Which imaginary creature was described by Lewis Carroll as with jaws that bite and claws that catch?
"Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children's fiction, notably ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and its sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"". He was noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. The poems ""Jabberwocky"" and ""The Hunting of the Snark"" are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. Carroll came from a family of high church Anglicans, and developed a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where he lived for"
"with chasms and crags, very distant from England. On the same island may also be found other creatures such as the jubjub and bandersnatch. The snark is a peculiar creature that cannot be captured in a commonplace way. Above all, courage is required during a snark hunt. The most common method is to seek it with thimbles, care, forks, and hope. One may also ""threaten its life with a railway share"" or ""charm it with smiles and soap"". Snark (Lewis Carroll) The snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem ""The Hunting of the"
"Cheshire Cat The Cheshire Cat ( or ) is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. While most often celebrated in ""Alice""-related contexts, the Cheshire Cat predates the 1865 novel and has transcended the context of literature and become enmeshed in popular culture, appearing in various forms of media, from political cartoons to television, as well as cross-disciplinary studies, from business to science. One of its distinguishing features is that from time to time its body disappears, the last thing visible being its iconic grin. There are numerous"
"Snark (Lewis Carroll) The snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"". His descriptions of the creatures were, in his own words, unimaginable, and he wanted that to remain so. According to Carroll, the initial inspiration to write the poem – which he called an ""agony in eight fits"" – was the final line, ""For the snark was a boojum, you see"". Carroll was asked repeatedly to explain the snark. In all cases, his answer was he did not know and could not explain. Later commentators have offered many"
"An abridged version of the poem is spoken by the Mad Hatter (played by Johnny Depp). Jabberwocky ""Jabberwocky"" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named ""the Jabberwock"". It was included in his 1871 novel ""Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"", the sequel to ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of Looking-Glass Land. In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realizing that"
"Jabberwocky ""Jabberwocky"" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named ""the Jabberwock"". It was included in his 1871 novel ""Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There"", the sequel to ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of Looking-Glass Land. In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realizing that she is travelling through an inverted world, she recognises that the verses on the pages are"
"Mock Turtle The Mock Turtle is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll from his popular book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". Its name is taken from a dish that was popular in the Victorian period, mock turtle soup. Carroll enjoyed such puns on Victorian fashions and etiquette, and showed this frequently. The description and drawing by John Tenniel gives comedic value to the Mock Turtle, as he is clearly an assemblage of creatures, therefore not a real turtle as his name rightly suggests. Alice encounters the Mock Turtle with the Gryphon. The Mock Turtle is a very melancholic character, because"
"Lewis Chessmen from northern Europe are carved from walrus ivory. Because of its distinctive appearance, great bulk, and immediately recognizable whiskers and tusks, the walrus also appears in the popular cultures of peoples with little direct experience with the animal, particularly in English children's literature. Perhaps its best-known appearance is in Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem ""The Walrus and the Carpenter"" that appears in his 1871 book ""Through the Looking-Glass"". In the poem, the eponymous antiheroes use trickery to consume a great number of oysters. Although Carroll accurately portrays the biological walrus's appetite for bivalve mollusks, oysters, primarily nearshore and intertidal"
"Bandersnatch A bandersnatch is a fictional creature in Lewis Carroll's 1872 novel ""Through the Looking-Glass"" and his 1874 poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"". Although neither work describes the appearance of a bandersnatch in great detail, in ""The Hunting of the Snark"", it has a long neck and snapping jaws, and both works describe it as ferocious and extraordinarily fast. ""Through the Looking-Glass"" implies that bandersnatches may be found in the world behind the looking-glass, and in ""The Hunting of the Snark"", a bandersnatch is found by a party of adventurers after crossing an ocean. Bandersnatches have appeared in various"
