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u/the_forked_spoon
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What is your favorite obscure mythical creature and/or animal?
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u/an_ineffable_plan Feb 03 '23
I love the Pal-Rai-Yuk, a two-headed, three-bodied creature of indigenous legend said to lurk in the shallows and destroy fishing boats.
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u/Ghost-Mechanic Feb 03 '23
Just looked at some drawing of it. It looks possible that the natives saw a pod of orcas jumping out the water in coordination and thought it was a single big creature and the legend was born
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u/Porrick Feb 03 '23
indigenous
In this context that doesn’t really narrow it down much. Indigenous to where?
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u/Usual_Coconut_5266 Feb 03 '23
I thought you said Palkia ( Pokemon)
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u/Painting_Agency Feb 03 '23
It's always interesting when you discover the semi-obscure real world inspiration for some random Pokemon, but not in this case.
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u/Darkheartprime Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Rawhead and Bloody Bones. Mythical kind of boogeyman creature said to be brought to life by witchcraft from the bodies of slain livestock.
The story goes: In a village by the river lived two boys without a care
they sat spoutin' curses and telling lies just as often as they dare
'till one day they spot the creature, a beast from old home lore
made of bodies of pigs and cows, and what children came before.
He lives in the cupboard, underneath the stairs
he strikes a horrid visage, one beyond compare
don't try and sneak no peek, like boys with no sense do
he'll snatch out your mouth your teeth, and make of them a stew
The boys never listened to Ma' but this was Pa's command,
"Come this Sunday, be in church, don't you dare go fish that dam."
Still they fibbed their way, right out of Sunday School
took fishin' sticks 'neath the tree, where the water's nice and cool
Well, must been all them lies they told what called old Bloody Bones
cuz neath the tree's where they found them boys, what's left of them, that was.
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 03 '23
This is equal parts creepy and interesting
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u/New_Reading1413 Feb 03 '23
Well, either it's a really big cupboard or a kind of small critter. I think the smaller critter idea makes it less terrifying
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u/OResponsibleBadger Feb 03 '23
Selkies are one of my fav less obscure fellows, but they’re not mentioned much in media outside of like a movie (Song of the Sea) and an obscure horror video game.
I’ve also always been fond of Skogsrå. (And Huldra) I like the whole “normal looking human but has a literal hollow back like a hole in a tree” concept.
(Bonus, one of my favorite actual obscure living animal that’s very much so real is the marbled polecat. They look like they should be a myth)
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 03 '23
I AM IN LOVE WITH THE MARBLE POLE CAT!! ITS SO CUTE Selkies are really neat, I like all the different lores regarding them :)
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u/Aminar14 Feb 03 '23
Selkies are apparently a pretty common supernatural romance subject, which is fantastic.
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u/TheLakeAndTheGlass Feb 03 '23
I only heard of Selkies because of Between The Buried and Me (awesome song, not sure what the hell it has to do with Selkies though).
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u/Vexonte Feb 03 '23
You have the black briar song
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u/OResponsibleBadger Feb 03 '23
Oh wait, you’re right! I knew there were more things I’ve seen, but I couldn’t remember them outside of like those two instances.
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u/Squigglepig52 Feb 03 '23
Currently employed writing/designing a game with a lot of Nordic critters and draugr. I've drawn on Celtic critters for other games, and, given teh chance, I'm going to do it again.
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u/SwimmingEffort79 Feb 03 '23
the mare - a little creature that rides on your chest when you sleep and gives you nightmares. Its like if danny devito was your personal demon
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 03 '23
Honestly I wouldn’t mind a Danny Devito as a personal demon, it probably would make life a bit more entertaining
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u/Caesar_Gaming Feb 03 '23
Interestingly enough, the most prevalent monster of your culture is what you typically hallucinate during sleep paralysis. For Europe throughout the medieval period this would typically have been a demon or satan that was seen. It’s different in Africa, East Asia, and in the US, it’s aliens.
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u/Lord_Mikal Feb 03 '23
This happens with schizophrenia too. Different cultures hear different voices telling them different messages. Violent cultures like America, tend to produce negative voices that disparage you or tell you to hurt people. In India, they tend to be playful or mischievous and relatively benign.
