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A grimalkin, also known as a greymalkin, is an archaic term for a cat. [1] The term stems from "grey" (the colour) plus "malkin", an archaic term with several meanings (a low class woman, a weakling, a mop , or a name) derived from a hypocoristic form of the female name Maud . [ 2 ]
The cat-sìth (Scottish Gaelic: [kʰaʰt̪ ˈʃiː], plural cait-shìth), in Irish cat sí (Irish: [kat̪ˠ ˈʃiː]), is a fairy creature from Celtic mythology, said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands.
Grimalkin: the Malkin witch assassin who formed an alliance with Tom and the Spook to destroy the Fiend, who killed their son. Thorne Malkin: a witch and Grimalkin's apprentice as witch assassin. She is killed defending the Fiend's severed head. John Ward: Tom's father and a seventh son, who saved Tom's mother's life.
Grimalkin, the 1811 winner of the Doncaster Cup horse race; Grimalkin, a comic strip by Louis Wain; Grimalkin, a cat in the book "King of the Wind" by Marguerite Henry (1948) The Grimalkin is a malk in The Dresden Files; a species of feline fae allied with the Winter court, about the size of a bobcat, but stronger, faster and smarter than most ...
Thomas "Tom" Ward has lived his whole life in the County, loosely based on the English county of Lancashire.Because he is the seventh son of a seventh son and thus has the ability to see ghosts and fight other supernatural beings, his parents have apprenticed him to the Spook, a cloaked man named John Gregory (because only seventh sons of seventh sons have the aforementioned abilities, all ...
Grýla and Skyrgámur (a Yule Lad fond of skyr) depicted in a sculpture at Keflavík International Airport.. Icelandic Christmas folklore depicts mountain-dwelling characters and monsters who come to town during Christmas.
Species: Spirit of intellect/air elemental Description: Repository of magical knowledge First appearing in Storm Front, Bob is a "spirit of intellect" who inhabits a skull perched on a shelf in the laboratory beneath Harry's apartment.
The Winternight trilogy, by Katherine Arden, is inspired by Slavic mythology and includes many characters, such as the Domovoy, the Rusalka and other beings. In Edward Fallon's second book in his Linger series of novels, Trail of the Beast, a rusalka taunts a trio hunting a serial killer.