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Sourced using AI1879–1889 · Lake Chad, Wadai, Darfur, and eastern-central African routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · New England
Read record →Sourced using AINovember–December 1986 · Alaska, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2000–2004, including reports during 2002–2004 · San Clemente and the Andes foothills, Maule Region
Read record →Sourced using AIapproximately 2nd century BCE–5th century CE · Egypt, especially the Theban and Oxyrhynchus regions
Read record →Sourced using AI2016–2020 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval to modern; many surviving examples later · Ethiopia and Eritrea
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 commemoration and institutional memory; visions reported in the 1930s · Nigeria, especially Efon-Alaaye and Ibadan
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Sri Lanka; exact locality requires verification
Read record →Sourced using AI1976 · Yukon, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1895 English facsimile and translation; New Kingdom manuscript · Thebes; manuscript published from the British Museum
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Pacific Northwest
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Tunis
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Medellín, Antioquia
Read record →Sourced using AI1957–1961 · Buffalo, New York
Read record →Sourced using AIAncient Greek and Roman reports; local tradition difficult to reconstruct · Phrygia, central Anatolia
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1555 · Norwegian and North Atlantic waters
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Bern
Read record →Sourced using AIMahabharata episode; later Sanskrit poem by Bharavi, probably 6th century CE · Himalayan forest and mountain setting
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 onward · Moca and other areas of Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · New York City airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Bloemfontein, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval-to-early modern vernacular transmission; dates vary by language and recension · North India and later Hindi literary culture
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · South Asia; locality uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1860 · Zanzibar, Lake Tanganyika and East Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Puerto Rico, New York, and diaspora
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s · Okanagan Lake
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Tepoztlán, Morelos
Read record →Sourced using AI1949; influential throughout 1950s–1960s · Global comparative mythology; published in United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Andean Peru
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Orlando, Florida
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1951 · Melbourne and Victoria
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Iceland and North Atlantic sea lanes
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 440 BCE · Nile valley, Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Culver City, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Bombay–Delhi air corridor, India
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional; recorded in modern ethnographic and popular sources · Makira Island, Solomon Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · King George Island, South Shetland Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Poland
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Ankara area
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2018–2021 · Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s · Barents Sea and northern Soviet naval bases
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Bergen, Vestland
Read record →Sourced using AI132 CE; account compiled later · Luoyang, Eastern Han China
Read record →Sourced using AI1972–1976 · Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary 2008 · Dublin, Erath County, Texas
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