"Bandersnatch A bandersnatch is a fictional creature in Lewis Carroll's 1872 novel ""Through the Looking-Glass"" and his 1874 poem ""The Hunting of the Snark"". Although neither work describes the appearance of a bandersnatch in great detail, in ""The Hunting of the Snark"", it has a long neck and snapping jaws, and both works describe it as ferocious and extraordinarily fast. ""Through the Looking-Glass"" implies that bandersnatches may be found in the world behind the looking-glass, and in ""The Hunting of the Snark"", a bandersnatch is found by a party of adventurers after crossing an ocean. Bandersnatches have appeared in various"
"were not frequently used and often discarded, including the head, hooves, and tail; and uses the non-muscular meat to imitate turtle meat. Tenniel's illustration shows the Mock Turtle with the body of a turtle, and the head, hooves, and tail of a calf. The complicated pun, then, is both word-play and picture-play. Mock Turtle The Mock Turtle is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll from his popular book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". Its name is taken from a dish that was popular in the Victorian period, mock turtle soup. Carroll enjoyed such puns on Victorian fashions and etiquette, and"
"Gryphon (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) The Gryphon is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll in the popular book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". True to the conventional view of a griffin, he has the head, talons, and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. The Gryphon appears to be somewhat overbearing and dismissive of the obsessions and dismays of other characters, such as the Mock Turtle's sorrow and the Queen of Hearts' executions, neither of which (according to the Gryphon) have any basis in fact. He speaks with a slightly ungrammatical Cockney-like accent and makes demands of"
"poems. The two creatures go on to explain certain features of their world which are apparently nonsense to Alice, before Alice and the Gryphon are summoned to a criminal trial, leaving the Mock Turtle behind. Gryphon (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) The Gryphon is a fictional character devised by Lewis Carroll in the popular book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". True to the conventional view of a griffin, he has the head, talons, and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. The Gryphon appears to be somewhat overbearing and dismissive of the obsessions and dismays of other characters, such"
"States and Australia, is said to grasp its tail in its mouth and roll like a wheel towards its prey. Japanese culture includes a similar mythical creature, the ""Tsuchinoko"". Buer, a demon mentioned in the 16th-century grimoire ""Pseudomonarchia Daemonum"", was described and illustrated in Collin de Plancy's ""Dictionnaire Infernal"" as having radially-arranged arms on which it rolled. The Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher illustrated a rolling creature of his own invention in a 1951 lithograph. Rolling creatures are also featured in works written by comic author Carl Barks, science fiction writers Fredric Brown, George R. R. Martin, and Joan"
"Vorpal sword ""Vorpal sword"" and ""vorpal blade"" are phrases used by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem ""Jabberwocky"", which have been taken up in several other media. Carroll never provided a definition. The term has been adopted by the roleplaying game ""Dungeons & Dragons"", where ""vorpal"" blades have the ability to decapitate opponents on lucky strikes. Carroll published ""Through the Looking-Glass"" in 1871. Near the beginning, Alice discovers and reads the poem ""Jabberwocky"", which Humpty Dumpty later attempts to explain, to her increasing consternation. One of the poem's several nonsense adjectives, ""vorpal"" is twice used to describe the sword a"
"recurring characters in stories for children throughout the modern era. Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" (1865) contains the poem ""How Doth the Little Crocodile"", a parody of a moralising poem by Isaac Watts, """". In J. M. Barrie's novel ""Peter and Wendy"" (1911), the character Captain Hook has lost his arm to the crocodile. Hook fears the crocodile, but is warned of its approach by the ticking of a clock which it has swallowed. In Rudyard Kipling's ""Just So Stories"" (1902), the Elephant's Child acquires his trunk by having his (short) nose pulled very hard by the Crocodile ""on"
"Hatter (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) The Hatter is a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and its sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"". He is very often referred to as the Mad Hatter, though this term was never used by Carroll. The phrase ""mad as a hatter"" pre-dates Carroll's works. The Hatter and the March Hare are referred to as ""both ""mad"""" by the Cheshire Cat, in ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" in the seventh chapter titled ""A Mad Tea-Party"". The Hatter character, alongside all the other fictional beings, first appears in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland""."
