Fantastich Creatur
written by Carlotta Leila Scamander
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Chapter 1
Fantastic Creatur.
1) Bigfoot: Bigfoot, otherwise known as Sasquatch, Momo or Piedone, is a legendary monkey creature that should live in the forests of North America and Canada.
There is no concrete evidence of its existence except videos, photos or footprints of abnormal feet.
Some believe it may be a detached branch of the Yeti or a species that survived the extinction of Gigantopitecus, a large Asian monkey, now believed to be extinct.
2) Vampire: The vampire is a monstrous mythological figure present, in the most varied forms, in the folklore of all continents. He is almost always a dead man who for various reasons returns from the grave to torment and kill the living, very often sucking their blood. The figure of the vampire has undergone many changes over the centuries and only recently has it acquired a certain sinister charm that has been handed down to us by literature and cinema.
The hypothesis has been put forward that the vampire figure is the fantastic interpretation of the disease today known as porphyria.
3) Werewolf: The werewolf also called man-wolf or werewolf is one of the monstrous creatures of mythology and folklore which then became typical of horror literature and subsequently of horror cinema.
According to legend, the werewolf is a man condemned by a curse that, at every full moon, begins to coat himself with hair and fang himself, until he becomes a real ferocious, dangerous and aggressive wolf. In fiction, you can generally kill it only with a silver weapon, but this element often (though not always) is missing in popular tradition. According to some interpretations, the werewolf would not be able to transmit his "disease" to another human being after biting him.
3) The Loch Ness Monster:
The Loch Ness monster, also nicknamed Nessie, is a legendary creature that would live in Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland. For now there is no unequivocal proof of the existence of the so-called "monster" and some photos that would portray it are proven false or are not considered particularly significant from a scientific point of view.
The hypothesis that is most successful among supporters of the existence of the "monster" is that it is one or more plesiosaurs that somehow survived the extinction.
Most of the scientific community of zoologists, however, think that the "monster" simply does not exist.
4) Mermaid: In Italian the term "siren", as in many other languages of the novel type, indicates an anthropological figure half fish and half woman, called "mermaid" ("virgin of the sea") in English. This figure is the one that is popularly associated with the term in question, thanks also to many books, films and cartoons.
The Sirens are mentioned for the first time by Homer: with their singing they fascinated the sailors who were induced to crash on the rocks of the island where they lived.
5) Chupacabra: The Chupacabra or Chupacabras (from the Spanish goat-sucker and not to be confused with the bird called the nightjar) is a mysterious creature from the Americas. The name derives from the fact that it would be his habit to drink the blood of goats and other pets, and to inflict particular mutilations on them. The first sightings of this creature have been reported in Puerto Rico; other reports followed in different areas of the Americas, from Maine in the north to Chile in the south (including Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Florida. The descriptions of the Chupacabra by the alleged witnesses are quite varied. One of the representations more typical of a Chupacabra is that of a rather heavy animal, with a row of spines from the head to the base of the tail.
Recently, the myth of Chupacabra has been related to the discovery of some corpses that would belong to an unknown canid, related to the coyote, which could be spread over a wide geographical area, although in rather small populations.
6) Champ (Monster of Lake Champalain): Champ is a hypothetical lake creature that would live in Lake Champlain (which crosses the state of New York, Vermont and Quebec, very deep and rich in fish). To all intents and purposes the American equivalent of Nessie the monster that inhabits Loch Ness, the famous Scottish lake.
Champ was well known by the Iroquois Indians long before the arrival of the Europeans, and was described by them as a horned snake. According to historians, the first European to spot the monster was Samuel de Champlain, who will then give the lake its name. In a chronicle of 1609 Champlain would have cited the creature as a gigantic lepidosteum, primitive North American predatory fish covered with hard scales and with long jaws and needle-like teeth.
7) Giant Squid: The Kraken is a legendary sea monster with abnormal dimensions; its myth has very ancient origins, but it developed mainly between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, perhaps also on the basis of reports of real sightings of giant squid. It is generally represented as a giant octopus, with tentacles large enough to wrap around an entire ship.
In Norwegian, krake indicates an unhealthy or aberrant animal (analogous to the English forms crank and crook). In German, krake means octopus.
