Mythological creatures are in essence the manifestations ... According to an South African legend, the great and terrible Grootslang was one of the first creatures the gods ever made.

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

Mermaids are multicultural mythical figures ... Across the continent of Africa, mermaid-like water deities such as Yemaya and Mami Wata reflect the powerful connection between human communities ...

A San myth recalls that "enormous brutes", now completely extinct, used to roam southern Africa a very long time ... of "rain-animals", a fantastic creature of the San pantheon.

Benoit first saw a painting by the San people of a creature that appeared semi-mythical in a book dating to the 1910s. Benoit tracked down the farm in South Africa where it was described — the same ...

Believed to live in swamps, the ninki-nanka appears in the folklore of many parts of West Africa. It is described as ... after being shown pictures of various reptiles and mythical animals, the ranger ...

The idea that Africa was potentially home to prehistoric ... was to ‘discover’ and identify their legendary creatures for them.” For instance, the first time the British public saw an ...

For the San people of South Africa, the spark that inspired some of their rock ... The painting also portrays the mythological creature as spotted, resembling mummified dicynodont skin found in the ...