...side of the lake on which the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was founded. - British Museum.]]
'''Xiuhcoatl''' is a dragon in Aztec mythology and the personification of drought and scorched earth.
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...e roughly 1908. The creature was dubbed Manipogo in 1957, the name echoing British Columbia's [[Ogopogo]].
*[http://www.bcscc.ca/manipogo.htm British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club - Manipogo]
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''The Minor Traditions of British Mythology'' by Lewis Spense, pp 90-91.
[[Category: English mythology]]
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According to Sikes in 'British Goblins', they have one outstanding characteristic, which is their dislike
[[Category:Welsh mythology]]
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...peculate that it might be a Moa which has traveled from New Zealand to the British isles.
[[Category: Irish mythology]]
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*''The Minor Traditions of British Mythology'' by Lewis Spense.
[[Category: English mythology]]
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...Inscriptions of Western Asia. Vol. 4 (Semitic). ed. T.G. Pinches. London: British Museum, 1861-64, 1891.
[[Category: Mesopotamian mythology]]
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:"A bodach is a mythical beast of the British Isles, a sly thing that comes down chimneys during the night to carry away
[[Category:Scottish mythology]]
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”Sena in the British sea, opposite the Ofismician coast, is remarkable for an oracle of the Gall
[[Category: French mythology]]
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...ìth''' or '''Cat Sídhe''' is a monstrous fairy cat from Scottish and Irish mythology.
...ly found in Scotland (the European Wildcat is absent from elsewhere in the British Isles). Typical Kellas Cats resemble large black wildcats, but with some pe
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A hag or "the Old Hag" was a [[nightmare]] spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore which is essentially identical
In Irish and Scottish mythology [[Cailleach]] was a goddess concerned with creation, harvest, and the under
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...onster]] from [[Welsh mythology]] that also appears in Celtic folklore and British folklore.
...for two people, Dwyfan and Dwyfach, from whom the later inhabitants of the British Isles descended.
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More specifically, a hag or "the Old Hag" was a [[nightmare]] spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore which is essentially identical
In [[:Category:Irish mythology|Irish]] and Scottish mythology [[Cailleach]] was a goddess concerned with creation, harvest, and the under
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...uthor of a lovely scene on the pelike of the Classical period, also in the British Museum. Erichthonius as a young boy is sitting in his chest on the rocks of
[[Category: Greek mythology]]
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In the Chilote folklore and Chilote mythology of the Chiloé Island in southern Chile, the '''imbunche''' or '''invunche'
*British comic book writer Alan Moore wrote a version of the Invunche which is very
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[[Image:caladrius.jpg|frame|British Library, Harley MS 4751, Folio 40r.]]
[[Category: Christian mythology]]
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...Gougers''' are fictional creatures, said to inhabit the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and the southwestern sandhills of Saskatchewan. The legs on one si
...Thomas Browne, writing in the 17th century, recorded a popular belief that British badgers (popularly referred to back then as "brocks") had legs of different
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...''Devil’s Dandy Dogs''', also known as '''Dando Dogs''', are hounds of the British [[folklore]] said to be taking part to the [[Wild Hunt]]
[[Category:Category:English mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]]
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In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, '''Pazuzu''' was the king of the [[demon]]s of wind, and son of the god [[
...d, circa 800-550 BCE. Probably from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq. British Museum ANE 93089]]
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[[Image:Rahu.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Rahu: Head of Demon Snake, sculpture, British Museum]]
...''' is a snake that swallows the sun or the moon causing eclipses in Hindu mythology.
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...is accepted to have lived in the fifth century, then these people are the British whom the Saxons failed to subdue and who became the Welsh.
Here is a brief summary of what Perrin in British Flags and Giles-Scott in The Romance of Heraldry have written about the dra
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'''Balayang''' is a mythical bat who is a prominent figure in the mythology of the Kulin nation.
...on was inhabited by Aboriginal peoples as early as 40,000 years before the British first began colonising Australia in 1788. Balayang is sometimes referred to
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''The Minor Traditions of British Mythology'' by Lewis Spense.
[[Category:Welsh mythology]]
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...(also '''centicore''', Latin 'eale') is a mythical beast found in European mythology.
...he adopted the yale as a supporter. It eventually worked its way into the British Royal Family.
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...people in the English-speaking Caribbean states that were colonized by the British and which practised "Obeah", a form of mystical wizardry that encompassed t
[[Category: Caribbean mythology]]
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In Akkadian mythology '''Humbaba''' (Assyrian spelling) or '''Huwawa''' (Babylonian) was a monstr
[[Image:Humbaba.gif|thumb|Clay tablet 2000 BC - British Museum]]
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In ''Alien Animals'' (1985), British paranormal researchers Janet and Colin Bord pointed out that Mawnan church
[[Category:English mythology]]
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...then-world-famous British scientific journal Discovery. William Hichens, a British administrator working in Tanzania reported that several natives were attack
[[Category: African mythology]]
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...term for any number of [[legendary creature]]s that frequently appear in [[mythology]], [[legend]], and [[horror fiction]]. The word originates from the Old Fre
===Religion and mythology===
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...hat, he remained long in the dominion of Wales, instructing their bards in British poesy and prophecies, being called Wrthin, Wadd, Elgin; ‘and now,’ said
THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY (1850)
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...mythology|Gaulish]] and (later) [[Roman mythology|Roman]] and Gallo-Roman mythology, '''Epona''' was the goddess of horses, donkeys, mules.
...ot appear in the Latin text; it would have linked Epona with the primitive mythology of [[Demeter]], who was covered as a mare by [[Poseidon]] in stallion-form
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...n Boar.jpg|thumb|Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar, 550 BC found in Vulci, British Museum, London]]
[[Category: Greek mythology]]
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...Dé Danann''' ("peoples of the goddess Danu") are a legendary race in Irish mythology. In the invasions tradition which begins with the Lebor Gabála Érenn, the
...lso have many parallels across the Celtic world: Nuada is cognate with the British god Nodens; Lugh is a reflex of the pan-Celtic deity Lugus; Tuireann is rel
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...torso of a serpent (cf. ''[[Typhon]]''). On a fragmentary archaic vessel (British Museum 1971.11-1.1) of ca 580 BCE, among the gods arriving at the wedding o
[[Category:Greek mythology]]
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...ences to wild 'Greymen' in Scotland and similar creatures elsewhere in the British Isles, sometimes called [[woodwose|Wudewas]] or 'Wood Men', date back to th
[[Category:Scottish mythology]]
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...; trooping and solitary. It is a distinction that hold good throughout the British Isles, and is indeed valid wherever fairy beliefs are held.
[[Category:Irish mythology]]
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In '''Nahuatl''' mythology, '''Tezcatlipoca''' or "smoking mirror" was the god of the night, the north
===Mythology===
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Sikes, ''British Goblins'', pp. 40.
[[Category: Welsh mythology]]
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'''Spriggan''' is a fairy creature from Cornish and British folk tales.
[[Category:English mythology]]
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...r pirates during the 16th century. Pirates of that era were often from the British Isles, where belief in faeries was quite common, especially amongst those o
[[Category:Maya mythology]]
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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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