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Variety wrote that the creative team behind Beyond Beyond "invent an elaborate mythology around an impressive figure called the Feather King, who guards the realm where Johan, the rabbit boy, must venture, though the trip proves too dark and complicated for family crowds, limiting export prospects."
In 1985, on the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, Harry Blackstone Jr. donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. the original floating light bulb – Thomas Edison designed and built it – and the original Casadega Cabinet, used in the "Dancing Handkerchief" illusion. This was the first ever donation accepted by the ...
According to a longstanding legend, the Black Prince obtained the badge from the blind King John of Bohemia, against whom he fought at the Battle of Crécy in 1346. After the battle, the prince is said to have gone to the body of the dead king, and taken his helmet with its ostrich feather crest, afterwards incorporating the feathers into his arms, and adopting King John's motto, "Ich dien ...
Fjaðrhamr (Feather-skin), the goddess Freyja owns a cloak of falcon feathers. She assists other deities by allowing them to use her feathered cloak. (Norse mythology) Swan Cloak, a magic robe made of swan feathers belonging to a swan maiden. Tarnkappe, Sigurd's magical cloak that made the wearer invisible. (Norse mythology)
Līloa's Kāʻei (Liloa's Sash) or Kāʻei Kapu o Liloa (the sacred sash of Līloa) is the sacred feathered sash of Līloa, king of the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. The Statue of Kamehameha the Great, commissioned by King Kalākaua, displayed the kāʻei. [1] It is in the collection of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.
Simpleton discovers the feather has landed in a lake or pond where a toad lives that speaks in rhyme. The king asks for marvellous gifts - impossibly difficult to find, or make - for his sons to show him: a carpet, made by the finest craftsmanship and a ring of extraordinary splendour as a second gift.
Correl was the second king of Cintra, and the firstborn son of King Cerbin and Queen Becca who is the only one known by name among an untold number of his siblings. Coram I, the third known king of Cintra who had decided to forge an alliance with Temeria and thus married his son Coram II with Princess Fiona, the daughter of King Goidemar of ...
Perched adults look mostly greyish brown on the upper part of the body. The lower back, secondary flight feathers, and tail are metallic blue; this colour is much more visible when the bird flies than when it is perched, [10] [11] as is a white patch at the base of the primary flight feathers. [11]