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The ushi-oni (牛鬼, ox oni; ox demon), or gyūki, is a yōkai from the folklore of western Japan. [ 1] The folklore describes more than one kind of ushi-oni, but the depiction of a bovine-headed monster occurs in most. Ushi-oni generally appear on beaches and attack people who walk there.
A water dragon youkai in Japanese mythology. Tatsu: Dragon of Japanese mythology, and the master of the water, like the Ryu. Orochi: the eight-headed serpent slain by Susanoo in Japanese mythology. Kuraokami: A Japanese dragon and a deity of rain and snow. Ryū: Similar to Chinese dragons, with three claws instead of four. They are usually ...
In Eiichiro Oda's manga and anime series One Piece, "Phoenix Marco" is a prominent character (a member of the Whitebeard Pirates) who possesses the Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit called the Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Phoenix, which allows him to transform into a phoenix. The Phoenix is portrayed as a powerful cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics ...
Later, it is revealed that the Gum-Gum Fruit's real name is the "Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika", a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit whose "awakening" grants Luffy's rubber-like body increased strength and freedom, including turning the environment and other living beings into rubber, which is limited only by the user's imagination.
In the silhouette we can see the eyes and horns of the awakened Saturn on the far left, followed next by a haunting face, then a seemingly human body, followed by a dragon or bird hybrid, and ...
The Druk ( Standard Tibetan: འབྲུག, Dzongkha: འབྲུག་) is the "Thunder Dragon " of Tibetan and Bhutanese mythology and a Bhutanese national symbol. A druk appears on the flag of Bhutan, holding jewels to represent wealth. In Dzongkha, Bhutan is called Druk Yul "Land of Druk", and Bhutanese leaders are called Druk Gyalpo ...
Caladrius ( Roman ) – white bird with healing powers. Chalkydri ( Jewish ) – heavenly creatures of the Sun. Chamrosh ( Persian mythology ) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird. Cinnamon bird ( Greek ) – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon. Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death.
The European dragon is a legendary creature in folklore and mythology among the overlapping cultures of Europe . The Roman poet Virgil in his poem Culex lines 163–201, [ 1] describing a shepherd battling a big constricting snake, calls it "serpens" and also "draco", showing that in his time the two words probably could mean the same thing.