If someone looks like a person, talks like a person, and even smells likewise, it can not be at all a person.
Who are they?
Many creatures look like people, or on them mask. Many of them, including vampires, ghosts and iswolves, for centuries fascinated and scared us. For a good reason, we all very much worried about them, because we just do not know who or what is hidden in the dark. Have you ever seen your colleague to eat garlic? Or can you say that they were next to him during the full moon? How do you know that your nearest friends are not something completely different? Are you sure that people with whom you communicate are precisely people, and not the described creatures?
Replacing
Stories about children who have been replaced, popular in European folklore. These are the creatures that evil spirits instead of stolen children. The kids who were replaced, rarely lived with a normal human life. When they smashed, looked and behaved at all like ordinary people. Why fairy or other creatures did it? According to some, just for the sake of interest. But in other stories it is claimed that being educated people respectable than other beings, so the substitution was a way to increase the social status of a child.
The medieval literature is all sicked by stories about the submenues, since society struggled to reconcile with such horrors as childhood mortality, disability, childhood disease, and the like. It was difficult for parents to understand why some children suffered, and others rejoiced their lives, because everyone is protected by God. And it all ended with the fact that they began to invent different stories about the abducted children and the substitution, to try to understand the tragic reality.
But this is not just medieval fear. In the 2008 film "Substitution" with Angelina Jolie, the actual case is revealed to the replacement of children. In 1928, the mother discovered in Los Angeles that her son was kidnapped. Police managed to find a child in a few days, but the mother does not believe that the boy returned to her, it was not her son.
Demons and devil
The best way to push people to sin is to convince them that you are one of your and live among them. For this, the demons and the devil are sometimes masked under people to fulfill their insidious plan. Sometimes it is manifested as the obsession of one person to others, but often the demons simply take the human appearance. However, they know how to disguise, especially if the people they are trying to deceive, righteous. Some neglect so to speak, hide the horns or their forked languages.
When the demons take the human appearance, they can usually be easily noticed. If suddenly detect them, they will usually have to disappear. However, sometimes a person who noticed a demon or devil did not renounce him and was not against temptation. The best example of this in folklore is Faust, who sold his soul to the devil. Tom Walker in the story of Nathaniel Hawthorna "The Devil and Tom Walker" does the same.
Angels
Demons are not the only one who considers the human appearance with a good cover. Angels are also masked in order to deal with people directly, although the Bible describes them as creatures that cannot be seen. Nevertheless, the first appearance of angels in the Bible occurs in the Book of Genesis, where they are sent to evaluate the moral state of Sodom and Gomorra. In order to do this, they pretended to be conventional travelers.
Many stories describe angels or creatures that are considered angels, such creatures that visit people. If the demons often prefer to take the appearance of influential people, businessmen or lawyers, the angels tend to turn into people with a more modest standard of living. Usually they try to use words and wisdom to gently push people to the right path, although they may be angry if they are wrong.
Angels are disguised as well as demons, they are trying to be invisible. Where the "dark" demons, angels, as a rule, shining, white and clean. Their holiness overshadows and ahead of their false human forms. But those who are spoiled by sin will not be able to see it, and they risk to face divine punishment.
Double
Perhaps this is the most famous creature in this list. This is an essence that is similar to someone else. Obviously, these people are completely different, the twin is not even a person. They are completely impossible to distinguish. But in all actions they are the same.
Maybe each of us has your Dopelganger - an accurate duplicate that lives in the next city or through a few streets, but we never meet, because we have different circles of communication, we never come into contact with each other. But should we meet? If you see your dopelganger is an omensing of death. It will not kill you, but something will certainly happen.
Many believe that everyone has a double, and this is true. It is possible that we all have an Dopelganger, with which we still have to meet. What if you are still alive, and all because your dopperganger saw you first, and not the opposite? How do you know that you are not Dopelganger?
Kitsune
These are foxes in Japanese folklore and mythology. Like foxes, they use their cunning and intelligence to overcome those with whom they face, but their main ability is to be masked under a person. Why do they do it? Maybe this is a game or prank, in order to steal something or just to attack the sacrifice. Sometimes Kitsune uses human appearance to have sex with sleeping people. Whatever the reason, disguised Kitsune - always a wolf in sheep skins.
Nevertheless, many Masking of Kitsune are imperfect. Some retain their shadow, despite the fact that they look like a person, they are given long red hair. However, the best way to see the disguised Kitsune is to keep her about himself until she behalf itself and does not say something that he proves: she is not a man. Can you exude a fox?
Werewolves, Vurdalaks, Vampires
Many different creatures are trying to look like people, and some it succeeds. For example, vampires. Almost not to distinguish them from people, but the fangs do not hide. They have a lot of physical limitations that clearly indicate them as vampires. Werewind similar problems - they are usually people, but at certain days become disgusting, carnivorous animals.
Zombies, vampires, ghosts, ghosts - they all exist, and everyone can be among us. These creatures pushing us to think about what to be a person. What does this talk about us as people if these creatures make us doubt how humane do we have?
