...y and legends of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. "'''Giant'''" is the English w
...eanstalk have formed our modern perception of giants as stupid and violent monsters, frequently said to eat humans, and especially children. However, in some m
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...usually let her heads rearing up out of the chasm, gapping dolphins or any human or animal that would venture in the surroundings.
[[Category:Sea and lake monsters]]
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...the sludge at the workshop by the pathologist Keith Simpson revealed three human gallstones and a pair of false teeth.
[[Category:Human Monsters]]
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...ery close to Clendenin, West Virginia when what they described as a "brown human shape with wings" lifted off from behind nearby trees and flew over their h
...: Dawn of Sorrow'', Mothman is one of three hidden [[cryptozoology]]-based monsters, appearing as a furry black heart-shaped creature with wings and large eyes
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...m.gif|thumb|right|Artist's impression of a Grigori or "fallen one" and his human bride.]]
...he tutelage went on for a few centuries, but soon the angels pined for the human females. After lusting, the fallen angels instructed the women in magic and
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...rce of his name, and Redcap periodically redyes his cap by drenching it in human blood.
*Red caps (aka powries) are also some of the monsters in R.A. Salvatore's ''DemonWars'' series.
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The lich developed from monsters found in earlier classic sword and sorcery fiction, which is filled with po
..., allowing the resurrected zombie to retain most, if not all of its former human intelligence and memories, as well as acquiring various supernatural powers
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...mic picaresque story of a dog who somehow remembers his previous life as a human being. Rumbo, one of the characters from ''Fluke'' also turns up in ''The M
...o is drawn into a blackly comic plot involving fed-up and underappreciated monsters. (The book's tagline was "Demons today are a sorry lot".) No one believes i
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...tes somewhat like salmiakki and makes giant squid unattractive for general human consumption.
...y also derive from giant squid sightings. Eyewitness accounts of other sea monsters like the sea serpent are also thought to be mistaken interpretations of gia
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...e fact that they said they could not identify any other of the prehistoric monsters which I showed them...The natives do not consider it to be an unnatural thi
...lling people in his country. The creatures are said to feed on decomposing human flesh, digging up bodies if they are not buried to sufficient depth.
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*Heikegani - crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ur
*Jikininki - ghosts that eat human corpses
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...ken to be Yggdrasil although it is not explicitly identified as such) as a human sacrifice to himself, who remains alive as a divinity. He suffers the pain
...ot, and to regenerate it from the wounds caused by the various animals and monsters that feed from it. There are also two swans that drink from the well, and t
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...birds belonged to a special tribe whose members were able to shapeshift to human form by tilting back their beak as if it were only a mask, and by removing
...to such an event. Families of thunderbirds who kept to themselves but wore human form were said to have lived along the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Th
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...e to fully comprehend it, and the beast’s sheer size is enough to make the human heart stop. The Wendigo is a hideous, abhorrent beast. Its gigantic maw i
...l that one can see is the terrible yellow glow). They are far larger than human eyes, and are said to roll about in blood. It has massive, pawlike hands t
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...rch took note of the telltale cave but the men refused to believe anything human could live in it. Frustrated and in a frenetic quest for justice, the towns
...Beans' previously overlooked cave in Bannane Head. The cave was rife with human remains, having been the scene of hundreds of murders and cannibalistic act
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Some would appear to look as a normal human being while others had a hideous green phosphorescent glow with serrated te
* In the MMORPG "Ragnarok Online", monsters known as Munaks, Bonguns, and Hyeguns were heavily based on the jiāngshī
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...ng powerful animal-like qualities or conversely, an impressive animal with human qualities.
...e Nagas, that contained their amazing powers, would be given freely to any human that the Naga had developed a great fondness for.
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...ry creature, usually described as a nocturnal bird of ill omen that fed on human flesh and blood, like a [[vampire]].
...uiley, Rosemary Ellen ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters'']
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...ost of a woman or man who initiates a post-death love affair with a living human.
...istinction between yūrei and obake in his seminal "Yokaidangi (Lectures on Monsters)." He claimed that yūrei haunt a particular person, while obake haunt a p
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...and romanticism. In this example, an historical anatomical painting of the human arm by Girolamo Fabrici (1537-1619) tastefully examines the themes of roman
...lete body from various organic parts, then stimulated the functions of the human system in it. Subsequent visual interpretations of the story have included
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