Maia is the Pleiad Nymph of Mount Cyllene in Arcadia.

She is the eldest of the Pleiades (the seven nymphs of the constellation Pleiades; daughters of Atlas and Pleione)...

She used to be a shy being who dwelt alone in a cave...

Zeus, however, discovered the beautiful nymph, and fell in love with her...

As a result, Maia bore Zeus a son, Hermes...

One time while she was traveling with her mother Pleione and her six sisters through Boeotia, the group was attacked by Orion...

They managed to escape but Orion wouldn’t leave them alone...

Zeus took pity on the girls and sent them to the heavens.

Maia was placed amongst the stars with her sisters as the constellation Pleiades, and out of Orion’s reach...

They can be found in Taurus’ tail...

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The son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis; Apollo is the Patron of the Arts, the gift of prophecy and also connected with light (llumination) in Greek folklore.

He was born on the island Delos by Leto, a Titan's daughter, and Zeus.

Apollo is one of the most important and complex members of the 12 Olympians of the Greek pantheon...

The island was to be the most sacred of islands, and ruins of many temples can still be seen there.

His sister was Artemis, the goddess of hunting and protecter of young women...

After he killed the huge snake Python of Delphi by the mountains Parnassus, the site was dedicated to him....

The death of the Python filled Apollo with joy, so he happily took his lyre and started playing a song of victory, giving joy to people all around.

This was the moment where Apollo became the god of the Music.

Right after he finished his song, Apollo took the creature and buried it under the slopes of Mount Parnassus...

One day, Apollo was teaching Hyacinthus (the son of the Muse Clio and the King of Macedonia Pierus) how to throw the discus and, on his striving to impress his lover, Apollo threw the discus with all his force.

Immediately, Hyacinthus tried to run after the discus, but was unfortunate enough to get struck by it and injure himself severely!

Despite Apollo's effort to save the young man's life with herbs, in the end the young man passed away.

Apollo never got married, but there once came a time when he got very close to marriage. This story happened in Aetolia, in West Greece, with the beautiful princess Marpissa:

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Eros hit his heart and Daphne's heart with his arrows of passion.. Apollo's love for the nymph Daphne, who fled from him and was transformed into a laurel tree, was exceptional....

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Ebu Gogo is a diminutive crypto-humanoids, probably a sort of Homo floresiensis. The legends relating to the Ebu Gogo were traditionally, according to the journal Nature attributed to monkeys...

The astonishing tale of the Ebu Gogo is a folk-adventure
based on the discovery of actual remains of real life “Hobbits” in
Indonesia.

The Ebu Gogo were said to walk awkwardly and could be heard to murmuring in their own language...

It is also said by the islanders that the Ebu Gogo can repeat what is said to them in parrot-like fashion.

The Nage people of the island have a folk legends of 'Ebu Gogo', hairy dwarf-like bipeds fond of stealing stuff (a trait which lead to them being wiped out)...

The women Ebu Gogo had extremely pendulous breasts, so long that they would throw them over their shoulders, which must have been quite a sight in full flight...

These legends are somewhat detailed and, like Hawaii's menehunes, Scandinavi's tomtar and dwarfs, they may represent a folk memory of the island's previous inhabitants who were supplanted by the current population.

Or, they may represent a supernatural understanding of the islanders' deceased ancestors, along the lines of the Taotao Mona of Guam.

However, no particular magic or mystical ability is attributed to the Ebu Gogo.

In one language of Central Flores, the name means "grandmother who eats anything" (or possibly "grandmother glutton") from the words ebu "grandmother" and gogo "(s)he who eats anything"....

The people of Flores believe that the Ebu Gogo were alive at the time of the arrival of Portuguese trading ships in the 17th century, and some hold that they still survive but are rarely seen...

Through the narrative and vivid descriptions, one becomes
completely absorbed into the Ebu Gogo saga of conflict, discovery, and survival...

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Samebitois a humanoid 'Dragon' who could cry jewels from Japan...

This sea monster is black-pigmented but with green eyes...

Samebito was told to leave the ocean by the sea king.

When he left the sea, Samebito sheltered on a bridge where he met someone called Tawaraya Tōtarō; a hero in Japanese folklore and was fully expecting to fight the monster, but seeing Samebito looking so pathetic and sorry for himself Totaro took him home where he had a lake that the monster could live in...

Totaro had been looking for a bride and fell in love with a princess called Tamana.

