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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mound (creature)
		Mounds are half-plant, half-human creatures in the paintings and writings of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.
		Mounds represent good in the artist's own depiction of a spiritual struggle between good and evil (evil being represented by vegans).
		In Hancock's art, the mounds are an ancient and primal species, with deep connections to nature, the oldest of which is known as The Legend.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mound-%28creature%29 (207 words)

	Tumulus - Definition, explanation
		Burial mounds were in use until the 11th century in Scandinavia.
		Mounds were used for burial, to support residential and religious structures, to represent a shared cosmology, and to unite and demarcate community.
		Mound building in the USA is believed to date back to at least 1200 BCE in the Southeast (see Poverty Point), and recent research shows that it may predate that as well.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/tu/tumulus.php (1166 words)

	Mound (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mound, a general term for pile of earth, sand, rocks, debris, etc.
		Mound (creature), a half-plant, half-human creature in the paintings and writings of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.
		Mound, generally in the plural mounds, is also a euphemism for buttocks
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mounds (155 words)

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		Bimini’s shark mound, thought to be several thousand years old, is almost identical to the well-known serpent-shaped mound in Ohio, U.S.A. One of the most interesting features about the shark- shaped mound is that its tail has a right angle in it that is north- south, east- west oriented.
		Many of the mound- builder sites are oriented to various astronomical coordinates, as is the great pyramid in Egypt, which is also north- south, east- west oriented.
		Around the edge of the shark mound is a sand beach which outlines the shape.
	www.bahamas.com /bahamas/island/vendordetail.aspx?sectionid=27978&rightsectionid=27978&level=2&supplierid=75981 (475 words)

	Burlington Ghost Photos, Burlington WI , Burlington Ghost Busters, Burlington WI UFO and Paranormal Center, Burlington ...
		Twelve mounds of the Rice Lake Mound Group are preserved in Indian Mounds Park, a city park on the shore of Rice Lake.
		Some mounds were excavated in the nineteenth century by the Smithsonian Institution during its search for the identity of the mound builders, while others were excavated in the 1950s.
		Creature appears more Australo than Giganto Young male about 7 ft. Sent word earlier to you that a female I saw is actual what's in the "eastern bigfoot" sketch you have.
	www.burlingtonnews.net /wisconsinbigfoot.html (3661 words)

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		The draugr Thrain shape-shifted into a "cat-like creature" (kattakyn) in Hromundar saga Greipssonar: Then Thrain turned himself into a troll, and the barrow was filled with a horrible stench; and he stuck his claws into the back of Hromund's nack, tearing the flesh from his bones...
		The burial mound of Kar the Old in Grettirs saga was a large chamber roofed with rafters and covered by a dirt mound (Fox and Palsson, Grettirs Saga, p.
		The mound was the hall of the dead, as in Thorsteins thattr uxafots where Thorstein is invited to the "homestead" of a haugbui which is furnished with mead-benches and warbands (Jacqueline Simpson, "Thorsteins thattr uxafots, " in The Northmen Talk.
	www.florilegium.org /files/NORSE/Walking-Dead-art.text (5582 words)

	FarShores.org AncientDimensions Mysteries:New Interpretation Of Ancient American Earth Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 210-foot-long effigy mound crouches on a bluff overlooking Raccoon Creek Valley.
		The alligator name has stuck for 200 years, although the mound has also been declared to be the image of a salamander, an opossum, a squirrel, a monkey or a panther.
		Both mounds were built on high bluffs by the so-called Fort Ancient people, who occupied central and southern Ohio from 1000 to 1500.
	farshores.org /alimound.htm (790 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Serpent Tail
		Atop a plateau overlooking the Brush Creek Valley, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States.
		This new evidence of the serpent's creators links the effigy to the elliptical mound and the village rather than the conical burial mounds.
		The head of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset and the coils also may point to the winter solstice sunrise and the equinox sunrise.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Serpent_Tail (238 words)

	Orkneyjar - Tales of the Hogboon
		Upon breaking open the mound, he was confronted by the angry mound-dweller who appeared with threatening words.
		Similar echoes of the creature's earliest role as an ancestor spirit can be found within the tales where the Hogboon becomes attached to a particular family.
		In this yarn, a strange wizened creature takes up residence within the kitchen of a farmer and carries out work for him in return for a place by the fire and food to eat.
	www.orkneyjar.com /folklore/hogboon/hogboon3.htm (718 words)

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		Only as a burial mound nonmigratory of exchange Ohio, it is evident that such observatories may personify constitute much nearer to dwelling.
		The grandest of the representational mounds is the limning of an undulating snake, peradventure burial mound a conventionalised rattlesnake, inward Adams County, Ohio, known as the Dandy Serpent Hillock.;
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	dustbinbob.t35.com /burial-mound.html (3085 words)

