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Jinn and Tonic

I’ve written about jinn before, but something I don’t think I’ve touched on is the different varieties among them. As with a lot of attempts to categorize mythical beings, there’s no real consensus on this. I just finished G. Willow … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Cartoons, Catherynne M. Valente, Celtic, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Games, Hinduism, Islam, Kirby, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games | Tagged abu tha'labah al-khushani, aladdin, alawi, alif the unseen, angels, arabian nights, bahamut, druze, dungeons and dragons, efreeti, fairies, g. willow wilson, ghouls, gustave flaubert, hadith, hinn, iblis, ifrit, jinn, king solomon, king vikramaditya, kirby's dream land 2, marids, muhammad, nasnas, night of the living dead, queen of sheba, quran, shaitan, shiqq, sila, succubus, the fisherman and the jinni, the temptation of saint anthony, vampires, vetala, zombies |

Unfinished Business

WARNING! SPOILERS! The Seventh Seal – I believe this is the first Ingmar Bergman movie I’ve seen, and I largely watched it because I know it’s a film that gets referenced a lot. I have to say it looks very … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Board Games, Cartoons, Chess, Christianity, Crusades, Games, History, Humor, Magic, Religion, Scandinavia, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aladdin, albertus pictor, antonius block, arabian knight, bible, black plague, death, ingmar bergman, max von sydow, revelation, richard williams, the princess and the cobbler, the seventh seal, the thief and the cobbler, vincent price |

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – I wrote a little bit about Once Upon a Time back when it was still pretty new, but I only recently got back to watching it. I’ve watched the first three seasons, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Fairy Tales, Humor, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Monsters, Once Upon a Time, Relationships, Star Wars, Television | Tagged aladdin, alice in wonderland, alice's adventures in wonderland, beowulf, caterpillar, cheshire cat, enchanted forest, genie, grendel, iggy pop, jabberwock, jabberwocky, jafar, jinn, john lithgow, knave of hearts, once upon a time in wonderland, red queen, robin hood, through the looking-glass, tweedledum and tweedledee, white knight, white rabbit, will scarlet |

I’ll Come Back to Haunt You If I Drown

These are the books I’ve read most recently. Many of the reviews do have SPOILERS. Along the Saltwise Sea, by A. Deborah Baker – The follow-up to Over the Woodward Wall has Avery and Zib continue their journey along the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Chinese, Fairy Tales, Humor, Japanese, Judaism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Piers Anthony, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Santeria, seanan mcguire, Wayward Children, Xanth | Tagged a. deborah baker, across the green grass fields, aladdin, along the saltwise sea, beneath the moon, cyborgs, daniel jose older, elves, exodus, fire sail, griffins, improbable road, jack and the beanstalk, king arthur, la llorona, last canto of the dead, moses, ode kan, over the woodward wall, phoenix, rapunzel, rick riordan presents, rocs, sleeping beauty, sun wukong, the crane wife, up-and-under, vasilisa the fair, werewolves, where the drowned girls go, yoshi yoshitani |

Heka Heka Egyptian Magic

The main villain in Lin Carter’s Kesrick is a wizard named Zazamanc, who’s been around for quite a while, although not much is known about him. He originates in a story from what’s known as the Westcar Papyrus, named after … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Cartoons, Christianity, Comics, Egyptian, History, Islam, Judaism, Language, Magic, Middle East, Mythology, Names, Religion | Tagged abanazar, aladdin, aladdin and his wonderful lamp, arabian nights, balaam, bible, black panther, book of thoth, caliph harun al-rashid, crocodiles, djadjaemankh, djedi, egyptian tales, exodus, flinders petrie, frogs, genie, georges posener, golems, hathor, henry westcar, heqet, imaginary lives, isis, jafar, jafar ibn yahya barmaki, jannes and jambres, jinn, kesrick, khaemwaset, khnum, khufu, king solomon, lin carter, magicians, marcel schwob, marvel comics, mehusekhe, merire, meskhenet, moghrabi sufrah, nebka, neferkaptah, nephthys, pantomime, papyrus vandier, parzifal, ptah, quran, rededjet, setne, si-osire, sisobek, sneferu, tabubu, tales of the magicians, thief of bagdad, thoth, ubaoner, westcar papyrus, wizards, wolfram von eschenbach, zazamanc |

Elektra, by Jennifer Saint – This is the author’s second book based on Greek mythology, after Ariadne. I liked that one better, but maybe that’s my preference for the more fantastic myths. Not that Elektra’s story isn’t insane as all get-out, … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Aztec, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Humor, incryptid, Magic, Mayan, Mythology, Names, Native American, Plays, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire, Technology | Tagged agamemnon, ah-puch, aladdin, antimony price, arabian nights, ariadne, arthur harrington, cassandra, chalchiuhtlicue, clytemnestra, demons, elektra, follow the lady, genie, imaginary numbers, instar, j.c. cervantes, jaguar warriors, jennifer saint, jinn, johrlac, meru, mount meru, noel langley, omar khayyam, pantomime, rick riordan presents, s.b. divya, sarah zellaby, shadow bruja, tezcatlipoca, the land of green ginger, the lords of night, the wizard of oz (1939), trojan war, widow twankey |