The problem was that Tamana's father would only allow Totaro to marry his daughter if he provided a gift of 10,000 precious jewels.

Totaro didn't have this kind of wealth and became very ill with grief.

When Samebito heard how ill Totaro was, he began to cry.

His tears turned to precious jewels (rubies) which he gave to Totaro as repayment for giving him a new home, and Totaro was able to marry his princess...

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"In one hand she holds a scepter, in the other a spindle. On her head she bears rays and a tower and she wears a girdle…. On the surface of the statue is an overlay of gold and very costly gems, some of which are white, some the color of water, many have the hue of wine and many are fiery...."
(Lucian, The Syrian Goddess. Attridge and Oden 1976: 43, 45)

It is argued that the Syrian Atargatis is the first mermaid goddess who appeared in Phoenician folklore between 700 b.c. to 1000 b.c....

There are a few theories as to what the name "Atargatis" means.

The name is Semitic, and in Phoenician is 'Athtart.

The first half of the name, most agree, is a form of the name Athtar (aka Astarte).

The second part is more problematic, however, and various interpretations of the whole of Her name are: "Atar the Daughter/Mother of 'Ate", "the Fish Goddess Atar", or "Atar the Favorable One".

The momentum of trasnformation commenced when this utterly elegant being was once in love with a mortal shepard called Mshadu and somehow she accidentally and unintentionally caused his death....

Ashamed by what she had done, she decided to jump into a lake and take on the form of a fish.

This is where the legend splits..

One version says that the powers that be…interviened... Atargatis was distned not  to give up her divine beauty entierly  so only her bottom half was turned fish like while her top half remained human....

The other version of this lore says that the waters wouldn’t conceal her beauty so she was forced to take on the half fish, half human form herself to conceal herself.

From there the flok-tale has spun out into other cultures.

For the Greeks..and later the Romans, Aphrodite also known

by her Roman name Venus, came to be portrayed from time to time as mermaid…

Atargatis is considered to be great mother and goddesss of Fertility of the earth and water.

The spread of civilization in the ancient East is also attributed to Atargatis as she is said to have taught the people social and religious practices...

Her consort is usually Hadad.  As Ataratha she may be recognized by the self-mutilation of her votaries, recorded in a perhaps sensationalist Christian passage from the Book of the Laws of the Countries, one of the oldest works of Syriac prose, an early-third-century product of the school of Bar Daisan (Bardesanes)...

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The Dokkaebi, Korean goblins who have soft spots for pretty girls and hedonistic feasts, thrive in folktales and as gargoyle-like ornamental totems.

The Dokkaebi is a Robin Hood like spirit...

He takes from the cruel and evil to reward those that do good...

He is also known as a playful prankster and joker...

If you catch him in an extra playful mood he may try to challenge you to his favorite pastime - wrestling....

Most Dokkaebi to carry a kind of club or mallet called a dokkaebi bangmang'i (도깨비 방망이).

They are like magic wands, from which it can summon anything it wants. Unfortunately, when it gets something by using it, it gets things by "stealing" from someone else, because this bangmang'i can only summon existing things, and it doesn't create objects out of thin air...

Dokkaebi can also have a cap which is called dokkaebi gamtu (도깨비 감투). Its most well-known ability is that it gives the wearer invisibility.

Remember to be a good doer though, because the Dokkaebi always knows...

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The Gidim are the Sumerian equivalent of ghosts (Etemmu is the Akkadian Version); they were the spirits of dead people living in the Underworld....

In Sumer, people knew that the dead who were buried poorly and then not given offerings would return to the land of the living as Gidim.

When a Gidim, by choice or not, walks in the world of the living, they have some ability to force their will upon the living.

These covetous ghosts could do physical harm to the living even going so far as to possess them by entering through the ear.

Haunting the living as an impoverished or vengeful Gidim is not the worst thing that could happen to a person at burial.

The dead in Sumer were always buried.

They were never cremated except in the most extreme of cases.

A person whose body was cremated did not go to the land of the dead. They, like the smoke and fire that consumed them, would go up to heaven.

The Gidim were simply the shades of people who had died.

The Gidim were said to make their homes in the ruins of cities that were ancient even in those times.

They were one form that the dead could take when they passed into death.

They can cause pain or sickness to the living.

The dead would do this in order to get revenge upon the living for ignoring them or for dishonoring their memories. Gidim could be protected against by enchanted ear jewelry.

The Gidim share some common factors with the zombies...

