once upon a nightmare - l.s.

Creatures and Warnings

THIS STORY IS BASED OFF OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and inspired by the show Once Upon A Time + The Harry Potter Series

The Alphabetical
List of Mythical Creatures

(You will need to know SOME of these for the book)

List of Mythical Creatures
A-C

Alicorn - The name for a winged unicorn.

Banshee - A spirit appearing as a frenzied old woman whose high
pitched shriek prophesied a death soon to come.

Basilisk - A legendary lizard who could kill a man with its stare.

Bigfoot - A type of Sasquatch native to North American forests.

Black Dog - An evil spirit dog that stalks city streets at night.

Black Eyed Beings - They take human form but have black, soulless eyes and emanate a sense of pure evil.

Bogeyman - A semi-corporeal being whose sole purpose is to scare children.

Bogle - A ghostly being whose purpose is to confuse and scare humans and other creatures.

Bray Road Beast - The nickname for a werewolf-like creature seen multiple times in Wisconsin.

Brownies - Small humanoid creatures wearing all brown clothing who sneak into homes at night to help with household chores.

Centaur - Half-men, half-horse creatures that ran wild and unruly.

Cerberus - The three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades.

Charybdis - The whirlpool on one side of the Strait of Messina that swallowed ships that came too close to it.

Chimera - Part-lion, part-goat, part-snake - all monster.

Cockatrice - A flying part-rooster/part-snake that could kill with its stare.

Cyclops - The one-eyed giant who captured and ate people.

Cynocephalus - A member of an ancient race of men with the heads of dogs.

List of Mythical Creatures
D-G

Demon - Malevolent spirits of Hell who battle humans for control of their souls.

Doppelganger - Apparitions of people that occur in impossible situations.

Dragon - Giant, flying, fire-breathing lizards who often guard treasure.

Dwarf - A short, stalky humanoid who live in underground mining communities.

Echidna - The snake-woman who became the mother of most Greek monsters.

Elf - A race of pointy-eared humanoids who excel in magic and archery.

Fairy - A small, flying humanoid with magical abilities.