Mythological Creatures

Babayaga
It is a male assassin from the russian folklore, who lives in America and likes dogs

Hiisi

Specifics of them change based on the storyteller, but generally some sort of scary trolls. This is why there is no agreed upon look for them and no general artwork available.

There are natural formations and even workings of ancient civilizations that could only be explains as the workings of hiisi, like hiidenkivi and hiidenkirnu and hiidenkiuas.

Then there is vetehinen, general waterbeing.

>>78379226
Elves, dwarves and trolls

There's this mythological creature called the "Straight Swede". Needless to say, it's too unrealistic for media.

>>78379226
We used to, before islam and christianity came

>>78379372
You guys really dislike the Danish, don't you?

Skinwalkers, Bigfoot, wendigo

>>78379443
Ironically I guess they have Stockholm syndrome for them these days and view the Swedes as oppressors in a friendly way

Golfu, Belliegħa, Imħalla, Babaw

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>>78379351
Oh and Iku-Turso. Massive immortal walrus.

Hiisi apparently has an interesting history behind it. It used to be the word for pagan burial ground. Then it was worshipped as the collective spirit of the people buried at the burial ground. Then Christianity came and it become bad spirits. Then it took the form of trolls and what not in tales told to kids.

>>78379600

Hiisi also means the indigenous people in Häme who were there before Finns

Wildfold, primarily hot women that steal men who are then lost to the forest for ever.
We also have zmej/dragons that steal golden apples and women.

>>78379410
Interested to hear more about this. Go on anon.

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>>78379410
I know that feel.

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>>78379767
>wildfold
I meant wildfolk, caмoдиви

>>78379226
yes we have some ancient ones from greeks

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Zmey Gorynych
A flying fire breathing serpent. Kinda similar to the european dragon, only with 3 heads

>>78379443
Huh?

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>>78379600
>Iku-Turso

>>78379226
Oh sure. I have a book of creatures from nordic folklore.

>>78379951

Of course Swedes only know anything about Finland through American comics

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>>78379895
some famous ones are Scilla and Cariddi two sea monsters
the legend says that they should live here in the strait of Messina

>>78379997
shit man I learned of iku-turso from that comic

super minor character in finnish folklore

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>>78379226
Any australian mythical creatures? Bullet dodging emu perhaps?

>>78379410
Islam and Christianity ruined paganism
fucking monotheism religions

>>78380061
Great tales replaced with desert filth.

>>78379997
What, do you expect each of us to own or own copy of Kalevala? I mean I do, but I don't know anyone else who does, either in Sweden or Finland.

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>>78379226
Not exactly a mythological creature but here it is """"Quetzalcoatl"""" (the one at the right)

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Forsake desert religions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--o0O7tffdg

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>>78380119
and the actual Quetzalcoatl colorized mid 11th century

>>78380119
Why were the ancient mexicans such terrible painters?

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>>78380210
T-tell me more.

there is a less know legend 2bh quite recent, during 1300 near Rome there was a cave called Malagrotta or Mala Grotta (it means the evil cave) where, as the legend says, there was an "evil" dragon who was killed during a crusade
today Malagrotta is a landfill and saddly there is no dragon

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>>78380304
.t dragon

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>>78379226

Mule-Without-Head
women whose fornicate with priests will become this moster

>>78380482

What about boys?

>>78379293
too thin for them. they dont understand.

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>>78380246
because they did not attempt to be realistic, they got pretty ok once they knew the european painting though

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>>78379600
This book has a chapter about hiisi, also lot of other interesting stuff. Highly recommend.

>>78379600
Iku-Turso (Tursas, Turisas) was also worshipped as a god of war by Tavastians

>>78380657

Disgusting loanshit from Germanic

>>78380521

kek
idk
this was for women willing to have sex with priests; the boys were forced to do so by a pedophile

>>78380764
Notmy fault they were located near Swedes and Suoms

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>>78380595
>because they did not attempt to be realistic
that also led them to some pretty cool stuff

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>>78379226
I dont know, Chernobyl mutants?

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>>78380980
>that really fast one that jumps

>>78381188
Бългapия lol. Sazopol have cool beach. But very high price for arrival now.

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let's have a Domovoy blyat

>>78381334
Hot.

>>78381334
this greek mythology.

