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Mahwot/Karnabo
The Mahwot, later called the Karnabo, is a monster thought to live in the Lower Meuse Ardennes in France. It is described as an amphibious creature as large as a calf and shaped like a lizard. It rarely leaves the Meuse, and it foretells disaster and destruction. It is thought to come when mothers call for it to attack disobedient children. It is known to make a nasal sound that paralyzes and suffocates people who get too close, and it kills cattle. Later iterations had a human face, eyes like a basilisk, and a trunk-like nose. It is often thought to be locked away in an abandoned slate quarry. Citations:…
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Mahaha
The Mahaha is a demonic creature from Inuit myth. It has sharp nails and is known to tickle people to death. It makes people laugh and cuts open their insides. It is similar to the Aagjuk, specifically to ones living on the moon. Citations: Aupilaarjuk, Mariano. Perspectives on Traditional Law. United Kingdom, Language and Culture Program of Nunavut Arctic College, 1999. Gogerty, Clare. Sacred Places: Where to Find Wonder in the World. United Kingdom, Octopus, 2020. Hulan, Renée. Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture. United Kingdom, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. Jenness, Diamond, and McGrath, Robin. Canadian Inuit literature: the development of a tradition. Ottawa, National Museums of Canada,…
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Machi
Machi are shamans from Mapuche myth. Machi are differentiated from Kalku by their benevolent nature and roles in society. The Machi and Kalku balance each other representing good and evil respectively. Machi are most commonly women, though this refers to gender and its presentations rather than biological sex. Gender is relatively fluid among Machi and is judged on different standards, being anatomy, positioning in sexual contexts, and ritual presentation. Machi are often stigmatized as witches or sexual deviants in modern society and are frequently subject to bigoted beliefs. They are known to use familiars and will become possessed by these familiars to navigate the spirit world. Their job is to…
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Macan Gadungan
Macan Gadungans are creature from the folklore of Java, Indonesia. They are Therianthropes( humans that turn into animals) that can turn into a tiger. Their name means “false tiger” or “disguised tiger.” It is a crazed or rabid tiger with the soul of a sleeping human inside of it. People who lack a philtrum (the depression in skin between your nose and your upper lip) could activate this transformation with a ritual called Ngelu Gadungan. Citations: Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. United States, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2016.
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Lupo Mannaro/Lupo Manaro
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Lucy And Nancy Creature
The Lucy And Nancy Creature is a cryptid sighted in Florida in 1849. Its name comes from the fact it was sighted by people aboard the ship Lucy And Nancy. It was described as a sea serpent measuring ninety feel long, and seven feet across. It had a dirty brown back, a large serpentine head, and clawed fins that were several feet in length. Renowned Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans suggested it could either be a long necked aquatic mammal, or a giant eel. Citations: Newton, Michael. Florida’s Unexpected Wildlife: Exotic Species, Living Fossils, and Mythical Beasts in the Sunshine State. United States, University Press of Florida, 2007.
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Löwenmensch
The Löwenmensch are known from stone age carvings first found in 1930s Germany. The initial depiction is a statue standing 28-31 cm tall carved from mammoth ivory. It shows a lion-headed human and has been suggested by radiocarbon to be somewhere near 40,000 years old. The statue was found by Gustav Rieck in the Vogelherd cave in the Swabian Jura region in Southern Journey in 1931. Due to WWII, the statue was improperly sorted until it was “rediscovered” in 1969 by Joachim Hahn. It’s one of the oldest examples of human art and shows the ability of early man being able to think abstractly. It’s thought to have taken over…
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Loup Garou
The Loup Garou is a French form of werewolf that traveled to the US with colonialism. They are known to feed on blood and the flesh of humans. There are various distinct forms of Loup Garou. The oldest form starts out human and changes fully into a wolf with human intelligence. Often this version of transformation is induced by wearing a magic belt made of wolf skin. The next form, these stories starting in the eighteenth century, only partially transform, turning into human-wolf hybrids. This form had incredible strength, speed, and was very difficult to kill. The next form, these stories starting in the nineteenth century, were people who did…
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Long Prairie Beer Can Aliens
The Long Prairie Beer Can Aliens were sighted in Long Prairie Minnesota October 23, 1965, at 7:15 p.m. The Witness was a 19-year-old named James Townsend who was driving outside of Long Prairie when his engine and headlight suddenly stopped. 20 feet ahead of him in the middle of the road was a metal rocket-shaped object glowing as bright as the sun. It was 30-40 feet high and stood on 3 leg-like fins measuring 10 feet wide. 3 creatures emerged from behind the ship. The creatures were 6 inches tall and resembled tin beer cans with arms and legs like matchsticks. After a few minutes, the creatures returned to the…
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Lokha
The Lokha is a creature from the myths of the Seminole and Oklahoma Native Americans. They are described as a form of spirit animal that lives inside of a human. It emerges from the human mouth during sleep in the form of a chicken. In this form they steal and eat human hearts. People with Lokha in their bodies can be identified as their breathing sounds like a chicken. Citations: Gill, Sam D., and Sullivan, Irene F.. Dictionary of Native American Mythology. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 1994.
