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Gayelette (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) The Bene Gesserit ; Glinda, the Good Witch of the South (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Melissa Glaser (The Secret Circle) Hilta Goatfounder ; Erzulie Gogol ; Good Witch of the North (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Dame Gothel ; The Grand High Witch (The Witches) Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
The Shaggy Man is a kind old wanderer who is dressed in rags. He has a chivalrous instinct to protect children from monsters. He first appears in The Road to Oz (1909) as Dorothy's protector, and plays major roles in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) and Tik-Tok of Oz (1914). He is similar to Captain Bill Weedles, another "fatherly protector ...
Jareth - King of the Goblins from Jim Henson's Labyrinth, who changes forms and uses magic to cajole the story's heroine through a series of puzzles. Jerry - The mischievous mouse who constantly plays tricks on the tomcat from the show Tom and Jerry. Joker - The main protagonist of Persona 5 and leader of The Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
In Earthsea, each individual among the Hardic peoples has several names over the course of their life: a child-name, a use-name and a true name.Up to puberty, a person is known by their child-name; at their rite of Passage, at about the age of thirteen, that name is taken from them and they are given their true name in the Old Speech by a witch, sorcerer or wizard.
Chess puzzle. Chess problem; Computer puzzle game; Cross Sums; Crossword puzzle; Cryptic crossword; Cryptogram; Maze. Back from the klondike; Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Mechanical puzzle. Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Burr puzzle; Word puzzle. Acrostic; Daughter in the box; Disentanglement puzzle; Edge-matching puzzle; Egg of Columbus; Eight queens puzzle ...
Baleia, the dog-companion that follows a poor family throughout the hardships of the 1915-drought in Brazil in Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos; Quincas Borba, the dog whose name is the same as his human's in Machado de Assis' Quincas Borba; Tentação, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Clarice Lispector
Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea explored the question of how wizards learned their art, introducing to modern fantasy the role of the wizard as the protagonist. [9] This theme has been further developed in modern fantasy, often leading to wizards as heroes on their own quests. [10] Such heroes may have their own mentor, a wizard as well.