The industry is still a 'creature of' the 1930s. [=it began in the 1930s and has not changed]
They say that these forests are filled with wild 'creatures'. [='beasts']
I'm a 'creature of habit'. [=I always do the same things in the same way]
(..) Deer don't climb trees. Perhaps he thinks he's a game bird. Shall we teach him to fly? Cut it down. Hold! What manner of creature is so fearsome it takes six men to attack it? Stand down. It's no affair of yours. Have we treed the devil? Let's see. (..)1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves