==Legend==
...lied Hödeken, “I will, in a few days, let you see how much afraid of him I am,” and he went off in high dudgeon. But very soon after he got the boy asl
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The legend apparently originated on the Orkney Islands, where ''selch'' or ''selk''(ie
Selkie legend always has heartbreak intertwined into it when selkies and mortals come tog
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...al. Flacc iv. 428, 516), or even of Phineus. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 166, Chil. i. 220; Palaephat. 23. 3).
...their flight. Their names in Hesiod are Aëllo and Ocypete. (Comp. Apollod. i. 2. § 6.)
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It has been hypothesized that the changeling legend may have developed, or at least been used to, explain the peculiarities of
...gshell. The child will exclaim, "I have seen the acorn before the oak, but I never saw the likes of this," and vanish, only to be replaced by the origin
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Although modern fiction, particularly 1954's ''I Am Legend'', by author Richard Matheson, , suggests that the latter beings share cann
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"According to the legend, whenever an agent does anything intelligently, his act is preceded and ste
:''I am not of Paracelsus minde that boldly delivers a receipt to make a man withou
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