But such monsters penetrate our fears deeper. Any woman with whom we meet may be kitsune, or our friends can be vampires, or when our newborn children seem a bit strange, everything is immediately changing for us. We feel that we were betrayed, captured and used in insidious purposes. And when we think that this is a person - a person who lives almost does not differ from our, what does this mean about us? How long can we believe in what exactly the acts make us people? It is terrible to think that we share such an intense personal connection with the most terrible killers and criminals, being similar. We are all so close to the monsters and do not even realize it.
Conclusion
All these disguised evil and good creatures encourage us to resist our fear and determine our own human path.
Are you familiar with Greek mythology? This list will help you check your knowledge or even enrich them. The legendary creatures from the ancient Greek folklore were no wonder for the whole world, because they had just extraordinary qualities. These mythical monsters are one of the most bizarre, terrible and incredible creatures, among which are not only amazing animals, but also the strangest humanoids, which only you can imagine. Are you ready for a liberation?
25. Python or PiPon
Usually depicted in the form of a snake guarding the entrance to the Delphian Oracle. According to the legend of the cruel blister, Apollo himself was killed, one of the famous Olympic gods. After the death of the snake on the site of the Delphic oracle, Apollo founded his own privilege.
24. ORF, ORT, ORTR, Ortros, ORFR
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A two-headed dog whose task was to protect a huge herd of magical red bulls. This monster killed the Greek hero Hercules, who took himself the whole herd in the proof of victory over the ORF. According to rumors, ORF was the father of several other monsters at once, including Sphinx and Chimera, and his brother was the legendary Cerber.
23. ichthyo-bentaurry
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These were the sea gods of Centaur Tritons, whose top of the body looked like a human, the lower pair of limbs was horsepower, and they followed the fish tail. They were often portrayed next to Aphrodite during its appearance. Perhaps you could also meet these ichthyo-coentaurs in the pictures dedicated to the zodiac constellation of fish.
22. Skeilla
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Hexaging Skeilla was a maritime monster who inhabited with one of the sides of a narrow strait under the rock, while on the other side of the navigators waited no less dangerous Haribda (13 point). The distance between the banks of this narrow strait and asylums of evil mythical creatures was equal to the flight of the running boom, so the travelers were very often floated too close to one of the monsters and gibbles.
21. Typhon.
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Typhon was the personification of the volcanic forces of the Earth and at the same time was considered the most deadly demon in all Greek. His upper body was human, and this character was so huge that he supported the starry sky, and his hands got to the eastern and western edges of the world. Instead of an ordinary human head, a hundred dragon heads was erupted from his neck and shoulders.
20. Outfitvar
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The officer was another Greek soup-hybrid, who was afraid of more death. According to the legend, the murder and ritual burning of the insides of this semi-semi-mongrel made power with which you can win over any gods. For the same reason, Titans killed the monster to overthrow the Olympic Godheads, but Zeus managed to send an eagle so that he climb the battle of the defeated creation before they burn them on the altar, and Olympus was saved.
19. Lamia
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It is said that once Lamyia was an excellent government of the Libyan Kingdom, but later became a brutal devourer of children and a dangerous demon. According to the myth of Zeus, so much loved the charming lamia, his wife Hera from jealousy killed all the children of Lamia (except for the damned skill) and transformed the Libyan queen in the monster, hunting on other people's children.
18. Graii or Forkiada
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Grai were three sisters with one common eye and tooth. It is not surprising that they were famous for not by beauty, but rather with their seeds and ugliness, inspiring everyone. In addition, the names they had very eloquent: Dean (shiver or death), Enio (horror) and pemphredo (anxiety).
17. Echidna
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Semi-semi-miletone. Echidna called the mother of all monsters, since most of the monsters from the ancient Greek myths were considered her siblings. According to the legend of the echidna and Typhon, passionately loved each other, and it was their union that spawned a lot of insidious creatures. The Greeks believed that she produced a poison causing madness.
16. Neamee Lev.
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Nemoye Lion was an evil monster inhabited in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Neeus. As a result, he was killed by the famous ancient Greek hero Hercules. To kill with simple weapons, this mythical being was impossible because of his extraordinary gold wool, which was unrealistic to pierce with ordinary swords, arrows or stakes, and therefore Hercules had to strangle the Nemsky Lion with her bare hands. Cutting from the beast the skin Sullet was only possible with the help of claws and teeth of the very defeated lion.
15. Sphinx
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Sphinx was zoomorphic creation with a body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, a tail of a bull and a woman's head. According to legend, this character was a ruthless and cunning monster. Those who could not solve riddles, according to the tradition of all myths, died with a painful death in the mouth of the fierce sphinx. The monster itself died only after his mystery was solved by the brave king Oedip.
14. Erynia
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From Greek, Erinia is translated as "angry". These were the goddess Avengers. According to the legend, they punished anyone who pronounced false oaths, I made any atrocity or said something against one of the gods.
13. Haribda
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The daughter of Poseidon and Gay, Haribda was a huge marine monster with mouth onto the whole face and fins or flippers instead of hands and feet. Three times a day, she absorbed a huge amount of sea water, and then spoiled her back, thus creating powerful waterways that were easily sucked by large ships. It was she who was a neighbor deadly skill out of 22 points.
12. Garpia
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These were creatures with bird bodies and female people. They stole food from innocent victims and sent sinners straight to vengeful Eriniam (14 point). Garpia translates as a "kidnapper" or "predator". Zeus often appealed to them so that these creatures were punished or destroyed torture.
