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Definition of Mythical creature
1. Noun. A monster renowned in folklore and myth.
Generic synonyms: Mythical Being, Monster
Specialized synonyms: Legendary Creature, Amphisbaena, Basilisk, Centaur, Cerberus, Hellhound, Chimaera, Chimera, Cockatrice, Dragon, Firedrake, Geryon, Gorgon, Griffin, Griffon, Gryphon, Harpy, Hydra, Leviathan, Mantichora, Manticora, Manticore, Mantiger, Minotaur, Nemean Lion, Roc, Salamander, Sphinx, Troll, Typhoeus, Typhon, Loup-garou, Lycanthrope, Werewolf, Wolfman
Specialized synonyms: Python, Erinyes, Eumenides, Fury
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythical Creature
Literary usage of Mythical creature
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"... mythical creature, Congo, 327 Yorkshire : (see also Beverley ; Guis- borough ;
Scarborough ; and Sheffield); East Riding, harvest custom, ..."
2. The Visioning: A Novel by Susan Glaspell (1911)
""Why, Katie," laughed Wayne, "it must be that he's that same mythical creature
known as the man who mends the boats." "Yes," said Katie, "I fancy he's the ..."
3. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"... is a purely ^mythical creature, which exists only in the imagination of the
natives ; for they believe it to be a water-snake so. huge that if ft were ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"DRAGON: A mythical creature, belief in the existence of which is attested by the
folk-lore and literature of nearly ..."
5. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1866)
"I maintain that the mythical creature described by Mr. Wallace has no right to
be called man—not possessing his chief distinguishing ..."
6. Keramic Art of Japan by George Ashdown Audsley, James Lord Bowes (1881)
"We do not know much regarding the exact form of belief which the ancient Japanese
had in this mythical creature, but it appears to have been believed to be ..."
7. In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times by Fridtjof Nansen (1911)
"One is therefore inclined to suppose that some piece of Celtic folk-lore is the
common source of both. Now there is a Scottish mythical creature called a ..."
8. A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1919)
"Is he a mythical creature, born in the human imagination of primitive nature
worship— a variant of the Tyrian sun-god Shemesh, ..."
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