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Huaychivo - Folklore, Mexican
Huaychivo or, more commonly, Huay Chivo is a legendary Mayan beast. It is a half-man, half-beast creature, with burning red eyes, and is specific to the Yucatán Peninsula. It is often said ...
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Alux - Folklore, Mexican
An alux is the name given to a type of sprite or spirit in the mythological tradition of certain Maya peoples from the Yucatán Peninsula and Guatemala in Mexico. Aluxob are conceived ...
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Duende - Folklore, Mexican
A duende is a fairy or goblin like mythological character. While its nature varies throughout Mexico and America, in many cases its closest equivalents known in the Anglophone world are the Irish ...
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Chaneque - Folklore, Mexican
Chaneque or Ohuican Chaneque, as they were called by the Aztecs are legendary creatures in Mexican folklore. They are conceived of as small, sprite-like beings, elemental forces and guardians of nature.
By tradition, ...
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Urayuli - American, Folklore
Urayuli, or "Hairy Men", are a mythical race of creatures that live in the woodland areas of southwestern Alaska. Stories of the Urayuli describe them as standing 10 feet tall with long ...
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Underwater Panthers - American, Folklore
Underwater panthers were powerful creatures in the mythological traditions of some Native American tribes, particularly tribes of the Great Lakes region. In Ojibwe, the creature is sometimes called Mishibizhiw ("Mishipizhiw", "Mishipizheu", "Mishupishu", ...
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Thunderbird - American, Folklore
The Thunderbird is a legendary creature in North American indigenous peoples' history and culture. It's considered a "supernatural" bird of power and strength. It is especially important, and richly depicted, in the ...
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Sisiutl - American, Folklore
The Sisiutl is one of the most powerful crests, and mythological creatures in the Kwakwaka’wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, and Coast Salish pantheons. The sisiutl (or sisiyutl) often appears in Pacific Northwest Indian folk art, ...
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Piasa Bird - American, Folklore
The Piasa Bird is a legendary creature that was depicted in a mural painted by Native Americans on a cliff above the Mississippi River. Its original location was in Jersey County near ...
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Onza - American, Folklore
The Onza is a species of wild cat reputed to exist in Mesoamerica at the time of the Spanish conquistadors. The Aztecs named this animal cuitlamiztli in Nahuatl. The Spanish name "onza" ...
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Horned Serpent - American, Folklore
The Horned Serpent appears in the mythologies of many Native Americans. Details vary among tribes, with many of the stories associating the mystical figure with water, rain, lightning and/or thunder. The Horned ...
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Deer Woman - American, Folklore
Deer Woman is a shape-shifting woman in Native American mythology, in and around Oklahoma, The Western United States and The Pacific Northwest. She allegedly appears at various times as an old woman, ...
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Yakshinis - Folklore, Indian
Yakshinis are benevolent mythical beings of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology. A yakshini is the female counterpart of the male yaksha, and they both attend on Kubera (also called Kuber), the Hindu ...
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Yaksha - Folklore, Indian
Yaksha is the name of a broad class of nature spirits, usually benevolent, who are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in the earth and tree roots. They appear in Hindu, Jain ...
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Vetala - Folklore, Indian
A vetala is a vampire like being from Hindu mythology. The vetala are defined as spirits inhabiting corpses. These corpses may be used as vehicles for movement (as they no longer decay ...
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Vanara - Folklore, Indian
Vanara literally "human with the tail of a monkey". It popularly refers to the race of ape-like humanoids in the Hindu epic Ramayana who were brave and inquisitive by nature. The name ...
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Tripurasura - Folklore, Indian
In Hindu mythology, Tripurasura generally connotes the Asuras who inhabited Tripura, a mythological triplet fortress made of iron, silver and gold constructed by Mayasura and destroyed by Lord Shiva. For His destruction ...
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Jarita - Folklore, Indian
Jarita was a certain female bird of the species called Sarngika, whose story is told in the Mahabharata. The saint Mandapala, who returned from the shades because he had no son, assumed ...
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Rainbow Fish - Folklore, Indian
The Rainbow Fish is a legendary creature in Hinduism as large as a whale which ate Vishnu's incarnation Buddha who removed suffering from the world. It was caught by some fishermen who ...
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Preta - Folklore, Indian
Preta is the name for a type of supernatural being described in Buddhist, Hindu and Jain texts that undergoes more than human suffering, particularly an extreme degree of hunger and thirst. They ...
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