Cooties is a fictitious childhood disease, commonly represented as childlore.It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines as a rejection term and an infection tag game (such as Humans vs. Zombies).It is similar to the British 'dreaded lurgi', and to terms used in the Nordic countries, in Italy, India and Iraq. A child is said to "catch" cooties …

Também conhecido como Caipora, Caiçara, Caapora, Anhanga ou Pai-do-mato, todos esses nomes identificam uma entidade da mitologia tupi-guarani, um protetor das matas e dos animais silvestres.. Representado por um anão de cabelos vermelhos e compridos, e com os pés virados para trás, que fazem se perder aqueles que o perseguem pelos rastros. Monta num porco do …

Origin of the name "Ghost" in Northern England was pronounced "guest", and the origin is thought to be of the combination burh-ghest, "town-ghost".Others explain it as cognate to German Berg-geist, "mountain ghost" or Bär-geist, "bear-ghost". Another mooted derivation is Bahr-Geist, German for the "spirit of the funeral bier".. Domain and description ...

The Old Irish word tuath (plural tuatha) means "tribe, folk, people"; dé is the genitive case of día and, depending on context, can mean "god, gods, goddess" or more broadly "supernatural being, object of worship". In the earliest writings, the mythical race are referred to as the Tuath Dé, "tribe of gods", or Tuatha Dé, "tribes of gods". In the Lebor Bretnach their name is translated into ...

In bocca al lupo (pronounced [im ˈbokka al ˈluːpo]; lit. "into the wolf's mouth") is an Italian idiom originally used in opera and theatre to wish a performer good luck prior to a performance.. The standard response is crepi il lupo! (IPA: [ˈkrɛːpi il ˈluːpo]; "may the wolf die") or, more commonly, simply crepi!("may it die"). It has been proposed, for example by animal welfare ...

Jenny Greenteeth a.k.a. Wicked Jenny or Ginny Greenteeth is a figure in English folklore.A river-hag, similar to Peg Powler or a grindylow, she would pull children or the elderly into the water and drown them.The name is also used to describe pondweed or duckweed, which can form a continuous mat over the surface of a small body of water, making it misleading and potentially …

"Break a leg" is a typical English idiom used in the context of theatre or other performing arts to wish a performer "good luck".An ironic or non-literal saying of uncertain origin (a dead metaphor), "break a leg" is commonly said to actors and musicians before they go on stage to perform or before an audition.Though the term likely originates in German, the English expression is first ...

Symptoms. Among the indigenous peoples of Latin America, in which this illness is most common, susto may be conceptualized as a case of spirit attack. Symptoms of susto are thought to include nervousness, anorexia, insomnia, listlessness, fever, depression, and diarrhea.. Treatment. Treatments among indigenous people are natural. Some natural treatments to susto consist of …

Around 2005, a fragment from Papyrus 115, taken from the Oxyrhynchus site, was discovered at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.It gave the beast's number as 616 (χις).This fragment is the oldest manuscript (about 1,700 years old) of Revelation 13 found as of 2017. Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, known before the Papyrus 115 finding but dating to after it, has …

The Dullahan, Durahan or Dullaghan (Irish: dúlachán, / ˈ d uː l ə ˌ h ɑː n /), also called Gan Ceann (meaning "without a head" in Irish), is a type of mythological creature in Irish folklore. He is depicted as a headless rider, on a black horse, who carries his own head held high in his hand.It is said [by whom?] to be the embodiment of the Celtic god Crom Dubh