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The amphisbaena has been referred to by the poets, such as Nicander, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and A. E. Housman, and the amphisbaena as a mythological and legendary creature has been referenced by Lucan, Pliny the Elder, Isidore of Seville, and Thomas Browne, the last of whom debunked its existence.

* Lernaean Hydra, a Greek mythological aquatic creature

A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope ( from the Greek:, lukos, " wolf ", and, anthrōpos, " man "), is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse and / or lycanthropic affliction via a bite or scratch from a werewolf, or some other means.

* Lamia ( Basque mythology ), a Basque mythological female creature

Literary critic Neil Philip also argued that further folkloric and mythological influences could be seen in the character of Nastrond, who had both a foul smell and an aversion to fresh water, characteristics traditionally associated with the Nuckalevee, a creature in Scottish folklore.

It is a powerful mythological creature and was chosen as a symbol.

Image: Kinnon_Wat_Phra_Kaew_02. jpg | Kinnon – mythological creature, half bird, half man

* Huma bird, a mythological creature commonly depicted in Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu poetry

In 2005, the House of the Wyoming state legislature passed a bill to declare the jackalope the " official mythological creature " of Wyoming, by a vote of 45-12 and referred it to the state Senate, where the bill was indefinitely postponed on March 2, 2005.

The team's name was derived from the two most prominent symbols of Nagoya: the two golden grampus dolphins on the top of Nagoya Castle ( which can be more accurately described as shachihoko, a mythological creature part of the local folklore ), and the Maru-Hachi ( Circle eight ), the city's official symbol.

Some 19th-century researchers made more general claims about pixie origins, or have connected them with the Puck, ( Cornish Bucca ) a mythological creature sometimes described as a fairy ; the name Puck is also of uncertain origin.

Evoking the mythological creature of indigenous peoples of North America, the Thunderbird entered production for the 1955 model year as a sporty two-seat convertible.

The informal names and groupings within this genus — Rock or Crevice-dragon, Ground, Sand-dragon, and Bicycle-dragon — are named after the mythological creature, the dragon.

Spiders in this genus are also called ogre-faced spiders, due to the similarity between their appearance and that of the mythological creature, the ogre.

Moltres has been compared to other creatures from fiction, including the creatures found in Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird, the monsters in Godzilla on Monster Island, and the mythological creature Phoenix.

The hippocamp or hippocampus ( plural: hippocamps or hippocampi ;, from, " horse " and, " monster "), often called a sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology, though the name by which it is recognised is purely Greek.

However, in a blazon, the terms hippocamp and hippocampus now refer to the real animal called a seahorse, and the terms seahorse and sea-horse refer to the mythological creature.

Grass-snake is important mythological creature which crawls on festive table and hallows food.

Important mythological creature during May feasts and Milda is Cuckoo.

Among the Newars, the ' Gurumapa ' is a mythological ape-like creature who was supposed to enjoy devouring children.

He believed he was possessed by Wendigo, a terrifying mythological creature with a ravenous appetite for human flesh.

Wilkes is obsessed with killing a mythological creature, called a ningen, that he encountered during his expedition to Antarctica.

* Chiron, mythological creature

* Phoenix ( son of Agenor ), Greek mythological figure

Phoenix depicted in the book of mythological creatures by Friedrich Justin Bertuch | F. J. Bertuch ( 1747-1822 ).

Numerous synonyms were used to make oblique reference to the stone, such as " white stone " ( calculus albus, identified with the calculus candidus of Revelation 2: 17 which was taken as a symbol of the glory of heaven ), vitriol ( as expressed in the backronym Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem ), also lapis noster, lapis occultus, in water at the box, and numerous oblique, mystical or mythological references such as Adam, Aer, Animal, Alkahest, Antidotus, Antimonium, Aqua benedicta, Aqua volans per aeram, Arcanum, Atramentum, Autumnus, Basilicus, Brutorum cor, Bufo, Capillus, Capistrum auri, Carbones, Cerberus, Chaos, Cinis cineris, Crocus, Dominus philosophorum, Divine quintessence, Draco elixir, Filius ignis, Fimus, Folium, Frater, Granum, Granum frumenti, Haematites, Hepar, Herba, Herbalis, Lac, Melancholia, Ovum philosophorum, Panacea salutifera, Pandora, Phoenix, Philosophic mercury, Pyrites, Radices arboris solares, Regina, Rex regum, Sal metallorum, Salvator terrenus, Talcum, Thesaurus, Ventus hermetis.

