Myths & magic (120 pages found in this category)


Towneley Hall

Grade I listed building in Burnley, Lancashire, housing the borough's art gallery and museum.

Undine

Undines (or ondines) are a category of imaginary elemental beings associated with water, first named in the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Similar creatures are found in classical literature, particularly Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Waff

Redirected to Fetch.

Walter Traill Dennison

Orcadian folklorist and antiquarian

Wandering Jew

Jewish cobbler named Cartophilus, condemned by Jesus to roam the world without rest until the end of time, for taunting him on his way to the Crucifixion.

Water bull

Also known as tarbh uisge in Scottish Gaelic, a mythological Scottish creature similar to the Manx tarroo ushtey.

Winnats Pass

Hill pass and limestone gorge in the Peak District of Derbyshire, England.

Wulver

Fairy being, part of the folklore of the Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland, a type of werewolf, half man, half wolf.

Yale (mythical creature)

Heraldic beast whose meaning is "proud defence". Although it has never been identified with a living or extinct creature, it may be based on descriptions of Indian water buffalos.

Zitiron

A mythological creature with an upper body in the form of an armed knight, fused with the tail of a fish.