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Louis Le Breton's illustration of a grimalkin from the Dictionnaire Infernal. A grimalkin, also known as a greymalkin, is an archaic term for a cat. [1] The term stems from "grey" (the colour) plus "malkin", an archaic term with several meanings (a low class woman, a weakling, a mop, or a name) derived from a hypocoristic form of the female name Maud. [2]
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Pages in category "Characters in Greek mythology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 307 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mythological stories about a deity told of their deeds (which may have related to their functions) and linked them, through genealogical connections, to other gods with similar functions. [17] The most important surviving accounts of Greek mythology can be found in Homeric epic , which tells of encounters between gods and mortals, and Hesiod 's ...
A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Grimalkin, the 1811 winner of the Doncaster Cup horse race; Grimalkin, a comic strip by Louis Wain; Grimalkin, a cat in the book "King of the Wind" by Marguerite Henry (1948) The Grimalkin is a malk in The Dresden Files; a species of feline fae allied with the Winter court, about the size of a bobcat, but stronger, faster and smarter than most ...
The character known as The Archive was introduced in Death Masks as a young girl who serves as a repository of all written human knowledge as well as the personal memories of each of her predecessors. She holds a position which has been passed down a magical family line from mother to daughter over the past five thousand years.
Basan, a fire-breathing chicken from Japanese mythology; Cockatrice, a chicken-headed dragon or serpent, visually similar to or confused with the Basilisk. Gallic rooster, a symbolic rooster used as an allegory for France; Gullinkambi, a rooster who lives in Valhalla in Norse mythology; Rooster of Barcelos, a mythological rooster from Portugal