"Mythical" Creatures Believers

[Buddha Dharma]

I believe in dragons as unseen beings. Not as ones of this plane. In many Japanese interpretations, dragons are elemental guardians.

I accept that any number of mythical creatures as you call it might exist on other planes. Sometimes people enter those planes- as in mythological stories. IE: Odysseus goes to Hades. This can happen with some god or spirit's assistance, or through use of psychedelic substances. Normally humans are not able to experience reality at the level I'm describing, as I see it.

Or perhaps sometimes we accidentally see into another realm by some weakening of the veil cloaking the two from one another.

After all, I believe in an Ultimate Reality underlying all things, and being them. The Ultimate isn't experiencing itself as divided. Our senses are misleading us somewhat.

 

[Reaper]

Sure, I believe in trolls, ice giants and the like.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

I believe in faeries (not the little butterfly people of the Victorians, traditional pre-Christian European folk religion faeries)

I don't believe in New Zealanders.

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Spending a lot of time in the American north woods, I haven't written off Bigfoot entirely, I rarely see any evidence of the bears which are no doubt watching me, with a little more intelligence, seclusion, small numbers, a big ol hairy Sasquatch could still be flying under the radar!

 

[Woberts]

I don't really believe in any mythical creatures. Except Cthulhu. Cthulhu is objectively real.

 

[tayla]

I'm curious to know if there's anyone on this site that believes in the existence of any so-called "mythical" creatures (e.g. dragons, unicorns, mermaids, etc.). I myself believe in dragons (they're my favorite cryptid and favorite animal in general) and am open to the possible existence of others. Is there anyone else on this site that believes in any "mythical" creatures?

I believe that anything imagined within the mind has a real existence in the spiritual realm. Thus, unicorns exist, just not as a material physical biological organisms.

 

[Kangaroo Feathers]

I believe that anything imagined within the mind has a real existence in the spiritual realm. Thus, unicorns exist, just not as a material physical biological organisms.

Except in Scotland, where they're protected by law.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I'm curious to know if there's anyone on this site that believes in the existence of any so-called "mythical" creatures (e.g. dragons, unicorns, mermaids, etc.). I myself believe in dragons (they're my favorite cryptid and favorite animal in general) and am open to the possible existence of others. Is there anyone else on this site that believes in any "mythical" creatures?

At least there's the Komodo dragon still around. ;0)

 

[Woberts]

I believe that anything imagined within the mind has a real existence in the spiritual realm. Thus, unicorns exist, just not as a material physical biological organisms.

Does that include The Great Dreamer?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

I believe that anything imagined within the mind has a real existence in the spiritual realm. Thus, unicorns exist, just not as a material physical biological organisms.

I can imagine you being wrong.

 

[tayla]

I can imagine you being wrong.

Yes, that imagination resides within the spiritual realm along with all kinds of other nonsensical fairy tale kinds of ideas.

 

[74x12]

I'm curious to know if there's anyone on this site that believes in the existence of any so-called "mythical" creatures (e.g. dragons, unicorns, mermaids, etc.). I myself believe in dragons (they're my favorite cryptid and favorite animal in general) and am open to the possible existence of others. Is there anyone else on this site that believes in any "mythical" creatures?

Yes ... some of them anyway. Such as cyclops, giants ... and others. Dragons for me are more real on a spiritual level but could have also been physically real.

 

[Valjean]

I believe in what I have evidence of. To the best of my knowledge, no dragons, unicorns or faeries have ever been found, photographed or studied.

 

[Erebus]

As in physical, flesh and blood creatures?

The kraken and sea serpent spring to mind. We know there are giant/colossal squids and oarfish, which I consider to be pretty strong candidates for the job. Especially since the argument, "of course sea serpents aren't real, people were just getting confused by the massive serpentine creatures living in the sea" always struck me as a bit weird.

I'll grant that the sheer size and power of each was overstated and/or embellished but that's human nature. There are still people who think solifugae are three feet long, have anaesthetic venom and strip limbs to the bone. Nobody takes that and then declares camel spiders to not exist.

Then there are things that might exist but which I personally can't claim to actively believe in. Brian Blessed famously believes in the yeti and maintains that there's enough untouched forest to conceal such a creature. Perhaps he's on to something but I just don't know enough about the area to make a call on how likely I would consider yetis to be. Then again, I suppose Brian Blessed himself could be considered pretty good evidence for the existence of yetis
Really though, I would say the sea is your best bet for finding monsters. There are plenty of fully confirmed living fossils still knocking around, so the discovery of others wouldn't really surprise me.


For the most part though, I consider the wide array of folkloric monsters to be literary devices rather than physical beings. Aside from those very occasional examples in which a frightened sailor saw something that we've since stripped of its mystery and horror, I'd chalk most of them up to the fact that humans like a good story.
To be clear, I don't believe that makes them less worthwhile. Bilbo Baggins impacted my life more than Nicaraguan agriculture regardless of whether or not people view him as Real™ and plenty of folklore (particularly European folklore in my case) is no different.

There. Now the believers and non-believers alike can tell me how wrong I am