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🇧🇼 BotswanaSwan Reach, Australia
🇨🇳 China and 3 moreSwan maiden A folk motif where a man steals a bird-woman's feather cloak to force marriage.Figure · Love and attraction · Cursing and harm Legendary 🇵🇭 PhilippinesAswang A shape-shifting monster from Philippine folklore that preys on humans.Being · Cursing and harm Legendary 🇱🇹 Lithuania and 3 moreThe Swan Queen A Lithuanian fairy tale about a bird maiden who becomes human and returns to the skyFigure · Wonder and entertainment Historical 🇵🇭 PhilippinesWitchcraft in the Philippinespangkukulam Indigenous beliefs about sorcery and malevolent magic in the PhilippinesTradition · Cursing and harm · Healing Living 🇵🇭 PhilippinesManananggal A Philippine creature that splits its body to hunt at nightBeing · Cursing and harm Legendary 🇩🇪 GermanyLohengrin A Grail knight who arrives by swan boat and forbids one questionFigure · Protection Legendary 🇵🇭 PhilippinesBal-Bal A corpse-stealing undead of Philippine folklore that hides its theft with a banana trunkBeing · Cursing and harm Legendary 🇿🇦 South AfricaDivination bonesditaola (Sotho-Tswana), amathambo (isiZulu) Bones and carved objects used by traditional healers in South Africa to foresee the futureSeeing and foretelling · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living 🇮🇳 India and 1 moreOrphan Bird A medieval bestiary bird whose good eggs float and bad eggs sink in the seaBeing Legendary 🇮🇪 IrelandChildren of LirOidheadh chloinne Lir An Irish myth about four siblings transformed into swans by a jealous stepmotherFigure · Wonder and entertainment Legendary 🇮🇪 IrelandFionnuala A figure of Irish legend, turned into a swan and set to roam the water for 900 yearsFigure · Change and initiation · Cursing and harm Legendary 🇬🇱 Greenland and 2 moreThe Goose Wife A circumpolar myth of a hunter and a woman who sheds her bird skinFigure · Wonder and entertainment Legendary

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