8) Dragon: Dragons are mythical-legendary creatures, present in the collective imagination of many cultures as both evil and beneficial beings. The presence of the mythological figure of the dragon in many cultures in various parts of the world suggests that the dragon was born as an explanation of the discovery of dinosaur fossils, otherwise impossible to explain.
Dragons are present in Chinese, Greek, Roman, Christian, Nordic and Norwegian mythology.
9) Ogopogo: Ogopogo or N'ha-a-itk is the name of a lake monster who, according to the legends of the local natives and some modern cryptozoologists, would swim in the waters of Lake Okanagan, in central-southern British Columbia, Canada . The existence of the Ogopogo would be evidenced by some photographs and videos, although the low quality of the images collected so far prevents us from considering them conclusive evidence.
According to legend, the creature was originally a man, Kel-Oni-Won, who had been guilty of the murder of an old man named Kan-He-K (hence the name Okanagan). As a punishment, the gods turned the killer into a giant sea snake.
10) Beast of Gévaudan: The Beast of Gévaudan (in French: La Bête du Gévaudan) was a creature that terrorized the area of Gévaudan (today Lozère), in the central-southern area of France between 1764 and 1767.
While the attacks have been tried and documented, the true nature of the Beast has never been definitively clarified. The most accredited version is that it is about one or more wolves.
The story of the mysterious Beast is linked to several conspiracy theories against the French royal house and has inspired Walerian Borowczyk's films The Beast, and more recently The pact of wolves with Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci.
11) Yeti: The Yeti is a legendary creature, now entered into the collective imagination. He is also known as an abominable snowman, a term originating from an incorrect journalistic translation of the expression in the Nepalese language Metoh Kangmi. The term Yeti derives instead from yeh-teh which means "that thing", the expression used by the Sherpas to indicate the mythical creature.
The yeti is described as a large animal, similar to monkeys, which lives on Everest or in the Himalayas in any case. It would be a being between 1.80 and 2.40 meters tall, covered with a thick fur of dark brown, black or reddish color. He would have long hair and knee-length arms.
12) Medusa: Medusa is a character from Greek mythology, daughter of Forco and Ceto. It was one of the Gorgons, the only one to be deadly.
Poseidon was in love with Medusa, and one night he took her to the temple of Athena to consume their love. In response to this offense, the goddess turned Medusa's hair into snakes and caused anyone who looked at her eyes to be turned to stone.
Medusa was killed by Perseus, who cut her head off looking at her through a shiny shield. When he cut his head, the children he had generated after the night with Poseidon, Pegasus and Crisaore came out from the neck of the Gorgon.
According to Ovid, red coral and Anfesibena were also born from his blood.
Furthermore, her head continued to make anyone who looked at it stone even after being detached from the body: Perseus, in fact, showed it to Atlas who became stone.
13) Chimera: The chimera is a mythological animal with parts of the body of different animals. According to the Greek myth, it is part of the offspring of Typhoon and Echidna, together with the Hydra of Lerna, Cerberus and Ortro.
The descriptions vary: according to some, he could spit fire, he had a lion's head, a goat's head on his back and a snake's tail; according to others it had a goat body, snake or dragon tail and lion head. It spewed fire from its jaws and the bite of its tail was poisonous.
The story is told, in the Iliad, by the oldest of the Greek poets, Homer.
14) Pegasus: Pegasus is a figure from Greek mythology. It is the most famous of the winged horses. According to the myth, it was born from the soil wet with the spilled blood when Perseus cut the neck of the Medusa. According to another version, Pegasus would have jumped directly out of the cut neck of the Medusa, along with Crisaore. Pegasus is initially used by Zeus to transport lightning bolts to Olympus. Later he is ridden by Bellerophon, who uses it as a mount to kill the Chimera. After the hero's death after falling from Pegasus, the winged horse returns to the gods.
After his endeavors, Pegasus takes flight to the highest part of the sky and turns into a cloud of sparkling stars that have formed a constellation.
15) Cerberus: Cerberus in Greek mythology, was one of the monsters that guarded the entrance of Hades, the world of the underworld. It is a three-headed dog symbolizing the destruction of the past, present and future. His task was to prevent the living from entering and the dead from going back, watching over Averno.
Nobody has ever been able to tame it, except Orpheus and Hercules.
