The '''Monaciello''', or Little Monk is a house-spirit in the Napolitan Folklore.
...aciello is usually depicted as a short thick kind of little man dressed in the long garments of a monk with a broad brimmed hat.
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...ggy Beast''' or '''La Velue''', is a [[dragon]]-like beast that terrorized the city of La Ferté-Bernard, France, in medieval times.
...an for "hairy". "La Velue" means "The Hairy One" in French, a reference to the dragon's main method of defense.
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...how they are uncannily well informed, UFOlogists claim that they work for the government, although US intelligence agencies have denied all knowledge of
...of deadly force if necessary. They usually confiscate any "evidence" that the contacted might have collected.
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...dieval legend, '''Ceridwen''' was an enchantress, who was said to possess the cauldron of Poetic Inspiration (Awen).
...es, she had two children representing dark and light aspects emerging from the One Goddess her daughter '''Crearwy''' being light and beautiful, and her s
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The '''Mi-go''' are a race of extraterrestrials in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] created by H. P. Lovecraft and expanded on by others.
The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story "The Whisperer in Darkness".
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An [[Aatxe]] is an evil spirit in the shape of a red or fiery bull which, the Basques believe, leaves its cave on stormy nights to wreak havoc and destru
The name Aatxe translates into English as ''young bull'' or simply ''calf.'' It
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...the fact that the Umibozu is said to have a large, round head, resembling the shaven heads of Buddhist monks.
Umibozu are believed to be drowned priests, and exhibit the shaven head and typically appears to be praying.
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...d, is said to bring famine, plague, fires, and other kinds of disasters to the villages it hits.
This is a legend told by many Japanese fisherman and sailors that describes the Bake-Kujira:
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[[Image:pangu.jpg|thumb|155px|right|Pangu Creating the World from Tui Bei Quan Tu, 1820 copied by Wu-Yi Chao Xie, circa 1900.]]
'''Pangu''' was the first living being and the creator of the universe in Chinese mythology.
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...on the bluffs of the Mississippi River in Alton. Wings were not present in the original painting.]]
...that was depicted in a mural painted by Native Americans on a cliff above the Mississippi River.
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The '''Shunka Warakin''' (also shunka warak'in) is an American beast from crypt
In the language of the American Indian Ioway people, as discovered and collected by Loren Coleman,
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...human skeletons are known to be personified death in Western culture since the Middle Ages.
*The [[Grim Reaper]] is often depicted as a hooded skeleton holding a scythe and
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The '''Pukwudgies''' are troll-like creatures that haunt the forests of New England.
...sachusetts and Southern New England and has been sighted until recently in the area of Cape Cod.
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...ed with specific real-life persons, such as serial killer [[Albert Fish]]. The term ''bogeyman'' is also used metaphorically to mean a person or thing of
...or under the bed). The bogeyman is said to lurk like this and then attack the sleeper.
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[[Image:estries vampires.jpg|thumb|An estrie in the process of feeding.]]
The name derives from the French strix, a term for a night owl.
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In science fiction and ufology, '''insectoid''' is the name given to alien creatures or extraterrestrials/subterraneans that share
...in his files where separate witnesses reported identical circumstances in the same place and year.
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...azotz 3.jpg|thumb|Bat god, Zapotec, Period III-A - Mesoamerican objects in the American Museum of Natural History, NYC, USA]]
Camazotz is formed from the Kʼicheʼ words ''kame'', meaning "death", and ''sotz'', meaning "bat".
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...e female moss people are known as ''Moosfräulein'' and have a queen called the ''Buschgroßmutter''.
...''sceaga'', both meaning "forest", and therefore represented a cognate of the moss people in Gothic folklore. Subsequent authors, however, have related s
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[[Image:Black Dog pub sign Bouley Jersey.jpg|thumb|The monstrous black dog reputed to haunt Bouley Bay in Jersey is depicted on th
'''Barghest''', '''Bargtjest''' or '''Bargest''' is the name given in the north of England, especially in Yorkshire, to a mythical monstrous goblin-d
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...was cold enough to extinguish flames. Its spittle was so poisonous that a man's hair would fall off his body at its touch. This creature's presence was b
[[Image:Salamander.jpg|thumb|The crowned salamander of François 1er]]
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