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Furaribi (ふらり火) from the Hyakkai Zukan by Sawaki Suushi Furaribi (ふらり火) from the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Sekien Toriyama Furaribi (ふらり火) from Bakemono no e (化物之繪, c. 1700), Harry F. Bruning Collection of Japanese Books and Manuscripts, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
A birdlike creature engulfed in flames that flies aimlessly, thought to be the restless spirits of those not given a proper burial. Fūri A monkey-like Chinese yōkai that can glide from tree to tree. Furutsubaki-no-rei A camellia tree of great age, that has become evil and now sucks people's souls out if they come too close to it. Furu-utsubo
Clive Barker's novel Cabal (1988) and its film adaption, Nightbreed (1990), Baphomet is depicted as the god worshipped by the Night Breed creatures. [ 87 ] An interpretation of Baphomet, referred to as The Sword of Baphomet, forms part of the main plot in the 1996 point-and-click adventure game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars developed ...
Sometimes a thin line of flames rise up from the edges of a circular halo in Buddhist examples. [17] In Tibetan paintings the flames are often shown as blown by a wind, [18] usually from left to right. This type is also very rarely found, and on a smaller scale, in medieval Christian art. [19] [page needed]
One of the first monsters described as fire-breathing was the Chimera of Greco-Roman mythology, [1] although these types of monsters were comparatively rare in such mythology, with limited other examples including the Khalkotauroi, the brazen-hooved bulls conquered by Jason in Colchis, which breathed fire from their nostrils, and the cannibalistic Mares of Diomedes, owned by Diomedes of Thrace ...
Aristotle, Pliny, Nicander, Aelian. The standard lore of the salamander as a creature enduring fire and extinguishing it was known by the Ancient Greeks, as far back as the 4th century BCE, by his Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and his successor Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BCE) [3] who gave such description of the σαλαμάνδρα (salamandra).
The end of "Iron Flame" marked a major turning point for Violet and Xaden. In a last ditch effort to save Violet, Xaden turned venin, meaning he gave up part of his soul for power.
Dragon's breath (sustained vertical breath without a torch in front of the flame) Fire art is a piece of art that uses active flames as an essential part of the piece. The piece may either use flame effects as part of a sculpture, or be a choreographed performance of fire effects as the piece burns; the latter being almost a type of performance art.