Magical Creatures

I came across an interesting question...what mythical creatures do you believe in and to what extent? I believe in some mythical creatures, but I don't believe they exist in a literal sense. I LOVE dragons and believe they are protectors, but I don't believe they exist in our reality. Like the Gods, I believe they live on another plane of existence, but have the ability to reach into our plane of existence and render assistance if and when needed.

I don't, however believe things like "mermaids", "vampires" or "werewolves" exist as beings. Perhaps, like dragons they could exist on another plane of existence, however, the people who believe these creatures exist, believe they exist in this plane of existence and can be experienced, if not interacted with.

The problem with things like mermaids, vampires and werewolves is that they just aren't logical. I accept the fact that dragons are not a logical component of our reality. They don't exist. I won't continue on with nonsense like "oh, but we haven't explored 100% of the earth's mountains or caves to definitively prove they don't exist" much the same as mermaid believers state a similar reason.

No, we haven't explored 100% of our earth's oceans. We've maybe explored 10% because of the vastness of our oceans. However, mermaids are an illogical creature considering their components. They're half human, half fish:

1) humans and fish are incompatible for reproduction.
2) the ability for them exist is 99% impossible. They couldn't exist on land as their "scaly" bottom half would probably rot outside of the water, if not plain dry out. Their human upper half would drown in the ocean.
3) IF...mermaids were to exist, they wouldn't look like Ariel, but more like Jabba the Hut.

Vampires are just as illogical. What are the components of a vampire: The living dead. May as well chalk them up to being a coherent zombie.

1) vampires are humans who were killed and reborn as a vampire from a source vampire. Historically they were bitten by a vampire, then drank the blood of the vampire in order to become one themselves.
2) vampires live solely off blood. Do you know how unhealthy that is??? Even drinking a litre of blood is so bad for you. The iron content alone could cause you to be seriously sick. And that's not including dangers such as STD's.
3) Dead people can't walk around as though they were alive. They just can't.

The idea of a vampire stems from ancient superstition. If a person became unconscious for days, say from a coma, ancient peoples would deem them dead and bury them. Once they came out of the coma, they would find themselves in a box in the ground (can you imagine how terrifying that would be???). The person would panic and do everything they could to get out of the box. Eventually they may die of oxygen depletion, and upon exhumation, scratches seen on the box may lead the digger's to believe the deceased was a vampire. OR...if the person made it out of the ground, they could be covered in blood (their own, but who would believe that), thus born is the vampire. It's a similar way the zombie idea came to life.

Werewolves are a completely illogical concept altogether. This involves a human transforming into a wolf. For one thing, the human body and the wolf body are completely incompatible. There's NO way for a person to transform into a wolf without their bodies being COMPLETELY mangled to the point of non-recognition. Not to mention the entire transformation process would most likely kill the person to begin with, what with the broken bones, and possible laceration to vital organs including the heart, stomach and intestines (and I havent even touched on the pain of the process!)

To believe these things exists is one thing, but if one wants to believe in these things, one shouldn't expect them to be a literal being, that can be found in any number of hidden areas of the world. Why is it easier for some people to believe things like vampires, werewolves and mermaids exist, yet it's completely impossible for someone to believe things like unicorns or even Witches to exist?