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  • Description : animals that appears under a ghostly form either as “pets” attached to a certai ...have a soul if they transcend death. Some theoricians argue that spectral animals are only residues i.e captured energy that display past events. There is ev
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  • '''Cryptids''' are animals presumed extinct or hypothetical species of animals known from anecdotal evidence and/or other evidence insufficient to prove t [[Category:Cryptids, dinosaurs and bizarre animals]]
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  • ...e foundations. It might be an heritage of the old pagan totem and guardian animals as it was believed that its spirit would rise and protect the grounds from ...s of animals but instead demons that have assumed the disguise of a common animals. In Wales such devilish spirits were most prone to take the form of horrend
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  • In Japanese mythology, '''henge''' are animals that are able to transform themselves into human and play trick on people. Among wild animals, [[kitsune]] (fox) and [[tanuki]] (racoon dog) are the masters of transform
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  • Description : animals that appears under a ghostly form either as “pets” attached to a certai ...have a soul if they transcend death. Some theoricians argue that spectral animals are only residues i.e captured energy that display past events. There is ev
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  • ...верь, transliteration: Indrik zver' ) is a fabulous beast, the king of all animals, who lives on a mountain known as "The Saint Mountain" where no other foot [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...always in pairs, and serve to protect the pagoda. They typically appear as animals, but are sometimes found with human faces. [[Category: Animals]]
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  • # The First Earth (Inhabitants: man, genii and animals) [[Category:Animals]]
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  • ...g claws - which make it sound like a giant ground sloth, one of a group of animals that were supposed to have become extinct at the end of the last Ice Age.
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  • In ''Alien Animals'' (1985), British paranormal researchers Janet and Colin Bord pointed out t * Bord, Janet; Bord, Colin (1990). Alien Animals. Granada. (pp135-139, 141)
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  • ...nned sea serpent''' is an unverified species or group of species of marine animals which seem to possess numerous fins along their sides or backs. ...for one such creature sighted near Algeria. In his book, On the Nature of Animals (second century CE), Greek military writer Aelian reported that these sea s
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  • ...The iaculus is a flying snake. They jump from trees and dart onto passing animals, from which they get their name, darter (iaculi). ...andrefiala''' which will fall tail first from a tree like a spear and stab animals the pass underneath according to the local legends.
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • '''Khrafstras''' or '''xrafstras''' are some animals or insects that Zoroastrians believe were created by the Evil Spirit (Ahrim [[Category:Animals]]
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...insane. She casts a spell of sickness upon those that rebuff her, be they animals or men. The deformations caused by the Fiura are practically incurable exce ...he provoked wrongs for the Fiura. The power of her breath can scar or turn animals lame. A person may be mocked by calling "donde va ese "Fiura", as if to say
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...e first race created by [[Gluskab]]. However, because they crushed so many animals and injured the earth with their great size and weight, Gluskab destroyed t
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  • [[Category:Animals]]
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  • ...ans. Malsum represented destruction. He made rocks, thickets and poisonous animals. Malsum tried to find magic to kill his brother, Gluskap. He asked Gluskap ...ble for making all the good things in the universe—the air, the earth, the animals, and the people—from his mother's body. His evil brother Malsum created t
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  • [[Category:Fairy animals]]
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...son to feed from. These recipients of energy can be as different as trees, animals or crystals.
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  • [[Category:Fairy animals]]
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...spite their human traits and telepathic abilities, kalanoro are considered animals.
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  • ...g of an animal resembling the Ngoubou in his book "On the Track of Unknown Animals". The sighting, apparently from the London Times, was taken on the 17th of ...years ago. The locals had noted a firm decline in the population of these animals lately, making them harder to find.
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  • [[Category:Fairy animals]]
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  • ...ut of the water during the night making big noise, jumping onto people and animals and strangling them.
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...and tempting melodies when the wind was blowing through them. When men or animals were drawn towards the pleasant notes, the shadhahvar would stomp them to d
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  • ...the live-lively apes. The live-lively apes know the names of humans. These animals are like hogs, but they have a human face.—''Book Ten--The Classic of Reg ...and their knowledge of human names: ‘In the Yunnan region, the live-lively animals live in mountain valleys. When they see wine and sandals left out, they kno
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  • [[Category:Animals]]
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  • ...to his despair, he is also ugly. His appearance is so awful that even wild animals avoid him, and he sometimes cries out to warn humans of his approach, so th
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  • [[Category:Animals]]
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  • ...o be highly probable that the beast is in fact real. It is known to target animals and sometimes even people, often around large open water areas. Reports hav ...n in the Exmoor area's countryside. In particular, the 1976 Dangerous Wild Animals Act, which controlled the keeping of big cats (among other things) led to t
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  • ...allow them to dig large borrows, probably in which to lay its eggs. Other animals like giant pangolins may take up residence in these borrows after they are ...uld go for weeks in the forest without seeing any of these well-documented animals. The area is very large and the forest is extremely dense.
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  • ...amous in the Philippines because they are said to possess people or even I animals and drive them crazy. They also have the power to kill the souls of their v ...de deity Pan. They are usually seen with swollen scrotum and copulate with animals that live in the countryside. The young women are advised to stay away from
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  • ...ttempts to show that there may be some basis for fact in several legendary animals. With a strong emphasis on the Oriental region, Gould notes the legends and
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  • The Wolpertinger is described as being composed from body parts of various animals — generally wings, antlers and fangs, all attached to the body of a small Stuffed Wolpertingers, composed of parts of real stuffed animals, are often displayed or sold as tourist souvenirs in Bavaria. Each village
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  • The mongoose was among the many animals Belon observed, and the woodcut illustration in his book (see picture above [[Category: Animals]]
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...ompanied by a pack of dogs follow it; the Beast whips these, and any other animals it encounters.
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  • ...lls, often by urinating in them, causing drought or sickness in humans and animals alike . It is also a kenning applied to foxes.
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  • ...p were able to outrun all other runners. They lived side by side with wild animals and attempts to capture them failed because they were so savage. It is beli
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  • Aquatic animals like as eels, octopus, rays and squids usually are believed to be swimming
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  • :*animals smaller than dogs :*animals with multiple mouth, such as octopus
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  • ...me bad luck. It is attributed with the dramatic ability to kill people and animals instantly at a range of several *feet. It is even believed that the worm sp ...mphisbaenas or worm lizards. These are a primitive group of poorly studied animals. They are not snakes or lizards but are related to both. I think the Death
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  • ...t also aided their master in bewitching people. If they look like ordinary animals, they can be used to spy on their masters' enemies. Familiars are generally animals or such beings. They usually have some magical power, or are simply there t
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  • Caipora is known as a forest dweller, as a king of the animals of sorts and very vengeful of hunters who don't respect the rules of "fair-
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  • ...in ''The Beasts That Hide from Man: Seeking the World's Last Undiscovered Animals'' by Karl Shuker as living on the island of Rintja (Rinca), Indonesia.