"Lou Carcolh Lou Carcolh, or the Carcolh, is a supposed mythical beast from Gascon folklore. It was described as being both a serpent and mollusc at the same time, taking characteristics from both types of animals. Its massive and long body carried an enormous shell upon its back, much like a snail's shell, that was believed to live in underground caverns in southwest France. Its gaping mouth was surrounded by several long, hairy, and slime covered tentacles that could extend for miles. These appendages stretched out from the cave it inhabited for a long distance and laid upon the ground"
"Yale (mythical creature) The yale or centicore (Latin: ""eale"") is a mythical beast found in European mythology and heraldry. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with the tusks of a boar and large horns that it can swivel in any direction. The name might be derived from Hebrew יָעֵל (""yael""), meaning ""Ibex"". The yale was first written about by Pliny the Elder in Book VIII of his ""Natural History"": he describes the ""eale"" as a creature found in Aethiopia ""the size of a hippopotamus, with an elephant's tail, of a black or tawny colour, with the"
"whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lightning I awoke; and this time also I spent the rest of the night in working out the consequences of the hypothesis. The genus of the armadillo girdled lizard, ""Ouroborus cataphractus"", takes its name from the animal's defensive posture: curling into a ball and holding its own tail in its mouth. Notes Bibliography Ouroboros The Ouroboros or uroborus () is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Originating in ancient Egyptian iconography, the ouroboros entered western tradition via Greek magical tradition and was adopted"
"their sleep; nothing more is said of them. Gorcrow is an old term for Carrion crow, a common Eurasian scavenging bird. The Mewlips The Mewlips is a hobbit poem, appearing in the work ""The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"" by J.R.R. Tolkien. It concerns the ""Mewlips"", an imaginary race of evil creatures that feed on passers by, collecting their bones in a sack. The poem describes the long and lonely road needed to reach the Mewlips, travelling beyond the Merlock Mountains, and through the marsh of Tode and the wood of ""hanging trees and gallows-weed"". None of these names appear on"
"Achlis The achlis was one of a number of strange creatures listed in Roman mythology by Pliny the Elder in the 1st century BCE. He described it as saying it looked somewhat like an elk, though it bore some very strange characteristics. It was said its upper lip was so large that it had to graze backwards to avoid its lip falling over its mouth. A great problem because its back legs had no joints, forcing it to sleep standing up or leaning against a tree. This allowed hunters a relatively easy way to catch them. They chopped halfway through"
"Tartalo Tartaro, Tartalo, or Torto in Basque mythology, is an enormously strong one-eyed giant very similar to the Greek Cyclops that Ulysses faced in Homer's Odyssey. He is said to live in caves in the mountains and catches young people in order to eat them; in some accounts he eats sheep also. Alarabi is another name for the creature. Anxo (or Ancho) may also be equivalent, but some sources say this is another name for the Basajaun. Tartaro (or Tartaroa) is the form given in some translated tales and commentary in French and English Torto, Anxo and Alarabi were the"
"looking at the Knave's petrified form. Later after bathing in the river, Elizabeth finds Cyrus' lamp where the Knave of Hearts is now residing. She does make some wishes which improves a nearby town. Elizabeth then admits to the Knave of Hearts that she has feelings for him. After unwittingly making her third wish for the Knave of Hearts to feel something for her, Elizabeth falls dead. The Jabberwocky later finds Elizabeth's dead body and takes her eyes so that Jafar can track down Cyrus' lamp. Bill the Lizard Bill the Lizard is a fictional character appearing in Lewis Carroll's"
"Rolling and wheeled creatures in fiction and legend Legends and speculative fiction reveal a longstanding human fascination with rolling and wheeled creatures. Such creatures appear in mythologies from Europe, Japan, pre-Columbian Mexico, the United States, and Australia, and in numerous modern works. The hoop snake, a creature of legend in the United States and Australia, is said to grasp its tail in its mouth and roll like a wheel towards its prey. Japanese culture includes a similar mythical creature, the ""Tsuchinoko"". Buer, a demon mentioned in the 16th-century grimoire ""Pseudomonarchia Daemonum"", was described in Collin de Plancy's 1825 edition of"
