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The Will o' the Wisp and the Snake by Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931). In folklore, a will-o'-the-wisp, will-o'-wisp, or ignis fatuus (Latin for 'foolish flame'; [1] pl. ignes fatui), is an atmospheric ghost light seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.
The Archers' Guild Altarpiece (Dutch - altaarstuk van de gilde van de oude voetboog) is a c.1590 painting by Maerten de Vos, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Around 1585 Alessandro Farnese succeeded in reintroducing Catholicism to the Southern Netherlands. Partly because he was in favour of guild altars, the Oude Voetboog archers ...
flagellum dei: the scourge of God: title for Attila the Hun, the ruthless invader of the Western Roman Empire: flatus vocis [a or the] breath of voice: a mere name, word, or sound without a corresponding objective reality; expression used by the nominalists of universals and traditionally attributed to the medieval philosopher Roscelin of ...
They were a very mobile people, whose mounted archers had acquired a reputation for invincibility, and the Germanic tribes seemed unable to withstand them. [ 17 ] : 133–151 Vast populations fleeing the Huns moved from Germania into the Roman Empire in the west and south, and along the banks of the Rhine and Danube.
Probably the oldest known description and image of the Sigillum Dei is the 14th-century Liber Juratus (also Liber Sacratus, Liber sacer sive Juratus, or Sworn Booke), [1] attributed to Honorius, son of Euclid. [2] This may have been produced in the late 13th century, but likely not before the time of Pope John XXII. (1316–1334). [3]
Devi, who is one of his protégées, is just 17 years old but won bronze in the mixed team compound open competition, becoming the first female archer without arms to medal at the Paralympic Games.
November 29, 1915 – Illustrated London News – The Ghostly Bowmen of Mons fight the Germans The Angels of Mons is one of many stories of the reputed appearance of a variety of supernatural entities which protected the British Army from defeat by the invading forces of the German Empire at the beginning of World War I during the Battle of Mons in Belgium on 23 August 1914.
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