Looking at this series, you enjoy that many copies did not live to the present day. It is difficult to imagine whatever our modern life next to these monsters. Therefore, we better admire the drawings of these extinct animals. Surely, you will find some similarities with modern animals. Many exhibits inspired directors to create screen monsters.

Marrella Splendens.

Marrella is a small animal, about 2 cm long. The front of the body was closed by a narrow head shield with two pairs of massive directed side processes. At the bottom of the head there were two pairs of segal antennas, one pair of antennas was shorter and thicker than the other. The torso consisted of 24-26 segments carrying two-way limbs, and Telson - deprived limb blade. The outer branches of the limbs possessed a peristry structure and functioned as the gills, the inner - was a walk-wing legs.

2. Parapuzosia seppenradensis
Parapuzosia seppenRadensis is the largest known type of challenges of ammonites, which lived at the end of the chalk period. The sample found in Germany in 1895 has 1.8 m in diameter, although the residential camera is not completely preserved. It is believed that the full sample would have a diameter of about 2.55 m or even 3.5 m. Common living weight is estimated at 1455 kg, of which the sink will be about 705 kg.

Parapuzosia is believed to be pelagic predators of other oceanic organisms. They could eat fish, chalp clams, including squid and even other ammonites, as well as, perhaps, small marine reptiles, if they could catch them. It is believed that mollusks moved with a siphon, which was a muscular body, having a kind of funnel, facing the narrow end of the outside and an employee for the emission of water from the mantle cavity. In this emission, the mollusk gets a push dropping it back. Such a way of movement we can observe with modern charts, such as squid, cuttlefish, octopuses and nautilus. Many paleontologists believe that a complex vane line is a device to widespread vertically in the thickness of water (heuribacy), since the complex vane line has a large area, and therefore it better strengthens the sink.

3. Gigantopitek
Giantopitek is extincting the monkeys that existed from nine million years to one hundred thousand years ago on the territory of modern China, India and Vietnam. Giantopitek lived in the same period of time and in the same place as several other types of hominid. Giantopiteki is known mainly by the finds of angular teeth (2.5 cm in size), elements of the lower jaw and, possibly, fragments of the shoulder bone, which significantly exceed their compliance with modern human monkeys. The analysis of fossils shows that the individuals of the species of Gigantopithecus Blacki were the largest of ever existing monkeys and reached a height of up to 3 m and weight to 540 kg.

4. Megateria
Megateria is the extinct genus of the ground slots of South America endemics that lived from the end of Pliocene to the end of Pleistocene. There were only a few other land mammals, including Mammoths and Indricoteries.

Megatheter had a reliable skeleton with a large pelvic belt and a wide muscular tail. Large size allowed the beast to feed at altitudes inaccessible to other modern herbivores. Having rising on powerful hind legs and using the tail as supports, megatteries could maintain a massive body while the long curved claws bent and combined the branches with selected leaves. This sloth, like a modern amusing, has come to the side of the foot, because claws interfere with putting the stall to the land. Although it was, above all, the four animals, traces show that it was capable of both bi-seated wrestling, the same result also gives a biomechanical analysis.

5. ERIPS or Eryops
ERIPS (the name means "stretched face", because most of the skull was ahead of the eye) - this is a genus of extinct amphibians, TEMNOSPONDYLS. It contains the only appearance of the Eryops Megacephalus, the fossils of which are found mainly in the Rannerperm (about 295 million years ago) rocks in Texas, but were also found in the rocks of the end of the coal period in New Mexico. There were several complete skeletons of Erioples, but the bones of the skull and teeth are the most common fossils.

6. Desmatozuh
DesMatosuchus is the extinct generation of arcons, which include modern birds and crocodiles belonging to the Aetosauria group. He lived during the late Triass on the territory of the current North America about 230 million years ago. These were large four-legged animals, reaching 4.5 meters long and about 1.5 meters high, the back of the animal was covered with spikes, the two of the largest of which had about 45 cm.

7. Vanklevoye
Vanklevoya is an unusual Arkhozorph of the late Triass New Mexico and Arizona (USA). Probably semi-wheeled fishing animal with an elongated body and strongly shortened limbs that achieved a length of 1.2 m.

8. Pachyrhachis or Pahirachis
Pahirachirais - the extinct delivery of snakes with well-developed rear legs, known from the fossils found in Ein Yabrud, not far from Ramalla, in the central part of the West Bank of the Jordan River.

9. Platyhystrix.
Platugistrics - amphibia from the dosmospepondyl group with a characteristic "sail" along the back than reminded that at the same time DIMETRON and Edafosaur of the Synapsid class. He lived in the late coal and early Perm period, about 300 million years ago.

Probably, Platugistix often became a victim of larger dosmospondylov, such as ERIPS, as well as large carnivorous reptiles, which became very diverse in the dry climate of the Permian period. The Platigistix skull was large and massive, and the muzzle resembled a frog. The body was compact, up to 1 m long (including tail). Short and powerful paws indicate that the lifestyle was mainly ground.

10. DIICTODON.

DIICTODON is a genus therapist, about 45 cm. He belonged to the dicynodontia group. These mammals of synapsides lived in the late Perm period, about 255 million years ago. The fossils were found in Africa and Asia (in fact, about half of all Perm vertebrates found in South Africa are DIICTODON). This small herbivorous animal was one of the most successful among the synapside of the Permian period.

11. Indohyus.
Indohyus ("Pig India") is the name of the genus of extinct fingertop, famous from Eocene Fossils in Asia. This animal similar to Olenka was found in Himalayas and is a close relative, or even the ancestor of whales.

12. Longisquama.
Longskwama is extinct genus diapside. Only one species is distinguished, Longisquama Insignis, known from the poorly preserved skeleton and several incomplete prints from Madygen medium and late-grade formation in Kyrgyzstan. All samples are in the collection of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

13. Dunkleosteus.
Dunks - the genus of extinct bargaining fish arthrodir class of the Plakoderm, who lived in the Devonian period of 415-360 million years ago. His representatives belonged to the largest marine predators of their time. Fossil remains are found in Morocco, Belgium, Poland and North America. The exact size of dunklety is difficult to determine if only the heads of the head are preserved from it, and the full length of the body will be clear, no. The size of his head exceeded the meter, and the length of the entire body was at least 6 meters (some signs indicate that individual copies could be twice as much more); Sometimes they call numbers 10 and 20 meters.

14. Terataspis Grandis.

Terataspis Grandis can be translated as a "great monster-like shield", due to its huge size and monstrous appearance. Although the full skeleton Terataspis is not known, many fragments of the exoskeleton were found, so scientists gradually managed to restore Terataspis with each fragment that they found.

Terataspis is a strange trilobite genus from the Devonian period. His body was completely covered with small beards, perhaps as protection against huge predators such as Eusthenodon, Eusthenopteron and Dunkleosteus

15. EUCHAMBERSIA or EURCHAMBERSIY
Euchambersia is a terrocephal from Therapsida's supervision, who lived in the late Perm era, approximately 250 million years ago, on the territory of modern South America. Terocephali - the cross-like detachment of the theiodonts. Very primitive teriodontes, possibly related gorgonops on the one hand and cycosnonts - on the other. Among them, Euchambersia has a unique feature. Apparently, this animal had poisonous glands associated with fangs.

16. Anomalocaris
Anomalocaris ("abnormal shrimp") is an extinct genus of Anomalocaridid, animals are considered closely connected with the ancestors of arthropods. The first fossils of anomalocaris were found in Ogygopsis Shale. Initially, the fossil parts were discovered separately (mouth, feed appendages and tail), and were considered three separate creatures, the misunderstanding was corrected by Harry B. Wittington and Derek Briggs in a magazine in 1985.

Anomalocaris is often called proto-arthropod, this means that it is similar to arthropods, however, it may belong to a slightly different evolutionary line, which differs from modern representatives of the class. Earlier, anomalocaris was often depicted with a rigid chitine body similar to a crab shell, but now it seems that it cannot be correct. The most solid parts, apparently, were the front appendages and the mouth, since the fossils of these parts are most often found. The main mass of the animal appears to be softer these parts, with petals speaking on the sides of the body. Each petal covered the previous one and this overlap allowed the leases on each side of the body to work as a single "fin", with impressive swimming efficiency.

17. Corusement
Corusing - the genus of fossil basal diapsid reptiles. The remains are known from the top Perm Germany, England and Madagascar.

The average length of the cuberavas - approx. 40 cm. A distinctive feature of the cellootor is the wonder structures located on the sides of the body of the body, which were used to plan. Skull of the Coruser reminder a skull of lizards, with a pointed muzzle. At the back of the collar, there was a grow, reminder the "collar" of ceratopciy dinosaurs.

18. Eunotosaurus.
Eunotosaurus - extinct rod reptile, possibly being a close relative of the turtles, is known from the end of the middle perm (Captific Yar) of South Africa. It is often considered as a possible "missing link" between the turtles and their prehistoric ancestors. Animal ribs were wide and flat, wide plates formed something similar to primitive shells of turtles, and the vertebrae was almost identical to modern turtles. It is possible that these turtle-like features developed completely independently and convergently, although some studies prove that Eunotosaurus is a genuine primitive relative of the turtles.

19. Pterodaustro.
Pterodaustro is the genus of chalk pterosaurs from South America, which lived 105 million years ago. The opening of Pterodaustro was a fantastic find, as it was not only the first Pterosaur discovered in South AmericaBut the first pterosaur that filtered his food, how to make modern flamingos. This is evidenced by a highly curved beak in which instead of ordinary teeth of Pterosaurs were arranged hundreds of small as bristles of teeth, which grew up from the lower jaw. The upper jaw did not have these bristly teeth, and could be closed without contact with them to avoid damage.

Ancient Greece is considered a cradle of European civilization, which has given modernity, many cultural wealth and inspiring science and art figures. The myths of ancient Greece welcoming the doors to the world, populated by the gods, heroes and monsters. Casting relationships, insanity of nature, divine or human, unthinkable fantasies immerse us in the puchins of passions, causing to shudder from horror, empathizing and admirable for the harmony of the reality that existed many centuries ago, but such relevant at all times!

