Talk:Lists of legendary creatures

message: The overall list includes deities, animal symbols which were never believed to be real things, cryptids, angels, demons, spirits, undead, a real natural and mundane bird, and a city whose page is a stub containing nothing more than a statement that it is a city with a map showing its location. Almost nothing on the list would be a "creature" by my understanding. (In particular, I don't think undead would count at all- they're dead. Creature implies it is a living animal. Spirits, ghosts, zombies, and the like, probably shouldn't be on this list.) Also, many of the deific beings listed are currently worshiped to this day, they are part of rich, complex, and CURRENT religious communities! I think their inclusion here as "creatures" would be mildly offensive to anyone from one of these faiths. Furthermore, including religious entities like Zeus as being equivalent to "gold-digging ants", which are easily summarized as an ancient translation error which got repeated for too long, is pretty disrespectful to our own history. You could change the name to "lists of supernatural entities, mythological beings, cryptids, fairytales, and animal-like symbols" but I don't think that would be an especially useful list to anyone. (Which, by the way, is why I have a problem with what the list currently contains). 68.179.88.89 (talk) 17:44, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this all mixed up? 

message: I'm noticing a lot of individuals from mythology (such as Aethon and Zeus) in this list. Is it meant to list just legendary species, or both species and individuals? For my part, I think it should just list species, otherwise it can grow out of hand too quickly. Pfhreak 03:57, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Species or Individual? 

message: Sorry, but it’s my first time and I wasn’t sure where to post my question so bare with me.
I’m looking for a mythical creature that when killed will reborn stronger and more dangerous thank before. Because of his special ability there wasn’t any creature that can take him and eventually he dies from old age.
Thank you,
AdSSonic 22:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I’m looking for a mythical creature ... please help :))) 

message: Should´nt the nahual be on this list????
: I think you meant Nahuelito, the argentinian version of Nessie. I added it, by the way. --Apeder 16:23, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I think they mean the nagual (or however it's spelled), a shapeshifting animal/sorcerer from Mexican folklore. 67.167.29.149 (talk) 19:53, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nahual 

message: Reptilian Humanoid or lizardman should be on the list.  I'll add it now  --LizardPariah 05:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lizardman

message: I was annoyed to find 'Orc' on the list. The list is meant to be about Mythological animals, Cryptozoology. Not things in stories. Werewolves are acceptable because people have reported sitings, but nobody believes in orcs.
* "Mythological" creatures are from stories, just not modern stories. When selecting articles for inclusion in the list, I've tried sticking with the definition from the legendary creature article: "A legendary creature is a mythological or folkloric creature (often known as 'fabulous creatures' in historical literature)." Cryptids have been excluded, except in cases where the given cryptid is simply a legendary creature that is still believed in. (This was done partially because cryptids already have their own, rather extensive list, which also includes known hoaxes like the jackalope.) Species from modern fiction, like orcs, are definitely out. Pfhreak (talk) 16:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legendary Animals, but not Fictional, please 

message: God is a legendary creature? Isn't that offensive??
:It's also inaccurate... deities have their own list!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.36.53.11 (talk) 13:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  God? 

message: Fictional, not mythical/legendary.  I'm deleting this entry because it's ridiculous and just links to the Tolkien writings and what not.  Stupid.
* For similar reasons, I'm removing the Acromantula item. A general cleanup to remove fictional (vs legendary) creatures might be in order. Pfhreak 03:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ringwraiths? 

message: Gog and Magog and Dabah are (Islamic?) legendary creatures but they are not in the list. Mussav (talk) 14:52, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dabah, Gog and Magog 

message: Cannibal means that they eat their own kind.  Someone seems to be using that term to mean that it eats humans, which is incorrect unless the eater is human. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 17:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannibal 

message: From the Orc article: "Orc (OR'k) is a word used to refer to various tough and warlike humanoid creatures in various fantasy settings, appearing originally in the stories of Middle-earth written by J. R. R. Tolkien and derivative fictions." The green skin is an even more recent innovation. Ork, on the other hand, is from the legends of Tyrol. Pfhreak (talk) 18:29, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orc, lich, and other modern fantasy archetypes 

message: I have an issue with excluding Pegasus on the basis that he is a "progenitor". Pegasus is a unique, one-of-a-kind creature from Greco-Roman mythology. He is not the father of any other winged horses, except perhaps in modern pop culture. There are, however, two distinct winged horses also from Greco-Roman mythology: Arion, the winged stallion who can speak the human language and was born to Poseidon and Demeter; and the Pegasi, a race of winged and horned horses discussed by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History. You can look up all three of these creatures on theoi.com, which gives English translations of the exact Greco-Roman texts that mention them. 67.167.29.149 (talk) 19:59, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pegasus as Progenitor?

