"Porter's ""Jubilee"" (1935). In 1984 Italian pop music duo Al Bano and Romina Power released the song ""Al ritmo de beguine (Ti amo)"" from their album ""Effetto amore"". Beguine (dance) The beguine is a dance and music form, similar to a slow rhumba. It was popular in the 1930s, coming from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, where in local Creole ""Beke"" or ""Begue"" means a White person, and ""Beguine"" is the female form. It is a combination of Latin folk dance and French ballroom dance, and is a spirited but slow, close dance with a roll of the hips"
"Peregrine (comics) Peregrine (Alain Racine) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Peregrine first appeared in ""Contest of Champions"" #1 and was created by Mark Gruenwald, Bill Mantlo, Steven Grant, John Romita Jr., and Pablo Marcos. The word ""peregrine"" does not mean ""falcon"" in French, making the name ""Le Peregrine"" quite odd to a French reader (the word does exist in French, though it is used to refer to the ""peregrine saltbush"", or ""Atriplex suberecta"" and not any species of birds); in French translations of comics featuring the character, his name was changed to"
"Portnoy (comics) Portnoy is a character in Berke Breathed's comic strip Bloom County. Portnoy was one of the critters that could talk, and was often surly mouthed and bigoted, usually leading Hodge-Podge, his best friend, to have to cover his mouth. When Bill the Cat became a televangelist denouncing ""penguin lust"", Portnoy helped run Opus the penguin out of town. The character was named for ""Portnoy's Complaint"", a novel about sexual frustration. Portnoy changed physically over the years; sometimes into an entirely different animal. It was initially unknown what species he was; sometimes a squirrel, an opossum, or a gopher."
"Burning Pestle"" (1607) by Francis Beaumont, a similar being is known as Lob-Lie-by-the-Fire, described as a giant and the son of a witch. The folklorist Katharine Briggs stated that the two creatures are generally equated. Her own fantasy novel, ""Hobberdy Dick"" (1955), is about a hobgoblin that lives in the home of a 17th-century Puritan family. In John Bunyan's hymn ""To Be a Pilgrim"" (1684), the hobgoblin is coupled with ""a foul fiend"" as two monstrous beings who try and fail to ""daunt the Pilgrim's spirit"". The term ""hobgoblin"" is used sometimes to mean a superficial object that is a"
"peregrine breeders also used the Old French term , ""of noble birth; aristocratic"", particularly with the peregrine. The peregrine falcon is the national animal of the United Arab Emirates. Since 1927, the peregrine falcon has been the official mascot of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. The 2007 U.S. Idaho state quarter features a peregrine falcon. The peregrine falcon has been designated the official city bird of Chicago. ""The Peregrine"", by J. A. Baker, is widely regarded as one of the best nature books in English written in the twentieth century. Admirers of the book include Robert Macfarlane,"
"Pig Bodine Seaman ""Pig"" Bodine is a fictional character appearing in many novels written by Thomas Pynchon. Bodine appears in ""V."" (1963), and recurs in ""Gravity's Rainbow"" (1973). Characters named Bodine also appear in ""Mason & Dixon"" (1997) and ""Against the Day"" (2006). He also occurs in the short-story ""Low-lands"" (1960, 1984). A character called ""Fender-Belly Bodine,"" presumably an ancestor of ""Pig,"" appears as a seaman in ""Mason & Dixon"". First developed in ""V."" as sidekick and comic foil to protagonist Benny Profane, Bodine reappears (set a decade or more earlier) in ""Gravity's Rainbow"". Another seafaring Bodine, referred to only"
"who are beavers. The animated Nickelodeon show ""The Angry Beavers"" features Daggett and Norbert. The anthropomorphic Mr. and Mrs. Beaver have an important role in the plot of ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"", first part of C.S.Lewis' ""The Chronicles of Narnia"". The first ""Redwall"" book features an unnamed beaver who helps Constance the badger build a bow, the only one ever seen before the books shifted to focus on animals commonly native to the English Isles. The 2014 American horror comedy film directed by Jordan Rubin called Zombeavers, which follows a group of college kids on a camping"
"Finally he was revealed as a groundhog, which he had hidden because Hodge didn't associate with ""pigs"". Eventually the two made up. Portnoy and Hodge enjoy human-like entertainment, such as strip bars and playing jokes on others (Portnoy once pretended to be stuffed). Portnoy (comics) Portnoy is a character in Berke Breathed's comic strip Bloom County. Portnoy was one of the critters that could talk, and was often surly mouthed and bigoted, usually leading Hodge-Podge, his best friend, to have to cover his mouth. When Bill the Cat became a televangelist denouncing ""penguin lust"", Portnoy helped run Opus the penguin"
"Beatrix Potter; ""The Wind in the Willows"" by Kenneth Grahame (1908); ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (1926) and ""The House at Pooh Corner"" (1928) by A. A. Milne; and ""The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"" (1950) and the subsequent books in ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" series by C. S. Lewis. In many of these stories the animals can be seen as representing facets of human personality and character. As John Rowe Townsend remarks, discussing ""The Jungle Book"" in which the boy Mowgli must rely on his new friends the bear Baloo and the black panther Bagheera, ""The world of the jungle is in"
