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# Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
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[ When Help Collides, by J. D. Berry ]
aclys
aklys
+thonged club
A short studded or spiked club attached to a cord allowing
it to be drawn back to the wielder after having been thrown.
It should not be confused with the atlatl, which is a device
top will have grooves for blood, and the whole will be covered
with _dry brown stains of a troubling kind_ from former
Sacrifices.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late;
the apes have the forelimbs much better developed than
the hind limbs. Tail entirely absent. Growth is slow
and sexual maturity reached at quite an advanced age.
- [ A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa by Dorst ]
+ [ A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa by Dorst ]
Aldo the gorilla had a plan. It was a good plan. It was
right. He knew it. He smacked his lips in anticipation as
he thought of it. Yes. Apes should be strong. Apes should
be masters. Apes should be proud. Apes should make the
Earth shake when they walked. Apes should _rule_ the Earth.
- [ Battle for the Planet of the Apes,
- by David Gerrold ]
+ [ Battle for the Planet of the Apes, by David Gerrold ]
apple
NEWTONIAN, adj. Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe
invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall
I found the arrow still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
- [ The Arrow and the Song,
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
+ [ The Arrow and the Song, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
ashikaga takauji
Ashikaga Takauji was a daimyo of the Minamoto clan who
joined forces with the Go-Daigo to defeat the Hojo armies.
Go-Daigo eventually escaped and established another
government in the town of Yoshino. This period of dual
governments was known as the Nambokucho.
- [ Samurai - The Story of a Warrior Tradition, by Cook ]
+ [ Samurai - The Story of a Warrior Tradition, by Cook ]
asmodeus
It is said that Asmodeus is the overlord over all of hell.
His appearance, unlike many other demons and devils, is
things. He excelled them even in lithe economy of motion.
They were wolves, but he was a tiger.
[ Conan - The Warrior, by Robert E. Howard ]
-barbed devil
- Barbed devils lack any real special abilities, though they
- are quite difficult to kill.
# takes "bat or bird" when specifying 'B'
-~combat
-~wombat
+~*combat
+~*wombat
*bat
bat or bird
A bat, flitting in the darkness outside, took the wrong turn
kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
blue jelly
+spotted jelly
I'd planned how to prevent the lock from sealing behind me; it
required a temporary sacrifice, not cleverness. I used the door
itself to help me cut off a portion of my body, after shunting all
(Enter all the Friars to sing the dirge)
[ Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, by Christopher Marlowe ]
boomerang
+#: this one is commented out because two from the same source feels a
+#: bit excessive; if uncommented, it should be first since the punchline
+#: is about coming back while the other one is disdainful about that, so
+#: if this one came second, its joke would be weakened
+# "It's a boomerang," said Vimes. "You find something like this
+# all over the world. You have to wave it carefully and suddenly
+# your opponent gets it in the back. I've heard that there's a lad
+# in Fourecks who can throw a boomerang with such precision that it
+# can get the morning paper and come back with it."
+# [ Raising Steam, by Terry Pratchett ]
+#
Rincewind pulled himself up and thought about reaching for his
stick. And then he thought again. The man had a couple of spears
stuck in the ground, and people here were good at spears, because
the formula for making this splendid footwear is a closely
guarded secret, possibly derived from nonhumans (see Dwarfs,
Elves, and Gnomes).
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
*booze
potion of sleeping
On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had
do so. He became the heavenly controller of the rain, and
lived with other celestial beings in their paradise on Mount
Kunlun.
- [ The Illustrated Who's Who In Mythology, by Michael Senior ]
+ [ The Illustrated Who's Who In Mythology, by Michael Senior ]
chromatic dragon
tiamat
Tiamat is said to be the mother of evil dragonkind. She is
extremely vain.
citrine*
A pale yellow variety of crystalline quartz resembling topaz.
+clay golem
+ It was a warm spring night when a fist knocked at the door so
+ hard that the hinges bent.
+ A man opened it and peered out into the street. There was
+ mist coming off the river and it was a cloudy night. He might
+ as well have tried to see through white velvet.
+ But he thought afterwards that there had been shapes out
+ there, just beyond the light spilling out into the road. A
+ lot of shapes, watching him carefully. He thought maybe
+ there'd been very faint points of light...
