Fantastic Beasts

In Japanese folklore, Kitsune (literally the Japanese word for fox) are intelligent foxes that possess paranormal abilities that increase as they get older and wiser. According to yōkai folklore, all foxes have the ability to shapeshift into human form. While some folktales speak of kitsune employing this ability to trick others – as foxes in folklore often do – other stories portray them as faithful guardians, friends, and lovers. Foxes and humans lived close together in ancient Japan; this companionship gave rise to legends about the creatures. Kitsune have become closely associated with Inari, a Shinto kami or spirit, and serve as its messengers. This role has reinforced the fox's supernatural significance. The more tails a kitsune has – they may have as many as nine – the older, wiser, and more powerful it is. Because of their potential power and influence, some people make sacrifices to them as to a deity. Conversely foxes were often seen as "witch animals", especial...

Tiangu is an animal in Chinese folklore. It was first recorded in “Shan Hai Jing.” The original text is:.. “Three hundred miles west of the mountain, it is called Yinshan. Water flows out of Yan, while southward flows into Fanze. In that place there are many beasts and Tiangu. It is like a panda with a white head, its cry is like a grenade, which can protect against evil.  As mentioned in the article, Tiangu is also described as a fox-like creature with a white head. It is an auspicious beast that protects against evil. It is probably an ancient mammal. It did exist. However, later, the image of Tiangu was developed to describe comets and meteorites. The ancients considered the stars in the sky to be bad luck, so Tiangu became the name of the evil star. The ancient Chinese believed that eclipses were caused by “Tiangu eating the sun”. When this phenomenon occurs, people will knock gongs, play drums and set firecrackers to scare away Tiangu. The Chinese have a legend about Houyi, wh...

Jiufeng is a bird in ancient Chinese mythology with the form of a phoenix with 9 heads. Shan Hai Jing recorded: In Dai Hoang, there is a mountain called the Arctic Cap ... there is a bird body with a human face and up to nine heads, which is Jiufeng. It is an intelligent creature, able to see the future. It is rumored that Jiufeng is extremely powerful, not only controlling the bird family, but also controlling the source of hell at will. Basically, Jiufeng was originally the totem of Chu. It is a divine bird, but later because people change or feel they are too scary, they no longer worship. They see the nine-headed bird as a monster. Not only losing his divine nature but also becoming bizarre over time, turning into a monstrous bird with an ugly image, a ferocious temperament, searching for human soul, taking human blood to disaster, kidnapping children, ... Jiufeng normally has become "a big catastrophe" making people scared. At the end of the Han Dynasty to about the Tang...

Baiming is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children Its power is sound. It's eye-catching bright red color. Its shape resembles a bird. Its size is like a peacock. It inherits the young bird's singing ability, the pleasurable sound, can relax the listener, lose its will and be eaten away by it, controlled by it. Its sharp screech can cause immediate environmental disturbances, thus destroying objects. Its long, low, and long singing makes the listener feel down and out of control. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms of Mythology

Dafeng is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children Its power is wind.  It is red green in color. Its head resembles a dog, has a toothed beak.  The body is very big. Its body was hundreds of feet long, the wings spread out could cover half of the sky, flapping the wings could create a hurricane, often flying in the air and rarely landing on the ground.  When it changes, it loses its original shape, the legs disappear, followed by the wings and tail. If it gets angry, it will turn into a dark cloud that sweeps across the earth. Where it goes, strong winds will rise, no thunder, no electricity, no snow or rain, but it can render the passing ground lifeless. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms of Mythology

Benzhi is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children Its power is earth.  It is crimson-yellow in color and has a chicken-like appearance.  The size can be varied, sometimes shrinking to an inch, sometimes turning hundreds of meters tall, and it is capable of causing earthquakes. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms of Mythology