"mentioned in ""The Beast Below"" (2010). The Doctor warns Bill not to look at his browser history, the same order he gave to Osgood in ""The Zygon Inversion"" (2015). The colony ship is named ""Erewhon"", based on the work ""Erewhon: or, Over the Range"" by Samuel Butler; the story is of a man that finds a seemingly idealistic society but then turns away when he discovers there are harsh penalties for even slight offenses. References are made to two songs, ""Ashes to Ashes"" by David Bowie and ""Any Old Iron"" made famous by Harry Champion. The read-through for this episode"
"Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool. The title, as is the case in six of Condon's first seven books, is derived from the last line of a typical bit of Condonian doggerel that supposedly comes from a fictitious ""Keener's Manual"" mentioned in many of his earlier novels: The verse is found in only one place, as an epigraph on a blank page four pages after the title page and two pages before the beginning of the text. Unusual for a Condon"
"Hobbit Hobbits are a fictional, diminutive, humanoid race who inhabit the lands of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fiction. They are also referred to as Halflings. Hobbits first appeared in the novel ""The Hobbit"", whose titular hobbit is the protagonist Bilbo Baggins. The novel ""The Lord of the Rings"" includes as major characters the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Peregrin Took, and Meriadoc Brandybuck, as well as several other minor hobbit characters. Hobbits are also briefly mentioned in ""The Silmarillion"" and ""Unfinished Tales"". According to the author in the prologue to ""The Lord of the Rings"", hobbits are ""relatives"""
"sometimes derisively identified as plot coupons. The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name ""MacGuffin"". The Holy Grail of Arthurian Legend has been cited as an example of an early MacGuffin, as the desired object that serves to advance the plot. The World War I–era actress Pearl White used ""weenie"" to identify whatever object (a roll of film, a rare coin, expensive diamonds, etc.) impelled the heroes, and often the villains as well, to pursue each other through the convoluted plots of ""The Perils of Pauline"" and the other silent film serials in which she starred."
"livestock almost everywhere except in parts of India and Nepal where they are considered sacred by most Hindus. Bovids are used as draft animals and as riding animals. Small breeds of bovid, such as the Miniature Zebu, are kept as pets. Bovine is derived from Latin ""bos"", ""ox"", through Late Latin ""bovinus"". Bos comes from the Indo-European root ""*gous"", meaning ox. Bovinae The biological subfamily Bovinae includes a diverse group of 10 genera of medium to large-sized ungulates, including domestic cattle, bison, African buffalo, the water buffalo, the yak, and the four-horned and spiral-horned antelopes. The evolutionary relationship between the"
"name ""Reggie"". A valet called Jevons appears in Wodehouse's 1914 short story ""Creatures of Impulse"", and may have been an early prototype for Jeeves. Like Jeeves, Jevons is described as the perfect valet. ""Creatures of Impulse"" appeared in ""The Strand Magazine"", and was not republished in any collection, though some parts went into the making of ""The Crime Wave at Blandings"". In his 1953 semi-autobiographical book written with Guy Bolton, ""Bring on the Girls!"", Wodehouse suggested that the Jeeves character was inspired by an actual butler named Eugene Robinson whom Wodehouse employed for research purposes. Wodehouse described Robinson as a"
"being. This is not the first time Beckett has used light to symbolise existence: “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” The protagonist is nameless, he is Everyman. “As Beckett told Barney Rosset, his longtime U.S. publisher, in 1957: he is just ‘human meat or bones.’” When he first looks at his hands it is “”as though [he is] noticing his own body for the first time … Having become cognisant of his ""Dasein"" … [he is willing to] accept the presence of various ""Seiendes""”, as Heidegger calls existing objects,"
"""ciwei"" or the ""thorned creature"". Porcupines are rodents and hedgehogs belong to a separate order. Three species of Old World porcupine are found in China: the Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine, Indian crested porcupine, and Malayan porcupine. Many parts of the porcupine including the brain, organs, fat, quills and even the feces can be used to make traditional Chinese medicine. Porcupines are raised on farms. In the early 20th century, the Eurasian beaver was hunted to near extinction for its fur and castoreum, a scent gland secretion used to make perfume and medicine. Though the global population has rebounded, the animal remains"
"Carpe Jugulum Carpe Jugulum (; Latatian for ""seize the throat"", cf. ""Carpe diem"") is a comic fantasy novel by English writer Terry Pratchett, the twenty-third in the ""Discworld"" series. It was first published in 1998. In ""Carpe Jugulum"", Terry Pratchett pastiches the traditions of vampire literature, playing with the mythic archetypes and featuring a tongue-in-cheek reversal of 'vampyre' subculture with young vampires who wear bright clothes, drink wine, and stay up until noon. Count Magpyr and family, vampires from Überwald, are invited to the naming of Magrat and King Verence's daughter, to be conducted by the Omnian priest, Mightily Oats."
"Hobgoblin A hobgoblin is a spirit of the hearth, typically appearing in folklore, which was once considered helpful but since the spread of Christianity has often been considered wicked. Shakespeare identifies the character of Puck in his ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" as a hobgoblin. The term ""hobgoblin"" comes from ""hob"" (""elf"") and ""goblin"" (""mischievous and ugly fairy""); ""Hob"" is simply a rustic name for the countryside goblin, ""a piece of rude familiarity to cover up uncertainty or fear"". ""Hob"" is generally explained as a diminutive for ""Robert"", and here short for ""Robin Goodfellow"". The earliest instance of the word can"
"Bugbear A bugbear is a legendary creature or type of hobgoblin comparable to the bogeyman (or bugaboo or babau), and other creatures of folklore, all of which were historically used in some cultures to frighten disobedient children. Its name is derived from the Middle English word ""bugge"" (a frightening thing), or perhaps the old Welsh word ""bwg"" (evil spirit or goblin), or old Scots ""bogill"" (goblin), and has cognates in German ""bögge"" or ""böggel-mann"" (goblin), and most probably also English ""bogeyman"" and American English ""bugaboo"". In medieval England, the Bugbear was depicted as a creepy bear that lurked in the"
"Penguin (character) The Penguin (Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. The character made his first appearance in ""Detective Comics"" #58 (December 1941) and was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The Penguin is one of Batman's most enduring enemies and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up Batman's rogues gallery. The Penguin is a Gotham City mobster who fancies himself a ""gentleman of crime"", often wearing a monocle, top hat, and tuxedo. The character is a short, obese man"
"concludes before their goal is attained. Blaylock's ""Zeuglodon"" revisits the Pellucidar theme, when a group of children attempt to rescue Giles Peach, one of the characters traveling to Pellucidar in ""The Digging Leviathan"". In Robert A. Heinlein's ""Number of the Beast"", the protagonists visit an inside-out world in their continua craft and discuss whether they've reached Pellucidar. In John Crowley's ""Little, Big"" (1981), a drug named Pellucidar is mentioned and appears to have an exhilarating and even aphrodisiac effect. During the initial explorations of Lechuguilla Cave in the late 1980s, a chamber was named ""Pellucidar"" in honor of these stories."
"Lutin A lutin () is a type of hobgoblin (an amusing goblin) in French folklore and fairy tales. Female lutins are called ""lutines"" (). A lutin (varieties include the ""Nain Rouge"" or ""red dwarf"") plays a similar role in the folklore of Normandy to house-spirits in England, Germany and Scandinavia. ""Lutin"" is generally translated into English as: brownie, elf, fairy, gnome, goblin, hobgoblin, imp, leprechaun, pixie, puck, or sprite. It sometimes takes the form of a horse saddled ready to ride, and in this shape is called Le Cheval Bayard. Lutins sometimes tangle people's or horses' hair into elf-locks. A"
"and Art Blakey. The term ""bebop"" is derived from nonsense syllables (vocables) used in scat singing; the first known example of ""bebop"" being used was in McKinney's Cotton Pickers' ""Four or Five Times"", recorded in 1928. It appears again in a 1936 recording of ""I'se a Muggin'"" by Jack Teagarden. A variation, ""rebop"", appears in several 1939 recordings. The first, known print appearance also occurred in 1939, but the term was little-used subsequently until applied to the music now associated with it in the mid-1940s. Thelonious Monk claims that the original title ""Bip Bop"" for his tune ""52nd Street Theme"","
"as ""O.I.C."" (Officer in Command), briefly makes a cameo in ""Against the Day"", again in an appearance with no obvious purpose besides as an intertextual in-joke. Pig Bodine Seaman ""Pig"" Bodine is a fictional character appearing in many novels written by Thomas Pynchon. Bodine appears in ""V."" (1963), and recurs in ""Gravity's Rainbow"" (1973). Characters named Bodine also appear in ""Mason & Dixon"" (1997) and ""Against the Day"" (2006). He also occurs in the short-story ""Low-lands"" (1960, 1984). A character called ""Fender-Belly Bodine,"" presumably an ancestor of ""Pig,"" appears as a seaman in ""Mason & Dixon"". First developed in ""V."""
