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The ointment is known by a wide variety of names, including witches' flying ointment, green ointment, magic salve, or lycanthropic ointment. In German it was Hexensalbe (lit. ' witch salve ') or Flugsalbe (lit. ' flying salve '). Latin names included unguentum sabbati lit. ' sabbath unguent '), unguentum pharelis, unguentum populi (lit.
Amulet is a children's fantasy, adventure, graphic novel series written and illustrated by Kazu Kibuishi [1] and published by Scholastic Corporation.Beginning in 2008 with The Stonekeeper, the series was published by Scholastic under their Graphix imprint.
"To Salve and Salve Not!" is the first episode of the third season of The Ren & Stimpy Show. It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on November 20, 1993. It is the first episode in the series to be entirely produced at Games Animation .
The Devil's Chair or Baird Chair as it is officially named in the Highland Park Cemetery of Kirksville, Missouri was first placed in the cemetery by Charles Grassle and David Baird when David's wife, Anna Maria (Hoye) Baird, died in 1911. It has become involved in "numerous legends of a type widely replicated across the U.S., especially in ...
The fear-helm I wore to afright mankind, While guarding my gold I lay; Mightier seemed I than any man, For a fiercer never I found. Sigurth spake: "The fear-helm surely no man shields When he faces a valiant foe; Oft one finds, when the foe he meets, That he is not the bravest of all."
A curule seat probably designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, made in carved wood and gilded ca. 1810 in Berlin, later restored and reupholstered by a private dealer. A curule seat is a design of a (usually) foldable and transportable chair noted for its uses in Ancient Rome and Europe through to the 20th century.
A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in book ten of Homer's Iliad, as Odysseus is armed for a night raid to be conducted against the Trojans. Meriones gave Odysseus a bow, a quiver and a sword, and put a cleverly made leather helmet on his head. On the inside there was a strong lining on interwoven straps, onto which a felt cap had ...
One notable example of a non-traditional helmet used in Canadian heraldry is the arms of Julie Payette, a former governor general of Canada, which bears an astronaut's helmet as the helm. [15] Other examples include nasal helmets , [ 16 ] Corinthian helmets , [ 17 ] parka hoods, [ 18 ] and United Nations peacekeeping helmets.