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Brewer's: Mara
A goblin that seized upon men asleep in their beds, and took from them all speech and motion. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Marabou FeathersMaori A B C…Brewer's: John-a-Dreams
A stupid, dreamy fellow, always in a brown study and half asleep. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing.…Brewer's: Drop off
(To). “Friends drop off,” fall away gradually. “To drop off to sleep,” to fall asleep (especially in weariness or sickness). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Land of Shadows
(Gone to the). Fallen asleep. Shadows = dreams, or shadows of realities. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Land of Stars and StripesLand of Promise A B C D…The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Elves and the Shoemaker There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone…John Hall Wheelock: Earth
EarthJohn Hall WheelockGrasshopper, your fairy song And my poem alike belong To the dark and silent earth From which all poetry has birth; All we say and all we sing Is but as the murmuring…Sara Teasedale: The Carpenter's Son
The Carpenter's SonThe summer dawn came over-soon, The earth was like hot iron at noon In Nazareth; There fell no rain to ease the heat, And dusk drew on with tired feet And…Baron Munchausen: The Baron relates his adven...
by Rudolph Erich Raspe The Baron is made a prisone... Bathes in the Mediterranean... The Baron relates his adven... The Baron relates his adventures on a voyage to North America…Brewer's: Vampire
An extortioner. According to Dom Calmet, the vampire is a dead man who returns in body and soul from the other world, and wanders about the earth doing mischief to the living. He sucks the…Brewer's: Rome of the West
Aachen, or Aix la Chapelle, the favourite city of Charlemagne, where, when he died, he was seated, embalmed, on a throne, with the Bible on his lap, his sword (La Joyeuse) by his side, the…Trending
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