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  • '''Nagaraja''' are Kings of Snakes in Hindu mythology. Nagaraja is a Sanskrit word from naga (snake) and raj (king) meaning King of Snakes.
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  • ...female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. ...ory of one of City of Villains non-player villain groups, the aptly named "Snakes".
    1 KB (155 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2007
  • [[Category:Snakes]]
    164 bytes (25 words) - 18:25, 17 April 2009
  • ...e Saint wanted for freeing the local people from the Dragon, he asked that snakes would be banished from the forest and nightingales, which had disturbed the ...e made deaf, and this is echoed in another piece of superstition regarding snakes in Sussex, that on their bellies, Adders have written the words :
    2 KB (333 words) - 21:56, 11 June 2008
  • ...ed to in the Pecos Bill stories and although it is his description of hoop snakes that most people are familiar with, stories of the creature predate those f ...ything that stinger touches can be sent straight to the undertaker's. Hoop snakes can kill a 200-pound man, or a 2,000-pound bull. In one version of the myth
    3 KB (441 words) - 21:07, 10 September 2008
  • According to the legend, the Lightning Snakes were sent off by the Thunderbirds to kill orcas for food.
    403 bytes (60 words) - 17:43, 29 March 2009
  • ...ntry are green, or yellow, or scarlet, or black. One author says the black snakes have a green head. The land of Bigsnake lies west of Rhinoceros country. (t ...ong snake" (or changshe 長蛇, cf. above). Eberhard (1968:84) concludes giant snakes such as the xiushe, bashe, and ranshe "were typical for the South", but wer
    3 KB (464 words) - 10:52, 1 March 2010
  • ...female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. Her sister [[Stheno]] was immortal and sister [[Medusa]] was mortal. Sh
    603 bytes (83 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2007
  • Zilant is often confused with Aq Yilan (White Snake), which is the king of snakes as well as the medieval [[cockatrice]]. ...evil rulers of the neighboring pagan peoples. The legendary burning of the snakes may symbolize the victory of Islam over paganism. Sceptics say that the Bul
    5 KB (895 words) - 00:49, 15 March 2009
  • ...[[Damballa-Wedo]], the god of rivers and springs, and they both appear as snakes in corporeal form. Anthropologists consider her the equivalent of the Afric
    679 bytes (103 words) - 19:06, 11 June 2008
  • Physically Attorcroppes resemble small snakes, with human arms and legs. They can walk upright using their legs.
    559 bytes (72 words) - 12:17, 15 March 2011
  • [[Image:snakes.jpg|thumb|Copyright Maroto Esteban]] ...heir perceived quality of being both familiar and exotic. The behaviour of snakes and their facial features (e.g. the unblinking, lidless eyes) seemed to imp
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  • ...their tails after they are broken off. Such lizards are often called joint snakes. May also be a reference to the Hydra in Greek Mythology.
    777 bytes (126 words) - 10:52, 11 February 2009
  • ...ct, most Turkish (and later, Islamic) sources describe dragons as gigantic snakes.
    659 bytes (100 words) - 09:19, 29 September 2010
  • The Karura is said to be the enemy of snakes and dragons, feeding on the latter, as the Garuda is the enemy of the Nagas
    730 bytes (111 words) - 23:15, 9 May 2008
  • ...ile or alligator, from ''tan'' (תנ) the stem for hidden or foul lizards or snakes. See ''tanshemet''.
    852 bytes (126 words) - 04:54, 21 October 2008
  • ...e what had happened. She did so and found that many kinds of creatures and snakes were in the butter. Then the priest told the Strigoiaca these creatures wou
    1 KB (205 words) - 13:46, 25 December 2008
  • ...ifting abilities, the Pugot can move in great speed so that he can feed on snakes and insects. It usually eats by pushing food on its neck stump.
    1 KB (197 words) - 14:25, 19 September 2010
  • ...g, merry man with a wreath of grain on his ears. As creatures of Potrimpo, snakes were worshiped and given milk.
    773 bytes (119 words) - 05:29, 7 February 2011
  • ...loated between here and the afterlife. They sometimes appear as the swans, snakes, horses, falcons, or wolves that they can shapeshift into but usually appea
    2 KB (297 words) - 18:51, 18 April 2007

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