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The lamia is another creature originating in Greek myth. However, the route from the myth to the RPG monster is rather more circuitous than ...

Dragon turtles have their origin in Chinese mythology, combining the power of two of the four "auspicious beasts" to bring togethe...

In European myth, dragons are almost universally regarded as evil - rapacious monsters that lay waste to the countryside, have to be slain b...

A considerable number of mythological deities are said to throw thunderbolts - Zeus and Thor are merely the most familiar of these to Europe...

While witches, evil sorcerers, and the like, may create freezing cold storms, beings that attack by virtue of simply being very cold are not...

Many medieval descriptions of dragons make no mention of them breathing fire, and this does not seem to be part of the original myths of the...

Medieval descriptions of dragons imply that they look rather like snakes, but they were said not to be venomous and, since they weren't ...