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The Teacher in the Woods

I thought it might make sense to take a closer look at some of the stories included in Yoshi Yoshitani’s Beneath the Moon that I wasn’t already familiar with, and the Banjhakri seemed appropriate for the Halloween season. He’s scary … Continue reading →

Posted in Animism, Art, Hinduism, Language, Magic, Medicine, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Religion | Tagged banhakrini, banjhakri, banjhakri falls, beneath the moon, dhyangro, hanuman, jhakri, lemlemey, shamanism, shiva, yeti, yoshi yoshitani |

Egg Overload

I have a few video games I either want to start playing or get back into, but my game-playing time these days is taken up entirely by checking on my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. It’s a pretty relaxing game, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Current Events, Easter, Food, Holidays, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, bunny day, cherry blossoms, easter bunny, easter eggs, eggs, luigi mario, mario mario, princess peach toadstool, rabbits, rhinoceroses, wario, yeti, zipper t. bunny |

Brownie Power

Mickey Mouse: The Ice Sword Saga, by Massimo De Vita – The ninth in the Disney Masters series highlights this Italian artist, in a tale where Mickey and Goofy are transported to an alternate world based on Norse mythology. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Greek Mythology, Humor, incryptid, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, seanan mcguire | Tagged a multitude of monsters, antimony price, bog womblers, brownies, centaurs, cryptozoology, disney masters, ebenezum, ghosts, giants, goofy, griffins, hel, hippogriffs, massimo de vita, mickey mouse, rocs, satyrs, that ain't witchcraft, the ebenezum trilogy, the great tournament of argaar, the ice sword saga, wuntvor, yeti |

Banana Slammer!

In my ongoing viewing of cartoons based on video games, I knew there was a Donkey Kong Country series, but not that much about it. Made by the Canadian animation company Nelvana, the same one that made the Care Bears … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Donkey Kong, Humor, Magic, Music, Relationships, Television, Video Games | Tagged andrew sabiston, apes, baby kong, bananas, bluster kong, candy kong, cranky kong, crystal coconut, diddy kong, dixie kong, donkey kong country, eddie the mean old yeti, funky kong, general klump, ian james corlett, john stocker, kaptain skurvy, king k. rool, klaptraps, kong fu, kremlings, kritters, krusha, len carlson, monkeys, nelvana, parrots, pirates, polly roger, swanky kong, wrinkly kong, yeti |

Don’t Morlocks Live in the Future?

The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells – Published in 1895, this was not the first time travel story, but definitely a pioneering work in the genre. The protagonist known simply as the Time Traveller uses a vehicle to travel to … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Celebrities, Diana Wynne Jones, Humor, Magic, Monsters | Tagged eloi, eva ibbotson, h.g. wells, mac montandon, morlocks, olivia munn, suck it wonder woman, the abominables, the invisible man, the time machine, time travel, witch's business, witches, yeti |

We’re Fairies on the Moon

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, by Catherynne M. Valente – I read the first two books in this series last year, and quite enjoyed them. This one continues the series when September returns … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Islam, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Religion | Tagged a-through-l, buraq, catherynne valente, fairies, fairyland, the girl who soared over fairyland and cut the moon in two, yeti |

Life Is What Happens When You Make Other Planets

During the course of Futurama, most of our own solar system has been seen, and it looks like it’s changed considerably by the time the show takes place. Venus, the Moon, Mars, Neptune, Triton, and Pluto are all known to … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Cartoons, Futurama, Science, Television | Tagged al gore, buggalo, horrible gelatinous blob, mars, moon, neptune, omicron persei 8, penguins, pluto, professor hubert farnsworth, santa claus, sun, titan, triton, turanga leela, venus, yeti |

Return of the Yeti

As with other legendary animals popular with the cryptozoology crowd, stories of the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, have only been documented to fairly recent times. Conspiracy theorists will insist that the creature appears in some versions of the Ramayana, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Discworld, Final Fantasy, Futurama, Mythology, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged abominable snow monster of the north, abominable snowman, animal kingdom, bigfoot, bumble, carl barks, charles howard-bury, cryptids, cryptozoology, ducktales, eric shipton, expedition everest, frederic wood jones, henry newman, himalayas, metoh-kangmi, mickey mouse, ramayana, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, sasquatch, the lost crown of genghis khan, thief of time, trolls, umaro, walt disney world, yeti |