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Dragon
...nt or other reptile, with [[magic]]al or [[Spirit|spiritual]] qualities. [[Mythology|Mythological]] creatures possessing some or most of the characteristics typ ...rse exceptions to these rules). Malevolent dragons also occur in [[Persian mythology]] and other cultures.

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Vampire
...Bulgarian вампир (vampir), Croatian upir /upirina, Czech and Slovak upír, Polish wąpierz, and (perhaps East Slavic-influenced) upiór, Ukrainian упир ( ...al wolf that could devour the sun and moon (similar to [[Fenris]] in Norse mythology), and later became connected with werewolves rather than vampires. The pers

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Paradise Lost
...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 *In the late 1970s, the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote an opera based on ''Paradise Lost'', an

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Alchemy
...chemists to borrow the terms and symbols of [[Bible|biblical]] and pagan [[mythology]], [[astrology]], [[kabbalah]], and other mystic and esoteric fields; so th ...wn alchemist was Michael Sendivogius (''Michał Sędziwój'', 1566 - 1636), a Polish alchemist, philosopher, medical doctor and pioneer of chemistry. According

57 KB (8,662 words) - 04:38, 18 July 2010