Folkloric Creatures and Monsters from Where You're From(Or Anywhere)

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Cool! I've heard about this in some shows, correct me if I'm wrong but it's said that some lady in a church gave birth to this creature and it flew off into the night and some say that there are still recent sightings.

Yeah that’s the exact story

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

dude, that's PEAK mythology :00

Here’s the higher tier ones
The Aswang

An Aswang is a shapeshifting, malevolent creature in Filipino folklore, acting as an umbrella term for various monsters like vampires, ghouls, witches, and human-animal hybrids (dogs, cats) that prey on humans, especially the unborn, children, and sick, often by sucking their organs or blood with a long tongue, while appearing as ordinary people by day. They are known for transforming into black dogs, pigs, or birds at night, and their legends serve as social control, teaching caution and enforcing community norms, with garlic, salt, and stingray tails used as defenses.

Key Characteristics & Forms

• Shapeshifting: Can change into various forms, including animals (dogs, cats, birds) or appear as humans, often beautiful women, by day.
• Vampiric/Ghoul: Uses a long, spear-like tongue to suck blood or internal organs, particularly favoring unborn babies and the dead.
• Manananggal: A specific type of Aswang, the upper torso detaches and flies with bat-like wings to hunt.
• Wak-wak: A winged bird/bat-like Aswang that hunts at night.
• Habitat: Lives among people but haunts isolated areas like forests and cemeteries.

Cultural Significance & Defenses

• Social Control: Legends teach caution towards strangers and reinforce community values, with fear shaping daily life, particularly around pregnant women.
• Defenses: Families use garlic, salt, blessed items, and stingray tails to ward them off; a "tik-tik" bird sound signals an Aswang's proximity.
• Fear: The Aswang embodies deep-seated fears of betrayal, hidden evil, and the monstrous within the familiar.

 

[thumbsdown]

Here’s the higher tier ones
The Aswang
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An Aswang is a shapeshifting, malevolent creature in Filipino folklore, acting as an umbrella term for various monsters like vampires, ghouls, witches, and human-animal hybrids (dogs, cats) that prey on humans, especially the unborn, children, and sick, often by sucking their organs or blood with a long tongue, while appearing as ordinary people by day. They are known for transforming into black dogs, pigs, or birds at night, and their legends serve as social control, teaching caution and enforcing community norms, with garlic, salt, and stingray tails used as defenses.

Key Characteristics & Forms

• Shapeshifting: Can change into various forms, including animals (dogs, cats, birds) or appear as humans, often beautiful women, by day.
• Vampiric/Ghoul: Uses a long, spear-like tongue to suck blood or internal organs, particularly favoring unborn babies and the dead.
• Manananggal: A specific type of Aswang, the upper torso detaches and flies with bat-like wings to hunt.
• Wak-wak: A winged bird/bat-like Aswang that hunts at night.
• Habitat: Lives among people but haunts isolated areas like forests and cemeteries.

Cultural Significance & Defenses

• Social Control: Legends teach caution towards strangers and reinforce community values, with fear shaping daily life, particularly around pregnant women.
• Defenses: Families use garlic, salt, blessed items, and stingray tails to ward them off; a "tik-tik" bird sound signals an Aswang's proximity.
• Fear: The Aswang embodies deep-seated fears of betrayal, hidden evil, and the monstrous within the familiar.

I'm saving most of the creatures to search for more narrative games perhaps lol

 

[GuyZero32k4]

Though I've very far south of Canada, reading the Hulk back then was the first I'd ever heard of the wendigo. This thing:

Gun guy gonna get eaten. Thing that eats people in the woods. Alright then.
Where I first ever heard of it as a child was here.

Remember no internet back then, no one else around me read comics. People were like "A big foot that eats people? now that be great movie!" back then. So color me surprised when read into the myth.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Well here in the Palatinate we have the Elwetritsch

this is the only mystical creature native specifically to my Palatine Homeland.
and for Germany I don't know
Maybe the Schwarze Mann which would translate funny enough to Black Man we don't mean a actual Person of Color with that though its just the name of the creature.

