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A hoopoe was a leader of the birds in the Persian book of poems The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr by Attar) and when the birds seek a king, the hoopoe points out that the Simurgh was the king of the birds. [34] Hoopoes were thought of as thieves across much of Europe, and harbingers of war in Scandinavia. [35]
It is said that the kalku (or calcu, synonymous with machi witch [3])}} or evil machi) who contract with an evil spirit , and has various servants to do his bidding, including the chon-chon, which might be an evil bird, or the kalku head he manipulates. [4] Thus the kalku wizard himself can tranform into the flying head. Only the most powerful ...
Strega (obviously derived from Latin striga) is the Italian term for witch. This word itself gave a term sometimes also used in English, stregheria , a form of witchcraft. In Romanian, strigăt means 'scream', [ 42 ] strigoaică is the name of the Romanian feminine vampire, [ 43 ] and strigoi is the Romanian male vampire. [ 44 ]
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Dado (in Italian meaning 'dice') Fresco (Italian: affresco from the expression a fresco) Gesso; Graffiti (Italian: graffito, pl. graffiti) Grotto (in Italian grotta, meaning 'cave') Impasto; Intaglio; Loggia (from French loge) Madonna (in Medieval Italian meant Lady, in Modern Italian indicates Mary the Virgin) Magenta (after the Italian town)
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Caladrius birds and their medicinal uses are an element of the novel Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup. The capture of the rare mythical bird as part of a Birder of the Year competition serves as a major plot point of the 2024 historical romance novel, The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Romance by India Holton. [6]
Dante, poised between the mountain of purgatory and the city of Florence, a detail of a painting by Domenico di Michelino, Florence 1465.. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is a long allegorical poem in three parts (or canticas): the Inferno (), Purgatorio (), and Paradiso (), and 100 cantos, with the Inferno having 34, Purgatorio having 33, and Paradiso having 33 cantos.