16) Minotaur: The Minotaur was a monster with a human body and a bull's head.
Minos, king of Crete, asked Pisillo to send him a bull for a sacrifice, but given the beauty of the animal he had decided to keep it for himself. Poseidon, then, to punish him, made Pasifae, wife of Minos, fall in love with the bull himself.
From the monstrous union the Minotaur was born. Minos then had the Minotaur locked up in the labyrinth of Crete.
17) Centaur: The centaur is a figure from Greek mythology, half man and half horse.
In mythology it is almost always painted with a short-tempered, violent, wild and brutal character, unable to handle wine.
Usually depicted armed with clubs or arches, they hunted frightening screams.
18) Griffon Vulture: The griffon vulture is a legendary creature with a lion's body and an eagle's head. Many modern illustrations represent the griffin with eagle front legs, equipped with claws.
Generally, however, it has four lion legs. Its eagle head has very elongated ears; these are sometimes described as lion's ears but often also as horse's ears, sometimes even feathered. According to some authors, the tail would consist of a snake, comparable to that of the chimera.
19) Unicorn: The unicorn or unicorn is an imaginary animal with a horse's body with a single horn in the middle of the forehead. The name derives from the Latin unicornis ("one horn").
The unicorn is typically depicted as a white horse with magical attributes, with a single long twisted horn wrapped on the forehead. Many descriptions also attribute to the unicorn a goat beard, a lion's tail and divided hooves.
20) Ghost: The ghost (also called spectrum or larva) is an entity of legends and folklore. It is referred to as an incorporeal presence, often characterized by some elements (wrapped in a shroud or without a head, surrounded by a certain luminescence or which produces the sound of chains). Likewise, the circumstances of the apparitions are also characterized by recurring elements such as the night time, the gloomy and isolated places, etc.
The phantom word had the meaning of apparition (intended as supernatural manifestation) and only with time did its meaning narrow down to indicate the appearance of a deceased. The ghost is a recurring figure in the popular and literary tradition, practically of all civilizations. In the Eastern and Greek and Roman traditions, the appearance of ghosts is not associated with the feeling of fear. The ghost is also a typical character of fantasy literature and horror.
THE END.
1) Bigfoot: Bigfoot, otherwise known as Sasquatch, Momo or Piedone, is a legendary monkey creature that should live in the forests of North America and Canada.
There is no concrete evidence of its existence except videos, photos or footprints of abnormal feet.
Some believe it may be a detached branch of the Yeti or a species that survived the extinction of Gigantopitecus, a large Asian monkey, now believed to be extinct.
2) Vampire: The vampire is a monstrous mythological figure present, in the most varied forms, in the folklore of all continents. He is almost always a dead man who for various reasons returns from the grave to torment and kill the living, very often sucking their blood. The figure of the vampire has undergone many changes over the centuries and only recently has it acquired a certain sinister charm that has been handed down to us by literature and cinema.
The hypothesis has been put forward that the vampire figure is the fantastic interpretation of the disease today known as porphyria.
3) Werewolf: The werewolf also called man-wolf or werewolf is one of the monstrous creatures of mythology and folklore which then became typical of horror literature and subsequently of horror cinema.
According to legend, the werewolf is a man condemned by a curse that, at every full moon, begins to coat himself with hair and fang himself, until he becomes a real ferocious, dangerous and aggressive wolf. In fiction, you can generally kill it only with a silver weapon, but this element often (though not always) is missing in popular tradition. According to some interpretations, the werewolf would not be able to transmit his "disease" to another human being after biting him.
3) The Loch Ness Monster:
The Loch Ness monster, also nicknamed Nessie, is a legendary creature that would live in Loch Ness, a lake in Scotland. For now there is no unequivocal proof of the existence of the so-called "monster" and some photos that would portray it are proven false or are not considered particularly significant from a scientific point of view.
The hypothesis that is most successful among supporters of the existence of the "monster" is that it is one or more plesiosaurs that somehow survived the extinction.
Most of the scientific community of zoologists, however, think that the "monster" simply does not exist.
4) Mermaid: In Italian the term "siren", as in many other languages of the novel type, indicates an anthropological figure half fish and half woman, called "mermaid" ("virgin of the sea") in English. This figure is the one that is popularly associated with the term in question, thanks also to many books, films and cartoons.
