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Zmajeviti look like ordinary people except for little wings beneath their armpits; such men are always born at ...the event was that the ala was defeated in her fight with a zmajeviti man; people gave her milk to help her recover.

...e backs of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people who shall not profit;" ...the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. (8) And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it up

...in the St. Lawrence River. They described the creature as "a giant finned snake" that moved like a caterpillar. [[Category:Race: Dragon]]

...here is also speculations that Zilant's origination was not from the White Snake, but the Falcon (Börket), an image similar to Zilant from an earlier epoch Zilant is often confused with Aq Yilan (White Snake), which is the king of snakes as well as the medieval cockatrice.

Some people have suggested that the name "Abraxas" could itself be derived from "Abraca [[Category:Race: Snake]]

...m leader Richard Freeman told the BBC, evidence so far was sketchy as most people died soon after seeing it. One interviewee who claimed to have had an encou [[Category:Race: Snake]]

...ir at dusk and dawn to ravage the countryside, eating crops, livestock and people, it proved invulnerable to the weapons ranged against it. The surrounding a [[Category:Race: Snake]]

...are the Bakonawa into spitting out the moon back into the sky. Some of the people in the villages would play soothing sounds with their musical instruments, ...Bakunawa found out about this, it arose from the sea and ate the moon. The people were afraid so they prayed to Bathala to punish the creature. Bathala refus

...e tiger-crocodiles in it. Their bodies look like a fish's, but they have a snake's tail and they make a noise like mandarin ducks. If you eat some, you won' ...neck, white scales, is oviparous, can grow up to ten meters long, and eats people."

...hidna, a monster with the head and torso of woman, but the lower part of a snake, and was the consort [[Typhon]]. No man dared to approach the beast and the people asked Apollo for help. He came down from Mount Olympus with his silver bow

[[Category:Race: Snake people]]

The tatzelwurm has a snake-like body between 2 and 6 feet in length, with two clawed front legs, but n ...n the neck area. The eyes were large and the body scaled. It hissed like a snake.

The '''lindworm''' (also called '''lindorm snake''', '''lindorm''' in Scandinavia and '''Lindwurm''' in Germany) is a large ...mid 19th century stories of legendary creatures in Sweden. He met several people in Småland, Sweden that said they had encountered giant snakes, sometimes

...bined image of crocodile, snake, lizard and bird. Historically, Vietnamese people lived near rivers, so they venerated crocodiles as "Giao Long", the first k ...archaeological objects: crocodile-dragons (dragons with crocodile head and snake body). The cat-dragon excavated on a glazed terracotta piece in Bac Ninh ha

'''Yamata no Orochi''' (八岐の大蛇||"big snake of eight branches") often called '''''Orochi''''' or the '''Eight-Forked Se ...nto this series, in which two miko or priestesses are pitted against seven people who become the heads of Orochi. It is maintained often in this series that

...ter lived in a den beside the river the Tarasque. On being implored by the people of Nerluc, Saint Martha captured the monster, quenching its fiery breath wi ...of the cloister, it is always shown as a reptile lizard, tortoise, dragon, snake or a monster composed of different parts of these animals.

'''Azhi Dahaka''' (Avestan Great Snake) is a dragon or demonic figure in the texts and mythology of Zoroastrian Pe ...and Ahi are distantly related to Greek ophis, Latin anguis, both meaning "snake".

...saor]] and [[Pegasus]] (other sources say that each drop of blood became a snake), her two sons by [[Poseidon]]. He gave the head, which had the power of tu ...rrible if they ward away enemies. The snakes are reminiscent of the Cretan snake goddess. It is possible that the story represents the subordination of a pr

...e would go near him and his treasure, wreaking terror in the hearts of the people.<ref>{{Harvnb|Byock|1990|p=64}}</ref> [[Category:Race: Shapeshifters]]

...Hydra is a water-monster with seven heads. It keeps the river flowing and people brought offerings to them. One day a woman asked for the Hydra's help, in r It is uncertain as to what the cauterising of the snake heads means, but it may derive from tales concerning a battle connected to