+ There was no mistaking the shape right in front of him,
+ though. It was big and dark red and looked like a child's
+ clay model of a man. Its eyes were two embers.
+ [ Feet of Clay, by Terry Pratchett ]
+cleaver
+ Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed,
+ sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic
+ melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled
+ thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.
+ [ The Phoenix on the Sword, by Robert E. Howard ]
~elven cloak
~oilskin cloak
*cloak*
with trees_ or _swords_, or needing to be _pulled close
around her/his shivering body_. This seems to suggest they
are less than practical for anyone on an arduous Tour.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
cloud*
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said that
merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
sicken and die.
- [ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
- and other sources ]
+ [ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
+ and other sources ]
*coin
~creeping coins
*coins
his weapon, and mutters under his breath:
"By Crom, there will be blood spilt today."
- [ Conan the Avenger by Robert E. Howard, Bjorn Nyberg, and
- L. Sprague de Camp ]
+ [ Conan the Avenger by Robert E. Howard, Bjorn Nyberg,
+ and L. Sprague de Camp ]
crossbow*
"God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus! -
Why look'st thou so?" - With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross.
- [ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor
- Coleridge ]
+ [ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ]
crystal ball
You look into one of these and see _vapours swirling like
clouds_. These shortly clear away to show a sort of video
without sound of something that is going to happen to you
soon. It is seldom good news.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
curse*
Curses are longstanding ill-wishings which, in Fantasyland,
often manifest as semisentient. They have to be broken or
want to do this. Swords usually resist all attempts to
raise their Curses. Your best source is to hide the Sword
or give it to someone you dislike.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
cwn*n
A pack of snow-white, red-eared spectral hounds which
sometimes took part in the kidnappings and raids the
through a keyhole yet not be pierced with a Sword. This makes
them difficult to deal with, even on the rare occasions when
they are friendly.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
diamond
The hardest known mineral (with a hardness of 10 on Mohs' scale).
It is an allotropic form of pure carbon that has crystallized in
A wolflike wild dog, Canis dingo, of Australia, having a
reddish- or yellowish-brown coat, believed to have been
introduced by the aborigines.
- [Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language]
+ [ Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary
+ of the English Language ]
disenchanter
Ask not, what your magic can do to it. Ask what it can do
to your magic.
not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire
breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail,
the most deadly part of its serpent-like body.
- [ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
+ [ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
"One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a
dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's
the power to instantly open a portal to any other area of the
dungeon, allowing its invoker to travel quickly between
areas.
+# note: The Eyes of the Overworld is the title of Jack Vance's sequel
+# to The Dying Earth and in it the 'Eyes' were separate "cusps" that
+# needed to be worn like contact lenses, one on each eyeball. Wearing
+# just one and attempting to look with both eyes caused instant stun.
+# And when wearing two you couldn't see normal world, only a projection
+# of it that had similar topology but where everything was "better".
+# NetHack simplifies things: a pair of lenses is a single item like
+# spectacles (eyeglasses), and the effect of wearing these lenses has
+# been changed to be useful to game play (Xray vision). [The quote is
+# not derived from the book.]
eyes of the overworld
- ... and finally there is "the Eyes of the Overworld". This
- obscure artifact pushes the wearer's view sense into the
+ The Eyes of the Overworld is a rather obscure artifact.
+ These magical lenses push the wearer's view sense into the
"overworld" -- another name for a segment of the Astral Plane.
Usually, there is nothing to be seen. However, the wearer
is also able to look back and see the area around herself,
_anywhere_?'
[ The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett ]
f* brand
- One of a pair of legendary swords that possess the powers
- of elemental flame and ice, and will grant these to whoever
- is fortunate enough to wield them.
+ Some say the world will end in fire,
+ Some say in ice.
+ From what I've tasted of desire
+ I hold with those who favor fire.
+ But if it had to perish twice,
+ I think I know enough of hate
+ To say that for destruction ice
+ Is also great
+ And would suffice.
+ [ Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost ]
flesh golem
With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected
the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark
imagination. In this year, with Man's thoughts turned toward
the many ills he has brought among himself, Man has forgotten
his most ancient adversary, the gargoyles.
- [ Excerpt from the opening narration to the movie
- _Gargoyles_, written by Stephen and Elinor Karpf ]
+ [ Excerpt from the opening narration to the movie
+ _Gargoyles_, written by Stephen and Elinor Karpf ]
*garlic
1 November - All day long we have travelled, and at a good
speed. The horses seem to know that they are being kindly
by narrowing down your available choices of what to do next:
if a deity is pushing you, things will go miserably badly until
there is only one choice left to you.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
gold
gold piece
A metal of characteristic yellow colour, the most precious
~gold golem
~straw golem
~wood golem
+~clay golem
*golem
"The original story harks back, so they say, to the sixteenth
century. Using long-lost formulas from the Kabbala, a rabbi is
Its strings break only in very rare instances, usually
because the Harper is sulking or crossed in love. This is
just as well as no one seems to make or sell spare strings.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: "Wife, wife,
bring me my golden harp." So she brought it and put it on
savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that
dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall
of fog.
- [ The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ]
+ [ The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ]
hermes
Messenger and herald of the Olympians. Being required to do
a great deal of travelling and speaking in public, he became
And scatters corn and wine, and fruits and flowers.
[ Os Lusiadas, by Luis Vaz de Camoes ]
horned devil
- Horned devils lack any real special abilities, though they
+barbed devil
+ These devils lack any real special abilities, though they
are quite difficult to kill.
~horsem*
*horse
and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over
the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with
hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
- [ Revelations of John, 6:1-8 ]
+ [ Revelations of John, 6:1-8 ]
huan*ti
The first of five mythical Chinese emperors, Huan Ti is known
as the yellow emperor. He rules the _moving_ heavens, as
Large, flesh-eating animal of the cat family, of Central and
South America. This feline predator (_Panthera onca_) is
sometimes incorrectly called a panther.
- [ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ]
+ [ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ]
jellyfish
I do not care to share the seas
With jellyfishes such as these;
Particularly Portuguese.
- [ Lines on Meeting a Portuguese Man-o'-war while
- Bathing, by Michael Flanders ]
+ [ Lines on Meeting a Portuguese Man-o'-war while Bathing,
+ by Michael Flanders ]
juiblex
jubilex
Little is known about the Faceless Lord, even the correct
And was a bugbear in men's eyes;
But had the fortune in his age
To live a fool and die a sage.
- [ Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miquel de
- Cervantes Saavedra ]
+ [ Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra ]
~kobold ??m*
*kobold*
The race of kobolds are reputed to be an artificial creation
his lance into shivers, carrying him and his horse after it,
and finally tumbled him a good way off from it on the field in
evil plight.
- [ Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miquel de
- Cervantes Saavedra ]
+ [ Don Quixote of La Mancha, by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra ]
land mine
Your heart is intact, your brain is not badly damaged, but the rest
of your injuries are comparable to stepping on a land mine. You'd
of its own, which lends an additional infernal splendor to the
already hellish scene. A dark, forboding passage exits to the
south.
- [ Adventure, by Will Crowther and Doug Woods. ]
+ [ Adventure, by Will Crowther and Don Woods. ]
leash
They had splendid heads, fine shoulders, strong legs, and
straight tails. The spots on their bodies were jet-black and
way to divert his captor's attention and vanishes in the
twinkling of an eye.
[ A Field Guide to the Little People
- by Nancy Arrowsmith & George Moorse ]
+ by Nancy Arrowsmith & George Moorse ]
*lich
But on its heels ere the sunset faded, there came a second
apparition, striding with incredible strides and halting when
that?"
Jack shrugged [...]. "Bad grace, I suppose. Just because I
shot off his ear and made him jump into a pit full of spikes."
- [ the hollow chocolate bunnies of
- the apocalypse, by Robert Rankin ]
-# [no relation... both cover and title page list
-# this book's title in all lower case]
+ [ the hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse,
+ by Robert Rankin ]
+# [no relation... both cover and title page list this
+# book's title in all lower case; however, its sequel,
+# "the toyminator", refers to it using conventional
+# capitalization in a couple of early footnotes]
lug*
Lugh, or Lug, was the sun god of the Irish Celts. One of his
weapons was a rod-sling which worshippers sometimes saw in
explain why he became a god of death and finally a god of war.
He is the son of Jupiter and Juno.
[ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]
+martial arts
+unarmed combat
+bare*handed combat
+ "What else can we do? None of this is fast enough." "It will have
+ to be." He stood up, a tall, broad wall of a man. "Why don't you
+ ask around, see if anyone in the neighborhoods knows anything
+ about martial arts. You need more than a book or two to learn
+ good dependable unarmed combat."
+ [ Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler ]
master assassin
He strolled down the stairs, followed by a number of assassins.
When he was directly in front of Ymor he said: "I've come for
a powerful magic which allows it to open any lock. When
carried, it grants its owner warning, teleport control, and
reduces all physical damage by half. Finally, when invoked,
- it has the ability to disarm any trap.
+ it has the ability to disarm any trapped lock.
master of thieves
There was a flutter of wings at the window. Ymor shifted his
bulk out of the chair and crossed the room, coming back with
unwanted emeralds, etc., still embedded in the rock of the
walls. Metal will also be present, but only when made up into
armor and weapons (_wondrous_).
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
minotaur
The Minotaur was a monster, half bull, half human, the
offspring of Minos' wife Pasiphae and a wonderfully beautiful
and contracts. He is attributed with the creation of both
plants and animals. His chief adversary is Ahriman, the
power of darkness.
- [ The Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends of All
- Nations, by Herbert Spencer Robinson and
- Knox Wilson ]
+ [ The Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends of All Nations,
+ by Herbert Spencer Robinson and Knox Wilson ]
*mithril*
_Mithril_! All folk desired it. It could be beaten like
copper, and polished like glass; and the Dwarves could make
good condition by placing fresh earth around it daily. In her
fury, Skuld often spoiled the work of her sisters by tearing
the web to shreds.
- [ The Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends of All
- Nations by Herbert Spencer Robinson and Knox
- Wilson ]
+ [ The Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends of All Nations
+ by Herbert Spencer Robinson and Knox Wilson ]
nunchaku
A nunchaku is two sections of wood (or metal in modern
incarnations) connected by a cord or chain. There is much
Nay, rather did impede so much my way,
That many times I to return had turned.
[ Dante's Inferno, as translated
- by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
+ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
*paper
Some players, who unconsciously perceive Paper as weak or a
sign of surrender, will shy away from using it entirely or
Might just kill you.
[ It's a Jungle Out There, by Randy Newman ]
# [ theme song from "Monk" ]
+polearm
+* polearm
+partisan
+ranseur
+spetum
+glaive
+halberd
+bardiche
+angled poleaxe
+long poleaxe
+voulge
+pole cleaver
+fauchard
+pole sickle
+guisarme
+bill-guisarme
+lucern hammer
+bec de corbin
+ Many of the weapons of the Middle Ages were poled or long-shafted
+ arms. Unlike the ancient spear or javelin, however, they were not
+ intended to be thrown. Some were devices with simple single- or
+ double-edged blades and nothing more, while others combined
+ the pick, spear, and hammer or axe all in one weapon.
+ [ Heraldry and Armor of the Middle Ages, by Marvin H. Pakula ]
+polymorph trap
+ One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams,
+ he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous
+ verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he
+ lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided
+ up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket,
+ just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in
+ place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the
+ rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.
+ [ The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka,
+ translated by Ian Johnston ]
pony
Hey! now! Come hoy now! Whither do you wander?
Up, down, near or far, here, there or yonder?
You will travel through them both to distant parts of the
continent and to and from our own world. The precise manner
of their working is a Management secret.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+trident
poseido*n
Poseido(o)n, lord of the seas and father of rivers and
fountains, was the son of Chronos and Rhea, brother of Zeus,
shake the earth, a power which makes him the god of
earthquakes as well. Physically, he is shown as a strong and
powerful ruler, every inch a king.
- [ The Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends of All
- Nations, by Herbert Robinson and Knox Wilson ]
+ [ The Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends of All Nations,
+ by Herbert Robinson and Knox Wilson ]
~*sleeping
~*booze
*potion*
there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is
utterly unreasonable?"
[ The Innocence of Father Brown, by G.K. Chesterton ]
+paddle cactus
+ Opuntia, commonly called prickly pear, is a genus in the cactus
+ family, Cactaceae. Prickly pears are also known as tuna (fruit),
+ sabra, nopal (paddle, plural nopales) from the Nahuatl word
+ nopalli for the pads, or nostle, from the Nahuatl word nochtli
+ for the fruit; or paddle cactus.