"times. Pliny the Elder, for instance, describes the legendary basilisk as a snake ""twelve fingers in length"". The animal reappears many times in Western literature, including in Isidore of Seville's medieval ""Etymologiae"", and more recently in J. K. Rowling's 1998 ""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"". Among the many other reptiles in children's literature, Rudyard Kipling's story ""How the Elephant got his Trunk"" in his 1902 book ""Just So Stories"" features a crocodile who grips and stretches the elephant's nose. Turtles and tortoises feature in books for children and adults, from The Tortoise and the Hare in Aesop's Fables"
"adaptations of Carroll's works; they have also been used in other authors' works and in other forms of media. Carroll's first mention of a Bandersnatch, in the poem ""Jabberwocky"" (which appears in ""Through the Looking-Glass""), is very brief: the narrator of the poem admonishes his son to ""shun / The frumious Bandersnatch"", the name describing the creature's ""fuming"" and ""furious"" character. Later in the novel, the White King says of his wife (the White Queen): ""She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch!"" In ""The Hunting of the Snark"", while the party searches for"
"March Hare The March Hare (called Haigha in ""Through the Looking-Glass"") is a character most famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". The main character, Alice, hypothesizes, ""Mad as a March hare"" is a common British English phrase, both now and in Carroll's time, and appears in John Heywood's collection of proverbs published in 1546. It is reported in ""The Annotated Alice"" by Martin Gardner that this proverb is based on popular belief about hares' behaviour at the beginning of the long breeding season, which lasts from February to September in Britain."
"caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's ""Alice in Wonderland"", c. 1865. The caterpillar is seated on a toadstool and is smoking a hookah pipe; the image can be read as showing either the forelegs of the larva, or as suggesting a face with protruding nose and chin. H.G. Wells wrote about intelligent ants destroying human settlements in Brazil and threatening human civilization in his 1905 science-fiction short story, ""The Empire of the Ants."" He made use of giant wasps in his 1904 novel ""The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth"": In 1917 the ghost story author Algernon Blackwood"
"Caterpillar (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) The Caterpillar (also known as the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar) is a fictional character appearing in Lewis Carroll's book ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". Introduced in Chapter Four (""Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill"") and the main center of interest of Chapter V (""Advice from a Caterpillar""), the Caterpillar is a hookah-smoking caterpillar exactly three inches high (a height, the virtues of which, he defends against Alice's complaint). Alice does not like the Caterpillar when they first meet, because he does not immediately talk to her and when he does, it is usually in short, rather rude sentences,"
"The Mouse's Tale ""The Mouse's Tale"" is a concrete poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in his novel ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". Though no formal title for the poem is given in the novel, the chapter title refers to ""A Long Tale"" and the Mouse introduces it by saying, ""Mine is a long and sad tale!"" Alice thinks the Mouse means its ""tail"", which makes her imagine the poem in its twisted, tail-like shape, as shown on the right: In the tale, the Mouse (speaking of itself in the third person) explains how a cur called Fury plotted to condemn"
"a lot of his lines came from improvisation. March Hare The March Hare (called Haigha in ""Through the Looking-Glass"") is a character most famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll's ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"". The main character, Alice, hypothesizes, ""Mad as a March hare"" is a common British English phrase, both now and in Carroll's time, and appears in John Heywood's collection of proverbs published in 1546. It is reported in ""The Annotated Alice"" by Martin Gardner that this proverb is based on popular belief about hares' behaviour at the beginning of the long breeding season,"
"the Tees valley before being repulsed. The notion of the Sockburn worm itself was used by Lewis Carroll as the basis of his nonsense rhyme ""Jabberwocky"". Fictional depictions of worms Worms have played major roles in world mythology and its associated literatures. The word was often used to describe creatures now classified as caterpillars, millipedes, snakes, maggots, and lizards, along with dragons. Its symbolic meaning is divided between death and renewal. Worms continue to play mixed roles in modern cultures. The current usage of ""worm"" as a type of malicious Internet software is derived from a 1975 science fiction novel,"