Brief Bestiary

A blinding red light like the Sun gleams from the surface of his head. The Akagashira of Tosa may not be malicious, but it remains dangerous to encounter.

Powerful black-furred bulls of the lochs. Depending on the region, the calves they sire are either considered calamitous and marked for death, or they will become the herd's strongest.

He is consistent in his actions, offering but one type of trade in exchange for a share of the gold he owns, the conditions are always the same. He will always request a child's blood for the gold.

Lock-bypassing critters, a keyhole crab munches on keyholes.

The horrific hairy leg, a single disembodied leg that would beat victims senseless in Recife.

Vicious, flesh-consuming pests that supposedly dwell on an island near British Columbia.

One of Fujiwara no Chikata's Shikishū, a set of powerful oni that wielded specific supernatural powers to easily weigh the tide of battle heavily in their favour. Sui-ki was elementally affiliated with water.

A physical manifestation of nature utilized to warn children against getting sunstroke or heatstroke during the summer months.

A form of get-rich-quick dark magic, pesugihan babi. This bestial transformation has the capabilities of robbing entire villages blind during the dark of the night.

A simple, albeit strange singular sighting of a creature that despite only vaguely resembling either would be labelled some sort of "vampire caterpillar."

A pearl-bearing creature of Chinese legend, while fairly strange in description, it seems they are nothing but beneficial.

A blazing demon, Ukobach performs upkeep on the boilers of Hell. It seems he had time on the side to apparently invent the culinary art of frying food as well a fireworks.

An unidentified mysterious animal said to have passed through an unidentifiable river, the Chigapulan River Monster would be on the larger end of real ichthyosaurs.

A strange beast of Narrabeen, known for little more than walking out of, or atop, the lagoon's waters.

A reptilian beast of Himmapan, a carnivore capable of traveling across land and through water.

It is briefly mentioned among the list of the world's animals in "Le Couronnement de Renart" during Ysengrin's recruiting of animals, the list itself referencing Thomas of Cantimpré's "Liber de natura rerum."

Many could say the Metal Man incident caused a downward spiral in Greenhaw's life. As a result of the case, in the years afterwards he was ridiculed by his town, dismissed from his position as Falkville's Chief of Police, divorced by his wife, and his home burned down.