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  • ...side of the lake on which the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was founded. - British Museum.]] '''Xiuhcoatl''' is a dragon in Aztec mythology and the personification of drought and scorched earth.
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  • ...e roughly 1908. The creature was dubbed Manipogo in 1957, the name echoing British Columbia's [[Ogopogo]]. *[http://www.bcscc.ca/manipogo.htm British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club - Manipogo]
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  • ''The Minor Traditions of British Mythology'' by Lewis Spense, pp 90-91. [[Category: English mythology]]
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  • According to Sikes in 'British Goblins', they have one outstanding characteristic, which is their dislike [[Category:Welsh mythology]]
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  • ...peculate that it might be a Moa which has traveled from New Zealand to the British isles. [[Category: Irish mythology]]
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  • *''The Minor Traditions of British Mythology'' by Lewis Spense. [[Category: English mythology]]
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  • ...Inscriptions of Western Asia. Vol. 4 (Semitic). ed. T.G. Pinches. London: British Museum, 1861-64, 1891. [[Category: Mesopotamian mythology]]
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  • :"A bodach is a mythical beast of the British Isles, a sly thing that comes down chimneys during the night to carry away [[Category:Scottish mythology]]
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  • ”Sena in the British sea, opposite the Ofismician coast, is remarkable for an oracle of the Gall [[Category: French mythology]]
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  • ...ìth''' or '''Cat Sídhe''' is a monstrous fairy cat from Scottish and Irish mythology. ...ly found in Scotland (the European Wildcat is absent from elsewhere in the British Isles). Typical Kellas Cats resemble large black wildcats, but with some pe
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  • A hag or "the Old Hag" was a [[nightmare]] spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore which is essentially identical In Irish and Scottish mythology [[Cailleach]] was a goddess concerned with creation, harvest, and the under
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  • ...onster]] from [[Welsh mythology]] that also appears in Celtic folklore and British folklore. ...for two people, Dwyfan and Dwyfach, from whom the later inhabitants of the British Isles descended.
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  • More specifically, a hag or "the Old Hag" was a [[nightmare]] spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore which is essentially identical In [[:Category:Irish mythology|Irish]] and Scottish mythology [[Cailleach]] was a goddess concerned with creation, harvest, and the under
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  • ...uthor of a lovely scene on the pelike of the Classical period, also in the British Museum. Erichthonius as a young boy is sitting in his chest on the rocks of [[Category: Greek mythology]]
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  • In the Chilote folklore and Chilote mythology of the Chiloé Island in southern Chile, the '''imbunche''' or '''invunche' *British comic book writer Alan Moore wrote a version of the Invunche which is very
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  • [[Image:caladrius.jpg|frame|British Library, Harley MS 4751, Folio 40r.]] [[Category: Christian mythology]]
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  • ...Gougers''' are fictional creatures, said to inhabit the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and the southwestern sandhills of Saskatchewan. The legs on one si ...Thomas Browne, writing in the 17th century, recorded a popular belief that British badgers (popularly referred to back then as "brocks") had legs of different
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  • ...''Devil’s Dandy Dogs''', also known as '''Dando Dogs''', are hounds of the British [[folklore]] said to be taking part to the [[Wild Hunt]] [[Category:Category:English mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]]
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  • In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, '''Pazuzu''' was the king of the [[demon]]s of wind, and son of the god [[ ...d, circa 800-550 BCE. Probably from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq. British Museum ANE 93089]]
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  • [[Image:Rahu.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Rahu: Head of Demon Snake, sculpture, British Museum]] ...''' is a snake that swallows the sun or the moon causing eclipses in Hindu mythology.
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  • ...is accepted to have lived in the fifth century, then these people are the British whom the Saxons failed to subdue and who became the Welsh. Here is a brief summary of what Perrin in British Flags and Giles-Scott in The Romance of Heraldry have written about the dra
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  • '''Balayang''' is a mythical bat who is a prominent figure in the mythology of the Kulin nation. ...on was inhabited by Aboriginal peoples as early as 40,000 years before the British first began colonising Australia in 1788. Balayang is sometimes referred to
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  • ''The Minor Traditions of British Mythology'' by Lewis Spense. [[Category:Welsh mythology]]
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  • ...(also '''centicore''', Latin 'eale') is a mythical beast found in European mythology. ...he adopted the yale as a supporter. It eventually worked its way into the British Royal Family.
