Monday, 24 October 2011

Beautiful but Deadly - Mystical Creatures

THE SEIRENES (or Sirens) were three sea nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song


MedusaGazing directly upon her would turn onlookers to stone.


EmpusaEmpusa was the beautiful daughter of the goddess Hecate and the spirit Mormo. She feasted on blood by seducing young men as they slept, before drinking their blood and eating their flesh. Empusa is pictured as wearing brazen slippers and bearing flaming hair.


SphinxSphinx was the most famous Mythological Creatures, sphinx is a mythical creature with a lion's body and Female Head. Sphinx, in Greek tradition, has the haunches of a lion, the wings of a great bird, and the face and breast of a woman. She is mythicised as treacherous and merciless. Those who cannot answer her riddle suffer a fate typical in such mythological stories, as they are killed and eaten by this ravenous monster.




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