Among the creatures that a draugr may turn into are a seal, a great flayed bull, a grey horse with a broken back but no ears or tail, and a cat that would sit upon a sleeper's chest and grow steadily heavier until the victim suffocated.

He claims that the accounts of loch monsters have changed over the ages, originally describing creatures with a horse-like appearance ; they claimed that the " kelpie " would come out of the lake and turn into a horse.

In Dungeons & Dragons and similar systems, clerics can attempt to " turn " undead by invoking their patron deities or channeling " positive energy " ( other-dimensional life energy, which animates and heals living creatures, and is the antithesis of negative energy, which animates and heals undead creatures.

However, when the story moves to the Aranya Kanda and beyond, it seems to turn abruptly into fantasy with its demon-slaying hero and fantastic creatures.

These creatures, which are about the size of a lentil, are eaten by various marine species, including a wide variety of fish that are, in turn, consumed by penguins and polar bears.

In Greek mythology, the Cercopes (, plural of Κέρκωψ, from κέρκος ( n .) kerkos " tail ") were mischievous forest creatures who lived in Thermopylae or on Euboea but roamed the world and might turn up anywhere mischief was afoot.

These reeds in turn whispered the secret to all creatures who passed.

However, they eventually pupate and turn into Purple Sproingers, floating jellyfish-like creatures which the Gorgs admire as beautiful creatures of the skies ( much in the same way that humans look upon caterpillars and butterflies ).

The descriptions of the creatures vary, but generally, they are said to have the curious habit of walking backwards with its head twisted between its hindlegs to see and having the ability to turn invisible at will.

In freshwater they develop pigmentation, turn into elvers ( young eels ) and feed on creatures like small crustaceans, worms and insects.

Improved hearing gave these creatures a better awareness of their environment and, in turn, this increasing sensitivity called for a greater capacity for processing the auditory information in the brain.

The game used alien creatures inspired by The War of the Worlds ( by H. G. Wells ) because the developers were unable to render the movement of aircraft ; in turn, the aliens replaced human enemies because of moral concerns ( regarding the portrayal of killing humans ) on the part of Taito Corporation.

These creatures soon turn on their creators and terrorize the people of Sarpadia, while the Merfolk suffered an invasion of crustacean-like homarids, which benefitted from the cooling oceans.

Although most of the creatures that the three face are frightening or disturbing, some turn out to be sweet or simply in distress.

These ‘ Aahutis ’, going to the Lord Sun, which in turn form clouds, give rain and make the earth wet for giving food-grains and the creatures of the world are nourished by food.

The series features a species of nocturnal creatures known as Gargoyles that turn to stone during the day, focusing on a clan led by Goliath.

Minusland is a dark, gloomy region far beneath the surface of the Earth, filled up entirely with fog, and inhabited only by the invisible and highly dangerous Gnoolies, creatures which, with a single bite, turn their victims into more Gnoolies ( Wonka states that the process, a form of long division, takes a long time and is very painful ).

Those hunters that tend to show compassion towards creatures of the dark, and attempt to persuade the dark supernatural forces to turn to light, follow one of the Mercy Creeds.

These creatures possess an open circulatory system as well as a nervous system consisting of a brain which is connected to two ventral nerve cords, which in turn connect to specific nerves.

Coastal upwelling provides abundant nutrients which feeds krill, a type of marine crustacea, which in turn feeds a complex of living creatures from penguins to blue whales.

By collecting these, bonus points are achieved and the radioactive creatures smile and turn green.

Opening the box, Frank is confused and horrified when the Cenobites, rather than beautiful women, turn out to be horribly scarified creatures whose bodies have been modified to the point that they are apparently sexless.

) During a duel with the Archchancellor of UU ( Equal Rites ), Granny was shown to turn into a great number of different creatures.

`` Too many of our writers seem to be interested only in creatures that crawl out of the woodwork or from under the rock ''.

Of all the living creatures we know, humanity alone, created in His image and endowed with free will, has been singled out to be the recipient and bearer of Revelation.

The creatures from this mock-epic are small, celestial creatures which were prudish women in their past-lives, and now spend all of eternity looking out for prudish women ( in parallel to the guardian angels in Catholic belief ).

He regarded his move away from liberal politics as " a totally natural reaction once I began to see undisciplined elements in our country stimulating a breakdown of our system ... Those functionless creatures, the hippies ... just didn't appear out of a vacuum.

"… they are obliged to live in a separate part of town …; for they are considered as unclean creatures … Under the pretext of their being unclean, they are treated with the greatest severity and should they enter a street, inhabited by Mussulmans, they are pelted by the boys and mobs with stones and dirt … For the same reason, they are prohibited to go out when it rains ; for it is said the rain would wash dirt off them, which would sully the feet of the Mussulmans … If a Jew is recognized as such in the streets, he is subjected to the greatest insults.

As he watches the creatures try to leap out of the net, he tells them, ‘ No matter how high you jump, you will only land in the net again .’ He is correct.

Being rational creatures, they go to sea with it ready calculated ; and all rational creatures go out upon the sea of life with their minds made up on the common questions of right and wrong .”

" " Such creatures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy ", Wilson continued " must be crushed out ".

While most cryptozoologists recognize that at least some reports are simple misidentifications, they claim that many of the creatures described by those who have seen them look nothing like the known species put forward by skeptics and claim that certain reports stick out.

Wolfgang M. Zucker points out the similarities between a clown's appearance and the cultural depictions of demons and other infernal creatures, noting " clown's chalk-white face in which the eyes almost disappear, while the mouth is enlarged

He seems an anomaly among the busy social creatures that surround him ; he is isolated, out of touch.

The creature launches into a wild drum solo, which brings out many strange, weird, and oafish creatures, including a rabbit dangling in midair from a swing that seems to be threaded through its own ears, and an angry criminal imprisoned behind a free-floating barred window that he holds in his hands.

In Greek and Roman mythology the Harpies were creatures employed by the higher gods to carry out the punishment of crime.

Total casualties amounted to 851. 4 ± 25. 5 ( 0. 3 %) billion sentient creatures, including Medjel ( slaves of the Idirans ), sentient machines and non-combatants, and wiped out various smaller species, including the Changers.

In Irish mythology, Cas Corach was a hero who helped Caílte mac Rónáin kill three werewolf-like creatures, the daughters of Airitech who would come out of the Cave of Cruachan every year around Samhain and destroy sheep.

Olive is shocked to see the birds and sea creatures caught in Bluto ’ s garbage, so Popeye punches out Bluto and cleans up the floating trash.

The creatures can do all the science they want in the world, but they will never be able to figure out where their minds are, for they do not exist in their observable universe.

Like the troll of Scandinavian legend, with which the trow shares many similarities, trows are nocturnal creatures ; venturing out of their ' trowie knowes ' ( earthen mound dwellings ) solely in the evening, they often enter households as the inhabitants sleep.

Zann plays these sounds to keep back unknown and unseen creatures from Zann's window, which is said to look out into a black abyss, most likely another dimension.

Mae Hong Son historical records state that in the year 1831, which corresponds to the reign of King Nangklao ( Rama III ) of the Rattanakosin Period, in the mueang of Phing Nakhon ( เม ื องพ ิ งค ์ นคร ) known today as Chiang Mai, in the lands of the Kingdom of Lannathai, was Phraya Chiang Mai Mahawong ( พระยาเช ี ยงใหม ่ มหาวงศ ์), who was later to ascend to the rank of Phra Chao Mahottraprathet Racha Thibodi ( พระเจ ้ ามโหตรประเทศราชาธ ิ บด ี), who knew that to the west of Chiang Mai, which meant the lands of today's Mae Hong Son, was a geography of tall mountains and dense forests inhabited by a myriad of forest creatures of which wild elephants in particular were in great abundance, and thus ordered Lord Kaeo, who was a relative of his and a local military chief and governor, to herd these elephants out into the custody of mahouts, to survey the feasibility of this task on such western frontierlands and to be of further service in the capturing of the elephants so that they might be trained for labour thereafter.

She called out, " Why run you away from such worthless creatures, stout men that ye are, when, as seems to me likely, you might slaughter them like so many cattle?

North American Cherokees were known for making blowguns out of river cane to supplement their diet with rabbits and other small creatures.