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  • ...s disguises itself as an old tree trunk, a beautiful lady, fishes or other animals in order to lure people into its trap. When caught the human will be eaten
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  • [[Category:Animals]]
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  • ...telope-like '''leucrota''' were clearly meant to be two different types of animals, but because of their alleged blood relation, the similarity of their names ...the ability to change its color or gender at will. Some legends said that animals that attempted to stalk it would freeze in their own tracks. The eyes of a
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  • ...to raise by their charms the winds and seas, to turn themselves into what animals they will, to cure wounds and diseases incurable by others, to know and pre
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  • ...r to ear, with ridges of bone instead of teeth. It is the swiftest of wild animals, and is said to be able to imitate the human voice.
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  • ...''' is a mythical creature that looks and behaves like a human, raise farm animals and plants root crops.
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  • After a long period of cold weather, the animals of the community become worried. They decide to send a messenger to the Gre
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  • ...arkadann was an extremely ferocious beast, driving away from its territory animals as big as the elephant. ...ever the creature ran, and it could make a loud bellow that frightened all animals away. It is said it would fight an elephant and kill it. It would then hois
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  • [[Category:Fairy animals]]
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  • ...eds first on the fattest cattle and then works its way on down as the poor animals whither and die.
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  • ...h cloven hoofs and leaves growing out of his beard. As the guardian of the animals and the custodian of the trees, he is known to sound a cow's horn to warn h
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  • ...as considered appropriate to make proprietary sacrifices of small birds or animals to the river spirit.
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  • ...ses, most of them bearing no relation to each other, reported seeing three animals, two large and one small. This suggests that the creature(s) seem to stay
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  • ...he second son of Tau and Kerana and is considered the protector of aquatic animals and
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  • ...dinary human, but at night they can change into a variety of forms such as animals (pig, monkey, tiger, ...), a ball of fire or even the demonlike figure of R
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  • ...es. The animals are said to prey upon birds, monkeys, and other small game animals. However, there are no recent records of attacks on humans. The Baka told G * Shuker, K, ''Extraordinary Animals Revisted''; CFZ Press, pp. 231-236
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  • ...''' being wild spirits [[ghost]]s, which may explain their connection with animals, most notably the stag. ...d up with the idea that [[witch]]es rode in procession to [[Sabbat]]s upon animals, or flew in the sky, and this idea became one of the major charges used in
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  • [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...e still here. '''Re'em''' is described as a giant even among these strange animals. At any given time, only two exist, one male and one female, because had mo During the flood, when Noah collected all the animals into the arc, the Re'ems came to join the procession. However, because of t
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  • ...es against the forest, like burning down trees or indiscriminately putting animals to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for lif
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  • ...obtained from the worship of Master Leonard range from metamorphosis into animals or men to flight as an incubi. ...ithout salt and boiled with serpents and toads; dances, in which monstrous animals or men and women with impossible shapes take part; unbridled debauches wher
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  • ...chimera-like creature, with human head and parts from different species of animals. It was dangerous, it might attack the settlement. Then, the shaman had to ...cal power onto the victim. It might be made e.g. of mixtured parts of dead animals, dead child.
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  • ...ble evidence" of exotic felines loose in Britain, and that the mauled farm animals could have been attacked by common indigenous species. The report stated th [[Category:Fairy animals]]
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  • [[Category:Animals]]
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  • ...childbirth, and water in which it had been infused prevented swellings in animals. Because of the large demand for alrauns, they were often carved from the r
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  • [[Sedna]], [[Tornarsuk]] and the [[tornat]] (spirits of animals and natural formations) and [[tupilak]] (souls of dead people) live in Adli
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  • ...at Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals'', Rupert Sheldrake, 2000, ISBN 0-609-80533-9
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  • '''Lake monster''' is the name given to large unknown animals which have purportedly been sighted in, and/or are believed to dwell in lak ...reported to inhabit Loch Ness in Scotland. In more recent years, similar animals have been widely reported, such as [[Ogopogo]] in Okanagan Lake in the hea
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  • ...to introduced civets. Adding to the confusion, in some regions badger-like animals are also known as mami, and in one part of Tochigi Prefecture badgers are r Mujina are small furry animals in Japanese folklore. The faceless ghost is often referred to by English sp
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  • By donning animal skins or believing themselves transformed into animals by their rage of [[Therianthropy|shapeshifting]] Berserkers can easily be s ...Later the berserkers, brutal warriors that believed to be transformed into animals by rage, are most commonly associated with the cult of [[Odin]] from ninth
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  • ...ambia. They are thought not to live in herds or groups, but to be solitary animals. Almost every theory about their identity points to their being herbivorous ...[3], much like the Mokele-mbembe's renowned hatred for Hippo's. While both animals are both supposedly herbivorous, they also share a fierce sense of territor
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  • ...jewelry from the mid-first to second century CE that depict double-headed animals with swirled snouts and distinctive ears. These have been found in southern
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  • ...ebrates; the human instinct. Instead he supports a view of human beings as animals and rejects many social structures that he believes inhibit human instincts Vandalism, cruelty to animals, or grave desecration are advanced by some as examples of satanic crimes. W
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  • ...o appear in a human shape, exceed in authority and power them that come as animals; and again, these latter surpass in dignity them who appear as trees or ins
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  • ...kabore. A similar creature in Vermont is known as the Wampahoofus. Similar animals are part of Appalachian folklore, sometimes in the form of a breed of cow w
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  • ...and be about 1.5m (5ft) tall. Aboriginals have further claimed that these animals emit a long "mournful wail".
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  • ...fort, hematophagy has evolved as a preferred form of feeding in many small animals, such as worms and arthropods. Some intestinal parasitic worm|nematodes, su These hematophagous animals have evolved different specialized mouth parts and chemical agents for pene
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  • ...ats to the tree to calm the evil spirit. Parker said the Umdhlebi poisoned animals that approached so that the natural process of decay would fertilize the so
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  • ...hich proves to be fatal). The Vampire can sate its hunger on the blood of animals if necessary, although this is usually something done only in desperation. ...aintaining their power and immortality through the sacrifice of humans and animals. But, blood is sacred to God, and in the Old Testament, God emphasizes tha
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  • ...mplice lured young boys into the desert telling them they were hunting for animals. The actual number of victims is believed to be higher than 16. His accompl
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  • ...ters in some other tribes, is not dangerous or malevolent. Azeban deceives animals and other beings for food or other services.
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  • By the way, two hounds were not ordinary animals, as they were the offspring of a [[Tuatha de Danann]] woman. [[Category:Fairy animals]]
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  • ...s), interspecies rape, fire or burning, and [[sexual assault]] on immature animals such as puppies. ...suffering to animals, from zoophilia, the emotional or sexual bonding with animals: [http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/SEN/CH20.HTM#b1-PARAPHILI
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  • * The First Earth (Inhabitants: man, [[genie]] and animals)
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  • [[Image:boobrie.jpg|thumb|Picture from 'Paranormal Animals of North America']]
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  • ...things only the dragons had previously known, such as the languages of the animals, specifically birds.
