Monday, November 8, 2010

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,bailey UGG boots, 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, as 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 fatal, but many of the king after the death it still hopes to get it in the specimen. 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.

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