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Wonder of Wonders, Mario of Marios
Super Mario Bros. Wonder – I received this game as a Christmas present, and while I’m generally not that good at action games, I’ve played through some of it. Between this and Odyssey, I wonder if Mario games just aren’t as … Continue reading →
Posted in Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Uncategorized, Video Games | Tagged blewbirds, bloomps, blue toad, bowser koopa jr., bulrushes, caterpillars, elephants, flower kingdom, goombas, hoppos, king bowser koopa, luigi mario, maw-maws, mushroom kingdom, nabbit, piranha plants, poplins, power-ups, prince florian, prince haru, princess daisy, princess peach toadstool, sarasaland, super mario bros. wonder, super mario odyssey, super mario world, the great mission to rescue princess peach, toadette, toads, trompettes, yellow toad, yoshi |
Jumping Through Hoopoes
Here’s the book review post I mentioned before, which is partially about Greek mythology, and includes a lot of tangents. I always wonder whether people like those, or just want me to stick to the media I’m discussing. The Bird … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, Comics, Games, Greek Mythology, History, Islam, Judaism, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Uncategorized | Tagged antillia, aristophanes, bible, birds, clash of the titans, cloudcuckooland, doctor who, dungeons and dragons, farid ud-din attar, g. willow wilson, hercules, hercules the legendary journeys, hoopoes, iris, jinn, joseph, kamala khan, kevin sorbo, king solomon, koh-e-qaf, lamia, liz gloyn, marvel comics, medusa, ms. marvel, nephelokokkygia, nimrod, poseidon, prometheus, puns, quran, ray harryhausen, sheikh sam'an, simurgh, sufism, sultan mahmoud, tereus, the bird king, the birds, the conference of the birds, tracking classical monsters in popular culture, triballus, xena warrior princess |
Taliesin’s Tale
I don’t think I’ve said that much about the legendary bard Taliesin, although I’ve come across him when researching other British mythology. I tend to subconsciously associate him with Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer, I guess because they’re also … Continue reading →
Posted in Arthurian Legend, British, Celtic, Etymology, Finnish, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Music, Mythology, Names, Poetry, Uncategorized, Welsh | Tagged amaetheon fab don, annwn, arawn, bards, bible, bran the blessed, cad goddeu, cerridwen, chronicles of prydain, crewarwy, deer, dogs, elffin ap gwyddno, fflewddur fflam, fionn mac cumhaill, giants, gwion bach ap gwreang, gwydion fab don, king arthur, king urien, lloyd alexander, merlin, morfran, myrddin wyllt, ogham, orpheus, potions, salmon of knowledge, taliesin, trees, vainamoinen, witches |
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Magic
The word “magic,” with or without the K at the end that Aleister Crowley preferred, derives from “magus,” a term for a Zoroastrian priest. I’ve seen indications that it might have referred to a specific tribe or caste. When the … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged aaron, aleister crowley, balaam, bible, demons, exodus, fantasy, jannes and jambres, jesus, king saul, magicians, miracles, moses, priests, prophets, salem witch trials, satan, simon magus, sorcerers, st. peter, witch of endor, witches, wizards |
When Decades Collide
The Brady Bunch Movie – From 1995, this was essentially an affectionate parody and a culture clash. It’s along the same lines as the two Addams Family movies from the era, as it places a sitcom family from an earlier … Continue reading →
Posted in Families, Humor, Monkees, Music, Relationships, Television, Uncategorized | Tagged a very brady sequel, davy jones, eve plumb, incest, micky dolenz, mike lookinland, peter tork, susan olsen, the addams family, the brady bunch, the brady bunch movie |
Bradys and Gentlemen
Beth has now shown me all five seasons of The Brady Bunch. She says she started watching it to goof on it, then found that she genuinely liked it. It can be pretty corny, but I think there’s a sweetness … Continue reading →
Posted in Gender, Humor, Monkees, Muppets, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Television, Uncategorized, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged ann b. davis, benedict arnold, bob lind, cousin oliver, davy jones, florence henderson, jim backus, joe namath, morality, paul williams, robbie rist, robert reed, sexism, sherwood schwartz, the brady bunch, the muppet show, vincent price |
Dragon vs. Dragon
Since I enjoyed my playthrough of Breath of Fire 2, I decided to go back (figuratively, that is), and give the first one a try. I finished it yesterday, and it wasn’t really that difficult. I did use a walkthrough … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Breath of Fire, Dreams, Economics, Magic, Maps, Mega Man, Monsters, Names, Street Fighter, Technology, Uncategorized, Video Games | Tagged armadillos, bleu, bo, bow doggy, breath of fire 1, breath of fire 2, capcom, chun-li, dark dragons, demons, dragon clan, dragons, drogen, emperor zog, fish, gant, gobi, goda, goonheim, guntz, iron ogre clan, jade, karn, light dragons, manillo, mogu, moles, myria, nagas, nina windia, ox, prima, rand marks, ray bradoc, robots, rock monster, ryu, square enix, st. eva church, stone man, stone robot, ted woolsey, transformation, translation, tunlan, tyr, windia, winlan, yellow devil |
A Whale of an Island
There are many tales of gigantic sea monsters, perhaps because what’s under the sea is pretty mysterious, and some of what people see really IS pretty monstrous. Northern Europe has many such legends, and this is where people really did encounter … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Inuit, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged aspidochelone, fish, giant squid, greenland, hafgufa, imap umassoursa, jasconius, kraken, lyngbakr, odd, ogmund, orvar-oddr, sea monsters, sinbad, squid, st. brendan, trolls, turtles, vignir, whales |
Seafaring and Serpents
Sam Steele’s Adventures on Land and Sea, by L. Frank Baum – The six issues of Oz-story Magazine, published by Hungry Tiger Press from 1995 through 2000, all ended with a full-length novel by Baum. I’d read two of them, … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Uncategorized | Tagged a dragon-lover's treasury of the fantastic, a drama of dragons, a hiss of dragon, a plague of butterflies, anne mccaffrey, barbara delaplace, boy fortune hunters, captain hugh fitzgerald, craig shaw gardner, dragons, floyd akers, franz kafka, george r.r. martin, gordon r. dickson, gregory benford, hungry tiger press, l. sprague de camp, lois tilton, marc laidlaw, margaret reis, mike resnick, naboth perkins, orson scott card, oz-story magazine, pern, racism, roger zelazny, sam steele, sam steele's adventures on land and sea, st. dragon and the george, the boy fortune hunters in alaska, the dragonbone flute, the george business, the hidden dragon, the ice dragon, the metamorphosis, the trials and tribulations of myron blumberg dragon, treasure island, two yards of dragon, weyr search, wizards |
Magical Law Enforcement
As per The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Ozma has banned the practice of magic for everyone in the Land of Oz aside from Glinda and her student, the Wizard of Oz. It’s interesting that this doesn’t include the Good Witch … Continue reading →
Posted in Characters, Edward Einhorn, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Uncategorized | Tagged dorothy gale, dr. pipt, faleero, fanny the weather witch, glinda, glinda of oz, gloma, good witch of the north, herku, jenny jump, lucky bucky in oz, mooj, mrs. yoop, number nine, ojo, ojo in oz, ozma, ozwoz, paul dana, pumperdink, reera the red, royal timeline of oz, spiders, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the hollyhock dolls in oz, the law of oz, the living house of oz, the lost princess of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the runaway in oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the wonder city of oz, witches, wizard of oz, wumbo, yookoohoos |