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La Llorona

La Llorona is a well known Mexican folk tale that originated in the 1800s to early 1900s. Although several variations exist, the most basic story tells of a beautiful woman by the name of Maria who drowns her children in the river out of rage bec ...

La Llorona (song)

La Llorona is a Mexican folk song. The song began in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Its origins are unknown, but composer Andres Henestrosa in about 1940 popularized the song and may have added to the existing verses. One popular interpretation of t ...

Legendary creature

A legendary, mythical and mythological creature, also called a fabulous creature and fabulous beast, is a supernatural animal, generally a hybrid, sometimes part human, whose existence has not or cannot be proved. Legendary creatures may be descr ...

List of Meitei folktales

Meitei folklore

Meitei folklore or "Meetei folklore" refers to the folklore of the Meitei people, the Manipuri language speaking ethnicity, consisting of the folktales and mythology, developed, retold and preserved through several generations.

Moirang Shayon

"Moirang Shayon" or "Moirang Saiyon" is a genre of the seven incarnations of a God and a Goddess, induced by the invocation of Lord Thangjing, in the ancient Moirang kingdom. The list of the seven pairs of incarnations are:

Oberon

Oberon is a king of the fairies in medieval and Renaissance literature. He is best known as a character in William Shakespeares play A Midsummer Nights Dream. In this play, he is married to Titania, the Queen of the Fairies. His servant is Puck. ...

Onomastics

Onomastics is the study of names. This can include personal names, place names, and the history of names. People study names to better understand the past, the social meaning of names, or how places are named.

Ox Mountain

Ox Mountain is a story by the Chinese philosopher Mencius. In his time this mountain was in very bad shape, and everybody knew how it looked. Here is the story: Mencius said, "The woods on Ox Mountain were once beautiful! On account of its being ...

Paasselka devil

Paasselka devils are stories about balls of light at lake Paasselka, Finland. Local people say that bright balls sometimes move above lake Paasselka or near the lake in the forest. This kinds of lights are said to appear around the world. They ar ...

Poltergeist

Poltergeist is a spirit or ghost that is able to move and influence objects. Poltergeists are said to be invisible. Poltergeists are said to bother only one person at a time. This person is called their "focus". Poltergeists will bother only thei ...

Puck (Shakespeare)

Puck is a character in a play called A Midsummer Nights Dream. This play was written by William Shakespeare. In this play, Puck is a servant to the Fairy King, Oberon. Puck has some amazing abilities. For example, he can travel around the world i ...

Shita-kiri Suzume

Shita-kiri Suzume is a Japanese folk legend. It is told by many parents to their children. The story is about being kind and helping someone who is hurt. It is also about being mean and greedy.

Stingy Jack

Stingy Jack is a character in Irish folklore. He was a poor, dirty man who was often drunk. He outsmarted the devil at least three times. He invited the devil to have a drink with him. Jack did not want to pay for the drink. He persuaded the devi ...

Titania (Shakespeare)

Titania is a character in Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream. She is Queen of the Fairies. She is married to Oberon, King of the Fairies. She will not give a little Indian boy she has in her keeping to Oberon. This angers him. When she is asle ...

Tooth fairy

The tooth fairy is a mythical figure found in modern folklore. Around the world, families have many different traditions to celebrate the loss of a childs tooth, especially a first tooth. Many of the traditions involve throwing a tooth on a roof, ...

Uchek Langmeidong

"Uchek Langmeidong", also known as "Chekla Langmeitong", is a folktale of the Meitei ethnicity of Ancient Moirang, a province in Ancient Manipur. It is based on the saga of a poor girl, ill treated by her step mother, later, turned herself into a ...

Urban legend

An urban legend is an often circulated story that is not necessarily based on truth, but merely conjecture and rumor. However, there may or may not be a grain of truth from which the story originated.

Vampire

Vampires are monsters in legends and stories. The first vampire stories were told in Eastern Europe, but much of how modern people see vampires was created by Bram Stoker in the famous novel, Dracula. Few people believe that vampires are real, bu ...

Wawel Dragon

The Wawel Dragon is a well known Polish folktale. The dragon lived in a cave under Wawel Hill, on the banks of the Vistula River. Wawel Hill is in the city of Krakow, in Poland. The Wawel Cathedral and Krakows castle are built on Wawel Hill. In t ...

Werewolf

The werewolves are real but can hide their ears and tail. It is a human but also wolf most people fear them because of how they look. There are characteristics that make werewolves special, and that allow a person to tell them apart from real wol ...

Will o the wisp

A will-o-the-wisp or ignis fatuus is a ghostly light. It is seen by travellers at night, especially over bogs, swamps or marshes.It is in the film BRAVE! Usually will o the wisp looks like a ball of light or a small flame. UFOs and some ghost lig ...

List of mythologies

Mythology is the collection of myths for a culture. A myth is a story or series of stories used to explain the world around you and describe what is happening, such as why weather happens. Myths usually have heroes, gods, and creatures that are b ...

Mythology

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths - their body of stories which they tell to explain nature, history, and customs. It can also refer to the study of such myths. A myth is a story ...

Aztec mythology

Aztec mythology is the mythology of the Aztec civilization in Mexico. It was the basis on which they made a working and advanced society. They took some ideas from the Toltec and Mayans to create their advanced culture. Their empire lasted from t ...

Banshee

In Celtic mythology, a Banshee is a female spirit, who usually announces that a person from the family will die soon. The word is from bean si, which literally means woman from the hills. An older spelling is bean sidhe. Bean sith, and bean-nighe ...

