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A brown bear who is Franklin's best friend. Bear The Honey and Bear Stories: Ursula Dubosarsky: Bear lives with the little bird Honey, a silvereye, native to Australia. Bear Bear: Marian Engel: The titular unnamed bear whose relationship with a librarian is the subject of the novel. Bear Family Berenstain Bears: Stan and Jan Berenstain
Brown bear; the bear was considered the most sacred of animals in Finnish mythology, only referred to by euphemisms (see taboo and noa-name). The killing of a bear was followed by a great feast in honour of the bear ( peijaiset ), where a substantial part of the celebrations consisted of convincing the bear's spirit that it had died ...
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America. Of the land carnivorans, it is rivaled in size only by its closest relative, the polar bear, which is much less variable in size and slightly bigger on average. The brown bear is a sexually dimorphic species, as adult males are larger and more compactly built ...
Kludde - (Belgium) demon summoned from the ashes of witches taking the form of a black wolf with bat wings, a birds beak and bear claws. Has glowing eyes, shapeshifting abilities and great speed. Orthrus – two headed dog, father/brother of Cerberus (Greek) Penghou – tree spirit that appears like a black dog and tastes like dog-meat (Chinese)
In Finland, the brown bear, which is also nicknamed as the "king of the forest" by the Finns, [28] [29] is even so common that it is the country's official national mammal, [30] and occur on the coat of arms of the Satakunta region is a crown-headed black bear carrying a sword, [31] possibly referring to the regional capital city of Pori, whose ...
The cosmic egg, world egg or mundane egg is a mythological motif found in the cosmogonies of many cultures and civilizations, including in Proto-Indo-European mythology. [1] Typically, there is an egg which, upon "hatching", either gives rise to the universe itself or gives rise to a primordial being who, in turn, creates the universe.
The brown bear has long been extinct in Britain (at least 1,500 years ago, possibly even 3,000 years ago), [17] [18] Denmark (about 6,500 years ago), [19] the Netherlands (about 1,000 years ago, although later singles rarely wandered from Germany), [20] Belgium and Luxembourg, with more recent extinctions in Germany (in the year 1835, although ...
Captive bear with cub at Tierpark Hagenbeck, Germany. The Kamchatka brown bear is the biggest brown bear in Eurasia, [3] with a body length of 2.4 m (7.9 ft) to 3 m (9.8 ft) tall on hind legs, and a weight up to at least 650 kg (1,430 lb).