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The two pencil game involves crossing two pens or pencils to create a grid (with sectors labelled "yes" and "no") and then asking questions to a "supernatural entity" named "Charlie." The upper pencil is then expected to rotate to indicate the answer to such questions. The first question everyone asks by speaking into the pencils is "can we play?"
Yamata no Orochi – Gigantic, eight-headed serpent; Yama-uba – Malevolent, mountain-dwelling hag; Yama-waro – Hairy, one-eyed spirit; Yanari – Spirit which causes strange noises; Yaoguai – Animalistic demon or fallen gods; Yara-ma-yha-who (Australian Aboriginal) – Diminutive, sucker-fingered vampire
The reason why some researchers are skeptical about animals having a sense of humor is that it serves no evolutionary purpose. For humans, it's a bonding strategy. For humans, it's a bonding strategy.
Lake monster (Worldwide) – Gigantic animals reported to inhabit various lakes around the world; Lakhey – Demon with fangs; La Llorona (Latin America) – Death spirit associated with drowning; Lamassu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit with the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion; Lambton Worm – Giant worm
You might've thought zombies were the creation of science fiction writers, and while that may be true for human zombies, animals are a whole other story. 10 'zombie' animals that really exist Skip ...
One of the most fascinating facts about these animals is that they reach such mind-boggling size by almost exclusively consuming tiny shrimp like organisms called krill. During feeding season ...
The player can answer these questions with: Yes, No, Unknown, and Sometimes. The experiment is based on the classic word game of Twenty Questions, and on the computer game "Animals," popular in the early 1970s, which used a somewhat simpler method to guess an animal. [3] The 20Q AI uses an artificial neural network to pick the questions and to ...
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.