This page groups mythical creatures by whether anyone has ever claimed they were real. Wikipedia defines a legendary creature as one that "may be featured in historical accounts before modernity, but has not been scientifically shown to exist." Browsing by historicity lets a visitor separate a creature once treated as a real animal from one always understood as symbolic.
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The Beasts
This small group gathers a mythical beast, a great or fearsome animal of legend, larger, stranger or more powerful than its natural kin, of the kind that heroes confront or that guard the sacred.
The browser will find the figure the atlas classes here. The entry describes its form and mythological role.
Legendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record
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1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
Giants, Monsters and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
Carol Rose, ABC-CLIO, 2000The general entry class of the mythical beast across world folklore and legendView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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