Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.

Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.

In English-language works, it is sometimes said that Arians believe that Jesus is or was a " creature ", in the sense of " created being ".

Author Jerome Clark argues that the Jacko Affair, involving an 1884 newspaper report of an apelike creature captured in British Columbia, was a hoax.

" Buckley also claimed the creature was common in the Barwon River and cites an example he heard of an Aboriginal woman being killed by one.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

A new research by Benjamin Radford concluded that the description given by the original eyewitness in Puerto Rico, Madelyne Tolentino, was based on the creature Sil in the science-fiction horror film Species.

The alien creature Sil is nearly identical to Tolentino ’ s chupacabra eyewitness account and she had seen the movie before her report: " It was a creature that looked like the chupacabra, with spines on its back and all ...

In July 2004, a rancher near San Antonio, Texas, killed a hairless dog-like creature, which was attacking his livestock.

Photographs were taken and witness reports seem to be in relative agreement that the creature was canine in appearance, but in widely published photos seemed unlike any dog or wolf in the area.

Most occurrences in ancient literature revolve around the basis of the threat of Cerberus being overcome to allow a living being access to the underworld ; in the Aeneid Cerberus was lulled to sleep after being tricked into eating drugged honeycakes and Orpheus put the creature to sleep with his music.

The resting place of the draugr was a tomb that served much as a workable home for the creature.

Its extinction was not immediately noticed, and some considered it to be a mythical creature.

Since there was no longer the countervailing power of the papacy and since the Church of England was a creature of the state and had become subservient to it, this meant that there was nothing to regulate the powers of the king, and he became an absolute power.

Thus, for example, the funerary god Anubis was portrayed as a jackal, a creature whose scavenging habits threatened the preservation of the body, in an effort to counter this threat and employ it for protection.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

Henry Saperstein ( whose company UPA co-produced the 1965 film Frankenstein Conquers the World and the 1966 film War of the Gargantuas with Toho ) was so impressed with the octopus sequence that he requested the creature to appear in these two productions.

Perhaps it was named by settlers who thought " it was a creature from hell where it ’ s bent on returning ".

His candidate for the creature was the great white shark as it has, in some circumstances, been found containing whole men.

The term " monster " was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by Alex Campbell, the water bailiff for Loch Ness and a part-time journalist, in a report in the Inverness Courier.

On 6 December 1933 the first purported photograph of the monster, taken by Hugh Gray, was published in the Daily Express, and shortly after the creature received official notice when the Secretary of State for Scotland ordered the police to prevent any attacks on it.

The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many different variations.

Bigfoot is described in reports as a large hairy ape-like creature, in a range of tall, weighing in excess of, and covered in dark brown or dark reddish hair.

They did not call the animal a bunyip, but described the remains indicating the creature as very much like a hippopotamus or manatee.

Thereby, the creature of statute is the tangible manifestation of the functions or work described by a given statute.

They described the creature as having a large body ( about high and long ), and long, narrow neck, slightly thicker than an elephant's trunk and as long as the width of the road ; the neck had a number of undulations in it.

Mokèlé-mbèmbé, meaning " one who stops the flow of rivers " in the Lingala language is a legendary water-dwelling creature of Congo River basin folklore, sometimes described as living creature, sometimes as a spirit, and loosely analogous to the Loch Ness Monster in Western culture.

Gratz described the creature as resembling a sauropod.

He claimed to have heard from multiple independent sources about a creature living in the Congo region which was described as " half elephant, half dragon.

She described the long necked creature as living in the rivers, and being about the size of a hippo, if not somewhat larger.

Mackal asserts that vocalizations are more correctly associated with the Emela-ntouka, a similarly described creature found in the Central African legends.

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (,, Etruscan Θevrumineś ), was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, " part man and part bull ".

A few hours after the encounter, Patterson telephoned Donald Abbott, whom Krantz described as " the only scientist of any stature to have demonstrated any serious interest in the ( Bigfoot ) subject ," hoping he would help them search for the creature.

First mentioned by the ancient Greeks, it became the most important imaginary animal of the Middle Ages and Renaissance when it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin.

) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural.

Longtime Spielberg collaborator John Williams, who composed the musical score for E. T., described the challenge of creating a score that would generate sympathy for such an odd-looking creature.

Masauwu is described as wearing a hideous mask, but again showing the diversity of myths among the Hopi, Masauwu was alternately described as a handsome, bejeweled man beneath his mask or as a bloody, fearsome creature.

Raven has been described as the greediest, most lecherous and mischievous creature known to the Haida, but at the same time Raven often helps humans in our encounters with other supernatural beings.

On January 17, 2010, the golf course was the subject of a chupacabra sighting in which the unidentified dead animal was described as a " brown, earth-colored creature is hairless with oversized canines and elongated padded feet with inch-long toes tapered with sharp, curved claws.

In Psalm 104, Leviathan is not described as harmful in any way, but simply as a creature of the ocean, part of God's creation.

He pleaded not guilty, with Coke's only evidence being a confession from Cobham, who was described as " a weak and unprincipled creature ... who said one thing at one time, and another thing in another, and could be relied upon in nothing ".

The song recounts the legend of the hunter who captured a squonk, as described above, but the creature was described as having a retiring disposition ( not fearsome ).