11. Satiy
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Satira are often depicted by hybrids of people and goats. Usually they have goat horns and hind legs. Satires loved to be drunk, playing flute and served God of Winemaking Dionysus. These forest demons were true lazy and led the most careless and disadvantaged lifestyle.
10. Sirena
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Beautiful and very dangerous mythical characters. These fatal goddesses with fish tails kneaded navigators with their sweet voices, and because of their Char, the ships flew over the rocks and broke off off the coast. Toning wanderers, these creatures weighed into parts and eaten.
9. Griffon
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Griffin is a mythical creation with a body, tail and posterior lion's paws, and his head, wings and claws on the front paws were eagle. The lion was traditionally considered the king of all land monsters, and the eagle - the king of all birds, therefore, in ancient Greek mythology, Griffon was an incredibly mighty and majestic character.
8. Chimera
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Chimera was a fire monster, whose body consisted of 3 different animals: lion, snakes and goats. The monster was from Lycia (the ancient state of Minor Asia). Most often, Chimera called any mythical or fictional creature with body parts from different animals. In the figurative sense of chimer, it is considered an impersonation of any unreserved desire or fantasy.
7. Cerber
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Cerber - one of the most famous characters of ancient Greek mythology. By legend, it was a three-headed dog with a snake tail guarding the gates to the underground kingdom. No one could escape from the afterlife world, who crossed the Styx River, and this strictly followed the fierce Cerberry, until he was overcome Hercules.
6. Cyclop
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The cyclops were a separate race of one-eyed giants. According to these creatures, they were cruel and fierce monsters who were not even afraid of the gods, but at the same time they served the God of fire and blacksmith craft Hephasta.
5. Hydra
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Hydra was an ancient sea monster, resembling a huge snake with the features of the reptile, from the body of which grew countless heads. Instead of one chopped head, it always grown 2 new heads. The Hydra had poisonous breathing, and even her blood was so dangerous that the slightest contact with her was fatal.
4. Gorgon
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Probably, the most famous of all ancient Greek Gorgon was jellyfish. She was also the only death gorgon among his evil sisters. Instead of hair, the jellyfish grew a snake, and one of her glance was enough to turn a man into a stone. According to the legend, she managed to go to the Perse, armed with a mirror, instead of a shield.
3. Minotaur
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Minotaurus was the mythical creation with the head of the bull and the human body who eaten innocent people. He dwells in the Knos Maze, built by an ancient Greek engineer and the artist Dedalom and his son Ikar. The monster eventually was fought by the attic hero by the name of the Teshen.
2. Centaur
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Centaur was a fabulous being with head, hands and a torso person, and below the belt he reminded the usual horse. One of the most famous centaurs in Greek mythology was considered Hiron. Most centaurs were violent and hostile to people creatures, loved to drink and revered only the god of Dionysus winemaking. However, Chiron was wise and good creating and even a mentor of such ancient Greek heroes, like Hercules and Achilles.
1. Pegasus
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This is one of the most famous mythical creatures of the ancient world. The Greeks believed that Pegasus was a divine stallion of snow-white, and that he had huge wings. By legend Pegasus was a child of Poseidon and Gorgon Jellyfish. According to one of the legends every time this fabulous horse beat on the ground with its hoof, a new water source was born.
Centaur
Centaurs, in Greek mythology, wild creatures, semi-bedrooms, the inhabitants of the mountains and the forest scale. They lived in Fessiona, they fed on meat, drowned and famous for a violent temper. Centaurs were fought without tired with their neighbors Lapifa, trying to steal wives from this tribe. Defeated by Hercules, they settled throughout Greece. Centaurs are mortal, only Chiron was immortal. Chiron, unlike all centaurs, was tempted in music, medicine, hunting and military art, and also famous for his kindness. He was friends with Apollo and brought up a number of Greek heroes, including Achilles, Hercules, Tekes and Jason, taught the healing of Asclepia himself. Chiron was inadvertently injured by Hercules an arrow poisoned by the poison of the Lerneysian hydra. Suffering from the incurable Rape, Centaur has eased death and refused immortality in exchange for the liberation of Zeus Prometheus. Zeus settled Hiron in the sky in the form of the constellation of the Centaur.
Lapiphy
Lapiphy, in Greek mythology, the Fessealian tribe, inhabited in the mountains and forests of Ossee and Pelion. Lapifa's children - Lapiphs became the priests of the families of this tribe. In legends about Lapifa, historical motives and mythology are closely intertwined. Probably, there was a tribe of the Lapiphov - one of the oldest post-leggie tribes of the Fessalian, expelled, according to legend, Dorians.
Volkolak
Volkolak. Thrust man, with the help of witchcraft turning or turning into a certain period of wolf. It is believed that the name of the wolfolk is formed by the addition of the words of the Wolf and the South Slavic Dlaka "Wool, Skura". Volkolak comes from the bodies. Representations of wolfoline are most fully preserved in the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish traditions, where the plots of many nearly, the sorcerers are connected with the Wolkolak: the sorcerer turns the wedding participants into wolves; a man turns into a wolf-out girl rejected by him; The evil mother-in-law (wife) turns the unloved son-in-law (her husband) into the wolves; The sorcerer turns into a wolf tree to cause evil people; Husband - Wolvek in the classroom turns into a wolf and attacks his wife, who later identifies him, seeing his dress in his teeth.