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Sága is the goddess of 'things spoken of', history, storytellers, the heritage, record of families and clans in Norse/ Scandinavian folklore.

“Sága’s themes are foresight, divination, inspiration, femininity, psychic abilities, kindness and tradition.

Her symbols are cups, water and fish.

Sága is an attendant of Frigg, is a Scandinavian Goddess whose name means ‘seeress’.

Sága is a student of the Universe, ever watchful and ever instructing us about the value of keen observation.

She is directly connected with the sign of Pisces, which governs artistic expression, psychic abilities and sensitivity toward others’ needs."....

Sága belongs to the race of gods called the Aesir. She is associated with the location Sökkvabekkr (Old Norse: [sɔkːwabekːr]; "sunken bank", "sunken bench", or "treasure bank"...

Her role was to transcribe and keep close records of all worldly occurences...

Saga resides in a large hall in Asgard called Sokkvabek, that is located underneath a babbling river.

Here, the walls on all four sides ripple with intoxicating waters (mead).

Saga drinks daily with Odin from these waters out of golden goblets.

At one time she was Odin's bride!!

It has also been suggested that she might also be seen as the patron goddess of Iceland...

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Mnemosyne, the daughter of Ouranos and Gaia, has with Zeus nine daughters: The Muses...

She is a Titaness; a daughter of the first generation of deities in Greece. 

Mnemosyne is the personification of memory...

She was the embodiment of an oral culture that communicated the soul through their stories and metaphors.

She became known as the Mother of Inspiration.

There was a spring dedicated to Mnemosyne before the Oracle of Trophonius at Lebadea.

The mortals who came to consult the Oracle had a choice afterwards to either keep their Memory and drink from the Spring of Mnemosyne or to forget their past and drink from the Spring of Lethe...

"... and in addition to the gods you mentioned I must call upon all the rest and especially upon Mnemosyne. For practically all the most important part of our speech depends upon this goddess ..." (Critias to Hermocrates. Plato, Critias 108d).

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The Ciguapa (pronounced see-GWAH-pah) is a malevolent nocturnal seductress from the Dominican folklore...

The Dominican legend of the ciguapas qualify them as creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints...

Some people believe that they bring death, and it is said that one should not look them in the eye, otherwise the person is at risk of being bewitched permanently.

Also, the only vocalization made by ciguapas is said to be a kind of whine or chirping... However, the ciguapa is also said to resemble nocturnal birds that cry with a human-like voice.

Although the ciguapas fear humans, Guapa, a bold and brave ciguapa, can't help but be curious--especially about a boy she sees on the nights when she goes on the land...

Known to be insanely jealous, the howling of Ciguapa in the night may be a harbinger of death for your mate if a ciguapa has fallen in love with you...

Cryptozoologist, Scott Corrales correlates the ciguapa with Chupacabra...

REMEMBER >>>> if you do come across a Ciguapa do not look into her eyes.

She will bewitch you and you forever will be under her power sinking into an ecstasy of love disappearing forever......

Lore states that the only way to capture a ciguapa is by tracking them at night, during a full moon, with a black and white polydactylic dog (called cinqueño dog)...

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Idun (pronounced “EE-done"), in Norse folklore, is the goddess of spring and rebirth.

She and her husband, Bragi, the god of music and poetry, lived in Asgard, the home of the gods.

A single source identifies her as an elder daughter of Ivaldi (a dwarf), and, since dwarves and elves were sometimes conflated in Norse folklore, this makes her a descendant of elves.

In this same source, she's also called a dís¸ a protective spirit associated with fate and fertility.

Idun took care of the magic apples the gods ate to remain immortal.

The Prose Edda, a book of Norse legends written in the 1220s, contains a story about Idun and the magic apples (The Kidnapping of Idun; a tale, which comes  from the skaldic poem Haustlöng and the Prose Edda excerpted from the Nordic pantheon):

One day Loki, the trickster god, was captured by a giant named Thiassi.

The giant refused to free Loki until he agreed to bring Idun and the apples to Thiassi's home.

Loki gave his word and sped off to Asgard....

He invited Idun to bring her apples and walk into the forest, where he knew of some even more precious apples.

Eager to compare her special fruit with that mentioned by Loki, Idun joined the trickster.

But as soon as they reached the forest, Thiassi, in the form of an eagle, dove from the sky and seized the goddess and her apples.

Without Idun's apples, the gods in Asgard began to age.

