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The eight-headed dragon of Japanese myth, Yamata-no-Orochi, could only be slain after getting intoxicated on very strong sake.
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Odin of Norse mythology tossed one of his eyes into a well so that he could gain wisdom.
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Some Indic legends state that the violent goddess Kali only became mad after drinking the blood of demons.
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The Isle of Man received its name because Celtic mythology believed that the first human was born after a god impregnated the island.
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The Laotians once believed in a mythological creature called the Donbei which was a massive great ape that that possessed a small human child growing out of its back to lure unsuspecting victims.
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In Beowulf, the titular Geatish hero is said to have beaten the monstrous mother of Grandel to death with her son's arm.
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Rostam the Paladin from Persian mythology once was challenged by divine forces to hide from himself.
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In European folklore, the creature called a basilisk was said to have resulted when a chicken incubated a snake's egg.
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The tanuki of Japanese mythology were shapeshifting racoon-dogs identifiable because they had massive testicles.
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Greek myths claim that the constellation Orion is actually Orion himself.
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The Lakota Sioux believed that speaking a person's name when the sun didn't shine invited evil spirits to haunt that person.
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According to myth, the Greek god Pan invented the pan flute using a transformed woman who was trying to escape his affections.
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The Aztecs once believed that a past human world had been destroyed by jaguars.
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The Inuits believed that the world's first joke was invented by a fertility goddess named Khadmu-Khadmun when she told a god she would give birth to his child once pigs could fly.
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In some southeastern Asian countries, there were legends of a monstrous floating head called a Leyak that drank the blood of pregnant women to feed itself.
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The Greek myth of Erysichthon ends with the titular character eating himself.
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The Mayans believed that armadillos would ferry nightmares to sleeping people.
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The Norse god Tyr once halted an invasion of giants by defeating their king at a boardgame.
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In the Carolingian myth, there was said to have existed a Moorish king named Mambrino who was invincible so long as he wore a helmet of gold upon his head.
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The myth of King Midas ends with him turning himself to gold after he swats a fly on his forehead.
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Akkadian mythology claimed that snakes were born from human women who didn't sacrifice enough livestock to appease the gods during their pregnancy.
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In the Carolingian myth, it was said that God specifically blessed Charlemagne's soldiers so that they would never lose in combat to anyone from Spain.
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Indic mythology tells of a woman who never found love in life and was therefore reincarnated as tobacco so that men would love her.
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The Polynesian demigod Maui was said to have died after getting crushed by a goddess's thighs.
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In Greek myth, stories claimed that one of Medusa's sisters died because her snake hair got too long and ate her.
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Norse mythology claims that Thor and Loki once cross-dressed in order to infiltrate a giant's fortress.
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In the Arthurian legend, King Arthur was mortally wounded by his bastard whom he conceived with his sister.
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In Mali folklore, it was believed that the Earth was shaped like a banana.
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Ancient Chinese mythology stated that three gods created the world to settle an argument over the nature of sentient beings.
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Many Goth tribes believed that invisible elves were responsible for making people grow older.
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