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3. #Ghosts
the #soul or #spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living. They often have unfinished business and visited/#haunted the living.
#FairyTaleTuesday 4/11
2. #Werewolves
or occasionally #lycanthrope, is a human with the ability to #shapeshift into a #wolf, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction with the transformations occurring on the night of a #fullmoon
#FairyTaleTuesday 3/11
In #GreekMythology The #Lernaean Hydra/Hydra of #Lerna/#Hydra, is a sea #monster. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the #Argolid. It had 9 heads and if one was removed 2 more grew back in its place. It was killed by #Heracles.
#keepingClassicsalive #Spooktober #spookyseason
In #GreekMythology the #Cyclopes were #monsters with 1 eye, they traded the other for the ability to see the #future. The Cyclopes were the children of #Gaia (earth) and #Ouranous (sky) and made the #weapons used by the #gods.
#keepingClassicsalive #Spooktober #spookyseason
In #GreekMythology, #Charon is the son of #Nyx and #Erebus. A #psychopomp/#ferryman of #Hades who carries (for a price) #souls of the deceased across the #rivers #Styx and #Acheron that divided the living world from the #Underworld
#keepingClassicsalive #Spooktober #spookyseason
In #GreekMythology, #Scylla is a #monster who lives on one side of a channel of water. Sailors would pass close and her 6 heads would snatch them from boats. She had 12 tentacles, a cat's tail, and 4 dogs heads encircled her waist.
#keepingClassicsalive #Spooktober #spookyseason
The #Harpies were #monsters in #GreekMythology that had the form of a #bird with female faces; they abducted people and tortured them on their way to the #Underworld, they were employed by the gods to punish the guilty
#keepingClassicsalive #Spooktober #spookyseason
Today is #GlobalCatDay, in #EgyptianMythology the #goddess of #cats, #domesticity, #secrets, #fertility, and #childbirth. She protected the home from evil #spirits and diseases
For more information on the #Egyptian goddess: https://t.co/IZ7sDEn6jn
#keepingClassicsalive #mythology
Although not technically #monsters, today's #Spooktober focus and #FolkloreThursday are The #Erinyes/#Furies: 3 #goddesses retribution who punished men for crimes. They were concerned with homicide, offenses against the gods, and perjury.
#keepingClassicsalive #spookyseason
@RosalynBriar I have the goddess of Love and Beauty: Aphrodite
And the Queen of Faeries: Morgan Le Fay
And the Queen of Crete: Pasiphae