Mythical Creatures of Britain

[Steve]

The subject of Hags ahs come up again in the main group, and that lead
me on another internet Google search which in turn lead to a very
interesting website...

"Mysterious Britian - a guide to mysterious places, legends and
folklore within the British Isles."

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/index.html

This site works best with MS Internet Explorer. The cascading menus
don't quite work right in Mozilla or Netscape.

Interesting facts-

We've all heard of the Loch Ness Monster, but there are may
Lochs/lakes that have had monster sightings, one that even has a
longer and more frequent history of sightings than Loch Ness.

Dragons are the oldest monster and are found in nearly every culture
on earth. Dragon cave paintings have been found dating back 25,000
years. BUT, and this is a big BUT, there are still modern sighting of
dragons.

Texas - Modern sightings include a huge, winged reptile that
terrorized the San Antonio valley, Texas for several months in 1976.

Tibet - . A house sized, long necked, scaly, green dragon with
formidable teeth that has eaten fishermen and livestock in Lake Wembu,
Tibet,...

China - a horned, black-scaled dragon seen by five hundred witnesses
in July 2002 in Lake Tianchie, northeast China.

Wales - In the early 19th century folklorist Mary Trevelyan
interviewed many elderly people living in the Glamorgan area of Wales.
They recounted memories from their youth (early 19th century) of a
race of winged serpents said to inhabit the forest around Penllyne
Castle....

For more details, see the book "Dragons; More than a Myth?"

I found many fun links by searching Google for 'Folklore Hag'.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)