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2. Porcellino - Wikipedia

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   Pietro Tacca's bronze Porcellino (Museo Bardini). Il Porcellino (Italian "piglet") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar.The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) shortly before 1634, [1] following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in ...

3. Boars in heraldry - Wikipedia

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   The Lorne Scots, a Canadian Army Infantry regiment use the Boar's Head as a symbol due to their affiliation with Clan Campbell. In Belgium , the wild boar is the symbolic animal of the Ardennes forests in the south of the country, and is the mascot of one of the Belgian Army 's premier infantry regiments, the Régiment de Chasseurs Ardennais ...

4. Moccus - Wikipedia

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   The boar was a potent symbol for the Celts. In Celtic iconography, they were depicted as especially ferocious, with exaggerated dorsal bristles and elongated ears. The boar was a symbol of war. Tacitus tells us that the Aesti (a Germanic or Celtic tribe) wore boar symbols into battle. On the Celtic Gundestrup cauldron, soldiers wear boar ...

5. Magical creatures in Harry Potter - Wikipedia

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   An editor has performed a search and found that sufficient sources exist to establish the subject's notability. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Magical creatures in Harry Potter" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message ...

6. White boar - Wikipedia

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   The boar was originally a symbol of the royal, ancient roots of the family symbolizing the royal bloodline of Galtung (Galthi) meaning boar in Norwegian. The Norse god Ynge-Frey had a "radiant" boar Gullinbursti whom he used as a horse, taking Yngve-Frey faster than any other riding animal could. The fact that the boar Gullinbursti was "radiant ...

7. Magical objects in Harry Potter - Wikipedia

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   Harry could return to his body despite being hit by the Killing Curse from the Elder Wand because Voldemort had used Harry's blood to regain his full strength in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and because the actual master of the Elder Wand, Draco Malfoy, had been defeated by Harry, making Harry the new master of the Elder Wand. Harry's ...

8. Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain ...

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   Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic is a 2015 original comedy play by New York–based playwright Matt Cox. [1] The play is a parody of the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling, but from the perspective of the "Puffs": that is, members of the Hogwarts house, Hufflepuff.

9. Harry Potter (character) - Wikipedia

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   Harry James Potter is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles seven years in the life of the orphan Harry, who, on his eleventh birthday, learns he is a wizard .