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The nuckelavee (/ n ʌ k l ɑː ˈ v iː /) or nuckalavee is a horse-like demon from Orcadian folklore that combines equine and human elements. British folklorist Katharine Briggs called it "the nastiest" [1] of all the demons of Scotland's Northern Isles. The nuckelavee's breath was thought to wilt crops and sicken livestock, and the creature ...
Abe Hawkins, also known in later years as Uncle Able Hawkins, The Black Prince, The Dark Sage of Louisiana, and The Slayer of Lexington, was a slave on the Ashland sugar plantation located in Darrow, Louisiana, in Ascension Parish. Duncan Farrar Kenner owned the plantation and for ten years Abe was his slave. He rode some 25 horses to victory.
Árvakr and Alsviðr, horses that pull Sól's chariot [1] Blóðughófi, Freyr's horse [2] Falhófnir, a horse of the gods [3] Glað, a horse of the gods [4] Glær, a horse listed in both the Grímnismál and Gylfaginning [5] Grani, the horse of Sigurð [6] Gulltoppr, the horse of Heimdallr [7] Gyllir, a horse whose name translates to "the ...
The horse was associated with sin in the preaching of clerics, although its value remained positive in mystical bestiaries. Belief in the horse's apotropaic and beneficial virtues persisted, notably through organotherapy, but the animal acquired a dark, negative image, as evidenced by the horses mentioned in Nordic and Germanic folklore, such ...
Chollima – a winged horse too swift to be mounted by any mortal (Chinese) Drapé - (France) Ghostly horse monster who finds and spirits away children wandering at night to an unknown location, never to be seen again. Gytrash- (english) shapeshifting spirit usually taking the form of a horse, mule or other animal. Opposite of a will o the wisp ...
Bellerophon [1] or Bellerophontes (Ancient Greek: Βελλεροφών; Βελλεροφόντης; lit. "slayer of Belleros") or Hipponous (Ancient Greek: Ἱππόνοος; lit. "horse-knower"), [2] was a divine Corinthian hero of Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and Eurynome, and the foster son of Glaukos.
Secret, from Gina Bertaina's The Secret Horse [2] Shadowfax, the horse ridden by Gandalf the White in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; Sham from King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry; Silver Blaze, from the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of Silver Blaze by Arthur Conan Doyle; Sir Chess, the Knight Destrier, in Linda Medley's Castle ...
Deities depicted as horses or whose myths and iconography are associated with the horse. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.