Medieval legends

Christian iconography symbol

Ruler of Cochin

In European mythology and literature, a cambion () is the child produced from a human–demon sexual union, typically involving an incubus or a succubus. In the word's earliest known uses, it was interchangeable with changeling.

thumb|upright=1.25|Gelert by Charles Burton Barber (1884) Gelert () is a legendary hound in a Welsh folk-tale. He is associated with the village of Beddgelert in Gwynedd in north-west Wales, the name of which translates as "Gelert's grave". A grave site does exist just south of the village. But it was created by the owner of a local hotel in the late 18th century to encourage tourism.

English folklore concerning the rise of Richard Whittington in 14th-century London

14th-century travel memoir

traditional motif showing three hares sharing ears

According to Portuguese, Galician, and Asturian mythology, the Mouros or Moiros are a race of supernatural beings which have inhabited the lands of Galicia, Asturias and Portugal since the beginning of time.

legendary Portuguese independence fighter

Eteriani () is a Georgian folk epic romance which has come down to us in the form of about 70 pieces of oral prose and poetry, probably dating from the 10th or 11th century. Variants also exist in the sister languages: Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan.

character from European folklore

Portuguese warrior

Saint Grobian (Medieval Latin, Sanctus Grobianus) is a fictional patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. His name is derived from the Middle High German or , meaning coarse or vulgar. The Old High German cognate is , . The word "grobian" has thus passed into the English language as an obscure word for any crude, sloppy, or buffoonish person.

Christian relic

legandary king of the Visigoths

Swiss noble

giant from Antwerpian folklore

Abbot and sailor

Corineus, in medieval British legend, was a prodigious warrior, a fighter of giants, and the eponymous founder of Cornwall.

Italian folktale

Magonia is the name of the cloud realm whence felonious aerial sailors were said to have come, according to commonly held beliefs denounced in the polemical treatise by Carolingian bishop Agobard of Lyon in 815, where he argues against weather magic. The treatise is titled De Grandine et Tonitruis (On Hail and Thunder).

inhabitants of Gotham who feigned idiocy according to a local legend

ancient Greek novel

traditional parade in Ath, Belgium

one of the Shahnameh story, seven difficult stages that Rostam went through

Iranian folk tale

Hungarian noble

thumb|The fortified desert city of Hatra, which had repelled three Roman and one Sasanian sieges, fell to the Sasanian king [[Shapur I in 241.]]

tourist attraction of Poznań, Poland

dragon from the Beowulf poem

mythological beings in medieval Ireland

Portuguese chivalric legend

legendary figure that would appear on earth to reestablish the Holy Roman Empire as biblical katechon stalling the coming of the Antichrist, first mentioned in the 7th century in the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius

literary and legendary figure from the Middle Ages

legend about a pope who, born Jewish, converts to Catholicism, ascends to the papacy, and subdues popular antisemitism

legendary entrances to the underworld

legendary hero

thumb|200px|A sea-griffin. The sea-griffin (German: Fischgreif; Polish: rybogryf, gryf morski) is a heraldic charge in form of an aquatic griffin with the head, upper half, wings, and talons of an eagle and the lower half of a fish.

English marcher lord seated of Whittington Castle in Shropshire

mythical land

traditional song

figure of Portuguese and Galician legend

thumb|Wittich (in red) dishonourably battles two against one with Heime to defeat Alphart. Witege, Witige or Wittich (; Gotho-) or Vidrik "Vidga" Verlandsson ( + Viðga or Videke + Verlandsson, Vallandsson, or Villandsson) is a character in several Germanic heroic legends, poems about Dietrich von Bern, and later Scandinavian ballads.

Poem in cycle of Serbian epic poetry

Swedish judges

legends in Norse mythology