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| Centaur in the Heracles myth. Tries to take Deinara and rape her, gives her a cloak dipped in blood as a token of his love. |
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| centaur who tries to rape Deinara. Gives her blood soaked cloak as a love charm. which eventually kills Heracles |
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| wife of Heracles after he becomes a god |
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| 3rd c CE. Voyage of Argonauts. quest for the golden fleece |
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| leader of argonauts. woos medea with his flirting, for her aid to obtain the golden fleece |
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| fleece of a magical ram. object of the quest of the argonauts |
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| lover of Heracles. Goes to spring to draw water and is dragged under by nymph |
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| sorcerer that aids jason in obtaining magical ram's Golden fleece. kills their children to get back at Jason for marrying another woman |
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| saw athena who had the severed head of medusa which turned iodama to stone. |
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| he is a 2nd c CE travel guide. |
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| Sister or semele and Athamas. Becomes god after she tries to commit suicide from jumping from cliff after killing son of zeus and Semele. name change from Ino to Leukothea after becoming god. |
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| has an affair with Zeus. Dies after seeing his true form. |
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| incubated in Zeus' thigh. son of Zeus and Semele. |
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| Drove insane by Hera. Thinks Dionysos is a deer and shoots him with an arrow. |
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| tied to argonauts give them the advice "pay back mother" meaning carry the ship. |
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| daughters of Hesperis,live at boundary of world, guard magic tree of apples, aid argonauts |
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| Mid to late 1800's European Folklore. Brothers Grimm. criticzed for their method of interviewing their friends for myths. |
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| Scandanavian (neck) Danish (Nökken). River spirit, usually in form of man, horse, or centaur. Shape shift ability, dangerous, like to drag victims under. Like to take female women for wives. |
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| "The Power of the Harp" myth. about to be married to Sir Peter. prophecy that she will be taken by neck to be his wife. family recurrence. |
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| has armed guards be with wife on her travel from family's house to his for wedding. guards are mesmerized by deer. Has to gain wife back from neck. Plays beautifully on harp for neck who agrees to give back his wife(kerstin) and her two sisters. |
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| all male like necks. spirit of water fall. skilled musician. will teach skills for a fat black lamb. |
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| another name for stromkarl |
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| half man/half woman. merpeople. Generally give prophecy of sailors death. dangerous often lure sailor with beauty and singing and drag them under to kill them. |
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| Refuses to sleep with mermaid. She curses him and his family with insanity. |
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| water people. often wear green and have damp parts about them (shirt tail, hair, etc). Prophesy bc they generally plan to kill you themself. beautiful |
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| once was a mortal woman. has an unfaithful boyfriend. throws herself from cliff to kill herself. turned into nixie and sits on same cliff and sings to lure sailors to shipwreck them on rocks and kill them. |
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| daughters of River Rhine. equal to greek nymph. |
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| Herr Peter Dimringer von Staufenberg |
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| sea sprite wants to sleep with him. She is gorgeous. He agrees to terms that he may never marry again. he is pressured into remarrying and a prophecy from the sprite about a foot comes true at his wedding reception. he dies. German |
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| mischeivious tricksters.German. |
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| British. New Yrs Eve beautifully dressed in all white, paddles across lake. Man falls in love. offers her loaves of bread and wheels of cheese. she agrees to marry him but she will leave if he hits her 3 times. which he does for her "unacceptable behavior" at a christening, wedding of young woman and old man, and funeral. |
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| british. Shape shifter. seal people. |
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| angry at thetis for burning child and leaves. |
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| horses. sometimes men. like necks are shape shifter. tricksters often dangerous. usually good when in horse form. |
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