[[Category: South American and Mesoamerican mythology]]
[[Category: Spanish mythology]]
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...molest animals of all kinds, and indeed in Trinidad and especially on the Spanish Main the horses suffer greatly from the attacks of large vampire bats. It i
[[Category:Caribbean mythology]]
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The '''Pombéro''' is an goblin-like creature from Guaraní mythology.
...octurnal creature. In some parts of Argentina he is known primarily by the Spanish translation of his name, "Dueño del Sol".
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''Engkanto'' comes from the Spanish word ''encantar'' or to enchant.
[[Category:Philippine mythology]]
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In Greek mythology the Sirens or Seirenes (Greek Σειρῆνας) were Naiads (sea nymphs) w
...mermaids (half woman, half fish). The fact that in some languages (such as Spanish, French, Italian, Polish or Portuguese) the word for mermaid is Siren, Sire
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...Louis Borges, Translated by Andrew Hurley, © 2005 Viking Penguin (original Spanish © 1967 by Editorial Kier, S.A., Buenos Aires under title "El libro de los
[[Category:Asian mythology]]
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...appears in many later works as well, including stories written in French, Spanish, and Italian.
[[Category:Arthurian mythology]]
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...es, while in other accounts it has only one, like the [[Cyclops]] of Greek mythology. Some tell of a gaping, stinking mouth in the monster’s belly through whi
...nt on a three week rampage. Over one hundred heads of yellow cattle of old Spanish origin were killed, all the way to Ponta Branca, located 150 miles south of
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...ip expedition in 1519. Pigafetta`s diary was published in Italian, French, Spanish, and later into English. It influenced the writings of Shakespeare, Baudela
...ch were fourteen spans long. Three of our men, who were later taken by the Spanish on the coast of Brazil, assured me that one day on the other side of the co
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...having children) exists as the "Bag Man" (Portuguese: "''homem do saco''"; Spanish "''hombre de la bolsa''" or "''del saco''", also "''hombre del costal''").
...years, but still retaining its original meaning. The term is also used in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries.
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...ucts.html Book: "Pink dolphin, friend of the river"] (Web Site - English & Spanish)
[[Category:Amazonian mythology]]
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...ttled, and so he may be their Nis or Kobold; or, as he is so very like the Spanish Duende, he may be that being introduced by the Aragonese, who seem to have
''THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY'' BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY (1850)
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...f Mesoamerica for close to 2,000 years, from the Pre-Classic era until the Spanish conquest.
...etzalcoatl's return. Most documents expounding this theory are of entirely Spanish origin, such as Cortés's letters to Charles V of Spain, in which Cortés g
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Some stories say that La Llorona was a criolla (one of unmixed Spanish descent) who was the wife of a wealthy Spaniard. In one of his trips, she f
...e La Malinche to acts of vengeance. In this context, the tale compares the Spanish invasion of Mexico and the demise of indigenous culture after the conquest
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...ell as in a novel by Alexandre Dumas, see below), and Juan Espera en Dios (Spanish: "John [who] waits for God"). There also exists a Jewish family line with t
...m, probably because derived from the French, has followed the Romance. The Spanish name is ''Juan Espera en Dios'', "John [who] waits for God", or, more commo
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'''Centaurs''' are human-horse hybrids in Greek mythology and the followers of the wine god Dionysus.
...have traced the Greek centaur origins back to the Gandharvas who in Vedic mythology drove the horses from the Sun but it is now accepted that they were a primi
11 KB (1,766 words) - 22:45, 4 March 2008
...guages. A contemporary example of this would be God in English and Dios in Spanish.
[[Category: Biblical mythology]]
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...ar image shown here as a "Sabbatic Goat" shows parallels with works by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, who more than once painted a "Witch's Sabbath"; in t
...y. Crowley identified Baphomet with [[Harpocrates]] (the [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek]] version of the child-form of the Egyptian god [[Horus]]) and also w
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...Asilos Magdalena" song's lyrics, though he's called estrella de la mañana (Spanish for morning star) which is the meaning of Lucifer.
[[Category: Jewish mythology]]
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...he hectocotylus used for reproduction in many other cephalopods. A team of Spanish scientists at the Institute of Marine Research in Vigo developed a new theo
...female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and
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