1) Typhon

The most powerful and eliminating the creature of all generic gays, the personification of the fiery forces of the Earth and its evaporation, with their destructive actions. The monster possesses an incredible force and has on the back of 100 dragon heads, with black languages \u200b\u200band fiery eyes. From his paste, the ordinary voice of the gods, then the roar of the terrible bull, then the rod of a lion, then howling the dogs, then a sharp whistle, which is echoed in the mountains. Typhon was the father of the mythical monsters from the echidna: Orfa, Cherberry, Hydra, Collius Dragon and others who threaten the human race on Earth and underground, while Heroch did not destroy them, except for the Sphinx, Cerberry and Chimeras. From Typhon, all winds-downstairs went, except notota, bare and marshmallow. Typhon, turning the Aegean Sea, cried the island of Cyclades, before that arose closely. The fiery breath of the monster came to the island of Fer and destroyed all his western half, and the rest turned into the scorched desert. The island has since purchased the shape of the crescent. The gigantic waves raised by the titon came to the island of Crete and destroyed the kingdom of Minos. Typhon was so eliminating and strong that the Gods-Olympians fled from their abode, abandoning the battle with him. Only Zeus, the most brave of the young gods, decided to fight the titon. The fight continued for a long time, in the heat of the battle, the opponents moved from Greece to Syria. Here Typhon has crossed its gigantic torso land, subsequently these traces of battle filled with water and became rivers. Zeus pushed Typhon to the north and dropped into the Ionian Sea, near the Italian coast. Thunderstroke was sewed by the monster with lightning and lowered him to Tartar under Mount Etna on Sicily Island. In antiquity it was believed that numerous eruptions ethnis occur due to the fact that the zipper was broken from the vulcan, previously abandoned by Zeus. Typhon served as the personification of the destructive forces of nature, such as hurricanes, volcanoes, tornadoes. From the English version of this Greek name and the word "Typhoon" occurred.

2) Draca

They are a snake or a female dragon, often with human traits. Dracines include, in particular, Lamia and Echidna.

The name "Lamia" is etymologically derived from Assyria and Babylon, where it was so called demons who kill chest babies. Lamia, daughter Poseidon, was the queen of Libya, the beloved Zeus and gave birth to children from him. The extraordinary beauty of the Lamy itself squeezed the fire of revenge in the heart of the ger, and Hera from jealousy killed Lamy's children, turned her beauty in disgrace and deprived the beloved her husband's husband. Lamia was forced to hide in the cave and at the order of the ger turned into a bloody monster, in despair and insanity, which was kidnapped and foggling other children. Since Gera was deprived of her sleep, Lamyia was tirelessly wandered at night. Zeus squeezed over her gave her the opportunity to remove her eyes to fall asleep, and only then she could become harmless. Becoming in a new look half a woman, half the snake, she spawned a terrible offspring, called Lamia. Lamy has polymorphic abilities, can act in various hypostasses, usually like beast-human hybrids. However, more often they are like to beautiful girls, because it is so easier to charm careless men. They attack both sleeping and deprive their vitality. These night ghosts under the guise of beautiful girls and young men suck blood from young people. Lamia in antiquity was also called the gays and vampires, which, according to the people's presentation of Novogrekov, was monotoned by the young men and virgins and then killed them, drinking their blood. Lamyu with some skill is easy to expose, for this it is enough to make her voice. Because the language of the Lamina is forked, they are deprived of the ability to speak, but they can whistle melodically. In later legends of European peoples, Lamia was depicted in the appearance of a snake with her head and a breast of a beautiful woman. Also associated with the nightmare - mari.

Daughter of Forkis and Keto, the granddaughter of gay-land and the god of the sea Ponta, it was portrayed in the form of a giant woman with a wonderful face and a spotted snake body, less often lizards, combining beauty with a cunning and evil temper. Made into the light of the Typhon of the whole premium of messengers, various in appearance, but disgusting in their essence. When she attacked the Olympians, Zeus distilled her and tablet. After the victory, the Thiffon was signed by Typhon under Mount Etna, but allowed the echidna and her children to live as a call to the future heroes. She was immortal and disadvantaged and dwell in a gloomy cave under Earth away from people and gods. By hunting, she lurked and lured the travelers, in the future ruthlessly devouring them. The Vladyman snakes Echidna possessed an unusually hypnotic look, to resist who were not able not only to people, but also animals. IN different options The myths of the Echidna was killed by Hercules, Bellorofete or Oedipus during his serene sleep. Echidna by nature is the chtonic deity, the strength of which embodied in his descendants was destroyed by heroes, marking the victory of ancient Greek heroic mythology over primitive teratorphism. The ancient Greek Tale of Echidne was based on medieval legends about the monstrous reptile as the nasty of all creatures and the unconditional enemy of mankind, and also served as an explanation for the origin of the dragons. The name of the echidna is called an egg-standing mammal, covered with needles living in Australia and on the Pacific Islands, as well as the Australian Snake, the largest of poisonous snakes in the world. The echidial is also called an evil, ulcer, insidious person.

3) Gorgon

These monsters were the daughters of the Sea of \u200b\u200bForkis and his sister Keto. There is also a version that they were daughters of Typhon and Echidnas. The sisters were three: Eurila, Sfeno and Jellyfish Gorgon - the most famous of them and the only death of three monstrous sisters. Their appeal was inspired by horror: the winged creatures covered with scales, with snakes instead of hair, a fanging mouth, with a gaze to the stone all the living. During the duel of the hero of Persea with jellyfish, she was pregnant from the god of the Seas of Poseidon. From the decapitated body of jellyfish with blood flow, her children came from Poseidon - Giant Chrysor (Father Gerion) and the winged horse Pegasus. From the drops of blood that fell into the sands of Libya, poisonous snakes appeared and destroyed everything alive in it. The Libyan legend says that red corals appeared from the blood flow poured into the ocean. Perseus took advantage of the head of jellyfish in battle with the sea dragon, sent to Poseidon to empty Ethiopia. Showing the Face of Jellyfish a monster, Perseus turned him into a stone and saved Andromeda, the royal daughter who was sacrificed to the Dragon. Sicily Island is traditionally considered a place where Gorgon lived and the jellyfish depicted on the flag of the region was killed. In the art of jellyfish, a woman was depicted in the form of a woman with snakes instead of hair and often kabani fangs instead of teeth. In Hellenic images, the beautiful dying Gorgon Girl is sometimes found. Separate iconography - images of a severed jellyfish head in the hands of Persea, on the shield or the aegise of Athens and Zeus. Decorative motif - Gorgonaion - decorates clothes, household items, weapons, tools, decorations, coins and facades of buildings. It is believed that the myths about Gorgon Medouz have a connection with the cult of the Scythian Snakenoga of the Goddess-progenitian of Tobiti, which is evidence of the existence of which are mentioned in the ancient sources and archaeological finds of images. In the Slavic medieval book legends of Medusa Gorgon turned into a virgin hair in the form of a snake - the girl Gorgonia. The animal of the jellyfish received its name because of the similarity with the mechanical hazel-snakes of the legendary jellyfish Gorgon. In the figurative sense of "Gorgon" - grilling, evil woman.

Three goddesses of old age, gay grandmothers and Ponta, Sisters Gorgon. They were called Deino (shiver), Pepredo (Anxiety) and Enio (horror). They were gray-haired from birth, they had one eye on three of them, which they used alternately. Only Graii knew the location of the island of Jellyfish Gorgon. On the advice of Hermes, Perseus headed for them. While the eye was at one of the grates, the other two were blind, and violated grace led blind sisters. When, having drowned the eyes, Giaya passed it next in turn, all three sisters were blind. It was this moment that I chose Perseus to pick up the eye. Having helpless grays came terror and were ready to do everything, if only the hero returned to them the treasure. After they had to tell how to find the Medusa Gorgon and where to get the winged sandals, the magic bag and the invisible helmet, Perseus gave Oco Gray.

This is a monster born by an echidial and tipon, had three heads: one was lion, the second - goat, grew up on his back, and the third, snake, ended the tail. It was breathing with fire and szhigallo everything on his way, devastating at home and sowing residents of Lycia. Repeated attempts to kill the chimeura, the Tsary of Licks, suffered a constant defeat. No person decided to closely approach her dwelling, surrounded by deciding bowls of decapitated animals. Performing the will of Tsar Ibat, the son of King Corinth Bellerofont on the winner Pegasse went to the Cave of Chimeras. The hero killed her, as was predicted by the gods, striking the chimeura arrow from Luke. In the proof of his feat, Bellerofont delivered one of the sliced \u200b\u200bheads of the monsters to the Lycian king. Chimera - the personification of the fire-hazing volcano, at the base of which sisha snakes, on the slopes there are many meadows and goat pastures, from the top flames and there, at the top, the lair of Lviv; Probably chimera - metaphor of this unusual mountain. The cave chimeras consider the area near the Turkish village of Chirali, where there are exits to the surface of natural gas in concentrations sufficient for its open burning. In honor of Chimera, a detachment of deep-water cartilage fish is named. In the figurative sense of chimer - fantasy, unrealized desire or action. In sculpture, chimeras are called images of fantastic monsters, while it is believed that stone chimeras can come to life to bring horror to people. The type of chimera served as the basis for creepy gorgons, considered a symbol of horror and unusually popular in the architecture of the Gothic buildings.

The winged horse, which appeared from the dying jellyfish Gorgon at the moment when Perseus score her head. Since the horse appeared at the origins of the ocean (in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, the ocean was a river, stuffing land), he was called Pegasus (translated from Greek - "Stormy Current"). The rapid and graceful, Pegasus immediately became the object of lust of many heroes of Greece. In the afternoon, the hunters arranged an ambush on the mountain Helicon, where Pegasus one hit the hoof made the key cool cool water of strange dark-violet color, but very tasty. So there was a famous source of poetic inspiration of the hypocrene - a horsepower source. The most patient, happened, saw a ghostly horse; The most fortunate pegasus let me as close as it seemed to be a little bit - and you can touch his beautiful white skins. But to catch Pegasus did not succeed in anyone: in the last moment, this indomitable creation was cramped with wings and with the speed of lightning worn over the clouds. Only after Athena gave a magic bridle to the young Bellerofont, he was able to settle the wonderful champ. The riding on the pegasus of the Bellerofont was able to get to the chimera and from the air struck the fire-haired monster. Infected by his victories with the unchanged help of a dedicated Pegasus, Bellerofont brought himself to be equal to the gods and, Sedlaz Pegasus, went to Olympus. The angry Zeus struck the pride, and Pegasus received the right to visit the shining vertices of Olympus. In later legends, Pegasa got into the number of EOS horses and the Society of Strashno.com.ua Muz, in the latter's circle, in particular, for the fact that he stopped his hoof the Mount Helicon, which, with the sounds of songs, muses began to hesitate. From the point of view of symbols, Pegasus combines the vitality and the power of the hill with liberation, like a bird, from earthly severity, so the idea is close to the obstacle to the poet, overcoming earth obstacles. Pegasus personified not only a beautiful friend and faithful comrade, but also a limitless intelligence and talent. Loves of the gods, music and poets Pegasus often appears in visual art. In honor of Pegasus, the constellation of the Northern Hemisphere, the genus of marine leapspers and weapons are named.