As the trickster god Loki plays a significant role in Idun's disappearance and due to the complications of which, the gods met and devised a plan...

They became bent and feeble and demanded that Loki rescue Idun from Thiassi. Afterwards, Loki and his league kills the giant...

When she is returned to Asgard the gods regain their youth....

“Bright Iduna, Maid immortal!

Standing at Valhalla’s portal,

In her casket has rich store

Of rare apples gilded o’er;

Those rare apples, not of Earth,

Ageing Æsir give fresh birth.”

Valhalla (J. C. Jones).

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Duwende is a unique dwarf-like being from the Pilipino floklore...

Nuno has a wide range of goblin-like counterparts throughout the world...

The actual size of the nuno is disputed.

Some claim that it is invisible to the human eye, while others claim it is about the size of a small insect.

Its appearance is that of an old man.

The word "nuno" is also how old relatives or great-grandparents are referred to in certain dialects...

The nuno lives in an anthill called a punso.

It will harm those who disturb or damage its punso.

If someone were to trample or kick the nuno's home, the offender's foot would swell.

Nuno sa punso are also found in other places, such as under large rocks or trees, along riverbanks, inside caves, or even people's backyards.

Nuno sa Punso is usually peaceful and wants to be left alone, undisturbed...

Little does everyone know that Philippine nuno sa punso also follow a color code that determines their personality.

White dwendes are kind, red dwendes give protection amulets, green ones play with the kids and black ones can give nothing but trouble to those that they bother....

CAUTION:

Messing with a Duwende results in very severe, bad consequences such as vomiting blood, painful swellings in the offending body part, or causing thick hair to grow on the offending body part, and/or urinating black liquid...

These curses may last but a few minutes, or for the rest of your life.

Some of the elder agree that a simple “tabi, tabi, po” will be enough to reverse the curse.

Other countermeasures m\y include:

A simple ceremony called tawasin which a piece of a candle is melted on a disc or spoon.

Once melted, the wax is poured into water.

An image will appear in the wax, either that of a nuno or of a certain place or situation.

The practioner (albularyo) will interpret the image to determine the possible cause of the sickness.

In order to be cured, the victim's family will provide an offering to the nuno such as fruit or other food, drinks, or material goods.

If the victim is still not cured, it may be necessary to personally ask the nuno's forgiveness.

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The Mothman is a paranormal humanoid who allegedly roams the American state of West Virgina.

Among other creatures, this beast is a topic of interest for cryptozoologists, people who study animals which seem to fall beyond normal taxonomic classifications.

The original sightings of the creature date back to November 12, 1966 and it was reported by several independent witnesses that gave the same description of the creature.

Though this creature has not been seen by large numbers of people, there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, that believe in the creature...

Sightings were reported by a wide range of people, typically around dusk or after dark, and they sometimes involved paranormal activity such as malfunctioning electronics.

One report involved a dog, which allegedly was extremely upset for no apparent reason before the Mothman finally appeared; the next morning, the dog vanished, never to be seen again.

Many of the sightings shared common details, suggesting that people may have been reading the newspapers and being inspired, although one could also argue that these sightings were real, and this is why they shared commonalities.

In almost all of the descriptions, the Mothman is said to be partially humanoid, with giant wings resembling those of a moth, and clawed feet and hands.

The legend of the Mothman is long and varied.

In some legends, the Mothman has antennae as well.

The creature spread his wings and flew alongside his car as he drove to the Sheriff's office, the man said.

Two volunteer firemen who sighted it said it was a "large bird with red eyes".

As John A. Keel describes in his book, "The Mothman Prophecies," the stories about who and what he might be range from alien visitations to the manifestation of a 200 year old curse placed on the region by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk.

Four people once saw him flying over Point Pleasant not long after that and the following morning, a man claimed he saw him in a field.

However, a little research turns up several different experiences that all seem to be connected to The Mothman...

Residents of Point Pleasant honor their somewhat famous monster with a 12-foot statue that stands in the center of town. They also hold an annual Mothman festival each year and have a Mothman museum.

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In Manx folklore, an arkan sonney is a type of fairy hedgehog creature which looks like a pig with long hairs.

They are difficult to catch, but are said to bring good luck to one who catches them.

For this reason, they're also called lucky piggies.

This magical beast can shapeshift... It can change its size but not its shape...

It was said by the old folk that if you catch a lucky piggy, you will always find a silver piece in your pocket...

