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Sourced using AILate Warring States or early Han compilation, c. 4th–2nd century BCE · China
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Ljubljana and Slovenia
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly and medieval Arabic folklore and demonological literature · Wilderness, ruins and marginal landscapes in Arabic narrative
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Gwangju, South Korea
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s · Santiago metropolitan area
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Kolkata, West Bengal
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Comparative Melanesia; based especially on New Guinea and Melanesian cases
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Oulu, Northern Ostrobothnia
Read record →Sourced using AI2013–2015, exact date to verify · Punta del Este, Maldonado Department
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Winnipeg, Manitoba
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Mexico, route unspecified
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1993 · Gulf Breeze, Florida, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Ufa and Bashkiria airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1892 · Huy, Wallonia
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Mexico City, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · South Pacific, between Samoa and Tokelau
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Istanbul
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Andersen Air Force Base, Guam
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1960 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Read record →Sourced using AI1949 · Various locations in Portugal
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth century · Cape Colony and Natal
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Manila Bay and Batangas, Philippines
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Mexico City, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s reports · Chillingham, Northumberland, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Recife, Pernambuco
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Eupen, Liège Province
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · San Diego County, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1994 · Christchurch, South Island
Read record →Sourced using AIQur’anic text, 7th century CE · Arabia and broader Near Eastern religious tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Britain and western Europe
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Atlantic Ocean, during USS Wasp operations
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s, exact year uncertain · Northern Korea, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Flagstaff, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI77 CE · Cyrenaica, North Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Accra and Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 local and heritage accounts · Bissau
Read record →Sourced using AIPalace in use and described in colonial-era Zanzibar, 1900–1946 · Stone Town, Zanzibar
Read record →Sourced using AIProbably 7th century CE, drawing on earlier infancy traditions · Latin Christian manuscript culture
Read record →Sourced using AI1945 · Okinawa approaches and nearby Pacific waters
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · El Paso, Texas
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2009 restoration and investigations · Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1996 · Maastricht region, Netherlands
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 local and literary tradition · Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States
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