people be regarded as their patron saint. the Middle Ages men blame a work of art in the Bayeux Tapestry depicting it in the image on (Bayeux is a town in northwest France, near the English Channel, Bayeux tapestry stored in an exhibition hall here, where it recorded the 1066 Norman conquest of England in the event.)
Cerberus (Cerberus)
E Kade it (see Echinda) and Typhon (see Typhon) in the offspring, the gatekeeper of hell in Greek mythology, the dog, the dog has three heads (Hesiod The . Hercules Hercules one of the tasks is to catch it back from hell, wearing the breastplate of Hercules, wearing lion skin, it would be uniform, back to Yang, the sight of Cerberus toxic saliva spit fear the sun, drugs, saliva dripping on the floor into a highly toxic Aconitum grass. In addition to Hercules, the sun god Apollo, son of Orpheus has defeated Cerberus, according to legend the Russian ear Adams just good harp, the piano can be moved to vegetation, animals, and stone, to his wife Oriflame Dike rescued from hell, Orpheus Presley harp made by the hands of Cerberus asleep. Virgil said, Cerberus had three throat, Ovid it is the cry of the trio, as Bishop Butler put it over the triple crown (the Bishop is the gatekeeper of heaven, hell, Cerberus is the gatekeeper of the dog.) Nordic mythology, there is a group called Jiaer Mu (Garm) hell dogs, they have four eyes were red with blood, temperament is very cruel, and, like Cerberus guarded the gate to hell. taught Solomon God Yama's dog Pluto also has four eyes, Solomon hell Buddhist teaching and also covered with dogs, they are the soul of the Torturer.
Cetus (Cetus)
; in Latin is Ou Biya that their daughter Andromeda Dabi Hai god daughter of Nereus female immortal who looks more beautiful ocean, marine female immortal who hear very angry, and they brought in fifty sisters drowned Poseidon Poseidon the Kingdom, also announced that the Andromeda threw only siren Cetus feeding Kingdom to be saved, so the king had to be tied to the siren Andromeda rock Cetus infested waters. Zeus, the son of Patricia Perseus saw Andromeda Seoul, after falling in love with her, and for the rescued Andromeda, he killed Cetus, with Medusa Medusa's head to turn it into stone.
Chimera ( Kemira)
E Kade it (see Echinda) and Typhon (see Typhon) in the future, Hesiod's , or should we say that E Kade and her son born two-headed dog. In medieval narrative poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture Central Standing Committee appears. Kemira source of different opinions, more effectively saying that it produced in the Licia volcano area, the foothills of the rich volcanic snakes, the higher slopes of rich goat, bleak hill is the crater, a haunt of the lion, so Kemira metaphor may be in the region.
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Cyclops (Cyclops)
living in Greek mythology, the island of Sicily three storm god mmBrontes (Raytheon), Sterops (Xinhua God) and Arges (thunderbolt of God), they all belong to a giant family, feature is the blacksmith of the gods Hephaestus forged artifact, according to legend Zeus in the hands of the Lightning is cast by these three giants. In the original mythology, they are the son of North Ola, and later evolved into Poseidon son, and ultimately from God, the Cyclops system into a single family, this race is characterized by rough, like eating people, in Homer's (b heavy body)
to see their own double identity, but that half is for the human eye can not be captured (see their dual identity is the ominous sign, said to Queen Elizabeth I before his death said he saw the other their own , finished after the death), only cats and dogs to see that it exists. double body in the mirror does not leave any image, it will not cast a shadow, but it's all the time standing behind, watched every movement of people, and people poured into their proposed penetration into the human brain or heart, to form the thought.
the emergence of dual identity is usually malicious, it will take away the original body energy, and even kill the original body, so some games made it into a specific monster, similar to Long dominated much of Western, the Western dragon is characterized by four foot wings, covered with black and will be fire-breathing, reptiles and birds, the equivalent of a hybrid is double ground and air supremacy. Legends of the Dragon is usually treasure caretakers.
East Rondo is noble, sacred and a symbol of good luck, and most of Western dragons are evil, epic in the West, such as Greek mythology, Germanic mythology, Norse mythology has a hero who slays story. This year, one called According to 7 to 8 century English epic theft and the wrath of an accident, began to undermine the entire kingdom, and finally killed by Beowulf, and Beowulf also died after being bitten Agrimonia.
the Aga Memnon legend engraved on the shield is a three- Dragon head, then the Romans will be the dragon as the infantry brigade's emblem, to lead the Vikings as a bow in the Bible there are many records about dragons, usually as a symbol of terror.
Drake / Wurm / Wyvern (Drake / Wurm / meandering dragon)
three dragons are not only the shape of a dragon and Runge, of which the smallest of the dragon beast, shaped like lizards, but with a dragon's blood level is very low, can not fly only glide; Asia the relationship between the dragon and the dragon least it is in the legendary flame), the body covered with scales, strictly speaking, should be classified as snakes mythology.
meandering dragon claw wings, bodies like the dragon, claws like eagles, and therefore it was called . Desmond)
forest goddess referred to in the game, the image usually appears dryad, you may recall, escape from the dungeon, you just take them to your acorns to live in Windspear Hills Lake, Fairy Queen Vaelasa, they will be freed, and their oak can be reborn again.
Dullahan (Du Erla Khan):
strange without a head of immortality, and hand sword in one hand and holding the head with a helmet (with a dagger before his death medieval habit of head Zhanxia, dagger known as the > short stature (about a meter or so), limbs stout race, rosy cheeks, black eyes black hair, left long ...