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  • ...l might indicate they were traveling at a fairly fast rate of speed at the time of the flash. Time : nocturnal
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  • ...on. They then evidently established interplanetary and later interstellar travel, exploration and colonization.
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  • ...ght but sleep in caves during the daytime. At the end of this period, they travel down caverns or other tunnels to Hades in the bowels of the earth. While o
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  • ...history of Earth's human evolution from the very beginning to our present time. ...iadians finally achieved peace back home in the Pleiades. They felt it was time for humans to evolve on their own. Before leaving Earth, the Pleiadians lef
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  • ...imself was at one time anthropomorphized as a horse; Sleipnir's ability to travel instantaneously associates him with sunlight. ...the giant would never be able to complete it in the agreed upon six month time frame. The giant asked one thing: the use of his gray stallion, Svadilfari
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  • A long time ago, a large bird known as Minokawa swallowed the moon. The people were too ...aims to snatch the moon. However, after failed efforts the Minokawa would travel and haunt the earth.
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  • ...iving in a pond at Mount Muro. A shrine was built to this dragon king some time after 781-783 AD. This shrine was used to give offerings to Zennyo in retur ...see the dragon king. Zennyo gave instructions of a place that Nittai must travel to.
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  • ...rmsson, King of the Danes, intending to invade Iceland, orders a wizard to travel to Iceland and tell him of what he sees there. The wizard goes in the form
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  • ...to discover what kind of birds they might have been, wrote that during his time a type of bird from the Arabian desert was called "Stymphalian," describing ...imagined as holding a lyre, and eventually it became just a lyre). At this time of year (i.e. during Sagittarius) the evenings darken and the rain season i
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  • ...he knew that he had to throw away the gloves and shoes he was wearing each time he killed. As an unemployed man on benefits, Ireland needed to get the mone ...was discovered, police had still to connect the three killings: there were time gaps between them, they were committed in three different areas with enough
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  • ...came sick at different times. Because so much of their time was devoted to travel and exhibition, they never learned to walk and instead scuttled about on al ...did not have muscular development in their legs due to almost all of their time being exhibited, and as it made it easier for their parents to exploit them
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  • ...ile ally Megalon to face Godzilla and Jet Jaguar alone. This is the second time Gigan has abandoned an ally. This seems to indicate that Gigan has a traito ...ody, upgrading him with claws designed like double pronged chainsaws. This time, Gigan is killed by Mothra, who sacrifices her life to kill the ancient cyb
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  • ...oped a fever. On February 8, 1723, the twins died at almost the exact same time. :Their parents poor did send them forth, the world to travel through,
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  • ...8,100 kg or 17,881 lbs) staff with ease. He is also superbly fast, able to travel 108,000 li (54,000 kilometers or 33,554 mi) in one somersault. ...ng of the peaches of immortality, three jars of immortality pills, and his time being tempered in Laozi's eight-trigram furnace (which gives him a steel-ha
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  • ...scene of holdups, robberies and murders that made it almost impossible to travel the road safely. Having fled from California and Nevada to Montana, outlaw ...y still haunting the second floor of the hotel where she spent much of her time while her mother worked there.<ref name="jeff" /> There have been numerous
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  • ...exually ambiguous, he was attracted to whomever most interested him at the time. Most of his early experiences were with male companions. He himself explai ...tat turned into a vampire in the 18th century and with whom he would live, travel and kill with for almost a century to come. Though Louis claimed that Lesta
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  • ...attained flight with its new wings, allowing for easier and more efficient travel for further destruction. The once prominent horn had disappeared and had be ...tant dinosaur was about to strike the killing blow, Battra intervened this time, saving Mothra's life. The two insects then had a conversation, much to the
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  • ...tween the former. When people on the Prime Material Plane die, their souls travel to the plane that closest matches their perspective in life, to be reincarn ...ter do not menace the rest of the universe as much as they might, as their time and resources are invested in attempting to wipe out each other in a centur
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  • ...roken, buries Jake and returns to Susannah in Fedic, where they depart and travel for weeks across the freezing badlands toward the Tower. ...times before. He is sucked through the door only to be teleported back in time to the desert, ending the series where it began in the first line of book o
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  • ''The Time Element'' was Serling's 1957 pilot pitch for his show, a time travel adventure about a man who travels back to Honolulu in 1941 and unsuccessful ...-->[[Image:PubTimeEnough01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Burgess Meredith stars in Time Enough at Last.]]
