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Jinn is an Arabic collective noun deriving from the Semitic root JNN (Arabic: جَنّ / جُنّ, jann), whose primary meaning is 'to hide' or 'to adapt'. Some authors interpret the word to mean, literally, 'beings that are concealed from the senses'. [ 7 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 November 2024. This list of fictional birds is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. Ducks, penguins and birds of prey are not included here, and are listed separately at list of fictional ducks, list of fictional penguins, and list of fictional birds of prey. For non-fictional birds see List ...
An evil sorceress who looks outwardly like a beautiful, blue-skinned young woman, but actually has the head and forehooves of a cow, though her true form is always revealed by her shadow. She is based on the evil sorceress from the tale "The Ensorcelled Prince" from "The Fisherman and the Jinni". Blue Demon King (青の大魔王, Ao no dai maō)
Hudhud (English: Hoopoe, Arabic: الهدهد, Turkish: Ibibik, Persian: هدهد, Urdu: ہوپو / ہد ہد) was, according to the Quran, the messenger and envoy of the prophet Sulayman. It refers to the sagacious birds in Islam, also referred to in The Conference of the Birds, a Persian poem by Attar of Nishapur as the "king of birds". [1]
A wise owl and good friend of Paulus the woodgnome in the eponymous children's comic strips and stories. Ossie Owl Owl Acorn Green: A source of wisdom. Uil Owl Olle Kapoen [8] A good friend of Olle Kapoen the gnome. [8] Urban Owl Ugglan Urban: An owl in a pantomime comic by Jan Romare. [9] Wiz Merlin: Shoe (comic strip)
English observers were more willing to believe their accounts because they knew of the moa in New Zealand. In 1851 the French Academy of Sciences received three eggs. They and later fossils seemingly confirmed to 19th-century Europeans that Aepyornis was the roc, but the real bird does not resemble an eagle as the roc is said to.
Sylvester demands that Tweety show himself, which he does, thanks to the Hyde formula, now as a crazy, evilly laughing giant bird-monster that begins chasing Sylvester. For most of the rest of the cartoon, Tweety frequently switches between his usual, innocent self (which Sylvester chases) and the evil bird-monster (from which Sylvester runs away).
The simurgh (/ s ɪ ˈ m ɜːr ɡ /; Persian: سیمرغ, also spelled senmurv, simorgh, simorg, simurg, simoorg, simorq or simourv) is a benevolent bird in Persian mythology and literature. It bears some similarities with mythological birds from different origins, such as the phoenix (Persian: ققنوس quqnūs) and the humā (Persian: هما ...