The lady with the scales... uh... Justice.

In our country, there is something called "The honourable, honest, male public service employee" (lat. Honourus Upstandicus).

This mythical creature is said to carry out his tasks as defined by the public charter and succeeds in those tasks. He takes the agreed time for lunch & coffee breaks, calls back when he says he will, doesn't steal any post-it notes, pens or other stationery and doesn't spend time fornicating with members of the opposite sex while we are paying for it.

He hasn't been seen often in the past 25 years as he carries similar markings to the majority of the malingering public service work force and thus he is camouflaged in the morass of faceless and featureless government building landscape. On occasion, however, he can be spotted nestled amongst the cacophony of bone-idle and liberty taking staff, all over the country's public service offices.

You'll know when you come across him, for he will have a noticeable spark about him, which you will feel as an honest, vibrant energy and that marks him out from his plain-vanilla co-workers.

Treasure these moments should they occur in your lifetime, for they will be rare and sometimes fleeting and when you return,as you will, to dealing with denigrating jerks, you will look back at those magical encounters with an elevated sigh....

The Jersey Devil

I grew up in southern New Jersey, near the Pine Barrens. Read up on it... it's really interesting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil

The Loch Ness Monster
The Beast of Bodmin Moor - big black cat
Selkies - half human half seal sea creatures
Leprechauns
Banshees
Merlin the wizard/Lady of the Lake - both from Arthurian legend
Ashrays - translucent water creatures from Scottish mythology
Blue men of the Minch - supernatural sea creatures living in underwater caves on Scottish islands

We have Bigfoot. Some people believe in him. He is a very tall hairy creature with an unusual odor that is emitted in his presence. He lives in very large forested areas. He is not dangerous but lives on nuts roots and berries. We also have many ghost, evil spirit stories. The American Indians have stories about people who can who can change themselves into animals (shapeshifting), but not necessarily to do negative things, more to heal or to escape from danger. We also have stories about Extraterrestrials that come from other planets and sometimes do scary things (people believe in them). Vampires - people who live forever by biting other people and sucking their blood. I hope this answers your question.

There's the Loch Ness monster, a plesiosaur type creature with the magical ability to attract fat tourists who promptly empty their wallets in the bric a brac shops on the shore.

The haggis, a creature with two long legs and two short legs, allowing it to run on the hillside.

There was also an urban myth that there was a half man half goat in the local graveyard, encountered by a guy who lived about two doors away. He was always a bit stoned, but turned chalk white when asked about it. (wooooooo)

EDIT- Not taking the piss out of Scotland Scotnix, I live there myself, a good Weegie born and bred, Cambuslang to be exact, where u from?

It is a very mythical creature, It is our symbol for good luck, you may have hear of it, Its called a dragon, a beautiful beast.

The Bunyip and the Yahoo...Bunyip lives in billabongs and preys on passerbys and Yahoo is Aussie equivalent of North American Bigfoot. Unfortunately the honest politian has been functionally extinct for many years any reported sighting are wishful thinking and those persons should seek help immediately.

I live next to Okanogan Lake in Penticton bc, Theres a legend that a lake monster named Ogopogo lives in the lake.

The honest politician