Ziyan is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children Its power is electric.  Its body is purple and black.  It is shaped like a swallow and has pigeon-like size. Carry electricity on its body.  Its flight speed and flapping frequency are extremely fast.  When it flew in a straight line, it would be like a bolt of lightning and it can also turn back at one.  Flapping its wings at high speed, it can hover in the air and has the ability to teleport within a limited range.  Its entire body surface is covered with an electrical layer that prevents itself from being injured by the forces of high speed. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms of Mythology

Xuexiao is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children Its power is ice.  The whole body is pure white.  It has wide and long wings The head resembles a cat but has a beak and is about seven feet high.  It usually lives in snow-covered lands, prefers the cold, breathes snow, and when inhaled, everything freezes.  No is the guardian god of the snow-covered fields. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms of Mythology

Lanfu is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children Its power is water.  The whole body is blue.  Its shape resembles a wild goose.  The body is gigantic and can cause flooding while moving. It usually lives in the South Sea.  When the body reaches a height of nearly a thousand feet, it can cause frequent tsunamis. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms of Mythology

Tonghe is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children Its power is fire.  It has a crimson color.  The shape is like a crane.  It was about nine meters tall.  The area it flies over the clouds will turn red. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms of Mythology

Kongque is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children It carries the power of wood. Blue body, inherited talented dancers. When the Kongque dances it can revive plants. In the Chinese mythological scriptures, the figure of Kongque is not that different from that of Kongque that is seen today. Kongque is beautiful and proud, praised by folk as the most beautiful, most splendid and most dazzling of all birds. The lush beauty of its feathers is second only to the Phoenix, and in essence it is very proud. Folk have a legend that, if you go out of the house and meet Kongque, it is a sign of meeting good things. However, it is said that since the birth of Kongque, it was extremely cruel, powerful, powerful, he liked to eat people and massacred living beings. It has tremendous power. It was said that Kongque’s entire body was in flames, just coming close to it would burn. Buddha tried to associate with him but failed. He got angry and fought with the Buddha at the foo...

Jinpeng is a Chinese mythological creature, one of the phoenix’s nine children Its power is light. Its body shines golden color, shaped like an eagle, wings spread up to two meters wide, body yellow. When flying at the limit, it glides like a golden light, very good at fighting and fighting dragons. The difference between Jinpeng and Kunpeng is like: When Kun leaves the sea, it becomes a Peng, which is thousands of miles high, and its wings spread out like clouds hanging down from the sky. Spreading its wings, it cast a shadow three thousand miles above it. One flapping of wings flies ninety thousand miles. When Peng entered the sea, he became Kun. Jinpeng is one of nine children bred by Kunpeng. Although it was not as large as the Kunpeng transformed into Peng, its flight ability was comparable to that of Kunpeng. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms of Mythology

Hydra is the name of a snake in myths and legends. The body is huge, with scales, and nine tails below the waist, dragging, and there is the sound of iron collision. There is a small hole at the end of each tail, which can be ejected, like a bullet. The legend of the Nine-Tails Snake was recorded by Yuan Shuang's Qing Dynasty: “Someone named Maoba, when he was young, went to Jiangxi to buy paper. That times, the paper workshop were in deep mountains. The people working in the workshop must stay. The night came, they all locked the door, did not go out. They said that in the mountains there are many different beasts, not only tigers and wolves. One very bright moonlight night, Mao could not sleep, wanted to open the door to see the moon. He relied on martial arts and could still bear it, so he opened the door to the outside. Not a few dozen steps away, suddenly saw dozens of monkeys, running to tears, picking a big tree to climb, Mao also peeked from afar. Not long after seeing a sn...

According to legend, Zhu Rong is a descendant of Emperor Yan. Zhu Rong's image is very peculiar. Although he has a human face, it is the body of a beast. He was born to be able to use fire at will, which ordinary people couldn't. In this way, Zhu Rong was honored by people and became the god of fire. When Zhu Rong traveled, he rode two dragons. He was also known as regent of the southern quadrant of Heaven. He helped to divide heaven and earth from each other. Zhu Rong executed Gun after he stole heavenly soil and tried to stop a great flood.  One story tells how Zhu Rong and Gong Gong were jealous and began to wrestle and fight with each other in heaven, to determine who was the more powerful. Falling out of heaven, Zhu Rong managed to defeat Gong Gong, who was so ashamed that he tried to kill himself by running into a mountain, BUZHOU, but he only managed to cause a massive flood. 📚  Explore more of the Mystical Creatures series here :  Dive into the Enchanted Realms o...

