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The Wraith: Shangri-La, a 2002 album by Insane Clown Posse; The Wraith: Hell's Pit, a 2004 album by Insane Clown Posse; The Wraith: Remix Albums, a 2006 album by Insane Clown Posse; The Wraith, a 2020 album by Toronto electronic music producer Roam; Wraith, a 2013 song by Peace from In Love "Wraith", a song by T.I. from his 2018 album Dime Trap
Tolkien stated in his "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" that "barrow-wight" was an "invented name", rather than one like "orc" that existed in Old English. [T 1] [5] He explained further in a lecture on Beowulf that orcneas ("hell-corpses"), the evil monsters born of Cain and leading to the monster Grendel, meant: [T 2]
The white handle of this tantō (left) is covered with shagreen in its natural form. Two small decorative elephants made of silver and shagreen. Shagreen has an unusually rough and granular surface, and is sometimes used as a fancy leather for book bindings, pocketbooks and small cases, as well as its more utilitarian uses in the hilts and scabbards of swords and daggers, where slipperiness is ...
Penghou – tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese) Psoglav - (Bosnia) humanoid monster with dog's head, horse's legs, one eye and iron teeth. Salawa – the "Typhonian Animal," a slender, vaguely canine-animal that is the totemic animal of Set; Sigbin – is a creature in Philippine mythology (Philippines)
Their physical appearance is often portrayed as having monstrous deformities, such as claw-like or thorny hands, flaming eyes or seven heads. [28] [9] Just as with jinn, an ifrit might possess an individual. Such persons gain some abilities from the ifrit, such as getting stronger and more brave, but the ifrit renders them insane.
Knull (/ n ʌ l /) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with Venom and Carnage.He was later retroactively established as an unseen enemy of Thor and the Silver Surfer, as he was behind Gorr the God Butcher's mission to hunt down and kill various deities, in addition to having come into conflict with the Silver Surfer via a ...
The Americas contribute figures like the cryptic Bigfoot, Mothman, and shape-shifting skin-walkers, while Europe showcases legendary beings like the mischievous púca and fearsome gorgon. Oceania introduces the aquatic bunyip and the elusive yowie , while global entities such as ghosts and mummies transcend specific regions.
The word "wraith" can be connected, Fisher writes, to English "writhe", Old English wrīþan, to bend or twist, and in turn to Gothic wraiqs, curved, crooked, or winding, and wraks, a persecutor. There is also English "wreath", from Old English wrida, meaning a band, a thing wound around something, and indeed a ring.