Garpia
GARPIA - in the ancient Greek mythology - daughters of the Marine Divine of Tavmert and Oceanids, the Archaic Delicia Divine, personifications of various aspects of the storm. Their number ranges from two to five; Pictures are depicted in the form of a wilted wild half-semi-semidentity of the disgusting species. The myths are represented by evil kidnappers of children and human souls, suddenly flying and just as suddenly disappearing like wind.
Sirena
Sirens - in Greek mythology, marine creatures, personified a deceptive, but charming sea surface, under which sharp cliffs or melons are hidden. Sirens - half-semi-substaine (in some sources of half-semi-seen) who inherited wild spontaneity from the father, and from Mother Music - a divine voice. They set the sailors to the sea bumps with their charming singing.
Hippo (less often Begamot)
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I once again told you about even led an exhaustive proof of photos in this article. Why i spoke about mermaidsyes because mermaid - This is a mythical creature, found in many stories, fairy tales. And this time I want to tell about mythical creatureswho existed at one time on giving: grants, DRIADA, Kraken, Griffins, Mandragora, Hypogrif, Pegasus, Lerneysian hydra, Sphinx, Chimera, Cerberry, Phoenix, Vasilisk, Unicorn, Vfuln. We will get acquainted closer with these creatures.
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1. Vivenn
Vivene "This creature is considered a" relative "of the dragon, but he has only two legs. Instead of anterior - Non-surface wings. It is characterized by a long snake neck and a very long, movable tail, an ending sting in the form of a heart-shaped arrow tip or a spear. With this stall of the Vfulnna, the victim collapses or prick, and under the appropriate conditions even pierce it. In addition, the sting of poisonous.
Vfulnna is often found in alchemical iconography, in which most of the dragons) personifies the primary, crude, non-translated matter or metal. In religious iconography it can be seen in the paintings depicting the struggle of Saints Mikhail or George. You can also wiverna also find in heraldic coat of arms, for example, on the Polish coat of arms of Lapet, the coat of arms of the family of drake or hosts from Coonwald.
2. Aspid.
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Aspid - In the ancient Azbukovniki, the mention of Aspide is found - this is a snake (or a snake, aspid) "the winged, nose has a bird and two trunks, and in which the land will continue, the land will be led by Earth." That is, everything collapses and devastated. The famous scientist M. Zablin said that aspid, according to popular belief, you can meet in the gloomy northern mountains and that it is never to sit on the ground, but only on the stone. To speak and lime snake - the destroyer can be only a "pipe voice", from which the mountains are shaken. Then the stunned aspid of the sorcerer or a zeroar grabbed the ticks and kept, "while snakes did not die"
3. Unicorn
Unicorn - symbolizes the chastity, as well as serves the emblem of the sword. The tradition is usually in the form of a white horse with one horn out of forehead; However, according to esoteric beliefs, it has a white torso, a red head and blue eyes. In the early traditions, the unicorn was depicted with the bull body, in later with the body of a goat and only in late legends with a horse body. The legend claims that he is not tired when he is being pursued, but it is pounding to go to the ground if a virgin approaches him. In general, unicorn is impossible to catch, but if it can be able to hold it only with a golden bridle.
"The back was bent him and the ruby \u200b\u200beyes glowed, in the withers he reached 2 meters. Just above the eye, almost parallel to the earth, I grew horn; straight and thin. The mane and the tail have crumbled with small curls, but lowered and unnaturally for albinos black The eyelashes threw fluffy shadows on pink nostrils. " (S.Drugal "Vasilisk")
They feed on flowers, especially love rosehip flowers, and honeyfish, and drink morning dew. They also seek little lakes in the depths of the forest in which they bathe and drink from there and water in these lakes usually becomes very clean and has the properties of living water. In Russian "Azbukovnikh" 16 -17 centuries. Unicorn is described as a terrible and invincible beast, like a horse, the whole strength of which is enclosed in Horn. The nogue of the unicorn was attributed to the healing properties (according to the folk representations, the unicorn by its horn purifies the water poisoned by the snake). Unicorn is the essence of a different world and foreshadows happiness.
4. Vasilisk
Basilisk - The monster from the head of the rooster, the eyes of the toad, the wings of a bat and a dragon body (for some sources a huge lizard) which exists in the mythologies of many nations. From his gaze is all the living. Vasilisk - is born of an egg demolished by a seven-year-old black rooster (in some sources from the egg squeezed) in a warm dung bunch. According to legend, if Vasilisk will see his reflection in the mirror he will die. The habitat of Vasiliskov is the caves, they are its power supply, because it eats Vasilisk only stones. He can only leave his asylum at night, because it does not tolerate the crock of the rooster. And he is afraid of unicorns because those too "clean" animals.
"He moves the horns, the eyes are so green with a purple sweat, a hood warthfall is swelling. And he himself was a purple black with a spiked tail. The triangular head with a black and pink mouth wide open ...
His saliva is extremely poisonous and if it gets to live matter, then the replacement of carbon on silicon will immediately go. Simply put, all the living turns into a stone and moves, although there are disputes that Identify me too, but those who wanted to check it back did not return .. "(" S.Drugal Vasilisk ").