During the Fuxi period, Gonggong was a water god in the sky. He has a copper human head with an iron forehead, red hair, and the body of a serpent, or sometimes the head and torso are human, with the tail of a serpent and a very violent temperament. He is more than ten feet tall and powerful. There are two notorious deities under Gonggong: one is Xiangliu with nine heads. He had body of snake with nine heads, a blue body, with a cruel personality, greed, specializing in killing people for pleasure; the other is a cruel, evil spirit Fuyou, who is said to be able to see through people's hearts and thus confuse people. Gonggong is a bad water god, with a fierce temperament, lawless and an arrogant attitude. He often displays its supernatural powers on a whim, calling on the wind and calling for rain, harming the people of the world with floods, and turning a good land into a vast ocean. The people cried and screamed, suffering the sun and the moon. Although Gonggong is described by ma...

Xiangliu is a flying snake, with nine heads, and eats countless people. It is the courtiers of Gonggong, the ancient water god. It was so massive that it could eat nine mountains at once.  It constantly vomits venom and forms a foul-smelling swamp with a bitter taste and the smell can even kill passing birds and beasts. Xiangliu has devastated ecosystems everywhere it goes. It was so greedy that all nine heads ate at the same time. Wherever he rested or breathed (or his tongue touched) became bogged down with poisonous bitter water, devoid of human and animal life. Together with Gonggong, it caused floods that harmed people. Xiangyou ate soil on the river banks everywhere, causing the floods on the river to continue overflowing, overflowing everywhere and engulfing the patches of earth. Yu who is appointed to manage the incoming water. Gonggong was unable to defeat Yu and was brutally imprisoned in exile. Xiangliu inherits Gonggong's legacy and continues to behave. Yu killed Xiangl...

Yingzhao is the god of Huaijiang mountain, also the god that oversees Pingpu of the natural grassland under the Shiwei Emperor's rule. Yingzhao has a human face, horse body, tiger zebra, has wings on his back, so he can fly in the air and travel the world. Yingzhao has participated in hundreds of battles against evil gods and has been one of the patron of peace for generations. Yingzhao is also a friend of the flower god. Yingzhao is responsible for taking care of the group of divine beasts called Tulu. Although it looks like a sheep and has four horns, it is a man-eating beast. Yingzhao responsible for taking care of the group of sacred beasts named Tulu did not allow them to eat people. Yingzhao is also responsible for guarding the group of sacred birds named Qinyuan , and they are not allowed to eat people, wound people or other animals. Yingzhao is also responsible for looking after tree birds with six heads, as well as dragons, serpents , leopards , and various plants and anim...

Hujiao is a man-eating water monster in ancient Chinese legend, a kind of Jiao - hornless dragon. Hujiao is like a snake, its head is like a tiger. Its body is round and scaly like a fish, and its tail is as long as a snake and the elderly are several feet long.  It has four legs and has The characteristics of dragons are as ferocious as tigers. It mostly lives under the rock caves of Xitan and sound like a cow. If the Jiao sees a pedestrian on the shore or in a valley, it will salivates him with the fishy mouth, causing the person to fall into the water, and suck his blood under his armpit until the blood is exhausted. People on shore and boat people often suffer from it. The Hujiao are dragons, but the dragon is different from the dragon. It can be seen that the dragon is an animal that is bounded by the dragon and the dragon. The dragon has lived for 500 years to become a dragon, and the dragon lives for a thousand years to become a dragon, and the dragon lives for another 500 y...

