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A deerstalker. A deerstalker is a type of cap that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking.Because of the cap's popular association with the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, [1] it has become stereotypical headgear for a detective, especially in comical drawings or cartoons along with farcical plays and films.
Headgear is worn for many purposes, including protection against the elements, decoration, or for religious or cultural reasons, including social conventions. This is a list of headgear, both modern and historical.
The Cahills thought that Shah Jahan was behind the hiding the Clue in Mission 2. [126] Ustad Ahmad Lahauri (from Lahore, Pakistan) is a famous architect. [126] During the construction of Taj Mahal, he was assigned to hide a Clue in one of his fortresses. He chose the Red Fort, specifically the Diwan-i-Khas, as the location of the Clue in ...
An armchair treasure hunt is an activity that requires solving puzzles or riddles in some easily portable and widely reproduced format (often an illustrated book [15]), and then using clues hidden either in the story or in the graphics of the book to find a real treasure somewhere in the physical world. This type of treasure hunt may take ...
Camouflaging cloaks form a central plot element in Samuel R. Delany's 1975 novel Dhalgren. [citation needed] Cloaks of invisibility also exist in the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling. [12] Harry Potter uses a Cloak of Invisibility, that was passed down to him by his father, to sneak into forbidden areas of his school and remain unseen.
Invisibility Cloak may refer to: Cloak of invisibility, a theme that has occurred in fiction Invisibility cloak (Harry Potter), a specific instance in the Harry Potter series; Cloaking device, technology for partial or full invisibility to parts of the electromagnetic or acoustic spectrums Metamaterial cloaking, a type of cloaking using ...
Cellini's Perseus (1545–54), wearing the Cap of Invisibility and carrying the head of Medusa. In classical mythology, the Cap of Invisibility (Ἅϊδος κυνέη (H)aïdos kyneē in Greek, lit. dog-skin of Hades) is a helmet or cap that can turn the wearer invisible, [1] also known as the Cap of Hades or Helm of Hades. [2]
A mythical enemy-incinerating kapa (barkcloth) cape, retold as a feather skirt in one telling, occurs in Hawaiian mythology. In the tradition regarding the hero ʻAukelenuiaʻīkū, [c] the hero's grandmother Moʻoinanea who is matriarch of the divine lizards (moʻo akua, or simply moʻo) gives him her severed tail, which transforms into a cape (or kapa lehu, i.e. tapa) that turns enemies into ...