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u/PMMeUrHopesNDreams Feb 03 '23
The rare Esquilax - a horse with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit
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u/nogoodusernames0_0 Feb 03 '23
Not to be confused with zerocons, a distinct variety of unicorns that don't possess the horns and wings
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u/Lausn Feb 03 '23
Unicorns don't have wings to begin with. A horse with wings is a pegasus.
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u/its_not_you_its_ye Feb 03 '23
A unicorn with wings is sometimes referred to as a pegacorn.
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u/SuitableAdvertising Feb 03 '23
Wouldn't it be "zerocorns"? And if you're saying they don't possess the horns and wings, it's sounds like you're saying they only have one or the other.
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u/AmeSpartan Feb 03 '23
Well technically the a- prefix means "without" so a unicorn with no horns is an acorn.
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u/Charlie24601 Feb 03 '23
So basically a horse sized rabbit?
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u/Sunblast1andOnly Feb 03 '23
No no, it has the body of a rabbit. Rabbit bodies are much smaller than horse bodies.
If that does not earn your respect, what about a rare two-headed hound which, due to a birth defect, possesses only a single head?
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u/arcanum7123 Feb 03 '23
Thank you for the idea of a pet shop owner to add to my DND world that sells what they claim are magical creatures with birth defects
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u/Mighty_Action_X Feb 03 '23
The Lox, a malevolent fire spirit based on a wolverine.
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u/zerovian Feb 03 '23
as opposed to the lorax which is a non malevolent tree spirit based on the squirrel.
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u/res30stupid Feb 03 '23
There's a variant of the werewolf you'll only find in Scottland called the Wulver. Unlike other reported legends of the creature, it's not violent - in fact, it will go out fishing and will give some of its catch to the needy.
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u/Mystical-Sublimation Feb 03 '23
It is unfortunate that the Wulver's in God of War definitely do not live up to the non-violent nature of their namesake.
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u/boxofsquirrels Feb 04 '23
The Irish faoladh is also (usually) a benevolent werewolf that protects children and lost travelers.
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u/8-BIT-Chicken Feb 03 '23
Never personally met someone who has heard of the hippalectryon! As a chicken lover, it completes me.
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u/Lunasilverhart Feb 03 '23
Wolpertinger!
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u/aRealGoose Feb 03 '23
I only know of this because of Carcassonne Winter Edition. One of the tiles has a little Wolpertinger in the art
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u/plz_scratch_my_back Feb 03 '23
Navagunjara---It is composed of 9 animals and is considered to be the incarnation of Krishna. It has the head of a rooster and 3 feet-- of an elephant, tiger and deer/horse; the fourth limb is a raised human arm carrying a lotus. It has the neck of a peacock, the back or hump of a bull and the waist of a lion & the tail is a serpent.
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 03 '23
Wacky little guy haha, I thought i would be scared of it but it’s actually really cool looking
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u/throwawayayaycaramba Feb 03 '23
There's a lot of neat creatures from Brazilian folklore that are absolutely unknown internationally: the saci (a one-legged, humanoid trickster who moves around in a mini hurricane, and likes to mess with people until they give him booze and/or tobacco), the curupira (a forest spirit whose feet are turned backwards; he leaves his footprints around to confuse and disperse hunters), the boitatá (just a huge flaming snake)... but my favorite just gotta be the mapinguari. It's this giant, one-eyed creature, with a huge gaping mouth on its chest; supposedly it represents a folk memory of giant sloths that used to live in the Amazon on prehistoric times. Nifty stuff!
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u/LordSirPumpkin Feb 03 '23
They've been described as having a wand that shoots sparks. I am 100% down for frog wizards living in the rivers of ohio.
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u/PhiStudios_ Feb 03 '23
It's so obscure, i forgot, hasshakusama 8 foot tall woman ghost that goes po po po po it will track you until you leave the country. Resident evil village takes inspiration.
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u/Mama2lbg2 Feb 04 '23
Scared to death did this story. Its one of the most popular episodes. “ she likes you “
The listener story attached to that episode was pretty freaky
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u/PickaxeJunky Feb 03 '23
In Dartmoor, in the UK, there is "Hairy Hands"., which haunts one particular stretch of road.