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  • ...which are still occasionally reported. Those who study or search for such animals are called ''cryptozoologists'', while the hypothetical creatures involved ...nturer Ivan T. Sanderson. Heuvelmans' 1955 book, ''On The Track of Unknown Animals'' traces the scholarly origins of the discipline to Anthonid Cornelis Oudem
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  • ...and lesser group of demons. These are able to enter the bodies of certain animals such as crocodiles, dogs, and tigers. Haunting the dwelling grounds of thei
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  • ...obably derived from travelers accounts of monkeys, gorillas and other wild animals.
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  • ...ter and Douglas J. Grifon. As police searched they were finding half eaten animals (most of the rabbits.) all over the woods. Then the police were passing a l
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  • ...r may not have been necessary in a tropical environment depending on these animals' metabolism. ...). Despite this discrepancy, wingspans are usually overestimated in flying animals not held in hand, especially by frightened observers.
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  • ...as such was considered to be the lord of the forests and protector of wild animals. Kurupi's most unique feature, however, was an enormous penis that was ordi
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  • ...e main goddesses in Lithuanian mythology. She ruled the forests, trees and animals. Her name was derived from the term "medis", meaning tree, and medė which
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  • ...Xmucane, the mother and father gods. As the result of their deliberations animals were created. But as yet man was not. ...together to abuse the men to their faces. The very household utensils and animals jeered at them, their mill-stones, their plates, their cups, their dogs, th
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  • ...es against the forest, like burning down trees or indiscriminately putting animals to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for lif
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  • ..., suggesting it's relation to [[theropod]s. It more than likely ate small animals, being a quick sprinter, but containing both carnivore and herbavore teeth,
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  • ...ts of both Upper and Lower Egypt and are likely to have been designated as animals associated with protection and royalty. The long necks may be a simple exag
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  • ...this companion to cause harm to others, or who himself changes shape into animals in order to cause harm to others. The normal practice is to refer to the an ...ame as "witches" or "brujos" who are thought to be able to shapeshift into animals at night (normally into an owl, a bat or a turkey) and suck blood from inno
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  • ...l diseases in rabbits that can create horn-like growths upon the bodies of animals, most commonly Fibromatosis and Papillomatosis.
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  • ...or tribes of 7 to 12. They are depicted as wearing the hides of dead farm animals, and sometimes tribal decorations of bones, jewelery and webs of rope. Not
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  • ...indu mythology, '''Navagunjara''' is a creature composed of nine different animals.
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  • ...similar (but smaller) to those from the Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu, but not the animals themselves. This is a common misreading from his book and mixed up at a lot ...ibly the same animal is described in the 1958 book On the Track of Unknown Animals by Bernard Heuvelmans. In 1928 a snakelike animal called Ngakoula-ngou or B
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  • ...at night, slipped in and out of view and caused dogs, cats and small farm animals to disappear. As the sightings grew in number, so did the variety of descri
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  • ..., Lake Labynkr or Lake Khaiyr, which purportedly harbor large, sub-aquatic animals, Nahuel Huapi is the home of one of South America's most famous resorts, th ...the creature in question came under law which forbade the hunting of rare animals.
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  • ...ltic mythology|Celtic mythology]] is the deified [[spirit]] of horned male animals, especially of stags, a nature god associated with produce and fertility. A ...ord of the Animals, are all, or were, horned males associated with nature, animals, and the primordial wild. It is possible that all three entities have a com
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  • ...ies" swimming in parallel in three pairs. Another one of them featured the animals closer together, leaving circular ripples on the lake surface. Zhuo said he
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  • ...boons. They were too far away to see in detail, but these small human-like animals were probably between four and five feet tall, quite upright and graceful i ...s.com/monsters/hairy/index.php?detail=article&idarticle=189 Global unknown animals]
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  • ...ourishing, in the incredible heat of molten rock. This might be similar to animals who thrive in the tremendous heat found in the mineral rich exhaust of hydr
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  • ...dog, pig or more likely a cat. So heed warnings about playing with random animals.
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  • Barbatos teaches how to decipher what animals speak of, knows of buried treasures, can reconcile disagreements between fr
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  • ...e afraid of the Hoga since it was reported to take vast fish and even land animals if they strayed too close to the water's edge.
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  • Even plants or dogs, cats, or farm animals could turn into vampires. Pumpkins or melons kept in the house too long wou
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  • Aelian, On Animals 17. 9 (trans. Scholfield) (Greek natural history C2nd A.D.)
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  • ...a village deep in the forest where fishermen used to actually catch these animals.
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  • ...onsible for working with the fundamental quintessences and vital fluids of animals, humans, and plants.
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  • ...acopra published research entitled “A Preliminary Report of Possible Large Animals in the Payette Lakes of Idaho” for Bloomsburg State College in Bloomsburg
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  • It is said that the ship possesses the power to transform unfortunates into animals or inert objects such as a tree-trunk with a crew of seals.
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  • ...otic creature is blamed for the death of at least seven people and several animals, including livestock. The killings happened in 1997 on the Mzintlava River
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  • ''Human animals'' (1915) by Frank Hamel
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  • ...And it is called lion and ant because it is, as it were, an ant to other animals, but a lion to ants." (Brehaut, 1912)
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  • ...f self-transformation.<ref name="hamelwitchwerecats">Hamel, Frank. ''Human Animals'' (University Books; 1969) pp7, 103–109</ref> During the witch trials, of ...Ancient teachings held that every race except the Han Chinese were really animals in disguise, so that there was nothing extraordinary about some of these fa
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  • ...f old souls; often coming to earth to harvest souls of decrepit humans and animals near death.
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  • ...r been formally cataloged by science, there is some speculation that other animals have been mistaken for the creature. Some believe the tsuchinoko legend to
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  • ...ir way like living tanks through the dense foliage the expedition saw many animals and birds. They had exciting encounters with the impressive Bengal tiger an [[Category: Animals]]
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  • Several years later the child grows up and is an outcast with animals tendencies. The father is told that the child will be sent away to a place
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  • In the 1800's animals were reported to be living off the coast of New England, and particularly t
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  • ...he had no saddle or bridle his hands felt comfortable intertwined with the animals' mane and it seemed a gentle beast. Soon however the passing landmarks indi [[Category:Fairy animals]]
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  • ...esided and positioned himself alone. As Lavana returned home after hunting animals for eating each day, Shatrughna challenged him to fight. Lavana was very ha
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  • Often people report seeing glowing animals before a tlahuelpuchi attack. The tlahuelpuchi are able to avade capture by
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  • ...eir camp, they encountered several local hunters who had come to sell them animals. Sanderson told these people about his encounter, and they told him he had ...ndered if we did hit it, but that our shot, which was for collecting small animals, just failed to penetrate its hide. Alternatively, we may simply have blast
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  • Landvættir can shapeshift into troll-animals endowed with magic power and super strength.
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  • ...e xana takes and enchants someone; those in which the xana transforms into animals; and those in which the xana provides a magic belt. - El gran libro de la m
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  • ...frightening. Ghosts can come in a variety of forms: children, men, women, animals and demonstrate various feeling.