Jiaolong or jiao is a dragon in Chinese mythology, commonly defined as scaly dragon. According to some scholars, it has no horns and is said to live in water or rivers. It may refer to a species of crocodile or water beasts (including fish and snakes and other aquatic species) with dragon bloodline evolved into a real dragon as long as they survived disasters. They are all powerful. the power of dragon. Some of Jiao's descriptions are as follows: Jiao is a dragon that resembles a four-legged snake. Jiao has a small head and a narrow neck with a white goiter and it is an egg-laying animal that can swallow a whole person. The Jiao measures 10 feet or more in length. Snake-like in appearance, but it has four feet. The shape broad and shield-like, it is small-headed and thin-necked. On the neck there are white tassels. Its chest is sienna brown and its back flecked with blue-green spots. Its flanks resemble brocade-work. On its tail there are fleshy rings. The largest attain several ar...

The Denglong or Wangtianhou, Chaotiānhou or simply Hou is a Chinese legendary creature. The Denglong has ten characteristics that resembles animals: horns like a deer, head like a camel, ears like a cat, eyes like a shrimp, mouth like a donkey, hair like a lion, neck like a snake, belly like a Shen, scales like a koi, front paws like an eagle, and rear paws like a tiger. There are many descriptions of this creature's origin: Legend has it that Denglong is one of the sons of the Dragon King, a kind of dragon. It has a habit of keeping watch. The dragon on the top of the Huabiao pillar roared at the sky, and it was regarded as uploading the will of the heavens and issuing the sentiments of the people (supervising the emperor). It is also documented that the mount of Guanyin Bodhisattva is "Denglong". There is also a saying that Denglong is the ancestor of Qilins. It can fly and is very fierce. The whole body was wrapped in fire. Dragons are also afraid of its fire. Its favo...

Origin: from China Bi Fang is the bird god, the spirit beast is believed to represent the Fire God and the Wood God, living in the forest, born of fire. Bi Fang looks like a white crane, but has only one leg (in some places there is only one wing), red-spotted blue body, white beak. The whole body is made up of fire, extremely dazzling, shiny golden feather, blue-white eyes. Not eating cereals, this species' favorite food is fire so every appearance is a harbinger of a great fire. Bi Fang quoted from Shan Hai Jing: "Zhange Mountain, there is a bird, like a crane, with one leg, red stripes of black nature and white beak, the name Bi Fang, the sound of it calling itself. Wherever it appears, there is fire there." Legend has it that when the Yellow Emperor gathered ghosts and gods on Mount Tai , he rode a chariot drawn by six dragons, while Bi Fang waited on the chariot. As the Yellow Emperor's chariot keeper, and able to control six dragons, Bi Fang is a Spirit beast wi...

Zhuyin, also known as Zhulong - is an extremely ancient god in Chinese mythology. He has been there since the time Pangu created the heavens and the earth. He Resides on Zhangwei Mountain north of the Chishui River, outside the Northwest Sea. He has a dragon body with a human face, thousands of staff long, bright red scales, bright eyes, and a torch in his mouth. According to legend, Zhuyin has great power, with open eyes, illuminating everywhere, representing daytime, with eyes closed, dark sky, representing dark sky, breathing in winter, breathing out in summer . He can control the rain and control the wind, neither eat or drink, nor sleep or rest. There is a theory that Zhuyin represents the sun, another says Zhuyin represents fire, and there is a theory that Zhuyin is the god of creation. According to ancient Chinese legend, in the early days, Zhuyin was the god that maintained the world. He opened his eyes day, closed his eyes at night, exhaled into the wind, rotating the four sea...

