More Legendary creatures.

[Otis McNutt 395]

Another post inspired by the SciFi Channel program "Destination Truth"

Mok

Edited 20 Mar 2008 by diamondtriforce82 (see edit history)

[Otis McNutt 395]

I'm going with something a little different today, An exploration into Scottish mythology.

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[AarghZombies 0]

These are still ace, as ever. I like the Scottish one, any chance of doing a similar thing for other countries?

[Otis McNutt 395]

These are still ace, as ever. I like the Scottish one, any chance of doing a similar thing for other countries?

Sure, which would you like to see?

[AarghZombies 0]

It would be cool to see stuff for countries people on the site are from: England, USA, Australia, Norway etc.

[Otis McNutt 395]

They're aren't many folklorish creatures for the United States other than native American legends. I'll se what I can scrounge up.

Ok here goes it kinda goes along with living dinosaurs like Mok

[Ryu 7]

Looks like Champ to me =O

But that's just my opinion, i believe in Big Foot, the lochness monster, and lots of mythalogical creatures, especially fairies. But not all magical, just little winged peoplez...

[Otis McNutt 395]

Almas

The Almas, Mongolian for 'wild man', is a cryptozoological species of presumed hominid reputed to inhabit the Caucasus and Pamir Mountains of central Asia, and the Altai Mountains of southern Mongolia. Most mainstream scientists consider the Almas to be a purely legendary creature.

Almas is a singular word in Mongolian. The Russian plural is almasty; the correct Mongolian (or any Turkic) plural is almaslar. As is typical of the unknown hominids throughout Central Asia, Russia, and the Caucasus, Almas are generally considered to be more akin to "wild people" in appearance and habits than to apes (in contrast to the Yeti of the Himalayas).

Almas are typically described as human-like bipedal animals, between five and six and a half feet tall, their bodies covered with reddish-brown hair, with anthropomorphic facial features including a pronounced browridge, flat nose, and a weak chin. Many cryptozoologist researchers have been struck by the similarity between these descriptions and modern reconstructions of how Neanderthals might have appeared.

There is speculation that Almas may be something other than legendary creatures, mainly via eyewitness accounts, footprint finds, and long-standing native traditions, which have been anthropologically, ethnographically, and cryptozoologically collected. Source: The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe.

Almas appear in the legend of local people, who tell stories of sightings and human-Almas interactions dating back several hundred years.

Drawings of Almas also appear in a Tibetan medicinal book. British anthropologist Myra Shackley noted that "The book contains thousands of illustrations of various classes of animals (reptiles, mammals and amphibia), but not one single mythological animal such as are known from similar medieval European books. All the creatures are living and observable today."

Sightings recorded in writing go back as far back as the 15th century.

In 1430, Hans Schiltberger recorded his personal observation of these creatures in the journal of his trip to Mongolia as a prisoner of the Mongol Khan. Schiltberger also recorded one of the first European sightings of Przewalski horses. (Manuscript in the Munich Municipal Library, Sign. 1603, Bl. 210).

Nikolai Przhevalsky observed the animals in Mongolia in 1871 (Shackley, 94). He noted that Almas are part of the Mongolian and Tibetan apothecary's materia medica, along with thousands of other animals and plants that still live today.

British anthropologist Myra Shackley in Still Living? describes Ivan Ivlov's 1963 observation of a whole family of Almas. Ivlov, a pediatrician, decided to interview some of the Mongolian children who were his patients, and discovered that many of them had also seen Almas. It seems that neither the Mongol children nor the young Almas were afraid of each other. Ivlov's driver also claimed to have seen them.

A wildwoman named Zana is said to have lived in the isolated mountain village of T'khina fifty miles from Sukhumi in Abkhazia in the Caucasus; some have speculated she may have been an Almas, but hard evidence is lacking.

Captured in the mountains in 1850, she was at first violent towards her captors but soon became domesticated and, indeed, was able to assist with simple household chores. Zana is said to have had sexual relations with a man of the village named Edgi Genaba, and gave birth to a number of children of apparently normal human appearance. Several of these children, however, died in infancy. Some commentators have attributed these early deaths to Zana's genetic incompatibility (as an Almas) with humans.

The father, meanwhile, gave away four of the surviving children to local families. The two boys, Dzhanda and Khwit Sabekia (born 1878 and 1884), and the two girls, Kodzhanar and Gamasa Sabekia (born 1880 and 1882), were assimilated into normal society, married, and had families of their own. Zana herself died in 1890. The skull of Khwit (also spelled Kvit) is still extant, and was examined by Dr. Grover Krantz in the early 1990s. He pronounced it to be entirely modern, with no Neandertal features at all. Khwit's tooth was examined in 2008 as part of the Monster Quest tv show. Genetics tests were unable to definitely show Khwit's parentage, but tests will continue.

Another case is said to date from around 1941, shortly after the German invasion of the USSR. A "wild man" was captured somewhere in the Caucasus by a detachment of the Red Army under Lt. Col. Vargen Karapetyan. He appeared human, but was covered in fine, dark hair. Interrogation revealed his apparent inability (or unwillingness) to speak, and the unfortunate creature is said to have been shot as a German spy. There are various versions of this legend in the cryptozoological literature, and, as with other Almas reports, hard proof is absent.

Myra Shackley and Bernard Heuvelmans have speculated that the Almas are a relict population of Neanderthals, while Loren Coleman suggests surviving specimens of Homo erectus. Others insist they are related to the Yeti of the Himalayas, being closer to apes than to humans. Another explanation is that human-like cryptids are humans with congenital disorders and/or mental retardation and ejected from society.

Another explanation is that they are purely mythological creatures, since no hard evidence (skeletons, specimens, etc.) has been found to date.

[Otis McNutt 395]

Aswang

An Aswang (or Asuwang) is a ghoul in Filipino folklore. The myth of the Aswang is popular in the Western Visayan regions such as Capiz, Iloilo and Antique. The trademark or major feature of Aswangs which distinguish them from other Filipino mythological creatures is their propensity to replace stolen cadavers with the trunk of a banana tree carved in the cadaver's likeness. They are also said to like to eat small children. Their favorite body parts are the liver and heart. Other local names, especially in Capiz are tik-tik and wak-wak.

Aswang, at times, is also a generic term applied to all types of witches, manananggals, shapeshifters, lycanthropes, and monsters. An Aswang is often interchanged with manananggal, but they are different. There are also characteristics and features that the Aswang also varies from Filipino to Filipino.They usually live near the mountains and they never go in to cities. But there are some reports of Aswangs in the cities.

With respect to Aswang, Capiz (a province on Panay island) is the focus of many Aswang, and other types of mythological and folkloric goblins, ghouls, manananggal, giant half-horse men (tikbalang) and other monster stories, especially for tabloids. Capiz is (unfairly) rumored to have a number of aswang and covens of witches. Superstitious folk who believe in their existence can still be found in these parts. They typically adorn windows, rooms, etc. with garlic bulbs, holy water, and other anti- aswang paraphernalia which supposedly repels these creatures. Aswangs have the ability to transform into other animals like dogs, bats and snakes.

The myth of the Aswang is popular in the Visayan region of the Philippines, specially in the western provinces of Capiz, Iloilo, Antique. One of the most famous urban legends in the visayas region is the infamous Aswang Tiniente Gimo(lieutenant Gimo).Aside from entertainment value, mothers are said to tell their children Aswang stories to keep them off the streets and keep them home at night. Similar to Count Vlad III Dracula of Transylvania in Vampire stories, the most popular characters are the clan of Te

[Otis McNutt 395]

I thought i'd spice things up again. Instead of Animals were gonna take a look at Legendary Plants.

The First one might sound familiar to users who've played "Tales of Symphonia".

Yggdrasil

In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil (Old Norse Yggdrasill) is the World Tree, a great ash tree located at the center of the universe and joining the nine worlds of Norse cosmology. The trunk of the tree may be thought of as forming a vertical axis around which these worlds are situated, with

[Na Riknia 4]

i wonder if you know anything on imps. as a paranormal hunter i'm havin' troubles with 'em.

just the common forest imp that travel in nomadic heards

[adfsgh 0]

i know all about demons so i can speak imp to (imps are a creation of demons)

i control a demon muhahahahahahahahahah "senti como delsa" repells all imps

[Otis McNutt 395]

Imp

An imp is a mythological being similar to a fairy or demon, frequently described in folklore and superstition. The word derives from the term ympe, used to denote a young grafted tree.

Imps are usually described as mischievous more than seriously threatening, and as lesser beings rather than more important supernatural beings. The attendants of the devil are sometimes described as imps. They are usually described as lively and having small stature.

Some accounts of imps treat them as capable of being turned to good, because they are so desperately lonely they would do almost anything

[Zeroshift3 0]

Could you have the Werewolf?

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i am serious zeroxus serves me.