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  • ...Over And Pray The Lord. Tiainen (the owner of their record company at the time) had originally planned to publish the album, but according to Tiainen and ...to escape her father’s attacks. Developing this talent, she learned how to travel on an astral plane and transfer her conscience into inanimate objects. Duri
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  • ''The Time Element'' was Serling's 1957 pilot pitch for his show, a time travel adventure about a man who travels back to Honolulu in 1941 and unsuccessful ...-->[[Image:PubTimeEnough01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Burgess Meredith stars in Time Enough at Last.]]
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  • [[Heracles]] was required to travel to Erytheia, in order to obtain the Cattle of Geryon as his tenth labour. ...this region of the sky, setting a story in the desert requires someone to travel through it to the main location. Since Auriga is the nearest constellation
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  • ...mpelled the Nian to confine itself to its dreary mountain home most of the time. But a loophole did exist in this otherwise inspired decree, one that the N ...h nary a living soul in sight. But just when it was about to turn back and travel elsewhere to seek its meal, it detected sign of life coming from within a s
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  • ...the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This 'feed-back' process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the uroboros that he slays him ...that the Tail of the Snake should return into its Mouth precisely at that time, and they should wind up upon the day of their Nativity, is indeed a remark
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  • Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des ...sy eighteenth century Paris as an actor, and his making into a vampire. We travel with Lestat as he searches for other vampires, sometimes alone, sometimes w
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  • ...ion. Any story, film, game, or toy that includes aliens, spaceships, time travel, or the future is called science fiction. ...possibilities (see [[Hard science fiction]]) as they are understood at the time of writing, as in [[Arthur C. Clarke]]'s novel ''[[A Fall of Moondust]]'',
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  • ...is "'''Manandan mac Alloit''', a Druid of the Tuath De Danann, and in the time of the Tuath De Danann was he. '''Oirbsen''', so indeed, was his proper nam ...o owned a horse called "[[Enbarr|Enbarr of the Flowing Mane]]" which could travel over water as easily as land. In some sources he is described as driving h
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  • At the time of the Sassanian dynasty, the Simurgh was pictured as having the foreparts ...s kingdom, Zal fell in love and married the beautiful Rudaba. When it came time for their son to be born, the labour was prolonged and terrible; Zal was ce
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  • ...t. Olympus until Cronos replaced Ophion and Rhea replaced Eurynome. By the time classical mythology came around, Eurynome had shrunk to being one of Zeus' ...ame day in each year they open the sanctuary of Eurynome, but at any other time it is a transgression for them to open it.</blockquote>
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  • Claudia is put forth as being only five years old at the time she was made a vampire in the book; in the movie she appeared to be closer ...s, while in the book Louis and Armand, united in a love/hate relationship, travel the world together. Eventually Louis becomes almost devoid of feeling (of t
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  • ...rmal phenomena to owls, but no definitive explanation seems likely at this time. ...ure, named in parallel to the ''Batman'' TV series that was popular at the time, was first sighted November 12, 1966. A group of five men were preparing a
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  • ...term refers to an ''’ánt’iihnii'' who is using his (rarely her) powers to travel in animal form. The ’ánt’iihnii are human beings who have gained super ...ng on what kind of abilities they need. Witches use the form for expedient travel, especially to the Navajo equivalent of the 'Black Mass', a perverted sing
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  • * [[Time Travel]]
