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Fantasy Encyclopedia
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Fantasy Encyclopedia (2005) (edit title/settings)

by Judy Allen (Author) (edit contributors)

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With a foreword by the award-winning fantasy author Jonathan Stroud, and illustration by some of the world's best illustrators including John Howe, the Fantasy Encyclopedia is a spectacular one-stop guide to the creatures and people of folklore and fantasy. From goblins and fairies to dragons... read more

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  • - Tells about many fantasy creatures, ideas, and tools.

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This book briefly explains many different mythological creatures. It goes through the ideas, concepts, and items usually associated with each creature, and talks as though everything in this book is real.

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First Sentence edit see section history

Elves, fairies, dwarves, goblins and their kind have been written and spoken of in every part of the world for centuries.

Table of Contents edit see section history

I. Foreword
II. Introduction
1. What is Fantasy?
III. The Little People
1. Elves and fairies
2. Traps and tricks
3. Celebrated fairies
4. Household helpers
5. Harmful Little People
6. Underground
7. Gremlins
IV. Elementals and Nature Spirits
1. Elementals
2. Nymphs
3. Forest ad woodland spirits
4. Solitary forest spirits
5. Dangerous water spirits
6. Dangers by the wayside
V. Mysterious Animals
1. Apemen of the mountains
2. In lakes
3. In the sea
VI. Fabulous Beasts
1. Dragons in the East
2. Dragons in the West
3. The unicorn
4. Fantasy horses
5. Fire and feather
6. Giant birds
7. Dangerous beasts
8. Hydra and the Nagas
9. Guardians of worlds and doors
VII. Mythical Beings
1. Beautiful but dangerous
2. Hideous and dangerous
3. Part-man, part-beast
4. Riddles and prophecies
5. Giants in the land
6. Ogres and trolls
7. Sea beings
8. Mermaids
VIII. Magic and Spells
1. Witches and wise women
2. Famous witches and enchantresses
3. Spells, cauldrons, and familiars
4. Wizards and magicians
5. Notable wizards
6. Sorcerers and necromancers
7. Portals and rings
8. Amulets, talismans, and charms
IX. Shape-Shifters
1.Werewolves
X. The Undead
1. Vampires
2. Count Dracula
3. Skeletons and symbolic heads
4. Mummies, zombies, and golems
XI. Ghosts and Spirits
1. Djinn or genies
2. Messengers of death
3. Ghouls and evil spirits
4. Ghosts and hauntings
5. Poltergeists
6. Ghost ships and eerie beasts
7. The Wild Hunt
XII. List of Creatures by Area
XIII. Glossary
XIV. Index
XV. Acknowledgments

Glossary edit see section history

  • agressive: Hostile, warlike, and liable to attack, either with words or weapons
  • ancestors: Great-grandparents, their parents, and so on, all the way back to the distant past
  • avengers: Those who take revenge, often on behalf of others
  • Aztecs: Native American people who built a great empire in Mexico from the A.D. 1300s until it was conquered by the Spanish in the 1500s
  • barrows: Ancient burial mounds
  • benevolent: Friendly, kindly, or helpful
  • billabongs: Small rivers or parts of rivers that come to a dead end; stagnant pools
  • cannibal: A person or animal who eats the flesh of its own kind
  • carrion: Dead and rotten flesh
  • celestial: Of the sky or heavens
  • composite: Made up of several different parts
  • constellation: A group of stars whose shape, when seen from Earth, seems to form the outline of beings or animals
  • decomposing: Decaying or rotting
  • demons: Evil spirits, devils
  • destiny: Fate-a future that has been planned in advance by the gods or some other power
  • deterrent: Anything that persuades someone against a certain course of action
  • divine: Like the gods, or coming from the gods, or God Himself
  • dugong: A large, air-breathing sea mammal related to the manatee. Both are sometimes called sea cows.
  • eerie: weird and frightening
  • effigy: Something made to look like, or represent, a person or god. An effigy may be made of almost any material, including stone, metal, or clay
  • elixir: A liquid mixture used to turn ordinary metal into gold or as a medicine to give unusually long life to a patient
  • emblem: A symbol, symbolic image, or picture of something
  • enchantement: a type of magic
  • eternity: Forever and ever-time without end
  • ethereal: light and delicate
  • executed: killed as a result of a sentence of death
  • exposure: to be uncovered or unprotected
  • extinct: died out and no longer in existence
  • fables: Stories, sometimes supernatural, often with animal characters, told in order to teach a moral lesson. The word is sometimes used for myths and legends.
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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Judy Allen (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Jonathan Stroud (Foreword)
  2. Carron Brown (Editor)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Kingfisher Publications Plc
Country: The United States of America
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 0-7534-5847-0
Page Count: 144

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