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Lurchi is the advertising comic character of the German Salamander shoe factories. He is a fire salamander. His adventures are told (in German) in small booklets titled Lurchis Abenteuer (Lurchi's adventures). They are targeted mainly at primary schoolers, written in calligraphic handwriting in simple rhyming couplets.
Bai Ze – A creature from Chinese mythology with the head of a human and the body of a cow with six horns and nine eyes. Catoblepas - One version of the creature in Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony depicts it with the head of a wild boar and the body of a black African buffalo. Criosphinx – A Sphinx that has the head of a ram.
Scleral tattooing. Scleral tattooing is the practice of tattooing the sclera, or white part, of the human eye.Rather than being injected into the tissue, the dye is injected between two layers of the eye, then gradually spreads.
Culture consists of the social behaviour and norms in human societies transmitted through social learning. [1] Amphibians have for centuries appeared in culture . From the fire-dwelling salamander to the frogs (and occasionally toads ) of myth and fairytale and the rare use of a newt in literature, amphibians play the role of strange and ...
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...
A Minnesota tattoo artist and human remains aficionado was sentenced to 15 months in prison for adding the stolen corpse of a stillborn baby boy to his collection, among other smuggled body parts ...
The Artist’s Love Addiction. The entire premise of This Is Me …Now: A Love Story is that The Artist, like Lopez, loves being in love. For The Artist, this means risking it all for every man ...
A later alchemical text, the Book of Lambspring (Das Buch Lambspring, 1556), depicts a salamander as a white bird, being kept in fire by a man with a polearm. The text in German states the salamander while in fire exhibits an excellent color hue, while the Latin inscription connects this to the philosopher's stone (lapidis philosophorum). [96]