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  • ...people in the English-speaking Caribbean states that were colonized by the British and which practised "Obeah", a form of mystical wizardry that encompassed t [[Category: Caribbean mythology]]
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  • In Akkadian mythology '''Humbaba''' (Assyrian spelling) or '''Huwawa''' (Babylonian) was a monstr [[Image:Humbaba.gif|thumb|Clay tablet 2000 BC - British Museum]]
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  • In ''Alien Animals'' (1985), British paranormal researchers Janet and Colin Bord pointed out that Mawnan church [[Category:English mythology]]
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  • ...then-world-famous British scientific journal Discovery. William Hichens, a British administrator working in Tanzania reported that several natives were attack [[Category: African mythology]]
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  • ...term for any number of [[legendary creature]]s that frequently appear in [[mythology]], [[legend]], and [[horror fiction]]. The word originates from the Old Fre ===Religion and mythology===
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  • ...hat, he remained long in the dominion of Wales, instructing their bards in British poesy and prophecies, being called Wrthin, Wadd, Elgin; ‘and now,’ said THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY (1850)
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  • ...mythology|Gaulish]] and (later) [[Roman mythology|Roman]] and Gallo-Roman mythology, '''Epona''' was the goddess of horses, donkeys, mules. ...ot appear in the Latin text; it would have linked Epona with the primitive mythology of [[Demeter]], who was covered as a mare by [[Poseidon]] in stallion-form
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  • ...n Boar.jpg|thumb|Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar, 550 BC found in Vulci, British Museum, London]] [[Category: Greek mythology]]
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  • ...Dé Danann''' ("peoples of the goddess Danu") are a legendary race in Irish mythology. In the invasions tradition which begins with the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the ...lso have many parallels across the Celtic world: Nuada is cognate with the British god Nodens; Lugh is a reflex of the pan-Celtic deity Lugus; Tuireann is rel
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  • ...torso of a serpent (cf. ''[[Typhon]]''). On a fragmentary archaic vessel (British Museum 1971.11-1.1) of ca 580 BCE, among the gods arriving at the wedding o [[Category:Greek mythology]]
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  • ...ences to wild 'Greymen' in Scotland and similar creatures elsewhere in the British Isles, sometimes called [[woodwose|Wudewas]] or 'Wood Men', date back to th [[Category:Scottish mythology]]
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  • ...; trooping and solitary. It is a distinction that hold good throughout the British Isles, and is indeed valid wherever fairy beliefs are held. [[Category:Irish mythology]]
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  • In '''Nahuatl''' mythology, '''Tezcatlipoca''' or "smoking mirror" was the god of the night, the north ===Mythology===
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  • Sikes, ''British Goblins'', pp. 40. [[Category: Welsh mythology]]
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  • '''Spriggan''' is a fairy creature from Cornish and British folk tales. [[Category:English mythology]]
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  • ...r pirates during the 16th century. Pirates of that era were often from the British Isles, where belief in faeries was quite common, especially amongst those o [[Category:Maya mythology]]
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  • Sisiutl guarded the entrance to the homes of the supernatural in the area of British Columbia coast and Vancouver Island. It was painted on the sides of canoes The Kwakiutl tribe, who lived on the British Columbian coast north of the present city of Bella Coola specified that sis
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  • The '''Black Dog''' is a creature in British [[folklore]]. They are described as being the size of a calf, moving in sil ...orted in Great Britain, especially in England, and are mainly considered a British phenomenon..
