Dragons
This epic poem tells the tale of a Swedish king who, after ridding the land of a demon and his mother, is killed by a dragon, leaving his servant to avenge him.
What is Beowulf?
The titular Little Red Riding Hood is pursued by this cunning canine through the woods on the way to her grandmother’s house.
Who is the Big Bad Wolf?
This multi-headed creature was slain by the demigod Heracles as part of his twelve labors.
What is the Hydra?
This novel tells the story of a bloodsucking immortal seeking out his long lost love in the body of a Victorian woman named Mina.
What is Dracula?
This giant ape made his appearance in 1933 climbing the Empire State Building through the use of stop motion animation.
Who is King Kong?
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire features the character Daenerys Targaryen, a woman who has, in her care, this number of dragons.
What is three?
This sorceress of Russian fairy tales rides in her cauldron rather than her broom and lives in a house held up by chicken legs.
Who is Baba Yaga?
King Phineas was rescued by Jason and the Argonauts from these half-bird pests that ate at his meals for several days.
What are harpies?
This 1915 novel by Franz Kafka features a salesman turned giant insect.
What is The Metamorphosis?
This radioactive dinosaur colloquially known as the “King of the Monsters” has another more official title that literally translates to “gorilla-whale.”
Who is Godzilla?
This giant of Norse and Germanic folklore is transformed into a dragon after stealing the treasure belonging to his murdered brother.
Who is Fafnir?
This Arthurian tale features a formidable foe to Sir Gawain whose skin pigmentation is representative of the magical nature that is slowly fading in the world.
Who is The Green Knight?
While he was aided in solving the labyrinth in the kingdom of Crete, Theseus slew this beast inside it all by himself.
What is the Minotaur?
In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, this disgruntled half-man half-fish creature lives on the island where Prospero and his daughter Miranda wash ashore.
Who is Caliban?
This student of Willis ‘O Brien created thousands of gigantic beasts featured in numerous films like The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Clash of the Titans.
Who is Ray Harryhausen?
In the fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the compassionate half-giant Hagrid hatches an egg, resulting in Norbert, this type of dragon, being born.
What is a Norwegian Ridgeback?
The fearsome ogre in the tale of Puss In Boots is outwitted by shapeshifting into various animals of size and ability, ending with this small creature often favored by cats as a nice snack.
What is a mouse?
After the Trojan War, Odysseus sailed for his home with his crew, only to get caught between two aquatic monsters that cause both whirlpools and shipwrecks.
Who are Scylla and Charybdis?
The Adventures of Pinocchio features a climax involving the titular puppet rescuing his father Geppetto from this.
What is The Terrible Dogfish?
Colossal is a 2015 film featuring a giant creature appearing in South Korea who can only be controlled by a young woman played by this actress.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
In Asian mythology, dragons are seen as benevolent creatures that bring good fortune, serving as the inspiration for this optimistic and lovable character from The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.
Who is Falkor the Luckdragon?
Italian poet Giambattista Basile wrote a collection of fairy tales, one of which was called “Goat-Face” involving the titular goat-faced woman Renzolla, who forgot to thank a giant this type of reptile for raising her as his own and as a result faces his wrath.
What is a lizard?
This is the answer to the Sphinx’s riddle.
What is a man?
The novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman features a plethora of strange happenings as the protagonist discovers a world that is not what it seems, operated by this spindly creature who disguises herself as her parent.
Who is the Other Mother?
This kaiju of the hit Japanese show Ultraman is depicted as a bird-like alien with a mouth-like orifice in the center of its belly.
Who is Bemstar?