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Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...
While iron is now the name of a chemical element, the traditional meaning of the word "iron" is what is now called wrought iron. In East Asia, cast iron was also common after 500 BCE, and was called "cooked iron", with wrought iron being called "raw iron" (in Europe, cast iron remained very rare until it was used for cannonballs in the 14th ...
If they lose this cap, it is said that they will lose their power to return beneath the water. (Scottish folklore) Winged petasos (also Winged petasus): the winged traveler hat of the messenger god Hermes. The Roman equivalent is Mercury. (Greek mythology) Cap of invisibility (also Cap of Hades): a cap that turns a person invisible (Greek ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. This list of fictional birds is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. Ducks, penguins and birds of prey are not included here, and are listed separately at list of fictional ducks, list of fictional penguins, and list of fictional birds of prey. For non-fictional birds see List of ...
Bare-fronted Hoodwink – bird with the ability to be "almost seen" Caladrius – white bird with healing powers; Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird; Cinnamon bird – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon
Said to cast a human shadow until it kills a person, whereupon it begins casting its own shadow. The peryton is a fictional hybrid animal combining the physical features of a stag and a bird . The peryton was invented by Jorge Luis Borges in his 1957 Book of Imaginary Beings , using the fictional device of a supposedly long-lost medieval ...
The Huma (Persian: هما, pronounced Homā, Avestan: Homāio), also Homa or Homay, [1] is a mythical bird of Iranian [2] [3] legends and fables, and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said never to alight on the ground, and instead to live ...