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  • *Ann Martha and Myers Dorothy ''Goddesses In World Mythology'' the book considers the fairy as a source of intelligence, creativity, art *Matthews, Caitlin and John ''British and Irish Mythology'' she is often depicted in Irish artistic tradition as a point of reference
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  • ...rid bull man considered as a protective demon in Mesopotamian and Akkadian mythology. ...ums. Notable examples of šêdu/lamassu held by museums include those at the British Museum, Musée du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art and one extremely larg
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  • ...Pagan during the late 19th century. Sir Richard Temple, the distinguished British administrator and scholar, had a set of teakwood versions carved by Burmese [[Category:Burmese mythology]]
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  • * ''Ghost of Mae Nak'', a 2005 Thai film by British director Mark Duffield [[Category:Thai mythology]]
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  • In Irish mythology the '''Fir Bolg''' (Fir Bholg, Firbolg) were one of the races that inhabite ...e historical Builg of Munster; the Fir Domnann are probably related to the British, Dumnonii; and the Gaileanga are another name for the Laigin, who founded L
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  • In [[:category:English mythology|English mythology]], '''Herne the Hunter''' is an equestrian [[ghost]] associated with Windso ...frequently claimed that Herne is a manifestation of the [[:Category:Celtic mythology|Celtic]] [[Horned God]]. This idea is largely based on connecting his name
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  • .... Tongue, ''Forgotten Folk-Tales'', retold in K.M. Brigg's ''Dictionary of British Folk-Tales''. [[Category: English mythology]]
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  • ...th secular and ecclesiastical). "The Green Man" is also a popular name for British public houses and various interpretations of the name appear on inn signs, ...ng the cycle of growth being reborn anew each spring. Speculatively, the [[mythology]] of the Green Man developed independently in the traditions of separate an
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  • Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes (1880) ...h a wildness and swiftness in their motions. They were clothed in red like British soldiers, and wore red handkerchiefs spotted with yellow wound round their
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  • ...ginning of the present century, from slave-ships that had been captured by British cruisers, were Yorubas, and their Christian descendants have preserved the [[Category: Yoruba mythology]]
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  • ...ish]] [[Herne the Hunter]], the Hindu [[Pashupati]], the [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek]] [[Pan]] and the [[satyr]]s, and even the Paleolithic cave painting A number of related British folk figures have been incorporated as well: [[Puck]], [[Robin Goodfellow]]
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  • In Greek mythology, '''Scylla''', or '''Skylla''' (Greek Σκύλλα) is a horribly grotesque ...ge:Scylla2.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Scylla carving from Milos, 5th century BC, British Museum, London]]
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  • Drawings of Almas also appear in a Tibetan medicinal book. British anthropologist [[Myra Shackley]] noted that "The book contains thousands of British anthropologist Myra Shackley in ''Still Living?'' describes Ivan Ivlov's 19
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  • ...lf, the Monsters and the Critics.'' (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, British Academy, 1936). First ed. London: Humphrey Milford, 1937. [[Category: English mythology]]
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  • ...of spelling which differ from each other even passing between American and British versions of English: most American authors write '''Big Gray Man''' while E [[Category: Scottish mythology]]
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  • ...nd is often a malicious character in the stories. Wirt Sikes in his book ''British Goblins'' mentions a Welsh tale about a Will o' the Wisp (''[[Púca|Pwca]]' ...of the foxfire produced from [[Kitsune]], an interesting way of combining mythology of the West with that of the East.
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  • '''Cernunnos''' in [[:Category:Celtic mythology|Celtic mythology]] is the deified [[spirit]] of horned male animals, especially of stags, a ...It depicts Cernunnos and other Celtic deities alongside [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman divinities]] such as [[Jupiter]], [[Vulcan]], [[Castor]], and [[Pollu
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  • ...nicknamed "Boney" by the British. Boney was certainly used as a threat to British children of the time, and it is claimed that ''Boney'' became ''Boneyman'', [[Category:European mythology]]
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  • ...h Day's ''The Queen Mother's Family Story''. In Peter Underwood's ''A-Z of British Ghosts'' he is described as neckless, very small arms and legs, and looked [[Category: Scottish mythology]]
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  • ===British law=== *[http://llr.lls.edu/volumes/v36-issue1/martin-original1.pdf ''The Mythology of the Public Domain: Exploring the Myths Behind Attacks on the Duration of
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  • ...earlier references than 1840, including a ship called Sheela Na Gig in the British Royal Navy and a dance called the Sheela na gig from the 1700's. These are ...as Celtic, namely the hag-like [[Cailleach]] figure of Irish and Scottish mythology. This theory was originally put forward by the likes of Margaret Murray and
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  • ...o document Orang Pendek is a British woman named Debbie Martyr. Along with British photographer Jeremy Holden, she engaged in a 15-year project beginning in t *Hairs and casts of a foot print found by two British men, Adam Davies and Andrew Sanderson, while traveling in Kerinci were anal
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  • *British progressive rockgroup Jethro Tull recorded a song called ''Jack-In-The-Gree [[Category:English mythology]]
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  • A British example can be found on the coat-of-arms used as the public house sign for ...ten applied to beings that seem more human than ape, or that have strong [[mythology|mythological]] or supernatural overtones.