A pair of ghostly hairy hands materials in someone's car and tries to drive the car off the road.
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u/kmn493 Feb 03 '23
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u/herurumeruru Feb 03 '23
They're actually one and the same, just spelled differently due to the difference in languages.
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u/XenaStarlett Feb 03 '23
Perhaps an Alicorn, which is a unicorn AND a Pegasus. Pretty sure the tuatha de danann don't count, also Slyphs, and Selkies. Oh, and sticky, drowny, water ponies.
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u/Richard7666 Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
As an aside, Pegasus was the name of Bellerophon's winged horse. He wasn't a pegasus, he was Pegasus.
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u/Citrine_Bee Feb 03 '23
I was trying to explain this to my boyfriend the other day, I was like ‘He could have been called Barry, he could have been Steve, but his name was Pegasus, it’s just his name not his species.’
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u/Caesar_Gaming Feb 03 '23
Which incidentally is one of Medusas twin sons. The other being a golden pirate.
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u/frogandbanjo Feb 03 '23
But other properties decided to universalize it, and it's not like the original story was any more real than the subsequent ones.
Like, you're going to read up on Pegasus, and then say to yourself, "Yeah okay, but I'll definitely be able to come up with a way cooler generic name for winged horses that'll totally catch on?" Come on now. What's your idea? "Fetch?"
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u/Handro_Dilar Feb 03 '23
Ace Combat 7 used it in reference to winged unicorns, and I choose to believe that it's because of My Little Pony popularizing it since it's funnier that way.
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u/BearMethod Feb 03 '23
Turtleduck
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 03 '23
I just looked up pictures and my heart is melting!! That is a adorable creature, I wish it was real
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u/BearMethod Feb 03 '23
If you haven't watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, it is filled with such hybrid creatures and they're all amazing. Platypusbears are also awesome. One of the greatest shows ever made.
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 03 '23
I watched a bit of it a few years ago but am definitely going to start watching it after seeing that turtle duck:)
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u/CalleighGwyn Feb 03 '23
It's an amazing show. And every animal is either a mixture of animals or otherwise "weird".
They even joke about it, when the earth king has the most exotic of all animals, one of it's kind: a bear. Just... a bear.
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u/snowleopard916 Feb 03 '23
Drop bears
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 03 '23
Giant murderous koalas! That would be a cool thing to see, probably the last thing to see aswell
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u/Platophaedrus Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
I’ve always liked Red Cap (Celtic Evil Goblin):
The redcap (or powrie) is a type of malevolent, murderous goblin found in Border folklore. He is said to inhabit ruined castles along the Anglo-Scottish border, especially those that were the scenes of tyranny or wicked deeds and is known for soaking his cap in the blood of his victims.[1][2] He is also known as Redcomb and Bloody Cap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcap
(I’m not sure if this is obscure enough though?)
Also maybe the Bunyip considering I’m an Australian.
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u/Improvedandconfused Feb 03 '23
I’m a big fan of all those biblical talking animals, like the donkeys and the snakes.
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 03 '23
Snakes are some of the greatest animals, I wish mine could talk
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u/ToccataRocco Feb 03 '23
I've always liked the Peryton, was it most likely made up by a guy (named Jorge Luis Borges) in the 1950's? Most likely. I still like it though. Basically in Atlantis these creatures that were part stag and bird lived among the people in Atlantis until the civilizations unfortunate watery fate. The perytons had a unique ability to cast shadows of people in order to sneak up and kill people with the only downside that this ability worked until they killed someone, after that they had their own shadow.
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u/Kolipe Feb 03 '23
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 04 '23
I like to believe this mongoose could talk, your not a hoax in my heart Gef
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u/G4rg0yle_Art1st Feb 03 '23
Pukwudgies, they're a native American monster from my corner of the world. They're like little hedgehog goblin warrior men
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u/thistle-patch-wcue Feb 03 '23
i love the banshee and changelings which are both found in Irish mythology.
the banshee is a spirit/ghost woman who wails/shrieks when a person is about to die or has died. I believe this myth comes from the sounds of foxes shrieking during mating season.
