Greek mythology was filled with a wide variety of monsters ranging from Dragons, Giants, Demons and Ghosts, to the multiformed Centaurs, Sphinxes and Griffins.There were also fabulous wild beasts - such as the Nemean Lion, the golden-fleeced Ram and the winged horse Pegasus.Even mankind was not exempt with fabulous tribes like the Libyan Umbrella-Foots, one-eyed Arimaspians, African Dog-Heads, and puny African Pygmies. There's all sorts of creatures that most likely the god Hephaestus Created by crafting out of metal and endowed with life. But some where created by the gods to punish the king of that city or the people for behaving bad with them or not doing the right thing.
"The Basilisci Serpentis (Basilisk Serpent) also has the same power [to kill like the Catoblepas by sight alone]. It is a native of the province of Cyrenaica, not more than 12 inches long, and adorned with a bright white marking on the head like a sort of diadem.It routs all snakes with its hiss, and does not move its body forward in manifold coils like other snakes but advancing with its middle raised high. It kills bushes not only by its touch but also by its breath, scorches up grass and bursts rocks. Its effect on other animals is disastrous:it is believed that once one was killed with a spear by a man on horseback and the infection rising through the spear killed not only the rider but also the horse. Yet to a creature so marvellous as this � indeed kings have often wished to see a specimen when safely dead � the venom of weasels is fatal: so fixed is the decree of nature that nothing shall be without its match.
