Quotes About Mythical beings

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

The difference between a Marvel superhero and a DC superhero is that we place Marvel superheroes in the real world that we recognize and that we know.

Why is it so impossible to believe: that we are as many headed as monsters, as many armed as gods, as many hearted as angels?

Most gumihos are scary beings in ghost stories.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.

Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.

You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

Gold for collars and bindings. Silver for protection. Werewolves and wampyrs and such. And protection from iron, of course.

There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.

Nightingale said that everything was true, after a fashion, and that had to include vampires, didn't it? I doubted they were anything like they were in books and on TV, and one thing was for certain – they absolutely weren't going to sparkle in the sunlight.

Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds... - Algernon Blackwood

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

Fairies or Fae or Fey are Magical Creatures entrenched into the folklore of Chinese Culture as old as the Dragon.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.

And the nice thing about a stake through the heart was that it also worked on non-vampires.

The gods of Mewt are still very much alive, and not even the emperor would deign to destroy them.

It was like a fairytale. She couldn't imagine these creatures of myth physically present in the land.

Azdaha were no joke. ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention.

Vampires," Sean said, the way parents usually said "teenagers" when their children were out of earshot.

Nonsense. It's elves!

Reasons for cancellation order: 1. Baby-eating aquatic faerie equines do not exist.

Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman grew out of the ooze under his left armpit, and one of his legs fathered a son on the other leg.