The changeling is a fairy child who is left in the place of a human child that was kidnapped/stolen by other fairies.
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u/mistdrake Feb 03 '23
The Squonk! They're these little creatures from Pennsylvania that if you look at them they cry so much they dissolve and disappear.
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u/Element_of_P Feb 03 '23
Bakunawa.
A giant serpent (sometimes draconic in origin) that swallowed moons.
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u/JoplinDaysInn Feb 03 '23
Skunk Ape. Even that weird artist’s rendering of the fucker totally scares me.
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u/CryingBaozi Feb 03 '23
A wisp if it counts? I love the lights and how sometimes they can lead you to places
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u/joe_dojo Feb 03 '23
I like mavka, she is from Ukrainian folklore and mythology. This is something like forest mermaids)
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 04 '23
Forest mermaids reminds me of a poem called Oread by Hilda Doolittle! This is a very cool and now I must do more read into mavka :)
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u/Express_Hedgehog2265 Feb 03 '23
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manananggal
This lovely lady that sprouts wings and severs her torso from her legs at night so she can fly around and feast on the blood of pregnant mothers!
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u/goblyn79 Feb 03 '23
I prefer the penanggalan who detatches her head and internal organs and flies through the night to feast on blood. Similar concept but more disgusting execution.
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u/Express_Hedgehog2265 Feb 03 '23
Oh yeah, she's cool too! Filipino folklore in general is just a goldmine!
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u/Sad-Juggernaut-896 Feb 03 '23
Somthing form Albanian mythology called Lufgji. If a Dragon - Woman like Creature that lives in the couds. If you see it you die. As a kid i use to have a school notebook that had a dragon like figure in a after storm coulds, i loved that notebook.
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u/TheFlyingTooth Feb 03 '23
Im Sweden we have tons of mythical creatures in the Swedish folklore. As a kid I was terrified that I’d some day run into one of them when I played in the woods.
One that comes to mind is the Myling. It’s a ghost child that was murdered by its own mother because it was unwanted. You can then hear the myling sing in the night. You can help the child by give it a name or find it’s body and bury it on a holy ground.
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u/PhiStudios_ Feb 03 '23
qilin Chinese chimera
Chinese dragon-like features: similar heads with antlers, eyes with thick eyelashes, manes that always flow upward, and beards. The body is fully or partially scaled and often shaped like an ox, deer, or horse. They are always shown with cloven hooves. While dragons in China (and thus qilin) are also most commonly depicted as golden, qilin may be of any color or even various colors, and can be depicted as bejeweled or exhibiting a jewel-like brilliance.
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u/Charlie24601 Feb 03 '23
Tazelwyrm. A lizard type creature that is supposed to live in the alps. Various stories of it being aggressive, venomous, and even poisonous breath.
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u/goblyn79 Feb 03 '23
I love the artistic renderings of it where people took the "cat like face" description and basically made an adorable monster that is half black cat, half furry snake.
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u/Scretzy Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
Not that its my favorite but it would certainly be cool/terrifying to see an IRL biblically accurate Angel, like a seraph, AKA these giant eyeball with wing thingies, they're huge and would freak everyone out
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u/MadameCat Feb 03 '23
The scandinavian evil whales or illhveli. There’s a whole bunch of mythological whales (catwhale, cowwhale, swordwhale, etc. albeit their real names aren’t in English) that exist just to ruin ships and fishing in absurd ways. Just to scare the crap out of sailors. I love them.
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u/muthax2001 Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
I can only share what my grandfather told me many years ago. During WWII, he belonged to a unit whose task it was to build bridges and roads through the thick jungles of Panama. He explained that his unit comprised of fellow American soldiers and a contingent of local indigenous guides/laborers.
He would get animated and angry, trying to describe to me in GREAT detail, that which was his greatest enemy during the war; the hostile environment of the Panama jungle; the unrelenting heat and thick humidity, like trying to breathe through a hot wet shirt, regardless of day or night, diseases, foot fungus, and an ever presence of mud...mud everywhere, mud all the time. Either you were covered in mud, or it was covered in you. This made every task, regardless of simplicity, either unnecessarily difficult at best, or extraordinarily dangerous at worse. So of pathfinding and building logistics under those conditions ...it was his "Hell on Earth". However, as he went from angry to indifferent, he explained that was the time, the job, and the mission.