The Sirens are mentioned for the first time by Homer: with their singing they fascinated the sailors who were induced to crash on the rocks of the island where they lived.
5) Chupacabra: The Chupacabra or Chupacabras (from the Spanish goat-sucker and not to be confused with the bird called the nightjar) is a mysterious creature from the Americas. The name derives from the fact that it would be his habit to drink the blood of goats and other pets, and to inflict particular mutilations on them. The first sightings of this creature have been reported in Puerto Rico; other reports followed in different areas of the Americas, from Maine in the north to Chile in the south (including Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Florida. The descriptions of the Chupacabra by the alleged witnesses are quite varied. One of the representations more typical of a Chupacabra is that of a rather heavy animal, with a row of spines from the head to the base of the tail.
Recently, the myth of Chupacabra has been related to the discovery of some corpses that would belong to an unknown canid, related to the coyote, which could be spread over a wide geographical area, although in rather small populations.
6) Champ (Monster of Lake Champalain): Champ is a hypothetical lake creature that would live in Lake Champlain (which crosses the state of New York, Vermont and Quebec, very deep and rich in fish). To all intents and purposes the American equivalent of Nessie the monster that inhabits Loch Ness, the famous Scottish lake.
Champ was well known by the Iroquois Indians long before the arrival of the Europeans, and was described by them as a horned snake. According to historians, the first European to spot the monster was Samuel de Champlain, who will then give the lake its name. In a chronicle of 1609 Champlain would have cited the creature as a gigantic lepidosteum, primitive North American predatory fish covered with hard scales and with long jaws and needle-like teeth.
7) Giant Squid: The Kraken is a legendary sea monster with abnormal dimensions; its myth has very ancient origins, but it developed mainly between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, perhaps also on the basis of reports of real sightings of giant squid. It is generally represented as a giant octopus, with tentacles large enough to wrap around an entire ship.
In Norwegian, krake indicates an unhealthy or aberrant animal (analogous to the English forms crank and crook). In German, krake means octopus.
8) Dragon: Dragons are mythical-legendary creatures, present in the collective imagination of many cultures as both evil and beneficial beings. The presence of the mythological figure of the dragon in many cultures in various parts of the world suggests that the dragon was born as an explanation of the discovery of dinosaur fossils, otherwise impossible to explain.
Dragons are present in Chinese, Greek, Roman, Christian, Nordic and Norwegian mythology.
9) Ogopogo: Ogopogo or N'ha-a-itk is the name of a lake monster who, according to the legends of the local natives and some modern cryptozoologists, would swim in the waters of Lake Okanagan, in central-southern British Columbia, Canada . The existence of the Ogopogo would be evidenced by some photographs and videos, although the low quality of the images collected so far prevents us from considering them conclusive evidence.
According to legend, the creature was originally a man, Kel-Oni-Won, who had been guilty of the murder of an old man named Kan-He-K (hence the name Okanagan). As a punishment, the gods turned the killer into a giant sea snake.
10) Beast of Gévaudan: The Beast of Gévaudan (in French: La Bête du Gévaudan) was a creature that terrorized the area of Gévaudan (today Lozère), in the central-southern area of France between 1764 and 1767.
While the attacks have been tried and documented, the true nature of the Beast has never been definitively clarified. The most accredited version is that it is about one or more wolves.
The story of the mysterious Beast is linked to several conspiracy theories against the French royal house and has inspired Walerian Borowczyk's films The Beast, and more recently The pact of wolves with Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci.
11) Yeti: The Yeti is a legendary creature, now entered into the collective imagination. He is also known as an abominable snowman, a term originating from an incorrect journalistic translation of the expression in the Nepalese language Metoh Kangmi. The term Yeti derives instead from yeh-teh which means "that thing", the expression used by the Sherpas to indicate the mythical creature.
The yeti is described as a large animal, similar to monkeys, which lives on Everest or in the Himalayas in any case. It would be a being between 1.80 and 2.40 meters tall, covered with a thick fur of dark brown, black or reddish color. He would have long hair and knee-length arms.
12) Medusa: Medusa is a character from Greek mythology, daughter of Forco and Ceto. It was one of the Gorgons, the only one to be deadly.
