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  Legendary creature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A legendary creature is a mythical or fantastic creature (often known as "fabulous creatures" in historical literature).
Others were based on real creatures, originating in garbled accounts of travellers' tales; such as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, which supposedly grew tethered to the earth (and was actually a type of fern).
These creatures are often claimed to have supernatural powers or knowledge or to guard some object of great value, which becomes critical to the plot of the story in which it is found.
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 Category:Legendary creatures Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This category concerns legendary creatures: creatures that are or have been believed to be real, but have yet to be verified by science.
The fact that myths of a strikingly similar creature, called Ebu Gogo by the local people, have persisted until as late as the 19th Century has given the field of study new credibility from the rest of the scientific community.
Another oft-cited problem is he fact that such alleged creatures could not in fact survive unless there was a gene pool composed of many--maybe hundreds--of the creatures.
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 Cockatrice Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It was supposed to be born from an egg laid by a cock and incubated by a toad or serpent.
Though a winged creature, the dragon is generally to be found in its underground lair, a cave that identifies it as an ancient creature of earth, like the mythic serpent, that was a source of knowledge even in Eden.
The dragon of the modern period is typically depicted as a huge fire-breathing, scaly and horned dinosaur-like creature, with leathery wings, with four legs and a long muscular tail.
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 Everything about Jupa Cabra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Though some argue that the chupacabra may be a real creature, mainstream scientists and experts generally contend that the chupacabra is a legendary creature, or a type of urban legend.
According to these reports, the creature was sighted for the first time in the early to middle 1990s, harming animals of different species - although it is now thought that people did this themselves.
The creature is known as both "chupacabras" and "chupacabra" throughout the Americas, with the former probably being the original word, and the latter a regularization of it.
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 Monster Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It also almost always implies that the creatures are powerful and hostile to the hero (and consequently evil), and must be defeated to progress.
From the moment a legend is retailed as a legend, its authentic legendary qualities begin to fade and recede: in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving transformed a local Hudson River Valley legend into a sly literary anecdote with "Gothic" overtones, which actually tended to diminish its character as genuine legend.
Between the 5th and 8th centuries a completely new political and social infrastructure developed across the lands of the former empire, based upon powerful regional noble families, and the newly established kingdoms of the Ostrogoths in Italy, Visigoths in Spain and Portugal, Franks and Burgundians in Gaul and western Germany, and Saxons in England.
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 Windigo Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Vampire fiction]] Vampires are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy), often having unnatural powers, heightened bodily functions, and/or the ability to physically transform.
The Beast of Gévaudan was a creature that terrorized the general area of the former province of Gévaudan, in today's Lozère département, in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France, in the general timeframe of 1764 to 1767.
In several regions temporary hunter-gatherer settlements were transformed into small permanent or semi-permanent settlements and villages, frequently established in the regions such as river valleys which were conducive to the raising of crops.
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 Shen Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
With one of the world's longest periods of mostly uninterrupted civilization and the world's longest continuously used written language system, China's history has been largely characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war, and violent imperial dynastic change.
The northwest also has high plateaus among more arid desert landscapes such as the Takla-Makan and the Gobi Desert, which has been expanding.
This results in the common situation where A can understand B, B can understand C, but A cannot understand C. The linguistic diversity is particularly pronounced in southern variations such as Min, in which two towns which are five kilometers from each other can have types of speech that are completely unintelligible with one another.
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 Sprite (creature) Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The term sprite is a broad term referring to a number of preternatural legendary creatures.
The term is generally used in reference to elf-like creatures, including fairies, dwarves, and the likes of it; but can also signify various spiritual beings, including ghosts.
Their knowledge of metallurgy might have seemed magical to the northerners, whose lifestyle was still neolithic; the southerners' superior weapons and armour might well have been perceived as enchanted.
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 Babylonian mythology Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Babylonian mythology is a set of stories depicting the activities of Babylonian deities, heroes, and mythological creatures.
Although myths are often considered to be accounts of events that have not happened, many historians consider that myths can also be accounts of actual events that have become highly imbued with symbolic meaning, or that have been transformed, shifted in time or place, or even reversed.
The age when heroes of this sort were active, and where the stories of Greek mythology were set, is frequently known as the "heroic age"; the heroic age ends shortly after the Trojan War is over and the legendary combatants have returned to home or exile.
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 Djinn Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made of smokeless fire by God, much in the same way humans were made of clay.
Beaver in the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe conjectures that the White Witch Jadis was not human as was her claim but in fact half giantess and half Jinn, a descendant of Lilith.
The Kaaba was instead covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, djinn, demigods and other assorted creatures which represented the profoundly polytheistic environment of pre-Islamic Arabia.
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 Puck (mythology) Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A similar creature, the Aughisky (Water-horse), will allow itself to be saddled and ridden, but if it is ever taken next to a river or pond, it will carry its hapless rider into the water and rip him to pieces.
It is a creature associated with Samhain, the third Pagan (Celtic, Wiccan) Harvest Festival, when the last of the crops is brought in.
The Púca is a creature of the mountains and hills, and in those regions there are stories of it appearing on November Day and providing prophecies and warnings to those who consult it.
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 Legendary Creature - Legendary Creature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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 Spirituality Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
According to this view, because God is sovereign, all events are directly caused by Him or His creatures, not by impersonal powers of any kind.
The language of a people reflects the Weltanschauung of that people in the form of its syntactic structures and untranslatable connotations and its denotations.
A map of the world on the basis of Weltanschauung crosses political borders because Weltanschauung is the product of both political borders and common experiences of a people from a geographical region, environmental-climatic conditions, the economic resources available, socio-cultural systems and the linguistic family.
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 Devas Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
However, as befitting such creatures of darkness, the Mekhet are even more vulnerable to the ravages of sunlight and fire than other vampires.
The symbol of the Mekhet is an hourglass inside a crescent moon, all contained within a sunburst.
Occasionally, in regions of India where Devanagari is not the script of the vernacular (as it is with Hindi or Marathi) one will find texts still written in the local script.
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 Shinto Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In this sense, these kami were worshipped not because of their godly powers, but because of a distinct quality or value.
These kami were regional and many shrines (hokora) were built in honour of these kami.
In his 1946 Ningen-sengen radio broadcast, the emperor Hirohito declared that he is not an akitsumikami (manifest kami).
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 Reincarnation Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Orpheus, its legendary founder, is said to have taught that soul and body are united by a compact unequally binding on either; the soul is divine, immortal and aspires to freedom, while the body holds it in fetters as a prisoner.
In many common new age beliefs, past life recalls involving lifetimes within the historical record (real or supposed, including legendary places such as Atlantis) are commonly accepted.
It is sometimes beliefed that prior to that there was a succession of lifetimes in other lifeforms where one was working to become Human.
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 TIMELINE 19th Century page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Approximately one-third of the work was on geography and geology and made important contributions to knowledge of the region of the Mississippi valley.
A summary of the geology of the area East of the Mississippi River, Maclure's endeavor was the first geological survey of the region.
An Argentine Cowboy goes to Buenos Aires, and on seeing a queue near the box office of the Teatro Colon, goes in and sees a performance of Gounoud's "Faust." He believes that everything that takes place on stage is literally happening.
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 Fairy Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the case of smaller societies, in which people merely fell into categories of age, gender, household and descent group, anthropologists believed that people more-or-less shared the same set of values and conventions.
In the case of larger societies, in which people undergo further categorization by region, race, ethnicity, and class, anthropologists came to believe that members of the same society often had highly contrasting values and conventions.
They thus used the term subculture to identify the cultures of parts of larger societies.
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Jimmu is the first Emperor and legendary founder of the imperial.
History of satsuma in northwest florida A 1930s overview of the cities in northwest Florida Northwest Florida, including that great area with its rest of Florida as much in its history as it does in The Satsuma orange, the earliest Florida orange to ripen in.
Learn about Greek creature the Phoenix in mythology and art, with recommended books and resources The Roman poet] Ovid tells the story of the Phoenix as follows: 'Most The Assyrians call it the Phoenix.
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 Books on Fishing : Literature, History & Humor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Whether he's weighing the pleasures and deprivation of fishing solo, extolling the virtues of splake, contemplating the guilty pleasures of fishing on private water, or recounting the perils of trying to get a fishing rod case past airport security, this if John Gierach at his vintage best.
John Cole is a legendary figure in the sport and this book captures his greatest moments and experiences.
This delight to the eye and spirit takes the reader on a sojourn to the great fly-fishing rivers in six regions of the United States.
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