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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...o have appeared on July 30, 1763 before the Battle of Bloody Run, where 58 British soldiers were killed by Native Americans from Chief Pontiac's tribe.The sma
[[Category:French mythology]]
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...arm them, another trait they share in common with other [[fairies]] of the British Isles.
[[Category:English mythology]]
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...nated as '''Captain Elliott Spencer''', who was born into the middle class British society of the Victorian Era in 1888.
He joined the British Expeditionary Force, eventually rising to the rank of Captain and served du
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...s to his friend Bishop Percy, another antiquarian. Percy had embarked on a British Empire spanning project to collect all the oral and written lore and ballad
[[Category:English mythology]]
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...the phenomenon as the product of the misidentification of common animals, mythology or [[folklore]]. For instance, northern Europe's former belief in [[troll]]
...m "Sasquatch" was coined in the 1920s by J.W. Burns, a school teacher at a British Columbian Chehalis reservation. Burns collected Native American accounts re
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*Redcaps are mentioned in the Harry Potter series by British author Joanne Rowling.
[[Category:English mythology]]
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The brownie is the British counterpart of the English [[Boggart]], the Scandinavian [[tomte]], the Ru
[[Category:English mythology]]
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In Greek mythology, the '''Gorgons''' ("terrible" or, according to some, "loud-roaring") were
The concept of the gorgon is at least as old in mythology as Perseus and Zeus. The name is Greek, being from gorgos, "terrible." Ther
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...‘’Trader Horn’’, the memoir of Alfred Aloysius Smith, who had worked for a British trading company in what is now Gabon in the late 1800s. In the book, Smith
...ake them to Lake Tele, but did not report any mokele-mbembe sightings. The British men did, however, describe Agnagna as doing "little more than lie, cheat an
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[[Image:Mummy 501594 fh000031.jpg|thumb|350px|A mummy in the British Museum.]]
...famous mummies, such as Rameses II or Seti I. Currently on display in the British Museum, Ginger was discovered buried in hot desert sand. Desert conditions
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In Zulu and Bantu mythology, '''Tikoloshe''', '''Tokoloshe''' or '''Hili''' is a mischievous and evil s
*In the late 19th century, Mrs. Minnie Martin, the wife of a British official in Basutoland (Lesotho), was with a servant and a dog when they en
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In June 2006, British Science Weekly reported that Cleve Hicks and colleagues from the University
[[Category: African mythology]]
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...d century AD, said to have been found near the Helmand River, Afghanistan. British Museum.]]
[[Category:Persian mythology]]
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In [[Category:Greek mythology]] the '''Sirens''' or '''Seirenes''' were [[Naiad]] (sea [[nymph]]s) approa
...am,' much like [[Banshee]], her father. Both characters' names come from [[Mythology|mythological]] characters best known for their vocal abilities.
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...he world, many native tales of unknown animals were initially dismissed as mythology or superstition by western scientists, but were later proven to have a real
* [http://www.bcscc.ca/cryptidlist.htm British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club]
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Since most beings from [[:Category:Scandinavian mythology|Scandinavian mythology]] are said to be afraid of steel, Scandinavian parents often placed a steel
(Wirt Sikes. ''British Goblins: The Realm of Faerie''. Felinfach: Llanerch, 1991.)
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...ppearance of Phoenician literary texts, Dagon has practically no surviving mythology.
*In the album [[wikipedia:The Chthonic Chronicles]] by the "British Cosmic War Metal" band'' [[Bal-Sagoth]]'', there is reference to one such D
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...s a [[witch]] or that she was cursed by locals for having an affair with a British soldier. The Shourds House, a log cabin within the Pine Barrens, was repute
...orks.com/myth.html The Jersey Devil]''" — Elk Township (Local Area [[Mythology]])
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...Percy Sladen Expedition journeyed to West Africa in the employment of the British Museum. In charge of the team was Ivan T. Sanderson, a well-known zoologist
[[Category: African mythology]]
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...ised in 1954 by a British civil servant named [[Gerald Gardner]] after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was
...gures. A few examples might be [[Cernunnos]] and [[Brigit]] from [[Celtic mythology]] or [[Hecate]], [[Lugh]], [[Diana]] and many others.
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Hell appears in several [[mythology|mythologies]] and [[religion]]s in different guises, and is commonly inhabi
...ry:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] and [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman mythology]], but [[Hades]] also included [[Elysium]], a place for the reward for thos
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...been attacked and sunk by giant octopuses. Unfortunately for Montfort, the British knew what had happened to the ships, resulting in a disgraceful revelation
In the PC game ''Age of Mythology'' the Kraken is an aquatic myth unit that can be summoned by the Norse civi
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...the [[Spear Luin]], and is similar to the [[Bleeding Lance]] of [[Grail]] mythology, which was eventually claimed to ''be'' the Spear of Destiny.
...by Maryann Bird is an article in the European Edition of TIME Magazine on British metallurgist Robert Feather’s scientific examination of the Spear in Vien
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In ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology, the '''phoenix''' is a mythical bird and associated with the Egyptian sun-
Greek mythology places the phoenix in Arabia, where it lives close to a cool well. Every mo
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...''') is a shapeshifter creature in Faroese, Irish, Icelandic, and Scottish mythology.
*British fantasy author Susan Cooper has written both a picture book and a novel fea
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...se terms--as a giant, physically larger than the [[Titan]]s of Greco-Roman mythology. Like the ancient epics of Homer, Paradise Lost begins in the midst of thi
*British metal band Cradle Of Filth was inspired by ''Paradise Lost'' and wrote the
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...]] or supernatural being that is found in the legends, [[folklore]], and [[mythology]] of many different cultures. They are generally humanoid in their appearan
...ly beings with mystical abilities (either the [[elves]] (or equivalent) in mythology or their insect-winged, floral descendants in English folklore), while "fae
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...s". He showed the finished manuscript to Sidney Bernstein, the head of the British Information Service. Sidney reportedly came up with the idea to send it to
...that it "focused the magnifying glass that brought the downfall of icarus (mythology)|Icarus."
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...that has generally been described as a malevolent [[spirit]], or [[Daemon (mythology)|daemon]] and [[Jinn]]. A demon is frequently depicted as a force that may
...'' that passed into Christian culture are discussed in the entry [[Daemon (mythology)|daemon]].The Hellenistic "Demon" eventually came to include many Semitic a
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In 1970, British mountaineer Don Whillans says he saw a creature while scaling Annapurna. Wh
[[Category:Himalayan mythology]]
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