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  • ...ession from the ambiguous blob and finally the tall man, meaning that over time they take on more human appearance. Much less frequently red glowing eyes a ...with fear and hostility. Shadow Beings are said to move extremely fast and travel through solid matter. They typically are said to have no discernable featu
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  • ...t did not further elaborate on his reasons for doing so. Since Pigafetta's time the assumption that this derived from pata or foot took hold, and "Patagoni ...d for his height. I can say nothing about his habits, not having spent any time with him, but the Portuguese tell me that he is no better than the other ca
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  • ...has been the topic of myths, stories, and scholarly papers for a very long time.<!-- Then why don't we have any citations to them here? --> ...In particular, digging in fairy hills was unwise. Paths that the fairies travel are also wise to avoid. Home-owners have knocked corners from houses becau
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  • ...es without feeding or is prevented from doing so for an extended period of time, the creature steadily begins to weaken and show its true age. This can pr ...parts of mainland Europe, and the Orient. While the creature’s ability to travel for any considerable distance is limited in this form, it is able to move i
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  • The legends of the Black Shuck date back to the time of the Vikings based on the huge dog of war of Odin and Thor 'Shukir'. Some ...places and road located on '''leylines''' to watch over spirits who would travel along them from graveyard to graveyard.
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  • ...t is instead simply a very powerful being who must rest for millennia at a time. While under the influence of the [[Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliria '''Yibb-Tstll''' is an obscure god, said to watch at the center of all time as the universe revolves. Because of this insight, only [[Yog-Sothoth]] is
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  • ...l film, Godzilla is able to survive in the ocean for indefinite periods of time and is as adept a fighter underwater as he is on land. ...ubject of Communism, implying a negative view on it, and introduced a time-travel plot. Other themes in the movies included commenting on research into hazar
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  • Much of the time, the Mummy lies at rest within its tomb. However, when an intruder invades ...the hooked end, the brain was removed through the nostrils, one piece at a time. They then discarded the brain (they believed that an individual thought w
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  • ...(much like the relation between the Eloi and Morlocks in Wells' novel The Time Machine). Skeletons of the subordinate race were recovered in the Martians' ...n those years, and the contacts were effected through mediumship or astral travel.
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  • The idea of doppelgängers is also seen in fiction involving time travel and parallel universes. In this case, the doppelgänger really "is" the do ...ved indeed that Shelley had never been on the terrace & was far off at the time she saw him.[1]
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  • ...routine mission. In contrast to its earlier disdain for storytelling, this time id Software employed a professional science-fiction writer Matthew Castello ...e facility to allow the machinery to sustain the portals for a much longer time. This did not go unnoticed however; the staff were becoming increasingly su
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  • ...ysteries of God, and the Sons of Light must be at odds with them until the time when God has set aside to come down to destroy all the injustice in the wor ...by the angels before they fell. It enables one to travel trough space and time.
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  • ...ous original sense of the word ''troll'' appears to have lived on for some time after the Old Norse literature was documented. This can be seen in terms su ...han not, though, the trolls kept themselves invisible, and then they could travel on the winds, such as the wind-troll Ysätters-Kajsa, or sneak into human h
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  • ...ornell did a computer analysis of those cases collected since 1800 to that time. They identified sixty-three general characteristics, which include the fol ...s trauma in any area, at any time. Haunting activities are continuous over time, concentrated in the same area..
