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        Welcome to NetHack!                ( description of version 3.4 )

        NetHack is a Dungeons and Dragons like game where you (the adventurer)
descend into the depths of the dungeon in search of the Amulet of Yendor,
reputed to be hidden somewhere below the twentieth level.  You begin your
adventure with a pet that can help you in many ways, and can be trained
to do all sorts of things.  On the way you will find useful (or useless)
items, quite possibly with magic properties, and assorted monsters.  You can
attack a monster by trying to move onto the space a monster is on (but often
it is much wiser to leave it alone).

        Unlike most adventure games, which give you a verbal description of
your location, NetHack gives you a visual image of the dungeon level you are
on.

        NetHack uses the following symbols:

        - and |  The walls of a room, possibly also open doors or a grave.
        .        The floor of a room or a doorway.
        #        A corridor, or iron bars, or a tree, or possibly a kitchen
                 sink (if your dungeon has sinks), or a drawbridge.
        >        Stairs down: a way to the next level.
        <        Stairs up: a way to the previous level.
        @        You (usually), or another human.
        )        A weapon of some sort.
        [        A suit or piece of armor.
        %        Something edible (not necessarily healthy).
        /        A wand.
        =        A ring.
        ?        A scroll.
        !        A potion.
        (        Some other useful object (pick-axe, key, lamp...)
        $        A pile of gold.
        *        A gem or rock (possibly valuable, possibly worthless).
        +        A closed door, or a spell book containing a spell
                 you can learn.
        ^        A trap (once you detect it).
        "        An amulet, or a spider web.
        0        An iron ball.
        _        An altar, or an iron chain.
        {        A fountain.
        }        A pool of water or moat or a pool of lava.
        \        An opulent throne.
        `        A boulder or statue.
        A to Z, a to z, and several others:  Monsters.
        I        Invisible or unseen monster's last known location

                 You can find out what a symbol represents by typing
                 '/' and following the directions to move the cursor
                 to the symbol in question.  For instance, a 'd' may
                 turn out to be a dog.


y k u   7 8 9   Move commands:
 \|/     \|/            yuhjklbn: go one step in specified direction
h-.-l   4-.-6           YUHJKLBN: go in specified direction until you
 /|\     /|\                        hit a wall or run into something
b j n   1 2 3           g<dir>:   run in direction <dir> until something
      numberpad                     interesting is seen
                        G<dir>,   same, except a branching corridor isn't
 <  up                  ^<dir>:     considered interesting (the ^ in this
                                    case means the Control key, not a caret)
 >  down                m<dir>:   move without picking up objects
                        F<dir>:   fight even if you don't sense a monster
                If the number_pad option is set, the number keys move instead.
                Depending on the platform, Shift number (on the numberpad),
                Meta number, or Alt number will invoke the YUHJKLBN commands.
                Control <dir> may or may not work when number_pad is enabled,
                depending on the platform's capabilities.

Commands:
        NetHack knows the following commands:
        ?       Help menu.
        `       Main Menu.
        /       Tell what a symbol represents.  You may choose to specify
                a location or give a symbol argument.
        &       Tell what a command does.
        <       Go up a staircase (if you are standing on it).
        >       Go down a staircase (if you are standing on it).
        .       Rest, do nothing for one turn.
        _       Travel via a shortest-path algorithm to a point on the map 
        a       Apply (use) a tool (pick-axe, key, lamp...)
        A       Remove all armor.
        ^A      Redo the previous command

