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If people relent, they begin to feel extremely ill. Ghost – A lost soul or spirit that can be good or evil. Hat Man – A living shadow, often depicted with glowing red eyes and wearing a distinctive type of hat- usually a top hat or bowler cap. Mummy – Deceased human or animal whose skin and organs have been preserved by mummification.
A short story on Gaiman's website featuring Cthulhu dictating an autobiography to a human slave. [11] The Illuminatus! Trilogy: Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea: 1975 Features several Mythos references. "Jerusalem's Lot" Stephen King 1978 A short story published in 1978 as a part of the collection Night Shift. It serves as a prequel to ...
The bishop-fish, a piscine humanoid reported in Poland in the 16th century. Aquatic humanoids appear in legend and fiction. [1] " Water-dwelling people with fully human, fish-tailed or other compound physiques feature in the mythologies and folklore of maritime, lacustrine and riverine societies across the planet."
Childlore is the folklore or folk culture of children and young people. It includes, for example, rhymes and games played in the school playground. Well-known researchers of the field were Iona and Peter Opie. [1]
The human pedigree recapitulating its phylogeny back to amoeba shown as a reinterpreted chain of being with living and fossil animals. From a critique of Ernst Haeckel's theories, 1873. The set nature of species, and thus the absoluteness of creatures' places in the great chain, came into question during the 18th century.
The homunculus is commonly used today in scientific disciplines such as psychology as a teaching or memory tool to describe the distorted scale model of a human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space human body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex (the sensory homunculus) and the motor cortex (the motor homunculus).
He emphasized the point by stating in the opening sentence of the story that "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." [ 7 ] Writer Dirk W. Mosig noted that Lovecraft was a "mechanistic materialist" who embraced the philosophy of cosmic indifferentism and believed in a ...
He is the only human character from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood to be brought to Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Dr. Anna (voiced by Laara Sadiq) is the neighborhood physician; she is Indian. She assisted Mom Tiger give birth to Baby Margaret, got new eyeglasses for Prince Wednesday and has helped other characters with injuries or illnesses to ...