The Offbeat Officials of Oz

The Oz books have a lot of small royal courts with unusually-titled officials. This is something we see much more often in Ruth Plumly Thompson, but L. Frank Baum did have a few examples. In John Dough and the Cherub, … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Chronicles of Narnia, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic Items, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aladdin, alibabble, baffleburg, bamboula, blufferroo, captain salt in oz, chick the cherub, chief chow chow, chief dipper, chief scarer, chief scorner, chief scrapper, chinda, dwarves, giants, gilbert and sullivan, grampa in oz, grand advizier, grand bozzywoz, grand chew chew, grand counter of the imperial spoons, hah hoh, handy mandy in oz, head booleywag, high coco-lorum, high qui-questioner, hippolorum, imperial persuader, jack pumpkinhead of oz, john dough, john dough and the cherub, kabumpo in oz, kimbaloo, king cheeriobed, king rinkitink, king sizzeroo, lord high humpus, lord high this and that, lord high upper dupper, mogodore, nox the ox, octagon isle, ojo in oz, out keeper, ozma, pat the prime patter, patch, perhaps city, peter brown, pirates in oz, pokes, preservatory, prime moneyster, prime piecer, prime preserve, prime pumper, pumperdink, red jinn, rinkitink in oz, royal scribbler, samandra, sapphire city, sauce box, scare city, sevenanone, silver island, silver mountain, sky island, smerker, snorpus, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, supposyville, supposyville goes toboganning, swing city, the cowardly lion of oz, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the horse and his boy, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the mikado, the purple prince of oz, the royal book of oz, the yellow knight of oz, thi, tighty, toddledy, town crier, town laugher, umbrella island, unicorners, unicorns, vizier |

Give Me Pasta Power as Fast as You Can

Okay, nobody at all expressed interest in my reviewing individual Super Mario Bros. Super Show episodes, but I felt like doing it anyway, so here are thoughts on the first four. Each one has both a cartoon and a live-action … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Arthurian Legend, British, Cartoons, Humor, Magic, Mario, Music, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged aladdin, arabian nights, beezos, birdo, bob-ombs, butch mario and the luigi kid, captain lou albano, cheep cheeps, cobrats, danica mckellar, danny wells, excalibur, fire flower, flurries, genie, jinn, king arthur, king bowser koopa, king mario of cramalot, koopa troopas, luigi mario, lyle alzado, marianne and luigeena, mario's magic carpet, merlin, merlon, mervin, mouser, neatness counts, nicole eggert, ostros, pidgits, piranha plants, pokeys, princess peach toadstool, sergeant slaughter, snifits, sultan pasbah, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, the bird! the bird!, toad, trouters |

You Should Have Put a Ring on It

The Wizard of Oz has been said to be the ultimate chick flick, as it’s about two women fighting over shoes. But then, J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium is one where a lot of world conflicts arise from jewelry, so maybe that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Greek Philosophy, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Music, Mythology, Norse, Philosophy, Semitic, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aesir, aladdin, alberich, andvari, arabian nights, brothers grimm, candaules of lydia, demons, draupnir, dwarves, elves, fafnir, glaucon, gollum, gyges of lydia, hades, invisibility, isildur, jewelry, jinn, king solomon, link, lord of the rings, magic rings, middle-earth, one ring, plato, republic, richard wagner, ring cycle, ring of solomon, rings, rings of power, sauron, silmarils, socrates, tarnhelm, testament of solomon, the hobbit, the king of the golden mountain, the legend of zelda, the silmarillion, wishing rings |

Dragons Is the Craziest Peoples

It seems like dragons becoming human or humans becoming dragons is a pretty common theme. I guess it makes sense for a person who turns into animals to become a dragon, as they’re big, powerful, and often intelligent as well. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Breath of Fire, C.S. Lewis, Cartoons, Chronicles of Narnia, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, incryptid, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian, seanan mcguire, Slavic, Ursula K. LeGuin, Video Games | Tagged aladdin, breath of fire 2, breath of fire 3, demons, dr. agon, dragnier, dragon clan, dragon quest v, dragon quest viii, dragonlord, dragons, dragovians, earthsea, eustace clarence scrubb, fafnir, fairies, father ganer bateson, halia, jafar, maleficent, myria, ophigenees, ophiogeneikos, ryu, ryu bateson, sleeping beauty, snakes, the voyage of the dawn treader, transformation, valerie bateson, zenith dragon, zmey, zmey gorynych, zmey tugarin |