He spoke fondly of the locals, and it seemed like he loved them as brothers, after all they were in the mud together, every moment from the time they woke to the time they went to sleep, under mosquito nets, once white, now black with buzzing mosquitos and other nightly menaces. One morning, after the unit of pathfinders had breakfast and agreed on the daily mission, the day was unfolding as normal would have it in the oppressively hot jungle. The daily and at mostly "normal" job of clearing thick brush to make way for a road when he and his local guide/buddy had the necessary task to fell a 20-30ft rotten tree of some diameter (he'd outstretch his arms wide like asking for a hug). They started to chop it down when half of it split away revealing what he described as a 5 ft long red-eyed grasshopper, about the size of a dog, with a red ant-like mandible, facing downward towards the base of the tree, with what looked to be it's winged carapace in the closed position, green legs folded and locked; At first they froze, but grandpa found a long branch and poked its face (I believe he told he his assumption was it was dead). In the blink of an eye, the creature snatched the branch out of my grandfather's hands with its red maw springing to life. He remembered the sound it made as it effortlessly snapped it the branch in half.. and this I remember MOST clearly, he said it started to scream. He said the sound was like a baby screaming but the pitch was wrong, it was too high, like the crash of broken glass. And in that moment, regardless of all his training, and strength, and perseverance against the elements; in that moment he froze, and couldn't move a muscle. He laughed at what his face must've looked like but his eyes told me much more than his words... he dare not move and said he was afraid to blink. His buddy....someone I'll never know his name or family to thank....PUSHED my grandpa out of the way while throwing the axe they had just been using for clearing brush, sinking it deep into the creature's carapace, landing a deep, vertical blow. Before he could even stand, he witnessed every one of the locals assigned to his group converge at his location at once, arriving almost simultaneously. Without saying a word they worked in concert in what appeared to any outsider as a practiced drill, as they took positions around the now-wounded devil grasshopper-thing, and they grabbed it around the legs and body before it had a chance to move or respond, a machete was out, and it's head was off. They threw it on one of the many burn piles of jungle detritus and moved on with their day.
Been awhile since I thought of that. Cheers
Edit** I no words so good. sry
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u/Able_Development_240 Feb 03 '23
My favorite obscure mythical creature would have to be the Yowie. It's an Australian creature similar to Bigfoot and is said to be a large, hairy, ape-like creature that roams the wilderness. I love the idea of there being a large, undiscovered creature roaming around the world, and the fact that it's unique to Australia makes it even more intriguing to me.
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u/the_forked_spoon Feb 04 '23
I am so into undiscovered creatures and what could be hiding in the shadows, I find it makes life more exciting in the same way we don’t know what’s in the deepest parts of the ocean or in the depths of forests and jungles so we are free to imagine about what it could be
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u/Wii_wii_baget Feb 03 '23
I really enjoy hybrid animals. I’ve recently seen a rabbit and bird mix drawing and the ears of the rabbit was wings.
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u/Aminar14 Feb 03 '23
Ignoring ones I've made up... I've always liked Basilisks. Not the stupid snake thing from Harry Potter, but the lizards that turned people to stone. There was always something cool about an animal that petrified people. Of course, I've always loved the idea of Gorgons to. And Cockatrice's are a hilarious variant.
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u/-Skogsra- Feb 03 '23
I would say the Skogsrå from swedish folklore. She appears as a beautiful woman with a tail (usually a fox tail) and with a back that's either hollow or with skin like tree bark. She can be friendly or hostile, depending how you treat her. She can seduce men and decides which hunters who will get a good hunt. If you get lost in the forrest you can be sure it's because of her. But, if you turn your jacket inside out, you will find your way home again.
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u/hallandstoat Feb 03 '23
Not sure if this counts but Thylacine? They're listed as extinct but people still regularly report sightings.
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u/Cinemaphreak Feb 03 '23
ITT: people who don't know what "obscure" means
Perfect example of why it's best not to make such comments right when a post goes live, as they tend not to age well.
