The Role Of The Monsters In Greek Mythology

Myths, people can choose to ignore them or they can choose to take an interest in them and investigate whether or not they are real. For the most part, myths are used to explain the impossible and one of the ways that the impossible is explained is through monsters. Some of the monsters have been debunked like the Cerberus, the Gorgons, and the Hydra. Other monsters are still yet to be discovered or debunked like Bigfoot, the Lochness monster, and the Moth Man. But some of the monsters that are the most recognized are the one’s that come from Greek Mythology. Echidna is one of the monsters that belongs to Greek Mythology and she is believed to be the daughter of the monstrous gods. This monster can be described as a half woman and half serpant with a snakes tail. She is one of many monsters that was created by Typhon, Typhon is a monster with 50 snake heads. Many Greeks believed that she lived in the swampy pit under the earth that is called Tartaros. Even though

The legend of the Jersey Devil starts off with a poor woman name Mrs. Jane Leads, Mrs. Leads lived in Pine Barnes, New Jersey and was pregnant with her thirteenth child. Mrs. Leads was fed up with the child that she was carrying and told her friends that the devil could have it. When she gave birth to the child, it turned into a monster and it was fully grown in seconds, becoming the Jersey Devil. 1740, 1816, 1840, 1909,1930,1951, and 1993 were all of the years that the sightings of the Jersey Devil appeared. Reports in the year 1840 say that the Jersey Devil had eaten some livestock and left the bones behind, this lead many people to believe that the Jersey Devil would eat other livestock and maybe small children. Both of these monsters do not have the same origin, but what they do have in common is a