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An adder stone is a type of stone, ... ("chicken gods"). [2] ... magic stones with the properties of adder stones appear frequently in Welsh mythology and folklore.
A cockatrice overdoor at Belvedere Castle (1869) in New York's Central Park.. A cockatrice is a mythical beast, essentially a two-legged dragon, wyvern, or serpent-like creature with a rooster's head.
Adder stone, believed to have magical powers such as protection against eye diseases or evil charms, preventing nightmares, curing whooping cough, the ability to see through fairy or witch disguises and traps if looked at through the middle of the stone, and recovery from snakebite.
Adder stone; Alatyr (mythology) B. Benben; Bident; C. Charter Stones; ... List of gods in the Investiture of the Gods; List of sacred objects in Japanese mythology ...
The beithir is described as "the largest and most deadly kind of serpent", [7] or as a dragon (but without certain typical European folklore draconic features such as wings or fiery breath). [8]
A snake-stone, also known as a viper's stone, snake's pearl, black stone, serpent-stone, [1] or nagamani is an animal bone or stone [2] used as folk medicine for snake bite in Africa, South America, India and Asia. [3] [4] The early Celtic-era European adder stone is also called a snake stone, and is usually made from coloured glass, often with ...
DR284 from the Hunnestad Monument, which has been interpreted as depicting the gýgr Hyrrokkin riding on a wolf with a snake as reins. [1]A jötunn (also jotun; plural jötnar; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn / ˈ j ɔː t ʊ n /; [2] or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos (/ ˈ s ɪ s ɪ f ə s /; Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος Sísyphos) was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath.