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
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...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
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...''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''
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...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
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...sometimes called [[woodwose|Wudewas]] or 'Wood Men', date back to the 13th century, and are believed by some to represent relict hominids.
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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
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In the 13th century, Heike Monogatari makes reference to a creature called a nue. In addition t
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...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
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...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
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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.
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...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.
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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
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...word was loaned into Middle English via Old French ''espirit'' in the 13th century.
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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
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...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.
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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
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...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
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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
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...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
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...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
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