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...with the grease of bats, moles and dormice" and using drugs such as "dwarf elder, knotgrass, and daisy juice". ...os worked on man as the Chinese work on trees. A sort of fantastic stunted thing left their hands; it was ridiculous and wonderful. They could touch up a li

...vels, television shows, and games, who use it with its meaning of a shadow-thing, a spirit of another world, or more generally a mysterious being to be fear *In The Elder Scrolls : Oblivion wraith are spirits of defiled fallen soldiers (such as S

...rodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a s ...hings. It is worth noting, however, that Cthulhu's tomb is warded by the [[Elder Sign]], which may prevent the intervention of other, more powerful, beings.

...ry mountain atop the [[North Pole]]. When the [[Elder God (Cthulhu Mythos)|Elder God]]s tried to imprison him beneath the pole, Aphoom-Zhah erupted with suc ...an insatiable anger against the chains of the [[Elder God (Cthulhu Mythos)|Elder Gods]] which had bound it there for an eternity.... Unable to resist, utter

...n elves, Indian elves, and Arabic elves, for example. However, the closest thing to the "dark elf" in Shadowrun is the elf metahuman variant subgroup called ====The Elder Scrolls====

...as, which came into existence much later, mention Garuḍa as doing the same thing, which indicates that Śyena (sanskrit for Eagle) and Garuḍa are the same Kashyap, Garuda's father, had two wives: Kadru, the elder, and Vinata, Garuda's mother, the younger. There was great rivalry between

...wn hands. This concept of Hell, originally found in [[DC Comics]]' [[Swamp Thing]], as written by [[Alan Moore]], also appeared in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s success *In the fourth edition of the game series [[Elder Scrolls]], [[Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]], the main quest in the game involves preventing and

...hen, however, the custom that the younger sister must not marry before the elder, found in the case of the biblical matriarchs [[Leah]] and [[Rachel]], is f ...ger number of wise sayings, which, owing to the Talmudic principle, "say a thing in the name of the man who says it," can be traced to their authors, and ar

Pliny the Elder (23 Italy –79) refers to the effect of the odour of mandragora as causing ...m which we cannot repeat too often, since it comes from such a master: " A thing is not just because God wills it, but God wills it because it is just." The

...as unsatisfying as a metaphysics devoid of physical manifestation. For one thing, the lack of common words for chemical concepts and processes, as well as t ...er is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing." {{ref_harvard|Burkhardt|Burckhardt, p. 196-7|a}} This is the macrocosm-mi

...on an island and are met by a native orphaned boy, who warns them of "the thing that's watchin' - watchin' from the trees." Eventually, the Wendigo comes a ...ndigo is created by a curse that may have derived from the Arctic Gods or "Elder Gods". Anyone who eats human flesh while in the Canadian woods becomes a We