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Practising writing clues from early in the morning until midnight, seven days a week, Halpern forgot about his degree. He’d read it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert – so chose to do 20,000 hours. An entire crossword would be written, and the best clue only chosen to go in its replacement puzzle – the others would be discarded.
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
It consists of a group of heroic tales dealing with the lives of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of Ulster, the great hero Cú Chulainn, who was the son of Lug , and of their friends, lovers, and enemies. These are the Ulaid , or people of the North-Eastern corner of Ireland and the action of the stories centres round the royal court at Emain Macha ...
Garth Nix: Contained in Nix's collection Across the Wall are two stories that present a different take on the Arthurian legends: "Under the Lake", a short story that portrays the Lady of the Lake as a parasitic, monstrous creature, and "Heart's Desire", which tells of Merlin and his apprentice Nimue, and the ultimately doomed relationship ...
The Last Watch of Hero by Frederic Leighton, depicting Hero anxiously waiting for Leander during the storm. Hero and Leander (/ ˈ h iː r oʊ /, / l iː ˈ æ n d ər /) is the Greek myth relating the story of Hero (Ancient Greek: Ἡρώ, Hērṓ; [hɛː.rɔ̌ː]), a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and ...
With his powerful snout and his pointy ears, Wilson became a national hero in Colombia when he helped the military find four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and were lost in the ...
Set is the chief deity, a serpent-god or "arch-demon", of the Stygian people in Robert E. Howard's stories of Conan the Barbarian in the Hyborian Age. He is apparently an amalgam of the name of the Egyptian God Set with the appearance/characteristics of both Apep and a monster from Greek mythology known as the Lernaean Hydra.
Pecos Bill (/ ˈ p eɪ k ə s / PAY-kəs) [1] is a fictional cowboy and folk hero in stories set during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona. These narratives were invented as short stories in a book by Tex O'Reilly in the early 20th century and are an example of American "fakelore".