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  • ...nd utterly destroying villages, glutting itself on the blood of humans and animals alike. The only evidence of the creature's predations are wreckage and bloo The Nelapsi is a [[Vampire]], feeding on the blood of both humans and animals. Its bloodlust is insatiable, and it won't stop hunting until dawn. At this
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  • ...He also noted that the sirrush is shown on the Ishtar Gate alongside real animals, the lion and the rimi (aurochs), leading him to speculate the sirrush was * Bernard Heuvelmans (1958). On The Track Of Unknown Animals. New York: Hill and Wang.
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  • ...Jinx. They are an engineered species of enormous intelligent single-celled animals.
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  • ...g body, perpetrating mischief as sucking the life energy out of people and animals, and licking up the oil of andon lamps. They can also change their faces to
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  • The moroi can shapesfhift into man, as well as into different animals such as: dog, cat, horse, sheep, toad, and every kind of bloodsucking insec
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  • ...ianity with Saints Cosmas and Damian, and Saint Michael the Archangel. His animals are a golden horned ox, a boar, a horse, and a falcon named Varagna.
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  • ...e dwarves. Since they are little, they cannot protect themselves from wild animals and they cannot cultivate the land. As a result, they eventually die.
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  • * Janet and Colin Bord, "Alien Animals" (Granada 1980, revised 1985), ISBN 0-586-06469-9, pages 13-14(McDonnell an
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  • like animals. Still more gruesome tales say that the children are brought back to his br
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  • The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails, until it forms a single ...t the fractures of their tails which according to proponents show that the animals survived an extended period of time with the tails tangled. [3]
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  • ...s from a variety of government and other officials have documented unusual animals including alligators, black panthers, giant turtles as well as a giant snak ...wn and Fall River, where local police were called to investigate mutilated animals believed to be the work of a cult. Two specific incidents in 1998 were repo
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  • ...s a mythical animal. However, some have attempted to identify it with real animals. ...rmise that Behemoth and Leviathan may also be mundane creatures. Suggested animals include the water buffalo, rhinoceros and the elephant, but the most common
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  • ...acks humans, tears them apart and eats their flesh. They would only attack animals, but only on condition that the cow or sheep belongs to the baron.
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  • ...g for the bodies of animals to eat, but also sometimes attacked people and animals.
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  • ...at this animal was attacking human beings. Skulls and hides of the alleged animals were sent to the museum to be examined. The skulls and hides turned out to ...ng tracks and hearing blood curdling howls, unlike those made by any known animals.
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  • Hantu Raya is capable of materializing itself into another human being or animals and sometimes makes itself a double for the owner. Among its other trick is
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  • ...wer of the forest and mountains, he rules unquestioned over the beasts and animals that dwell there, making him the universally acknowledged monarch and champ
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  • ...tem from observations of unusual maternal relationships between humans and animals.
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  • ...tomach) and a snake (intestines). As many Chinese legends speak of certain animals becoming demons over time as they gain knowledge, that's what the tortoise
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  • Ghosts can come in a variety of forms: children, men, women, animals and demonstrate various feeling. Some will pass without even noticing you,
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  • ...by The Big Cats in Britain research network.[1] Approximately 85% of these animals are described as black, while most others are unpatterned brown. The only s ...eory. They are often killed by a clean puncture or slit in the throat. The animals' insides are then eaten precisely and with no mess, in the same way a big c
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  • ...leading to the earlier pegasus square being considered 4 evil horses (the animals being horses due to the overall shape assigned to the constellation). Pegas
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  • ...nd their use of this word in traditions showed that they often had in mind animals like crocodiles and alligators, and sometimes they referred the name to any ...ns were known also as kupuas, or mysterious characters who could appear as animals or human beings according to their wish. The saying was: "Kupuas have a str
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  • The Aufhocker was a shapeshifter which took the form of animals to approach potential victims. It had the supernatural ability to change it
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  • ...the common functionality of the others lay in their ability to impregnate animals and women, often by surprise or force. Dusii continue to play a role in the ...ed in Greek Pans, in Latin Incubi, or Inui from their entry (ineundo) with animals everywhere. Hence also Incubi are so called because wrongful sex is incumbe
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  • Claudius Aelianus (''On the Nature of Animals'', 7.6) provided a fuller description: the creature was a mid-sized herbivo
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  • Almas are typically described as human-like bipedal animals, between four and a half to five feet tall, their bodies covered with dark ...d that "The book contains thousands of illustrations of various classes of animals (reptiles, mammals and amphibia), but not one single mythological animal su
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  • ...been a connection with the werewolf to the occult activities and mutilated animals (which may have been animal sacrifices in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
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  • ...the vampire taint. It is supposed that the loogaroo will frequently molest animals of all kinds, and indeed in Trinidad and especially on the Spanish Main the
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  • ...th century Scottish immigrant's letter to his relatives referring "furried animals and fish" being plentiful in the New World, followed by a request to procur
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  • ...as rain; and the fleas on his fur carried by the wind became the fish and animals throughout the land. Illustrations of P’an-Ku represent him in the company of supernatural animals that symbolize old age or immortality, viz., the tortoise and the crane; so
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  • ==='''Cryptids, dinosaurs and bizarre animals'''===
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  • ...e Korè cult of the Bambara people in Mali “become” hyenas by imitating the animals behaviour through masks and roleplays. These are evocative of the hyenas' r
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  • Both the animals and the scientist were allegedly creations of Gerolf Steiner, a zoology pro
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  • ...he lumberjack camps in Minnesota or Wisconsin, and places it among similar animals which, in his words, "no one, surely, has ever believed in."
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  • ...of the Devil - horns, cow's tail, messy hair, a face that is more like an animals than a humans. This one will be dressed in poor peasant clothes and is usua
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  • Special care was taken to make sure to only obtain pets and farm animals he liked, as the domovoi would torment the ones he didn't care for.
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  • ...y the same thing as ahi. Heuvelmans also notes in his checklist of unknown animals that similar reports to the buru also come from Burma, and they might also
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  • ...Prince Ivan in The Death of Koschei the Deathless is aided against her by animals whom he has spared. ...(Finno-Ugric) and Tungusic families, invented to preserve supplies against animals during long periods of absence. A doorless and windowless log cabin is buil
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  • ...spute from which he spared us the details. Caym teaches communication with animals and waves and knows of the future. Dictionnaire Infernal - Collin de Plancy
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  • ...h an invading White Dragon. His pained shrieks cause women to miscarry and animals and plants to become barren. Lludd, king of Britain, goes to his wise broth
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  • Sacred horned or antlered animals that signalled the numinous presence of a deity were ubiquitous in the anci The Horned God is associated with woods, wild animals, and hunting. He is often also associated with sexuality or male virility.
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  • Other fish-tailed land animals which appear in Greek and Etruscan art include the "Leokampos" (fish-tailed
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  • ...were finally over, he thaught the ancestors how to till the soil and rear animals.
