Posts from The mythology of creatures in Heroes (Goblins and Co.).

Gremlins:
English pilots first started talking about them during the Second World War.
During flights, motors and machine guns would suddenly begin to act up for no reason, and sights and other instruments would malfunction. This was difficult to explain, as aircraft were generally thoroughly checked before every flight.
Counterintelligence officers worked themselves to exhaustion searching for Nazi saboteurs. But what Counterintelligence and numerous commissions failed to do, the ordinary pilots achieved — they found the culprits. They turned out to be tiny evil spirits. They nested in the aircraft — in the grooves and under the plating — and played pranks. They were dubbed gremlins. After some time, gremlins appeared in America. But unlike the English gremlins, they settled in other types of machinery as well.
There were those who took them seriously and there were skeptics. Refusing to believe in evil spirits, they mocked them in every way. Walt Disney was among the skeptics, employing a caricatured image of gremlins. From sinister creatures, they were transformed into funny, cute rascals. Laughter killed the belief, and by the end of the war, people stopped talking about them.

Material from Wikipedia:

Gremlin (EnglishGremlin) — a mythical creature]], a malicious prankster, akin to a domovoy.

Apparently, the term first appeared in 1940 among English pilots and aviation technicians during the Battle of Britain. The first publication regarding the gremlin "phenomenon" was a story in the "Royal Air Force Journal" from April 181942.
It is believed that gremlins love to settle in the engines of cars, airplanes, and other machinery. It is because of their antics that machinery fails to start or even breaks down. To appease gremlins, it was customary to use a mixture of beer and machine oil, which was poured into a tin can and placed in close proximity to the technical unit.


But that's just an aside... Just that if you're going to make creatures, then make them... rather than using a caricature...

Thanks for the story, but if everything were based on mythology, then Titans should be monsters, but here they are completely different, and zombies shouldn't be like that either, and neither should gargoyles. Golems, according to mythology, should grow, and elves shouldn't be like Tolkien's elves. Demons should also be different, and I'm not even talking about poltergeists; ethereal ghosts shouldn't die immediately.

Titans — in myths, they aren't monsters.

Zombies — a reanimated corpse, incapable of thinking, feeling, or making independent decisions, existing only to execute the orders of its creator — a sorcerer. In what way are Zombies in the Game incorrect?

Elves:
Elves are similar to humans, only smaller, more beautiful, and more refined. They live in forests and lead a nocturnal lifestyle.
In early Germanic-Scandinavian mythology — an ageless, magic-wielding, beautiful race, living on Earth like humans, or in their magical land, which was also described as physically real (since according to legends, people enter and return from there alive). Such a representation of the alfar, partially preserved, reached even the Middle Ages, remaining imprinted in language, names, culture, and genealogy.
So, in principle, everything is correct.

Imps — yes, imps should be different.

Ghosts — yes, the downside is the killing of ghosts.

Yes, I haven't encountered any intelligent zombies yet either. But on the other hand, there's a reason they eat brains. :)
And elves, besides being a proud magical people, were also depicted as small human-like creatures, very small, living in the forest (and not beautiful), shearing wool from animals, and making life difficult for farmers. In general, these parallels in mythology are very interesting. Take, for example, the dragon: it exists in almost every culture. Sometimes it's a huge lizard, sometimes a three-headed snake, and sometimes, like in Chinese mythology, it's something else entirely. Forest heresy is very similar, all these living trees, brr... A satyr is a goat-legged creature (partly a leshy), to whom the ability to lead people astray is attributed. Also common are half-human, half-animal creatures, or human-like animals, such as beorn, and various kinds of werewolves.
And according to Scandinavian mythology, dark elves are creatures that, according to one version, are related to dwarves (they are the same), and according to another, to trolls. Now, dark elves are drow, and Salvatore loves to write books about them.
Oh, by the way, regarding Shrek - he is called either an ogre (a giant or a cannibal) or a troll. A troll is a dweller of swamps and rivers in Scandinavian mythology, living under a bridge (a mandatory condition), and is stout and shorter than a human. In modern times, a troll is a creature similar to a mountain and embodying its strength.
Orcs are creatures from early depictions of evil, embodying the dark side of Pluto (Greek Hades). In the Saga of Beowulf, orcs are something like zombies (which is probably why they resemble Tolkien's orcs, and he probably took them from there), and their greenish skin is like corpse spots. According to other interpretations, an orc is a creature with a boar's head (as in Might and Magic IV), as well as Warcraft-like freedom fighters (similar to those in Might and Magic III). Also, orcs are elves transformed by magic (or fallen elves). In general, there are many theories, and it's hard to grasp them with a clear head.

By the way, Magnus, this isn't the only way to create a zombie.
Soul-sucking.
1. At night, a sorcerer approaches the door of the intended victim's house, presses his lips to the door crack, and sucks out the soul of the sleeping person, placing it in a special bottle. The person, deprived of their soul, soon dies, is buried, and at midnight after the burial, the sorcerer and his assistants dig up the grave. The victim's name is spoken, after which the dead person supposedly tries to lift his head – because the sorcerer holds a vessel with his soul in his hand. As soon as he does this, the vessel is brought to the deceased's nose and opened for a fraction of a second, as if releasing part of the captured soul. It is believed that this restores life to the body. Completing the ritual, the sorcerer leads the revived zombie past his house and recites spells to forever deprive the victim of memories of his past life.
2. Another way to steal a soul is for the sorcerer to place a vessel with magical objects under the pillow, which will attract the soul. Finally, the sorcerer can prepare a special potion that paralyzes a person and thus deprives him of the ability to resist.

And there's also Zombie Powder... =)

Yes, I was talking about it. It seems to be made from pufferfish, or something else, and it's very psychotropic. A person enters a special state of sleep, which causes the heart to beat very slowly. In general, it's a prolonged lethargic sleep, but the person dies completely after 1.5 months because brain cells gradually die.

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Copy-pasting isn't always a good idea, and stealing other people's thoughts isn't right. If someone wants to, they can look it up themselves, and there's no need to claim someone else's words as your own. You didn't even bother to rephrase it in your own words or, at least, cite the source.