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A bearded man with a winged bull body appears on the logo of the United States Forces – Iraq. [citation needed] A man with a bull's body is found among the creatures that make up Aslan's army in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. He appears at the Stone Table, challenging the White Witch "with a great bellowing voice".
The Prose and Poetic Eddas, which form the foundation of what we know today concerning Norse mythology, contain many names of dwarfs.While many of them are featured in extant myths of their own, many others have come down to us today only as names in various lists provided for the benefit of skalds or poets of the medieval period and are included here for the purpose of completeness.
Ba, the part of a human's soul that roughly represents its personality, depicted as a bird with a human head. [2] Calais and Zetes, the sons of the North Wind Boreas. [3] Chareng, also called Uchek Langmeidong, a mythical creature from Meitei mythology that is part-human and part-hornbill, having an avian body and a human head.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Amazon PrimeRest easy, Lord of the Rings fans, because our long, hair-raising nightmare is over: After months of uncertainty, everyone can ...
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
Manticore – Creature with a man's head, a lion's body, bat wings, and a scorpion tail. Mermaid, merman – Women and men with the lower bodies of fish. Minotaur – (Greek) A human with the head and sometimes legs of a bull. Moirai – Lesser trio of female deities assigned with deciding and weaving the fates of humans. Usually called the ...
Beard is a slang term, American in origin, describing a person who is used, knowingly or unknowingly, as a date, romantic partner (boyfriend or girlfriend), or spouse either to conceal infidelity or to conceal one's sexual orientation.
Sea-lion – A creature with the head and upper body of a lion and the tail of a fish. Siren – Half-bird, half-woman creature of Greek mythology, who lured sailors to their deaths with their singing voices. Skvader – A Swedish creature with the forequarters and hind-legs of a hare and the back, wings and tail of a female wood grouse.