>>78381421
Seaside has been booming since Turkey got a bad rep with terrorism and whatnot.
Prices probably reflect that.

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Or rusalka. Which almost mermaid, but more like suicidal girl than spirit of the sea or seafolk.

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Yes

>>78381483
Sirin and Alkonost? How are they Greek?

>>78381530
Ow0 what's that?

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>>78381447
Dont listen this faggot. This's really domovoy.

>>78381556
They look like harpies imo and harpies are greek.
>>78381579
Is that like a home spirit/troll?

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>>78379226
pic related is a "Nachtmahr" now you know where the english word "nightmare" is coming from. and btw if you have a wet dream it means you were raped by one while beeing asleep.

>>78381612
yes. He drink milk and eat black bread.
>>78381556
Sirin it's just greek Siren.

>>78379226
I don't think we have any
Or I have never heard of them

>>78381856
Engls and saxxyт were germans. Really. Where did the German words come from in English?

>>78382027
La Bête du Gévaudan
There is film with Vensan Cassel.

We have a few..

>Bergsrå
>Bysen
>Djävlar
>Gruvrå
>Hamnskiftare
>Havsfru
>Havsmannen
>Huldra
>Hyllemor
>Jerff
>Lyktgubbe
>Näcken
>Rådare
>Skeppsrå
>Skogsrå
>Sjörå
>Tomte
>Alver
>De osynliga
>Diser
>Dvärgar
>Häxor
>Jättar
>Svartalver
>Troll
>Vittror
>Vättar
>Älvor
>Draug
>Irrbloss
>Lyktgumma
>Mara
>Myling
>Nattramn
>Spöke
>Strandvaskare
>Bäckahästen
>Gloson
>Lindorm
>Storsjöodjuret
>Varulv
>Vitorm
>Bortbytingar
>Kyrkogrimmar
>Faustar
Just to list a few.

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>>78382117
i don´t quite undestand you.
do you want me to explain where geman words come from in english or do you actually claim that you knew nachtmahrs are a thing?

pic related btw is a basilisk- they used to be popular althrogh europe, but especially in germany

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>>78382256
Was gonna post but you beat me to it.
I have a book at home with like 450 something creatures present in Scandinavian folklore.

>>78379226
Did they unironically copy the plot from Warcraft?

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>>78379226
FUCK YOU OP, YOU SPOILED IT FOR ME, I DIDN'T NEED TO SEE THAT!

But ok, what mythical creatures are we talking about here? Pic related is Mare. She would sit on you while you sleep and give you bad dreams, stems from norse mythology. The word for bad dreams in Norway stems from her "mareritt" in which "ritt" means riding. The English word nightmare stems from that word as well.

>>78382348
jes crist man. English nation come from germans tribes engl and saxon, of course them language have germans words. that all what i want say.

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Is a dwarf that lives and protects mines of the Andes. Until now, miners give him a kind of payment for ask for his protection inside the mine, that consist in coca leaves, alcohol and cigarrettes

>>78382546
all series the game of trons are same. All they consist of guano and pain.

>>78382904
Wait, that's Game of Thrones? I honestly thought it was a new Marvel Thor movie or something. Good thing I stopped watching years ago.

>>78380061
And yet your ancestors were the primary driving force behind it.

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>>78379226
Dragons. Obviously.

>>78379226
>supposedly kök-tengri was a white swan
>turkic had a vast pantheon with many deities
>first turk was son of a wolf and some women (similar to romulus brothers of roman empire)
>supposedly turkic people used to be afraid of lightning and thunder because it was wrath of kök-tengri

and some more hardcore shit.

>>78383333
No way. And i know only one a mythology being from Turk. It's Ahmed who fuck all white women, that such evil beast.

>mfw Islam somehow enforced our mythology and made things more interesting
We've got the usual djinns, demons, angels. And then we get into:
>Toyol
little green demons who follow their master's bidding; usually just steal money
>Pontianak
women who died out of an act of evil (murdered, raped, etc) comes back to haunt everyone. if she was raped or a single mom, she'd be carrying around her baby.
>Hantu galah
Really tall demon, that's it
>Hantu tetek
depicted as a grandma with massive tits, if your kids aren't back home by maghreb (dusk), she'll hide your kids under her tits
>Jenglot
small demons usually encased in a box, used for withcraft purposes. kinda like our own voodoo dolls.
>Langsuir
women who died due to an act of evil become vampires that kill people instead of drinking blood.
>Penanggal
disembodied head of a woman, depicted as a floating head with her organs dripping down below.

