...''Giants, monsters, and dragons : an encyclopedia of folklore, legend, and myth.'' Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 0-87436-988-6.
* National Wildlife and Conservation Digest: Covering the North American Continent.
2 KB (281 words) - 20:17, 11 February 2009
...tended (and essentially Protestant) sense of a non-historical narrative or myth was first recorded in 1613. By emphasizing the ''un''realistic character of
...Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography'', 1907) distinguished legend from myth: "The ''legend'', on the other hand, has, of necessity, some historical or
8 KB (1,266 words) - 17:12, 18 April 2007
==Reality or myth?==
...ips ... enter the lair of the bunyip if you dare] - interactive for kids / National Library of Australia
5 KB (800 words) - 16:03, 9 May 2011
While some claim that the Saci myth originated in Europe in the 13th century, it probably derives from the ''Ya
...''. This original publication, the first of its genre to feature entirely "national" characters, was unfortunately short-lived, but paved the way for other mor
7 KB (1,243 words) - 11:27, 25 April 2009
...eligion is called "myth" by [[Christianity|Christians]]. In that way, both myth and folklore have become catch-all terms for all figurative narratives whic
**[[Mythology|Myth]]
9 KB (1,330 words) - 17:06, 18 April 2007
In common usage, ''myth'' means a falsehood — a story which many believe but which is not true. T
...to 1781 (OED). The adjective ''mythical'' dates to 1678; English use of ''myth'' is later, in its meaning of "untrue story" first attested in 1830.
26 KB (3,772 words) - 01:01, 15 December 2007
...Mount Cerycius (now Mount Tanagra). Maurice Bowra argues that Orion was a national hero of the Boeotians, much as Castor and Pollux were for the Dorians. He b
...ce Orion was recognized as a constellation, astronomy in turn affected the myth. The story of Side may well be a piece of astronomical mythology. The Greek
13 KB (2,238 words) - 20:22, 28 February 2022
...her motives but have not been published. They are said to be in Hungary's national archives.
==Legends Surrounding the Myth==
18 KB (3,078 words) - 18:40, 11 April 2009
...o Enlil (En = Lord, Lil = Wind), King of the Gods. A separate fragmentary myth describes how Enlil raped Ninlil, and as punishment he was sent to the unde
In the transfer from Sumerian myth to Babylonian Akkadian, it is suggested that Ninlil became Lilitu (-*itu be
19 KB (3,199 words) - 07:24, 25 June 2008
...Lady is the Headless Bride who haunts the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone National Park. She is said to have been murdered by her ambitious new husband. After
..., in a sad voice, recount to witnesses her misfortunes. The origins of the myth are not clear, Luís da Câmara Cascudo's Dicionário do Folclore Brasileir
15 KB (2,671 words) - 11:41, 13 June 2009
...Lady is the Headless Bride who haunts the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone National Park. She is said to have been murdered by her ambitious new husband. After
..., in a sad voice, recount to witnesses her misfortunes. The origins of the myth are not clear, Luís da Câmara Cascudo's Dicionário do Folclore Brasileir
15 KB (2,654 words) - 15:56, 3 November 2008
...where she was guarded by serpents. The serpents are, according to another myth, the sons of Kadru herself.
As end-piece to this myth it must be told that, as the Nagas were about to consume the amrita Garuda
20 KB (3,583 words) - 07:11, 28 March 2009
Joseph Campbell in the ''The Power of Myth'' viewed the dragon as a symbol of divinity or transcendence because it rep
...mer time. Some people think this comes from an older Mesopotamian creation myth in which Tiamat is depicted as a goddess salt-water sea monster, while othe
23 KB (3,729 words) - 08:50, 19 January 2009
'''The vampire myth and the Romanian attitudes'''
...his period that authors and playwrights first began to explore the vampire myth. Stoker's novel was merely the culminating work of a long series of works t
37 KB (6,130 words) - 17:16, 18 April 2007
...t. It was previously thought to be Poseidon, and can be seen in the Athens National Archaeological Museum.
*Ruck, Carl A.P., and Staples , ''The World of Classical Myth'' 1994.
13 KB (2,300 words) - 18:51, 18 April 2007
*An [[Urban legend|urban myth]] of mummies being used as fuel for locomotives was popularized by Mark Twa
...pre-need" arrangements. Summum has been included in television programs by National Geographic and the British Broadcasting Corporation, and is also discussed
28 KB (4,525 words) - 20:19, 29 December 2008
...''' were related to distant, non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in myth to the 'primitive' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian
William Arens, author of ''The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy'' (New York : Oxford University Press, 1979
45 KB (7,219 words) - 21:35, 2 October 2010
...on an automatic camera mounted to a tree on a game trail in the Allegheny National Forest. They show what appears to be a dark, furry creature that was positi
*Byrne, Peter, ''The Search for Bigfoot: Monster, Man or Myth'', Acropolis Books, 1975, ISBN 0874911591
27 KB (3,998 words) - 03:16, 3 July 2009
...general with the conflict between the world of the past; full of folklore, myth, legend, religious piety and the emerging modern world of technology, logic
...lachia). However, Romanians have mixed feelings about linking one of their national heroes and the vampire monster.
33 KB (5,472 words) - 02:31, 14 May 2009
King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
...sent day all the way back to the beginning of time (with a unique creation myth).
34 KB (5,532 words) - 18:30, 2 March 2008
