Inktober 2019

Prompt list 2019

Bukavac - It is a demonic creature from Southern Slavic tales. It lives in and around water and preys on any people and animals that wander too close.

Grootslang - Elephant/snake hybrid monster from South Africa

Lou Carcolh - A giant mollust/snake hybrid from southern France folklore. Its mouth is surrounded with long slimy tentacles that grab anything they can reach to pull it in its gaping mouth.

Ammit - The devourer of souls Ammit appears in Egyptian mythology as a crocodile - lion - hippo hybrid.

Dagwanoenyent - A flying head that appears in Iroquois and Wyandot mythology. It is a ravenous spirit with an insatiable hunger for human flesh.

Adze - A shapeshifter demon from Ghana and Togo. It usually takes form of a vampiric firefly that sucks blood and spreads diseases, but also takes on human form when it is found.

Nuckelavee - A horrific sea demon from Orkney islands in appears as a skinless horse with an giant headed mans torso attached on its back. It spreads poisonous gas from its mouth.

Taniwha - Found in Maori folklore, Taniwha are water spirits. Ones found in sea resemble whale sized sharks, while the ones from rivers and lakes resemble giant lizards.

Keelut - Found in Innuit folklore it is a hairless dog with hair only on its feet to hide its tracks in snow more easily. It stalks travelers at night before it attacks them while they are unaware of its presence.

Yara Ma Yha Who - Short monkey man with bloated head and gaping frog mouth that waits in top of fig trees for its victims to suck their blood with its octopus like suckers on tips of its fingers and then devour them whole.

Bake Kujira - A ghost whale which brings disease, fires and death to whaling villages in Japan.

Black Shuck - For centuries, inhabitants of England have told tales of a large black dog with malevolent flaming eyes (or in some variants of the legend a single eye) that are red or alternatively green. They are described as being 'like saucers'.

Ijiraq - Normally invisible demon from Innuit mythology resembles a human-caribou hybrid who kidnaps children, only to leave them to die from the harsh arctic elements.

Nalusa Falaya - It's an evil and devious creature from the myths of the Choctaw Native Americans. They were said to have a human body with sharp spines protruding from their back, body covered with hair and their heads with small eyes and pointed ears.

Akaname - Its name means "Filth Licker" and it is appearing in Japanese folklore. It takes residence in dirty bathrooms and toilets where it licks old hair, mold and dirt. Its saliva is poisonous.

Inkanyamba - The Zulu tribes of South Africa believe it to be a large serpent with an equine head. Most active in the summer months, it is believed that the Inkanyamba's anger causes the seasonal storms.

Banshee - It is a death spirit from Celtic folklore. It usually represents a dead maiden. Whoever hears its screams at night is surely to die soon.

Gashadokuro - Gigantic human skeleton that creeps around at night in Japan to catch people wandering in the dark. It then bites the victims head off to drink the spraying blood from its neck.

Kinie Ger - It was a ruthless killer with the head and body of a quoll and limbs of a human found in Aboriginal mythology. It was wandering around the bush killing everything on sight.

Manananggal - In Philippine folklore Manananggal is a vampiric creature that detaches its upper torso and flies with its batlike wings to prey on pregnant women at night.

Wendigo - Found in Anishinaabe mythology it is a man eating spirit somehow in human like form with only one toe on each foot, big red or yellow eyes and wide lipless mouth filled with yellowish sharp teeth.

Balor - Balor (sometimes spelled Balar or Bolar), also known as Balor of the Evil Eye, is the tyrant warrior of Fomorians, a race of semi-divine beings from Irish mythology feared for the power of his large eye that wreaks destruction when opened.

Teke Teke - A ghost of a woman that was sliced apart by a train found in Japanese urban folklore. It can run very fast on its arms and carries a sickle to cut its victims legs off to steal them.

La Cegua - A monster from central America. It usually takes form of a beautiful woman waiting for a drunken man to pick her up. She later transforms into its real appearance with a head of a horse.

Surma - It is a hound with serpemts tail that guards gates of Hell found in Finnish folklore.

Penanggalan - A vampiric creature from Malaysian folklore. It resembles a woman during the day and it detaches its head with innards at night so it can fly around.

Kamaitachi - A demonic weasel with sickles for its paws it rides the whirlwinds of Japanese mountains to cut people's feet off.

Preta - A hungry ghost from Hindiist, Buddhist and Taoist religions. It resembles a thin old almost mummified person with bloated stomach and long thin neck.

Draugr - Found in Norse folklore Draugr are animated corpses that come back to life simply to harm the living.

Tiktik - A Harpy-like monstrosity from Philippines that craves flesh and blood. It specially likes to eat human fetuses.

Drop Bear - An urban myth in Australia tells about vicious bears that drop from trees to rip your face off. You can protect yourself by putting vegimite behind your ears and sticking a fork in your hair. Talking loudly with Australian accent may help too