"the final scene. ""Typhoon"" by Joseph Conrad has a nameless boatswain who tells Captain MacWhirr of a ""lump"" of men going overboard during the peak of the storm. Also, the character Bill Bobstay in Gilbert and Sullivan's musical comedy ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" is alternatively referred to as a ""bos'un"" and a ""boatswain's mate."" Another boatswain from literature is Smee from ""Peter Pan"". Lord Byron had a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. Byron wrote the famous poem ""Epitaph to a Dog"" and had a monument made for him at Newstead Abbey. Quartermaster is the highest rank in the Sea Scouts, BSA, an older"
"boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds , lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost. Nay, every lone tenement, castle, or mansion-house, which could boast of any antiquity had its bogle, its spectre, or its"
"helps an inventor discover his own invention: bubblegum. A party of tourists spot a hairy creature, dubbed the 'Jamieson Gully monster'; the media swoop down in droves. The boys set off of to track down the Yowie but when they do come upon it, they are terrified and flee to the house. The girls finally confront the monster. One night in 1867, a cargo ship runs aground near the goldfields. A young sailor named Jake is accused of negligence, his punishment is to be hanged. Constance believes Jake's story and so she and her friends set off to investigate the"
"the day that he might recover. ""The Beast Within"" is a 1982 horror film loosely based on the novel. The film rights for the novel were quickly purchased, but when the film was released, the screen adaptation bore very little resemblance to the novel. The Beast Within (novel) The Beast Within is a horror novel written by Edward Levy. The book begins in the 1920s on the farm of Henry and Sarah Scruggs. Henry is a fanatically religious man who believes that people are vile and base, and that sex—even marital sex—is repulsive and sinful. Sarah, who is much younger"
"woods to scare children. It was described in this manner in an English translation of a 1565 Italian play ""The Buggbear"". In a modern context, the term ""bugbear"" may also mean pet peeve. Bugbear A bugbear is a legendary creature or type of hobgoblin comparable to the bogeyman (or bugaboo or babau), and other creatures of folklore, all of which were historically used in some cultures to frighten disobedient children. Its name is derived from the Middle English word ""bugge"" (a frightening thing), or perhaps the old Welsh word ""bwg"" (evil spirit or goblin), or old Scots ""bogill"" (goblin), and"
"and referenced in popular culture including games, novels, stories, and television. Hidebehinds are mentioned in Diane Duane's ""Young Wizards"" series. In the series, they are described as being mostly small creatures with the fear they engender in those they stalk being a defense mechanism. In 2016, the official ""Harry Potter"" themed newsite Pottermore by J. K. Rowling released a new story about the wizarding school Ilvermorny, which featured a Hidebehind. This ""nocturnal, forest-dwelling spectre"" preys on humanoid creatures, but a witch and Pukwudgie working together were able to defeat the creature. Hidebehind The Hidebehind is a nocturnal fearsome critter from"
"Bilbo Baggins Bilbo Baggins is the title character and protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel ""The Hobbit"", as well as a supporting character in ""The Lord of the Rings"". In Tolkien's narrative conceit, in which all the writings of Middle-earth are translations from the fictitious volume of ""The Red Book of Westmarch"", Bilbo is the author of ""The Hobbit"" and translator of various ""works from the elvish"" (as mentioned in the end of ""The Return of the King""). In ""The Hobbit"", Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit in comfortable middle age, was hired as a ""burglar"" –despite his initial objections–"
"of animals, humans and mythical beasts such as centaurs and sphinxes, and the Nephilim of the Biblical apocrypha described as the wicked sons of fallen angels and attractive women. The term hybrid is derived from Latin """", used for crosses such as of a tame sow and a wild boar. The term came into popular use in English in the 19th century, though examples of its use have been found from the early 17th century. Conspicuous hybrids are popularly named with portmanteau words, starting in the 1920s with the breeding of tiger–lion hybrids (liger and tigon). From the point of"