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A French version called a Drac is said to be a type of Lutin or French elf. Draugar – (Norse) Undead creatures that guard their burial mounds. Dryad – Tree nymph or tree spirit from Greek mythology. Dullahan – Irish fairy, the headless rider. Dwarf – (Germanic) Human-shaped being often dwelling in mountains and in the earth.
Brown irises contain more or less melanin. Some eyes have a dark ring around the iris, called a limbal ring. Eye color in non-human animals is regulated differently. For example, instead of blue as in humans, autosomal recessive eye color in the skink species Corucia zebrata is black, and the autosomal dominant color is yellow-green. [101]
Legend also said that a dragon-shaped mark would be found on the shoulder of the girl, revealing that she was the Imoogi in human form. A mountain dragon. In fact, the Chinese character for this word is also used for the imoogi. Taiwanese dragons Han Long: A dragon that holds the power to cause droughts in Taiwanese folklore. [34] Tibetan ...
While the spectrum of eye colors is as vast as the human experience itself, ... 8-10 percent of the world's population have blue eyes. ... There are also rare cases of violet and red-colored eyes.
Bai Ze – A creature from Chinese mythology with the head of a human and the body of a cow with six horns and nine eyes. Catoblepas - One version of the creature in Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony depicts it with the head of a wild boar and the body of a black African buffalo. Criosphinx – A Sphinx that has the head of a ram.
Hazel eyes tend to change colors due to Rayleigh scattering—the same factor that makes the sky appear blue. This optical effect occurs in the stroma, which is a thin layer of tissue in front of ...
Waardenburg syndrome is a group of rare genetic conditions characterised by at least some degree of congenital hearing loss and pigmentation deficiencies, which can include bright blue eyes (or one blue eye and one brown eye), a white forelock or patches of light skin.
The inheritance pattern followed by blue eyes was previously assumed to be a mendelian recessive trait, however, eye color inheritance is now recognized as a polygenic trait, meaning that it is controlled by the interactions of several genes. [57] Blue eyes are predominant in northern and eastern Europe, particularly around the Baltic Sea.