+ [ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
prisoner
Where am I?
In the Village.
why not? By then you will have had a lot of practice in
that sort of thing and, besides, the Quest Object is usually
designed to help you do it.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
quetzalcoatl
One of the principal Aztec-Toltec gods was the great and wise
Quetzalcoatl, who was called Kukumatz in Guatemala, and
are dealing with.
2. For Kings. The OMT here is _falling in stately folds_.
3. As the garb of Desert Nomads. [...]
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
rock
Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something.
He could not get up at the brutes and he had nothing to shoot
conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.
[ Autolycus the Rogue, from The Winter's Tale by
William Shakespeare ]
+root
+dwarven root
+ But when they were cooked these roots proved good to eat,
+ somewhat like bread; and the outlaws were glad of them, for
+ they had long lacked bread save when they could steal it.
+ "Wild Elves know them not; Grey-elves have not found them;
+ the proud ones from over the Sea are too proud to delve,"
+ said Mim.
+
+ "What is their name?" said Turin. Mim looked at him sidelong.
+ "They have no name, save in the Dwarf-tongue, which we do not
+ teach," he said. "And we not teach Men to find them, for Men
+ are greedy and thriftless, and would not spare till all the
+ plants had perished; whereas now they pass them by as they go
+ blundering in the wild. No more will you learn of me; but you
+ may have enough of my bounty, as long as you speak fair and
+ do not spy or steal." Then again he laughed in his throat.
+
+ "They are of great worth." he said. "More than gold in the
+ hungry winter, for they may be hoarded like the nuts of a
+ squirrel, and already we were building our store from the
+ first that are ripe."
+ [ Unfinished Tales, Part 1, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
roshi
Roshi is a Japanese word, common in Zen Buddhism, meaning "old"
(ro) and "teacher" (shi). Roshi can be used as a term of
This mace was created aeons ago in some unknown cave,
and has been passed down from generation to generation of
cave dwellers. It is a very mighty mace indeed, and in
- addition will protect anyone who carries it from magic
+ addition will protect anyone who wields it from magic
missile attacks. When invoked, it causes conflict in the
area around it.
scimitar
of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely
say 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window,
fireman brake his neck!' Why, that ain't a picture!
- [ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark
- Twain ]
+ [ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,
+ by Mark Twain ]
*spellbook*
The Book of Three lay closed on the table. Taran had never
been allowed to read the volume for himself; now he was sure
figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the
pole stuck up its back.
[ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum ]
+sunsword
+ What you seek is a blade of light,
+ a weapon for vengeance.
+ [ Expedition to Castle Ravenloft,
+ by Bruce Cordell and James Wyatt ]
susano*o
The Shinto chthonic and weather god and brother of the sun
goddess Amaterasu, he was born from the nose of the
feuds and prolonging enmity between families. Indeed, the
belligerent tengu were supposed to have been man's first
instructors in the use of arms.
- [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
+ [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
thoth
The Egyptian god of the moon and wisdom, Thoth is the patron
deity of scribes and of knowledge, including scientific,
Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant "idiot".
[ The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ]
towel
+wet towel
+moist towel
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say
on the subject of towels.
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing
wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of
course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean
enough.
- [ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
- by Douglas Adams ]
+ [ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams ]
*tower
*tower of darkness
Towers (_brooding_, _dark_) stand alone in Waste Areas and
blocks of masonry that make them very hard to climb. [...]
You will have to go to a Tower and then break into it at some
point towards the end of your Tour.
- [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
+ [ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
trap*door
I knew my Erik too well to feel at all comfortable on jumping
into his house. I knew what he had made of a certain palace at
often, alas, because the heat has not been kept low enough,
it has the consistency of wet shoe leather.
[ Joy of Cooking, by I Rombauer and M Becker ]
+~water troll
*troll
The troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall,
perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past
tamed and captured by a maiden. Made gentle by the sight of a
virgin, the unicorn can be lured to lay its head in her lap, and
in this docile mood, the maiden may secure it with a golden rope.
- [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
+ [ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
Martin took a small sip of beer. "Almost ready," he said.
"You hold your beer awfully well."
warm glow stage, then I use my horn to burn off any excess and
keep me right there."