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  • ...hu plain, had an encounter with a Nandi Bear. He reported the following to British anthropologist C.W. Hobley: Around 1920, British Museum authorities investigated the Nandi bear because of the accounts that
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  • ...s described prevously by the Dutch historian Jan Jakom Maria Groot and the British writer Gerald Willoughby-Meade. [[Category:Chinese mythology]]
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  • * The British Museum (later moved to the British Library) ...ecraft Mythos]] but instead was based on [[Mesopotamian mythology|Sumerian mythology]]. It was later dubbed the "[[Simon Necronomicon]]".
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  • ===Norse/Germanic mythology=== In [[:Category:Norse mythology|Norse mythology]], '''Svartálfar''' ("Swartelves" or "[[black elves]]"), sometimes conside
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  • ...o have appeared on July 30, 1763 before the Battle of Bloody Run, where 58 British soldiers were killed by Native Americans from Chief Pontiac's tribe.The sma [[Category:French mythology]]
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  • ...arm them, another trait they share in common with other [[fairies]] of the British Isles. [[Category:English mythology]]
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  • ...nated as '''Captain Elliott Spencer''', who was born into the middle class British society of the Victorian Era in 1888. He joined the British Expeditionary Force, eventually rising to the rank of Captain and served du
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  • ...s to his friend Bishop Percy, another antiquarian. Percy had embarked on a British Empire spanning project to collect all the oral and written lore and ballad [[Category:English mythology]]
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  • ...the phenomenon as the product of the misidentification of common animals, mythology or [[folklore]]. For instance, northern Europe's former belief in [[troll]] ...m "Sasquatch" was coined in the 1920s by J.W. Burns, a school teacher at a British Columbian Chehalis reservation. Burns collected Native American accounts re
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  • *Redcaps are mentioned in the Harry Potter series by British author Joanne Rowling. [[Category:English mythology]]
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  • The brownie is the British counterpart of the English [[Boggart]], the Scandinavian [[tomte]], the Ru [[Category:English mythology]]
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  • In Greek mythology, the '''Gorgons''' ("terrible" or, according to some, "loud-roaring") were The concept of the gorgon is at least as old in mythology as Perseus and Zeus. The name is Greek, being from gorgos, "terrible." Ther
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  • ...‘’Trader Horn’’, the memoir of Alfred Aloysius Smith, who had worked for a British trading company in what is now Gabon in the late 1800s. In the book, Smith ...ake them to Lake Tele, but did not report any mokele-mbembe sightings. The British men did, however, describe Agnagna as doing "little more than lie, cheat an
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  • [[Image:Mummy 501594 fh000031.jpg|thumb|350px|A mummy in the British Museum.]] ...famous mummies, such as Rameses II or Seti I. Currently on display in the British Museum, Ginger was discovered buried in hot desert sand. Desert conditions
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  • In Zulu and Bantu mythology, '''Tikoloshe''', '''Tokoloshe''' or '''Hili''' is a mischievous and evil s *In the late 19th century, Mrs. Minnie Martin, the wife of a British official in Basutoland (Lesotho), was with a servant and a dog when they en
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  • In June 2006, British Science Weekly reported that Cleve Hicks and colleagues from the University [[Category: African mythology]]
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  • ...d century AD, said to have been found near the Helmand River, Afghanistan. British Museum.]] [[Category:Persian mythology]]
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  • In [[Category:Greek mythology]] the '''Sirens''' or '''Seirenes''' were [[Naiad]] (sea [[nymph]]s) approa ...am,' much like [[Banshee]], her father. Both characters' names come from [[Mythology|mythological]] characters best known for their vocal abilities.