Everything except hantu tetek is pretty famous here in our movies, books, and sometimes music.

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>>78379226
Krampus. He kidnaps bad children at christmas. Nowadays, in southern Germany and Austria, young people get drunk, wear a Krampus costume and terrorize the neighborhood.

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>>78382224
It's just a big ass wolf

>>78383544
>hantu tetek
nice

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>>78379226
Pakon

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>>78383608
Belsnickel is still a thing in some PA German areas in PA. Kind of goofy, I'm not into costume stuff

We have the New Jersey Devil here in NJ which used to spook me as a kid. Had a really weird experience in the Pine Barrens a while back, someone on /out/ told me it was some particular sort of native American demon or something though, I don't recall wha he said it was

>>78383020
>Good thing I stopped watching years ago.
Very good thing. It is a horrible show.

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>>78386145
It's had a direct-to-movie horror movie about it, an X-Files episode that was completely retired and shit all over any conception of it, and occasionally some pop culture message but it's usually pretty detached from the actual stories of it

The Pine Barrens are pretty damn eerie

>>78379226
Ogre
Gobelin
Fée
Lutin
Dame blanche
Feu follet

The Anglos basically stolen French mythology and claimed it as English

>>78379226
>Lake Champlain, New York-Vermont-Quebec
Champ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_(folklore)

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>Does your culture have mythological creatures

Plenty. Probably the greatest being Väinämöinen. The almost omnipotent demi-god that was born when the world was created and was left to roam it. He had infinite wisdom and could literally sing you in to the swamp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0w0629SlC8

>>78387565
Also he was the direct inspiration to Tom Bombadil in Lotr and somewhat indirect influence on Gandalf.

>>78383608
Slovenes also have Krampus

>>78379226
Almost every creature from fantasy games has its roots in British folklore, which then has their roots in Norse/Germanic and Celtic folklore.

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Not really, out natives we're stone age retards so their culture was pretty irrelevant and didn't impact society, with many of their myths being extremely recent, most other folk stories are either derivative of Spainish rural culture or Northern European myths with name changes, the flying Dutchman is probably the most well known folk story in Chile. With Pic related, an imp being the second one.

Our natives suck and our animals are not exotic or cool, so neither them or the Europeans could come out with cool myths.

My favorite folk story is about the pink dolphin from Brazil that transforms into a good looking guy and fucks virgins in the jungle.

>>78381520
they virtually fuck men to death

>>78382688
what about pishtako? and equeque?

>>78383810
But anon, the beast was a lion.

>>78387173
also la bête du Gévaudan

>>78383608
Still less scary than niggers

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this is a nuckelavee from the Orkney islands, its fucking horrifying

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_legendary_creatures
Interesting read, vut it makes me wonder why all cultures from all around the world with no contact with each other have similar monsters, maybe the bronze age collapse was caused by this?

no idea and no

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the turul, yes

>>78379226
V-viserion ;_;

>>78379226
lel I already watched the leaked episode CUNT

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Honestly cannot wait when 媽祖 makes it into Touhou.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazu
Don't fuck this up ZUN I'm counting on you.

>>78379226
Fair Folk/Other folk/Sidhe whos presence was shrouded in dense mist.
Banshees who mourn the dead
Balor/Fomorian giants which bring destruction, pestilence and drought.

Not creatures but neat things; sacred trees which would grant knowledge to specific poets who slept beneath them and give visions of things to come.

>>78394280
that's why we have zwarte piet

>>78390944
oh yeah Pishtaco, i remember when my grandma tell us that stories :'v

Equeque , never heard really , what is?

I also heard about about "Aya Uma" (a head that flies and stuck in a neck of someone) an other is "El Condenado" (The Condemnem, that is a person who have incestous relations and it looks like an animal with the head of a person that eat people...

>>78379226
>The spoilers were legit

Apex fucking kek. D&D do it again.

wendigo, Jersey Devil, chupacabra, Mothman

that's it i think

>>78394280
why doenst krampus steal dindu children? is it because theyre scared of them?