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  • ...''R.U.R.'' (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1938 and again in 1948) and ''The Time Machine'' (1949). The serial was the first of four ''[[Quatermass]]'' produ ...initial storyline to make it suit the television production methods of the time. Kneale claimed to have picked his leading character's unusual last name at
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  • ...Parts of it are set around the town of Whitby, where he was living at the time. While ''Dracula'' is famous today (due in large part to its 20th century l ...''The Woman in White'' (1860), was considered rather old-fashioned by the time of the publication of ''Dracula'', but it adds a sense of realism and provi
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  • ..., adults, impalers, slaymasters, and slaughterkings. Eventually, with more time, kythons will grow into newer and more powerful forms. Kythons closely rese ...e neither as powerful or as numerous as the fiends and have lost much over time. Long ago, avari dwelt in a large central community, but their many wars sh
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  • ...asting flour into the faces of feared neighbours was also done once upon a time. ...player will die during the next year, a saucer containing water foretells travel, a coin means new wealth, a bean means poverty, etc. In 19th-century Irelan
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  • ...ndfather, and experiences kindness and acceptance for the first (and last) time, as the blind man can not see his "accursed ugliness," and so treats him as ...enstein dead, having lost the only family he has ever known. He pledges to travel to "the Northernmost extremity of the globe," and there commits suicide.
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  • ...ernate for long periods, ranging in length from a few months to years at a time. Once they awaken, they go into a feeding frenzy, and after having eaten e ...ares its kills with these companions, and these animals have been known to travel with the Wendigo.
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  • ...y from the beach she saw three humps followed by part of a fourth. By this time she had taken the binoculars from Ratto and watched the animal swimming awa ...first time caught on video off the Bonin Islands, revealing for the first time the appearance in life of this "cousin" of sea serpents.
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  • ...s black armor, carries a black sword, is dark-hearted, and spends a lot of time with Dwarves, underground, in the dark. His title is therefore quite fittin ...ven forests. If the player in the game chooses to turn evil he spends some time working for the Dark Elves. Unlike in most modern fantasy fiction the Dark
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  • ...e presence of orcs in Dragonlance can be explained through planar or space travel as Krynn is connected to other Dungeons & Dragons worlds (where orcs exist) ...to take the command of Aden once again, after they were defeated the last time. They live for war and for pride.
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  • In most countries, it was believed that only one phoenix lived at a time. It was born from itself without following the natural laws of reproduction ...n god would stop his chariot to listen. There only exists one phoenix at a time. When the phoenix feel sits death approaching (every 500 or 1461 years) it
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  • Mokele-Mbembe lives underwater most of the time except when it eats or travels to other parts of the swamp. Through, it is ...despread folklore and anecdotal accounts covering a considerable period of time.
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  • ...emorse. They are also, collectively, the greatest alien adversaries of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Their most infamous catchphrase is "EX-TER-MIN-AT The creatures inside their "travel machines" are depicted as soft and repulsive in appearance, but still vicio
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  • ...of Life, and there plots death for man. He sees Adam and Eve for the first time, the natural king and queen of their world, in complete harmony with their ...houghtless and intoxicated, they give in to lust and display for the first time ugly passions such as hate, anger and mistrust. (Here, as elsewhere, Milton
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  • ...cted as being dog-headed. Hecate and her hounds were overseers of cyclical time, guardians of life and the awakening of vegetation. ...the goddess at the gates of cities, and eventually domestic doorways. Over time, the association of keeping out evil spirits, lead to the belief that if of
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  • *[[Father Time]] is sometimes said to be Death. ...Joshua ben Levi in particular is surrounded with a web of fable. When the time came for him to die and the angel of death appeared to him, he demanded to
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  • ...burial shroud or whatever clothing the body happened to be wearing at the time of burial, and the creature itself reeks of death and grave dirt. The Vamp ...from the grave and seek out its first victim, increasing in strength every time the creature feeds.
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  • The poet tells in the first person his travel through the three realms of the dead, lasting during Holy Week in the sprin .... This is a joke on them in Dante's mind because after the Final Judgment time ends, those in hell would know nothing. The nine circles are:
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  • ...ly believed to be female. The creature glides just under the surface for a time and then submerges back into the deep. The monster is reportedly 10 to 15 m ...they might be the fabulous Loch Ness monsters, now observed for the first time in their underwater activities!"</blockquote>
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  • ...ations. Such experiences can occur unbidden and without preparation at any time, and might not be understood as religious experiences at all. They may be i ...ness, they simply present themselves, and you don't have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out if they're real or not."
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