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• Mo-o
  ...ed out of the earth as if by geyser action. It was greatly sought in later years by the chiefs who worshipped this goddess. They made the place tabu, and us ...e pali (precipice) at the end of Nuuanu Valley, above Honolulu. After many years it was supposed that they both assumed the permanent forms of large stones
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• Cadbury Castle
  ...to this cave is guarded by a giant Iron Gate, which opens once every seven years on Midsummer's day to let Arthur and his warriors ride the night.
  3 KB (598 words) - 17:17, 27 December 2012
• Tatzelwurm
  ...of 2009, “was regarded as an isolated incident”, and had been made “a few years ago”. A young student of agricultural sciences spotted the animal, but at ...fish first crawled onto land in the late Devonian era (408 to 360 million years ago) to give rise to the amphibians.
  11 KB (1,847 words) - 16:08, 28 November 2012
• Azhi Dahaka
  Dahag is said to have ruled for a thousand years, starting from 100 years after Jam lost his royal glory (see Jamshid). He is described as a sorcerer ...akes on his shoulders who feasted on human brains. As foretold in a vision years earlier, the tyrant king Zahak was eventually overthrown by the hero Faridu
  17 KB (2,882 words) - 03:53, 19 November 2012
• Basilisk
  ...rs old, intended to hide in an old cellar, which had been abandoned for 30 years. When they reached the lowest step they suddenly fell dead on the floor. Th
  10 KB (1,772 words) - 22:54, 22 December 2012
• Zilant
  ...se dragon. According to Idel-Ural beliefs, any snake that survives for 100 years turns into Ajdaha dragon. For Kazan Russians, Zilant had negative connotati
  5 KB (883 words) - 11:34, 29 November 2012
• Peluda
  ...blical flood by seeking refuge in a cave near the Huisne River. After many years, it returned to rampage across the countryside, wilting crops with its brea
  5 KB (813 words) - 17:19, 28 November 2012
• Sirrush
  ...e those of mythological creatures changed, sometimes drastically, over the years. He also noted that the sirrush is shown on the Ishtar Gate alongside real
  5 KB (826 words) - 18:48, 28 November 2012
• Sockburn
  ...ound 1260. Though the sword is very, very old, the Conyers Falchion is 200 years too young to have been used by Sir John Conyers.
  6 KB (963 words) - 23:52, 26 December 2012
• Orochi
  ...eys and eight hills, and its belly was always flecked with blood. In seven years this beast had devoured seven maidens, the daughters of a king, and in the
  6 KB (1,063 words) - 17:03, 28 November 2012
• Knucker
  They do say, that a dunnamany years ago there was a gert dragon lived in that big pond there, Knucker his name
  7 KB (1,379 words) - 03:52, 20 November 2012
• Fafnir
  ...nto a [[western dragon|dragon]] and guards the treasure in a cave for many years before being ultimately killed by Wotan's mortal grandson [[Sigurd|Siegfrie
  11 KB (1,880 words) - 08:53, 22 November 2012
• Zeus
  ...Games were held in his honour. The Nemean Games, which were held every two years, were to honour Zeus. There were numerous festivals throughout Greece: in A
  13 KB (2,297 words) - 02:25, 22 December 2012
• Harpy
  ...only has the Fury quenched my sight, so that I drag myself through my last years in misery, but over and above all this I am the victim of another curse, wh
  12 KB (2,084 words) - 01:48, 18 December 2012
• Lernaean Hydra
  ...them with its numerous heads. It totally terrorized the vicinity for many years.
  14 KB (2,388 words) - 15:11, 28 November 2012

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