	Cryptozoology
		To the mound building culture, Monk’s Mound was as important as the Vatican to a Catholic.
		Burial in sacred mounds was a privilege granted to nobles and shaman, to date no human remains have been recovered from Monk’s Mound.
		While not proving that Mound Builders worshipped the Piasa, Cahokia’s proximity to the Piasa glyphs and the possibility these petroglyphs were carved by the Mound Builders is compelling evidence.
	home.rconnect.com /~arcanaresearch/id7.html (1485 words)

	Red imported fire ant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ants respond to pheromones that are released by the first ant to attack.
		It is not uncommon for several fire ant mounds to appear suddenly in a suburban yard or a farmer's field, seemingly overnight.
		They build mounds, no larger than 46 cm (18 in) in diameter and 46 cm (18 in) in height, on soil close to homes and other buildings, and sometimes forage indoors for food and moisture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Imported_Fire_Ant (2095 words)

	Serpent Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		An effigy is something that is made to look like a living creature, and this is the largest such mound known.
		It is believed to be a ceremonial mound, but no bones have ever been found in it.
		The jaws are open: an oval shaped mound 30 feet by 86 feet is actually the mouth open for food.
	www.angelfire.com /ia2/mounds/serpent.html (272 words)

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		The draugr Thrain shape-shifted into a "cat-like creature" (kattakyn) in Hromundar saga Greipssonar: Then Thrain turned himself into a troll, and the barrow was filled with a horrible stench; and he stuck his claws into the back of Hromund's neck, tearing the flesh from his bones...
		The dwelling-place of the draugr was the burial mound.
		The physical description of Grendel as a giant shape-shifting creature, a dweller in a supernatural environment, who acts at nighty in a mist-shrouded landscape out of motives of envy and desire for the things of life, strongly suggests the Norse motif of the walking dead.
	www.angelfire.com /or/svalin/OPW/draugr.html (5687 words)

	Wisconsin Hoaxes
		The horse’s skull had actually been placed in the mound in 1926 by some teen-agers who had been digging and thought it would be fun to leave a horse’s skull they had found nearby.
		Or “a creature native to Wisconsin, has the head of a bull, the back of a dinosaur, and the leering features of a giant man. Its legs are short, its claws are long, and its tail is spear-tipped.
		The creature was tracked down and captured near Rhinelander, Wisconsin, by Eugene S. Shepard and a group of companions.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/wisconsin/115114 (550 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Summer 1999: Fragments
		Serpent Mound is the most famous of the numerous serpent-shaped effigy mounds in North America, and is also one of the oldest.
		Set deep in the countryside of southern Ohio, Serpent Mound and Adams County in general are a welcome relief from the hustle of Dayton and Cincinnati.
		Serpent Mound is on State Route 73, six miles north of State Route 32 and 20 miles south of Bainbridge in Adams County, Ohio, near the town of Peebles.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/1999/Summer/Fragments (1447 words)

	Tracking The News 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Like Tukwila's sacred mound, crisscrossed by bike-wheel ruts and littered with broken bottles, "Mysterious Places" is a little disappointing to a reader who may have been thinking of UFO landing zones.
		The creature had its back to McDonald, so he waited and watched through the gun sight for the bear to turn around and give him a good shot.
		Beckjord, of the Sasquatch Research Project, said analysis of the film indicates the creature is so large that if it was someone in a costume, the person would have to be more than 7 feet tall and have shoulders broader than the largest NFL linebacker to give the kind of performance necessary.
	www.geocities.com /saqatchr/page17.html (4470 words)

	Visionary Articles from Rosemary Ellen Guiley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He spotted the creature atop a Native American burial mound, which it was clawing with its hands.
		The creature’s arms were jointed like a human’s, and it was holding what appeared to be roadkill in upturned palms.
		Native American burial mounds are associated with a host of paranormal phenomena, including haunting ghosts and spirits, strange lights and noises, and mysterious forms.
	www.visionaryliving.com /articles/beastofbray.html (927 words)

	mound - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Mound, mound : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include mound: burial mound, mound over, pitchers mound, cannibal mound, flower mound, more...
		Words similar to mound: heap, hillock, hammock, hill, hummock, knoll, mounded, mounding, pile, pitcher, pitcher's mound, tumulus, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=mound (343 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Spring 1999: Cahokia: Forgotten Jewel of the Midwest: Part I
		This massive mound, named for the monastery that once graced its summit, sat at the center of the largest known city complex in North America, which is believed to have supported over 20,000 people at its peak.
		In either case, this massive complex, sitting at the center of an ancient mound culture that spread throughout the midwestern and southeastern United States, is truly the forgotten jewel of the Midwest.
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric Indian civilization north of Mexico, circa A.D. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, Cahokia is noted for its important role in the prehistory of North America.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/1999/Spring/Cahokia01 (2056 words)

	BFRO Report 2100: Witness recounts he and his friend's encounters with a strange creature along with strange sounds and ...
		We had mounted an 'expedition' to look for the creature a few days after the initial incident, and had left our shoe prints in the mud and sand...a couple of days after that, a few of us went back, and, we discovered something very peculiar.
		There was one street lamp on a telephone pole down there near the end of the road on the left side, and it was under this lamp that we noticed a large, cone-shaped dark area.
		The creature was estimated to be seven foot tall, and quite skinny.
	www.bfro.net /GDB/show_report.asp?id=2100 (1366 words)

