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The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass, also referred to as the snail telegraph, was a device built to test the hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they mate. The device was developed by French occultist Jacques-Toussaint Benoît (de l'Hérault), with the supposed assistance of an American colleague, Monsieur Biat ...
Murex was used in antiquity to describe spiny sea snails, especially those associated with the production of purple dye. Murex is one of the oldest classical seashell names still used by the scientific community. Aristotle described these mollusks in his History of Animals using the Greek term πορφύρα (porphyra). [2]
Wirry-cow – Malevolent spirit; Witch (Worldwide) – Person who practices magic; Witte Wieven – Female, ancestral spirit; Wolpertinger – Forest animal comprised from various animal parts (similar to a Chimera) Wondjina (Australia Aboriginal) – Weather spirit; Wraith – Water spirit or ghostly apparition
Related: What Is the Spiritual Meaning of Seeing a Bald Eagle? 4 Spiritual Meanings of Spiders 1. Destiny. Again, spiders are seen as "weavers of fate." 2. Destruction.
Shedu (Akkadian and Sumerian) – Protective spirit who takes the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion Shellycoat ( English , Scottish and German , as schellenrocc ) – Water spirit Shen ( Chinese ) – Shapeshifing sea monster
Anomphalus jaggerius is an extinct species of Permian sea snail. Fossils have been found in Artinskian era limestone from the Bird Spring Formation in the southern Arrow Canyon Range of the US State of Nevada. The species, which had a shell 6.37 millimetres (0.251 in) wide, was a subtidal epifaunal grazer. [1]
Vouivre. Liber Floridus, 1448. A guivre is a mythical creature similar to a dragon or a lindworm.In legend they were portrayed as serpentine creatures who possessed venomous breath and prowled the countryside of Medieval France. [1]
Pla-ween-noo - turtle spirit, mother of Gluskab, patron spirit of the Sokwakis; Agaskw (also Nokemis) - ("woodchuck", also known as Nokemis, "my grandmother") is a very wise woodchuck-spirit of the Abenaki. She is the grandmother of Gluskab. Moos-bas - mink spirit, adopted son on Gluskab, powerful fletcher, sometimes fulfills wishes