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Imdugud is probably the correct reading of the Sumerian name of the supernatural bird, who is called Anzu in the Akkadian language...

This Mesopotamian Sumero-Akkadian beast is demonic but friendly, although he can breathe fire and water...

 He is depicted as a storm-bird with the head of a lion, but sometimes depicted as a double eagle’s head.

Its wings would create thunder and it would bring rain...

Sometimes it would hover over domestic animals to threaten to kill them.

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Anzu is the son of the bird goddess Siris...

Imgug's counterpart is the Griffin...

After a major conflict, the mother-goddess Belet-Ili was persuaded to give birth to a divine hero who would be able to defeat Anzu.

Belet-Ili brought forth Ninurta and sent him off into battle.

After a long and terrible battle, Ninurta pierced Anzu's lung with an arrow, and recaptured some sacrec tablets.

"Weapons stopped and did not capture Anzu amid the mountains
He (Ninurta) shouted out and instructed Sharur:
' Repeat to the far-sighted Ea the actions you have seen!
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Ninurta was encircling Anzu
And Ninurta was wrapped in devastation's dust,
But when he set the shaft to the bow, drew it taut
And aimed the shaft at him from the bows curve,
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"You, shaft that came, return to your reed thicket!
Bow frame, back to your copse!

Bow string, back to the ram's gut! Feathers, return to the birds!
He was holding the gods´ Tablet of Destinies in his hand,
And they influenced the string of the bow, the arrows did not come near his body.

Deadly silence came over the battle and conflict ceased.
Weapons stopped and did not capture Anzu amid the mountains."...

However, according to The Hymn of Ashurbanipal, Marduk is said to have killed Anzu...

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Helios is the Greek titan sun god, whom the Romans called Sol...

Homer often calls him simply Titan or Hyperion, while Hesiod (Theogony 371) and the Homeric Hymn separate him as a son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia (Hesiod) or Euryphaessa (Homeric Hymn) and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn.

Ovid also calls him Titan, in fact "lumina Titan"...

Helios Is also the guardian of oaths...

Helios is depicted as a handsome with a halo, and usually beardless, man clothed in purple robes and crowned with the shining aureole of the sun.

His sun-chariot is drawn by four steeds, sometimes winged.

Helios once allowed Phaeton to guide his chariot across the sky. The unskilled youth could not control the horses and fell towards his death.

Helios is identified with several gods including fiery Hephaistos and light-bringing Apollon....

One wife of Helios was the Nymph Rhode(meaning "rose" in the Greek language).

Rhodes gave her name to the famous Greek island of Rhodes and Helios was the island’s patron deity.

One of the island's main attractions, the Colossus of Rhodes, was built in Helios' honor and was one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World...

The Colossus of Rhodes was a bronze, triumphal statue, about 32 meters high, that was constructed by the famous Chares of Lindos...

"Helios drove his chariot, pulled by four fiery steeds up to the heavens. Although the path was steep and narrow, and the steeds were wild, Helios always held them on their course.

At high noon Helios would stop at the top of the sky and look around....

At the top of the sky nothing could escape his fiery gaze...

Again he drove on, but now he gave free rein to his steeds.

The steeds were able to see Helios’s palace far to the west.

Eager to reach their stable they ran on faster and faster...."...

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Yuki-onna is female apparition spirit pirit or 'yōkai' in Japanese folklore.

She sometimes can be encountered on snowy nights, usually described as having white hair or skin, being cold to the touch, or otherwise being similar to the frigid winter landscape....

Yuki-onna appears also appears as a tall, beautiful woman with long black hair and blue lips.However, she can appear like a fierce hag....

Her inhumanly pale or even transparent skin makes her blend into the snowy landscape.

She sometimes wears a white kimono, but other legends describe her as nude, with only her face and hair standing out against the snow....

Despite her inhuman beauty, her eyes can strike terror into mortals.

The yuki-onna is considered the spirit of the snow itself, or perhaps the ghost of a woman who died in a snowstorm, but according to one source, the yuki-jorō of the Oguni area of Yamagata Prefecture is believed to have originally been a princess of the moon...

Tiring of life in the heavens, this lunar maiden descended on a snowfall to investigate the earth, only to discover she could no longer return to the sky.

She still appears on moonlit nights when the snow is deep....

Yuki-onna floats across the snow, leaving no footprints (in fact, some tales say she has no feet, a feature of many Japanese ghosts), and she can transform into a cloud of mist or snow if threatened....

