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Many spectral dogs, supposed by some to be the souls of evil-doers, are alleged to haunt the sides of pools and rivers, particularly in Devon
Read record →Harper, in his book of Haunted Houses (Chapman and Hall, 1907), gives a very interesting account of the alleged haunting of Ballechin House, Perthshire, by the phantasms of a number of dogs that had been shot on the death--and at the express desire--of a Major
Read record →The following is one of the many stories I have heard that would serve as an example of this kind of haunting
Read record →I do not think, then, that Phantasms of the Living are in any way attributable to telepathy, but that, like all other phantasms, they are purely superphysical
Read record →If spirits can manifest themselves in haunted houses without the assistance of a medium, or the necessity of sitting round tables with joined hands, or facing "curtained off" recesses or mysterious cabinets--why cannot they thus simply manifest themselves at a
Read record →pursued in the treatment of myths by mythologists, so far only, in fact, as may be necessary to trace out the homes and origin of those stories which in their later dress are incredible; deviating from it to dwell upon the possibility of their having preserved
Read record →For me the major part of these creatures are not chimeras but objects of rational study
Read record →We admire the ingenious imagination of Swift, and essayists dwell upon his happy conceits and upon the ability with which, in his celebrated work, he has ordered all things to harmonise in dimensions with the enlarged and reduced scales on which he has conceiv
Read record →The lilliputian forests from which the royal navy was constructed contained even large trees in comparison with the dwarf oaks of Mexico,[27] or with the allied, even smaller species, which crawls like heather about the hill-slopes of China and Japan, and stil
Read record →And the god [Êa,] the immutable lord,--repeated this command in a dream.--I listened to the decree of fate that he announced, and he said to me:--"Man of Shurippak, son of Ubaratutu--thou, build a vessel and finish it [quickly].--By a [deluge] I will destroy s
Read record →The dragon of Yao and Shun's time, and of Yu's time was, in my opinion, an aquatic creature, an alligator; but the dragon of their ancestors was a land lizard, which may even have existed down to the time of the great cataclysm which we call the Deluge, and th
Read record →The text also goes on to state that "they (the ancients) regarded it as the enemy of mankind, and its overthrow is made to figure among the greatest exploits of the gods and heroes of heathen mythology
Read record →rom the present day far into the remote past; on which the belief in its existence has been so strongly impressed, that it retains its emblem in its insignia of office, in its ornamentation of furniture, utensils, and dwellings, and commemorates it annually in
Read record →At the outset it will be necessary to assign a much more extended signification to the word dragon than that which is contained in the definition at the head of this chapter
Read record →Thus the dragon referred to by Propertius in the quotation annexed may have been a large python
Read record →To the same class may probably be ascribed the dragon referred to by Aristotle.[146] "The eagle and the dragon are enemies, for the eagle feeds on serpents"; and again,[147] "the Glanis in shallow water is often destroyed by the dragon serpent." It might perha
Read record →It is also probable that some large serpent is intended by Pliny in the story which he relates,[152] after Democritus, that a man called Thoas was preserved in Arcadia by a dragon
Read record →"There is another story, too, told in relation to these combats
Read record →It is doubtful whether the dragons described by Benjamin of Tudela, who travelled through Europe and the East and returned to Castille in 1173,[164] as infesting the ruins of the palace of Nebuchodonosor at Babylon, so as to render them inaccessible, were crea
Read record →"A life of savage hostility in the forest offers the imagination one of the most tremendous pictures in nature
Read record →his description of the shield of Hercules, speaks of "The scaly horror of a dragon coiled full in the central field, unspeakable, with eyes oblique, retorted, that askant shot gleaming fire." So Hesiod[198] (750 to 700 B.C., Grote), describing the same object,
Read record →He also surrounded the temple with a wall, and placed there a strong guard of Taurian soldiery; which gave rise to a prodigious fiction among the Greeks, for it was reported by them that bulls, breathing fire from their nostrils, kept watch over the shrine, an
Read record →Ignatius states that there was in the library of Constantinople the intestine of a dragon one hundred and twenty feet long, on which were written the Iliad and Odyssey in letters of gold
Read record →Descending to later periods, we learn from Marcellinus[205] that in his day dragon standards were among the chief insignia of the Roman army; for, speaking of the triumphal entry of Constantine into Rome after his triumph over Magnentius, he mentions that numb
Read record →dal castles, round which the walls wound, and that an adventurer had to scale the walls to gain access to the ladies; when there were two walls, the authors of romance said that the assaulter overcame two dragons, and so on
Read record →He criticises Ammianus Marcellinus for his disbelief in winged dragons, and states in further justification of his censure that he had heard, from men worthy of confidence, that in that portion of Pistorian territory called Cotone, a great dragon was seen whos
Read record →Cardan[218] states that whilst he resided in Paris he saw five winged dragons in the William Museum; these were biped, and possessed of wings so slender that it was hardly possible that they could fly with them
Read record →It is amusing to find the story of Sindbad's escape from the Valley of Diamonds reappearing in Europe during the Middle Ages, with a substitution of the dragon for the roc
Read record →Another story is an account also given by A
Read record →Harris, in his Collection of Voyages,[221] gives a singular resumé
Read record →The Yih King is one of those books specially excepted from the general destruction of the books
Read record →ferences to an antiquity which had preceded it--a bygone civilization, perhaps--as follows, in the book called Yih and Ts‘ih.[235] The emperor (Shun, B.C
Read record →Similarly, we find the twelve symbolical animals, representing the twelve branches of the Horary characters (dating, see Williams' Dictionary, from B.C
Read record →o doubt that many would be deterred from doing so by an impression that a collection of fabulous stories, treating of supernatural beings and apparently impossible monsters, is unworthy the consideration of mature intellect, and only fit to be relegated to the
Read record →I notice that Retzoch, in his designs to illustrate Schiller's poem, "The Fight with the Dragon," makes the monster have only two fore-legs, and this appears to have been a common mediæval conception of it
Read record →The better printed copies of this work are illustrated with a very truculent-looking dragon with outspread wings
Read record →"According to the dictionary of Hü Shăn, the character lung in the antique form of writing represents the shape of the animal
Read record →"The dragon comes from an egg, it being desirable to keep it folded up
Read record →For seeking dead dragons' graves there is no fixed time
Read record →There is but little additional information as to the dragon to be gained from Japan, the traditions relating to it in that country having been obviously derived from China
Read record →In the summertime many boys go to the pond to swim, but never go out into the middle or far from the shore
Read record →"In the Ang-shan mountains, a hundred li from the town of Kuei-hai, there are three wells, of which one is on the mountain top, in a spot seldom visited
Read record →"In the Northern Sea there was a fish, whose name was kw‘ên
Read record →The numerous quotations given in the above pages, or in the Appendix, are merely a selection, and by no means profess to be so extensive as they should be were this work a monograph on the dragon alone
Read record →nally, the narratives of different observers disagree so much in detail that we have a difficulty in reconciling them, except upon the supposition that they relate to several distinct creatures, a supposition which I shall hope to show is not improbable, as we
Read record →"On the island of Lekö I obtained from the son of Peter Greger, the merchant, a young man who employed himself in the fishery, still further information respecting the sea-serpent
Read record →"At Alstahoug I found the Bishop of the Nordlands
Read record →"During the time that I remained at Hundholm, a curious circumstance occurred
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