#imaginary_being__imaginarybeing__imaginary_creature__imaginarycreature a creature of the imagination
supertype: imaginary_spatial_entity__imaginaryspatialentity (pm) e.g., a cartoon character
instance: Jack_Frost Mammon
subtype: hypothetical_creature a creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist
subtype: extraterrestrial_being__extraterrestrial__alien a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
subtype: mythical_being an imaginary being of myth or fable
subtype: mythical_monster__mythical_creature a monster renowned in folklore and myth
subtype: legendary_creature__legendarycreature unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual
subtype: abominable_snowman__yeti large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the Himalayas
subtype: Bigfoot__Sasquatch large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada
subtype: doppelganger a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart
subtype: Loch_Ness_monster__Nessie large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of Loch Ness in Scotland
subtype: sea_serpent__seaserpent huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon
subtype: amphisbaena (classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body
subtype: basilisk.mythical_monster (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance
subtype: centaur (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
subtype: cockatrice monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance
subtype: firedrake__dragon a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
subtype: wyvern__wivern a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs
instance: Fafnir
subtype: Gorgon (Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters having live snakes for hair; a glance turns the beholder to stone
instance: Medusa Stheno Euryale
subtype: gryphon__griffin winged monster with an eagle-like head and body of a lion
subtype: leviathan monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament
subtype: manticore__mantichora__manticora__mantiger a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion
subtype: roc mythical bird of prey having enormous size and strength
subtype: salamander.mythical_monster reptilian creature supposed to live in fire
subtype: troll (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
subtype: werewolf__wolfman__lycanthrope a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf
subtype: Fury__Eumenides__Erinyes (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
instance: Alecto Megaera Tisiphone
instance: Cerberus Chimera__Chimaera Geryon Harpy Hydra Minotaur Nemean_lion Python Sphinx Typhoeus Typhon
subtype: Hyperborean (Greek mythology) one of a people that the ancient Greeks believed lived in a warm and sunny land north of the source of the north wind
subtype: houri (in Muslim belief) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
subtype: Valkyrie (Norse mythology) one of the maidens of Odin who chose heroes to be slain in battle and conducted them to Valhalla
instance: Brunhild__Brunnhilde__Brynhild
subtype: Amazon (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
subtype: golem (Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means
subtype: hero.mythical_being (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
instance: Arjuna Scylla Dardanus Perseus.mythical_being__perseu Midas Sisyphus Narcissus Nibelung.mythical_being__nibelung Bellerophon Patroclus Pegasus__flying_horse Phoenix.mythical_being__phoenix Sarpedon Siegfried Sigurd Enkidu Gilgamish Sita Hero Leander Pygmalion Galatea Romulus Remus Daedalus Icarus Procrustes Eurydice Orion Orpheus Psyche Heracles__Hercules__Herakles__Alcides Pandora Fenrir Volund Yggdrasil__Ygdrasil Ymir Wayland_the_Smith__Wayland__Wieland Ajax Jason Medea Laertes Odysseus Ulysses Penelope Theseus Tantalus Achilles Aeneas Agamemnon Menelaus Clytemnestra Aegisthus Orestes Antigone Creon Jocasta Electra Laocoon Laius Myrmidon King_Oedipus__Oedipus__Oedipus_Rex Tiresias Peleus Hector Helen_of_Troy__Helen Leda Priam
subtype: Death the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"
subtype: grim_reaper__reaper Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
subtype: mermaid half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
subtype: merman half man and half fish; lives in the sea
subtype: Martian imaginary people who live on the planet Mars
subtype: giant an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
subtype: giantess a female giant
subtype: ogre (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
subtype: ogress a female ogre
instance: Argus Cyclops Jotun__Jotunn Mimir
subtype: Humpty_Dumpty an egg-shaped character in a nursery rhyme who fell off a wall and could not be put back together again (late 17th century)
subtype: monster an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
subtype: bogeyman__bugbear__bugaboo__boogeyman__booger an imaginary monster used to frighten children
subtype: mythical_monster__mythical_creature a monster renowned in folklore and myth
subtype: witch a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
subtype: pythoness__pythones a witch with powers of divination
subtype: warlock a male witch or demon
subtype: fictional_character__fictionalcharacter__fictitious_character__character an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel"
subtype: Argonaut (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece
subtype: Emile the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
subtype: protagonist the principal character in a work of fiction
subtype: antihero a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine)
subtype: Houyhnhnm one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
subtype: Little_John legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength
subtype: Little_Red_Ricing_Hood a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother
subtype: Rodya_Raskolnikov__Raskolnikov a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil
subtype: Robin_Hood legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor
subtype: Robinson_Crusoe the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island
subtype: Rumpelstiltskin a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself
subtype: Shylock__shylock a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare
subtype: Tristan__Tristram (medieval legends) the nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
subtype: Iseult (medieval legends) the bride of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
subtype: Scaramouch__Scaramouche a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward
subtype: Sweeney_Todd__Todd fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers
subtype: Walter_Mitty fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs
subtype: Yahoo one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in Swift's Gulliver's Travels
instance: Aladdin Babar Beatrice Beowulf Bluebeard James_Bond__Bond Paul_Bunyan__Bunyan John_Henry Cheshire_cat Chicken_Little Cinderella Colonel_Blimp Dracula Don_Quixote El_Cid Fagin Sir_John_Falstaff__Falstaff Father_Brown Faust__Faustus Frankenstein Frankenstein's_monster__Frankenstein Goofy Gulliver Hamlet Captain_Horatio_Hornblower__Horatio_Hornblower Iago Inspector_Maigret__Commissaire_Maigret Kilroy King_Lear__Lear Lilliputian Philip_Marlowe__Marlowe Wilkins_Micawber__Micawber Mother_Goose Mr._Moto Othello Pangloss Pantaloon Perry_Mason Peter_Pan Pierrot Pluto.fictional_character__pluto Huckleberry_Finn__Huck_Finn Tarzan_of_the_Apes__Tarzan Tom_Sawyer Uncle_Tom Uncle_Sam Sherlock_Holmes__Holmes Simon_Legree Sinbad_the_Sailor__Sinbad Snoopy Ali_Baba King_Arthur__Arthur Sir_Galahad__Galahad Sir_Gawain__Gawain Guinevere__Guenevere Sir_Lancelot__Lancelot Merlin
subtype: psychopomp a conductor of souls to the afterworld; "Hermes was their psychopomp"
subtype: sylph an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
subtype: Tom_Thumb.imaginary_being__tomthumb English folklore: an imaginary hero who was no taller than his father's thumb
subtype: unicorn an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
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