Creatures in the Mist: Little People, Wild Men and Spirit Beings Around the World : a Study in Comparative MythologyAlgora Publishing, 2007 - 210 páginas Varner brings together a medley of stories, myths, and folklore, sharing a fascination and respect for humankind''s early and contemporary cultures and wondering at similarities across the board. Here, he focuses on Little People and giants, animals and were-creatures, and the odd, helpful or threatening ways imputed to our earthly companions including dogs and cats, bats and spiders, and the stories people have told each other about them since time immemorial. |
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... rocks and grot- tos under the waterfalls . Known as the Nûñně'hi , or the " immortals , " they 1. Mooney , James . Myths of the Cherokee . New York : Dover Publications 1995 , 475. A reprint of the 1900 publication “ Nineteenth Annual ...
... rocks and grot- tos under the waterfalls . Known as the Nûñně'hi , or the " immortals , " they 1. Mooney , James . Myths of the Cherokee . New York : Dover Publications 1995 , 475. A reprint of the 1900 publication “ Nineteenth Annual ...
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... rock art complex known as Red Canyon . Here are found large rock outcroppings with unusual rock art . The stone is covered with small , engraved human - like footprints said to be those of the Water Baby . Next to the Water Baby tracks ...
... rock art complex known as Red Canyon . Here are found large rock outcroppings with unusual rock art . The stone is covered with small , engraved human - like footprints said to be those of the Water Baby . Next to the Water Baby tracks ...
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... rock art located in certain areas are said to be the work of Rock Babies who actually live within the rock surfaces - normally also near water sources . The Kawaiisu , living in the area around the southern Sierra Nevadas in California ...
... rock art located in certain areas are said to be the work of Rock Babies who actually live within the rock surfaces - normally also near water sources . The Kawaiisu , living in the area around the southern Sierra Nevadas in California ...
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... rocks is the only way to find them . Yupa lore describes them as “ sporting long beards , but without hair on their heads ... rock barrier inside a large cave used to bury the dead . The Fairies were also a common theme in Polynesian ...
... rocks is the only way to find them . Yupa lore describes them as “ sporting long beards , but without hair on their heads ... rock barrier inside a large cave used to bury the dead . The Fairies were also a common theme in Polynesian ...
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... rock with her tail in the water and comb- ing her long hair , although she has been seen hovering over the surface of the sea in a ' robe of mist . " " " " 18 Angelo Rappaport noted , “ The sacred wells are a very favourite place with ...
... rock with her tail in the water and comb- ing her long hair , although she has been seen hovering over the surface of the sea in a ' robe of mist . " " " " 18 Angelo Rappaport noted , “ The sacred wells are a very favourite place with ...
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GIANTS | 39 |
Children Childbirth | 51 |
The Nature of Fairies | 58 |
WILD MEN | 71 |
THE OWL | 145 |
THE DOG | 149 |
Dog Symbolism | 151 |
Black Dogs | 153 |
Ghost Dogs | 156 |
DogMen | 157 |
THE CAT | 161 |
THE BEAR | 167 |
HORNED BEINGS | 83 |
SPIRITS OF THE OTHERWORLD GHOSTS AND Vampires | 89 |
The Vampire in Legend and Lore | 93 |
WEREWOLVES NOT JUST IN TRANSYLVANIA | 97 |
HARPIES AND OTHER CREATURES OF STORMS AND WIND | 105 |
SPIRIT BEINGS OF THE ANIMAL INSECT KIND | 109 |
Fairies | 111 |
THE SNAKE | 113 |
The Horned Snake | 116 |
THE TURTLE AND THE TORTOISE | 131 |
THE TOAD AND THE FROG | 135 |
THE EAGLE AND THE RAVEN | 141 |
THE HARE AND THE RABBIT | 173 |
The Bat | 177 |
THE SPIDER | 181 |
THE BEE | 185 |
AFTERWORD | 189 |
Giants | 190 |
THE FAIRY | 191 |
THE WILD MEN | 193 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 195 |
64 | 207 |
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Página 64 - The land through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it, are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants : and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Página 64 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Página 19 - This morning, one of our companie looking over boord saw a mermaid, and calling up some of the companie to see her, one more came up, and by that time shee was come close to the ship's side, looking earnestly on the men : a little after, a sea came and overturned her : from the navill upward, her backe and breasts were like a woman's...
Página 20 - From the navel upward, her back and breasts were like a woman's, as they say that saw her ; her body as big as one of us, her skin very white, and long hair hanging down behind, of colour black. In her going down they saw her tail, which was like the tail of a porpoise, speckled like a mackerel.
Página 19 - If the people were frightened at seeing a man who could live in the water like a fish or a duck, how much more were they frightened when they saw that from his breast down he was actually fish, or rather two fishes, for each of his legs was a whole and distinct fish.
Página 72 - A young fellow is enveloped in leaves or moss and called the Wild Man. He hides in the wood and the other lads of the village go out to seek him. They find him, lead him captive out of the wood, and fire at him with blank muskets. He falls like dead to the ground, but a lad dressed as a doctor bleeds him, and he comes to life again. At this they rejoice and binding him fast on a waggon take him to the village, where they tell all the people how they have caught the Wild Man.
Página 47 - Devon) which frequently made its appearance in the form of a small child in the kitchen of the farm-house, where the inmates were accustomed to set a little stool for it. It would do a good deal of household work, but if the hearth and chimney corner were not kept neatly swept-, it would pinch the maid. The piskey would often come into the kitchen and sit on its little stool before the fire, so that the old lady had many opportunities of seeing it. Indeed it was a familiar guest in the house for...
Página 66 - The head of his battle axe a yard long, and the shaft of it all of iron, as thick as a man's thigh, and more than 2 yards long. " His teeth were 6 inches long, and 2 inches broad ; his forehead was more than 2 spans and a half broad. "His chine bone could containe 3 pecks of oatmeale. "His armour, sword, and battle-axe, are at Mr. Sand's of Redington, (Rottington) and at Mr. Wyber's, at St. Bees.
Página 116 - It seems that in some lands all existence began with a serpent. Despite the insistent, perhaps hopeful, assumption that the serpent must have been regarded as a phallic symbol, it appears to have been primarily revered as a female in the Near and Middle East and generally linked to wisdom and prophetic counsel rather than fertility and growth as is so often suggested.