LIveships

Liveships aren't strictly magical creatures, but rather the creation of Robin Hobb.  She has a series of books about Liveships and their captains.  The story fallows two liveships, one named Paragon and Vivacia and a family that owns the Vivacia.  Later we find out that the liveships are in fact murdered cocooned baby dragons.  The dragons still have their memories from within the ship, but they are dormient.  It takes three lifetimes to make a ship.  Three deaths to make the ship turn into a liveship from an ordinary ship.  The liveships can talk through their figureheads and are considered members of their family.  Even Paragon that goes insane and drowns his family unitientionally.  He then gets the memories of a twelve year old boy and becomes half a child and half a man.  His family believes him to be strange, an odd person at first then the first man from his family sails him.  He ultimately meets with disastor.   The second man to sail him finds the pirate Isles and has a son before he ultimately gets captured by a pirate before dying.  Paragon winds up drowning the pirate crew and sailing back to Bingtown harbor.   He's tied up for thirty years, beached onshore before he goes on an adventure to rescue Vivacia who has been captured by pirates.

Harry Potter

Yes, I know that this is very sterotypical, writing about Harry Potter on my magical creatures blog but I have nothing better to write about and so Harry Potter it is.  If you have been in a hole in the ground with a lot of dirt over you or awaiting the next appocolipse in a bunker then you haven't heard of Harry Potter.  However millions if not billions of people have and there is a solid fan base for the young wizard.  I myself am admittedly a die hard fan of the books and own several books to that effect.  Harry Potter was a huge part of my childhood and fond memories of the books will last a lifetime.  When I have my own children I will read them the story as my father read it to me when they reach eight years of age or older as the complex consepts of the book wouldn't be understood until then.  I love the books and movies which are about a young wizard navigating his way through school while at the same time having to fight with an evil wizard named Lord Voldemort.  It takes seven books for him to challenge and ultimately defeat the dark lord and it is worth the wait as all the books have complex plot lines as well as intersting by stories. Sometimes I also write fanfiction for this series and I'm quite fond of reading stories by other young authors pertaining to Harry Potter.

Witches and Wizards

Of all magical creatures, wizards and witches are among the most popular.  In part this is do to the wish that people have to have magic I believe.  We want to believe in the paranormal, that there is something beyond our mundane existance that magic in fact exists.  So we create our counter parts, people that do not look diffrent from us but have extrodenary powers and abilites.  Wizards and witches haven't always been held in the same regard as now, superstion caused innocent people to be burned at the stake during the middle ages and up to the seventeen or eighteen hundreds.  Mostly these women were medicinal healers and did nothing more then use herbs and poltices to assist their neighbors.  A traditional way to insure that a woman was not a witch was to basically drown her, according to some theroys witches floated while normal people didn't.   The most famous wizards and witches come from a book series by J.R Rowling, millions of children have read Harry Potter in the years it has been out.  However there are other less well known stories about witches and wizards the series So You Want To Be A Wizard? By Dianne Duainne is one of my favorites.  I love wizards and witches and believe strongly in the possibilites of magic