Poseidon was in love with Medusa, and one night he took her to the temple of Athena to consume their love. In response to this offense, the goddess turned Medusa's hair into snakes and caused anyone who looked at her eyes to be turned to stone.
Medusa was killed by Perseus, who cut her head off looking at her through a shiny shield. When he cut his head, the children he had generated after the night with Poseidon, Pegasus and Crisaore came out from the neck of the Gorgon.
According to Ovid, red coral and Anfesibena were also born from his blood.
Furthermore, her head continued to make anyone who looked at it stone even after being detached from the body: Perseus, in fact, showed it to Atlas who became stone.
13) Chimera: The chimera is a mythological animal with parts of the body of different animals. According to the Greek myth, it is part of the offspring of Typhoon and Echidna, together with the Hydra of Lerna, Cerberus and Ortro.
The descriptions vary: according to some, he could spit fire, he had a lion's head, a goat's head on his back and a snake's tail; according to others it had a goat body, snake or dragon tail and lion head. It spewed fire from its jaws and the bite of its tail was poisonous.
The story is told, in the Iliad, by the oldest of the Greek poets, Homer.
14) Pegasus: Pegasus is a figure from Greek mythology. It is the most famous of the winged horses. According to the myth, it was born from the soil wet with the spilled blood when Perseus cut the neck of the Medusa. According to another version, Pegasus would have jumped directly out of the cut neck of the Medusa, along with Crisaore. Pegasus is initially used by Zeus to transport lightning bolts to Olympus. Later he is ridden by Bellerophon, who uses it as a mount to kill the Chimera. After the hero's death after falling from Pegasus, the winged horse returns to the gods.
After his endeavors, Pegasus takes flight to the highest part of the sky and turns into a cloud of sparkling stars that have formed a constellation.
15) Cerberus: Cerberus in Greek mythology, was one of the monsters that guarded the entrance of Hades, the world of the underworld. It is a three-headed dog symbolizing the destruction of the past, present and future. His task was to prevent the living from entering and the dead from going back, watching over Averno.
Nobody has ever been able to tame it, except Orpheus and Hercules.
16) Minotaur: The Minotaur was a monster with a human body and a bull's head.
Minos, king of Crete, asked Pisillo to send him a bull for a sacrifice, but given the beauty of the animal he had decided to keep it for himself. Poseidon, then, to punish him, made Pasifae, wife of Minos, fall in love with the bull himself.
From the monstrous union the Minotaur was born. Minos then had the Minotaur locked up in the labyrinth of Crete.
17) Centaur: The centaur is a figure from Greek mythology, half man and half horse.
In mythology it is almost always painted with a short-tempered, violent, wild and brutal character, unable to handle wine.
Usually depicted armed with clubs or arches, they hunted frightening screams.
18) Griffon Vulture: The griffon vulture is a legendary creature with a lion's body and an eagle's head. Many modern illustrations represent the griffin with eagle front legs, equipped with claws.
Generally, however, it has four lion legs. Its eagle head has very elongated ears; these are sometimes described as lion's ears but often also as horse's ears, sometimes even feathered. According to some authors, the tail would consist of a snake, comparable to that of the chimera.
19) Unicorn: The unicorn or unicorn is an imaginary animal with a horse's body with a single horn in the middle of the forehead. The name derives from the Latin unicornis ("one horn").
The unicorn is typically depicted as a white horse with magical attributes, with a single long twisted horn wrapped on the forehead. Many descriptions also attribute to the unicorn a goat beard, a lion's tail and divided hooves.
20) Ghost: The ghost (also called spectrum or larva) is an entity of legends and folklore. It is referred to as an incorporeal presence, often characterized by some elements (wrapped in a shroud or without a head, surrounded by a certain luminescence or which produces the sound of chains). Likewise, the circumstances of the apparitions are also characterized by recurring elements such as the night time, the gloomy and isolated places, etc.
The phantom word had the meaning of apparition (intended as supernatural manifestation) and only with time did its meaning narrow down to indicate the appearance of a deceased. The ghost is a recurring figure in the popular and literary tradition, practically of all civilizations. In the Eastern and Greek and Roman traditions, the appearance of ghosts is not associated with the feeling of fear. The ghost is also a typical character of fantasy literature and horror.
THE END.