        ^B      Steal
        c       Close a door.
        C       Call (name) an individual monster.
        d       Drop something.  d7a:  drop seven items of object a.
        D       Drop multiple items.  This command is implemented in two
                different ways.  One way is:
                "D" displays a list of all of your items, from which you can
                pick and choose what to drop.  A "+" next to an item means
                that it will be dropped, a "-" means that it will not be
                dropped.  Toggle an item to be selected/deselected by typing
                the letter adjacent to its description.  Select all items
                with "+", deselect all items with "=".  The <SPACEBAR> moves
                you from one page of the listing to the next.
                The other way is:
                "D" will ask the question "What kinds of things do you want
                to drop? [!%= au]".  You should type zero or more object
                symbols possibly followed by 'a' and/or 'u'.
                Da - drop all objects, without asking for confirmation.
                Du - drop only unpaid objects (when in a shop).
                D%u - drop only unpaid food.
        ^D      Kick (for doors, usually).
        f       Fire ammunition from quiver.
        F       Followed by direction, fight a monster (even if you don't
                sense it).
        e       Eat food. Vampires cannot eat as such. However, they can
                gain nutrition by draining blood from fresh corpses using
                this command.
        E       Engrave a message on the floor.
                E- - write in the dust with your fingers.
        f       Fire ammunition from quiver.
        i       Display your inventory.
        I       Display selected parts of your inventory, as in
                I* - list all gems in inventory.
                Iu - list all unpaid items.
                Ix - list all used up items that are on your shopping bill.
                I$ - count your money.
	n#      repeat next command             
	N       name or classify an item
        o       Open a door.
        O       Review current options and possibly change them.
                A menu displaying the option settings will be displayed
                and most can be changed by simply selecting their entry.
                Options are usually set before the game with a NETHACKOPTIONS
                environment variable, or via a config file (defaults.nh,
                Slash'EM Defaults, nethack.cnf, .nethackrc, etc.), not with 
                the 'O' command.
        p       Pay your shopping bill/Shopkeeper services.
        P       Put on an accessory (ring, amulet, etc).
        ^P      Repeat last message (subsequent ^P's repeat earlier messages).
                The behavior can be varied via the msg_window option.
        q       Drink (quaff) something (potion, water, etc).
        Q       Select ammunition for quiver.
        r       Read a scroll or spell book.
        R       Remove an accessory (ring, amulet, etc).
        ^R      Redraw the screen.
        s       Search for secret doors and traps around you.
        S       Save the game.
        t       Throw an object or shoot a projectile.
        T       Take off armor.
        ^T      Teleport, if you are able.
        v       Displays the version number.
        V       Display a longer identification of the version, including the
                history of the game.
        w       Wield weapon.  w- means wield nothing, use bare hands.
        W       Wear armor.
        x       Switch weapon slots.
        X       List the spells you know (same as '+').
        ^X      Show your attributes.
	^Y	polymorph (if possible)
        z       Zap a wand.
        Z       Cast a spell.
        ^Z      Suspend the game.
        :       Look at what is here.
        ;       Look at what is somewhere else.
        ,       Pick up some things.
        @       Toggle the pickup option.
        ^       Ask for the type of a trap you found earlier.
        )       Tell what weapon you are wielding.
        [       Tell what armor you are wearing.
        =       Tell what rings you are wearing.
        "       Tell what amulet you are wearing.
        (       Tell what tools you are using.
        *       List and change items in use.
        *       Tell what equipment you are using; combines the preceding five.
        $       Count your gold pieces.
        +       List the spells you know; also rearrange them if desired.
        \       Show what types of objects have been discovered.
        !       Escape to a shell, if supported in your version and OS.
        #       Introduces one of the "extended" commands.  To get a list of
                the commands you can use with "#" type "#?".  The extended
                commands you can use depends upon what options the game was
                compiled with, along with your class and what type of monster
                you most closely resemble at a given moment.  If your keyboard
                has a meta key (which, when pressed in combination with another
                key, modifies it by setting the 'meta' (8th, or 'high') bit),
                these extended commands can be invoked by meta-ing the first
                letter of the command.  An alt key may have a similar effect.

        If the "number_pad" option is on, some additional letter commands
        are available:

        h       displays the help menu, like '?'
        j       Jump to another location.
        k       Kick (for doors, usually).
        K       List vanquished monsters (whether by you or not).
        l       Loot a box on the floor.
        n       followed by number of times to repeat the next command
        N       Name an object or type of object.
        u       Untrap a trapped object or door.

        You can put a number before a command to repeat it that many times,
        as in "40." or "20s.".  If you have the number_pad option set, you
        must type 'n' to prefix the count, as in "n40." or "n20s".


        Some information is displayed on the bottom line or perhaps in a
        box, depending on the platform you are using.  You see your
        attributes, your alignment, what dungeon level you are on, how many
        hit points you have now (and will have when fully recovered), what
        your armor class is (the lower the better), your experience level,
        and the state of your stomach.  Optionally, you may or may not see
        other information such as spell points, how much gold you have, etc.

        Have Fun, and Happy Hacking!
y k u   7 8 9   Move commands:
 \|/     \|/            yuhjklbn: go one step in specified direction
h-.-l   4-.-6           YUHJKLBN: go in specified direction until you
 /|\     /|\                        hit a wall or run into something
b j n   1 2 3           g<dir>:   run in direction <dir> until something
      numberpad                     interesting is seen
                        G<dir>,   same, except a branching corridor isn't
 <  up                  ^<dir>:     considered interesting (the ^ in this
                                    case means the Control key, not a caret)
 >  down                m<dir>:   move without picking up objects
                If the number_pad option is set, the number keys move instead.
                Depending on the platform, Shift number (on the numberpad),
                Meta number, or Alt number will invoke the YUHJKLBN commands.
                Control <dir> may or may not work when number_pad is enabled,
                depending on the platform's capabilities.
  

