Mysterious Creatures Primary

1. OTHER MYSTERIOUS
CREATURES…

2. THE WEREWOLF
• Creature: A werewolf or occasionally lycanthrope, is a human with the ability to
shapeshift into a wolf, after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or
scratch from another werewolf). The transformation is often associated with the
appearance of the full moon.
• Origin? It comes from literature. In
Greek Mythology, there is a story of
an Arcadian King called Lycaon who
tested Zeus by serving him a dish of
his slaughtered and dismembered
son to see if Zeus was really all
knowing. As punishment for his
trickery, Zeus transformed Lycaon
into a wolf and killed his 50 sons by
lightning bolts, but supposedly
revived Lycaon's son Nyctimus, who
the king had slaughtered.

3. THE WEREWOLF
Superpowers:
• He possesses superhuman senses.
• Speed. He can run very fast.
• Strength and stamina. He’s super strong.
• Extraordinary abilities: coordination, balance, reflexes,…
• Healing factor. He can regenerate wounds.
Weaknesses or limitations:
• Applied electricity or medicine may prevent transformation.
• May be connected to the phases of the moon (Full Moon in particular) and be
involuntarily forced to change during one.
• He’s vulnerable to silver (metal) and wolfs-bane (plant) or be harmed only by
them.
• He’s also vulnerable to other lycanthropes natural attacks and other werewolves
and vampires and their bites, as well as loud noises, foul smell or high pitch.
• May cause changes of mental abilities/personality:
• Loss of memory of human emotion and life.
• Loss of self-control.
• Change to canine level of intelligence/instincts (inferior than humans’).

4. WEREWOLF OF
LONDON
The first film about a wolf man was made in 1935 and it was called Werewolf of
London.
Wilfred Glendon, a rich English botanist, travels to Tibet
(China) in search of mariphasa plant. While there, he is
attacked and bitten by a creature (werewolf). Once back
home in London, Dr. Yogami, another botanist, warns
Glendon that the bite of a werewolf would cause him to
become a werewolf as well, adding that the mariphasa is a
temporary antidote for the disease.
Glendon does not believe the mysterious Yogami. That
is, not until he begins to experience the first pangs of
lycanthropy, first when his hand grows fur beneath the rays
of his moon lamp (which he is using in an effort to entice the
mariphasa to bloom), and later that night during the first full
moon.

5. WEREWOLF OF
LONDON
The first time, Glendon is able to use a blossom from the
mariphasa to stop his transformation. Then, Dr. Yogami, who is
revealed to be a werewolf, sneaks into the lab ahead of his rival
and steals the only two blossoms. As the third has not bloomed,
Glendon is out of luck.
Driven by an instinctive desire to hunt and kill, he dons his
hat and coat and ventures out into the dark city, killing an
innocent girl. Then he attempts to lock himself up far away from
home and his wife Lisa and rents a room at an inn. However,
whenever he transforms into the werewolf he escapes and kills
again. After a time, the third blossom of the mariphasa finally
blooms, but much to Glendon's horror, it is stolen by Yogami,
sneaking into the lab while Glendon's back is turned.

6. WEREWOLF OF
LONDON
Catching Yogami in the act, Glendon finally realizes
that Yogami was the werewolf that attacked him in
Tibet. After turning into the werewolf yet again and
slaying Yogami, Glendon goes to the house in search of
Lisa, for the werewolf instinctively seeks to destroy that
which it loves the most.
Glendon breaks into the house and corners Lisa on
the staircase and is about to move in for the kill when a
police officer shoots Glendon once. As he lies dying at
the bottom of the stairs, Glendon, still in werewolf form,
speaks: first to thank the policeman for the merciful
bullet, then saying goodbye to Lisa, apologizing that he
could not have made her happier. Glendon then dies,
reverting to his human form in death.

7. THE MUMMY
• Creature: it is an undead creature wrapped in bandages.
• Origin? The original inspiration for undead mummies comes from the process
of mummification in Ancient Egypt.
• Nationality: Egyptian. Mummies come from Ancient Egypt.
• Book or film? One of the earliest examples of undead mummies is The Mummy!: Or a
Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, an 1827 three-volume novel written by Jane Webb
(later Jane C. Loudon). It concerns the Egyptian mummy of Cheops, who is brought
back to life in the year 2126. The novel describes a future filled with advanced
technology, and features one of the earliest known examples of a “mummy’s curse”.
• The author was inspired by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to write this.

8. THE MUMMY
Superpowers:
• Immunity to all forms of attack.
• It’s able to drain the force life of mortals.
• Control over the weather and swarms of insects.
Weaknesses or limitations:
• Fire. Since mummies tend to be dry and coated with various oils and resins, the
revenant tends to burn extremely well. Thus, fire is the only way to destroy the
Mummy forever.

9. THE MUMMY: STORY
The curse of the pharaohs is an alleged curse believed by some to be cast upon any
person who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian person, especially a pharaoh.
This curse, which does not differentiate between thieves and archaeologists, allegedly can
cause bad luck, illness or death. Since the mid-20th century, many authors and
documentaries have argued that the curse is 'real' in the sense of being caused by
scientifically explicable causes such as bacteria or radiation. However, the modern origins
of Egyptian mummy curse tales suggest that Egyptian curses are primarily a cultural, not
exclusively scientific, phenomenon.

10. THE CREATURE FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON
• Name: nameless.
• Age: unknown.
• Nationality: he’s from the Amazon River, Brazil, South America. It’s the largest river by
discharge volume of water in the world and, by some definitions it is the longest.
• Book or film? It is based on a black and white film called The Creature from the Black
Lagoon, released in 1954. There are two sequels: Revenge of the Creature (1955) and
The Creature Walks among Us (1956).
• Creature: he’s a Gill-Man, who is fully amphibious, capable of breathing both in and
out of the water.
• Description: It possesses large webbed hands with sharp claws on the tip of each
finger. He’s got scaly skin. He breaths through gills underwater and though lungs on
land.

11. THE CREATURE FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON
Superpowers:
• Superhuman strength.
• He’s got tough skin.
• Healing factor. He can survive wounds suh as gunshots and full
immolation.
Weaknesses and limitations:
• He’s vulnerable to rotenone, a substance in some plants.
• He’s photophobic.
Curiosities:
The Shape of Water, film directed by Guillermo del Toro in 2017, is based on
this character (a remake of this film).

12. THE CREATURE FROM
THE BLACK LAGOON:
STORY
A scientific expedition searching for fossils along
the Amazon River discovers a prehistoric Gill-Man in
the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture
the mysterious creature, but it breaks free (escape).
The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée
of one in the expedition, with whom it has fallen in
love. So the guys go after the beast, and after
numerous failed attempts, save the girl and shoot the
creature with their shotguns. The monster, badly
wounded, flees and enters the depths of the lagoon.