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Relic of the tooth of the Buddha, venerated in Sri Lanka as a cetiya "relic" of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Śarīra, a generic term referring to Buddhist relics. In Buddhism, relics of the Buddha and various sages are venerated. After the Buddha's death, his remains were divided into eight portions.
According to the local folklore, the population of Biringan comprises supernatural beings: the Engkantos ("enchanted beings"), and their progeny with the humans. [2] The engkantos are described as shapechangers who can take human form. In their human form, they are described as lacking a philtrum. [3] The city is also alleged to contain ...
A ghostly 1920s British Museum tour guide named Agatha will guide three children from one town on a quest to help them defeat the evil Dark Lord, whose servants, cowled figures called the Dark Forces, glide the darkened corridors and display rooms of the museum. The children have only one night to discover a relic in the museum itself and they ...
The Dark World [p] is a parallel world to Hyrule that appears in A Link to the Past. It is a darker version of Hyrule, which is referred to as the Light World. [77] The Great Sea [q] is the setting of The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass, formed after a deluge flooded Hyrule.
Certain kinds of fairy tales have their plots dominated by the magic items they contain. One such is the tale where the hero has a magic item that brings success, loses the item either accidentally (The Tinder Box) or through an enemy's actions (The Bronze Ring), and must regain it to regain his success. [3]
Brocéliande serves as the location of Robert Holdstock's fantasy novel Merlin's Wood. The television series Once Upon a Time features Brocéliande, therein also known as the "Forest of Eternal Night", in the season 5 episode " Siege Perilous " as the location of a magical toadstool needed for a potion to free the sorcerer Merlin from his ...
According to the surgeon and antiquarian [24] William Wilde, Prendergast collected a number of early medieval relics, including the tooth and Cross of Cong. [25] Wilde wrote the first detailed description of the shrine and its provenance in 1872. [1] It was displayed by Margaret Stokes in the mid-18th century. [26]
R'lyeh is characterized by bizarre architecture likened to non-Euclidean geometry that hampers exploration and escape. At one point, a crew member "climbed interminably along the grotesque stone moulding – that is, one would call it climbing if the thing was not after all horizontal – and the men wondered how any door in the universe could be so vast" [2] and at another, a sailor "was ...