List of one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction

This page lists one-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction.

In mythology, folklore and religion

• Arimaspi, legendary people of northern Scythia, "always at war with their neighbours" and stealing gold from griffins. They had a single eye in the centre of the forehead.
• Balor, giant in Irish mythology, with one eye in his forehead that would wreak destruction when opened.
• Bungisngis, giant cyclops of Philippine folklore.
• Cyclops (plural: cyclopes or cyclopses), a race of giants in Greek and Roman mythology, including Polyphemus. They likewise had a single eye in the centre of the forehead.
• Dajjal, the anti-christ in Islamic religion, has one eye.
• Duwa Sokhor, ancestor of Chingis Khan, according to The Secret History of the Mongols, who had one eye in his forehead.^[1]
• Fachan, creature from Celtic mythology with one eye, one arm and one leg.
• The Graeae, the three witches (or sisters) that shared one eye and one tooth between them; often depicted as clairvoyant. They were forced by Perseus, by stealing their eye, into revealing the location of Medusa.
• Hagen or Högni, a Burgundian warrior in German and Norse legend, depicted as one-eyed in some accounts.
• Hajnjeri, man-eating giant in Albanian mythology, has one eye in the middle of his forehead.
• Hitotsume-kozō, monsters (obake) in Japanese folklore, with a single giant eye in the center of the face.
• Jian, a bird in Chinese mythology with only one eye and one wing. A pair of such birds were dependent on each other and inseparable.
• Kabandha, a demon with no head or neck with one large eye on the breast and a mouth on the stomach. Kabandha appears in Hindu mythology as a character of Ramayana.
• Kasa-obake, one-eyed sentient umbrella yokai of Japanese folklore.
• Katallan, man-eating giant in Albanian mythology, lives in a cave and has one eye in the middle of his forehead.
• Likho, an embodiment of evil fate and misfortune in Slavic mythology.
• Mapinguari, giant sloth-like cryptic of Brazil and Bolivia often described as having one eye.
• Odin - norse god
• Ojáncanu, one-eyed giant with ten fingered hand, ten toed foot, long beard and red hair of Cantabrian mythology who embodies evil, cruelty and brutality.
• One-Eye, one of three sisters in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes.
• Popobawa, Tanzanian shetani (evil spirit) that often takes the form of a one-eyed bat creature.
• Psoglav, one-eyed dog-headed monster in Serbian mythology.
• Snallygaster, one-eyed dragon-like creature said to inhabit the hills surrounding [Washington, D.C. and Frederick County, Maryland.
• Tepegoz, one-eyed ogre in Oghuz Turkish epic Book of Dede Korkut.
• Vy, in Serbian myth a one eyed giant similar to the celtic Balor.^[2]

In fiction

See also

• List of many-eyed creatures

References