..."to rule over." The masculine, Medon, "ruler", is a Homeric name. The Indo-European root, *me-, "measure", generates a large number of words.
...mics, role-playing games, and video games. Although not as well known as [[dragon]]s or [[unicorn]]s, most popular lore concerning gorgons derives from [[Med
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...ence date back as far as 1860 as the area was being colonized by the first European settlers, sixty years before the first modern reports of The [[Loch Ness Mo
"Ogopogo" is also the name given to a few [[dragon]]-like [[monster]]s in various role-playing games and other fantasy setting
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'''Melusine''' (or '''Melusina''') is a figure of European [[legend]]s and [[folklore]], a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred s
...lled her a "serpent" in front of his court, did she assume the form of a [[dragon]], provide him with two magic rings and fly off, never to return.
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...ndash; some say it had the body of a goat, the tail of a snake or European dragon and the head of a lion, though others say it had heads of both the goat and
...To either side of its lion's head is the head of a goat and the head of a dragon.
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...ros, (Ourorboros, Oroborus, Uroboros or Uroborus) is an ancient serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. The ouroboros has been import
...roboros is one of the oldest mystical symbols in the world. The serpent or dragon appears in Aztec, Middle East, and Native American mythologies, among other
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...Hittite myths contain accounts of a battle between the weather god and the dragon Illuyankas, and the Babylonians told of a fight between their god Marduk an
...ercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."
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In various Indo-European mythologies, gigantic peoples are featured as primeval races associated wi
...odorus, their shaggy hair drooped from their heads and chins, and they had dragon scales on their feet. The mightiest Giants were Porphyrion and Alkyoneus.
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...he Middle Ages, tales of dragons seem to have become even more common. The dragon in Europe, as a rule, was not conceived as having a humanoid form, and woul
...ssume a non-reptilian human form.[http://www.draconian.com/dragons/chinese-dragon.php] The Japanese have tales of [[Kappa]], a basically reptilian humanoid.
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...resided over the underworld. He is almost always portrayed as a serpent or dragon depending on the particular myth. The underworld was part of a mythical wor
...fearsome water-spirit of the Missouri River. Until recently, some northern European communities held well-dressing ceremonies to appease the snake-spirits whic
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The '''tatzelwurm''' is a dragon-like beast and cryptid reported from the Alps mountains areas covering part
...perhaps the tatzelwurm was a giant salamander that was once native to the European Alps, an equivalent creature to known giant salamanders that are found in m
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In European folklore and, a '''changeling''' is the offspring of a fairy, [[troll]], [[
*Jane, the heroine of Michael Swanwick's ''The Iron Dragon's Daughter'', is a changeling who was stolen by the fairies to work in a fa
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...Romanian Strigoi Morti resemble the undead vampires found in other Eastern European countries. They were frequently blamed as the cause of death in cases of ep
...of strigoi appeared in the episode ''Bite Father, Bite Son''of ''American Dragon: Jake Long''.
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...ls of people who have come into contact with the creature, from before the European settlers arrived to the present day.
In the American Dragon: Jake Long episode "Long Weekend", Jake is called upon to defend a communit
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...s at a peak, and Stoker's formula of an invasion of England by continental European influences was by 1897 very familiar to readers of fantastic adventure stor
Before writing ''Dracula'', Stoker spent seven years researching European folklore and stories of vampires, being most influenced by Emily Gerard's 1
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...seems to come from his father's surname 'Dracul', due to the 'Order of the Dragon' he got from the Emperor Sigismund.
...pport was the fact that in 1431 Vlad II was inducted into the Order of the Dragon (Societas Draconis in Latin, Ordo Draco in Romanian), along with the rulers
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...oth of butterflies and of moths. She closely resembles an Inachis io, or a European Peacock Butterfly. Since her first film, Mothra has been depicted in vario
...idorah, a flora-destroying horned beast with three heads; Dagahra, a toxic dragon-like sea creature; and finally Cretaceous King Ghidorah/Grand King Ghidorah
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...gs of an eagle, the body and legs of a lioness, and the tail of a snake or dragon. Sometimes it was portrayed with the body of a bull and the legs of a lion.
...e too somber perhaps for the Rococo, and they tended to disappear from the European design repertory - until revived in the 19th century with its romanticism,
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Inspired largely by the preceding indigenous European folklore, dark elves are a common element, although usually very highly emb
...while their wood brethren from the kingdom of Irollan worship Sylanna, the Dragon of Earth. While traditionally the two breeds of elves hated each other, the
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...h can be purchased. These worlds range from magic-rich to magic-poor, from European medieval settings to east Asian realms, from sword and sorcery to swashbuck
...)|dwarves]], [[half-elf|half-elves]], [[Orc (Dungeons & Dragons)|orcs]], [[Dragon (Dungeons & Dragons)|dragons]] and the like often draw comparisons to the w
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...aqua vitae'', the "water of life", was a fairly popular "experiment" among European alchemists.)
...hemy had a more obvious connection to medicine. The philosopher's stone of European alchemists can be compared to the Grand Elixir of Immortality sought by Chi
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