7) Kolchida Dragon (Kolkhis)

Son of Typhon and Echidnas, a steady-awakened firewood huge dragon, who was embarrassed by the golden fleece. The name of the monster is given by the location of his location - Colchide. The king of Kolkhida EET brought a ram with a golden skin sacrificing Zeus, and the skin hung on Oak in the sacred grove of Ares, where her eraseld Kolkhis. Jason, the pupil of the Kentaurian Hiron, on behalf of Peneli, Tsar Iola, went to Kolkhid for the Golden Rone on the Argo ship, built specifically for this journey. Tsar EET gave Jason impossible instructions so that the golden fleece remains in Colchide. But the God of Love Eros is burned Love for Jason in the heart of Medea's wizard, daughter Eeta. Tsarevna sprouled Kolkhis's swelling potion, calling for the help of a dream of Sleep Holness. Jason kidnapped the golden fleece, hastily sails with Medea to Argo back to Greece.

The Giant, the son of Chrysor, born of blood Gorgon Jellyfish, and Oceanids of Calliroi. He walked the strongest on earth and was a terrible monster with three bodies in the belt, had three heads and six hands. Gerion owned wonderful cows of an unusually beautiful red suit, who kept on the island of Eraphia in the ocean. Rumors about the beautiful cows of Gerion reached the Myna Tsar Eurysfi, and he sent Hercules behind them, who was in his service. Hercules passed all Libya before reached the extreme West, where, according to the Greeks, the world was born, which was bored by the ocean river. The path to the ocean brave the mountains. Hercules spread them with its mighty hands, forming the Gibraltar Strait, and installed stone steles in the South and Northern shores - Hercules pillars. On the Golden Floor Helios, the son of Zeus swam to the island of Eraphia. Hercules struck his famous terrier PSA of the Orfa, guarding herd, killed the shepherd, and then took the battle with the three-headed owner. Three ships were covered by Gerion, three spears were in his mighty hands, but they were useless: the spears could not break through the skin of a nonmetic lion, filled with the hero's shoulders. Hercules also released several poisonous arrows in Gerion, and one of them turned out to be fatal. Then he immersed the cows in the Helios Radia and overwhelmed the ocean in the opposite direction. So the demon drought and darkness was defeated, and heavenly cows were liberated - rainy clouds.

A huge two-headed dog, guarding the cows of Giant Gerion. The generation of Typhon and Echidna, the elder brother of Psa Cherberry and other monsters. He is the father of Sphinx and Nemoye Lion (from chimera), one of the versions. Orph is not so famous as Cerber, because it is known about him much less and information about it is contradictory. Some myths report that in addition to two dog heads, the ORF has seven more of the dragon chapters, and the serpent was on the place of the tail. And in Iberia, the PSA was a sanctuary. Heracl was killed during the execution of his tenth feat. The plot of the death of the Orph's hand from Hercules, who focused Gerion's cows, was often used by the ancient Greek grains and potters; Presented on numerous ancient vases, amphoras, stannesses and sociophos. According to one of the most adventurous versions, the ORF in antiquity could simultaneously impersonate two constellations - a large and small dog. Now these stars are combined into two asterism, and in the past, their two brighter stars (Sirius and the promination, respectively) could well see people with fangs or heads of monstrous two-headed PSA.

10) Cerber (Cerber)

Son of Typhon and Echidnas, a terrible trothed dog with a terrible dragon tail, covered by grokely hissing snakes. Cerber Stern entrance to the gloomy, full of horrors underground kingdom of Aida, watching no one from there to come out. According to the oldest texts, Cerber welcomes with their tail of those who are in hell and breaks into pieces of those who try to escape. In a later legend, he bites newcomers. To lose it, in the coffin of the deceased lay a honey gingerbread. Dante Cerber is tormented by the souls of the dead. For a long time at the Cape Tenar, that in the south of Peloponnese Peninsula, showed a cave, arguing that herakli, on the instructions of the king Eurysfy, descended into the kingdom of Aida to bring Cherberry from there. Representing the throne of Aida, Hercules constantly asked the underground God to allow him to take PSA in Mycenae. Like either harsh and gloomy was Aid, but he could not refuse the son of the Great Zeus. I put only one condition: Hercules should tame a cherberry without weapons. Hercules saw Cherberry on the banks of the Aheron River - borders between the world of living and dead. The hero grabbed the dog with its mighty hands and began to choke him. The dog was grokely overwhelmed, rushing to break out, the snakes twisted and Jalley Hercules, but he only tightly squeezed his hands. Finally, Cerber surrendered and agreed to follow Hercules, who took him to the walls of Mycene. Tsar Eurysfea came terror at one glance on a terrible dog and ordered him to send him back to Aid. Cerberus was returned to his place in Aid, and it was after this feat that Eurysefe gave Hercules freedom. During his stay on Earth, Cerberum dropped a drop of bloody foam from the mouth, of which the poisonous grass aconeite rose, otherwise called hekatina, since he was first used the goddess of Hekat. Medea mixed this grass in his witchcraft potion. In the formation of the Cerper, a teratorphism is traced, against which heroic mythology is fighting. The name of the evil PSA became nominal to designate an unnecessary harsh, incorruptible guard.

11) Sphinx

The most famous Sphinx in Greek mythology was from Ethiopia and dwell in the philas in Besotia, which mentions the Greek poet Hesiod. It was a monster, generated by Typhon and Echidnaya, with a face and breasts of a woman, body of lion and bird wings. The sent hero on the cuts in the punishment, the Sphinx is located on the mountain near Phi and asked everyone a riddle of a riddle: "Which living beings in the morning walks on four legs, day on two, and in the evening on three?". The Sphinx unfortunate to give a raysterity killed and thus destroyed many noble films, including the son of King Creonte. Crown's abandoned grief announced that he would give the kingdom and hand of his sister okast to the one who would save the fiva from the Sphinx. The riddle solved the Oedip, responding to the Sphinx: "Man." The monster in despair rushed into the abyss and crashed to death. This version of the myth pushed out an older version in which the initial name of the predator who dwells in Besotia on Mount Fikion was Fix, and then His parents are named ORF and Echidna. The name of the Sphinx originated from rapprochement with the verb "squeeze", "suffer", and the image itself - under the influence of the low-immiginous image of the winged half of the semi-mild. Ancient Fix was a fierce monster capable of preying production; He was overcome by an Oedip with a weapon in his hands during a cruel battle. The images of the Sphinx are abounding in the art of classicism, starting with the British interiors of the 18th century and ending with the empty furniture of the era of romanticism. Masons considered sphinxes a symbol of the Mysteries and used them in their architecture, considering as the guards of the gates of the temple. In the Masonic architecture, the Sphinx is a frequent detail of the decor, for example, even in the image of the image of his head on the blank of documents. Sphinx personifies the mystery, wisdom, the idea of \u200b\u200bstruggling a man with fate.

12) Sirena

Demonic creatures born from God freshwater Aheeloy and one of the music: Meldoma or Terratichery. Sirens, like many of the mythical creatures, mixantropic in nature, is half-semi-substained semi-semi-semi-sends, who inherited wild sphere from his father, and from the mother is a divine voice. Their number varies from several to the whole set. Dangerous Virgin lived on the rocks of the island, destroyed bones and dried skin of their victims, whom the sirens lured singing. I hear their sweet singing, sailors, losing mind, directed the ship directly to the rocks and eventually died in the sea under sea. After that, merciless maiden gazed the body of victims to pieces and eaten. According to one of the myths, the Orpheus on the Argonauts ship sang swell than sirens, and for this reason, the sirens in despair and inheritant malice rushed into the sea and were turned into rocks, for they were destined to die when their spells would be powerless. The appearance of a siren with wings relates them in appearance with the guards, and sirens with fish tails - with mermaids. Nevertheless, sirens, unlike mermaids, have divine origins. Attractive appearance is also not their mandatory attribute. Sirens were also perceived as the muses of a different world - they were portrayed on the tombstone monuments. In classical antiquity, wild chtonic sirens turn into sweet wise sirens, each of which sits on one of the eight celestial spheres of world spindlers goddess aancus, creating their singing the magnificent harmony of space. To abandon marine deities and avoid shipwreck, Siren was often portrayed in the form of figures on ships. Over time, the image of Siren became so popular that the sirens were called a whole detachment of large marine mammals, to which Dugony, Lamantines include, and sea (or steller) cows, unfortunately, completely exterminated by the end of the 18th century.

13) Garpia

The daughters of the Marine Deity of Tavmante and Oceanides of Electra, Archaic Doomolympic Divine. Their names are Alela ("Whirlwind"), Alellop ("Vikhrevoid"), Dick ("Figure"), Okiphet ("Fast"), Kelaino ("Gloomy") - indicate a connection with the elements and mrak. The word "Garpia" comes from the Greek "grab", "abduct." In the oldest myths of Garpius were the deities of the wind. The proximity of the Garpius Strashno.com.ua affects the fact that Divine Horses of Achilles were born from the hypics and marshfire. They intervene little in the affairs of people, their duty was only to carry the souls of the dead in the underground kingdom. But then Garpii began to kidnap children and annoyed people, laid suddenly, like the wind, and just as suddenly disappearing. In different sources of Garpia are described as the winged deities with long flowing hair, flying faster than birds and winds, or as vultures with female faces and sharp claws. They are invulnerable and stencils. Eternally tormented by hunger, which they can't quench, Garpians go down from the mountains and with shrill screams devoured and dirty. Garpius sent gods to the punishment of people who guessed before them. The monsters took the food from a person whenever he was taken for food, and so lasted until the person died of hunger. So, a story is known about how Garpii was tormented by Tsar Finea, damned for an involuntary crime, and, who kidding him, ebigned him to hungry death. However, the monsters were expelled by the sons of Borea - Argonauts by Zeta and Kalaid. Kill Garpius prevented the heroes of the Hello of Zeus, their sister, the goddess Rainbow Irida. The habitat of Garpius was usually called the Stroofad Islands in the Aegean Sea, later - along with other monsters they were placed in the kingdom of the gloomy Aida, where they were counted to the most dangerous local beings. Medieval moralists used Garpius as symbols of greed, insatiability and uncleanness, often combining them with furies. Garpios are also called evil women. Garpia is called a large predatory bird from a family of hawk, living in South America.

