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Onions, What Vampires Fear #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures. I hope you enjoy following along!

Onions &Garlic, the Vampire Repellent

So what is it with garlic and onions? Why do monsters and vampires fear it, hate it, run away from it? Come along with me as we speculate the reasons why!
(onions and garlic will go hand-in-hand in this post because I need the letter “O.” )

1) Garlic and onions have a strong smell, which I’m sure you already know. It’s the reason we love breat...

Nian the Chinese Monster #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures. I hope you enjoy following along!

Nian the Chinese Monster

Legend tells of a huge beast resembling a lion, bearing hornson its head, named by the locals “Nian.” There are variations of the tale, but this one states that at every New Year’s eve it would come out of its lairto terrorize nearby villages, destroying and eating anything and anyone in its path. The villagers eventuallygave up on trying to fight it and f...

Mongolian Death Worm #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures. I hope you enjoy following along!

Mongolian Death Worm

Acreature saidto exist in the Gobi Desert, it’s described as a bright red worm, between 2-5 feetlong.Some say it attacks by spewing outan acidthat, on contact, will turn anything it touches yellow and corroded, able to kill a person.While others say it kills at a distance through anelectric discharge.

Czech cryptozoologist Ivan Mackerle described this worm cr...

Loch Ness Monster the Scotland mystery #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures (both real and fiction). I hope you enjoy following along!

Loch Ness Monster

Loch Ness, home of Nessie

Every great lake has a monster legend. Nessie is one of those legends,and it’ssaid to inhabit Scotland’s deepest lake. But just as the Cat Sith was based on a real animal, the Kellas cat, many believe Nessie the monster is based on a real creature that onceexisted: the plesiosauria.

The question is: Do some ples...

Kraken of the Norwegian Seas #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures (both real and fiction). I hope you enjoy following along!

Kraken

What are the origins of the Kraken? That great beast, the predatory monster of the seas?

Well it turns out there is something similar, though smaller in size: The giant squid.

The first to ever be foundwaswashed up on a Danish beach. People have been longing to discover more about these creatures since, and the largest so farrecorded is18 metres in...

On The Move #MadnesSolver

Previous Chapter

Madnes Solver
Chapter 45:On The Move

Read all thechaptershere. Enjoy!

Previously: In Wonderland,Madnes and his group have decided to split up in their search for the 7 crystals of the Terraforming Spell (a dangerous spell currently threatening to destroy their home on Earth, Okinala island). When Madnes and Prince Oz got their hands on the first crystal, they tried to destroy it, but its hard surface proved indestructible… That is, until Alice touched it. She did something, a...

Jorogumo the real Spider-Woman #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures (both real and fiction). I hope you enjoy following along!

Jorogumo

Before Spider-Man there wasSPIDER-WOMAN!

No, not exactly. The Jorogumo of Japanese folklore, to be more exact.

There are many different versions of the legend, but it was said thatwhen aspider turned 400 years old (growing about the size of a cow) it gained magical powers. This she-spider wouldthen use this power to shape-shift into a beautiful hu...

American Folklore: the Hidebehind #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures. I hope you enjoy following along!

Hidebehind

Today we bring you a legend from American folklore (one I haven’t heard of until now) about a creature apparently more fearsome than any Bigfoot ever was, named the Hidebehind.

Anocturnal fearsome creature,one thatpreys on humans whowander the woods at night. Powerful and large, though none who have fully seen it have survived to tell us more. *shudders*

Itwas credited...

Giant Animals That Once Roamed the Earth #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures. I hope you enjoy following along!

Giants in the AnimalKingdom

An image gallery of someof the massive animals that once shared our planet. And yes, it is terrifying and thrilling to imagine what it must have been like to see them alive!

Giant Sloths, Megatherium

Giant Ape

Armored Fish

Terror Bird

Giant Ripper Lizard

Terrible Crocodile

Titanoboa

Titan Shark

You can read about the fossil sizes ofthese animal giants at...

The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa, a #fairytale #AtoZChallenge

Part of theA-to-Z blog challenge. My theme is legends and legendary creatures. I hope you enjoy following along!

“The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa”

A tale fromSlavic folklore for you.

The king’s archer is on a hunt and runs across a firebird’s feather. But the archer’s horse warns the archer not to touch it, as bad things will happen if he does. (The horse can talk?!)

The archer ignores the horse’s advice and takes it, bringing the feather back to the king so he will be praised and rewarde...