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  • ...al killer: He wet the bed, he [[pyromania|started fires]], and he tortured animals. In his adolescence, he was known as an alcoholic and a chronic drug abuse ..., which he would then devour raw. He then began to put the entrails of the animals he had killed into a blender in order to make a drinkable paste of them. Ch
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  • *A number of natural animals are quoted as being the possible origin of the yale. Although some tend to
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  • ...s Gwion through a cycle of changing shapes, which correspond both to totem animals and to the turning of the seasons; this theme is related to that of Mabon a
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  • ...d loss of animal life. The killings had one pattern in common: each of the animals found dead had two punctured holes around their necks. ...sort, most likely a coyote, with demodectic mange. In October of 2004, two animals which closely resemble the Elmendorf creature were observed in the same are
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  • ...and later buried her alive. Aged 10 years old he spent his days torturing animals, until his father found out and sent him to reformatory for more than two m
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  • ...variety of forms, at times appearing human, or in the form of a variety of animals and as beings with a grotesque mix of human and animal characteristics. The
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  • ...stration from a 17th century manuscript shows Yggdrasill with the assorted animals that live in it.]] ...e similar locations relative to the hall of Odin, both are associated with animals who derive nourishment from its foliage, and Hvergelmir as well shares a co
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  • ...scribe a character that shares some traits of humans and some of non-human animals. ...specific varieties of therianthropy are based on Greek words for specific animals combined with ''anthropos''. A nearly endless number of types of therianthr
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  • *The Basajaun is the protective spirit of forests and all most animals including wild creatures and flocks. He gives shouts in the mountains, when
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  • ...s of specific villages and families. They often take the form of plants or animals, and are often more cruel than other gods. These trouble-making gods are re
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  • ...nder rotting logs. When logs were brought indoors and put on the fire, the animals mysteriously appeared from the flames. ...fire; and amid all poisons its power is the greatest. For other {poisonous animals} strike individuals; this slays very many at the same time; for if it crawl
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  • ...coming out of it during the night making big noise, strangling people and animals.
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  • ...bero to become friendly, to the point where he will guard over one's home, animals, and possessions, and sometimes even leave gifts in return.
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  • ...feel they are responsible for. Because of their love for animals, all the animals of the forest are the Gnome's friends and are willing to help him at any ti ...are known for freeing wildlife from man's traps and for operating on farm animals whose owners have neglected them or who are simply to poor to afford a vetr
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  • ...row and terrorized the countryside, spitting poison and killing people and animals. Two Finns called in to destroy it and retrieve the gold said that they had
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  • In the Chinese hierarchy of mythological animals, the qilin is ranked as the second most powerful creature (after the Chines
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  • ...nd because they believe it to be a gentle creature that only attacks small animals for food, they regard it with tolerance and respect, rather than fear. Oran ...ry provided Westerners with their modern introduction to Orang Pendek-like animals in Sumatra. Two accounts in particular are widely reported:
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  • ...t Nations were always leery of traveling across the lake and often carried animals that could be sacrificed in the event that Ogopogo was spotted. It was docu
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  • ...decides to feed on animals. But during this four years of feeding only on animals (rats, chicken, and cattle) Louis also bleeds Lestat's father, who is dying
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  • ...s were also described as able to turn into birds or cats and various other animals. Estries were believed able to fly if their hair was unbound, while binding
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  • ...es of 25, 30, even 50 meters long. But realistically how could a family of animals of such size fit into a small lake like this?" he asked. "Creatures of betw
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  • *Bernard Heuvelmans, ''On The Track Of Unknown Animals'' (Hill and Wang, 1958).
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  • ...a Rainbow Snake, which was either Mother Earth herself giving birth to all animals or a water-god whose writhings created rivers, creeks and oceans. In ancien [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...o means is the Vampire limited to assuming the forms of the aforementioned animals. In folklore, it is practically unheard of for a Vampire to change into a According to legend, the Vampire is able to command many of the very animals it is able to transform itself into. This includes the bat, the wolf, the
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  • ...ure abounds with stories about dragons which had assumed the shape of men, animals, or objects.
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  • ...isible from human sight whenever they wished to, as well as transform into animals (toads being a disguise of choice). This made them hard to observe, save br
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  • ...ologically-knowledgeable of people, he proceeded to kill several different animals, including a zebra, a rhinoceros, an elephant, a civet, and a giraffe, each
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  • Sun knows 72 transformations, which allows him to transform into various animals and objects; he has trouble, however, transforming into other people, becau ...orming either into a clone of the Monkey King himself, or various weapons, animals, and other objects.
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  • ...the writer Jorge Luis Borges a ‘certain Chinese encyclopaedia’ classified animals as:
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  • ...s were organised using a dead cat, as Annis was also associated with these animals, hence one of her many aliases, 'Cat Anna'.
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  • ...s mountains, prevents the growth of grass, or raises storms. Numerous wild animals follow her..." ==Protector of wild animals==
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  • ...ear. Unfortunately, it is the custom for many Hindu families to sacrifice animals at this time, often one for each member. In the state of Kerala, a holy fla
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  • ...e on people who transgress, who go where they shouldn’t go or harvest more animals or plants than they can consume, or set cruel traps,” said Márcio Souza,
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  • Pausanias, in his ''Description of Greece'', recalled strange animals he had seen at Rome and commented, ...and thus passing into European languages &mdash; among his descriptions of animals in ''Naturalis Historia'', c. 77 CE.
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  • ...easing newcomers and gullible cityfolk. The creatures ranged from humorous animals, birds, reptiles, and insects to bizarre chimeras of terrifying description
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  • ...ers -- for example, the ability to disappear, change shape, transform into animals, and so on (Forth 2005:15).
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  • ...r waters' ritual cleansings were credited with magical medical properties. Animals were ritually drowned there. Oracles might be sited by ancient springs.
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  • ...le for all manner of disasters: ruined crops, epidemics in both humans and animals, and drought. ...at skirt the shores, or if an epidemic raged among men, or among the lower animals, Nuckelavee was the cause of all. His breath was venom, falling like blight
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  • ...tained an alternate world inhabited by living creatures different from the animals of the earth. Beings were able to cross between the two worlds through mirr
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  • ...ii many terra cotta gargoyles were found that are modelled in the shape of animals.
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  • *[http://www.eco-animals.com/products.html Book: "Pink dolphin, friend of the river"] (Web Site - En *[http://www.nature.org/animals/mammals/animals/amazondolphin.html The Nature Conservancy works to protect habitat for the
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  • ...of [[Zoosadism|cruelty to animals]] but reportedly dissected already dead animals. He struggled with substance abuse and suffered from extremely low self-est
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  • ...s violent tendencies increased as he progressed from [[Zoosadism|torturing animals]] to attacks on people. He committed his first provable murder in 1913 duri
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  • Every day animals were sacrificed for the sins of Israel. But once a year on the Day of Atone [[Category: Animals]]
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  • ...0367/monstrous-20 Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide to Hidden Animals and Their Pursuers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2005. P
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  • Richard Freeman, of the centre for Fortean Zoology which researches mystery animals, said the sightings could be giant sterile eels which, unlike normal eels,
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  • *Kojo, Yasushi, Some Ecological Notes on Reported Large, Unknown Animals in Lake Champlain, Cryptozoology Vol. 10, 1991 *Mangiacopra, Gary, Theoretical Population Estimates of the Large Aquatic Animals in Selected Freshwater Lakes of North America, Master's Thesis from Souther
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  • ...hic vampirism]], as it can steal the vitality of his neighbours' crops and animals to enhance its own. ...strigoi also then loses his need to prey upon humans and, eventually, even animals. Like the Serbian vampire at such a stage, it would then depart to another
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  • ...nd welcomes the new year, and asks for rain, the propagation of plants and animals, and the health and well being of its participants. It is also a reenactmen
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  • Skin-walkers sometimes transform themselves into animals simply for the purpose of traversing great distances quickly. They may also *Both humans and animals can easily tell a skin-walker from a real animal, as the skin-walker is una
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  • ...o not consume it regularly, and require some sort of sacrifice (of people, animals or treasured possessions) from mortals to be able to regain the Glamour the
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  • ...t resulted in a cryptozoological defeat. Rumours about lindworms as actual animals in Småland rapidly died out (Sjögren, 1980).
