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Are you partial to a dragon? Or something alittle more rare? Do they feature in your books? Or maybe in paintings around your house.

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Dullahan: The headless phantom coachman, who drive a black coach, known as coach-a-bower (cóiste-bodhar), sometimes drawn by headless horses. In the coach, there is a coffin; Thomas Crofton Croker called it the Death Cart. The Dullahan were usually accompanied by the banshee, wailing as if in the funeral. Sometimes, this banshee is also headless. In other tradition, the Dullahan doesn't ride in a coach, but ride a headless horse.

If a person opened a door, when he or she hears a coach rumbling by, that person may have a pitcherful of blood thrown onto the person's face. That person is therefore marked for death.

I also have a fondness for orcs, banshees, centaurs, harpies, and norse trolls

It seemed that dullahan can take off or put on his head at will. The dullahan may even toss his head around like in a gruesome ballgame. Those who watch him pass may lose their eye to his whip. According to Yeats, the cracking of whip is the omen of death.

Korrigan:The most common female fairies in the Breton tradition are the korrigans that resided in the woods, especially at Broceliande, often near a stream, spring or fountain. She was fairy that seeks a mortal lover.

The korrigan seemed to be Breton version of the banshee. The korrigan was probably a pagan druidess originally. She was equated with gwragedd annwn – the Welsh fairies of the lake and streams.
She tried to seduce mortal who would drink from her water, she would lure him to sleep with her. If the man refused her advance or seduction, she would angrily curse him to a doom. This is what happened to the Seigneur of Nann.
The Seigneur was married to a woman whom he loved. One day, his wife asked for some May-blossoms from the forest. The Seigneur rode out, but during his ride, he became thirsty, and drank the water from a fountain. Here, the Seigneur encountered the korrigan who demanded that he sleep with her. But the Seigneur angrily refused because he was faithful to his wife and rode away after hearing that he would die in three days. The moment the Seigneur rode back to his castle, he went immediately to the church, instead of back to his wife. The priest, his mother and other people kept the secret of his fate from his wife. Three days later, the Seigneur's mother finally told her daughter-in-law the truth. The wife died of broken heart and was buried beside the Seigneur.In Breton folklore, she was the most likely suspect in the abduction of mortal infants. As foster-mother of the baby, she would raise it as if the child was her own.


Changeling:
According to folklore, a fairy would secretly exchange a mortal infant with that of the fairy kind. The fairy baby was called changeling. Sometimes, the stolen babies were returned to the families, especially when a person can expose the true nature of the changeling. The changeling existed in all folklore and fairy tales.
In Scottish Gaelic tradition, the changeling was called tàcharan or umaidh. In Irish folklore, it is corpán sidhe, síodhbradh or síofra; and in Manx it is Ihianoo shee. The Welsh called them plentyn a neidiwyd am arall.
Usually the fairy babies were sickly. One way to recognise them is to place them on a fire and chant a formula. If it is a changeling, it would leave, climbing up the chimney.
According to Yeats, the stolen baby will live in a place of full "good living and music and mirth".
So far, in Celtic mythology I have come across mortal babies being stolen by fairies, but not replaced with fairy infants.

You missed the most gruesome part of the Dullahan, mouldy cheese skin :D

Wait, I forgot the valkyries, chymeras, inugami, ghouls and the ice women.

PEGASUS! (of course! What else is there that can compare?!) :P

I think I can hear charlie the unicorn sobbing in the corner there G.G :p

Oh did I mention titans, giants, ogres cyclops and any sort of thing that could eat a human as if it was a marshmallow?

And my mind just implodes when thinking of barghests, hellhounds and any kind of shapeshifter

lol marshmellow humans :p

Btw.... Do Bacchants count as mithological creatures?

And mermaids... not the pretty ones from disney, but the ones with razor-sharp teeth, scales...

Bisky wrote: "lol marshmellow humans :p"

it's all your fault that I came with this expression

@Bisky I prefer wings over horn any time. Besides, Unicorns are not mythological creatures. (At least according to Wikipedia)It says they are not in Greek mythology but account for Greek HISTORY.

Personally I think that either they once existed and are now extinct (not probable) or people saw antelopes and mistook them for a horse with a horn (most probable). They are also mentioned in the Bible.

If Bacchants are what I think they are I think they count. And lol.

Dunno about that lol, I think alot of sea creatures have a possibility of exsisting with how deep the ocean is. Not to mention Bloop :p

@Bisky, what do you think they are?

Some kind of tortured female souls?

Pegasus, although I've never written one.

Twilight sparkle? :p

Dwarves are a fav of mine (OK, Duh)

I like the Wyvern. Mostly because of how it's spelled. It's basically a dragon really, although in the old Dragonlance series they had the tail of a scorpion, which when I was a kid I thought was bad ass. Actually, I still think that's pretty bad ass.

Yeah I like the word alot :3

Banshee, in the sense of a weeping woman who is the harbinger of death. (The fact that I'm married is irrelevant.)

I love mythological creatures. Don't think I have a favourite one.

I too like all mythological creatures, but I prefer the ones that aren't as commonplace, and dragons. :)

I love all things mythological especially fairies like the leanan sidhe and dragons! Always had a weak spot for dragons. Oddly, I've never used either in any of my books.

I never expected to write anything mythological, but a story found me and now I'm committed to Chinese dragons.

My favorite banshee story is from Disney of all places: Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Very cleverly plotted and young Sean Connery sings!

Ooh, chinese dragons! I'm intrigued. Darby O'Gill is one of my favorite movies. In fact, I recently shared it with some of my friends on movie night.

Dragons and hellhounds. I like mythical creatures that are associated with fire. Not sure why. They just spark my interest. Ha, ha! And yes, I have used them in my writing.

You weren't perhaps a warlock were you? :p (WoW)

@Bisky Are Little Ponies mythological creatures? :p

No, they are real :] Duh :p

I like kelpies, cockatrice, and cherufes! For those who don't know, kelpies are rather nasty water horses, cockatrice are very similar to basilisks, and cherufes are lava monsters who like to throw the heads of sacrificed virgins from the volcano!