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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