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  • *[[Demons and animals]]
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  • ...terlife is a form of justice, it is usually restricted to humans, as other animals are not held responsible for their actions. ...dhists]], Spiritists, and Wiccans is [[reincarnation]], whether as humans, animals, or as spiritual beings. One consequence of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Spirit
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  • ...servant showed the man a picture of a pterosaur from a book of prehistoric animals, the man screamed in terror and fled from the servant's home. [[Category: Cryptids, dinosaurs and bizarre animals]]
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  • ...y of the Fountain, a massive sciapod is mentioned to have control over the animals and to have outstanding physical strength.
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  • ...heir wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off t
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  • ...chett's ''Discworld'' series. He is a small god who is the deity of those animals destined to end up as a "brief, damp, squeak."
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  • The peryton, despite the unusual combination of animals that makes up its body, is able to fly. Its powerful wings allow it to reac ...binic historian, Scipio and his soldiers were attacked by a flock of these animals, who seemed impervious to their weapons.
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  • ...Adlet is purely carnivorous, feeding only on the flesh and blood of other animals. Capable of surviving on any kind of food (including roots, fungi, and var
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  • Rakshasas have the power to change their shape at will and appear as animals (large birds), as monsters, or in the case of the female demons, as beautif
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  • ...with enlarged canine teeth, not unlike those of bears or other carnivorous animals. There are no reported photographs of them, and only a select and very luck ...involus or perhaps Thylacoleo carnifex, which belong to a group of extinct animals known as Australian megafauna. The prehistoric creatures were approximately
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  • ...when human prey is scarce or unavailable, the revenant will prey upon wild animals and livestock, although the Vampire tends to find such prey to be bland and
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  • ...sts have generally disbelieved the existence of the unicorn. Yet there are animals bearing on their heads a bony protuberance more or less like a horn, which
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  • ...lm. In the films, gremlins are creatures that originally start out as cute animals called mogwai. The fact that Gremlins mess with machinery harks back to th ...y toxic to most animals. While Gremlins are mute and behave like primitive animals, they posses photographic memories and are capable of drawing photo-realist
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  • * [http://www.mysteryanimalsofireland.com/Homepage.htm"... Ireland Mystery Animals..."]
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  • ...t light of dawn; they could make themselves invisible or change shape into animals at will; these spirits were commonly believed to be responsible for disease ...prefer the form of a snake. It is also known that they eat bones and their animals eat droppings, that is why it is forbidden to perform Istinja (washing) wit
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  • ...attacks a Russian city. It feeds on radiation to become stronger and most animals can't touch the monster without fatal side effects.
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  • ...oat on the river to the Underworld. She holds snakes and suckles the usual animals. The registers above show a sick person being attended by healers and prote
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  • ...' and ''Sesame Street'' live as complete equals to their fellow humans and animals.
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  • ...ved in the mountains, communicated through barking, wore the skins of wild animals and lived by hunting. ...Their teeth are larger than those of dogs, their nails like those of these animals, but longer and rounder. They inhabit the mountains as far as the river Ind
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  • Some, again, describe her as a monster with six heads of different animals, or with only three heads (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 650 ; Eustath. l. c.).
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  • ...ussian: ле́ший) is a woodland spirit in Slavic mythology who protects wild animals and forests. The Church turned him into an evil creature and gave him the f
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  • ...confusion, mokele-mbembe is also used as a generic term to refer to other animals like [[Emela-ntouka]], [[Mbielu-mbielu-mbielu]] or [[Nguma-monene]]. ...probably due to the fact that Mokele-mbembe is used generically for other animals and the sound is being confused with Emela-ntouka which makes a sound like
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  • ...om race to race. Metallic dragons are often able to shapechange into small animals or human forms, and use this ability to secretly help or watch over humans. ...m and educate them; for evil-aligned dragons, they consider humans as mere animals, or as toys to play with.
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  • ...and medical practices, extensive use is made of herbs, minerals, parts of animals' bodies, an individual's possessions, and bodily fluids, especially [[menst
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  • ...is no little harm that he won't do. He will hide children's toys, set farm animals loose, tease dogs, and curse chicken eggs preventing them from hatching. In
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  • ...and perpetrating the featureless phantom attacks. Lafcadio Hearn used the animals' name as the title of his story about faceless monsters, probably resulting
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  • [[Category:Animals]]
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  • Apis was the most important of all the sacred animals in Egypt. The Apis was the approximate though not the exact equivalent in E
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  • ...es and other sea monsters, and riding dolphins, hippokampoi, and other sea animals. Thetis was often portrayed as their unofficial leader.
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  • ...tortoise, dragon, snake or a monster composed of different parts of these animals.
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  • ...veral books on Alpine natural history and hunting along side more familiar animals. Swiss naturalist Friedrich von Tschundi was convinced of the reality of th ...in elevation in rocky foothills. They live in burrows usually dug by other animals and stay in their burrows up to 95% of the time. If the Tatzelwurm is relat
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  • ...mammals of today, rather than any current reptile. It allowed these large animals to move at a faster rate of speed with more accuracy and allowed many to be ...body, their habitat, the surrounding environment, and comparing how modern animals of similiar design behave, mostly associated with birds and [[crocodiles]],
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  • ...in and hotly debated the existence of such things as the mysterious plant animals embodied in the myth of "the Lamb of Tartary" (Fig. 1) and in other myths o
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  • *Michael Newton. ''Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide to Hidden Animals and Their Pursuers''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2005.
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  • ...where Columba lived than any history of Loch Ness being inhabited by large animals, fearsome or not. ...of at least 10 knots (19 km/h). He concluded that the objects are clearly animals and ruled out the possibility that they could be ordinary fish. He stated:
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  • ...oved the alliance because he perceived Shiva as an ascetic associated with animals and ghosts and a frugal lifestyle. Eventually, Daksha held a yagna (a ritua
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  • ...y disorder|sociopathic]] behavior from a young age: he tortured and killed animals, acted out bizarre sexual rituals with his sisters' dolls, and once said th
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  • ...pear and disappear at will and are said to be able to transform into other animals. They have possession of magical, poison arrows that can kill and can crea
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  • ...ature spirit also called The Lady of the Beasts. She was a guardian of the animals and nature in ancient Germanic hunting cultures, possibly stemming from the
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  • ...ention), and then describes the sacrifices made to Moloch. First grain and animals of various kinds were placed in compartments within the statue (as in the R ...the goddess Tanit comprising a cemetery with thousands of burned bodies of animals and of human infants, dating from the 8th century BC down to the destructio
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  • *Janet and Colin Bord's ''Alien Animals''
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  • ...it fares out to the sea and feeds on sea nettles, crabs and similar marine animals. It has ell-long hair hanging from its neck, sharp black scales and flaming ...8, 2009 during which they were able to take a 7 minute video of one of the animals swimming West to East along the Eastern tip of Angel Island between Angel I
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  • *Demons of water, which are female demons, and destroy aquatic animals.
