Mythical Monsters

1. The Royal Air Force invented this mischievous creature to explain mysterious mechanical problems, then they were the title characters in a 1984 comedy horror produced by Steven Spielberg.

2. Until DreamWorks gave this hideous monster a makeover it was a bloodthirsty, bone-hungry, baby-snatching brute originally from French folklore.

3. The same Norse mythology that gave us Thor dragged out this being meant to be the opposite of Thor - unhelpful, ugly, fearful of lightning and if around today an Internet predator.

4. In folklore a supernatural baby that has supplanted a human baby is one of these, a trick used once by the Los Angeles Police Department in order to quash a 1928 missing child’s case.

5. Polyphemus is probably the most well-known one of these peripherally-challenged beings theorized to be a myth resulting from an elephant’s skull.

6. There is a discipline devoted to the study of this ungodly creature, and if you took a course in it you would learn there are seven different classifications, one for each deadly sin.

7. According to the writings of Sigmund Freud this mythical gorgon was “the supreme talisman who provides the image of castration — associated in the child’s mind with the discovery of maternal sexuality — and its denial.”

Courtesy of The Democratic Republic of Trivia