In the legend recounted by Lafcadio Hearn, a woodcutter and his apprentice encounter Yuki-onna in a blizzard.

She takes pity on the boy and allows him to live, but makes him promise that he will never tell anyone about her.

Later, when the boy is grown, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful, pale girl named O-Yuki, or "Snow." They marry and have ten children, and one day the man tells his wife of his encounter with Yuki-onna.

Of course, O-Yuki is Yuki-onna, and she is furious with her husband for having broken his promise.

She spares him again for the sake of the children, but leaves forever, assuring him that he will not be so lucky if he dares reveal the secret again.

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Apophis is an Egyptian monster living in perpetual darkness.

Apep represents the forces of chaos, death, and disorder and thus share some common factors with Seth the personification of creative chaos, yet the nature of Apophis seems to have always been dark and threatening, while Seth could at times be beneficial.

This evil-demonic snake god is the chief of the antagonists of the sun god Re and each night he tries to stop the sun god's barque on his journey through the underworld....

In the struggle between light and darkness, the monster is wounded by the divine entourage of Re with knives and spears...

In some legends, Apep was an earlier and discarded sun-god himself.

This helps to explain the snake's strength and his resentment of the daily journey of the sun.

Apep is depicted as a huge serpent often with tightly compressed coils to emphasis his huge size.

In funerary texts he is usually shown in the process of being dismembered in various ways.

In a detailed depiction in the tomb of Ramesses VI twelve heads are painted above the head of the snake representing the souls he has swallowed who are briefly freed when his is destroyed, only to be imprisoned again the following night.

In an alternative depiction inscribed in a number of tombs of private individuals Hathor or Ra is transformed into a cat who slices the huge serpent with a knife.

The serpent was also represented by a circular ball, the "evil eye" of Apep, in numerous temple scenes...

In some accounts Apep was captured in magical nets and his body was cut into pieces - though each night he is revived to attack once more.

In fact, other legends state that the sun god is encircled or swallowed by the serpent who later disgorges him as a metaphor of rebirth and renewal...

Probably this demonic monster was killed by the god Aten or in some tales, by the cat goddess Bast.

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The Pugut is believed in Philippine folklore to be a dark, headless giant who stations itself in lonely roads or in balete trees, often carrying decapitated heads of its victims...

The pugot may also manifest itself as a beheaded ghost...

This shapeshifting monster dwells in dark places, abandoned structures and large trees the acacia, balete, santol, etc...

It can assume various shapes such as hogs, dogs or even as humans. However, it usually appears as a black, gigantic headless being.

However, some folktales depict the pugot as having its hands cut off, instead of the head.

It is said that this fiend is not a dangerous creature, seemingly content to merely scare people silly...

Aparently, the Ifugao version of this headless being, which is called numputul in that region, trips merrily along, stuffing snakes and other creepy crawlies down the stump of its neck.

The more he gets, the happier he is. Or at least, as happy as one can be without seratonin production...

The pugot can be made to disappear just by lighting a lamp. So if you see a headless man anywhere, strike a match and poof he goes!

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Yakshas (Sanskrit masculine singular yakṣa, Sanskrit feminine singular yakṣī or yakṣinī) are sometimes considered to be a class of the Gandharvas, but are definitely of a more malevolent disposition.

They appear in both Buddhist and Hindu folklore...

These fairy-like creatures in Indian folklore are considered to be the sons of the sage Kashyapa and Khasa...

They live under the earth in the Himalayas where they guard the wealth of the earth (gems, gold, silver, etc.)...

Yakshas have all fat bellies and plump legs...

They are also shape-changers and can appear in the form of handsome youths or fat black dwarfs, or even as objects such as trees...

They have no special characteristics, are not violent, and are therefore called punyajana ("good beings").

In other tales, they are said to have dual personalites, and thus the much darker version of the Yaksha, is a kind of cannibalistic ogre, ghost or demon that haunts the wilderness and waylays and devours travelers.

They also can harrass mortals, chiefly by enchanting forests, lakes and rivers and killing any human who ventures near them...

In this context, the exterior appearance of yakshas is inconstant, they are capable to werewolfness!!!

Sometimes they were imaged by abominable, gigantic and shapeless monsters with long arms and a monstrous mouth, or furious giants, "strong as one thousand elephants", sometimes  beautiful and seductive girls with wide hips, a narrow waist, huge eyes and a black hair...

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