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3 - a wall
4 | a wall
5 + a door
6 . the floor of a room
7 a dark part of a room
8 # a corridor
12 ^ a trap
13 $ a pile, pot or chest of gold
14 %% a piece of food
15 ! a potion
16 * a gem
17 ? a scroll
18 = a ring
19 / a wand
20 [ a suit of armor
21 ) a weapon
22 ( a useful item (camera, key, rope etc.)
27 , a trapper
28 : a chameleon
29 ; a giant eel
30 ' a lurker above
31 & a demon
32 A a giant ant
33 B a giant bat
34 C a centaur;
36 the Centaurs (Kentauroi) constituted a class in themselves.
37 Despite a strong streak of sensuality in their make-up,
38 their normal behaviour was moral, and they took a kindly
45 body of a horse with the trunk and head of a man, involved
47 members. So grotesque a combination seems almost un-Greek.
52 D a dragon;
55 seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction and
56 disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous under-
62 E a floating eye
63 F a freezing sphere
64 G a gnome;
65 ... And then a gnome came by, carrying a bundle, an old fellow
66 three times as large as an imp and wearing clothes of a sort,
67 especially a hat. And he was clearly just as frightened as the
72 The gnome did not stop his hasty shuffle a moment as he answered
77 H a hobgoblin;
81 its of the brownie type. In 'A midsummer night's dream' a
86 and obviously Puck would not wish to be called a hobgoblin
95 exorcised and laid under a large stone by the roadside for
96 ninety-nine years and a day. If anyone was so unwary as to
100 [Katharine Briggs, A dictionary of Fairies]
102 J a jackal
103 K a kobold
104 L a leprechaun;
112 happy, whistling merrily as he nails a sole on to a shoe; a
115 tobacco and whiskey, and he is a first-rate con-man, impos-
121 [From: A Field Guide to the Little People
123 M a mimic
124 N a nymph
126 P a purple worm
127 Q a quasit
128 R a rust monster
129 S a snake
130 T a troll
132 V a vampire
133 W a wraith
134 X a xorn
135 Y a yeti
136 Z a zombie
137 a an acid blob
138 b a giant beetle
139 c a cockatrice;
140 Once in a great while, when the positions of the stars are
141 just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg. Then,
142 along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad,
144 hatch. When it hatches, out comes a creature called basil-
145 isk, or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A sin-
156 sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instant-
157 ly. But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said
158 that merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
162 d a dog
164 f a fog cloud
165 g a gelatinous cube
166 h a homunculus
173 a grafted tree, or one grown from a cutting, not from seed.
174 'Imp' properly means a small devil, an off-shoot of Satan,
180 [Katharine Briggs, A dictionary of Fairies]
181 j a jaguar
182 k a killer bee
183 l a leocrotta
184 m a minotaur
185 n a nurse
187 p a piercer
188 q a quivering blob
189 r a giant rat
190 s a scorpion
191 t a tengu;
193 legend. Part bird and part man, with red beak for a nose
200 u a unicorn;
203 to be a powerful talisman. It was said that the unicorn had
204 simply to dip the tip of its horn in a muddy pool for the
206 this horn was a protection against all sickness, and that if
207 the horn was ground to a powder it would act as an antidote
209 of a unicorn was used in a ceremony to test the royal food
211 Although only the size of a small horse, the unicorn is a
212 very fierce beast, capable of killing an elephant with a
215 it can be tamed and captured by a maiden. Made gentle by the
216 sight of a virgin, the unicorn can be lured to lay its head
218 it with a golden rope.
221 v a violet fungi
222 w a long worm;
224 ~ the tail of a long worm
225 x a xan;
227 y a yellow light
228 z a zruty;