WordNet
n. an imaginary being of myth or fable
Usage examples of "mythical being".
The poem of the bogatyr Volkh or Volga depicts him as a mythical being, able to turn himself into a bright falcon, a grey wolf, a white bull with golden horns and into a tiny ant.
It was almost, Irina told herself, as if she were face to face with a merman, some mythical being, half human, half dolphin.
But do you recall the particular mythical being that caused you the most terror?
Seldom before has this mythical being been so explored and exposed.
The sea is his home, as he expresses it, and he believes me to be some mythical being out of it.
From his early days as an astonishingly successful frigate-captain, coming home with a tail of captured ships and a fortune in prize-money, Jack had acquired the status of a mythical being or something very like it, a being whose judgment in these matters could not be wrong.
On an outing of our family association, I once cored an apple, saw to my astonishment (and with the aid of my obsession) what it looked like, and ran off into the woods to fall upon the orifice of the fruit, pretending that the cool and mealy hole was actually between the legs of that mythical being who always called me Big Boy when she pleaded for what no girl in all recorded history had ever had.
You have created a mythical being in my likeness whom you have set up as a god.
At any other time I would be excited by the thought of a mythical being turning out to be flesh and blood.