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This list of mythical creatures that begin with this letter and I am constantly gathering information from each continent, and is continually being updated.

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Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw)

She is an ancestor of the Namgis clan through her son, Tsilwalagame. She is venerated as a bringer of wealth, but is also greatly feared by children, because she is also known as an ogress who steals children and carries them home in her basket to eat. Her appearance is that of a naked old monster, black in colour, with long pendulous breasts. She is also described as having bedraggled hair.

In masks and totem pole images she is shown with bright red pursed lips because she is said to give the call "Hu!" It is often told to children that the sound of the wind blowing through the cedar trees is actually the call of Dzunuk?wa. Some myths say that she is able to bring herself back from the dead (an ability which she uses in some myths to revive her children) and regenerate any wound.