Rare Monsters

  Kamaitachi are invisible spirit weasels that ride whirlwinds and cut up victims in their path. It's debated whether the kamaitachi are invisible because they exist in the spirit world invisible to the human eye, or if they move so quickly they can't be perceived. Kamaitachi look like Japanese weasels but with sickle limbs and hedgehog like spikes on their back. Kamaitachi attack in threes. The first one slices the victim's legs and knocks them to the ground. The other slices up the victim, giving them thousands of cuts in a single second. The third applies a salve that heals the victim, ensuring none of the wounds are fatal. This leaves the victim knocked to the ground with scrapes and scratches but no serious injuries. It's said the kamaitachi do this to collect human blood, either to drink it or use it for magic. There are many region beliefs about the kamaitachi. In the Shin'etsu and Tohoku regions the kamaitachi take offence to people desecrating calendars. ...

  The Filey Brigg is a low, rocky peninsula off the coast of North Yorkshire, right outside the village of Filey. There are many myth of supernatural things happening at Filey Brigg and it's the location of legends and monsters. One such legend is of a fierce dragon living in the waters around the peninsula. The exact time frame of this legend varies, some put it in the medieval era, while others say it only happened a few centuries ago. There was a massive dragon living in the waters off the shores of Filey. It was said said to be a wide range of sizes, up to a mile long in some cases. The dragon was a menace to the area, sinking ships and sweeping people out to sea. No one could approach the shore without risking their lives. The dragon had one weakness however, a love of the local sticky cakes known as parkins. The locals tried to appease the dragon with its favourite sticky cakes, but its apatite could never be satiated. There are multiple different stories about how the drag...

  Aitvaras are a type of malicious house spirit from Lithuanian mythology. They look like purely black or white roosters with flaming tails while inside the house, and like small dragons outside. When they fly they look like a comet streaking across the sky. Aitvaras hatch from eggs of a 9 to 15 year old rooster. Don't ask how a rooster would lay eggs, although it's a motif I've noticed popping up in mythology occasionally. The aitvaras would serve a family in a household through deceptive means. It would bring wealth and good fortune to the household by stealing from the neighbours. The aitvaras would go on nightly flights to rob them. Owning an aitvaras would inevitably bring strain between the household and the rest of the community. Additionally, the aitvaras would slowly siphon away the souls of the residents, damning them. Once an aitvaras was inside a house it was very difficult to remove. Killing it would be difficult as it would heal as soon as it touched the floor...

  The billdad is a fearsome critter from lumberjack lore. It's a hybrid of bird and beaver with a little kangaroo thrown in too. It has the head of a hawk or eagle. It's front legs are short and taloned like the back legs of an eagle. It has a fur covered mammalian body, long, jumping kangaroo legs that end in webbed beaver feet and a beaver tail. The billdad is found only in Boundary pond, a small lake in Maine. There the billdad would hunt for fish. It did this by waiting on the shore for a fish to surface while hunting insects. Then the billdad would leap just past the fish and slam it's tail down onto the surface of the water, knocking the fish out. The billdad could then collect up the fish and eat it as its leisure. It was said that large billdads could cover a length of 60 yards in one leap. Billdads were secretive animals and more often seen then heard. Their tail slaps making a distinct sounds like someone slapping the water with a oar. In spite of having a very ...