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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.
Kurangaituku is a supernatural being in Māori mythology who is part-woman and part-bird. [21] Lamassu from Mesopotamian mythology, a winged tutelary deity with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings. Lei Gong, a Chinese thunder god often depicted as a bird man. [22] The second people of the world in Southern Sierra Miwok ...
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]
Family: Hynobiidae (Asiatic salamanders) Siberian salamander, Salamandrella keyserlingii LC ; Family: Plethodontidae (lungless salamanders) Cave salamander, Speleomantes strinatii NT ; Brown cave salamander, Hydromantes genei VU (France and Italy) Italian cave salamander, Speleomantes italicus NT
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Amber Heard recently gave what's believed to be her first interview since moving to Europe, and she did so speaking flawlessly in Spanish.In video recorded last month by Univision's popular talk ...
An account of the alicanto was published by folklorist Julio Vicuña Cifuentes [] in 1914/1915. [1] A similar description can be found paraphrased in the English-translated version of Book of Imaginary Beings (1969) by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, under the chapter of "Fauna of Chile", [2] which was one of four chapters not found in the original Spanish version by Borges but expanded in ...
The migratory birds were also considered a delicacy, and the bird, known as the Waldrapp in German, disappeared from Europe, though a few colonies elsewhere survived.