5. Manticor
Manticor "The story about this is a terrible creature can be found in Aristotle (IV century to our era) and a stonia of the older (I era). Manticor size with a horse, has a human face, three rows of teeth, the lion's body and the tail of the scorpion, red eyes, poured blood. Manticor runs so quickly that in the blink of an eye overcomes any distances. It makes it extremely dangerous - after all, it is almost impossible to run away, and the monster feeds only with fresh human meat. Therefore, on medieval meniamiars, you can often see the image of a manticor with a human hand or foot in the teeth. In medieval works on natural history, the Manticor was considered a really existing, but inhabitable in deserted places.
6. Valkyrie
Valkyrie.- Beautiful Virgin Chariters who fulfill the will of Odin and are his companions. They invisibly take part in every battle, giving victory to someone who are awarded her gods, and then carry the dead warriors in Valgalu, the castle of Ovenly Asgard, and they are serving them at the table. The legends call both heavenly Valkyrie, which determine the fate of every person.
7. Anca
Anca- In Muslim mythology, wonderful birds created by Allah and hostile to people. It is believed that Anca exist to this day: they just have so much that they are found extremely rare. Anka is in many ways similar to its properties with Phoenix bird, having lived in the Arabian desert (it can be assumed that Anka is a Phoenix).
8. Phoenix
Phoenix- in monumental sculptures, stone pyramids and buried mums of the Egyptians sought to find eternity; It is quite natural that it was in their country that the myth of a cyclically reviving, immortal bird should arise, although the subsequent development of the myth was committed by the Greeks and the Romans. Adolv Erman writes that Phoenix is \u200b\u200ba patron of jubileev, or large temporary cycles in the mythology of Heliopolis. Herodotus in the famous passage sets out with an underlined skepticism the initial version of the legend:
"There is another sacred bird, her name Phoenix. I myself never saw her, except with drawn, for in Egypt, it rarely appears, once every 500 years, as the residents of Heliopolis say. According to them, she flies when she dies Father (that is, she herself) if the image is correctly shown its size and magnitude and appearance, the plumage of it is a golden one, part of red. The appearance of it and dimensions resemble an eagle. "
9. Echidna
Echidna - half-seed half, daughter Tartara and Rii, gave birth to Typhon and many monsters (Lerneysian hydraulic, cerper, chimeura, unay lion, sphinx)
10. Heads
Sliding- Pagan evil spirits of the ancient Slavs. Also, they are also called Criccuses or Choman - swamp spirits, which are dangerous that they can stick to a person, even to make it, especially in old age, if a person did not love anyone in life and he had no children. Head has a not quite definite appearance (says, but invisible). She can wrap a little man, a small child, a beggar old man. In a catalyne game, the worst personifies poverty, poverty, winter darkness. In the house of the Children, most often settled behind the oven, but loves and suddenly jump on his back, the shoulders of man, "ride" on it. There may be somewhat worst. However, manifested by some smelter, they can be transferred, locked, concluding in some container.
11. Cerberry
Cerberus - One of the children of the echid. The three-headed dog, on the neck of which move with the Grozny hiss of the snake, and instead of the tail he has a poisonous snake .. He serves Aida (God of the kingdom of the dead) stands on the eve of hell and protects his entrance. She followed that no one came out of the underground kingdom of the dead, because from the kingdom of the dead there is no refund. When Cerberus was on Earth (this happened because of Hercules, which, on the instructions of the Tsar, Eurisfay brought him from Aida) The monstrous dog dropped a drop of bloody foam from the mouth; Of which the poisonous grass rose aconite.
12. Chimera
Chimera - In Greek mythology, the monster of the monster and the neck of the lion, the goat's body and the tail of the Dragon (on another version of Chimera had three heads - lion, goats and dragon) seems to be a chimera - the personification of the fire-drying volcano. In the figurative sense of chimer - fantasy, unrealized desire or action. In sculpture, chimeras are images of fantastic monsters (for example, chimeras of the Cathedral of the Paris's Mother of God) But it is considered that stone chimeras can come to life to bring horror to people.
13. Sphinx
Sphiefc or Sphing in ancient Greek mythology winged monster with the face and breasts of a woman and a torso lion. It makes it up of the outline dragon of Typhon and Echidnas. The name of the Sphinx is associated with the verb "Sphingo" - "compress, suffer." The hero of the hero on the income in the punishment. The Sphinx is located on the mountain near FIV (or on the city square) and asked everyone a riddle held ("Which of the living beings in the morning walks on four legs, in the afternoon on two, and in the evening on three?"). I could not give a rays in the Sphinx killed and thus destroyed a lot of noble phivans, including the son of King Creonte. The king depressed with the grief announced that he would give the kingdom and the hand of his sister okasto to the one who would save the fiva from the Sphinx. The mystery was solved by the Oedip, the Sphinx in despair rushed into the abyss and crashed to death, and Oedip became the Fivansky king.
14. Lerneysian hydra
Lerneny hydra - The monster with the bodies of the snake and the nine heads of the dragon. Hydra lived in a swamp near the city of Lern. Crawled out of his logo and destroyed whole herds. Victory over Gyuto was one of the feats of Hercules.
