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Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.
Ipy (goddess) – head and feet of a lion, body of a hippo, arms of a human; Maahes – name means "he who is true beside her" Matit – A funerary cat goddess who had a cult center at Thinis; Mehit – depicted as a reclining lioness with three bent poles projecting from her back; Menhit; Pakhet; Repyt
[2] [3] When Spanish settlers first moved into the area they were said to have witnessed the Dark Watchers whom they dubbed Los Vigilantes Oscuros. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] The Dark Watchers are most famously given a brief mention in John Steinbeck 's " Flight ", included in the 1938 collection of his short stories The Long Valley :
Catalan legendary creatures (12 P) G. Spanish ghosts (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Spanish legendary creatures" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 ...
In Spanish, the forms carbunclo, carbunco are attested, [7] [2] and rarely perhaps carbúnculo also. [2] [b] The term carbunclo/carbunco could also mean "firefly". [12] The creature may sometimes called farol (meaning "lantern"), [11] though this might be considered a separate creature of the lore of the La Plata area in Argentina. [13]
An account of the alicanto was published by folklorist Julio Vicuña Cifuentes [] in 1914/1915. [1] A similar description can be found paraphrased in the English-translated version of Book of Imaginary Beings (1969) by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, under the chapter of "Fauna of Chile", [2] which was one of four chapters not found in the original Spanish version by Borges but expanded in ...
The Spanish legend of la Encantada is a generic name that refers to a set of oral traditions and legends mythological narrated in numerous Spanish localities. Although there are multiple local variants, a series of elements are common: the protagonist (a young woman with long hair ), the time ( St. John's Eve ), the manifestation (combing her ...
An alux (Mayan: , plural: aluxo'ob [aluʃoˀːb]) is a type of sprite or spirit in the mythological tradition of certain Maya peoples from the Yucatán Peninsula, Belize and Guatemala, also called Chanekeh or Chaneque by the Nahuatl people. Aluxo'ob are conceived of as being small, only about knee-high, and in appearance resembling miniature ...