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  • ...erformed in the graveyard. Though they were once human, they are like pack animals, and they aren't very smart. They will only attack if a person is vulnerab
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  • ...ld seem that she is half Monkey. Julia was found in Mexico, in a cave with animals of different kinds, and is pronounced by Dr. Mott, of New York, a Hybrid cr
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  • It is believed that the alp crushes animals to death. For example, if young geese, are placed in a pig pen and then die ...aid to ride the victim's horses during the night, and the next morning the animals seem to be exhausted
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  • The tomte is connected to farm animals in general, but his most treasured animal was the horse. Belief had it that
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  • ...(now in Cairo) a snake was painted combined with other desert and aquatic animals as a possible enemy of a solar god who is invisibly hunting in a big rowing
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  • ...hed for their cannibalism, like [[Lycaon]], by being transformed into wild animals. Polyphonte became a strix "that cries by night, without food or drink, wit
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  • ...patterns of a kaleidoscope"; and that "legends of men taking the shapes of animals" have been omitted. ...uce its own milk, it raises its young by weaning them on the milk of other animals. It has an entrancing call that sounds almost like a glorious song. (from '
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  • ...There have been claims reported of specimens of up to 20 m (66 ft), but no animals of such size have been scientifically documented. [[Category: animals]]
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  • ...t firm resistance led by resident Martha Atkins who said that slaughtering animals was the kind of violence that eventually leads to war. And then in Septembe
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  • ...agination has often delighted in creating composites made from two or more animals (such as the [[griffin]] and [[chimera]]), and does not really need a logic
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  • ...are dealing with a very inbred population, in which even a large number of animals could share identical or near identical haplotypes. Bili Ape reports have a
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  • *Hamel, Frank. ''Human Animals: Werewolves & Other Transformations''. New Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Book
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  • Mary and Percy were both ethical vegetarians and strong advocates for animals. One can see references to vegetarianism in her writing. For example, in he
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  • ...lling the legs off of spiders, but future serial killers often kill larger animals, like [[dog]]s and [[cat]]s, and frequently for their solitary enjoyment ra
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  • ...dragons, centaurs, unicorns, as well as the less familiar and unexpected: Animals That Live in the Mirror, the Humbaba, the Simurgh, and other undeniably cur
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  • ...cheeks. His scanty hair was painted white. He was dressed in the skins of animals skillfully sewn together. That animal has a head and ears as large as those
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  • ==Association with animals==
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  • ...orm. Some cultures have myths of non-human vampires, such as [[demon]]s or animals like bats, dogs, and spiders. Vampires are often described as having a vari ...on the bodily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to mythic animals of the same nature, including the [[chupacabra]].
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  • ...drove his remaining cattle past a cave, where Cacus had hidden the stolen animals, and they began calling out to each other. In others, Caca, Cacus' sister,
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  • Foul odours, reminiscent of faeces, sewage, carrion (rotten meat/ dead animals) or strong body odour are believed by some to likely be associated with Big ...dismisses the phenomenon as the product of the misidentification of common animals, mythology or [[folklore]]. For instance, northern Europe's former belief i
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  • ...nome's bidding. As it opened, the earth spilled forth, born populated with animals and plants.
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  • ...ry, but found no sign of the strange creature. According to the book Alien Animals, a [[poltergeists|poltergeist]] attack on the Scarberry home took place lat
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  • Snakes are sacred animals in many West African religions. The demi-god Aidophedo uses the image of a
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  • ...norable race that practices breeding and other actions relative to that of animals. This has also been done in some of the [[Magic: The Gathering]] cards that
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  • ...anese folklore and proverbs, they were not always distinguished from other animals. In local dialects, tanuki and mujina (狢, kyujitai: 貉) can refer to rac
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  • ...presented at the XVth UISPP Congress in 2006. Mummies of humans and other animals have been found throughout the world, both as a result of natural preservat ...those in ancient Egypt, where not only humans but also a large variety of animals were mummified. Ancient Greek historians record that the Persians sometimes
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  • ...physical strengths with varying results. It is also, when composed of four animals including a human, a symbol of the four elements - earth, wind, fire, and w Not all human-headed animals of antiquity are sphinxes. In ancient Assyria, for example, bas-reliefs of
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  • ...oyable for himself (or more difficult for others) by fooling humans, other animals, and even the gods themselves, often using his cleverness and knowledge of ...e went through the bush. Thus when word of Gun's passing reached them, the animals all rejoiced, and agreed that they would come to celebrate Gun's death when
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  • ...es of terrible monsters arising from a combination of sightings of genuine animals such as bears, the activities of pineys, and fear of the imposing barrens t
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  • ...presumably either fossils (as described by Chang Qu) or the bones of other animals. ...have a long, scaled serpentine form combined with the attributes of other animals; most (but not all) are wingless, and has four claws on each foot (five for
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  • ...1981. Michael is shown to have an interest in Halloween masks and killing animals. During his time at Smith's Grove, he takes up the hobby of creating papier
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  • ...aring only Noah, Noah's family, and seven pairs of each species of "clean" animals, and one pair of each "unclean" species, all of whom escaped destruction by
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  • ...be a feeling of dread associated with the presence of these phenomena, and animals are said to react to the phenomena with fear and hostility. Shadow Beings a
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  • ====Animals==== *In some modern pagan beliefs, wild animals are sacred to Hecate. However, creatures of darkness such as ravens, owls,
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  • * In Fullmetal Alchemist, a Chimera is two or more animals (including humans) joined together by Alchemy.
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  • ...its breath, which scorches up grass and bursts rocks. Its effect on other animals is disastrous: it is believed that once one was killed with a spear by a ma
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  • ...he case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to wild animals, and burning alive. ...animals may have found inspiration in Vlad’s penchant for torturing small animals during his period of imprisonment; and Dracula’s loathing of holy objects
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  • ...ty of the other creatures in the garden. Eventually, she persuaded all the animals except the phoenix to share in her fallen state by eating from the forbidde The animals, the snakes, the lizards, and every other bird hid from the sun's fierce ra
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  • ...l procedures such as a long postponement of burial which angered the dead. Animals, particularly cats, were kept away from the unburied corpse for fear that t
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  • ..."projects" and at one point likened the murders of his victims to killing animals by saying he "put them down." ..., not the 1970s), and changed premises (the movie shows Dennis Rader using animals and raw meat to torture his victims, which investigators say never happened
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  • ...m on him, he did not think it worthwhile to ask for protection from men or animals.
