Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Nuckelavee. The nuckelavee chasing an islander, painting by James Torrance (1859–1916). The nuckelavee ( / nʌklɑːˈviː /) or nuckalavee is a horse-like demon from Orcadian folklore that combines equine and human elements. British folklorist Katharine Briggs called it "the nastiest" [ 1] of all the demons of Scotland's Northern Isles.
Meretseger– The cobra-headed Egyptian Goddess. Sirin– Half-bird, half-human creature with the head and chest of a woman from Russian folklore; its bird half is generally that of an owl's body. Sobek– The crocodile-headed Egyptian God. Thoth– The ibis-headed Egyptian God.
Equus ( / ˈɛkwəs, ˈiːkwəs /) [3] is a genus of mammals in the family Equidae, which includes horses, asses, and zebras. Within the Equidae, Equus is the only recognized extant genus, comprising seven living species. Like Equidae more broadly, Equus has numerous extinct species known only from fossils. The genus originated in North America ...
Kelpie. One of six kelpies in the globe fountain at Shuttle Row near to Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. A kelpie, or water kelpie ( Scottish Gaelic: Each-Uisge ), is a shape-shifting spirit inhabiting lochs in Irish and Scottish folklore. It is usually described as a grey or white [ 1] horse-like creature, able to adopt human form.
The evolution of the horse, a mammal of the family Equidae, occurred over a geologic time scale of 50 million years, transforming the small, dog-sized, [ 1] forest-dwelling Eohippus into the modern horse. Paleozoologists have been able to piece together a more complete outline of the evolutionary lineage of the modern horse than of any other ...
Gray, 1821. Subfamilies. † Anchitheriinae. Equinae. Equidae (sometimes known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, asses, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils. The family evolved around 50 million years ago from a small, multi-toed ungulate into larger ...
Mythic humanoids are legendary, folkloric, or mythological creatures that are part human, or that resemble humans through appearance or character. Each culture has different mythical creatures that come from many different origins, and many of these creatures are humanoids. They are often able to talk and in many stories they guide the hero on ...
Arion, an immortal, extremely swift horse. Balius and Xanthos, Achilles ' horses. Hippocampus, a sea horse that pulled Poseidon 's chariot. Mares of Diomedes, which fed on human flesh. Pegasus, flying horse of Greek mythology. Phaethon, [ 15] one of the two immortal steeds of the dawn-goddess Eos. Rhaebus, the horse of Mezentius in Roman myths.