For my final pick I have the Myhical Creature/Being category.
Now, many people are familiar with the the Jewish people's great contributions to humanities for millennium; the first alphabet, the concept of monotheism, motherly guilt, bagels, and Mel Brooks to name a few.
"Oy vay", you say, "I'm not impressed"?
Welllllll...The Jews are also responsible for the first true Superhero. Yes folks, with a little shaping of some mud and a few secret words of Kaballah, you have yourself a goliath defender of the oppressed....
THE GOLEM
The Golem of PragueThe most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel the late 16th century chief rabbi of Prague known as the Maharal, who reportedly created a golem to defend the Prague ghetto from anti-Semitic attacks.
Depending on the version of the legend, under Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor, the Jews in Prague were to be either expelled or killed. To protect the Jewish community the rabbi constructed the Golem out of clay from the banks of the Vltava river and brought it to life through rituals and Hebrew incantations. As this golem grew it became increasingly violent, killing gentiles and spreading fear.
The Emperor begged Rabbi Loew to destroy the Golem, promising to stop the persecution of the Jews. To deactivate the Golem, the rabbi rubbed out the first letter of the word "emet" (truth or reality) from the creature's forehead leaving the Hebrew word "met", meaning death. The Emperor understood that the Golem's body, stored in the attic genizah of the Old New Synagogue, would be restored to life again if needed. Accordingly, the body of Rabbi Loew's golem still lies in the synagogue's attic.
ps - that's
Golem, not Gollum (aka Smeagol, froggy ring bearer guy from the Hobbit)