...ngs, derived from one of the most famed example: the ''gigantes'' of Greek mythology.
...nd they are frequently in conflict with the gods, be they Olympian gods or Norse. There are also historical stories featuring giants in the Old Testament, p
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*G. Henderson, ''The Norse Influence in Celtic Scotland''.
[[Category:Scottish mythology]]
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...ings perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (See Phoenix (mythology)). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity. The Jungian psycholo
===Norse mythology===
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*[[Adramelech]] ([[Assyrian]] mythology)
*[[Af]] ([[Jewish mythology]])
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*[[Norse Wild Hunt]];
[[Category:Celtic mythology]]
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...or draugen (Norwegian meaning the draug) is a corporeal undead from Norse mythology. Draugar were believed to live in the graves of dead Vikings, being the bod
...is speculated that this belief began in Denmark and spread through out the Norse culture. The belief was founded on the idea that the dead only enter throug
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==Comparative mythology==
...n Yam and Baal (the Storm God) resembles the battle in Hurrian and Hittite mythology between the sky God Teshub (or Tarhunt) with the serpent Illuyanka.
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In Norse mythology the '''valkyries''' are dísir, minor female deities, who are described as
From Old Norse ''Valkyrja'' lit. "Choosers of the Slain".
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...welt in a number of places in Wales as genii loci similar to Greek nymphs, Norse norns or Irish sidhe. Such places included the lake Llyn y Fan Fach. Tylwyt
*MacKillop, James (1998). ''Dictionary of Celtic Mythology''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 368. ISBN 0192801201.
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===Norse/Germanic mythology===
In [[:Category:Norse mythology|Norse mythology]], '''Svartálfar''' ("Swartelves" or "[[black elves]]"), sometimes conside
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In Greek mythology, '''Scylla''', or '''Skylla''' (Greek Σκύλλα) is a horribly grotesque
...r features to the [[kraken]] in Norse mythology and [[lusca]] in Caribbean mythology.
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...and it is not even clear whether its origin is Germanic languages (cf. Old Norse ''puki,'') or Celtic languages (Welsh ''pwca'' and Irish púca ).
Puck's trademark laugh in the early ballads is "Ho ho ho." In modern mythology, the "merry old elf" who works with magical swiftness unseen in the night,
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...ightmare'' is not a female horse, but a '''mara''', an Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse term for a demon that sat on sleepers' chests, causing them bad dreams.
===Norse Lore===
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The modern Scandinavian names are derived from an Old Norse ''nykr'', meaning ''river horse''. Thus, likely the brook horse preceded th
[[Category:Scandinavian mythology]]
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An '''elf''' (pl. ''elves'') is a creature of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of minor nature and fertili
...ively, a connection to the ''[[Rbhus]]'', semi-divine craftsmen in Indian mythology, has also been suggested. Originally ''ælf''/''elf'' and it's plural ''æl
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...e skin-walker is known mainly from Navajo folklore, analogies exist in the mythology of other tribes, including the Mohawk, Hopi, and Aztecs. The Yaqui have a s
==Norse beliefs==
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...k δαιμόνιον (daimonion), "demon", in the New Testament, was related to Old Norse ''skōgr'' and Old English ''sceaga'', both meaning "forest", and therefore
[[Category: Germanic mythology]]
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...is, while the tales of [[Odin]] the Wanderer have a religious value to the Norse who composed the stories, because it does not fit into a Christian configur
**[[Mythology|Myth]]
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...u''' was the first living being and the creator of the universe in Chinese mythology.
...e four corners of the world, -- which is a Chinese version not only of the Norse myth of the Giant Ymir, but also of the Babylonian story of Tiamat.
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* [[Coinchenn]], from whose bone the [[Gae Bulg]] is made in [[Celtic mythology]]
* [[Jörmungandr]], the Norse Midgard Serpent.
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...is never clearly explained in the accounts. The [[Wild Hunt]] was alien to Norse tradition and was imported from southern Germanic traditions. Inferably, Od
[[Category:Scandinavian mythology]]
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*'''Draugrs''', from '''Norse mythology'''
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...or religion (as in ''Greek mythology'', ''Egyptian mythology'' or ''Norse mythology'') or the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interp
...falsehood — a story which many believe but which is not true. The field of mythology does not use this definition.
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...which displays both human and animal characteristics, either as a part of mythology or as a [[spirituality|spiritual]] concept. The word is derived from Greek
In [[folklore]], mythology and [[anthropology]], therianthropy can be used to describe a character tha
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...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 such as ''sjötrollet'
...st tradition, the troll is large, brutish and a direct descendant from the Norse ''jötnar''. They are often described as ugly or having beastly features li
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...ith other Scandinavian wights such as the Swedish ''vättar'' (from the Old Norse "landvættir") or the Norwegian ''tusser''. These beings are social, howeve
[[Category:Scandinavian mythology]]
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Although the name ''kraken'' never appears in the Norse sagas, there are similar sea monsters, the ''hafgufa'' and ''lyngbakr'', bo
...Mythology'' the Kraken is an aquatic myth unit that can be summoned by the Norse civilization.
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A '''werewolf''' (Or '''Lycanthrope''') in [[folklore]] and [[mythology]] is a person who [[Therianthropy|shapeshifts]] into a wolf, either purpose
...manic languages including Gothic ''wair'', Old High German ''wer'' and Old Norse ''var''.
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[[Norse mythology]] also contains examples of necromancy (Ruickbie, 2004:48), such as the sce
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*In Roman mythology, [[Aeneas]] lulled Cerberus to sleep with drugged honeycakes.
A similar dog, '"Garm'", is guarding the house of deaths in the Norse mythology. These monsters were all probably inspired from the dogs that haunted the b
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..., and wandered around graveyards at night. The "draugr" of medieval Norse mythology were also believed to be the corpses of warriors returned from the dead to
[[Category:Caribbean mythology]] [[Category:Corporeal undead]] [[Category:Humanoid]]
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...aelic orc (a Goidelic form of Proto-Indo-European *porkos "young pig") and Norse ørkn meaning "seal" .
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==Mythology==
*In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr, or "Midgårdsormen" was a sea serpent so long that it encirc
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...ath personified''' is a figure or fictional character which has existed in mythology and popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling. Because the re
*[[Loki]] (Norse)
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...eralding death or serious illness of the doppelganger's original. In Norse mythology, a vardøgr is a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen pe
...ints in his life, so it could be seen as a doppelganger of sorts, owing to mythology in which such can take on the form of non-human animals.
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...y Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]'' and the alchemical homunculus. In Norse mythology, Mökkurkálfi (or Mistcalfa) was a clay giant, built to help the [[troll]]
...golems carries clay tablets on his arm and in his head, alluding to Jewish mythology.
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...ch originally meant "to cover". "Hel" later referred to the goddess of the Norse underworld, Hel. Compare [[Anglo-Saxon language |Anglo-Saxon]] ''helan'', G
Hell appears in several [[mythology|mythologies]] and [[religion]]s in different guises, and is commonly inhabi
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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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...al wolf that could devour the sun and moon (similar to [[Fenris]] in Norse mythology), and later became connected with werewolves rather than vampires. The pers
*In Aztec mythology, the [[Civatateo]] was a sort of vampire, created when a noblewoman died in
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