The Eurostar seemed to go on forever, like a giant snake or other serpentine creature made of shiny, cold metal.
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It's true that "malum," in Jerome's day, could mean any number of fruits: the serpentine creature on Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, for instance, is coiled around a fig tree.
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Like many other lakes, Shuswap Lake has a local lake monster legend attached to it. A 25-foot-long serpentine creature, known as the Shuswap Lake Monster, "Shugumu", or "Shuswaggi", is reported to live in the lake.
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It was later identified as a manatee from Florida.Oconowicz, p. 75 Manatees are occasionally sighted in the area. Unlike the reports of a serpentine creature, manatees create a "smooth 'footprint'... as they move" rather than undulating from side to side.
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Almost instantaneously he started convulsing and Suliao pulled apart his bosom, seeing what the man had done. He admonished the priest and removed a hideous serpentine creature from the robe. There he exorcised it and then compelled another man to throw it from the roof of a building in Garot.
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Image of Dracocopede by Vincent of Beauvais in his Speculum Naturale The medieval Latin term draconcopedes is a beast mentioned in some medieval zoologies. Vincent of Beauvais (c.1190–1264) describes this beast as a vast serpentine creature with the head, face and breasts of a woman. In the Speculum naturale:Speculum naturale, XX.33 (Vol.
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Scholarship states that many Eurasian mythologies share a motif of a tree whose branches reach the skies and whose roots connect the human or earthly world with an underworld or subterranean realm. A bird perches atop its foliage, and a snake or serpentine creature crawls between its roots.Annus, Amar & Sarv, Mari. "The Ball Game Motif in the Gilgamesh Tradition and International Folklore".
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The statue was of the emperor who banished her father, and she immediately decided to destroy it. However, thinking better of it, she tied it to herself and began to swim back with it. Before she could leave the cave, a serpentine creature (not Okuninushi, but some unnamed monstrosity) confronted her. Devoid of fear, Tokoyo first stabbed it in the eye, blinding it, then relentlessly attacked until she succeeded in killing it.
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The serpentine creature is said to live in Lagarfljót,"Er þetta Lagarfljótsormurinn?", RÚV February 2, 2012 , with video a freshwater, below-sea-level, glacial-fed lake which has very poor visibility as a result of siltation. The creature is described as longer than a bus, or , and has also been reported outside the water, lying coiled up or slithering into the trees.Worm Monster , Season 2, Destination Truth, Sci-Fi Channel, archived at the Wayback Machine February 7, 2009.
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In the Harry Potter universe, a Basilisk is a monstrous serpentine creature. Larger than its counterpart from the real-life legend, this Basilisk is capable of reaching a length up to fifty feet and living up to hundreds of years. Basilisks are uncontrollable except by Parselmouths, and the first basilisk is believed to have been created by a Greek Dark wizard and Parselmouth named Herpo The Foul. Herpo made this discovery by hatching a chicken egg under a toad.
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When he grows up and sets off to find a bride, the lindworm insists that a bride be found for him before his younger brother can marry. The tale of Prince Lindworm is part of a multiverse of tales in which a maiden is bethroted or wooed by a prince enchanted to be a snake or other serpentine creature (ATU 433B, "The Prince as Serpent"; "King Lindworm").Jan M. Ziolkowski. 2010. “Straparola and the Fairy Tale: Between Literary and Oral Traditions.” Journal of American Folklore 123 (490). p. 383. doi:10.1353/jaf.
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The main goal of the drangue is to fight the demon kulshedra, a huge multi-headed fire- spitting dragon. He uses meteoric stones, lightning-swords, thunderbolts, piles of trees and rocks to defeat the kulshedra and to protect mankind from storms, fire, floods and other natural disasters caused by her destructive power. Heavy thunderstorms are thought to be the result of the battle.Elsie 2001, pp. 74–75, 153–55 In Romanian folklore, there were no defenders against bad weather, which was produced by a gigantic flying serpentine creature called a balaur or a zmeu.
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The logo of Final Fantasy XV: designed by alt=A one-winged woman in flowing robes rests with her head on her arms. Behind her is a crystal sphere surrounded by a sun-like adornment, with a serpentine creature woven into it. She rests near the logo of Final Fantasy XV. The piece is done in a pastel watercolor style that fades from silver to blue to black. Final Fantasy XV was originally a spin-off title named Final Fantasy Versus XIII, created by Square Enix as part of the wider Final Fantasy franchise.
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The are powerful Inves with armored bodies that slashing weapons are normally ineffective against, yet weapons designed to inflict damage on the armor like the Pine Iron and Mango Punisher are effective. Mai and Kaito first encounter an Azure Dragon Inves while trying to find a way out of the Helheim Forest, the monster ultimately gets destroyed by Gaim Pine Arms and Baron Mango Arms. Another Azure Dragon Inves later appears in the real world and eats an immature fruit, taking on a super-evolved form resembling a larger serpentine creature, and is ultimately defeated by Zangetsu Shin using the Sonic Arrow.
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Giratina is one of the legendary Pokémon trio of Sinnoh, alongside Dialga and Palkia. Giratina has a long, platinum-colored, segmented body with six legs, and has ghostly wings with red spikes. Six rib- like yellow rings encircle its neck, and the pale yellow ornament on its head resembles a human collarbone. When it is in its own realm, the Distortion World, or holding a Griseous Orb, it takes on its , which differs from the "Altered Forme" ( in Japanese) it takes in the real world. This form is a more serpentine creature with a beak-like mouth, long spiked “streamers” instead of wings, and spikes in place of legs.
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Set spearing the serpent Apep as he attacks the sun boat of Ra In Egyptian mythology, Apep is a giant serpentine creature who resides in the Duat, the Egyptian Underworld. The Bremner-Rhind papyrus, written in around 310 BC, preserves an account of a much older Egyptian tradition that the setting of the sun is caused by Ra descending to the Duat to battle Apep. In some accounts, Apep is as long as the height of eight men with a head made of flint. Thunderstorms and earthquakes were thought to be caused by Apep's roar and solar eclipses were thought to be the result of Apep attacking Ra during the daytime.
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Further on, still on the left, was a carved figure of the Emu, apparently crouching, its head pointed towards the large bora. To its right, a further three yards on, was Goomee, Baiame's fire, a foot high mound with a lit fire on top. A further 18 yards on, parallel to the track and on Goomee's side, a codfish was depicted, and after it the Currea, a serpentine creature, and, 15 yards on the other side of the path, two death adders, followed then by a turkey's nest, an earth-stuffed porcupine's skin, and a kangaroo rat's nest. At last, there was a carving of a full tribal man on one side of the track, and an aboriginal woman on the other.
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