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Teelget
Teelget was a quadruped with antlers on his head. He was predatory and round shaped with few features. The hero Nayenezgani killed it by using a gopher to burrow into its chest and he shot its heart with an arrow made of chain lightning. Teelget got angry and ripped apart his own body trying to get to Nayenezgani. Citations: Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. United States, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2016.
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Taxim
Taxim are creatures from Eastern Europe. They are focused on revenge. They spread plagues and sometimes attack cattle. They are animated corpses. They can be detected by their terrible smell. They only hurt their intended target. Citations: Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. United States, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2016. Larousse Dictionary Of World Folklore: An Unparalleled View Of Folktales And Heritage by Alison Jones Melton, J. Gordon. The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. United Kingdom, Visible Ink Press, 2011.
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Tatsu/Lung/Ryo/Ryu
The Tatsu is a common term for a dragon in Japanese. They are thought to be descended from a primitive form of a three toed Chinese dragon. They are associated with the sea and rain and live in rivers or the sea. They give proper amounts of rain to those who properly appeased them, and cause droughts and whirlwinds when angered. Citations: Bane, Theresa. Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore. United States, McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2016. Zell-Ravenheart, Oberon, and DeKirk, Ashley. Dragonlore: From the Archives of the Grey School of Wizardry. United States, Red Wheel Weiser, 2006.
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Tarriassuit/Talliqat/Talliirait
The Tarriassuit are a form of supernatural creatures from Inuit myth. They are invisible, only being seen by their shadows, but otherwise are completely normal people. Though they could not be seen head on, they could be seen out of the peripherals. Along with invisibility they are also noted to not leave footprints. Due to their appearance (or lack thereof) they are often referred to as invisible people or shadow people. They served no specific threat and were thought of as good people. As they are unseen and refuse to attack someone who is defenseless, they never fight humans. They make their homes in the mountains and enter their homes…
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Rawhead/Tommy Rawhead/Bloody Bones
The Rawhead is a creature known from British and US folklore, commonly the American Midwest. Stories of this creature are thought to have originated in Britain or Celtic myth. It’s used as a bogeyman figure, and often seen as a companion to Bloody-Bones with them sometimes being seen as two parts of the same entity. One is a headless skeleton that dances, and the other is a skull that bites people. It’s described as very ugly with blood constantly pouring from the mouth. Sometimes it’s described as a tall figure in a black cloak. In the Pacific Northwest it sometimes appears as a cloud of green fog. It is thought to…
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Tjerwerk Fireball Humanoid
The Tjerwerk Fireball Humanoid is a creature sighted in Tjerwerk, Friesland, the Netherlands, in 1927. It was sighted by a man named Lieuwe Klaasens and a local pastor. They saw what resembled a fireball descending from the sky, and then morphing into a humanoid shape. This figure walked toward a Frisian burial ground, called a terp, before rolling back into a fireball and disappearing into the sky. Citations: Rosales, Albert. Humanoid Encounters 1 AD-1899: The Others Amongst Us. N.p., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
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Good Hoop/Tasmanian Bunyip/Universal Eye
Good Hoop is an alternate name for the Bunyip, commonly from Tasmania. They often have serpentine forms and may have small or non-visible ears, a sheepdog head, small wing-like fins, shaggy black hair, and/or crooked feet. They measure between 1.2 and 1.35 meters in length and are thought to move 50 km per hour. One was sighted in Lake Tiberias in 1952. It was first viewed in shallow water and quickly disappeared into deep water. Citations: Bayley, Harold. The lost language of symbolism; an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies. London, Williams and Norgate, 1912. Hargreaves, Joyce, and Hargreaves, Beryl Joyce. Hargreaves New…
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Tarasque/Tarasconus/Taras/Tauriskos
The Tarasque was a bizarre chimerical dragon from Medieval France. It was an amphibious beast thought to live in the forest around the Rhone River. It was believed to be the child of the Leviathan and the Onachus. It was larger than an ox, had six legs ending in bear paws, a lion head, a serpentine tail ending in a scorpion stinger, a hard shell covered in spikes, and impenetrable scales covering its body. It was incredibly vicious, being known to sink ships and kill anyone moving along its river. It was believed a village requested the assistance of Saint Martha, who then went and found the creature in the…
