...of images by Japanese artist [[Takehara Shunsen]], published ca. 1841. The book was intended as a followup to [[Toriyama Sekien]]'s ''Gazu Hyakki Yakō'' s
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A '''nasnas''' is a monstrous creature in Arabian mythology.
*[[Book of Imaginary Beings]]
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*Lucan [1st century CE] (Pharsalia, book 9, verse 848): "Swift Jaculus there...". (verse 962-966): "Upon branchless
*Pliny the Elder [1st century CE] (Natural History, Book 8, 35): "The iaculus hurls itself from the branches of a tree, so that it i
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...counters with gigantic fish appear in various other works, including the ''Book of Jonah'' and the 19th century books ''Pinocchio'' and ''The Adventures of
*The name Jasconius is used for the whale in the children's book ''The Adventures of Louey and Frank'' by Carolyn White. She attributes the
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'''Peckols''' and Patollo were worshipped as gods in pagan Prussian mythology. Both of them were believed as the same gods who takes care of the the unde
In Sudovian Book (1520s), Peckols was presented as the god of hell and darkness, while Pocko
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In Maya mythology, '''Ah Puch''' (Alternatively '''Ahpuch''' or '''Hun ahau''') was the God o
...to Ah Puch in his book ''Mind Games''. Upon reading the incantation in the book, the reader was claimed by Ah Puch, who absorbed the life force of the read
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...Hsigo was probably the source of inspiration for the flying monkeys in the book: ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''.
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...an. Its name is the live-lively. If you eat it, you'll be a good runner.—''Book One--The Classic of the Southern Mountains--Chapter 1'' (p. 3)
...ames of humans. These animals are like hogs, but they have a human face.—''Book Ten--The Classic of Regions Within the Seas-- The South'' (p. 135)
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...is information written down in a book called the ''Bai Ze Tu'' (白澤圖). This book no longer exists, but many fragments of it survive in other texts.
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...ed them as Rokuro-Kubi, an error that also appears in the Fighting Fantasy book, Sword of the Samurai. Rokuro-kubi are another type of Japanese monster ent
*Another story that nukekubi have appeared in is the 1998 Hellboy comic book story entitled Heads, collected in the Hellboy anthology The Right Hand of
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...画図百器徒然袋, "The Illustrated Bag of One Hundred Random Demons") is the fourth book of Japanese artist Toriyama Sekien's famous Gazu Hyakki Yakō series, publi
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In the Chilote folklore and Chilote mythology of the Chiloé Island in southern Chile, the '''imbunche''' or '''invunche'
...gives an interesting account of Chilote witchcraft and the invunche in his book ''In Patagonia''.
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''Sefer Yetzirah'' The Book of Creation - Aryeh Kaplan - Red Wheel Weiser 1997
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In Chinese mythology, the '''xiezhi''' is a legendary creature that act as guardian of holy plac
...symbol of justice and water, due to tits fire-eating qualities. In Chinese mythology, the xiezhi is credited with the ability to distinguish between right and w
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...ook: A collection of demons, monsters and dwarfs from the Philippine lower mythology''. Philippines: Giraffe Books. ISBN 971-8832-79-3.
*Ramos, Maximo D. (1971). ''Creatures of Philippine Lower Mythology''. Philippines: University of the Philippines Press.
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...ook: A collection of demons, monsters and dwarfs from the Philippine lower mythology''. Philippines: Giraffe Books. ISBN 971-8832-79-3.
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...the sun (helios), whom then they called Apollon. Phanodemos [C4th BC] in [book] 6 maintains that only [the] Athenians both sacrifice to them and pray to t
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In [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], '''Minthe''' (also '''Menthe''', '''Mentha''', '''Mintho''', in Greek ''
...[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239:book=8:chapter=3:section=1|viii.3.14]
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Keshi's legend is recounted in the tenth ''Book of the Bhagavata Purana'' (between 500 CE - 1000 CE). Kamsa, the evil king
...ildren, once he realizes Krishna is born. Chapters 15 and 16 of the fourth Book present a detailed account of Keshi's death which parallels the Bhagavata P
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...of history", wrote his famous work known as "The histories". In his fourth book he relates some almost incredible stories of cannibalism practised by some
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