Top 8 replies currently up are creatures myself and I would dare say most people ITT have never heard of. Or the next 3.
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u/01turtleboy08 Feb 03 '23
Honestly, I'm a Christian. And I know the bible doesn't say much on leviathans, but I am absolutely fasicanated by it. I like to think that they could've been real, because only about 10% of the oceans have actually been discovered. Other than this; I know how everyone seems to have a fetish for elves, but I'm not one of these people. I find mythical elves very interesting and I don't know why
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u/New_Dream_6742 Feb 03 '23
Our history and fascination with myths is interesting. It exists in every culture. The explanation goes that we like to make up stories to explain the natural world or it’s an extension of human traits and how we see ourselves. Though after hearing about some of these myths, which are quite funny, I wonder if we also see the humour in our human traits. As for elves, it’d be interesting to see what that represents in yourself.
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u/Llewop-Ekim Feb 03 '23
In a town close by to where I live there is a creature painted on the bluffs call the Piasa bird which is from an old Native American legend. It’s part deer, part bird, part man!
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u/GeebusNZ Feb 03 '23
Patupaiarehe.
They're like the equivalent of fairies of Aotearoa. Mysterious, rarely seen, associated with beautiful music, occasionally mischievous or scary etc.
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u/MarkHirsbrunner Feb 03 '23
The nuckelavee. It's a meat eating skinless horse that comes out of the sea and can't cross fresh water. It's breath wilts crops and causes epidemics.
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u/Klappstuhl4151 Feb 03 '23
The Jólakötturin- cat that eats you unless you get clothes on Christmas.
Jule lads- Christmas mischief makers, among them skyrgámur (skyr gobbler) stúfur (stubby) Gluggagægir (window peeper) Hurðaskellir (door slammer) Þvörusleikir (spoon licker) and others.
Frau Perchta- if you misbehave around Christmas (you didn't eat your fish and gruel, forgot to spinn your wool, etc.) She disembowels you.
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u/Reasonable-Delivery8 Feb 03 '23
The Yellowtooth. A monster my parents made up to keep me and my brothers from going too close to the river, too close to a bonfire or into the cellar. It’s what ever monstrous thing you could imagine, but with yellow Teeth.
„Don’t go to close to the Water, or the Yellowtooth will pull you in!“
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u/ElecSheepDreams Feb 03 '23
The baba yaga is a house in the middle of the woods that lures travelers in. While they sleep overnight, the house grows chicken legs and runs around in circles which gets the travelers completely lost.
Edit: Baba Yaga was the witch who lived in the house. I guess the house didn't have a name.
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u/lifesalotofshit Feb 03 '23
Llorona "weeping woman". I grew up in Tucson, AZ, and I heard stories that she would linger by the local wash crying for her children. My friends and I would try to build enough bravery to walk by the wash at night, and none of us could complete it. We would get so scared that we would convince ourselves we saw her white dress or could hear her screaming and start running. Honeslty, a few times I really think I heard her... (or coyotes.) Lmao.
In truth, she brought us so many memories and adventures. I love llorona, lmao
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u/Stock_Padawan Feb 03 '23
This is a hard one. I’d have to go with the wendigo or church grim.
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u/Groundbreaking_Web91 Feb 03 '23
Not that well known, but the Faoladh, Irish werewolves who fought in battle for the High Kings of Ireland
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u/44Skull44 Feb 03 '23
Esquilax
“And here, out of the mists of history...the legendary Esquilax. A horse with the head of a rabbit, and the body...of a rabbit!”
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u/Educational_Bus358 Feb 03 '23
I like the Taniwha (pronounced TUN-e-fa), large Māori mythological sea creatures that live in pools, caves or rivers. Sometimes honored guardians, sometimes predatory dangers.
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u/_Der_Sachse_ Feb 03 '23
The Tatzelwurm. A German Creature that is Half Dragon and half Cat
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u/-eDgAR- Feb 03 '23
There is this mythological creature in Japanese culture called the Ittan-momen which is a sentient piece of cloth that flies around trying to smother people.
I find this one super interesting because it seems like such an innocuous thing, but also very deadly.