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1 day ago · His name had its origin in the sobriquet of his father, Vlad Dracul ("Vlad the Dragon" in medieval Romanian), who received it after he became a member of the Order of the Dragon. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Dracula is the Slavonic genitive form of Dracul, meaning "[the son] of Dracul (or the Dragon)".
1 day ago · Orpheus was an augur and seer; he practiced magical arts and astrology, founded cults to Apollo and Dionysus, [20] and prescribed the mystery rites preserved in Orphic texts. Pindar and Apollonius of Rhodes [21] place Orpheus as the harpist and companion of Jason and the Argonauts.
1 day ago · Abumi-guchi. A small furry tsukumogami formed from the stirrup of a mounted soldier who fell in battle, it typically stays put and awaits its creator's return, unaware of said soldier's death. Abura-akago. An infant ghost that licks the oil out of andon lamps. Abura-sumashi.
9 hours ago · Satan, [a] also known as the Devil, [b] is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination". In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has rebelled ...
9 hours ago · Ottawa hosts a variety of annual seasonal activities—such as Winterlude, the largest festival in Canada, [273] and Canada Day celebrations on Parliament Hill and surrounding downtown area, as well as Bluesfest, Canadian Tulip Festival, Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival, Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Fringe Festival, Capital Pride, and CityFolk Festival, that have grown to become some of the ...
1 day ago · The snow-white tiger is a morph with extremely faint stripes and a pale sepia-brown ringed tail. White and golden morphs are the result of an autosomal recessive trait with a white locus and a wideband locus, respectively. The snow-white variation is caused by polygenes with both white and wideband loci. [62]
9 hours ago · Abbotsford is a city in British Columbia next to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver and the Fraser River. With a census population of 153,569 people (2021), it is the largest municipality in the province outside metropolitan Vancouver. [3] Abbotsford–Mission has the third-highest proportion of visible minorities among census ...
