#imaginary_being__imaginarybeing__imaginary_creature__imaginarycreature a creature of the imagination
supertype: pm#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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