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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Amazon PrimeRest easy, Lord of the Rings fans, because our long, hair-raising nightmare is over: After months of uncertainty, everyone can ...
A tadpole person [1] [2] [3] or headfooter [4] [5] is a simplistic representation of a human being as a figure without a torso, with arms and legs attached to the head. Tadpole people appear in young children's drawings before they learn to draw torsos and move on to more realistic depictions such as stick figures .
Manticore – Creature with a man's head, a lion's body, bat wings, and a scorpion tail. Mermaid, merman – Women and men with the lower bodies of fish. Minotaur – (Greek) A human with the head and sometimes legs of a bull. Moirai – Lesser trio of female deities assigned with deciding and weaving the fates of humans. Usually called the ...
A bearded man with a winged bull body appears on the logo of the United States Forces – Iraq. [citation needed] A man with a bull's body is found among the creatures that make up Aslan's army in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. He appears at the Stone Table, challenging the White Witch "with a great bellowing voice".
The Prose and Poetic Eddas, which form the foundation of what we know today concerning Norse mythology, contain many names of dwarfs.While many of them are featured in extant myths of their own, many others have come down to us today only as names in various lists provided for the benefit of skalds or poets of the medieval period and are included here for the purpose of completeness.
Varric is a dwarf from House Tethras, a dwarven noble house which was exiled in disgrace to the surface world from their subterranean homeland, the kingdom of Orzammar, generations prior to the events of Dragon Age II.
The Incredible Shrinking Man: 1957: The US science-fiction horror film features a man who is exposed to a radioactive cloud while on a boating trip. Over time, he begins shrinking and tries to find a cure, but at the same time, he becomes a phenomenon throughout the country. [10] [15] [11] [4] [17] [3] [9] [12] [2] [8] [1] [5] The Incredible ...
Sea-lion – A creature with the head and upper body of a lion and the tail of a fish. Siren – Half-bird, half-woman creature of Greek mythology, who lured sailors to their deaths with their singing voices. Skvader – A Swedish creature with the forequarters and hind-legs of a hare and the back, wings and tail of a female wood grouse.