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  2. Cultural depictions of bears - Wikipedia

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    "The Three Bears", Arthur Rackham's illustration to English Fairy Tales, by Flora Annie Steel, 1918. Bears have been depicted throughout history by many different cultures and societies. Bears are very popular animals that feature in many stories, folklores, mythology and legends from across the world, ranging from North America, Europe and Asia.

  3. List of fictional bears - Wikipedia

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    A grizzly bear in the book, though the TV series and movies make him a black bear. Harvey A Father's Day Thank You: Janet Nolan A bear cub who gives a thankyou card to his dad. Iorek Byrnison: His Dark Materials: Philip Pullman: A male armored polar bear. An honorable friend to Lyra and the rightful king of Svalbard. Issi Noho Issi Noho: Keith ...

  4. Category:Mythological bears - Wikipedia

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    Bears depicted in mythology. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... Pages in category "Mythological bears" The following ...

  5. List of fictional badgers - Wikipedia

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    In European folklore the badger character is intimately associated with the bear and is considered a forecaster of the arrival of spring. Older versions of these stories ascribed similar powers to the bear, but as bear populations dwindled, the folklore shifted to use the badger (in Germany and England), and the groundhog (in the United States ...

  6. Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Wikipedia

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    In Robert Southey's story, three male bears—a small bear, a medium bear, and a large bear—live together in a house in the woods. Southey describes them as good-natured, trusting, harmless, clean, and hospitable. Each bear has his own bowl of porridge, his own chair, and his own bed. One day, while their hot porridge is cooling, they wander ...

  7. Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear - Wikipedia

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    Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear (also spelled Brer Fox and Brer Bear, / ˈ b r ɛər /) are fictional characters from African-American oral traditions popular in the Southern United States. These characters have been recorded by many different folklorists, but are most well-known from the folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris ...

  8. Ungnyeo - Wikipedia

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    In the tale, a tiger and a bear (Ungnyeo) lived together in a cave and prayed to the divine king Hwanung to be made human. Hwanung heard their prayers and gave them 20 cloves of garlic, a bundle of mugwort and ordered them to stay out of the sunlight and eat only this food for 100 days. Due to hunger, the tiger left the cave after roughly 20 ...

  9. The Brown Bear of Norway - Wikipedia

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    The Brown Bear of Norway is an Irish fairy tale collected by Patrick Kennedy which appeared in his Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (1866). [1] It was later included by Andrew Lang in his anthology The Lilac Fairy Book (1910), though Lang misattributed his source as West Highland Tales (cf. The Brown Bear of the Green Glen). [2]