...side of the lake on which the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was founded. - British Museum.]]
'''Xiuhcoatl''' is a dragon in Aztec mythology and the personification of drought and scorched earth.
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...e roughly 1908. The creature was dubbed Manipogo in 1957, the name echoing British Columbia's [[Ogopogo]].
*[http://www.bcscc.ca/manipogo.htm British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club - Manipogo]
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''The Minor Traditions of British Mythology'' by Lewis Spense, pp 90-91.
[[Category: English mythology]]
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According to Sikes in 'British Goblins', they have one outstanding characteristic, which is their dislike
[[Category:Welsh mythology]]
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...peculate that it might be a Moa which has traveled from New Zealand to the British isles.
[[Category: Irish mythology]]
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*''The Minor Traditions of British Mythology'' by Lewis Spense.
[[Category: English mythology]]
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...Inscriptions of Western Asia. Vol. 4 (Semitic). ed. T.G. Pinches. London: British Museum, 1861-64, 1891.
[[Category: Mesopotamian mythology]]
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:"A bodach is a mythical beast of the British Isles, a sly thing that comes down chimneys during the night to carry away
[[Category:Scottish mythology]]
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”Sena in the British sea, opposite the Ofismician coast, is remarkable for an oracle of the Gall
[[Category: French mythology]]
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...ìth''' or '''Cat Sídhe''' is a monstrous fairy cat from Scottish and Irish mythology.
...ly found in Scotland (the European Wildcat is absent from elsewhere in the British Isles). Typical Kellas Cats resemble large black wildcats, but with some pe
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A hag or "the Old Hag" was a [[nightmare]] spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore which is essentially identical
In Irish and Scottish mythology [[Cailleach]] was a goddess concerned with creation, harvest, and the under
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...onster]] from [[Welsh mythology]] that also appears in Celtic folklore and British folklore.
...for two people, Dwyfan and Dwyfach, from whom the later inhabitants of the British Isles descended.
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More specifically, a hag or "the Old Hag" was a [[nightmare]] spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore which is essentially identical
In [[:Category:Irish mythology|Irish]] and Scottish mythology [[Cailleach]] was a goddess concerned with creation, harvest, and the under
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...uthor of a lovely scene on the pelike of the Classical period, also in the British Museum. Erichthonius as a young boy is sitting in his chest on the rocks of
[[Category: Greek mythology]]
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In the Chilote folklore and Chilote mythology of the Chiloé Island in southern Chile, the '''imbunche''' or '''invunche'
*British comic book writer Alan Moore wrote a version of the Invunche which is very
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[[Image:caladrius.jpg|frame|British Library, Harley MS 4751, Folio 40r.]]
[[Category: Christian mythology]]
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...Gougers''' are fictional creatures, said to inhabit the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and the southwestern sandhills of Saskatchewan. The legs on one si
...Thomas Browne, writing in the 17th century, recorded a popular belief that British badgers (popularly referred to back then as "brocks") had legs of different
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...''Devil’s Dandy Dogs''', also known as '''Dando Dogs''', are hounds of the British [[folklore]] said to be taking part to the [[Wild Hunt]]
[[Category:Category:English mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]]
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In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, '''Pazuzu''' was the king of the [[demon]]s of wind, and son of the god [[
...d, circa 800-550 BCE. Probably from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq. British Museum ANE 93089]]
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[[Image:Rahu.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Rahu: Head of Demon Snake, sculpture, British Museum]]
...''' is a snake that swallows the sun or the moon causing eclipses in Hindu mythology.
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