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Death on the Pale Horse, Benjamin West, 1817. According to Edward Bishop Elliott's interpretation of the Four Horsemen as symbolic prophecy of the history of the Roman Empire, the second seal is opened and the Roman nation that experienced joy, prosperity, and triumph is made subject to the red horse which depicts war and bloodshed—civil war.
little old man hundreds of years old, owner of a "story-telling machine" (actually a fat man living in a cupboard) that tells old-fashion tales, he doesn't tolerate his narrator's scientific approach to fairy tales: Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine novel (in the frame-story)/ The Red Flannel Night-cap [111] (as a young boy)
A rag-and-bone man with his horse and cart on the streets of Streatham, southwest London in 1985 A rag-and-bone man in Croydon, London, May 2011 A 1954 report in The Manchester Guardian mentioned that some men could make as much as £25 (roughly equivalent to £865 now) per day collecting rags.
Noncetá gave birth to a son in Susa, but the young boy turned into a rock. The sad couple traveled further, to the Tequendama Falls. Here, they changed into two rocks at either side of the sacred waterfall. [19] Standing Indian Mountain in North Carolina, known in the Cherokee as Yunwitsule-nunyi, which translates to "where the man stood."
Horse Brother convinces them to become their wives. The tale continues as a creature called Nine-heads Master slowly drains their blood during some time and is defeated by Horse Brother. [9] In a tale from the Monguor people, collected from a Li Songduo in Huzhu, Black Horse Zhang, an old couple own a black mare that gives birth to a pack of ...
Tasunka Kokipapi (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Kȟokípȟapi, 1836 – July 13, 1893), was an Oglala Lakota leader known for his participation in Red Cloud's War, as a negotiator for the Sioux Nation after the Wounded Knee Massacre, and for serving on delegations to Washington, D.C..
Now Miya Hayes, a self-assured 6-year-old in Tennessee, is introducing a character she made up and named Jessica. While a Karen demands to speak with a manager, Jessica is that child who makes ...
The nuckelavee (/ n ʌ k l ɑː ˈ v iː /) or nuckalavee is a horse-like demon from Orcadian folklore that combines equine and human elements. British folklorist Katharine Briggs called it "the nastiest" [1] of all the demons of Scotland's Northern Isles. The nuckelavee's breath was thought to wilt crops and sicken livestock, and the creature ...