	Cryptozoology And The Brey Road Beast
		The creature has been observed walking upright like a human, running on all four legs like a dog, or sitting on it's hunches eating roadkill.
		People report that the creature stares at them with a gaze that is terrifying.
		The website is called: Unknown Creatures, and may be found at this address:http://www.unknown-creatures.comBy Robert W. BenjaminCopyright © 2006 You may publish this article in your ezine, newsletter or on your web site as long as it is reprinted in its entirety and without modification except for formatting needs or grammar corrections.
	www.howtoadvice.com /Preview/Kalzueu (708 words)

	Fantasy Creatures (A-M) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This small, flying creature has an appearance similar to a sprite, but is a deep blue in color and constantly radiates a bitter cold.
		This hulking great creature of the earth has the appearance of a huge mound of dirt, stones, moss, and plant roots that has taken the form of the upper body of an oversized humanoid creature.
		Mounds can quickly eat their way through most metals and more slowly through plant matter, but has little or no effect on rock or glass.
	hiddenway.tripod.com /hero/fc_a-m.html (10843 words)

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		Centipede, Giant (Summon Centipede) Cost: R Stats: 1/1 Abilities: Any creature that kills Centipede, Giant, or is part of a group of blockers that kills it, is immediately tapped.
		Target creature remains tapped until Umber Hulk is untapped, Umber Hulk may be left tapped during the Untap phase.
		For each creature damaged by Vampire that dies before the end of the turn without regenerating, creature's controller loses 2 life.
	www.textfiles.com /piracy/SOFTDOCS/adandd.cards (1978 words)

	Humans and Animals at the Divide: The Case of Feral Children
		[1] The creature, it was said, had the body and limbs of a human, the face of a ghost.
		After the close encounter with the creatures no one, in fact, would stay with Reverend Singh, and he was forced to search for a new party of men from a tribe far away and unacquainted with the ghost story.
		Even as the party shouted and threatened her, she remained on the mound, baring her teeth and growling at the diggers, and it soon became clear to everyone that she was prepared to make a stand—she was not going to abandon her home and her family so easily.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~jlynch/Steeves.html (7300 words)

	Servant of the Flame
		The creature raised its elongated head and jaws, long horns atop its skull and an intimidating set of sharp fangs in a snapping maw, and peered at its world through yellow eyes that gleamed with an inherent malevolence.
		The creature furtively crawled on all fours, vigilant as it made its way from the pit, heading for a cluster of boulders to seek refuge in.
		To anyone else but the creature those howls would have seemed to possess the same furious tone, for only its ears could distinguish between the subtler differences that defined various howls and their particular meanings.
	dragonpress.tumbolia.org /sotf.html (796 words)

	Shambling Mound :: d20srd.org
		Shambling mounds, also called shamblers, appear to be heaps of rotting vegetation.
		A shambler’s body has an 8-foot girth and is about 6 feet tall when the creature stands erect.
		A shambling mound batters or constricts its opponents with two huge, armlike appendages.
	www.d20srd.org /srd/monsters/shamblingMound.htm (258 words)

	Lessons From Nature
		The inner chamber of their mound dwelling is positioned according to the level of the river in which it is situated.
		Once the stream has backed up and collected into a still pond and the lodge has been built, the beavers can regulate the depth of the water.The beavers' main task and principal means of survival, is to monitor the water level and maintain the dam.
		It is curious that the weaverbird is one creature that requires practice to perfect its construction technique.
	www.tdrinc.com /natarch.html (3599 words)

	Phoenix Rising: Mythical Creature, Phoenix Bird Mythology, Myth Beast
		Standing alone on isolated rocks of islands of high ground during the floods the heron represented the first life to appear on the primeval mound which rose from the watery chaos at the first creation.
		It was the Bennu bird's cry at the creation of the world that marked the beginning of time.
		It was thought to be a gentle creature, alighting so gently that it crushed nothing, and eating only dewdrops.
	www.mythicalrealm.com /creatures/phoenix.html (1308 words)

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		We scrambled across the hot desert floor to climb to the top of the mound to view our surroundings better but stopped short when we realized that the mound was of corpses.
		The mound of dead bodies we had passed used to be a trench of some sort that was also used for the burial of the Merucians.
		Within my fear there was anger, and I desired to stand and to beat it to death as I had with the creature in the cave, but I already found it hard to breathe, remembering the poison and the shattered antidote in the spaceship.
	www.freewebs.com /kamazi/lee5.html (2826 words)

	The Ashbury Times, January 2003
		The rest of the creatures and cultists were quickly slain after their leader was defeated.
		As a result, defeating the creature was incredibly difficult, even with the assistance of Kylen and his group.
		It was the former group of orcs that marched on the town, accompanied by the shambling mound of earth.
	www.nerohq.com /news/ig/103.htm (6796 words)

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