The brainchild of the Typhon and Echidnas, the disgusting hydra had a long snake body and nine dragon heads. One of the heads was immortal. Hydra was considered invincible, since it grown with two new ones from a severed head. Coming out from the gloomy Tartar, the hydra lived in a swamp near the city of Lerny, where the killers came to pour their sins. This place has become her housing. Hence the name - the Lerneysian hydra. Hydra was always hungry and empty the surroundings, drinking herd and burning sowing with his fiery breathing. Her body was thicker than the thick tree and covered shiny scales. When she raised on the tail, it was visible far over the forests. Tsar Eurysfea sent Hercules with the task to kill the Lerneysian hydra. Iolai, the nephew of Hercules, during the battle of the hero with a hydra, the fire made her neck, from whom Hercules knocked his head with his pan. New heads stopped growing at the Hydra, and soon she had only one immortal head. In the end, she was demolished with a closet and buried Hercules under a huge rock. Then the hero is the sink of the body of the Hydra and immersed his arrows into her poisonous blood. Since then, wounds from his arrows became incurable. However, this feat of the hero was not recognized by Eurisfey, as the nephew helped Hercules. The name of the Hydra carry Pluto satellite and the constellation of the South Hemisphere of the sky, the longest of all. The unusual properties of the Hydra presented their name also the genus of freshwater sedental shepherds. Hydro called a person with aggressive character and predatory manner of behavior.

15) Steamfali Birds

Birds are predatory with sharp bronze feathers, copper claws and beaks. Named named Lake Steephala near the same city in the mountains of Arcadia. Spenting with extraordinary speed, they turned into a huge flock and soon turned around the neighborhood of the city hardly to the desert: destroyed the entire harvest of the fields, destroyed animals escalated on the fat shores of the lake, were killed by many shepherds and farmers. Taking off, the pimphany birds dropped their feathers like arrows, and hit them all who were in an open area, or broke with copper claws and beaks. Having learned about this unfortunately of Arkadians, Eurisfey sent Hercules to them, hoping that this time she would not succeed in anywhere. The Hero helped Athena, giving him copper rattles or a lie. Alarming the birds with noise, Hercules began to let her poisoned by the noma of the Lerneysian boom of arrows. The frightened birds left the shores of the lake, rushing to the islands of the Black Sea. There, the witnesses were met by argonauts. They probably heard about the feat of Hercules and followed his example - the birds were driven by noise, hitting the swords on the shields.

Forest deities that made a match of God Dionysus. Satires Cosmodata and beardeds, their legs end in goats (sometimes horsepone) hooves. Others specific traits The appearance of satiries - the horns on the head, goat or bovine tail and human torso. Satira was endowed with the qualities of wild creatures, possessing animal qualities, little thinking about human prohibitions and moral standards. In addition, they differed fantastic endurance, both in the battle and at the festive table. There was a lot of passion for dancing and music, the flute is one of the main attributes of satiries. Also, the attributes of satiries were considered Tirs, a sweater, leather bellows or vessels with wine. Satira were often depicted on the canvases of great artists. Often, satiram was a company and a girl to which satirs had a well-known weakness. According to rationalistic interpretation, the shepherd tribe, living in the forests and mountains, could affect satira. Satir is sometimes called alcohol, humor and women's society. The image of satire reminds European hell.

17) Phoenix

Magic bird with golden and red feathers. It can notice the collective image of many birds - eagle, caravel, peacock and many others. The most striking phoenix qualities were an extraordinary life expectancy and the ability after self-immolation to be revived from the ashes. There are several options for the Phoenix myth. In a classic version of five hundred years, Phoenix, carrying people to himself, flies from India to the Temple of the Sun in Heliopole, in Libya. The head priest burns the fire from the sacred vine, and Phoenix rushes into the fire. His wings impregnated with incense flashes, and he quickly burns. This feat of Phoenix his life and beauty returns to the world of people happiness and harmony. After having experienced flour and pain, a new phoenix grows out of the ashes in three days, which, thanking the priests for the work done, returns to India, even more beautiful and shining with new paints. Surviving cycles of birth, progress, death and updates, Phoenix once again seeks to become more and more perfect. Phoenix was the personification of the oldest human aspiration for immortality. Still in the ancient world of Phoenix began to portray on coins and seals, in heraldry and sculpture. Phoenix has become a favorite symbol of light, rebirth and truth in poetry and prose. In honor of the Phoenix, the constellation of the southern hemisphere and the chipstick was called.

18) Szill and Charibda

Scylla, daughter of Echidna or Hecates, once beautiful nymph, rejected everyone, including the maritime god, the chapter, who asked for help from the magician of the circce. But in love with the head of the circcera from the revenge, he turned Szill in the monster, which was to wait for the seating in the cave, on the steep rock of the narrow Sicilian Strait, on the other side of which another monster lived - Haribda. Schill has six dog heads on six necks, teeth in three rows and twelve legs. Translated its name means "barking". Haribda was the daughter of Poseidon's gods and gays. She turned it into a terrible monster himself Zeus, dropping at the place of this. Haribda has a giant mouth, in which water is pouring without stopping. She personifies a terrible whirlpool, which is expanding the sea pulp, which in one day arises three times and absorbs, and then erupts water. Nobody saw her, as it is hidden the thickness of water. That is how she destroyed many navigators. By Szillla and Charibda managed to swim only Odyssey and argonauts. In the Adriatic Sea, you can find a skille rock. As led by local legends, Szillhla lived on it. There is also a shrimp with the same name. The expression "to be between Scylla and Charibda" means to be dangerous at the same time from different sides.

19) Hypocampus

Sea animal having a horse view and an ending fish tail, also called hydrippace - water horse. For other versions of the Hippocampus myths, this is a sea creature in the form of Strashno.com.ua sea skate with a horse's legs and a body, an ending snake or fish tail and webbed paws instead of hoofs on the front legs. The front of the body is covered with fine scales in contrast with large scales on the back of the case. According to some sources, lungs are used for breathing hypocampus, modified gills. Sea deities - Nereides and Tritons - were often depicted on chariot harpped with hippocampuses, or squeezing on hippocampuses, disseminating the purple water. This amazing horse appears in the verses of Homer as a symbol of Poseidon, the chariot of which was harnessed with rapid horses and slid over the surface of the sea. In mosaic art, hippocampuses were often depicted as hybrid animals with green scaly mane and appendages. Ancient believed that these animals were already an adult shape of the sea skate. Other terrestrial animals with a tail of the fish that appear in Greek myths include Leookupus - Lion with a tail of the fish), Torakemam - bull with a tail of fish, Pardalokampass - Leopard with a tail of fish and aecampass - goat with a tail of fish. The latter became a symbol of Capricorn constellation.

20) Cyclops (Kiklopa)

Cyclops in 8-7 centuries BC. e. considered the generation of uranium and gay, titans. The cyclops were three immortal one-eyed giant with eyes in the form of a ball: Arg ("Flash"), armored ("Thunder") and Sterree ("Lightning"). Immediately after the birth of the cyclops, the Tartar was dropped by Uranus (the deepest abyss) together with the storuchi (hactonheira), shortly before them). The cyclops were released by the rest of the titans after the overthrow of the uranium, and then reset the tartar with the leader of the Kronos. When the leader of Olympians Zeus began to fight the Kronos for power, he, on the advice of their mother Gay, freed cyclops from Tartar, so that they helped the Olympic gods in the war against Titans, known as Giantania. Zeus used zip-made lightning and thunder arrows, which is metal in titans. In addition, the cyclops, being a skilled blacksmiths, forged Poseidon Trzelkin and Nurseri for his horses, Aida - Invisible helmet, Artemide - Silver onions and arrows, and taught Athena and Hephaest to different handwoods. After the end of Giantaucheia, the cyclops continued to serve Zeus and to kill weapons for him. Like girlish hefesta, airborne iron in the depths of ethna, the cyclops stood the chariot of Ares, Aegid Pallades and the armor of Eney. Also, cyclops called the mythical people of one-eyed giant-cannibals who inhabited the islands of the Mediterranean Sea. Among them, the fierce son of Poseidon Polyfem, whom Odyssey was deprived of the only eye. The paleontologist Othenio Abel in 1914 suggested that the findings in the ancient times the skulls of dwarf elephants were the birth of the myth of cyclopes, since the central nasal hole in the elephant skull could be accepted for a gigantic eyeboard. The remains of these elephants were found on the islands of Cyprus, Malta, Crete, Sicily, Sardinia, Cyclades and Dodecanes.

21) Minotaur

Semi-pubened, born as the fruit of the Pacific Pacific Passion Passion Passion to the White Bull, the love of the Aphrodite in the punishment. The real name of the Minotaur was asteria (that is, the "star"), and the nickname minotavr means "Bull Minos". Subsequently, the inventor was held, the creator of many devices, built a labyrinth, in order to sharpen her son-monster in it. According to ancient Greek mythsMinotaurus fed humanly, and to feed him, King Crete put on the city of Athens a terrible tribute - seven young men and seven girls were to be sent to Crete every nine years to the egregulation of Minotaur. When the Teshe, the son of the Athens Tsar Egea, fell the lot to become a victim of insatiable monster, he decided to save his homeland from such a duty. The Ariadne in loved in the young man, the daughter of Tsar Minos and Pacifia, gave him a magical thread so that he could find the way out of Maze, and the hero managed not only to kill the monster, but also to free the rest of the prisoners and put an end to the terrible Dani. The myth of the minotaur was probably the extension of the ancient Delling bull cults with the sacred battles of bulls characteristic of them. Judging by wall images, human figures with bullish heads were common in Cretan demonology. In addition, the image of the bull appears on the Minoan coins and seals. Minotaur is considered anger and animal wildness symbol. The phrase "Thread Ariadna" means a way to get out of a difficult situation, find the key to solve a difficult problem, understand the difficult situation.

22) Hektonheira

Storuchnaya fifty-headed giants named Briani (Egeon), Cott and Gise (Gay) personify the underground forces, sons of the Supreme God of Uranus, the symbol of the sky, and gay-land. Immediately after the birth, the brothers were concluded in the depths of the earth by the Father, who feared for her dominion. In the midst of the fight against titans, the Gods of Olympus called Hektonheyirov, and their help provided the Olympians victory. After his defeat, Titans were overthow in Tartar, and Hektonheira voluntarily volunteered to watch them. Lord of the seas Poseidon gave his daughter Kimople in Briaria in the wives. Hekatonheira is present in the book of Brothers Strugatsky "Monday begins on Saturday" as movers in the NII FAVO.