Book of Dede Korkut

The Book of Dede Korkut, also spelled as Dada Gorgud, Dede Qorqut or Qorqit ata, is the most famous epic stories of the Oghuz Turks. The stories have values important to the social lifestyle of the nomadic Turks and their pre-Islamic beliefs. The ...

Celtic mythology

Cherokee mythology

The Native American Cherokee people of the Appalachians have a complex set of spiritual beliefs. Their mythology involves a set of totemic creation spirits who are said to have formed the world. The Cherokee believe that signs, visions, dreams an ...

Chinese mythology

Chinese mythology is a set of stories, beliefs, and gods originating from Ancient China. Myths in China vary from culture to culture, the most common myths come from the Han culture. The current Chinese government recognizes fifty-six ethnic grou ...

Chinese Zodiac

The Chinese zodiac is a mathematical cycle of 12 animals. Each animal represents one year. People are associated with the zodiac animal for the year that they are born. The 12 animals in order are: Rat, Ox & Cow, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Hor ...

Chothe Thangwai Pakhangba

"Chothe Thangwai Pakhangba" is a primordial serpentine dragon deity in Meitei mythology and religion. His identity is also associated with an emperor of Ancient Moirang, a province in Ancient Manipur.

Christ myth theory

The Christ myth theory is the theory that Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of Christianity and of the Bibles Gospels, is only a myth. The Christ myth theory is a fringe theory, supported by few Biblical historians nor Biblical scholars. It d ...

Classical mythology

Classical or Greco-Roman mythology usually means the mythology, and the related polytheistic rituals and practices, of Classical Antiquity. Roman religion joined with Greek religion over time. This began in the eighth century BC when Greeks colon ...

Culture hero

A culture hero is a person, usually a mythical or legendary person, who is believed to be the first one to do something. In Greek mythology, for example, Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and made it possible for humans to use it for cookin ...

Deluge myth

A Deluge myth or Flood myth is a mythical story about a flood. Usually this flood is sent by a deity to destroy a civilisation as a punishment. The theme can be found in many cultures. Well-known examples that are believed to be myths include the ...

Demon

A demon or daemon is a supernatural bad, powerful or malevolent being in many world religions. The word demon has different meanings all over the world, but often there is the idea that they are spirits that lived in a place, or went with a perso ...

Dwarf (mythology)

A dwarf is a short, humanlike creature from Norse and Germanic mythologies. They have been used in many fairy tales, fantasy, fiction and role-playing games. In some stories, dwarves are mean, living under bridges, and having a bad reputation for ...

Eimear

Emer, in modern Irish Eimhear, or, Eimhear or Eimear, is the wife of the hero Cu Chulainn in Irish mythology. She is the daughter of Forgall Monach. Emer was a very common name for girls around the Midlands of Ireland. The name means that she has ...

El Dorado

Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. It is one of the earliest works of literary fiction known. The most complete version that exists today was preserved on twelve clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th centu ...

Erzulie

The Erzulie is a family of loa that are often associated with water, femininity and feminine bodies. Erzulie Freda, the Rada aspect of Erzulie, is the African spirit of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers. She wears three wedding ...

Fenghuang

Fenghuang (Chinese: 鳳凰; Pinyin: Fenghuang; is the name of two Chinese mythological birds, that were central figures in ancient Chinese cosmology. Sometimes called the Chinese Phoenix, the Fenghuang is a symbol of summer and spiritual balance, a ...

Five Suns

Five Suns is an Aztec myth about how the world was created. It says that there were four other suns before our own, because different gods served as the Sun at different times: Quetzalcoatl himself became the second sun but Tezcatlipoca turned al ...

Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring. People talked about it for thousands of years. They thought its water could make people young and healthy. Herodotus put it in the Horn of Africa. Later stories said it was in India. A Spanish explorer ...

Ghede Nibo

Ghede Nibo is a loa who is leader of the spirits of the dead in Voodoo. Formerly human, Ghede Nibo was a handsome young man who was killed violently. After death, he was adopted as a loa by Baron Samedi and Maman Brigitte.

Ghoul

A ghoul is a monster from ancient Arabian folklore. Ghouls live in burial grounds and other uninhabited places. The English word comes from the Arabic name for the creature: الغول ghūl, which literally means "demon". The ghul is a devilish type o ...

Hellhound

A hellhound is a supernatural dog, found in mythology, folklore and fiction. Like the dragon, many ominous or hellish supernatural dogs are found in mythology around the world. They often have to guard the entrances to the world of the dead, such ...

Helloi

"Helloi", also spelt as "Heloi", in the Meitei religion, is a female nature spirit, often shown as a beautiful maiden. A Heloi is the most powerful among the female spirits who cause disease. Women may get sick in their sexual organs and men beca ...

Henet

Henet or the Pelican is an Ancient Egyptian goddess. She has to do with pelicans. The Pyramid Texts talk about Henet. The Pelican Henet in Egyptian is shown on the walls of tombs of people from the Pharaohs court. Henet is in scenes of farm anima ...

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Hero

Hingchabi

Incarnations of Leimarel Sidabi

List of creatures in Meitei folklore

Loa

Manticore

Mermaid

Native American mythology

Real Time Streaming Protocol

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Simple Network Management Protocol

Electrostatic loudspeaker

High-Definition Multimedia Interface

Hydrophone

Line level

Magnetostatic loudspeaker

Public address system

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