Mystical Creature

Greek Mythology

1. CENTAUR - a race of half-man, half-horse beings.

2. CERBERUS - the three-headed, giant hound that guarded the gates of Hades.

3. CHARYBDIS - a sea monster whose inhalations formed a deadly whirlpool.

4. CHIMERA - a three-headed monster, with the foreparts of a lion, the middle-parts of a goat and rising snake for its tail.

5. EMPOUSA - a vampiric demon with a leg of bronze and a hoofed foot of a donkey; she seduced men in order to feed on their flesh and blood.

6. GORGONS - cursed sisters with serpents for hair
           a. Medusa -  the sister capable of  turning men to stone with her gaze, cursed by Athena for being with Posideon in her temple.
           b. Stheno - the most murderous of the sisters
           c. Euryale - sister most known for her death-bellowing screams

7. GRAEAE - three old women with one tooth and one eye among them
                  a. Deino
                  b. Enyo
                  c. Pemphredo

8. HARPIES - winged monsters with the bodies of birds and the heads and torsos of women

9. HIPPALECTRYON - a creature with the fore-parts of a rooster and the body of a horse

10. HIPPOCAMPI - sea creatures with the fore-parts of horses and the tails of fish

11. ICHTHYOCENTAURS - a pair of marine centaurs with the upper bodies of men, the lower fronts of horses, and the tails of fish

12 . IPOTANE - a race of half-horse, half-humans

13. KOBALOI - a species of mischievous creatures, fond of tricking or frightening humans

14. MANTICORE - a monster with the head and body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion and wings of a bat.