The world seemed to our ancestors a very scary place. How else to explain that the myths, tales and legends created by them are filled with terrible monsters who are just waiting for the opportunity to pounce on a person and do something monstrous to him. We will talk about the most terrible mythological monsters.
Pisach
An Indian relative of a vampire who feeds on human flesh and is even rumored to rape drunk women. He is born from human black deeds and feelings from anger to cruel crimes. His blood is poisonous and infects people with leprosy. If you want to wrestle with a scribe, look for him in cemeteries or deserted intersections and grab more holy water. But keep in mind: as soon as it dries, the scribe will rise again.
Cyclops
A huge one-eyed monster from Greek myths that devours people. Cyclops are the oldest creatures, children of Gaia and Uranus. The most famous of them, Polyphemus, was blinded by Odysseus when he wanted to devour him and his companions. According to legend, Polyphemus himself had previously killed the young man Asis because he was preferred by the nymph Galatea, with whom the Cyclops was in love. The elder cyclops Arg, Bront and Sterop are the gods of storms who helped Zeus in his fight against the titans. It was they who forged thunder and lightning to Zeus, with which he strikes the rebellious.
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Nukelawi
This half-human, half-horse is nothing like the cute centaurs. He is a product of Irish legends. According to legend, his homeland is the Orkney Islands. He wanders the Irish lands, killing all life and drying up the fields with his breath. It is possible to escape from it only in the river: the Nukelawi is not able to exist in running water. In Ireland, they are terribly afraid of him and still do not use his name without a protective prayer.
Vetala
Vetala is an Indian ghost vampire stuck between the world of the dead and the world of the living. Most often, the relatives of the deceased are to blame for this, who did not conduct the correct funeral rituals. They are able to move into corpses and revive them, turning into a kind of zombie. However, the vetala can be cajoled with gifts or completely expelled from the face of the earth, having completed the necessary funeral rite.
Black Shaq
Black Shack is a ghostly dog from English legends, wandering, according to legend, in the eastern part of England. According to eyewitness accounts, he is as huge as a car, and his eyes glow with green or red fire. According to legend, in 1577, the Black Shak burst into the village church, killed two people, brought down the bell tower and ran out, leaving marks of claws on the church door, which local residents still show curious people.
Jellyfish
A creature from Greek myths, one of the Gorgon sisters with snake hair. Her feature was a terrible look: anyone who looked into her eyes turned to stone. Even the Gorgon sisters, Sfeno and Euryale, did not dare to look their sister in the eyes. According to legend, Medusa was once a beautiful servant of the temple, however, she broke her vow of preserving her virginity, falling in love with Poseidon and was punished by the gods, who turned her into a monster.
Abaddon
Abaddon is a fallen angel from the Revelation of John the Theologian, the king of the abyss, leading the hordes of demons that will burst to earth at the end of time. Abaddon has a scorpion tail that ends in a venomous sting. With it he stings everyone who does not have God's seal on his forehead. The Angel of Hell appears in many of his later artworks, personifying death and destruction.
El Chupacabra
El Chupacabra is a mystical creature, a mysterious wolf-vampire, rumors of which swept across Central America in 1995. El Chupacabra devours livestock and drinks its blood, but will not regret a person on occasion. As eyewitnesses say, the Chupacabra is a creature with a jackal's head, a reptile's body and huge fangs. In recent years, it appears to have spread Chuaacabra seen everywhere from Russia to the Philippines.
Black Ennis
British kids know well: if they disobey their parents, become too independent and run away from home, they will be stolen by black Ennis. According to legend, this witch lives in a cave and, lying in wait for careless children, steals them. Then Ennis cooks and eats them, and sews clothes for herself from baby skin. In some places in England, children are still afraid of Black Ennis, and for good reason.
Dybbuk
In Judaism, Dibbuk is a spirit caught between the world of the dead and the world of the living and settling into human bodies. To survive, he needs a shell, and, although theoretically Dybbuk can inhabit even a plant, even an animal, because of his own evil inclinations, he prefers to take over the bodies of people. The person in whom Dibbuk possessed must be subjected to a difficult and cruel rite of exorcism.
Minotaur
Minotaur is an ancient Greek monster with a human body and a bull's head. The Minotaur was the son of the Cretan queen Pasiphae and the bull, for whom she had a criminal passion. It is not surprising that the Minotaur after that felt hatred for everything human and tore every person he met to shreds. To get rid of danger, the Cretan king Minos built a labyrinth in which he imprisoned the monster. Greek captives were regularly delivered to him as sacrifices, and these bloody sacrifices ended only after the Minotaur was killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.
Incubi and succubi
An incubus is a creature from medieval legends, a demon that takes the form of a handsome man and seduces women at night, penetrating into their bedrooms. A child born from such a bond will also be a demon. The succubus is the same creature of demonic nature, but with a feminine essence, taking the form of a seductive beauty, the succubus seduces men and sucks life out of them during sex.
Genie
The djinn from Arab legends are by no means funny old Hottabychs, but monstrous giants who create chaos on Earth. According to the Qur'an, the jinn are demons that Allah created from a smokeless flame. However, they do not necessarily appear in the form of a fiery mass, they can be invisible to people, take the form of any living being. In addition, jinn are invulnerable to any human weapon.
Hydra
According to ancient Greek legends, the hydra is a giant multi-headed snake that lives in the Lernaean swamps and devours livestock and people. It is not easy to kill her: after all, as soon as one head is cut off, three new ones immediately grow in its place. Only Hercules was able to cope with it, who discovered that if you burn a stump of a neck with a torch, new heads immediately cease to appear.
Lemurs
No, we are not talking about Madagascar funny animals! In ancient Roman mythology, lemurs are restless spirits of the dead, who did not find shelter in the next world, since the proper funeral ceremonies were not performed over them. They can move into people's homes and create chaos there. To avoid this, the Romans, standing on the doorstep, threw black beans over their shoulders, warding off lemurs. If the lemur did end up in the house, they tried to scare him away with noise, which, according to legend, the spirits fear more than anything else.
