Comp of Monsters 3

It's time for more monsters.

The famous pet of Hades himself. Cerberus is the hellhound that guards the entrance to the underworld in greek mythology, preventing the living from entering, and the dead from leaving. While it's common knowelge that Cerberus had 3 heads, not everyone knows that he also had a lion's claws, a serpent's tail, and a mane of snakes.

Though several heroes have managed to enter the underworld, this was typically not done by defeating Ceberus, but rather through an alternative entrance, as Cerberus would have stopped them otherwise. With permission from Hades, Heracles actually owerpowered Cerberus, and brought it with him to King Eurystheus as the last of his 12 labors. Cerberus later returned to his post, as the loyal dog he is.

A supernatural raven from Danish folklore. The Valravn ("raven of the slain") are said to be ravens who had eaten the heart of a king or chieftain slain in battle. By doing this they would gain human knowlege, supernatural powers, and should they ever eat the heart of a child, they could turn into knights.

Other stories describe them as peaceless souls that seeks redemption, which they could only achieve by consuming the blood of a child. Versions of them as raven/wolf hybrids, similar to a griffin, also exists.

When the black plague hit Norway in 1349, stories of a personification of the plague later emerged. She was called Pesta (pest=plague), and was described as an old hag dressed in black who wandered across the land, bringing the plague with her. If she arrived carrying a rake, some would survive. If she arrived carrying a broom, everyone died.

One story tell of a ferryman who helped her across a lake. When he realised who it was, he begged for her to spare him, and she told him that for his kindness, he would recieve a painfree death. He died quietly in his sleep later that night. Unfortunatley, he had infected his family as well.

A small gnome/troll like creature from the folklore of certain native amarican tribes. They were supposedly once friendly to humans, but later turned on them, begining to kidnap people, push them off cliffs, blind people with sand, and attack with spears and arrows. They also had magic abilities, including the ability to control the souls of people they had killed.

The story of how they turned on humans is connected to a creator giant called Maushop, who the people loved and adored, making the pukwudgies jealeus. It resulted in a nasty conflict between the pukwudgies and Maushop, which in adition to making the pukwudgies turn on man, also led to the pukwudgies killing Maushop's 6 sons, and in some versions even Maushop himself.
Jesus. Those are some badass little things.

A demon from Orcadian mythology, the Nuckelavee was the most horrible demon of the Scottish isles. Known as "the devil of the sea", it was still said to cause a lot of trouble on land, like epidemics, drought, and it's breath could sicken livestock and cause bad crops. People would usually not even dare speak it's name, not without saying a prayer aftewards. Should one be chased by it however, all you had to do to be safe, was to cross fresh water, like a stream.

It's not really spesified how it looked like while in the sea, but there a detailed descriptions of how it looked like on land. A horse with a large gaping mouth, one single eye that burns with a red flame, fin like appendageson on his legs, and a human torso growing out of the horse's back, like a rider. It also had no skin, with black blood coursing through it's yellow veins.

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