Relatively new American festivals like Ventura, CA's Frost and Fire, Chicago's Legions of Metal Festival, and Seattle's Northwest Metalfest have emerged as champions of the scene, and more underground prospects Demon Bitch, Haunt, Ice Sword, Legendry, Seax, Lady Beast, Chalice, Professor Emeritus, Leathürbitch, and Hessian are also making their mark.
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The Book of Monsters is a supplement that describes 124 monsters from worldwide myth and legendry.
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The word legendary was originally a noun (introduced in the 1510s) meaning a collection or corpus of legends. This word changed to legendry, and legendary became the adjectival form. By 1613, English-speaking Protestants began to use the word when they wished to imply that an event (especially the story of any saint not acknowledged in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments) was fictitious. Thus, legend gained its modern connotations of "undocumented" and "spurious", which distinguish it from the meaning of chronicle.
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The Statue of Five Goats in Yuexiu Garden in Guangzhou City The Legend of Five Goats comes from the ancient Guangzhou city, and is an origin of Guangzhou's nicknames like 'City of Five Goats', 'City of the Goat', 'City of the Rice'. It is also the origin of many Guangzhou local brands' names. The name 'Five Goats' can earliest be seen in poetry of Tang dynasty, and the related legendry can be dated back to Jin dynasty. Though the legendary had several versions, it was unified after Ming dynasty.
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Monsters of Myth & Legend is a supplement describing over 100 monsters drawn from the American Indian, Australian Aborigine, Chinese, Greek, Irish Celtic, and Norse mythoi. Each includes game statistics and legendry; most are illustrated. Monsters of Myth & Legend is a sourcebook play aid containing encyclopedic listings of dozens of creatures and deities to add to an existing fantasy campaign or to help designers in coming up with their own adventures. Norse and Greek mythologies are covered, along with the legends of Ireland, China, the Australian Aborigines, and the American Indians.
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Hemingway's apparent obsession with boxing is documented in multiple archived letters and he is widely quoted as having said, "my writing is nothing, my boxing is everything" whilst being interviewed by Josephine Herbst. The way in which Hemingway appreciated boxing is made ever more vivid through the way he characterized Christ as a gallant boxer in Today is Friday. Indeed, the play has been noted one of the author's clearest indications of his love for the sport in this regard. In his book, The Hemingway Short Story: a critical appreciation, George Monteiro describes the way in which Jesus is presented in the text: > Not yet suffused with historical Christianity, mythology or legendry, Jesus > emerges in the eyes of some of the Romans, not as an outlaw or a man > obsessed by a vision, but as a courageous performer under extreme duress.
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Some scholars have identified components of the legend of the Eternal Jew in Teutonic legends of the Eternal Hunter, some features of which are derived from Odin mythology. "In some areas the farmers arranged the rows in their fields in such a way that on Sundays the Eternal Jew might find a resting place. Elsewhere they assumed that he could rest only upon a plough or that he had to be on the go all year and was allowed a respite only on Christmas." Most likely drawing on centuries of unwritten folklore, legendry, and oral tradition brought to the West as a product of the Crusades, a Latin chronicle from Bologna, Ignoti Monachi Cisterciensis S. Mariae de Ferraria Chronica et Ryccardi de Sancto Germano Chronica priora, contains the first written articulation of the Wandering Jew. In the entry for the year 1223, the chronicle describes the report of a group of pilgrims who meet "a certain Jew in Armenia" (quendam Iudaeum) who scolded Jesus on his way to be crucified and is therefore doomed to live until the Second Coming. Every hundred years the Jew returns to the age of 30.
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