One way that advertisers can illustrate sublimated anger and fear is to use a monster as a stand-in. The creature can start out burdensome and scary, but with proper product usage, turn happy and ...

Amazon folklore, in fact, is full of fanciful creatures that are used to explain unwelcome or embarrassing phenomena. The boto, for example, is a type of dolphin that is said to able to transform ...

RIO BRANCO, Brazil -- Perhaps it is nothing more than a legend, as skeptics say. Or maybe it is real, as those who claim to have seen it avow. But the mere mention of the mapinguary, the giant ...