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Legend holds that the dog was a family pet of one 13th century owner, Sir David Balfour. Returning from a hunt, Sir David was displeased w

...a number of regional legends, some which are said to date back to the 13th century. ...scared the Tatar-Mongol army that headed for Novgorod to death in the 13th century. Batu Khan stopped the troops on the sides of Lake Brosno to rest. Horses w

...''Nibelungenlied'', a burgundian poem written around the turn of the 13th century, Alberich guards the treasure of the Nibelungen, but is overcome by Sigfrid The name Oberon got its literary start in the first half of the 13th century from the fairy dwarf Oberon that helps the hero in the ''chanson de geste''

...l sources) and the ''Prose Edda'' (written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century) provide different mythical origins for the beings; the ''Poetic Edda'' poe

...sometimes called [[woodwose|Wudewas]] or 'Wood Men', date back to the 13th century, and are believed by some to represent relict hominids.

Gregory of Nyssa (4th century), as well as Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (17th century), believed in male and female demons. ...tury), Johannes Tauler (14th century), and Ludovico Maria Sinistrari (17th century), among others, supported the idea that demons were lustful and lascivious

In the 13th century, Heike Monogatari makes reference to a creature called a nue. In addition t

...e Norse concept of nature spirits. Generally speaking, from about the 13th-century onward, the Norse Vættir shrink in size. A titanic Jötunn diminutizes int During the 19th century, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe compiled the folk tales among N

...led ''Chandi Mangala Kavyas'' were written from 13th century to early 19th century. These had the effect of merging the local folk and tribal goddesses with m

The events are said to have taken place in the 16th or 17th century and there are several legends concerning the ghost's origins. ...d to the wounds, but the boy had died. It is on record that Robert Hylton, 13th Baron Hylton was pardoned in 1609.

...es sometimes called '''Wudewas''' or '''Wood Men''', date back to the 13th century, and are believed by some to represent relict hominids. ...hey began. The Fear Liath More has most often been encountered within this century by mountaineers climbing in the Cairngorms.

In the 8th-century Life of St. Richarius, ''dusii hemaones'' or ''dusii manes'' also occur in ...magical practices that threaten marriages, as noted by Hincmar in his 9th-century treatise De divortio Lotharii ("On Lothar's divorce"): "Certain women have

...word was loaned into Middle English via Old French ''espirit'' in the 13th century.

While some claim that the Saci myth originated in Europe in the 13th century, it probably derives from the ''Yaçi-Yaterê'' of Tupi-Guarani mythology, This indigenous character was appropriated and transformed in the 18th century by the African slaves who had been brought in large numbers to Brazil. Slav

...language c. 1500, and often printed in both the 15th century and the 16th century. (There is also a prose version called the ''Chronique de la princesse.'') ...fied the proper site for the city to Boreslaus of Masovia in the late 13th century.

The twentieth century fantasy writer [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] Anglicized the Old Norse name ''Álfhei ...ime" indicates the name for the region was archaic or obsolete by the 13th century. The element ''elfr'' is a common word for 'river' and appears in other riv

...born to a Mrs. Leeds, a resident of the Pine Barrens during the mid-[[17th century]]. Mrs. Leeds was so upset at yet another pregnancy that after giving birth ...ineys were further demonized after two eugenics studies at the turn of the century depicted them as congenital idiots and criminals. It is easy to imagine ear

The tengu's long nose seems to have been conceived sometime in the 14th century, likely as a humanization of the original bird's bill.[1] Perhaps via confu ...pictured as taking the shape of some sort of priest. Beginning in the 13th century, tengu came to be associated in particular with the yamabushi, the mountain

...Allan Poe]]'s "The Fall of the House of Usher" and by an unfinished first century astronomical poem by Roman poet Marcus Manilius titled the ''Poeticon astro ...ic original was lost. This translation was printed twice: in the fifteenth century, evidently in Germany in black-letter, and in the seventeenth, probably in

...s, there is a gap of about a millennium, and it is only from circa the 9th century BC that vampire-like spirits called the Lilu are known from Babylonian dem ...onal Museum has been suspected a forgery, but if genuine it would be a 7th century BC plaque featuring a sphinx-like creature and a she-wolf devouring a child

...assumed by that sub-family in 1279. Their power peaked during the mid-16th century, and was virtually gone by 1658. With the death of the wife of György Rák ...to her castle by their parents to learn noble manners. In the early 17th century, parents of substantial position often wished their daughters to be educate

...rants brought older versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century. ...have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.

...l in debt to the Templars) plotted to destroy the order. On Friday October 13th 1307, Philip IV had Grand Master Jacques de Molay and 140 other knights arr In his 19th-century Occultist reincarnation, a well known depiction shows Baphomet in the form

...he time the Poetic Edda came to be compiled in the late 12th or early 13th century, these rituals had given rise to legends of supernatural battle-maidens who

...ication to Hekate (Plate XXXVIII. a), in writing of the style of the sixth century. The goddess is seated on a throne with a chaplet bound round her head; she ...m, now in Berlin. In the Argolid, near the shrine of the Dioscuri, the 2nd-century CE traveller Pausanias saw the temple of Hecate opposite the sanctuary of E

...culine forms, while the corresponding feminine form (first found in eighth century glosses) was ''ælfen'' or ''elfen'' (with a possible feminine plural ''-æ ...ut the history of Mainland European West Germanic. By the earlier eleventh century ''ælf'' could denote a female.<ref>'''Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matter

[[Image:Altar Selene Louvre Ma508.jpg|thumb|left|300px|A 2nd-century sculpture of the moon goddess [[Selene]] accompanied by Hesperus and Phosph In the '''Vulgate''', an early-5th-century translation of the Bible into Latin by Jerome, ''Lucifer'' is a Latin word

...olved human being known as a [[Newtype]], predominantly in the [[Universal Century]] timeline. This happens when humanity begins to migrate to space, and to a *In ''[[Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood]]'', the main character accidentally [[resurrection

..., who show an awareness of Kali's ambivalent nature. Ramakrishna, the 19th century, Bengali saint, was also a great devotee of Kali; the western popularity of ...d immigrant South-Asians (primarily centered near Kolkata, circa 13th-19th century CE) who took the goddess Kali as their deity. Although much controversy sur

...e and Rome, in the Islamic empire, and then in Europe up to the nineteenth century &mdash; in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning ...cianism, an important [[esotericism|esoteric]] movement of the seventeenth century. In the course of the early modern period, as mainstream alchemy evolved in

...its history. In his work, ''Kabbalah'', Gershom Scholem, a prominent 20th century scholar of that field, stated: ''The Kabbalah is not a single system with b [[Thomas Aquinas]], a Christian mystic of the [[13th century]], defined it as ''cognitio dei experimentalis'' (experiential knowledge of

...ts of the Wendigo myth by explorers and missionaries date back to the 17th century. They describe it rather generically as a [[werewolf]], [[devil]], or [[can ...endigo murder trials took place in Canada around the beginning of the 20th century. The anthropologist Morton Teicher has described the alleged clinical cond

During the 16th century, there was even a whole clan (48 people) of cannibalistic murderers in Scot ...A., during 1687 was later described in this letter sent to France: “On the 13th (of July) about four o’clock in the afternoon, having passed through two