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They might also possess living animals or people and walk around in their bodies. [5] [6] [7] Skin-walkers may be male or female. [2] Skin-walker stories told among Navajo children may be complete life and death struggles that end in either skin-walker or Navajo killing the other, or partial encounter stories that end in a stalemate. [2]
The fantasy genre developed from mythological, fairy tale, and Romance motifs [28] sometimes have anthropomorphic animals as characters. The best-selling examples of the genre are The Hobbit [29] (1937) and The Lord of the Rings [g] (1954–1955), both by J. R. R. Tolkien, books peopled with talking creatures such as ravens, spiders, and the ...
The best-known early-modern proponent of ideas of extraterrestrial life was the Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who argued in the 16th century for an infinite universe in which every star is surrounded by its own planetary system.
Skin-walker – (Navajo) Type of witch with ability to disguise themselves as an animal or turn into one. Squawkowtemus – (Abenaki) Female spirit that resides in swamps. Its cries lure people close. If it touches them, they die. Stick Indians – (Pacific Northwest) monsters who materialize from out of the roots of trees and bushes and attack ...
This research builds upon a number of other studies that have noted similarities between human and primate behaviors, including facial expressions, facial recognition, and social structures.
1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming. Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and ...
Videos circulating on Chinese social media show the two “panda dogs” in an exhibit at Taizhou Zoo in the eastern province of Jiangsu that opened on May 1. Though the animals are patterned to ...
Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise Through Color and Pattern; Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer's Discoveries is a book published ostensibly by Gerald H. Thayer in 1909, and revised in 1918, but in fact a collaboration with and completion of his father Abbott Handerson Thayer's major work.