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La Sylphide Bourbon, A.M. Bininger & Co. Bourbon advertising label in the shape of a glass showing a man pursuing three sylphs. The Swiss German physician and alchemist Paracelsus first coined the term sylph in the 16th century to describe an air spirit in his overarching scheme of elemental spirits associated with the four Classical elements.
Spirits and creatures of the wind,sound and storms Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. H. Harpies (2 C, 7 P) S.
After completing a quest for him, Sonté imbues Toku with the power to alter the season in Summerfall. The hero subsequently traverses the land, unlocking new wind-based powers for Enril, as well as pages from Magdi's journal with further story exposition. Toku reaches the city of the Melodias to find its inhabitants frozen in time.
Dogoda is the goddess of the west wind, and of love and gentleness. Stribog is the name of the Slavic god of winds, sky and air. He is said to be the ancestor (grandfather) of the winds of the eight directions. Moryana is the personification of the cold and harsh wind blowing from the sea to the land, as well as the water spirit.
The Windsbraut ("wind's bride") is an (originally female, but occasionally also male) spirit of the whirlwind. [55] Windsbräute steal the earnings of fieldwork. They can be disarmed by throwing a knife into the whirlwind. A Windsbraut is unable to remove the knife by her own power and therefore needs the help of the knife's owner. [56]
LostWinds is a 2008 platform video game developed by Frontier Developments and published for the Wii as a launch title for WiiWare.In LostWinds, the player controls a young boy named Toku and the elemental wind spirit Enril (and in two-player mode, a second player also controls Enril) as they travel Mistralis in order to rescue it from the antagonist Balasar, a vengeful spirit.
Early Chinese wind spirits were many. The Shang had the masters of the four directions, [9] an eastern tradition had the naturalistic "Great Wind" (大風), another tradition considered the winnowing basket constellation (箕星, [10] comprising four stars in Sagittarius) as the controller of the winds, the south had Feilian, and theorists have speculated that a number of named mythical birds ...
Gaoh, Ga-oh or Gǎ-oh is a wind spirit and giant of the Iroquois, Huron and Seneca people. Gaoh was described as a cannibal and a giant who could uproot trees. [1] He takes the form of a solitary old man. [2] Gaoh is subservient to the Great Spirit, [2] and in Iroquois mythology he is subservient to Adekagagwaa. [1]