23) Giants

The sons of gays, who appeared on the light of the blood of loose uranium, absorbed into the ground-mother. According to another version, Gay gave rise to them from uranium after the titans were pulled by Zeus to Tartar. Obviously the doogrical origin of the giants. In detail the history of the birth of giants and their death told by Apollodor. The giants inspired horror with their views - dense hair and beards; The bottom of the body they had a snake or similar octopus. They were born on the phlegrey fields in Chalkidik, which in Northern Greece. There, then the battle of the Olympic giants with giants occurred - Giantajiya. Giants, in contrast to titans, mortal. At the destruction of fate, their death depended on participation in the battle of mortal heroes, which will come to the rescue of the gods. Gaa wanted a magic grass that would have retained life giants. But Zeus was ahead of gay and, sent to the ground of the darkness, he cut off this grass himself. At the advice of Athens Zeus called for participation in the Battle of Hercules. In Giantaohiya, the Olympians destroyed the giants. Apollodor mentions the names of 13 giants, which are generally up to 150. At the heart of Gigantomaniac (as well as Titanomahi), there is an idea of \u200b\u200bordering the world, which embodied in the victory of the Olympic generation of gods over chtonic forces, strengthening the supreme power of Zeus.

This monstrous snake, generated by gay and Tartar, struck the sanctuary of godesses gays and femids in Delphi, at the same time devastating their surroundings. Therefore, it was also called Dolphin. According to the command of the goddess Gera, the ponyph brought up an even more terrible monster - Typhon, and then began to pursue Laton, the mother of Apollo and Artemis. Had Apollo, having received the onions and arrows, found by Hephaeste, went to search for monsters and overtaking him in a deep cave. Apollo killed Pyfhon with his arrows and had to stay in exile for this eight years to lose the angry gay. The huge dragon was periodically mentioned in Delphs during various sacred rituals and processions. Apollo founded on the site of the ancient progress of the temple and established the Pythiy Games; This myth was reflected in the change of chtonic archaisma new, Olympic deity. The plot, where the uniform deity kills the snake, the symbol of evil and the enemy of mankind, became classic for religious teachings and folk tales. The Temple of Apollo in Delphs was famous for all Ellad and even beyond. From the clefts in the rock, located in the middle of the temple, evaporation raised, which had a strong impact on the consciousness and behavior of a person. The priestesses of the Temple of Pythia were often confusing and foggy predictions. From the pyfone, the name was the name to a whole family of non-team snake - pythons, which sometimes reach 10 meters in length.

25) Centaur

These legendary creatures with human torso and horsepower and legs are the embodiment of natural strength, endurance, differ in cruelty and unbridled temper. Centaurs (translated from the Greek "killing bulls") by the chariot of Dionysus, the god of wine and winemaking; The God of Love Eros also went to them, which implied their tendency to the clocks and unrestrained passions. There are several legends about the origin of centaurs. The descendant of Apollo named Centaur came into contact with the Magnesian mares, which gave the appearance of receiving a half-one to all subsequent generations. On another myth, the most intelligent from Centabers Hiron appeared in the Doompian Epoch. His parents were Okeanid Felira and God Cron. The crown took the appearance of a horse, so the child from this marriage combined the features of a horse and man. Chiron got an excellent education (medicine, hunting, gymnastics, music, conceitivity) directly from Apollo and Artemis and was a mentor of many heroes of Greek epos, as well as the personal friend of Hercules. His descendants of the centaur lived in the mountains of the Fessels next door to Lapifa. These wild tribes peacefully got along with each other until at the wedding of the king lapiphs, the centaurs did not try to kidnap the bride and a few beautiful lapyyphyanok. In the brown battle, called Centaurochi, won the lapiphy, and the centaurs were scattered on mainland Greece, driven into the mountainous regions and the deaf cave. The appearance of the image of a centaurus more than three thousand years ago shows that even then the horse has played an important role in human life. Perhaps the ancient farmers perceived riders for a horsepie by a holistic being, but most likely the inhabitants of the Mediterranean, inclined to the invention of "composite" creatures, inventing a centaution, thus simply reflected the spread of a horse. The Greeks, dusted and loved by the horses, were well acquainted with their temper. It is no coincidence that the nature of the horse was associated with them with unpredictable manifestations of violence in this generally a positive animal. One of the constellations and signs of the zodiac is dedicated to Centaur. To refer to creatures, not similar to the horse, but preserving the traits of a centaur, the term "Centaurida" is used in the scientific literature. There are variations of the appearance of centaurs. On-bentaurus - reciprochet-semi-axes - was associated with a demon, Satan or a hypocritical person. The image is close to satyr and European devils as well egyptian God Setu.

Gay's son, on nicknamed Panoftes, that is, all-seeing, who became the personnel of the starry sky. The goddess Gera forced him to walked the IO, the beloved of her husband Zeus, turned into a cow to protect them from anger of jealous wife. Gever scored a cow from Zeus and put the perfect caretaker to her, the sorcerer of Argus, who violated her: only two eyes were closed at the same time, others were discovered and vigorously followed by IO. Only Hermes, a sled and enterprising messenger of the gods, managed to kill him, freed Io. Hermes whipped Argus Mac and one blow to his head. The name of Argus became nominative for a vigilant, unpretentious, all-seeing guard, from which no one hits anything. Sometimes it is so called, following an ancient legend, the pattern on the peacock feathers, the so-called "peacock of the eyes." According to legend, when Argus died from Hermes, Gera, sorry about his death, gathered all his eyes and attached them to the tails of her beloved birds, Pavlinov, who had to always remind her of a devoteed servant. The myth of Argus has often been depicted on the vases and on pompsean wall painting.

27) Griffon

Monstrous birds with a body of a lion and eagle head and front paws. Flowers are withering from their cry, and the grass is worshiped, and all living creatures fall to death. The eyes of the griffin with a golden sampling. The head in size resembled the wolf's head with a huge frightening view of the beak, wings with a strange second joint so that it was more convenient to fold them. Griffin in Greek mythology personified insightful and vigilant power. It is closely connected with God Apollo, it appears as an animal that God harms in his chariot. Some of the myths say that these creatures were injected into the wagon of the goddess Nemesis, which symbolizes the speed of rejection for sins. In addition, the griffins rotated the wheel of fate, and with Nemesis were associated genetically. The image of the griffin personified the domination of the elements of the Earth (Lion) and air (Eagle). The symbolism of this mythical animal is associated with the image of the Sun, since the lion, and the eagle in the myths are always inextricably linked with it. In addition, the lion and eagle are associated with the mythological motifs of speed and courage. The functional purpose of the griffon - protection, in this it is similar to the dragon image. As a rule, protects treasures or some secret knowledge. The bird served as an intermediary between heaven and earthly world, gods and people. Already then in the image of the griffin, ambivalence was laid. Their role in various myths is ambiguous. They can act as advocates, patrons, and how evil, unheeled beasts. The Greeks believed that the griffins guard the Gold Scythians in the north of Asia. Modern attempts to localize Griffins are very different and put them from the Northern Urals to Altai Mountains. These mythological animals are widely represented in antiquity: Herodotus wrote about them, their images were found on monuments of prehistoric crit periods and in Sparta - on weapons, household items, on coins and buildings.

28) Empus

Woman underwrithe of the underground world of Sweethearts. Empus was a night ghost-vampire with donkey legs, one of which is copper. She took the kind of cows, dogs or beautiful maid, changing their view of a thousand wards. According to existing believers, Empus often carried away young children, sucking blood from the beautiful young men, being in the image of a charming woman, and, satuned by blood, often devoured their meat. Upon nights on the deserted roads, Empus lasted lonely travelers, then scaring them in the form of an animal or ghost, he was fascinated by the appearance of beauties, then attacking them in their true terrible guise. Drink the Empus, according to beliefs, it was possible or a special amulet. In some sources of Empus, the description is close to lamia, onopentaper or female satire.

29) Triton

Son of Poseidon and Lady of the Seas Amphitrite, depicted in the form of an elder or young man with a fish tail instead of legs. Triton became the attitude of all Tritons - marine mixantropic creatures, frolicking in the waters, accompanying Poseidon's chariot. This retinue of the lower marine deities was depicted in the form of a semi-grade and puberty, triggering in the ultra-shaped sink to excite or tampering the sea. With its appearance, they resembled classic mermaids. Tritons in the sea have become, like satirs and centaurs on land, secondary deities serving the main gods. In honor of Tritons are named: In Astronomy - Satellite of the planet Neptune; in biology - the bodies of the tailed amphibian families of Salamander and the genus of advanced mollusks; in the technique - a series of ultra-low submarines of the USSR Navy; In music - the interval formed by three tones.

List of monsters, demons, giants and magical creatures of ancient Greek mythology

Cyclops - In ancient Greek mythology, the giant with a large, round, fiery eye in the middle of the forehead. The first three cyclop were born goddess gay (earth) from uranium (sky). In the deep ancient times, cyclops were the impersonalifications of thunderstorms, of which the "eye" of lightning sparkles.

Cyclops polyfem. Picture of Tishbane, 1802

Hektonheira - Children of gay and uranium, storuchny giants, against the terrible strength of which nothing can resist. Mythical incarnations of terrible earthquakes and floods. Cyclops and Hektonheira were so strong that the Uranus himself came terrified from their power. He connected them and threw deep into the earth, where they raised, causing eruption of volcanoes and earthquakes. The land of Goe began to cause terrible suffering to stay of these giants in her womb, and she would upgrad with her younger son, Titan Krona ("time"), revenge her father, uranium, sagging him. Cron made it with a sickle.

From spilled blood droplets of uranium gay won and gave birth to three Erinia - Goddesses of chat with snakes on the head instead of hair. The names of Erinnia - Tisifona (killing Avenience), Alelecto (tireless persecutant) and Meghera (terrible).

The goddess of the night (Nyukta) in anger on the crown-perfect lawlessness gave birth to terrible, monstrous creatures: Tanata (death), Erida (Discord) Apatu. (Cheating), Ker. (the goddesses of violent death), Highness (Sleep), Nememida (Revenge), Geras (Old age), Charon (The carrier of the dead to the underground kingdom).

