As well as the usual, such as unicorns, pixies, and the likes, what is your favorite mythological creature?
2006-11-17 15:09:48 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Creatures of myth, fable or legend. Sorry, but, King Kong is 20th century liteature and movies.
2006-11-17 15:48:34 · update #1
The Vetala!
A vetala is a vampire-like being from Hindu mythology.The vetala are defined as spirits inhabiting corpses. These corpses may be used as vehicles for movement (as they no longer decay while so inhabited), but a vetala may also leave the body at will.
In Hindu folklore, the vetala is an evil spirit who haunts cemeteries and takes demonic possession of corpses. They make their displeasure known by troubling humans. They can drive people mad, kill children and cause miscarriages but they also guard their villages.
The vetala, like the bat, is associated with hanging upside down on trees found in cremation grounds and cemetaries
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The vetala, like the bat, is associated with hanging upside down on trees found in cremation grounds and cemetaries
They are hostile spirits of the dead trapped in the twilight zone between life and after-life. These creatures can be repelled by the chanting of holy mantras. One can free them from their ghostly existence by performing their funerary rites. Being spirits, unaffected by the laws of space and time, they have an uncanny knowledge about the past, present and future and a deep insight into human nature. Hence, many sorcerers seek to capture them and turn them into slaves.
A sorcerer once asked King Vikramaditya to capture a vetala who lived in a tree that stood in the middle of a crematorium. The only way to do that was by keeping silent.
However, every time Vikramaditya caught the vetala, the vetala would enchant the king with a story that would end with a question. No matter how hard he tried, Vikramaditya would not be able to resist answering the question. This would enable the vetala to escape and return to his tree. The stories of the vetala have been compiled in the book Baital Pachisi.
There is also a strong Vetala cult in the Konkan region, under the names of Betal, Vetal, etc. It seems, however, that the relation between the literay Vetala and this demigod's is feeble at best.
2006-11-17 15:18:01 · answer #1 · answered by Vetala 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, this is a tough one!
Ummm, Sasquatches??? Yeah, them!
However, I have always been in awe of Nessy! I have known many a Unicorn! Never met a pixie but have tasted many a pixie-stix!
So, I guess I am my own favorite. While many think us a myth, we are real! Just check out the latest news fron Southern Wisconsin! Yeah, that was me! Twice in 10 days! And yet, no one got a picture of me, the most handsome of all Sasquatches!
I will hang around WI and IL for a few more weeks!
Blessings!
The Ol' Sasquatch Ü
2006-11-17 15:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by Ol' Sasquatch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Unicorn
2006-11-17 22:13:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sister says Pegasus, and unicorn, I say pixies but were just girls, P.S. Draco the dragon, so I guess dragons too, To sum it all up we dont have a favorite, we have a bunch of favorites!
2006-11-18 07:58:22 · answer #4 · answered by eaglewolf367 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phoenix and dragons. Although, technically dragons did exsist. There was a dinosaur with wings, a flying reptile. What are dragons? Flying reptiles. Tada! Masti- fire breathing dragons are just made up story's. There not the actual dragons.
2016-05-22 00:10:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything pertaining to Native American Spirituality especially Buffalo Calf Woman, Sky Woman, Thunder Beings.
2006-11-18 05:00:45 · answer #6 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unicorn. Just a beautiful looking horse.
2006-11-17 15:13:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Griffin
2006-11-17 18:24:58 · answer #8 · answered by swolfshields 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anne Rice's Description on vampires.
2006-11-18 05:25:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a great fan of mythology and I can't possibly only name one creature. I simply love it all.
2006-11-17 16:20:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