And I am called pumpkins.On the last of OctoberWhen dusk is fallenChildren join handsAnd circle round meSinging ghost songsAnd love to the harvest moon;I am a jack-o’-lanternWith terrible teethAnd the children know I am fooling.” From “Hallowe’en”By Joel Benton“Pixie, kobold, elf...
The wordbugwas once used to refer to an evil spirit or hobgoblin. The word is likely related to terms likebugabooandbogeyman. What is abogeyman? Abogeymanis an imaginary evil creature with supernatural powers that is often said to terrorize or kidnap children. Stories about “the bogeyman” a...
There is a recently invented trend its pitchmen hope to make a tradition, The Elf on the Shelf. He is a scout who will report back to Santa Claus whether children have been naughty or nice. Is this just an innocuous little add-on to the legend of St. Nicholas? Hardly! The Elf on ...
Elf University Elf University is the place where elves go to school. It’s also the place where kids enjoy making Christmas presents, coloring Christmas pictures, and even filling out applications to become elves one day. Admission: Buy your tickets online to avoid waiting in line. If the tic...
For it was an evil that was so prevalent at that time, that it seemed in a manner as though it had been permitted; as we may see also from the decree of the Apostles, (Acts 15:20,) where, in prohibiting the Gentiles from fornication, they place it among things indifferent; for ...
The Witch Cult is undoubtedly the main antagonist ofRe:Zerobecause of the vast number of evil, plot-altering events that they caused for the sake of furthering their ambitions, which we learn in season 2 that they are tied to Permafrost of Elior Forest, a major event that took place 100...
Most ancient people thought that painful diseases like sciatica resulted from evil spirits that invaded the body through the “sinister” left nostril or left ear producing pain by infiltrating the blood vessels and heart. Of the many Egyptian gods Sekhm
partly because it was the only affair of the century. Pearl was the key to it all. Traits of both good and evil she was the only true human in Hawthorne’s novel. She is the rose surrounded by a bush of thorns, “It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom,...
Apoph. Table X iij, Athlete [= -æ], what they be that are so called.1596[see 2].1604Shakes. Oth. iv. i. 74 And knowing what I am, I know what she shallbe.1605in Dixon Tower (1870) II. xi. 104 To ansoure to formall interrogatours..as quhat he is, for I can neuer ...
An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon. The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy. And now about the caldron sin...