Forte - The evil God of the Stormy Sea and Storms. Children of Forky in ancient Greek mythology were considered the monsters of Gorgon, Graii, Sirens, Echidna and Sailla.

Keto - The evil goddess of the sea puchin, sister and Forky's wife. Both of them personified the majestic and terrible phenomena of the sea

Gray - Anchival of old age. Three ugly sisters: Dino (shiver), pemfedo (anxiety) and Enio (evil, horror). Gray from birth, they have one eye and one tooth on three. This eye once kidnapped by the hero of Perseus. In exchange for the return of the eyes, Giyam had to point to the Pierce the road to Medusa Gorgon.

Skeilla (Szillla - "Living") - a terrible monster with 12 legs, six necks and six heads, in each of which - three rows of teeth. Schill is published by a continuous shrill bark.

Haribda - the personification of the all-consuming sea puchin. The scary whirlpool, who absorbs three times a day and erupts the sea moisture. The ancient Greeks believed that Szill and Haribd live along different sides of the Messinsky Strait (between Italy and Sicily). Between Scylla and Charibda sailed Odyssey during his wanders

Gorgon - Three sisters, three winged snake-haired monsters. Names Gorgon: Eurila ("Far Jumping"), Sfeno ("Mighty") and Medusa ("Lady, Striper"). Of the three sisters, the death was only a jellyfish, which possessed the ability to turn everything into the stone with her terrible look. She was killed by the hero of Perseus. Having preserved his magic power to the dead jellyfish Gorgonus helped later defeat the sea monster and save the wonderful Andromeda.

Head of jellyfish. Picture of Rubens, OK. 1617-1618

Pegasus - Winged horse, lovers muses. We conceive the jellyfish Gorgon from the god Poseidon. During the murder, the jellyfish jumped out of her body.

Sirena - In the ancient Greek myths of messengers who have a beautiful female head, and the body and legs are birds (according to other stories - fish). The chairs of the sirens were set as sailors to their magic island, where they ruined into pieces and devoured. Almost the ship Odyssey passed past this island. He ordered all his companions to shook the ears with wax, so as not to hear Siren's voices. He himself enjoyed their singing, tightly tied to the mast.

Odyssey and sirens. Picture of J. U. Waterhaus, 1891

Echidna ("Gaduka") is a giant half-seaman-half-seed character, with an excellent face and a spotted snake body.

Tavmanuty - God of marine wonders, underwater giant. His daughters were considered Harpi.

Garpia - In ancient Greek mythology - the personification of destructive storms and vortices. The monsters who have wings and clawed paws of the griffon, but the chest and the head are female. Suddenly flush and disappear. Kidnost children and human souls.

Typhon ("Smoke, Chad") - a terrible monster, born gay-land. The personification of gases, which rush out of the earth's depths and cause eruption of volcanoes. Typhon joined the fight against Zeus for power over the universe and almost won the victory. In the ancient Greek myths, Typhon is a giant, which had a hundred hissing dragon heads with black languages \u200b\u200band flaming eyes. Zeus snatched all heads with lightning and lowered his body into the abyss of Tartar.

Zeus molds lightning in Typhon

Kerber (Cerber) - a terrible tried dog, son of Typhon and Echidnas. The departure of the exit from the underground kingdom of Aida, who does not produce anyone from there. Hercules during his eleventh attain took Kerbera from the depths of the earth, but then he was returning back

ORF - The monstrous two-headed dog, the son of Typhon and the Echidnas, the Father of Sphinx and the Nemes Lion. He belonged to Giant Gerion and guarded his magic bulls. Heraklom killed during the abduction of these bulls (the tenth feat).

("Dectery") - in ancient Greek mythology (unlike Egyptian) - a monstrous maiden with a dog body, bird wings and a female head. Settling near the city of Five in Boeotia, Sphinx devoured young men who could not solve her riddle: "Who walks in the morning on four feet, day on two, and in the evening on three." The mystery solved the hero of the Oedip, and the Sphinx after that rushed into the abyss.

Sphinx. Picture detail F. K. Fabra. End of the XVIII - the beginning of the XIX centuries.

Empus - In ancient Greek mythology, a nightly ghost, a woman with donkey legs, who was able to take a wide variety of bleits (most often a cow, beautiful girl Or the PSA with one copper foot, and the other from the manure). Sleeping blood from sleeping people, often devoured their meat.

Lamia - In the ancient Greek myths, the daughter of Poseidon, with which he entered into the connection of Zeus. The Zeus, angry on this wife, Hera, deprived Lamyia of beauty, made it an ugly monster and killed her children. In desperation, Lamia began to take away children from other mothers. She eats these children. She since then returns his beauty only to seduce men, and then kill them and drink their blood. Coming in an insane frenza, Lamia can fall asleep only after being renewed and put them in the bowl. In the later fabulous stories, Lamyov was called a special kind of creatures close to medieval vampires.

Neamee Lev. - Son of Typhon and Echidnas. The lion of a huge magnitude with a skin that could not break through any weapon. Strangled by Hercules during the first feat.

Hercules kills a unay lion. Copy from Lisippa Statue

Lerneny hydra - Daughter of Typhon and Echidnas. A huge snake with nine heads, which, instead of one severed, grown three new ones. Heraklom killed during the second feat: the hero, bangs off the head head, gave a chopped place of burning sick, why new heads stopped growing.

Steamfali birds - The monstrous birds sworn by God the monstrous birds with copper beaks, claws and feathers, which they could pour on the ground as arrows. Hurried people and harvest. Partially exterminated, partially driven by Hercules during his third feat.

Kerineskaya Lan - Lan with gold horns and copper legs, never knew fatigue. It was sent as a punishment by the people of Goddess Artemida to the ancient Greek region Arkady, where he was worn around the fields, devastating crops. I caught Hercules during the fourth feat. The hero has pursued Lan for a whole year and overtaking it far in the north, at the origins of Istra (Danube).

Eriman Kaban. "A huge vaccine, who lived in Arkady, on Mount Ehriman, and was horrified to the entire district. The fifth feat of Hercules was that he drove this boar into deep snow. When Kaban is stuck there, Hercules tied it and taken to the king Euryfia.

Hercules and Erimanf Caban. Statue of L. Tiayon, 1904

Koni Diomeda - The mare of the Thracian king Diomeda was fed by human meat and were chained to stalls with iron chains, because no other junctions could hold them. During his eighth attack, Hercules took possession of these monstrous hors, but they were confronted with his companion, Abder.

Gerion - Giant with Eraphia Island located on the western edge. He had three torso, three heads, six hands and six legs. Making his tenth feat, Hercules reached the Eraphy on the Golden Chelny of the Solar God of Helios and entered into a battle with Gerion, which is immediately three spears at him. Hercules killed a giant and belonging to him a two-headed ORFA PSA, after which the magic cows of Gerion in Greece hijacked.

Periphet - In the ancient Greek mythology, Khroma Giant, son of God Hephasta. He dwells in the mountains near the cities of the epidaur and sober and killed all the passing travelers with an iron pan. Killed by the hero of the Teshem, which since then everywhere wearing a parcel of the periphet, like Hercules the skin of the Nemoye Lion.

Sinide - The fierce robber-Giant who killed the people encountered, tie them to two bent pines, which then let go. Pines, straightening, ruptured unfortunate. Killed by the hero of the Teshem.

Skiron. - The robber-Giant, who lived on the edge of one of the rocks of the Greek Ist. Forced passersby to wash my legs. As soon as the traveler was inclined to do this, Skiron's shouting feet dropped him from the rocks in the sea. The bodies of the victims devoured a giant turtle. Skiron was killed by the Teshem.

Kerkion. - The monstrous giant, called the Tereus to the wrestling duel. Teskey strangled his hands on the weight as the once Hercules Antea.

Procrustes ("Exhaust") - (Other name - Damast) Fierce villain, who laid the people who came to him into his beds. If the bed was briefly, the scroll cut the unfortunate legs, and if it was long - pulled it up to the desired size. Killed by the Teshem. The expression "procrusteo bed" became nominal.

Minotaur - Son born in the wife of the Cretan King Minosa, Pacific, from unnatural passion to the bull. Minotaur was a monster with a human body and a bullish head. Minos kept him in a labyrinte, which was built by the grand master Dedal in the capital of Crete, Knos. The Minotaur was a cannibal and fed on criminals sentenced to death, as well as young men and girls who sent to Crete from Athens in the form of Dani. The Teshem killed: he voluntarily drove to Minos, among the doomed "Dannikov", killed Minos in a labyrinth, and then safely came out of this confusing structure with the help of the Minotaur, Ariadna's sisters, and her threads.

Testa kills a minotaurus. Drawing on an ancient Greek vase

Lestigons - In the ancient Greek myths, the tribe of the giant-cannibals, who inhabited on one of the islands, by whom he sailed Odyssey. The seeds of the seaflores ledranigons were riveted on the stakes, like fish, and were carried out to be rejected, and their ships were broken, throwing huge stones from cliffs.

Pick (Romans Circey) - the daughter of the sunny God Helios, the sister of the evil king of Kolkhida Eeta, who had a golden fleece argonauts. The evil sorcerer, who lived on the island of Ee. Heated travelers in his home, treated them with tasty disassembly with an admixture of magical potion. This potion turned people in animals (most often in pigs). Having visited Odyssey from Kirki from her witchcraft with the help of a "moth" flower received from God Hermes. Odyssey entered into a love relationship with Kirk, and she had three sons from him.

Kirka stretches the Odyssey bowl with a witchcrop. Picture of J. U. Waterhaus

Chimera ("Young goat") - in ancient Greek mythology, the monster with his head and the neck of a lion, the body of the goat and a snake tail. Killed by the hero of Bellerofut.

Styx (From the general-European root of the "Footage", "Horror") - the personification of primitive horror and the darkness and goddess of the same name river in the underground kingdom of Aida. It dwells in the extreme West, in the monastery of the night. Lives in a luxurious palace, whose silver columns rest in the sky.

Charon - In the ancient Greeks, the carrier of the souls of the dead across the Stix River. The gloomy elder in rags, with feverishly looking eyes. The name is sometimes translated as "possessing a sharp look."

Python (from the word "grogging") - the terrible dragon, who owned in ancient times the Delphic sanctuary. The ponyph, like Typhon, was the son of gay. The ponyphone wrapped the surroundings of Delph family or nine rings of his long body. God Apollo joined the fight with him and killed the Pyfhon, releaseing 100 (according to other ancient Greek myths - 1000) arrows. After that, the Delphian sanctuary became the temple of Apollo. By the name of the Pyfhon, his appearance was named - Pythia.