[ Unicorn Variations, by Roger Zelazny ]
+unreconnoitered
+ Area of map which is beyond limited perception range when
+ underwater or engulfed by a monster.
valkyrie
* valkyrie
The Valkyries were the thirteen choosers of the slain, the
without restraint and fighting over again the battles in
which they died and in which they had won their deathless
fame.
- [ The Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends of All
- Nations, by Herbert Robinson and Knox
- Wilson ]
+ [ The Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends of All Nations,
+ by Herbert Robinson and Knox Wilson ]
vampire
~vampire bat
vampire lord
+ He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship
+ arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as
+ bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as
+ friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my
+ friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy. He can come
+ in mist which he create--that noble ship's captain proved him
+ of this; but, from what we know, the distance he can make this
+ mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He come on
+ moonlight rays as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those
+ sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we
+ ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a
+ hairbreadth space at the tomb door.
+ [ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]
+
The Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal:
_vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in
the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated
corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking
the blood of sleeping persons. ..."
+ []
venus
Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, was the daughter of
Jupiter and Dione. Others say that Venus sprang from the
*vortex
vortices
Swirling clouds of pure elemental energies, the vortices are
- thought to be related to the larger elementals. Though the
- vortices do no damage when touched, they are noted for being
- able to envelop unwary travellers. The hapless fool thus
- swallowed by a vortex will soon perish from exposure to the
- element the vortex is composed of.
+ thought to be related to the larger elementals. They are
+ noted for being able to envelop unwary travellers. The
+ hapless fool thus swallowed by a vortex will soon perish from
+ exposure to the element the vortex is composed of.
vrock
The vrock is one of the weaker forms of demon. It resembles
a cross between a human being and a vulture and does physical
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.
- [ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor
- Coleridge ]
+ [ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ]
water demon
[ The monkey king ] walked along the bank, around the pond.
He examined the footprints of the animals that had gone into
and drink, I will enjoy eating you, the biggest monkey, most
of all!" He grinned, and saliva dripped down his hairy chin.
[ Buddhist Tales for Young and Old, Vol. 1 ]
+water troll
+ It wasn't that the troll was _horrifying_. Instead of the
+ rotting, betentacled monstrosity he had been expecting
+ Rincewind found himself looking at a rather squat but not
+ particularly ugly old man who would quite easily have passed
+ for normal on any city street, always provided that other
+ people on the street were used to seeing old men who were
+ apparently composed of water and very little else. It was as
+ if the ocean had decided to create life without going through
+ all that tedious business of evolution, and had simply formed
+ a part of itself into a biped and sent it walking squishily up
+ the beach. The troll was a pleasant translucent blue color.
+ As Rincewind stared a small shoal of silver fish flashed
+ across its chest.
+ [ The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ]
weapon
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
[ The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold ]
When first we practise to deceive!
[ Marmion, by Sir Walter Scott ]
whistle
- There were legends both on the front and on the back of the
+ There were legends both on the front and on the back of the
whistle. The one read thus:
- FLA FUR BIS FLE The other: QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT
- 'I ought to be able to make it out,' he thought;
- 'but I suppose I am a little rusty in my Latin.
- When I come to think of it, I don't believe I even
- know the word for a whistle. The long one does seem
- simple enough. It ought to mean, "Who is this who is coming?"
+ FLA FUR BIS FLE The other: QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT
+ 'I ought to be able to make it out,' he thought;
+ 'but I suppose I am a little rusty in my Latin.
+ When I come to think of it, I don't believe I even
+ know the word for a whistle. The long one does seem
+ simple enough. It ought to mean, "Who is this who is coming?"
- Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle
+ Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle
for him.'
[Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, by Montague Rhodes James
some of these plants, which yield a poisonous alkaloid that
was formerly used medicinally. In both senses also called
monkshood.
- [ The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
- Fourth Edition. ]
+ [ The American Heritage Dictionary of
+ the English Language, Fourth Edition. ]
wood golem
Come, old broomstick, you are needed,
Take these rags and wrap them round you!
How the water spills,
How the water basins
Brimming full he fills!
- [ The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
- translation by Edwin Zeydel ]
+ [ The Sorcerer's Apprentice, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
+ translation by Edwin Zeydel ]
woodchuck
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