MYTHICAL CREATURES

In this blogg we are discussing about mythical creatures . Some creatures are we saw in some hollywood movies like Narnia and Clash of titans like . Actually we dont know really they are lived in our earth . Some creatures are very diffrent from human beign . Lets know deatailed view of some mythical creatures .

CENTAURS

A centaur is half horse and half man , with the head and arms of a man and the body of a horse . It is one of the best known of all greek mythological creatures and is said to have come from Thessaly in northern Greece . The myth may have arisen because of the skilful horsemanship of the people there .

DRAGONS

We heard this word dragon . We saw dragons in some chinese  movies . Dragons appear in the myths of many cultures especially in China , where the dragon was a symbol of the emperor . A typical dragon has a serpent like body covered with scales , large wings  and can breathe  fire . In legends dragons often guard a cave of treasure .

FAIRIES

Fairies also feature in many tales . They are usually sweet , kindly creatures . In the middle ages , however people believed that fairies stole children and replaced them with fairy beings known as changelings .

GIANTS

Giants or ogres are enormous human shaped creatures . They are usually seen as fearsome but stupid monsters that feed on human flesh . Famous giant include Goliath in the bible and Cyclops , Atlas and the Titans in Greek mythology .

LEPRECHAUNS

Leprechauns are small irish fairies who bring good luck . They are helpful creatures usually shown wearing green cloths with an apron buckled shoes and a red cap . Their fun loving nature means that leprechauns are fond of alcohol music and sports but they are also mischievous and love practical jokes . Other little people including dwarfs , elves , gnomes and pixies appear in many European fairy stories .

MERMAID

Mermaids are beautiful creatures with the head and body of a woman and the tail of a fish . The first mermaid legend is thought to have been the story of Atargatis , a syrian moon goddess of about 1000 BC . Atargatis had a child with a human . She then killed her lover abandoned the child and jumped into a lake , where she took the form of mermaid .

TROLLS

Trolls are grotesque malicious and rather dim witted creatures in Scandinavian folklore . They are said to steel sleeping children sometimes replacing them with one of their own . Trolls have poor eyesight and are active only at night because sunlight turns them to stone .

UNICORNS

A unicorn has the body of a horse a lions tail a goat beared an antelopes legs and a single often twisted horn growing from its forehead . The unicorn is a popular subject in medieval stories . It is ferocious but good and can purify water or neutralize poison by dipping its horn into it . The way to catch a unicorn is to use a young girl as bait as a unicorn will lie down peacefully next to a maiden .

VAMPIRES

Vampires are the "undead" who drink the blood of the living to survive . Ideas about vampires include the belief that plunging a wooden stake through a vampires heart can destroy it . Some people also think that you can protect youself against vampires with garlic , holy water , crosses and bibles and that a vampire cannot enter a home unless invited .

WEREWOLVES

Werewolves or Lycanthropes are mythical creatures in the folk tales of many cultures . They usually appear as men by day , but may turn into wolves on the night of a full moon . The werewolf is bloodthirsty and ruthless . It devours its prey and shows none of the remorse that it might have felt in human form .   

Almost every culture on earth has legends of imaginary beasts . Some are like humans with supernatural powers and some are part of humans and some are animals . I think you are like this content .