message: So is Capricorn a mythological creature? The seagoat that you commonly seen in the Horscope. --Ramu50 (talk) 00:50, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe. He is a symbol for the babylonian god Ea, but he is mentioned under "Aigikampoi", goat-fish. As I've been told, Capricorn is never a goat nor a buck, but instead a goat-fish. He have been refered to as Oannes, but I deem it incorrect. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 19:52, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

text: I would assume, that if Capricorn was on this list for any reason, it should be marked as a subgroup for something like the hippocampus and not as a separate entity. 75.118.167.20 (talk) 23:15, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capricorn 

message: Just in case I'm being an idiot (always possible): I recently did some anti-vandal clean up including removing references to Faberjacks and Frulubians from this List of legendary creatures. I want to make sure there really are no such creatures (my brief searching came up pretty dry). If they really exist I'll fix up everything and apologize. -- Quartermaster (talk) 01:45, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faberjacks and Frulubians 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Jack-In-Irons.jpg

message: It would be good if someone with a passion for this topic would be able to look to splitting this page up in to several parts.  It is way big.  Thx -- billinghurst (talk) 14:56, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 113 kb. It won't be hard. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 19:56, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I splat (imaginary strong form preterite for "split") it according to WP:SPLIT and be-bold, because of >113 kb. It took a little while. I'm trying to find some suitable template to mark this page that look exactly as before. Slow-connection surfers might wish to browse the splots (imaginary strong-form substantivation of "split"). ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 21:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page size 110kb 

message: It seems odd that there are spirits and "Deities" in this list.  Shouldn't this list be confined to "creature"---i.e., things that were or are supposed by those who believe or believed in them to have physical bodies. Corbmobile (talk) 22:58, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spirits and Deities 

message: So, I understand the need to nit-pick when it comes to what makes the list and what gets deleted from it, as well as not putting things like people's religion on here so that people don't complain, but after reading through this talk page and learning that cryptids have their own list (I had been under the impression that Cryptids were included because I came across what appeared to be one, the Agogwe), I think it would be nice if links to other related lists. Seeing the links to the list of cryptids and list of deities would definitely clue me in that cryptids and deities weren't supposed to be on the currently viewed list. DR. Tourny (talk) 07:01, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related Lists 

message: Should Grendel be added to the "G" list? I guess the question is does the creature have to appear in multiple stories/legends/myths, or just one?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enthreri (talk • contribs) 17:36, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Best to ask on Talk:List_of_legendary_creatures_(G). EvergreenFir (talk) 05:54, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Grendel

message: This is a list of the letters of the alphabet in order from A to Z. 
It does happen to have 26 links to separate pages that list legendary creatures grouped by starting letter, which I suppose shows a good faith effort on the part of some Wikipedians to not make the information the page purports to have completely inaccessible, just frustratingly scattered and time-consuming to access. But really, this is a pretty damn useless page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.26.108 (talk) 01:38, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:SPLIT. But we could rename the page "Lists of Legendary Creatures" EvergreenFir (talk) 04:22, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This Is Not a List of Legendary Creatures 

message: This list should be kept as cultural and historical mythical creatures from real places. "United States of North America" is not an official place under contemporary geo-political definition. I deleted "Bill Cypher" and "Demon Caterpillars" because they linked to Gravity Falls references. Go read a copy of Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology, for cryin' out loud.
I'm also dubious of the term "Riva - a wild-eyed creature of the future, sometimes bird". Never heard of this, and I can't find any references to it anywhere else. This should be verified or deleted.Teridactyl (talk) 00:09, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see Gravity Falls mentioned on this page at all... EvergreenFir (talk) Please  03:27, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

text: I do see someone added a few things to other subpages, but they've been removed from I can tell. I am adding a few myself, like the hidebehind because they are real folklore critters. EvergreenFir (talk) Please  03:32, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Gravity Falls" is NOT Mythical 

message: Lo que sigue es una lista de listas de criaturas legendarias de varios cuentos históricos, folklore, y sagas. Las entradas consisten en criaturas legendarias y únicas, no de individuos particularmente singulares de una especie comúnmente conocida. 186.30.145.36 (talk) 18:38, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 31 March 2017 

message: You might want to look at this [].Slatersteven (talk) 17:35, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge