Magical creature
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Magical creature, magical beast, or magical animal may refer to:
Religion, mythology, and folklore
[edit]- Legendary creature, a mythological or folkloric creature
- Anthropomorphic animal, a non-human animal attributed to human traits, emotions and intentions
- Cryptid, a creature whose existence has been suggested but is unrecognized by scientific consensus and often regarded as highly unlikely
- Monster, a type of grotesque creature, whose appearance frightens and whose powers of destruction threaten the human world's social or moral order
- Mythological hybrid, a creature composed of parts from different animals
- Human–animal hybrid, an entity that incorporates elements from both humans and animals
- Talking animal, a non-human animal that can produce sounds or gestures resembling those of a human language
- Therianthrope, a human being who metamorphoses into another animal by means of shapeshifting
- Animals in religion
- Animal deity, a deity represented in the form of an animal
- Animal spirit, the spirit of an animal
- Familiar spirit, a supernatural entity believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic
- Power animal, a broadly animistic and shamanic concept
- Totem, a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people
- Vahana, a being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle
- Zoomorph, a being represented in the form of an animal
Fiction
[edit]- Book of Imaginary Beings, a 1957 book by Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero
- A Book of Magical Beasts, a 1970 book by Ruth Manning-Sanders
- Magical creatures in The Chronicles of Narnia
- Magical creatures in Harry Potter
- Talking animals in fiction