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Theriocide – the act of killing an animal by a human (Ancient Greek: therion "wild animal, beast"). Vermicide – an agent used to kill parasitic intestinal worms. Virucide (also viricide) – an agent capable of destroying or inhibiting viruses. Vulpicide (also vulpecide) – the killing of a fox by methods other than by hunting it with hounds.
Many modern sources identify this "Orphic Dionysus" with the god Zagreus, though this name does not seem to have been used by any of the ancient Orphics, who simply called him Dionysus. [234] As pieced together from various ancient sources, the reconstructed story, usually given by modern scholars, goes as follows. [ 235 ]
Hokey Wolf - A canine trickster who comes up with different ways to fool his victims. Jareth - King of the Goblins from Jim Henson's Labyrinth, who changes forms and uses magic to cajole the story's heroine through a series of puzzles. Jerry - The mischievous mouse who constantly plays tricks on the tomcat from the show Tom and Jerry.
Malakal Maut (Maranao mythology): the angel of death; takes the souls of someone after three to seven days from the falling of the person's leaf from the sacred Sadiarathul Montaha tree in the realm called Sorga; appears either a handsome prince or a grotesque monsters, depending if the soul he is getting comes from a sinner or a virtuous ...
Hathor, also called Lady of the Sycamore in the Old Kingdom of Egypt; Jinmenju, a tree with human-faced fruits in Japanese mythology; Kodama and Kurozome, the spirit of the Prunus serrulata (Japanese cherry) Kukunochi, Japanese tree spirit; Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern Baltic mythology
One of the representative names is Ganglim (강림), the Saja who guides the soul to the entrance of the underworld. According to legend, he always carries Jeokpaeji (적패지), the list with the names of the dead written on a red cloth. When he calls the name of Jeokpaeji three times, the soul leaves the body and follows him inevitably.
87 of the 137 pits below the 3rd mound at Kralevo contained animal bones, with the average pit containing between two and four different animals, and 300 out of the 328 sacrificed animals were domestic, consisting of cattle (33.71% of sacrifices), pigs (28.03%), sheep (33.33%), goats, horses (4.93%), and dogs;
A man-eating plant is a fictional form of carnivorous plant large enough to kill and consume a human or other large animal. The notion of man-eating plants came about in the late 19th century, as the existence of real-life carnivorous and moving plants, described by Charles Darwin in Insectivorous Plants (1875), and The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), largely came as a shock to the general ...