15. Niaja
Niaja - Each river, every source or a stream in Greek mythology had their boss - the nayad. This is a fun tribe of patrons of water, propheted and healers did not cover any statistics, he heard every Greek with a poetic vest in the banner of the waters of the careless chatter Naj. They belong to the descendants of the ocean and the the fisids; There are up to three thousand them.
"All names for them to call anyone from people are not under power. Knows the name of the flow only one who is close to dwells "
16. Ruchh
Ruchh - The east has long been told about the Giant Bird of Ruchh (or Hands, Fear, Foot, Nagai). Someone even met her. For example, the hero of the Arab fairy tales of Sinbad-Seaido. Once he found himself on a uninhabited island. After examining, he saw a huge white dome without windows and doors, so big that he could not get to him.
"And I," Syndbad tells himself, "he walked around the dome, measuring his circle, and counted fifty full steps. Suddenly the Sun disappeared, and the air was darkened, and the light turned out from me. And I thought that the cloud found in the sun (and it was summer time), and was surprised, and raised my head, and saw a bird with a huge body and wide wings, which flew through the air - and it was she covered the sun and tanned him over the island . And I remembered one story, which people were told for a long time ago, namely: on some islands there is a bird, called Ruchh, who feeds his children with elephants. And I was convinced that the dome I walked around - Egg Ruchh. And I began to surprise the fact that Allah was great. And at that time the bird suddenly sank to the dome, and hugged him with wings, and pulled his legs on the ground behind him, and fell asleep on it, and there will be Slary Allah, who never sleeps! And then I, unleashing Chalm, tied myself to the legs of this bird, saying to myself: "Maybe she will take me to countries with cities and a population. It will be better than sitting here, on this island. "And when it rose dawn and climbed the day, the bird starred from the egg and swayed into the air. And then it began to descend and dropped on some land, and, reaching the earth, I Quickly embarked on her legs, fearing the bird, but the bird did not know about me and I did not feel. "
Not only a fabulous Sinbad-Sea - but also a real Florentine traveler Marco Polo, who visited Persia in the XIII century, India and China, heard about this bird. He told that Mongolian Khan Khubilai once sent the birds of faithful people. The deaths found her homeland: the African Island of Madagascar. They did not see the bird itself, but they brought her pen: it was twelve steps long, and the pen rod in diameter was equal to two palm trunks. They said that the wind produced by the wings of Ruchh winds a man from his feet, claws her like bullish horns, and meat returns youth. But try to catch this ruh if she can carry a unicorn along with three elephants stronged on her horn! The author of Encyclopeda Alexandrova Anastasia knew this monstrous bird and in Russia, called fear, legs or feet, gave her new fabulous features.
"The feet-bird is so strong that the will of raising can, in the air flies and four legs walk on the ground," the ancient Russian "Azbukovnik" of the XVI century narrates.
The secret of the winged giant tried to clarify the famous traveler Marko Polo: "It's name is this bird on the islands of the hand, and we don't call our own, but then - vulture!" Only ... heavily grown in human imagination.
17. Hukhlik
Hukhlik in Russian superstitions of water traits; Out of The name of Hukhlyak, Hukhlik,, apparently, happened from Karelian Huhlakka - "Caught", TUS - "Ghost, Ghost", "Dressed Strange" (Cherepanova 1983). The appearance of Hukhlyak is unclear, but they say that it is similar to shilicoon. This unclean spirit appears most often from the water and becomes especially active during the shin. Loves to make fun of people.
18. Pegasus
Pegasus - in greek mythology Winged horse. Son Poseidon and Gorgon Jellyfish. Born out of the body killed by the Gorgon. The Pegasus got because he was born at the origins of the ocean (Greek. "Source"). Pegasus ascended to Olympus, where he delivered thunder and lightning Zeus. Pegasus is also called the horse of the muses, since he knocked the hippocrase from under the ground - a source of music, which has a property to inspire poets. Pegasus is just like a unicorn can only catch the golden bridle. On another myth, the gods gave Pegasus. Bellorofontu, and the one takes off on it, killed the winged monster Chimera, devastating the country.
19 hippogrif
Hippogrif - In the mythology of the European Middle Ages, wanting to designate the impossibility or inconsistency, Virgil says about an attempt to crush the horse and the griff. Four centuries later his commentator service claims that vultures or griffins are animals that the front of the body is an eagle, and the rear is lion. To reinforce your statement, he adds that they hate horses. Over time, the expression "Jungentur Jam Grypes Eguis" ("crossing the vultures with horses") has become a saying; At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Louis Ariosto remembered him and came up with Hippogriff. Pietro Michelly notes that hypogrif is more harmonious creation, even the winged Pegasus. In "Fury Roland" given a detailed description of the hypogriff, as if it was intended for the textbook of fantastic zoology:
Not ghostly under the magician horse - a mare
Born on the light, his father was hiking;
In his father, he was a bird wide, -
The Father was in front: like that, Reliva;
Everything else, like the uterus, it was
And called the horse is the hypogrif.
