...ucts.html Book: "Pink dolphin, friend of the river"] (Web Site - English & Spanish)
[[Category:Amazonian mythology]]
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...ttled, and so he may be their Nis or Kobold; or, as he is so very like the Spanish Duende, he may be that being introduced by the Aragonese, who seem to have
''THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY'' BY THOMAS KEIGHTLEY (1850)
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...f Mesoamerica for close to 2,000 years, from the Pre-Classic era until the Spanish conquest.
...etzalcoatl's return. Most documents expounding this theory are of entirely Spanish origin, such as Cortés's letters to Charles V of Spain, in which Cortés g
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Some stories say that La Llorona was a criolla (one of unmixed Spanish descent) who was the wife of a wealthy Spaniard. In one of his trips, she f
...e La Malinche to acts of vengeance. In this context, the tale compares the Spanish invasion of Mexico and the demise of indigenous culture after the conquest
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...ell as in a novel by Alexandre Dumas, see below), and Juan Espera en Dios (Spanish: "John [who] waits for God"). There also exists a Jewish family line with t
...m, probably because derived from the French, has followed the Romance. The Spanish name is ''Juan Espera en Dios'', "John [who] waits for God", or, more commo
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'''Centaurs''' are human-horse hybrids in Greek mythology and the followers of the wine god Dionysus.
...have traced the Greek centaur origins back to the Gandharvas who in Vedic mythology drove the horses from the Sun but it is now accepted that they were a primi
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...guages. A contemporary example of this would be God in English and Dios in Spanish.
[[Category: Biblical mythology]]
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...ar image shown here as a "Sabbatic Goat" shows parallels with works by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, who more than once painted a "Witch's Sabbath"; in t
...y. Crowley identified Baphomet with [[Harpocrates]] (the [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek]] version of the child-form of the Egyptian god [[Horus]]) and also w
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...Asilos Magdalena" song's lyrics, though he's called estrella de la mañana (Spanish for morning star) which is the meaning of Lucifer.
[[Category: Jewish mythology]]
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...he hectocotylus used for reproduction in many other cephalopods. A team of Spanish scientists at the Institute of Marine Research in Vigo developed a new theo
...female, is a bit too much to ask, and one of the two males stranded on the Spanish coast had accidentally injected himself with sperm packages in the legs and
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In [[Category:Greek mythology]] the '''Sirens''' or '''Seirenes''' were [[Naiad]] (sea [[nymph]]s) approa
In some languages (such as Spanish, French, Italian, Polish and Portuguese) the word for mermaid is ''Siren'',
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Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, <br>
[[Category: English 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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:*In Native American Cherokee mythology there is an evil witch known as the [[Raven Mocker]] that takes the form of
* Nos Miran (Spanish Language Film)
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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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'''Asmodai''' or '''Asmodeus''' is a demon in Jewish mythology.
...smodée (French), Asmodee, Asmodei, Ashmodei, Ashmodai, Asmodeios, Asmodeo (Spanish and Italian, from a Latin declination), Asmodeu (Portuguese), Asmodeius, As
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In Irish and Scottish mythology, the '''Cailleach''' (Irish plural cailleacha, Scottish Gaelic plural caill
*The Cailleach Bheara is thought to have originally been a Spanish princess named Beara. It was prophesied that she would go to the River Eibh
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Tiniente (Filipinized Spanish for Lieutenant) Gimo was a person of some note in his town of Dueñas in Il
[[Category:Philippine mythology]]
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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
...n word gave modern Italian's ''fata'', Catalan and Portuguese ''fada'' and Spanish ''hada,'' all of which mean ''fairy''. The Old French ''fée,'' had the mea
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...and edited the '''''Book of Imaginary Beings''''' in 1957 as the original Spanish ''Manual de zoología fantástica'', or ''Handbook of Fantastic Zoology'',
...] - A three-headed dog known to guard the gates of the underworld in Greek mythology.
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...ny connection with the mythical beings. Moreover, in the sources for Norse mythology, ''troll'' can signify any uncanny being, including but not restricted to t
...m that they were hunted by Thor, one of the last remnants of the old Norse mythology, who threw Mjolnir, his hammer, causing lightning bolts to kill them. Thoug
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* [http://webs.ono.com/usr007/bextrema/vudu/ -In Spanish, Vudu Congo y Magia Negra- An introduction to traditional Vodun and myth-de
[[Category:Haitian mythology]]
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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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...ount Ampato in southern Peru. Known as "Mummy Juanita" ("Momia Juanita" in Spanish) or "The Ice Maiden", some archaeologists believe that she was a [[human sa
[[Category:Popular culture]][[Category:Egyptian mythology]][[Category:Corporeal undead]]
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The word ''cannibal'' comes from Spanish ''Canibal'' (used first in plural ''Canibales''), derived from ''Caniba'',
The opening of [[Hell]], the Zoroastrian contribution to Western mythology, is a mouth. According to [Catholic dogma, bread and wine are transubstanti
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*[[:Category:Category:North American mythology|Native American]] [[Ghost Dance]]s of the late Nineteenth Century were myst
*[[Spanish mystics]]
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