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  • ...t crashes through the forests, all the while uprooting trees, causing game animals to stampede, and causing whirlwinds. The monster is often thought to be th ...l, and hearing are greatly enhanced, comparable to those of many predatory animals. The Wendigo can see clearly in total darkness, and it may have some kind
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  • ...hological or physical suffering of others (including [[Zoosadism|animals]] animals);
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  • ...ith their enlarged forms, devouring their flesh, and drinking their blood. Animals feeding near the grave of a draugr were often driven mad by the creature's
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  • ...ob, both [[Behemoth]] and Leviathan are listed alongside a number of other animals that are clearly mundane, such as goats, eagles, and hawks, leading many Ch
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  • ...wolf - man'' transformation. The term for the metamorphosis of people into animals in general, rather than wolves specifically, is [[therianthropy]] (theriant ...morphosis, we find the belief that human beings can change themselves into animals at will and then resume their own form.
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  • ...at from the Tree of Knowledge. Adam asked God for a companion, because the animals who live in Paradise are not his equals. He took out a rib from Adam, from Seven days later, Satan returns to Paradise. After studying closely the animals of Paradise, he chooses to take the form of the serpent, the "subtlest beas
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  • ...when human prey is scarce or unavailable, the revenant will prey upon wild animals and livestock, although the Vampire tends to find such prey to be bland and ...hich proves to be fatal). The Vampire can sate its hunger on the blood of animals if necessary, although this is usually something done only in desperation.
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  • ...and graphic - referring to the scratches on the children and the mutilated animals - and that it had aired too soon after the 9pm watershed. They further sta
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  • ...flew to Siberia where, in the world of spirits, he confronted the guardian animals of Siberian tribes and forced them into subservience. As he rode south and
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  • ...in Buddhism|humans]], of [[Preta|hungry ghosts]], of [[Animals in Buddhism|animals]], of [[asura]]s, of [[deva]]s, or of [[Naraka (Buddhism)|Naraka]] (Hell) a
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  • ...oots of the plant was often used to wash bite wounds from wild or venomous animals, and so perhaps this is where Wolfsbane derived its supposed ability to cur
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  • ...ld not to do so. The more one attempts to stop thinking of these colourful animals, the more they will succeed in generating these mental images. This phenome ...n her pocket need to be lined up in a certain way. She also hoards stuffed animals in her apartment.
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  • ...red cloths and a tall cap similar to that of the Gnome. They can appear as animals. They have a somewhat bestial or grotesque appearance: their brow is fully * They can appear as animals.
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  • ...and truth (Allan, et al., 1999). Literally made of the unclean khrafstra, animals such as snakes, toads, scorpions, frogs and lizards, this dragon embodied c
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  • ...and truth (Allan, et al., 1999). Literally made of the unclean khrafstra, animals such as snakes, toads, scorpions, frogs and lizards, this dragon embodied c
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  • * Bernard Heuvelmans, On the Track of Unknown Animals, Hill and Wang, 1958
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  • ...to die, those with special abilities (like the Machis or the kalkus), and animals with sharp senses, such as dogs, who howl pitifully in her presence.
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  • ...other kids who called him "son of a hundred maniacs." Freddy began killing animals when people weren't around. As a teenager, he began inflicting self-abuse.
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  • ...they banged their hands on the ground to be sure he would hear them. Black animals, such as sheep, were sacrificed to him, and it is believed that at one time
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  • ...pirits were the favorite food of the thunderbirds, though they usually ate animals and sometimes even humans.
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  • ...nager, Lucas claimed to have been introduced to [[bestiality]] and killing animals for pleasure ([[zoosadism]]), the latter a common trait among [[AntiSocial
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  • ...er he finds himself in danger (Yt13.19-20). If not for their guardianship, animals and people could not have continued to exist, because the wicked Druj would ...ce—including particular individuals and even the formation of the parts of animals such as they are—is brought about entirely through the mediation of angel
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  • ...s who lived together, much like humans except out in the forest. They kept animals, cooked and baked, were excellent at crafts and held great feasts. In their ...ere also great shapeshifters, taking shapes of objects like fallen logs or animals like cats and dogs. A fairly frequent notion is that the trolls liked to ap
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  • ...ard and a lance and riding a lion with dragon wings and neck, all of these animals being associated with either lascivity, lust or revenge.
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  • ...attempt to render the eerie atmosphere of the passage by choosing suitable animals for difficult to translate Hebrew words.
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  • ...any powers that are not also theoretically available to witches or talking animals or deceased mothers. However, [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] described these tales a
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  • ...d deities and natural calamities the actions of gods and people sacrificed animals or even other people to please their gods. If our current understanding is
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  • ..., having good wings". Like the Nāgas, they combine the characteristics of animals and divine beings, and may be considered to be among the lowest devas.
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  • *"Annual Animals' Day in Court"
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  • ...e in the killings: he says he was part of an occult group which sacrificed animals to Satan and which ran a child pornography racket. Berkowitz also claims th
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  • ...sorts, owing to mythology in which such can take on the form of non-human animals.
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  • ...or so much as come near him, he then lost the first rank among the sacred animals which he had hitherto possessed."
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  • ...ssession by Self-Made Deamons--Elementals, Part V: Obsession of Man and of Animals), ISBN 0-911274-17-0, [http://www.rosicrucian.com/wbd/wbdeng01.htm#Part_III
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  • ...some people to see in the griffin the perversion of the strengths of both animals. Gevaert theorized that the combination of lion and eagle parts would more
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  • ...emale. (See: Homunculus) Others, who regarded humanity as the synthesis of animals, despaired about vitalising the mandragore, but they crossed monstrous pair
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  • ...malicious magic users can become a credible cause for disease, sickness in animals, bad luck, sudden death, impotence and other such misfortunes. Witchcraft o
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  • ...e a particular fondness for flower gardens. Mechanical devices and trained animals do most of the work, allowing Martians to live long, disease-free lives of
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  • * Biological changes in humans or animals (''[[The Island of Dr. Moreau]]''), 1896
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  • ...in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to animals, and boiling alive.
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  • ...colas Hartsoeker discovered "animalcules" in the sperm of humans and other animals. Some claimed that the sperm was in fact a "little man" (homunculus) that w
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  • ...fascinating man. He discovered electricity, and used it to torture small animals and Green Mountain men. And that key he tied to the end of a kite? It ope
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  • ...f death: [[Gabriel]] over kings; [[Kapziel]] over youths; [[Mashbir]] over animals; [[Mashhit]] over children; [[Af]] and [[Hemah]] over man and beast''.
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  • ...ning their rule at the age of fifty. For [[Aristotle]], humans are social animals, and communities are set up in order to pursue good for the collective. Ari
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  • ...Manson. (ATWA is an acronym used by Manson, meaning both "Air-Trees-Water-Animals" and "all the way alive.").
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  • ...own offspring. During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, a number of animals in Belgrade Zoo, including a tigress and two [[wolf|she-wolves]] were repor
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  • There is no general agreement on which animals is represented by the sins incontinence, violence, and fraud. Some see it a
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