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Fearsome may refer to: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts; Fearsome critters, term from early lumberjack folklore for a variety of mythical beasts; Fearsome Five, fictional group of comic book supervillains from DC Comics; Fearsome Four, college rugby national championship tournament
Sadistic personality disorder is an obsolete term for a proposed personality disorder defined by a pervasive pattern of sadistic and cruel behavior. People who fitted this diagnosis were thought to have a desire to control others and to have accomplished this through use of physical or emotional violence.
Fear is an unpleasant emotion that arises in response to perceived dangers or threats.Fear causes physiological and psychological changes. It may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat, commonly known as the fight-or-flight response.
The hugag, a typical fearsome critter.Illustration by Coert DuBois from Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by William T. Cox.. In North American folklore and American mythology, fearsome critters were tall tale animals jokingly said to inhabit the wilderness in or around logging camps, [1] [2] [3] especially in the Great Lakes region.
Fearsome deities were invoked via ritual in order to protect individuals by warding away evil spirits. In ancient Egypt, these household rituals (performed in the home, not in state-run temples ) were embodied by the deity who personified magic itself, Heka . [ 1 ]
The first written account of the squonk was from the 1910 book Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. [3] His provenance was attested in the next written iteration, in the 1939 book Fearsome Critters. This book suggested that the creatures had migrated from deserts to swamps to finally settle in Pennsylvania. [4]
The hugag. Illustration by Coert DuBois from Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by William T. Cox. In American folklore, the hugag is a fearsome critter similar to a moose with an extensive upper-lip, preventing it from grazing, and joint-less legs preventing it from lying down. [1] [2] [3] [4]
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.