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  • ...he world, many native tales of unknown animals were initially dismissed as mythology or superstition by western scientists, but were later proven to have a real * [http://www.bcscc.ca/cryptidlist.htm British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club]
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  • Since most beings from [[:Category:Scandinavian mythology|Scandinavian mythology]] are said to be afraid of steel, Scandinavian parents often placed a steel (Wirt Sikes. ''British Goblins: The Realm of Faerie''. Felinfach: Llanerch, 1991.)
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  • ...ppearance of Phoenician literary texts, Dagon has practically no surviving mythology. *In the album [[wikipedia:The Chthonic Chronicles]] by the "British Cosmic War Metal" band'' [[Bal-Sagoth]]'', there is reference to one such D
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  • ...s a [[witch]] or that she was cursed by locals for having an affair with a British soldier. The Shourds House, a log cabin within the Pine Barrens, was repute ...orks.com/myth.html The Jersey Devil]''" — Elk Township (Local Area [[Mythology]])
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  • ...Percy Sladen Expedition journeyed to West Africa in the employment of the British Museum. In charge of the team was Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist [[Category: African mythology]]
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  • ...ised in 1954 by a British civil servant named [[Gerald Gardner]] after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was ...gures. A few examples might be [[Cernunnos]] and [[Brigit]] from [[Celtic mythology]] or [[Hecate]], [[Lugh]], [[Diana]] and many others.
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  • Hell appears in several [[mythology|mythologies]] and [[religion]]s in different guises, and is commonly inhabi ...ry:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] and [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], but [[Hades]] also included [[Elysium]], a place for the reward for thos
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  • ...been attacked and sunk by giant octopuses. Unfortunately for Montfort, the British knew what had happened to the ships, resulting in a disgraceful revelation In the PC game ''Age of Mythology'' the Kraken is an aquatic myth unit that can be summoned by the Norse civi
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  • ...the [[Spear Luin]], and is similar to the [[Bleeding Lance]] of [[Grail]] mythology, which was eventually claimed to ''be'' the Spear of Destiny. ...by Maryann Bird is an article in the European Edition of TIME Magazine on British metallurgist Robert Feather’s scientific examination of the Spear in Vien
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  • In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, the '''phoenix''' is a mythical bird and associated with the Egyptian sun- Greek mythology places the phoenix in Arabia, where it lives close to a cool well. Every mo
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  • ...''') is a shapeshifter creature in Faroese, Irish, Icelandic, and Scottish mythology. *British fantasy author Susan Cooper has written both a picture book and a novel fea
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  • ...se terms--as a giant, physically larger than the [[Titan]]s of Greco-Roman mythology. Like the ancient epics of Homer, Paradise Lost begins in the midst of thi *British metal band Cradle Of Filth was inspired by ''Paradise Lost'' and wrote the
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  • ...]] or supernatural being that is found in the legends, [[folklore]], and [[mythology]] of many different cultures. They are generally humanoid in their appearan ...ly beings with mystical abilities (either the [[elves]] (or equivalent) in mythology or their insect-winged, floral descendants in English folklore), while "fae
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  • ...s". He showed the finished manuscript to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service. Sidney reportedly came up with the idea to send it to ...that it "focused the magnifying glass that brought the downfall of icarus (mythology)|Icarus."
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  • ...that has generally been described as a malevolent [[spirit]], or [[Daemon (mythology)|daemon]] and [[Jinn]]. A demon is frequently depicted as a force that may ...'' that passed into Christian culture are discussed in the entry [[Daemon (mythology)|daemon]].The Hellenistic "Demon" eventually came to include many Semitic a
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  • In 1970, British mountaineer Don Whillans says he saw a creature while scaling Annapurna. Wh [[Category:Himalayan mythology]]
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