Giants - Sons of gay earth. 150 terrible monsters with dragon tails instead of legs and human bodies. The giants were covered with thick hair and had long beards. Gay gave birth to them either from the blood drops of the sliced \u200b\u200bgenital organ of uranium, or from the seed of Tartara, whether herself in itself, having accepted that

Lake Kelpi and other mythical monsters

Today, the film screens flooded zombies, gourdalaks, vampires and other monsters. But in fact, terrible creatures are not always the production of a fantasy of modern scenarios and director. In the ancient myths and in folklore, there are more terrible entities, however, many of them are not such rapid, as the screens that have been on the screens.

Blems have no head

Blemma - pretty ancient creatures. For the first time, the mention of them appeared in the ancient Greeks and Romans. Physically they are very similar to ordinary people For one significant difference - the Blems have no head. Mouths, eyes and noses are on their chest. According to ancient sources (for example, Plinles wrote about the brooms), these creatures were quite widespread throughout North Africa and the Middle East. In later literature, Blemmeni also described how cannibals.

2. Sifna

Gorgon Sifna

Sfen - Monster from Greek mythology. Much more people know her sister jellyfish. The famous Gorgon was younger from the family, she had 2 senior sisters - Eurial and Sifna.

Like her sisters, Splens had long sharp fangs and red snakes instead of hair. Stories tell me that Sifna was the fierce and bloodthirsty of the family, she killed more men than both her sisters, taken together.

3. Chitozama-Kodozo

Looks like a little bald baby

In Japanese myths, there is a multitude of supernatural monsters, which are usually called Ekai. One of the varieties of Ykai - Hitotzuma Coduseo, which is something like a cyclopa: it has only one giant eye in the middle of the face. Nevertheless, Chitozama Kodzo is even more terrible than cyclops, because it looks like a small bald child.

4. Mananangal

Ugly woman without the bottom of the body, but with gigantic wings

This disgusting creature comes from the Philippines. It has some common features with a vampire, although Mananangal is more repulcing, both in appearance and behavior. Mananangal is usually depicted as a very ugly woman who can tear off her lower body, grow giant wings and fly at night. Mananangals have long trumps at the site of the language they use to suck the blood from sleeping people. Most of all, they love pregnant women, and if more specifically, to suck the heart of their fetus.

Those who face Mananangal, it is worth avoiding flying torso and try to sprinkle with garlic and salt separated by the bottom of the body of this creature - it will kill it.

5. Kelpi.

Lake Monster

One of the most famous monsters in Celtic mythology, Kelpi - a creature, which looks like a horse and is found in the lake of Scotland. Kelpi love to lure people, trample them in the lakes, drag into their lair and eat.

One of the distinguishing features of Kelpi is their ability to turn from a horse in humans. Most often they take the appearance of an attractive man who lures the victims in their berry. Much less often, Kelpi appears in the form of a beautiful woman. According to legend, one of the ways to identify Kelpi in human form are their hair, which is constantly wet and full of algae. In some stories, it is also said that Kelpi retain hooves even in human form.

6. Streigoy

Monster of the Thai mythology

Streigoes that are similar to the more famous poltergeists are among the most ancient creatures in this list. They belong to the Thai mythology and later were adopted by Romanian culture. These are evil spirits that resurrected from the dead and try to resume the normal life they led once. But at the same time, the existence of Strigoi drink the essence of life from his relatives. They are like their own actions on vampires.

There is no doubt that people in Eastern Europe were fatally afraid of Streigayev. What is noteworthy, this faith has been preserved and understood, especially in rural areas of Romania. Just 10 years ago, relatives of the dear recently dug his corpse and burned the heart, because they believed that the deceased turned into Strigoy.

7. Yogoormo

Giant spider-eater

Surely no one would have refused if he was seduced by the most beautiful woman in the world, after which he led him to her home. At first, such a man would feel the happiest man, but this opinion would certainly change shortly when this beautiful woman would show their true essence - a giant man's giant spider. Another Japanese monster from the genus Yokai - Yozhormo. This is a giant spider that can turn into a beautiful woman to lure prey. After Yozhormo masters man, he wraps him into a silk cobweb, he injected poison, and then devouring prey.

8. Black Annice

Witch from English folklore

Also known as black Agnes, this witch is a traditional character in English folklore. Some believe that her roots can be traced much further - to Celtic or German mythology. Black Annice has a disgusting blue face and iron claws, and she also likes to eat people, especially young children. Her favorite occupation is to wander around the ravines at night, in search of anyone unsuspecting children, abduct them, drain them into their cave, after which it is to prepare children for dinner. After Annice feeds the children, she makes clothes from their skin.

9. Lesy

Spirit of the Forest in Slavs

Lessel - the spirit of forests and parks in many Slavic cultures. In fact, he is a defender of the forest. Leshel friendly with animals, which he can call for help and dislikes people, although, in some cases, farmers manage to make friends with the leishers. In this case, they protect people's crops and can even teach them magic.

Physically, the gestures are described as high people with hair and a beard from a vine and grass. Nevertheless, they are also averse to change in size: from the highest tree in the forest to the smallest blasting. They can even turn into ordinary people. At the same time, the ledges can give glowing eyes and shoes, dressed as a backward.

Lessel are not an evil creature at all, rather, they are deceivers and love mischief. For example, they love to confuse people in the forest, and sometimes to lure people into their caves, imitating the voices of their loved ones (after that, who have lost themselves to rocked to death).

10. Domova

Keeper of the house of Slavs

In Slavic mythology it is believed that each house has its own house. Usually it is described as a small bearded with her hair. He considers himself a keeper at home and not necessarily evil. His actions are fully dependent on the behavior of the inhabitants. The house is angry with people who neglect their home and who swear. And those who behave well and take care of the house, the houses imperceptibly helps with homemade troubles. He also likes to watch sleeping people.

It is not worth angry with the house, because he begins to take revenge to people. First, the houses will be held in the house, the plates will fight and disappear things. And if the houses finally bring, he can kill people in their own bed.

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Looking at many non-accurate, teenage and friendly vampire characters, which are presented in modern books and films, it is easy to forget that vampires were initially completely different and much, oh, much more terrible.

The world is full of legends and fairy tales of mythical monsters, mysterious beings and incredible beasts. Some of these mandes were inspired by real animals or found fossils, while others are a symbolic expression of the most tray fears of people.

For several centuries ago, our ancestors trembled and came terrified with one mention of the name of monsters, which is completely not surprising, considering what nightmare could be their mythology.

In this small review, it will be only about the 20 most terrible, and sometimes strange monsters - vampires, the monstrous beings and other undead, which even according to the standards of our ancestors were one of the most terrible and disgusting creatures in the world.

Callicançar

Callicançaro holds most of the year in the underworld (which is unknown where it is located) and appears only for a period consisting of 12 nights between Merry Christmas and the Epiphany, because he knows - in these holidays, people are too drunk to escape. Despite the fact that one kind of his black distorted person, red eyes and mouth filled with fangs is sufficient to exile a festive mood from any person, Callicancano is not content with the fact that he deprives all fun. The monster breaks into parts of any one counter with its long claws, and then lies with a confused body.

According to Greek legends, any child born between Merry Christmas and Epiphany will eventually become a chalikancano. Scary, right? But parents do not fear, so CAS exists a medicine. All you need to do is housing the legs of a newborn over the fire until his nails fall on the legs, such a procedure should remove the curse.

But what would it be for the holidays without reunification of the family! It is touching that Callicançaro remembers his family since he was man, and, as you know, looking forward to searching for his former brothers and sisters. But only to devour them when finally detects.

Sokukyanka

The cochonate in the Mythology of the Caribbean Islands is a type of iswolf, which belongs to the class "Jambi", local disembodied spirits. During the day, Jombi-Sokukyanka looks like a weak old woman, and at night this creature drops its skin, puts it in the stue with a special solution and, turning into a fiery flying ball, goes to search for the victim. The cochonate sucks at night wanderers, and then swallows her from demons to mystical power.

Like the European myths about vampires, if the victim survives, then it becomes the same cochon. To kill a monster, you need to pour salt into the solution in which its skin lies, after which a terrible creature will die at dawn, as it will not be able to "wear" the skin back.

Penanggang

It is possible that the creature we describe in this point is the most disgusting of the entire list!

Penangangalan is a nightmare monster who looks like a woman. However, at night, he "removes" his head and flies in search of victims, while the spine and all the internal organs of Penanglean hang out from his neck. And this is really a real Malaysian legend, and not the fiction of modern cinematographers!

The internal organs of monsters are glowing in the dark and can be used as a tentacles to clear the road of Penanggalan. In addition, the creature can grow hair at will, so that they have enough victim.

When Penangagalan notices a suitable house, he is trying to penetrate inside. In case of good luck, the monster devours all young children in the house. If there is no way into the house, the mystical creature stretches its incredibly long tongue under the house and through the cracks in the floor is trying to get to sleeping inhabitants. If Penanggang's tongue gets to the bedroom, he dugs into the body and sucks the blood of the victim.

Under Morning Penanggang soaked its insides in vinegar so that they decrease in size and again could fit into his body.

Kelpi

Kelpi - Water Spirit, which lives in rivers and lakes of Scotland. Although Kelpy usually appears in the form of a horse, he can also take the form of a person. Often Kelpi lure people to allegedly ride them on his back, after which they drag victims under the water and devour them. Nevertheless, stories about the evil water horse also served as an excellent warning to children so that they stayed away from water, as well as women to fear beautiful strangers.

Ghoul

Ghoul may look just like an ordinary Russian man. He may even have the ability to walk in broad daylight as a Russian man. Nevertheless, he is not Russian. For his harmless facade, a vicious vampire is hidden, which will be happy to refuse all vodka in the world, if he will give at least one blood drop for it. Moreover, his love for blood is so great that, after he breaks you with his metal teeth, he can simply eat your heart for fun.

The scream also loves children (although, as you have already guessed, not parental love), preferring the taste of their blood, and always drinking their blood before proceeding to the drainage of their parents. He is also not contracted to the taste of frozen mud, because according to legends he uses his metal teeth to sprinkle his way from his grave in in the winter, when his hands freeze due to poor insulation in the coffin.

