The following is original
European folk terror elements are divided into five categories:
1. Bible+Homer system: See the answer in "Morning is not before", which is already very comprehensive. As its derivatives, many evil beasts such as Nine-headed Dragon, Fire Dragon, Hobbit Bird, Three-headed Cerberus, Poisonous Flame Giant, Mermaid (Evil) Sai Ren have guest appearances in mainstream works of various departments.
2. Gothic: a monster originated from the ancient Gothic epic school (Germany, Eastern Europe), whose style is dominated by brutality, violence, giants and evil wild forces. It mainly includes the legend of ancient vampires, the story of werewolves, the story of the castle of lonely souls, and a series of stories with the horror theme of medieval castles. Besides, it obviously originated in Gargoyle, and the nocturnal dragon we translated also belongs to the Gothic school.
3. Victorian School: Many famous professional writers, such as Dickens, who originated in the early Victorian era, created a large number of horror novels to satisfy the royal family's boring desires. At present, the most famous ones are: Dracula, Count Vampire (different from the story of vampire clan), Frankenstein, Mermaid, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, etc. The main feature is to create an atmosphere of psychological terror, characterized by shocking blood and wounds, and the midnight scream of beautiful women. Later, with the development of literature, the horror scenes created by Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin, Phantom of the Opera House and other detective novels are called post-Victorian horror elements.
4. Irish School: The folklore of the Irish School is very rich, not limited to evil. Including many harmless alien creatures such as elves and goblins. For example, goblins, fairies, jungle elves, highland elves and swamp elves are collectively called Elvis Presley. Trolls; ; Orcs all originated from Irish mythology. In short, RR Tolkien is an expert on Irish mythology. All the positive and negative characters he used in The Lord of the Rings are completely from Irish mythology. Most supernatural beings in the magical novel Harry Potter are also based on Irish mythology (of course, not all).
5. Nordic Department: The ghost knight in the Middle Ages was called Scandinavian terror; The legend of ghost ship is called Viking horror, which belongs to the horror theme of mainland and ocean respectively. At the same time, there are also some harmless goblins from Nordic folklore, but these legends are often closely related to Catholic legends, and more are just derivatives. If you are interested in these, you can refer to the Complete Works of Andersen's Fairy Tales, and be careful not to select them. Our domestic children's anthology has deleted all the contents related to religion. For example, the ghost horse tomb pig on the second floor, according to the ancient Danish superstition, every time a church is built, a horse will be buried alive. Whenever a person dies, the soul of this horse will come to his house on three legs at night. Some churches bury a pig alive, and the soul of this pig is also called "tomb pig".
There are also many ghost foxes in the nature department. Most of these are from Pulp Fiction publications published in different times. Even during the economic depression, it appeared as a false and serious report. For example: Bigfoot Snowman in Alps, Loch Ness Monster, Griffin in ancient Persian mythology, unicorn and other exotic animals.
There are also many legends of evil spirits in the ancient East, such as the golden dummy of Pharaoh (this word comes from the Bible and now refers to the golden coffin of the walking Pharaoh), the immortal bird (that is, the phoenix), the god of war Anubis, the Sphinx and the mummy ... all belong to foreign terrorists. Not a local product.
The English and Chinese parts of Wikipedia have a complete "list of legendary creatures", which is not classified as I wrote above, arranged in alphabetical order, and records hundreds of well-known legendary creatures, most of which have pictures for reference. I wrote the link below. Whether we can see it in China depends on our personality.
http://en . Wikipedia . org/wiki/List _ of _ legendary _ creatures _ by _ type