Every culture has stories of beasts and monsters, many of them passed down for centuries. But monsters aren't real – right? Sorta. Many mythical monsters may have been based on real creatures with ...

Journey to the West’s most well known character is arguably Sun Wukong, the monkey king who joins the monk on his pilgrimage to retrieve sacred buddhist texts in the Chinese novel. For English ...

Section of the Chapter Seven frontispiece Natalie created for Enchanted Creatures showing curiosity cabinet specimens Source: Natalie Lawrence I've always thought that nonhuman animals (animals) are ...

The Roman historian Sallustius, also known as Sallust, hit on a crystalline formulation to describe concepts that we know to be fictional and unreal but that nevertheless loom large in our ...

Did you know cryptids (creatures that are believed to exist despite a lack of proof) might be living in Ohio? Folklore tells us Ohio has several scary creatures roaming across the state. On your ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in the dirt and stories passed around the fire, and sometimes, those stories ...

Ask historian Brooks Blevins his favorite Halloween story, and you won't get the kind that raises goosebumps around a campfire. He calls it "tame and unremarkable." "I suppose I hold on to it because ...

Which Mythical Creature Represents You, Based on Zodiac Sign originally appeared on Parade. For centuries, mythical creatures have captivated our imaginations through enchanting tales woven into the ...