mythological creatures

[norwegian-guy]

I'm pretty sure we (sweden) invented the short elves (the ones who are santa's helpers nowadays). Except back in the day they were cruel bastards who would pretty much ruin your life if the porridge you gave it was too warm (and if you forgot to give it porridge, may God have mercy on your soul).

As for games, I'm not too sure though. Or actually, they could make Farmville almost interesting.

Nisser ain't swedish, they are remnants of the old nordic religion and folkelore. In other words they are swedish, norwegian, icelandic and danish. Dunno if they have them in finnish folkelore as well, but could be.

OP: In norway we also have nisser but we also have trolls (also old scandenavian folkelore)like nisser they are part of the mountainpeople but trolls are either humansize (where the only thing that can identify them are the tail) or their huge (these are horrible to look at, huge nose bended back large mouth and eat christians). The mountainpeople or mountainfolk tends to, acording to the myths steal people and turn them into mountainfolk.
Their origin is dverger/dwarfs(that's nisser) and jotuns (that's trolls)

 

[Bonecrusher]

in mythological subject, it is sux to be Turkish.
of course, we have a shamanistic background, but it past ages after leaving shamanistic life. therefore most of the stories based on shamanistic beliefs are forgotten.
there are no "mythology" in Turkey.
we have some relation with the arabian legends.
most of the stories which people talk about are cin (djinni) or ifrit (efreeti) myths.
there are some other folkloric legends, but they seem taken from greek mythology (like huge giants or cyclopses).

 

[malmodir]

One of the weirdest mythological creatures of my country is the Wolpertinger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger].

There are some more commonly known, too. For example the Nightmare (originally Nachtmahr or Nachtalb) Here's [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Nachtmahr_%28Abildgaard%29.jpg&filetimestamp=20090223034158] some [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Johann_Heinrich_F%C3%BCssli_053.jpg&filetimestamp=20070227171422] art [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:John_Henry_Fuseli_-_The_Nightmare.JPG&filetimestamp=20090123121729].

 

[YoBadMama]

I live in America so.... I guess Mothman and the Jersey Devil.
Uncle Sam also, *Shudder*

 

[emeraldrafael]

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Reminds me of the Jackalope.

http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/images/jackalope_card.jpg
http://blogulate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/jaunty-jackalope.jpg

 

[GeorgW]

Humans. They're too scary to be real. But there are already a lot of games about those basterds.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Nessy is the obvious one I guess.

There's The Haggis which some locals use to trick foreigners into going Haggis hunting.

Spoiler

Oh we have those over here in the USA, only we call them Snipes.... they tend to ahve shorter hair.

OT: Sasquatch!!!! The best monster ever. Only he's real... I've seen him.

 

[Togs]

But i live in England and the closest thing we have to a mythical creature is in Scotland. Someone already mentioned Nessie so ill put out the succubus and incubus. Vampire variants that kill you with sex.

Not strictly true, England is chock full of myths and legends- most of them have just been forgotten along the road to modernisation.

The 1st myths of the Headless Horsemen started in the cornwall
The original concept of the lich is of English origin- it bears some similarity to the ancient vampire myths in that the unbaptised would rise from their graves as a shadowy creature that would devour its loved ones unless the lichs wake was sung over the corpse from death till the next full moon (google it, the poem will send chills down your spine).
The Great Hunt was an orginally a pagan myth
Arthurian legend is mythology too
Another one that you might be surprisingly familar with is that of the Gytrash- big spectral Dogs that would appear at night and either hunt down travellers or act as bad omen, i.e. the Grim from Harry Potter

There's hundreds more but this post would go on forever

(EDIT= The Lyke Wake Dirge for those interested- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyke-Wake_Dirge )

 

[traineesword]

Slenderman? he's a german mythological creature and he scares the crap out of me...he'd be brilliant in a game...or rather, always being glimpsed further away in the background of the game, occasionally being seemingly closer. and never ending up being a semi-chubby boy with his face painted white I'M LOOKING AT YOU MARBLEHORNETS

Slenderman was created by the internet for the internet.

Anyway, Scotlands got Nessie, and the wild Haggis' that roam the Highlands. And about 90% of all ghosts centered in Edinburgh Castle, if you believe the tours...

german slender man :3
http://www.jasonrhart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/slender.jpg

obviously, the internet is his current dwelling, but back in medieval germany, he was a feared foe

 

[Jon Shannow]

Nessy is the obvious one I guess.

There's The Haggis which some locals use to trick foreigners into going Haggis hunting.

Spoiler

don't lie the haggis is real, you've just never had a good hunt

 

[Omega500]

Greek mythology is packed to the brim with them. Debateable on which ones havent appeared in games yet.

But i live in England and the closest thing we have to a mythical creature is in Scotland. Someone already mentioned Nessie so ill put out the succubus and incubus. Vampire variants that kill you with sex.

Will-o-wisp, beast of bobmin, pixie, Gnomes, Knocker

 

[Geekosaurus]

Britain? I imagine it'd be some sort of three-piece suit-wearing creature that drinks tea, eat crumpets, wears a bowler and got around saying 'oh, I say!' Something quite camp.

 

[bruunwald]

America, home to jersey devil, mothman and flying spaghetti monster.

Don't forget the Sasquatch. How about the Bell Witch? Plus, the Native Americans had tons of mythological creatures, such as the Thunderbird, and various shapeshifters. My fave is the old woman spirit who plays her drums out in the dark. If you hear them, you die. Sort of like a banshee. Can't remember what she was called right now.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

But i live in England and the closest thing we have to a mythical creature is in Scotland.

You've not heard of the Green Man, the Beast of Bodmin Moor, Formorians, Kelpies, The Lambton Worm, The Jabberwock, Banshees, Brownies, Leprechauns, The Beast of Exmoor, Barghests, Boggarts, Gytrash, Cu Sith, Freybug, Redcaps, Knockers...Son, I am disappoint.

 

[beniki]

Greek mythology is packed to the brim with them. Debateable on which ones havent appeared in games yet.

But i live in England and the closest thing we have to a mythical creature is in Scotland. Someone already mentioned Nessie so ill put out the succubus and incubus. Vampire variants that kill you with sex.

Do not forget the fearsome beast of Caerbannog!

He has huge sharp, pointy teeth, with a vicious streak a mile wide! His lair is surrounded by bones!

 

[Electrohydra]

Here in Canada we have the thunderbird, a bird so huge the beating of his wings would be mistaken for thunder, and that snatched people away to eat them. There is also a nameless magical flying canoe, but that's not really a creature.

 

[supermariner]

i suppose as a Brit the dragon was one of ours
i'm sure it originated in the middle east or something like that
but Saint George slaying one and all that is largely a British cultural thing

plus every doctor who baddie ever written

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

Canada has the Quatchi, the Loup-Garou, and my personal favourite the Ogopogo!

Always interesting being a Canadian...

 

[Nocturnal Gentleman]

From the U.S. so the ones people already mentioned as well as creatures that came from stories told by native tribes. Everything from water panthers (some versions seem almost like an asian dragon mixed with a mountain lion), some weird shape-shifting turkey/vampire woman, half deer women, half dog men, shape-shifting homicidal forest midgets, a really cowardly dog monster that scares people and then runs away from you, a smaller swamp version of sasquatch, and some other creatures I can't think of right now. I wish I could remember the proper names but they're not coming to me right now.

Anyway, I'd love to see all of these in games. Especially the turkey creature. Turkeys are evil as hell.

 

[omicron1]

I want to see some game, somewhere, feature a Lamassu.