Der schwarze Mann – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

We Also have Frau Holle which is good I think I am not that deep into mythology anymore.

Frau Holle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And one scary one is the Schneider from Struppelpeter if that counts.
He would come if you take your thumps into you mouth and then he would cut your thumbs off with a big scissor
Its from a German Book and as a kid the Cover scared me actually.

Here a I mage from the Book

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

We supposedly had a Bigfoot sighting within 5 minutes of where I live, which my town has milked. Bigfoot is 100% a tourist scam

 

[Viyon]

And this one is called Mapinguari, all the favs of mine!
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That's so cool, it has a certain "90s monster" aesthetic to it!

Meanwhile here in Italy we have the "Gnefro", a creature from Umbria, it's a small water sprite that likes to bother travelers at night with harmless pranks just to scare them off with some faint magic, they tend to appear as either a cute child or a small gnome with creased skin.

The "Babau", a legend diffused throughout all of Italy as it's one of those stories to scare children into behaving, it can change a lot based on where you are and this is what I grow up hearing: my grandma (native of Sicily) used to tell me that here in Rome (as in everywhere else) there was a Babau that would kidnap bad kids who stay awake for too long or that exit the house alone at night (I wanted to go out to look at the stars so that was her excuse to scare me from doing that) and put them in a big sack with all the others, it's basically the Bogeyman but sometimes it's described as having dark magic powers and it's depicted as a witch or a scary man with a crooked nose, or a faceless person who roams around wearing rags or covered under a hood and a mantle.

Spoiler: List of other italian folklore stuff

Then we have other legends about the usual creatures like werewolves, dragons and basilisks which are everywhere in europe, in the north regions of Italy there are many derivates to stories like Krampus that are celebrated every year in some cities, and even The Wild Hunt, some may recognize the name from The Witcher, is a thing in Trentino, although under another name that I can't recall as their dialect is pretty unique.
We have a lot of ghost stories, but also weird stuff like a vampiric birdlike monster, a "stinky undead cat", all kinds of huge snakes either born from nature or from hatred and spite, also a lot of snakes mixed with other animal features like the catsnake, any possible combination of witches with weird powers and origins, many stories about the devil and related apparitions like demons and horrific creatures, recurring dreams that "transmit" from one person to the other when they're told so the "victim" will dream about it, and many other cryptid-related beliefs.

 

[Netra]

"O Lobison," as my grandmother called it, she tell us stories when we were children in her language, a mix of Spanish and Portuguese very common in the interior of my country. From what I could understand, it was a kind of werewolf.

She told us that in her years of traveling for days across the countryside going from one town to another in a cart, on nights with a full moon, they always had presences that followed them when they were near the border. They had the form of dogs, but the line of their eyes and the silhouette of their heads showed that they were much larger than a normal animal.

I think what they saw was an Aguará, or Maned Wolf. They weren't really common in her time, but I know that several families have been seen in the forests of my country, and since the lobison was a common story among the people of the countryside in my country, they associated it with these animals.

 

[Bakuma1997]

El Nahual, think of it as a Werewolf that retains its sapience even whem transformed

 

[Strategist's icon Strategist Strategist]

The "Babau", a legend diffused throughout all of Italy as it's one of those stories to scare children into behaving, it can change a lot based on where you are and this is what I grow up hearing: my grandma (native of Sicily) used to tell me that here in Rome (as in everywhere else) there was a Babau that would kidnap bad kids who stay awake for too long or that exit the house alone at night (I wanted to go out to look at the stars so that was her excuse to scare me from doing that) and put them in a big sack with all the others, it's basically the Bogeyman but sometimes it's described as having dark magic powers and it's depicted as a witch or a scary man with a crooked nose, or a faceless person who roams around wearing rags or covered under a hood and a mantle.

Yeah, there's the same thing in Latin America, except it is called "El Cuco" or "El Coco", depending on the country.

Actually, the myth comes from Spain and Portugal, and it has spread all over Latin America with variations.

Coco (folklore) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Morgan Katarn]

We have allot of them but here are 4 main ones.

(Näken)


(Troll)


(Vittra and Vätter)


(Elves)


I highly recommend this book if you wanna now some more.