Bai Ze lives on Kunlun Mountain, often depicted as a giant lion, with one or two horns on his head (or even in some versions depicting Bai Ze having more horns), in addition to two the main eye also has secondary eyes located along the sides of the body. It is a cow-shaped summoned beast or a giant lion with 9 eyes and six horns, flanked by 3 and 2 on each side, with a human-like face. The whole person is as white as snow, can speak human language, understand the emotions of everything in the world. It has very little contact with others unless a saint is then dominating the world. It is also often described as having a lion's body and eight eyes, and a head with one or more horns. However, there are various records of the number of sub-eyes of Bai Ze, and sometimes there is only one secondary eye in the middle of the forehead or a summoned beast with a head like a Qilin or a dragon, and beast's body. It could be a beast or a spirit beast with three eyes and two horns on its he...

Kunpeng is the ancient spirit Beast appearing from the earliest times of the universe. It is a large flying fish, often inhabiting the North Sea. It is a giant fish that resides in the deep sea, after a long time, absorbs the spirit of heaven and earth, awakened instinct, longevity, growth in size over time, can leave the sea, leisurely in place of immense heaven. It was a spirit beast that had a long life, so to Kunpeng, for thousands of years it was still just a child. Kunpeng is described as a fish several thousand miles in size. When floating in the water, it looks like a big island. As they flew into the sky, their fins were like huge wings, and with a whole body several thousand miles large, Kunpeng's shadow was like a huge cloud covering the ground. Characteristic shape and properties Kunpeng has a large body like a gray whale, two large, strong hip fins, enough to lift his body to fly in the air. Kunpeng has a roaring roar that vibrates throughout the heavens. That cry is s...

Nian is a creature in Chinese mythology Legend has it that in ancient times in China there was a very ferocious beast named Nian. It lives on the seabed all year round, and on New Year's Eve, it comes ashore to kill animals and harm people. There are many descriptions of this creature, such as how some sources claim it resembles a flat-faced lion with a dog body and large incisors or a large horn on its head. Other authors describe it as being larger than an elephant with two long horns and many sharp teeth. Some people even describe it as a monster with long tentacles, sharp teeth, fierce and ferocious eyes. Nian's weaknesses are sensitive to loud noise, fire, and a fear of red. Legend: This year's New Year's Eve, the people of Taohua Village were helping the old and young to take refuge in the mountain. An old begging old man came from outside the village. He saw him with a cane in his hand and a pouch with his arms in his pocket. Some of the villagers sealed windows ...

Sanzuwu has the shape of a three-legged Black Crow. It is a creature found in a variety of myths and works of art in East Asia. It is believed to exist in East Asian culture and represents the sun. In Chinese myth and culture, it is depicted as a three-legged black crow. The whole body glows golden light. It have red eyes, shining like sunlight. The light it emits is the sun as we see it. The most common depiction and mythology of a Sanzuwu is the story of a Three-Legged Golden Crow named Yangwu or more commonly referred to as Jinwu Although it is often depicted as a raven or crow. Usually, it is usually red instead of black. According to folklore, there were initially ten Three-Legged Golden Crows born of the sun goddess Xihe and the god Di Qun. Each son was a Three-Legged Golden a sloar deity, charged with taking it in turns to travel across the sky to nourish the earth. Because, Three-Legged Golden Crow likes to eat two mythical immortal grass, one called Deri or "sun on the gr...

Origin: China Pixiu is a sacred animal in ancient Chinese myths and legends. It is very ferocious and powerful, has a patrol in the sky to prevent demons, ghosts and plagues. According to ancient records, Pixiu was a beast, one of the five great beasts in ancient times (dragons, phoenixes, turtles and Qilins), it was called a lucky beast. Pixiu is depicted as a tiger and leopard-like body, dragon-like head and tail, jade-yellow, covered with dragon-like scales, shoulders with wings but not stretched, head horns protruding backwards. According to legend, PiXiu is divided into male and female, male is called "Pixi" and female is called "Xiu". In ancient times, this animal had one or two horns, one horn was called Bixie and two horns is called Tianlu. Tian lu: This is a Pixiu with a majestic appearance, a big belly and butt, a very wide mouth on top with 2 Horns. Tian lu's main food is Gold, Silver and Treasures. Tian lu's feng shui meaning is to protect wealth...