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]
(..) in the pocket of a traveler. Harry. But if you're not the monster, then what did kill that girl years ago? We do not speak of it. lt is an ancient creature we spiders fear above all others. But have you seen it? l never saw any part of the castle but the box in which Hagrid kept me. (..)2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets