...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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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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...h Day's ''The Queen Mother's Family Story''. In Peter Underwood's ''A-Z of British Ghosts'' he is described as neckless, very small arms and legs, and looked
[[Category: Scottish mythology]]
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===British law===
*[http://llr.lls.edu/volumes/v36-issue1/martin-original1.pdf ''The Mythology of the Public Domain: Exploring the Myths Behind Attacks on the Duration of
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...earlier references than 1840, including a ship called Sheela Na Gig in the British Royal Navy and a dance called the Sheela na gig from the 1700's. These are
...as Celtic, namely the hag-like [[Cailleach]] figure of Irish and Scottish mythology. This theory was originally put forward by the likes of Margaret Murray and
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...o document Orang Pendek is a British woman named Debbie Martyr. Along with British photographer Jeremy Holden, she engaged in a 15-year project beginning in t
*Hairs and casts of a foot print found by two British men, Adam Davies and Andrew Sanderson, while traveling in Kerinci were anal
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*British progressive rockgroup Jethro Tull recorded a song called ''Jack-In-The-Gree
[[Category:English mythology]]
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A British example can be found on the coat-of-arms used as the public house sign for
...ten applied to beings that seem more human than ape, or that have strong [[mythology|mythological]] or supernatural overtones.
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...hu plain, had an encounter with a Nandi Bear. He reported the following to British anthropologist C.W. Hobley:
Around 1920, British Museum authorities investigated the Nandi bear because of the accounts that
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...s described prevously by the Dutch historian Jan Jakom Maria Groot and the British writer Gerald Willoughby-Meade.
[[Category:Chinese mythology]]
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* The British Museum (later moved to the British Library)
...ecraft Mythos]] but instead was based on [[Mesopotamian mythology|Sumerian mythology]]. It was later dubbed the "[[Simon Necronomicon]]".
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===Norse/Germanic mythology===
In [[:Category:Norse mythology|Norse mythology]], '''Svartálfar''' ("Swartelves" or "[[black elves]]"), sometimes conside
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