Category: Mythical Beasts
The Mythical Realm is overrun by creatures and beasts from around the world including the gryphon, dragon, unicorn, pegasus, phoenix, gargoyle, chimera, sphinx, kraken, werewolf and more! Fantasy gallery after gallery of Mythical creatures accompanied by short stories, history and poems.
Please feel free to suggest any Mythical Creatures you would like to see displayed here.
Far away in the twilight time,
Of every people, in every clime,
Dragons and griffins and monsters dire,
Born of water and earth and air and fire.
By Heather
List of Shapeshifters from Around the World
Listing of Were-Creatures/Shape-Shifters from around the world In folklore, mythology or even fiction, shapeshifting is the act of metamorphosing from one physical form into another. This amazing feat can be accomplished in several ways : magical spells, magic powers of a talisman, divine intervention (whether for good or bad intention),…
Royal Female Werewolf: She-Wolf Werewoman
Bellerophon and the Chimera
The dreaded Chimera took up residence in Caria, one of Greece’s neighbors and trade partners. Great havoc did it cause, killing and terrorizing the area. As his people (and economy, no doubt) were suffering, the ruler of neighboring Lycia at the time, King Iobates, wished to put an end to it. Soon, as luck would…
Werewolf
Werewolf – Lycanthropy Lycanthropy comes from the Greek lykoi, “wolf” and anthropos, “man” The legend of the werewolf is one of the most ancient and widespread. Stories of werewolves can be found as far back as history has been written. These shapeshifter myths are worldwide from China to Iceland and…
Chimera
Cerberus the Hellhound of Hades
Cerberus was a three-headed hellhound (the poet Hesiod claimed he had 50) with snake-like extremities, a snake for a tail and the claws of a lion. In Greek and Roman mythology, Cerberus was said to have been the offspring of two monsters, Typhon (a fire-breathing serpent) and Echidna (commonly portrayed as an…