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The Imaginary Friend book The Hole In The Sum Of My Parts by Matt Harvey [3] Jimmy Jimmereeno Ramona Wengler's imaginary friend in the short story Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut by J. D. Salinger: Los Chimichangos colorful chihuahuas who are imagined by Skippyjon Jones in the book series of the same name by Judith Byron Schachner; named after ...
British weird fiction author China Miéville credits Borges for inspiring The Tain, his 2002 fantasy novella, which features "imagos" that resemble the Fauna of Mirrors entry in The Book of Imaginary Beings. The title of Caspar Henderson's 2012 book The Book of Barely Imagined Beings is a reference to Borges's book. [12]
A winged monster believed to have a body like that of a crocodile or snake and spit fire called Ninki Nanka appears in West African folklore. [8] In Mapuche religion, the Ten Ten-Vilu is a giant snake god of the earth, fire, and volcanoes. [9] In Native American mythology, sea serpent american conjoined twin fire breathing monsters Sisiutl,
Bahamut – Whale monster whose body supports the earth. Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail
An Allegory of Immortality, c. 1540. Monster derives from the Latin monstrum, itself derived ultimately from the verb moneo ("to remind, warn, instruct, or foretell"), and denotes anything "strange or singular, contrary to the usual course of nature, by which the gods give notice of evil," "a strange, unnatural, hideous person, animal, or thing," or any "monstrous or unusual thing ...
He later received his own book in the series. Earthworm, in Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach book. The Middengard Wyrm (A Court of Thorns and Roses) is a gigantic, blind worm monster that navigates by scent, and is described as being pinkish-brown and having an enormous mouth filled with rows of sharp teeth. It is killed by the main ...
Kala is a ferocious monster symbolic of time in its all-devouring aspect and associated with the destructive side of the god Shiva. Kirtimukha is the name of a swallowing fierce monster face with huge fangs, and gaping mouth, quite common in the iconography of Indian and Southeast Asian temple architecture.
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the TV spin-off from The Railway Series. As such, it shares many characters with the original books but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of lists: List of Thomas & Friends characters; List of Thomas & Friends film characters