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  2. AdventureQuest Worlds - Wikipedia

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    AdventureQuest Worlds is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set in the world of Lore, where players traverse its landscape and engage in quests and battles against various monsters, all while interacting with or alongside other players and non-playable characters (NPCs).

  3. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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    Gandiva, a bow created by Brahma and used by Arjuna during the Kurukshetra War. Sharanga, the bow of the Hindu god Vishnu and his avatars. Kaundinya's bow, a magic bow wielded by the Brahman Kaundinya, who used it to make the Naga princess Mera fall in love with him. [14] Indra's bow, the rainbow is depicted as an archer's bow. Indra, the god ...

  4. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    Another way for protection from enchantment used by the ancient Greeks was by spitting into the folds of the clothes. [ 10 ] Ancient Greeks also had an old custom of dressing boys as girls in order to avert the evil eye.

  5. Nicolas Maline - Wikipedia

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    Most of Maline's best work was sold by the firm of VUILLAUME and bears the latter's brand. His bows of this period reflect the Dominique Peccatte school ("hatchet-shaped" type head). He also made some self-rehairing bows, but also many bows using VUILLAUME-style frogs (round-edged ferrules).

  6. Paladin - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded instance of the word paladin in the English language dates to 1592, in Delia (Sonnet XLVI) by Samuel Daniel. [1] It entered English through the Middle French word paladin, which itself derived from the Latin palatinus, ultimately from the name of Palatine Hill — also translated as 'of the palace' in the Frankish title of Mayor of the Palace. [1]

  7. Arrow - Wikipedia

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    Traditional target arrow (top) and replica medieval arrow (bottom) Modern arrow with plastic fletchings and nock An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow.A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers called fletchings mounted near the rear, and ...

  8. Paladin's Quest - Wikipedia

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    Paladin's Quest, originally released as Lennus: Kodai Kikai no Kioku (レナス 古代機械の記憶, "Lennus: Memories of an Ancient Machine") in Japan, is a utopian/dystopian science fantasy role-playing video game developed by Copya System and published in Japan by Asmik Corporation on November 13, 1992, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

  9. Silver Branch - Wikipedia

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    Also, in Immacallam in dá Thuarad, or The Dialogue of the Two Sages, the mystic symbol used by gods, fairies, magicians, and by all initiates who know the mystery of life and death, is thus described as a Druid symbol:–'Neidhe' (a young bard who aspired to succeed his father as chief poet of Ulster), "made his journey with a silver branch over him.