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Topic: Books
I need some help compiling a list of the most common/popular, European origin, fantasy creatures and beings.
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jace what about the creatures from harry potter?
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Road Master Anything specific?
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David Rachau Unicorn, goblin, troll, ogre, centaur, minotaur, cyclops, giant, fairy, pixie, gnome, red cap, griffin, gorgon, sea serpent, dragon, vampire, werewolf, siren, mermaid. Some may come from elsewhere, but exist in European mythologies. I'll think of more later.
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Road Master There are many that cross cultures/countries. Dragons being one of the most obvious. That's not a problem at all.
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Sunny Days Don’t forget polish creatures like the rusalki (vengeful water spirits kinda like sirens) the nymphs (lady’s who were blessed/cursed for being flirty) and their werewolves too… many polish “monsters” are spirits who died a specific way and turned into a monster that corresponds to how they died. Frivilous/head in the clouds=sky nymph. Drowned=water creature.. while usually these spirit monsters are the souls of bad people who weren’t allowed in heaven or hell so they turned into these monsters and lured people to their death some of them are good souls who chose to stay on earth until Gabriel comes and help people like the skarbnik who was a good miner who was heading to heaven but then asked to stay behind to watch over and help the other miners as a spirit. Sorry for the long post
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Road Master These will likely come much later. These types of things tend to be very region/country/culture specific and not well known outside of that. My plan is to start with fairly well-known and common fantasy creatures/beings (at least, to an American fantasy audience) then branch out from there. I will definitely add these to a list for later use when I start working on that region. Don't even worry about the long post. My favorite thing about this app is the discussions. So by all means, keep 'em comin. Thank you for your suggestions.
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Sunny Days That’s prob a good idea because local creatures along with more popular western culture monsters would be like two separate groups of monsters that the readers would gotta keep track of even with the polish myths explained, and I think you’re pretty smart to americanize/western civilizationin the myths so it’s notthat hard. Also yeah long posts are great cuz I love likewise for the talks and the discussions but whatever ai robot thing in charge of the books ainna good as humans :)
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Road Master Do you have any favorites or anything an American audience would recognize?
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Brian strong There is a book-European Mystical Creatures: Legends of an Old World.
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Road Master I tried Googling this. I got nothin.
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Brian strong My mistake. I googled European mystical creatures and found a blog of the aforementioned name. The blog is somewhat detailed with descriptions and sometimes illustrations of the mythical creatures that originated from each region.
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Road Master Ah.
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