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Ababil
"Have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephant?
Did he not ruin their stratagy
by sending ababils against them,
which pelted them with bricks,
and made them like blades of grass eaten down?"
— Qur'an, Sura 105
Bandersnatch
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
— Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Dorraghow
The father of all otters, according to Irish folkore. It is said to be so powerful that it can tunnel through the earth, breaking through rocks at tremendous speed.
Drekavac
An invisible creature that yowls and howls during the night, according to Slavic mythology. Some say it is a bird, while others say is the lost soul of an unbaptized child.
Dryad
A race of tree spirits in Greek mythology. They are guardians of the forest, occasionally seen in the company of Artemis, the mood goddess, and Dionysus, the god of wine.
Echidna
"The goddess fierce Echidna, who is half a nymph with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake, great and awful, with speckled skin, eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth. And there she has a cave deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless gods and mortal men. There, then, did the gods appoint her a glorious house to dwell in: and she keeps guard in Arima beneath the earth, grim Echidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old all her days."
— Hesiod, Theogony
Fillyloo
A giant, lizard-like monster found in Ozark Native American folklore.
Fylgja
Animal spirit companions in Norse mythology. They take the form of other creatures, occasionally appearing in the dreams of the people they follow to give messages.
Gaki
Grotesque monsters from Japan with the head of a horse or ox, three eyes, horns, and talons. They are insatiably hungry, often hunting humans in an attempt to fill their large, brightly-colored stomachs.
Gemsbok
A large, African antelope.
Gorgon
A creature of Greek mythology, created by the Earth goddess Gaia to support the Gigantes in their fight against the Olympian gods.
Gowrow
From Ozark Native American folklore. A large, wingless, dragon-like creature over 20 feet in length.
Groot Slang
An elephant-like creature with the tail of a serpent from West African legend and folklore.
Havfine
Half-fin - a mermaid. From Noewegian folklore, they are known to be responsible for shipwrecks.
Hibagon
A sort of Japanese bigfoot, the Hibagon is a 5-foot tall creature bearing striking resemblance to a gorilla. It is reported to smell bad.
Hippocampus
"Poseidon towers on high above the peaceful waves, urging his team of Hippokampoi with his three-pronged spear: frontwise they run at furious speed amid showers of foam, behind they swim and blot out their footprints with their tails."
— P.P. Statius, Achilleid
Hippogriff
Griffins were said to enjoy nothing more than a meal of horse meat, hence the saying "I'll do it when horses and griffins mate." No wonder this expression is no longer in use: the hippogriff is the offspring of a griffin and a horse.
Hob
A friendly spirit known for looking after the health of children.
"Hobhole Hob! Hobhole Hob!
Ma bairn's gotten t'kink cough,
Tak't off, tak't off!"
Hrimthursar
"When the blast of heat met the rime, so that it melted and dropped and quickened; from those life-drops there was shaped the likeness of a man, and he was named Ymir; he was bad, and all his kind; and so it is said, when he slept he fell into a sweat; then waxed under his left hand a man and a woman, and one of his feet got a son with the other, and thence cometh the Hrimthursar."
— The Story of the Volsungs
Iya
A large, amorphous creature with fetid breath from Lakota North American folklore.
Jurik
A fire-breathing dragon from Indonesia noted for the fiery trail it leaves as it flies across the sky.