Rifey mountains limits are glorious by them,
Far beyond the seas
20 Mandragora
Mandrake. The role of mandragora in mythopoietic ideas is due to the presence of certain sleeping and exciting properties in this plant, as well as the similarity of its root with the lower part of the human body (Pythagora called Mandragore "a humanoid plant", and Columella is "grass-receiving"). In some folk traditions, the guy of Mandragora's root distinguishes the male and female plants and even give them the appropriate names. In the old herbalists, the roots of Mandragora are depicted as men's or female forms, with a bunch of leaves growing out of the head, sometimes with a dog on a chain or agonizing dog. According to beliefs, the one who will hear the moan, published by Mandrague when digging it from the ground, must die; To avoid the death of man and at the same time satisfy the thirst for blood, allegedly inherent on Mandragore. When digging Mandragora was put on a binding dog, which was thought to die in agony.
21. Griffins
Griffin- Winged monsters with a lion torso and eagle heads, gold guards. In particular, it is known that the treasures of the Ripey Mountains are guarded. Flowers faded from his cry, and the sickness of grass, and if there is someone alive, all the dead fall. The eyes of the griffin with a golden sampling. The head in size resembled the wolf's head with a huge frightening view with a beak in foot long. Wings with a strange second joint so that it was more convenient to fold them. In Slavic mythology, all the approaches to the Iriemic Garden, Alakura Mountain and an apple tree with gold apples. Suggest griffins, Vasiliski. Who will try these gold apples - he will receive eternal youth and power over the universe. And the apple tree itself with gold apples wakes dragon palm. Nor walking, no equestrian pass.
22. Kraken
Kraken - This is the Scandinavian version of Saratan and the Arab Dragon, or the Sea Snake. Spin from Kraken's width into one and a half miles, in his tentacles are able to embrace the largest ship. Huge this back is from the sea, like a huge island. Kraken has the habit of dimming the sea water by eruption of some liquid. Such an approval gave rise to the hypothesis that Kraken is an octopus, only increased. Among the youth works of Tenison, you can find a poem dedicated to this remarkable substance:
Spokon of centuries in the ocean puchin
Ground Kraken Discordable sleeps
He is blind and deaf, on the car a giant
Only at times the pale beam slides.
The giants of the sponge pegs over him
And out of the depths, dark holes
Polyps Ensured Khor.
Stretches the tentacles like hands.
Millennia Kraken honors there,
So it was and so will continue
While the last fire will burn the puchin
And the heat will fall a lively solid.
Then he will come from sleep,
Before Angels and People will appear
And, with how to pop up, will meet death.
23. Golden dog
Golden dog.- This is a gold dog that guarded Zeus when the Kronos pursued. The fact that Tantalt did not want to give this dog was the first strong misdemeanor in front of the gods, which then the gods took him down when choosing punishment.
"... in Crete, the birthplace of the thumbnail, there was a golden dog. Once she guarded the newborn Zeus and had a wonderful Goat Amalfoy. When Zeus grew up and took power from Croon over the world, he left this dog in Crete to guard his sanctuary. The king of Ephesazarey, choosing the beauty and strength of this dog, secretly arrived at Crete and took her on his ship from Crete. But where to hide a wonderful animal? I thought about it for a long time during the path of the sea and finally decided to give a golden dog to storage tantalu. The king of Sipila hid a wonderful animal from the gods. Angry Zeus. He called on his son, the messenger of the gods Hermes, and sent him to Tantalon to demand the return of the Golden Dog. In the blink of an eye, she was rushed from Olympa to the fastest Hermes, appeared before Tantalle and told him:
"Tsar Efhes, Padarery, kidnapped a golden dog in Crete from Zeus's sanctuary and gave it to you. Everyone knows the Gods of Olympus, nothing can hide mortals from them! True Dog Zeus. Beware of the Horn of the Thunder!
Tantalum also answered the Baznik of the Gods:
- In vain threaten to me anger Zeus. I did not see the Golden Dog. Gods are mistaken, there is no her.
A terrible oath swore tantal in what the truth says. This oath even more angry Zeus. That was the first insult inflicted by tantalum gods ...
24. DRIADA
DRIADA - In Greek mythology, female spirits of trees (nymphs). They live in a tree that is guarded and often gibbles along with this tree. DRIADES The only of the nymphs who are mortal. The nymphs of trees are inseparable from the tree in which they live. It was believed that the planting trees and caring for him enjoy the special patronage of Dryad.
25. Grants
Grant - In the English folklore, the werewolf, which is most often mortal under the guise of a horse. At the same time he walks on the hind legs, and his eyes are pomp with a flame. Grant - Urban Fairi, it can often be seen on the street, at noon or closer to sunset Meeting with a grant foreshadows misfortune - a fire or anything else in the same spirit.
Human imagination, especially in nightmarish dreams, is able to generate images of terrible monsters. They are from darkness and instill inexplicable fear. For the whole population history, humanity believed in a fairly large number of similar monsters, the names of which were trying not to even pronounce, since they personified the universal evil.
Often, Yovi is compared with the more famous Big Foot, but they attribute to him Australian origin. According to the legend, Yovi lived exclusively in Blue Mountain, in the mountain region, which is located in the west of Sydney. The image of this monster appeared in the Aboriginal folklore to scare European immigrants and immigrants, although there are facts that testify that the myth has more long history. There were people who talked about a meeting with this creature, whom they consider "evil spirit", although there are no official confirmations about the attack of Yovi on people. It is said that when meeting with a man Yovi stops and looks intently, and then disappears in a dense forest.