Basilisk

Vasilisk, as a rule, is described as a crested snake, although sometimes there are descriptions of a rooster with a snake tail. This creature can kill birds with fiery breathing, people with a look, and other living beings with ordinary hiss. Legends say that Vasilisk is born from a serpentine or a stuffy egg that was climbing with a rooster. The word "Vasilisk" translates from Greek as "Little King", so this creature is often called the "snake king". At the time of the Middle Ages, Vasilisk were accused of the emergence of epidemics of the plague and in mysterious murders.

Asasabonsam

Most likely, you know the old urban legend about a man-hook (Hook Man). So, as it turned out, representatives of the people of Ashanti in Ghana tell a similar (although much more terrible) story about Asasabonsame, a strange vampire with curved iron hooks instead of the legs, which lives in the depths of African forests. He hunts, hanging from the branches of trees and giving up the aforementioned hooks into the body of those unfortunate that pass under this tree. As soon as he lists you on a tree, he devours you to your iron teeth, and then presumably spends most of the night, pulling the stains of your blood from my hooks so that they do not rust.

Unlike most vampires, it is powered by both people and animals (so someone should warn the organization "People for Ethical Animal Treatment" (PETA)). The strangest fact about Asasabonsame is that when his prey is a person, he first wondering his thumb, before proceeding to the rest of the body, maybe in order to prevent you from stopping the travelers and get home if you are like It will be possible to escape from its hooks.

Asmtere

Asmodein is a Demon Demon, which is mainly known thanks to the book Tovita (the Secondary Book of the Old Testament). He pursues a woman named Sarah and kills the seven of her husbands from jealousy. In Talmud, the Asmodem is mentioned as the Prince of Demons, which expelled the king of Solomon from his kingdom. Some folklorists believe that Asmodein is the son of Lilith and Adam. The legend says that it is he who is responsible for the perversion of people's desires.

Varacolach

Varacolac (s) is perhaps the most powerful of all vampires, so it is not clear at all that it is known for him very little besides the fact that he has a complex name (seriously, try to pronounce it out loud). According to legend, his skin is the most terrible nightmare of the dermatologist - it is terribly pale and dry, and no number of body lotion can cure it, but otherwise he looks like an ordinary person.

Oddly enough, such a frightening creature as Romanian Varacolac has only one supersila, but what! He can absorb the sun and the moon (in other words, he may, if desired, to cause sunny and lunar eclipses), which in itself is the most steep of all the tricks. However, to do this, he must fall asleep, because, apparently, the calling of astrological phenomena, which can scare us and today, and which must have inspired terrible horror to people more primitive cultures, take a huge amount of its energy.

Yoroguo

In Japanese myths, there is perhaps more bizarre cryptozoological beings than found in all seasons of "secret materials". One of the most bizarre is yogoormo or "Bludnica" - a spider-shaped monster of the Yokai family (goblin-like creatures). The legend of Yogolamo arose during the Edo period in Japan. It is believed that when the spider reaches the age of 400 years, he gains magical power. In most legends, the spider turns into a beautiful woman, seduces men and lures them to her home, plays them on Bive (Japanese Little), and then excavers their networks from the web and devour.

Upire

In the Russian gloa (see above) there is a nightmare Polish cousin named White, who is famous for being even more bloodthirsty. Moreover, his thirst for blood is so strong and incomplete, which in addition to the use of huge amounts inwards, the Upiere loves to swim in it and sleep. His body is filled with such a large amount of blood that if you are stuck in it, it will explode a huge geyser of blood, worthy of the scene at the elevator from the film "The Shining".

He gives him a special pleasure to suck the blood of friends and family members who were the roads to him at His human life, so if someone from your friends or relatives recently turned into a whirlwind, you should know that, most likely you are already recorded as a dish in his menu. When he finally finds you, he immobilizes you with a powerful hug (a kind of farewell bearish hug), and then hesitated his tongue, covered with spikes, in your neck and sucks all the blood from you to the last drop.

Black Annice

A ghostly witch from the English folklore, Black Annice - an old woman with a blue face and iron claws, which pursued the peasants in Leicestershire. The legend says that she lives in a cave in Dane Hills, and at night she wanders in search of children to devour them. If Black Annice catches the child, then she smelts his skin, and then wears her, wrapped around the waist. Needless to say, the parents scared the black Annice of their children, when they behaved well.

Nowriter

Attention! If you are hypochondriac in character, then you may be better not to read about this monster!

This is a walking biological weapon of mass destruction, which makes one thing, and only one thing - it carries death wherever comes. The fault inhabitants lives in the myths of Germany and is a carrier of the endless amount of terrible species of plague and fatal diseases, which he spreads around him like candy, in any city he is not, infecting everyone and everything that turns out on his way. Therefore, it is not surprising that according to legend it appears only during mass and terrible epidemics.

The Body of the Noctoter is covered with open ulcers and wounds, of which the pus is constantly soooed, and which, most likely, play an important role in the spread of deadly bacteria (if reading this proposal caused an insurmountable desire to redeem in the disinfecting substance, then you are not alone) . His successfully selected German name literally translates as the "killer of nine", and is a reference to the fact that for the complete transformation of the corpse in the Nontotener should go nine days.

Nabau

In 2009, on two aerial photographs made by researchers on Borneo, Indonesia, a 30-meter snake was seen floating along the river. There are still disputes regarding the reliability of this photo, as well as on whether they are actually captured by a snake. Some argue that this is a log or big boat. Nevertheless, the locals living along the Balch River insist that this is a creature - Nabau, an ancient dragon-like monster from Indonesian folklore.

According to the legends, the length of Nabau exceeds 30 meters, he has a head with seven nostrils and it can take the appearance of several different animals.

Yara Ma-yha-Hu

Grab up for your Diderid, so that the creature is truly strange. The legends of Australian Aboriginals describe Yara-Ma-yha-Hu as a human-like creature in 125 centimeters, with red leather and a huge head. Most of his time Yara-Ma-yha-Hu spends on the trees. If you are not lucky enough to go under such a tree, Yara Ma-yha-Hu jumps to you and attaches to your body with small suckers that cover your hands and legs, so no matter how much you try, you will not be able to shake

Next - worse. Yara Ma-yha-Hu got into this list primarily due to the peculiarities of its feeding method. Due to the fact that he does not have any fangs, he sucks your blood through suction cups on his hands and legs until you weaken to such an extent that you can't run anywhere or even move. After that, he leaves you lying on the ground as a thrown, half-empty jar from under the juice, while he himself goes, apparently, having fun with Kangaroo and Koalami.

When he returns after his evening of entertainment, he turns to business and swallows you entirely with the help of his huge mouth, then after some time, he repeals you still alive and unharmed (yes, it is a vampire with vomit calls). This process is repeated again and again, and with each time you become less and more and more red as a result of what he digested you. In the end, yes, yes, you guess, you yourself turn into Yara-Ma-yha-Hu. That's how yes!

Dullahan

Most people are familiar with the story of Washington Irving "Legend of Sleeping Hurry" and the story about the rider without a head. Irish Dullakhan or "Dark Man" - essentially the predecessor of the ghost of the beheaded Hessian soldier who pursued Icaboda Crane. In the Celtic mythology, Dullakhan is a harbinger of death. He rides a big black horse with flaming eyes and carries his head under his arm.

Some stories say that Dullakhan shouts the name of the person who must die while others say that he notes this man, pouring a bucket of blood on him. Like many monsters and mythical creatures, Dullakhan has one weakness: Gold.

NELAPSI

This time the Czechs came up with something truly disgusting. Nelpsy is a walking corpse that does not care about throwing clothes on himself, so he goes hunting what mother gave birth. Lack of clothing in combination with burning red eyes, long dirty black hair and teeth thin as needles is sufficient to make you leave the light burning overnight, but unfortunately, this is only the Aisberg's top.

In fact, Nelpsie with ease can be defeated in the competition on the most powerful and exorbitantly evil from all vampires. He can destroy whole villages at once, and as the guy who is forbidden to approach the buffet, it does not stop until the morning, no matter how much he has already eaten overnight. He is not at all cautious eater and feed on a cattle, as well as people, and kills his victims or tearing their teeth into pieces or crushing them with his "arms of death" which is so powerful that he may easily crush the bones. However, if he is given such an opportunity, he will try to leave you alive so long as possible and pleasure to try his victims for weeks before killing them (because in order to be called a real villain, you need to torture people for weeks ). However, even this is not all. If Nelpsy for some reason leaves exhausted people alive (it is very unlikely, as you already guessed), they quickly reduce the deadly festive plague in the style of the Nontotera, which will follow the surviving person, wherever he goes.

Finally, if all of the above seems not enough terrifying - Nelpsi can also kill people just looking at them. One of his favorite pastimes is the game "I am a spy of you with one eye" from the tops of church spiers, which is why anyone who falls the look of Nelpsy, dies on the spot. Perhaps we moved with the mentions of how evil is Nelpsi, but it is such a scoundrel that it is impossible not to emphasize this once again.

Goblins "Red Caps"

Evil goblins in the red caps live on the border between England and Scotland. According to legends, they usually live in destroyed castles and kill the lost travelers, throwing boulders from the rocks on them. Then the goblins paint the cap with the blood of their victims. The red caps are forced to kill as often as possible, because if the blood dries on their caps, they die.

Evil creatures are usually depicted as old men with red eyes, big teeth, claws and with a staff in hand. They are faster and stronger than people. The legend says that the only way to escape from such a goblin is to squeeze the quotation from the Bible.

Manticor

This is a fabulous creature similar to the Sphinx. He has a body of red lion, a human head with 3 rows of sharp teeth and a very loud voice, a dragon tail or scorpion. Manticor shoots poisoned needles sacrificing and then eats it entirely, not leaving anything. From a long distance, it can often be confused with a bearded man. Most likely, it will be the last victim error.

Indian vampire Brahmaparusha

Brahmaparush is a vampire, but he is not at all chapened. These evil spirits, which are narrated in Hindu mythology, are experiencing a passion for human brains. Unlike courteous vampires who live in Romania, Brahmapared - a grotesque creature that the intestines wears their victims on the neck and on the head. He also carries with him a human skull and when he kills a new sacrifice, then her blood merges into this skull and drinks out of it.

In fact, truly nightmarish monsters, humanity was added for his story (and continues to invent!) Not two unfortunate dozen. Just in our selection of 20 monsters. But there is also a nasty Japanese Spirit of Umibozu, the American Forest Haydbaene people's forest hunter, a relative of the famous and no less terrible Vendigo, a huge cat Bowankeco, an incredibly fast cannibal Vendigo, Scandinavian Support Undead Draghre, the oldest Babylonian thiamat and many-many others!

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