These Medieval illustrations perfectly capture the hilariously strange powers of the Bonnacon, a mythological being from European folklore that sprays explosive diarrhea onto its victims. When ...

Trolls, unicorns, gorgons, banshees – these and other mythical creatures have been part of stories for centuries. Some of them are magical. Some are scary. And others are just really weird.

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, captivated as he waswith the creatures of myth. That desir ...

Some creatures of ancient Slavic daemonology ... this cosmogonic myth weaves together two motifs typical of Indo-European mythology: one is the oceanic origin of all Being, from which all life ...

The human obsession with frightening creatures has given rise to ancient tales of dragons and werewolves, as well as to the horrors that stalk 21st-century screens.