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  2. Animals in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Wild dogs, Ezekiel 13:4; Wolf — In the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), the Tribe and figure of Benjamin were compared to a wolf, owing to the tribe's warlike character and heroic tribal members such as King Saul and Mordecai. [24]

  3. Cynocephaly - Wikipedia

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    Also, in Anglo-Saxon England, the Old English word wulfes heafod ("wolf's head") was a technical term for an outlaw, who could be killed as if he were a wolf. The so-called Leges Edwardi Confessoris, written around 1140, however, offered a somewhat literal interpretation: “[6.2a] For from the day of his outlawry he bears a wolf's head, which ...

  4. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Jiao - Dog-like canine with leopard spots, ox horns and a short tail. And it also barks like a dog. Kalidahs – Half tiger, half bear creatures first appearing in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Kars - The leader of the Pillar Men and the main villain of Battle Tendency, the second part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

  5. Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology - Wikipedia

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    An old she-wolf with a sky-blue mane named Ashina found the baby and nursed him, then the she-wolf gave birth to half-wolf, half-human cubs, from whom the Turkic people were born. Also in Turkic mythology it is believed that a gray wolf showed the Turks the way out of their legendary homeland Ergenekon , which allowed them to spread and conquer ...

  6. Dogs in religion - Wikipedia

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    Dogs were associated with Anubis, the jackal headed god of the underworld. At times throughout its period of being in use the Anubieion catacombs at Saqqara saw the burial of dogs. [17] Anput was the female counterpart of her husband, Anubis; she was often depicted as a pregnant or nursing jackal, or as a jackal wielding knives.

  7. Jackal - Wikipedia

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    It is called "wild dog" in several translations of the Bible. In the King James Bible, Isaiah 13:21 refers to 'doleful creatures', which some commentators suggest are either jackals or hyenas. [16] In the Indian Panchatantra stories, the jackal is mentioned as wily and wise. [17] In Bengali tantrik tradition, they represent the goddess Kali. It ...

  8. Hellhound - Wikipedia

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    Goddess Hel and the hellhound Garmr by Johannes Gehrts, 1889. A hellhound is a mythological hound that embodies a guardian or a servant of hell, the devil, or the underworld.. Hellhounds occur in mythologies around the world, with the best-known examples being Cerberus from Greek mythology, Garmr from Norse mythology, the black dogs of English folklore, and the fairy hounds of Celtic mythol

  9. List of fictional wolves - Wikipedia

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    But Wolf, inspired by mystic visions of the 'Great Dire Wolf,' knows that singing is the pure release of the wolf soul. On his mission to save his kind from the destruction of spiritual freedom, he picks up an elderly friend, a mate, and ... sires a growing tribe of free singing wolves" by defeating a dictatorial wolf called Rufus.