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Anthony’s Animals, Part 2: Plus Plants

Continuing from my earlier post on fantastic beings in Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, here are a few other sorts of mythical animals who appear but don’t get lines: a Tragelaphus, Myrmecoles, Askar, Pastincaca, Presteros, Mirag, Phalamant, Senad, … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Art, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Islam, Japanese, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Pokémon, Religion, Video Games | Tagged aksar, alexander the great, antelopes, antlions, apocalypse, askar, asps, bears, bestiaries, bunicorns, cebus, cecil harvey, cepub, cepus, clark ashton smith, dabbat al-ardd, dedaim trees, diodorus siculus, dipsas, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dragons, eggsecutor, exeggcute, final fantasy iv, gustave flaubert, hell, horned rabbits, jimenju, kesrick, king solomon, lin carter, mangaboos, miraj, monkeys, moses, muhammad, myrmecoleons, pastinaca, phalmant, pliny the elder, presteros, quran, rabbits, ring of solomon, rosa joanna farrell, samuel bochart, senad, sinad, snakes, the garden of adompha, the temptation of saint anthony, tragelaphus, waq-waq tree, weasels, yokai, zabraq, zaqqum tree |

Listen to the Banshee

I’m not sure I’ve ever done a post about Banshees, of Inisherin or otherwise. I haven’t seen that movie, but I suspect it doesn’t have any literal Banshees in it. I did write before about the Bean-Nighe, which is sometimes considered a type of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Celtic, Characters, Discworld, Etymology, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Television, Terry Pratchett | Tagged aiobheall, banshees, bean-nighe, birds, blarney castle, blarney stone, brigid, carrigcleena, cats, ciabhan, cliodhna, cormac maccarthy, crows, dragons, dryads, dwarves, fairies, forest of burzee, funerary rites, gargoyles, gebann the red druid, ghosts, gnomes, going postal, gryle, guards! guards!, hares, keening, leprechauns, leprechauns in oz, manannan mac lir, mark haas, morrigan, moving pictures, mr. ixolite, o'caoimh, ruadan, sean mac seamas, sirens, stoats, the colour of magic, tiny toon adventures, tonn cliodhna, tuatha de danann, weasels |

Stand in the Place Where You Live

The Stand, by Stephen King – This was a long book, even more so since I read the unabridged edition, but I don’t know that I’ll have a long review for it. I did like it, and it’s pretty timely since … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Discworld, Health, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Mario, Monsters, Politics, Prejudice, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged bouldergeist, caleb cook, coronavirus, dr. mario, foxes, kooper, luigi mario, mario and luigi: partners in time, new super mario bros. wii, paper mario, paul kidby, puns, rabbits, stephen king, super mari-old, super mario manga mania, super mario sunshine, super mario-kun, super paper mario, superflu, sushie, the art of discworld, the constant rabbit, the stand, time travel, weasels, yoshi, yukio sawada |

Weasel Overcome, But Not Before the Damage Done

I got my copy of the 2019 Oziana, the International Wizard of Oz Club‘s annual (well, mostly) collection of short fiction. I have a story in it, “The Giant Weasel of Oz,” which was an idea I came up with … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged almira gulch, an odd transformation, bitsy the patchwork cat of oz, cats, darrell spradlyn, david valentin, e.j. hagadorn, humpy the dummy, international wizard of oz club, jack pumpkinhead, jane albright, lyan tjally, mela pagayonan, oziana, oziana 2019, patchwork girl, paul dana, sara philips, scarecrow, steve smith, the easter bunny of oz, the epiphany of miss gulch, the giant weasel of oz, the lost king of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), tin woodman, ugu the shoemaker, weasels |

Weasels on the Wind

Another mythical Japanese creature, or yokai, that came up in the Pokémon videos I talked about last week is the kamaitachi, the probable inspiration for the Sneasel. The name kamaitachi literally means “sickle weasel,” and that’s basically what they are, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chinese, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Humor, Japanese, Language, Monsters, Mythology, Pokémon, Video Games | Tagged cyclown, demons, four fiends, kamaitachi, quiongqi, razor wind, si xiong, sickles, sneasel, weasels, yokai |

Mr. [Blank] Needs a [Blank] in Order to [Blank] His [Blank]

We finally moved on to the eleventh of Disney’s animated features, and the last of the package films for a while, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Contrary to what the title may suggest, the two characters did not … Continue reading →

Posted in Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abraham van brunt, cyril longbottom, headless horseman, ichabod crane, j. thaddeus toad, katrina van tassel, kenneth grahame, mickey's christmas carol, mr. mole, mr. toad, mr. water rat, the adventures of ichabod and mr. toad, the legend of sleepy hollow, the wind in the willows, washington irving, weasels, who framed roger rabbit |