Definition of Mythical creature

1. Noun. A monster renowned in folklore and myth.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythical Creature

mystory
mytacism
myth
mytharc
mytharcs
mythconception
mythconceptions
myther
mythered
mythering
mythers
mythi
mythic
mythical
mythical being
mythical creature (current term)
mythical monster
mythical place
mythically
mythicise
mythicism
mythicize
mythicized
mythicizer
mythicizers
mythicizes
mythicizing
mythier
mythiest
mythification

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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