In the era of colonial wars, many myths appeared or found a new life in different parts of the world. For example, in the regions of South America began to happen to the existence of giant anaconda. These snakes reach a length of up to 5 m, and the body, in comparison with ordinary anaconds, they have much more massive. Fortunately, no one has met such a snake nor alive, nor dead.
If you delve into the Mythology of Slavs, then you can believe in the existence of such a creature as the house. This is a small growth of a bearded man who can live in a pet or even adhere to a person. It is argued that in every house there is a house that is responsible for the atmosphere in it: if the house is order and consent, then the house is kind, if the house often swear, then the house is evil. An evil houses can arrange permanent accidents that make life unbearable.
With a crocodile head and a muzzle dog, with a horse tail and fin, with big fangs, Bunyip is a fairly large monster, which, as claimed, lives on the swamps and in other parts of Australia. His name comes from the word "devil", but he is also attributed to many other qualities. Most often about this monster spoke in the 19th century, and today it is believed that the creature still exists and lives in parity relations with local. Most of all believe the aborigines.
Bigfoot is known to everyone. This is a great creature that lives in different parts of the United States. It is very high, his body is covered with black or brown wool. It is said that when meeting with him, a person chainets in the literal sense of the word, being under the action of hypnosis. There were people who testified the cases when Bigfut took people with them to the forest and kept them in her burgoot for a long time. The truth is or not, but the image of Bigfort in many instills fear.
Dzikinniki is a special creature born by Japanese folklore. In the past, it was a man who was transformed after death in a terrible monster. Many believe that this is the casting manifolding, therefore people who believe in it deliberately avoid visiting cemeteries. In Japan, it is believed that if a person is very greedy during his lifetime, after death turns into dzykinniki in punishment and experiences eternal famous hunger. Externally, dzyrinki is similar to a person, but with a disproportionate body, with big sorry eyes.
This creature has Tibetan roots. The researchers believe that Yeti crossed Nepal in the footsteps of sherpa's migrants, emigrants from Tibet. It is said that he wanders around the surroundings, sometimes rushes huge stones and scary whistles. Yeti goes on two legs, his body is covered with light wool, and in the mouth of a dog fang. And ordinary people, and researchers argue that they met with this creature in reality. It is rumored that it penetrates our world from the other world.
Chupacabra is a sufficiently small creature, but the capable of causing a lot of problems. For the first time, the monster was spoken in Puerto Rico, and later in other parts of South and North America. "Chupacabra" means "sucking goats". This name is the creature as a result of a large number of inexplicable livestock deaths of the local population. Animals died of blood loss, through the bites on the neck. Chupacabra was also seen in Chile. Basically, all the evidence of the existence of a monster oral, nor body, no photo is not. Alive to catch a monster, too, no one succeeded, but it is very popular all over the world.
In the period from 1764 to 1767, France lived in a large fear due to the waswolf, or the wolf, or the dogs. It is said that for the period of its existence, the monster committed 210 attacks on people, of which 113 killed. Nobody wanted to meet him. At the monster, the official hunt was opened by the King of Louis XV. Many professional hunters were tracking the beast with the purpose of murder, but their attempts were in vain. As a result of his conspiracy bullet killed a local hunter. In the womb of the beast were found by human remains.
In the mythology of the American Indians there was a bloodthirsty creature of Vendigo, the product of curses. The fact is that in the myths of Algonkinsky tribes, it was argued that if a man was cannibal in life and ate human meat, he turns after death in Vendigo. He said that he could, in any person, captured his shower. Vendigigo is three times higher than a person, its skin is decomposed, and the bones are repeated out. This creature is constantly experiencing hunger and eager for human flesh.
Sumerians, representatives of ancient, but fairly developed civilization, created their epos, which was told about the gods, goddesses and their everyday life. One of the most popular epos was "Epos about Hilgamesh" and stories about the creature of Gugalanna. This creature in search of the king killed a large number of people, destroyed the city. Gugalanna is a fast monster, whom the gods used as a weaway to people.
Like vampires, this creature is experiencing a constant thirst for blood. It also devours human hearts and has the ability to disconnect the top of his body and penetrate the people's homes, especially in the house where pregnant women live to get drunk their blood and paint the child with their long tongue. But this creature is mortal and can be killed by sprinkling salt.
Black Annice, as an incarnation of evil, is known to everyone in Britain, especially in rural regions. It is the main character of the local folklore of the 19th century. Annice blue skin and a terrible smile. Children had to avoid a meeting with her, as she was fed by children and sheep, whose deception or force took away from houses and courtyards. From the skin of children and sheep, Annice made a belt, which then wore dozens on themselves.
The worst of the most terrible, dibbuk, is the main character of Jewish mythology. This evil spirit is considered the most cruel. He is able to destroy the life of anyone and destroy the soul, while a person will not be aware of what happens to him and gradually die.
"The fairy tale about the blasphemy of the Immortal" belongs to mythology and folklore of Slavs and talks about a creature that can not be killed, but which spoils life to everyone. But he has a weak place - his soul, which is at the end of the needle, which is hidden in the egg, which is inside a duck, which is sitting inside the hare. Hanging in a strong chest at the top of the highest oak, growing on a fairy-tale island. In short, the journey to this island is pleasant to call it difficult.
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