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    Loch Ness MonsterThe Loch Ness Monster is said to be a large aquatic animalwhich looks like a plesiosaur like reptile, reportedly seen inthe waters of Lochness, Scotland. Reports of the mysteri-

    ous creature date back to the 6th century.

    Mythical creatures are animalsand beasts that are believed tobe real even though there isn't

    enough evidence to supporttheir existence. They gainedpopularity through literary cir-culation and folk lore.

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    Mermaid

    The mermaid is a legendary aquaticcreature of the sea with the head andtorso of a human female and the tailof a fish. In some cultures the Mer-maid was considered to be a sea

    Goddess and the earliest of mermaidstories comes from Assyria around1000 BC. The sound of a mermaidsinging will enchant men and causethem to walk off their ships or run

    them aground.

    Mongolian DeathwormThe Mongolian death worm is be-lieved to live in the Gobi Desert andsupposedly looks like a bright redworm with spiked projections atboth ends of its body. It is attractedto the colour yellow and touchingany part of it results in instant death.

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    Sea SerpentSea serpents come in allshapes and sizes and are

    either fully or partly ser-pentine. Sightings dateback hundreds of years.Although there havebeen many reported

    sightings, there is still nophysical evidence oftheir existence.

    AbaddonAbaddon means destruc-tion, ruin, and perdition.

    The word Abaddon, is alsoused to refer to the placesof the dead. Abaddon isdescribed as the king ofthe bottomless pit and of a

    plague of locusts thatresemble war horses withcrowned human faces andhaving women's hair, lions'teeth, locusts' wings, and

    the tail of a scorpion.

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    YetiThe Abominable Snowman,or Metch-Kangmi in Tibetan,

    is a huge, hairy creature thatwalks upright and haunts thesnow-capped peaks of theHimalayas.

    CyclopsCyclops are a race of giants thatare characterised by a single eyein the middle of their foreheads. It

    is said that three cyclops thatwere rescued from Tartarus, adungeon underneath the under-world, by Zeus and togetherforged the god's thunderbolt.

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    MinotaurIn Greek mythology, a minotaur is a giant human with thehead of a bull. He is the son of a Pasiphae and a magical

    white bull that was sent to king Minos by Poseidon. Be-cause of his aggressive nature, king Minos constructed agigantic labyrinth in which he imprisoned the Minotaur.

    The End.

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