by admin | Jan 29, 2018 | Greek, Harry Potter
The centaur is up there with my all-time favourite greek mythological creatures – maybe because of anthropomorphic/human qualities, or perhaps because of my appreciation of horses. Either way, they right up there with the best on the imaginary creatures list....
by admin | Sep 1, 2017 | Chinese, Harry Potter, Norse, World
The dragon is one one of the most well know imaginary or mythological creatures there is, it features in myths and legends around the world in many different cultures, and it is this prevalence that makes it hard to ignore and likely that they did once exist....
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Greek, Harry Potter, Italian
The Basilisk is a popular imaginary creature of mine and one that I vividly remember from my childhood. In one book of creatures that I had, the basilisk was portrayed as having the head of a chicken or cockerel and the body of a snake – though this is not...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Greek
Acephali simply means “headless” or “without head” in Ancient Greek (from Ancient Greek: ἀκέφαλοι “headless”, singular ἀκέφαλος akephalos from ἀ- a-, “without”, and κεφαλή kephalé, “head”). And as such, if...
by admin | Jul 20, 2017 | Malay
The A Bao A Qu is special for a few reasons, not only is this the first creature on my list, it is also the first creature that I had never heard of. Origins Bao A Qu is a fictional Mewar legendary creature described in Jorge Luis Borges’s 1967 Book of Imaginary...
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