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An ancient prophecy is realised one Christmas Eve in the London Underground, a dramatic race against time as three people are thrown together to prevent a terrifying catastrophe. Night on the Galactic Railroad (novel, film) – two boys travel on a magical train across the night sky – but there is a deeper meaning to the journey.
Flyting is a ritual, poetic exchange of insults practiced mainly between the 5th and 16th centuries. Examples of flyting are found throughout Scots, Ancient, Medieval [8] [9] and Modern Celtic, Old English, Middle English and Norse literature involving both historical and mythological figures.
Time travellers from the late twenty-first to the early twenty-second century go through a one-way time portal to the Earth's Pliocene. The world is controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. 1982 Life, the Universe and Everything: Douglas Adams: Time travel paradoxes form the basis of this broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet ...
After the storm, Morris finds the city and its residents devastated. He walks through the streets strewn with book pages and into the countryside. There he sees a woman fly past, magically suspended by flying books which she is holding with ribbons. She sends one of the books down to Morris.
Race Through the Skies: The Week the World Learned to Fly is a 2020 non-fiction children's book by the American writer and historian Martin W. Sandler. The book focuses on a single week in August 1908 that "introduced aviation to the world", [ 1 ] the week of an early air show and competition in Reims .
Tempus fugit (Classical Latin pronunciation: [ˈt̪ɛmpʊs̠ ˈfʊɡit̪]) is a Latin phrase, usually translated into English as "time flies". The expression comes from line 284 of book 3 of Virgil 's Georgics , [ 1 ] where it appears as fugit irreparabile tempus : "it escapes, irretrievable time".
Time for Me to Fly can refer to one of two songs: "Time for Me to Fly" (song), a song by REO Speedwagon from the 1978 album You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish "Time for Me to Fly" (Jonas Brothers song), a song from the 2006 album It's About Time
In a Gullah context, the flying Africans are associated with Hoodoo spirituality, and sometimes perform their ascension through a ritual like a ring shout.Gullah lore also associates flying Africans with a magical iron hoe that works by itself, and a never-empty pot that they leave behind, [6] [7] perhaps relating to the influence of the Yoruba deity Ogun on Hoodoo.