Other inhabitants of the Narnian world based on known mythological or folkloric creatures include Boggles, Centaurs, Cruels, Dragons, Dryads, Earthmen ( the Narnian version of gnomes ), Efreets, Ettins, Fauns, Giants, Ghouls, Griffins, Hags, Hamadryads, Horrors, Incubi, Maenads, Merpeople, Minotaurs, Monopods, Naiads, Ogres, Orknies ( perhaps from Old English orcneas " walking dead "), Winged Horses, People of the Toadstools, Phoenix, Satyrs, Sea Peoples ( a version of the merpeople ), Sea serpents, Sylvans, Spectres, Sprites, Star People, Trolls, Unicorns, Werewolves, Wooses, and Wraiths.

The mission was named after the Phoenix, a mythological bird that is repeatedly reborn from its own ashes.

By this time she had changed her name from Pilkington to Phoenix, after the mythological bird that rose from the ashes.

Abaris Aircraft Corporation ( named after the mythological priest of Apollo ) is a US aircraft manufacturer established in Phoenix, Arizona in 2001.

In this neopagan concept, the god is also referred to as Bran, a Welsh mythological figure, Wayland, the smith in Germanic mythology, and Herne, a horned figure from English folklore.

He argues that the figure of Chauvin continues the long tradition of the mythological farmer-soldier or Miles Gloriosus from ancient times in Greek mythology.

Pegasus (, Pégasos, Latin Pegasus ) is one of the best known mythological creatures in Greek mythology.

There is at present little scholarly support for the view that tales of Robin Hood have stemmed from mythology or folklore, from fairies or other mythological origins, any such associations being regarded as later development.

The name tantalum was derived from the name of the mythological Tantalus, the father of Niobe in Greek mythology.

Norse mythology, sagas and literature tell of Scandinavian culture and religion through tales of heroic and mythological heroes.

Adherents of Stepanich's Faery Wicca claim that it recovers the traditions of the Tuatha De Danaan, the mythological precursors to the Celtic people ; however, this is disputed by those familiar with ancient Celtic polytheism and mythology.

A scene featuring the siren ( mythology ) | siren History of Naples # Naples in the Ancient Era and in Late Antiquity | Parthenope, the mythological founder of Naples.

In Norse mythology, wargs are in particular the mythological wolves Fenrir, Sköll and Hati.

Scholar John Lindow proposes that a potentially understated mythological importance of Sif's role in the story of her sheared hair exists ; her headpiece is created along with the most important and powerful items in Norse mythology.

In Greek mythology and later art, the name Hesione refers to various mythological figures, of which the Trojan princess Hesione is known most.

Erebus features little in Greek mythological tradition and literature, but is said to have fathered several other deities by Nyx ; depending on the source of the mythology, this union includes Aether, Hemera, the Hesperides, Hypnos, the Moirai, Geras, Styx, and Thanatos.

* Laelaps ( mythology ) was a Greek mythological dog who never failed to catch what he was hunting.

For the mythological figure, see Antenor ( mythology ).

* Coronus ( Greek mythology ), the name attributed to several Greek mythological figures

More generally, the series draws from many mythological sources as inspirations, especially Celtic ( see Tír na nÓg ), Norse mythology, and Arthurian legend.

* Cyrene ( mythology ), a Greek mythological figure

* Egeria ( mythology ), a mythological water nymph and the wife of Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome

* Brea ( mythology ), an Irish mythological god

* Vile, Vili: are mythological beings in south Slavic mythology, incarnation of beautiful maidens with magic powers

For it was in reflecting on the similarity between Blake and Milton that Frye first stumbled upon the " principle of the mythological framework ," the recognition that " the Bible was a mythological framework, cosmos or body of stories, and that societies live within a mythology " ( Hart 18 ).

Tukoio is the name of a legendary or mythological chief in Māori mythology.

* Gaia ( mythology ), the Greek mythological goddess personifying the earth