Post your favorite mythological beings/creatures/cryptids in this thread. I'll go first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokele-mbembe

We don't have stuff like Bigfoot, but many whites conspiracy nuts from southern Africa were very hardcore into the belief of African veliciraptors or seismosaurs still being alive in the deepest darkest central African swamps of places like Angola and the Congo

Since the most infamous discovery of the Coelacanth living fossil

A lot of safricans myth hunters and archaeological r-slurs have launched many expeditions into places like Congo lakes to find supposed living fossils of raptors, river treading seismosaurs or Africa version of commodo dragons, based on ancient central African legends and myths of massive reptiles which had supposedly been hunted to extinction prior to colonialism started there

It should be noted however that Europeans have always taken these myths much more seriously than the black locals, as there have always been very seriously deadly animals in Congo to not need to invent fantasy monsters, like lions hippos and elephants

But the reason why there was any credibility of these central African mega reptiles was that the local inhabitants like the Congolese would so perfectly replicate the body structures of seismosaurs in their retellings, especially since many of Congolese had no awareness of the existence of dinosaurs or archaeology in general

Additionally reptiles (like most famous of these being the Mokele-mbembe) were very grounded mythic creates, instead of being fire breathing dragon fey shit from Ireland, instead they were just scary biological monsters

Llamhigyn Y Dwr

It's a welsh monster that has the body of a frog, but is large enough to eat sheep and children. Out of limbs, it only has webbed bat-like wings, and a reptilian tail with a poisonous stinger at the end. It is an ambush predator not unlike the crocodile, which lies motionless at the edges of swamps and lakes and leaps out at unsuspecting livestock that happens to pass by

I like it because it's absolutely dumb and has an even dumber name

legends say this cryptid still haunts rDrama til this very day!

You are supposed to ping me for every fearsome critters post.

As for favorites, right now I'm in a squonk mood.

Karasutengu (very dramapilled birdmen)

https://yokai.com/kotengu/

Unicorns

isn't it, but human?

The Wendigo

Should read the short story about it too.

bardfinn

My favorite is the kelpie because it's an absolutely r-slurred idea for a cryptid. For those unfamiliar, it's some sort of eldritch demon horse that appears as a normal horse and tempts and entices people (usually children) to go for a ride on its back. Once they're on, it jumps into the bog and drowns the riders, who have somehow magically become stuck to it.

I never liked horses so it's a very funny image to me that someone would come across a strange horse, loose in the wild, and would ever consider a fricking pony ride on that thing. How does a horse even tempt you to ride it?

More from wikipedia

The creature's nature was described by Walter Gregor, a folklorist and one of the first members of the Folklore Society,[21] as "useful", "hurtful", or seeking "human companionship";[22] in some cases, kelpies take their victims into the water, devour them, and throw the entrails to the water's edge.[23] In its equine form the kelpie is able to extend the length of its back to carry many riders together into the depths;[24] a common theme in the tales is of several children clambering onto the creature's back while one remains on the shore. Usually a little boy, he then pets the horse but his hand sticks to its neck. In some variations the lad cuts off his fingers or hand to free himself; he survives but the other children are carried off and drowned, with only some of their entrails being found later. Such a creature said to inhabit Glen Keltney in Perthshire is considered to be a kelpie by 20th-century folklorist Katharine Mary Briggs,[5] but a similar tale also set in Perthshire has an each uisge as the culprit and omits the embellishment of the young boy.[25] The lad does cut his finger off when the event takes place in Thurso, where a water kelpie is identified as the culprit.[26] The same tale set at Sunart in the Highlands gives a specific figure of nine children lost, of whom only the innards of one are recovered. The surviving boy is again saved by cutting off his finger, and the additional information is given that he had a Bible in his pocket. Gregorson Campbell considers the creature responsible to have been a water horse rather than a kelpie, and the tale "obviously a pious fraud to keep children from wandering on Sundays"

Artist's Impression

My favorite cryptic is Lappland Saluzzo

One of my fave is harpy(sexual reasons).

/h/spooky

A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland (gigabased and rare book btw)

Clurichaun are a type of fae in Ireland that haunt pubs, breweries and wine cellars He's a tiny fae that blesses you with good fortune when you leave out a pint or glass of drink for him Most people just think the clurichaun is a leprechaun on a drinking spree tho

White people r ebil

A selkie for a wife you say? That reminds me

The wendigo, but a local rendition which is basically a smoke monster that will take the shape of your worst fear then drag you away at high speeds, shredding you.

any kind of large bird

my favorite mythological creature is a woman with a peepee!

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