General commands:
?       help    display one of several informative texts
`       menu    access the menusystem
S       save    save the game (to be continued later)
!       sh      escape to some SHELL (if allowed)
^Z      suspend suspend the game (independent of your current suspend char)
O       options set options
/       whatis  tell what a map symbol represents
\       known   display list of what's been discovered
v       version display version number
V       history display game history
X       explore switch the game to explore (discovery) mode
^A      again   redo the previous command (^A denotes the keystroke CTRL-A)
^R      redraw  redraw the screen
^P      prevmsg repeat previous message (subsequent ^P's repeat earlier ones)
#               introduces an extended command (#? for a list of them)

Game commands:
^B      bereave steal
^D      kick    kick (a door, or something else)
^T      'port   teleport (if you can)
^X      show    show your attributes
^Y	poly'	polymorph (if possible)
a       apply   apply or use a tool (pick-axe, key, camera, etc.)
A       armor   take off all armor
c       close   close a door
C       call    name an individual monster (ex. baptize your dog)
d       drop    drop an object.  d7a:  drop seven items of object 'a'
D       Drop    drop selected types of objects
e       eat     eat something (or drain corpse, if vampire)
E       engrave write a message in the dust on the floor  (E-  use fingers)
f	fire    fire item from quiver           
F       fight   followed by direction, fight a monster
i       invent  list your inventory (all objects you are carrying)
I       Invent  list selected parts of your inventory
                Iu: list unpaid objects
                Ix: list unpaid but used up items
                I$: count your money
n#      repeat  repeat next command             
N       name    name or classify an item
o       open    open a door
p       pay     pay your bill (in a shop)/shopkeeper services
P       puton   put on an accessory (ring, amulet, etc)
q       quaff   drink something (potion, water, etc)
Q       quiver  select ammunition for quiver
r       read    read a scroll or spell book
R       remove  remove an accessory (ring, amulet, etc)
s       search  search for secret doors, hidden traps and monsters
t       throw   throw or shoot a weapon
T       takeoff take off some armor
w       wield   wield a weapon  (w-  wield nothing)
W       wear    put on some armor
x       exchange swap weapon slots               
X       spells  list the spells you know
z       zap     zap a wand
Z       Zap     cast a spell
<       up      go up the stairs
>       down    go down the stairs
^       trap_id identify a previously found trap
),[,=,",(               ask for current items of specified symbol in use
*       items   list and change items in use
$       gold    count your gold
+       spells  list the spells you know
_       travel  move via a shortest-path algorithm to a point on the map
.       rest    wait a moment
,       pickup  pick up all you can carry
@               toggle "pickup" (auto pickup) option on and off
:       look    look at what is here
;       farlook look at what is somewhere else by selecting a map symbol

Keyboards that have a meta key can also use these extended commands
via the meta modifier instead of the # prefix:

M-?             Display extended command help (if the platform allows this)
M-2     twoweapon toggle two-weapon combat (unless number_pad is enabled)
M-a     adjust  adjust inventory letters
M-b     bereave steal
M-c     chat    talk to someone
M-d     dip     dip an object into something
M-e     enhance advance or check weapons skills
M-f     force   force a lock
M-i     invoke  invoke an object's special powers
M-j     jump    jump to another location
M-l     loot    loot a box on the floor
M-m     monster use a monster's special ability
M-n     name    name an item or type of object
M-o     offer   offer a sacrifice to the gods
M-p     pray    pray to the gods for help
M-q	quit	quit the game
M-r     rub     rub a lamp or a stone
M-s     sit     sit down
M-t     tech    use a class specific technique
M-u     untrap  untrap something
M-y     youpoly polymorph yourself
M-v     version print compile time options for this version
M-w     wipe    wipe off your face

If the "number_pad" option is on, these additional variants are available:

n               followed by number of times to repeat the next command
h       help    display one of several informative texts, like '?'
j       jump    jump to another location
k       kick    kick something (usually a door)
K       kills   list vanquished monsters (whether by you or not)
l       loot    loot a box on the floor
N       name    name an item or type of object
u       untrap  untrap something (usually a trapped object)
^       Show the type of a trap
^[      Cancel command
^A      Redo the previous command
^C      Quit the game
^D      Kick something (usually a door, chest, or box)
^E      Search a room (available in wizard mode only)
^F      Map the level (available in wizard mode only)
^G      Create a monster (available in wizard mode only)
^I      Identify all items (available in wizard mode only)
^J      go up an experience level (available in wizard mode only)
^O      Show location of special levels (available in wizard mode only)
^P      Toggle through previously displayed game messages
^R      Redraw screen
^T      Teleport around level
^V      Teleport between levels (available in wizard mode only)
^W      Wish (available in wizard mode only)
^X      Show your attributes (intrinsic ones included in debug or explore mode)
^Y      Polymorph (if you can)
^Z      Suspend game (only if defined)
a       Apply (use) a tool
A       Remove all armor
b       Go southwest 1 space
B       Go southwest until you are on top of something
^B      Go southwest until you are near something
c       Close a door
C       Call (name) a particular monster
d       Drop an item
D       Drop specific item types
e       Eat something
E       Engrave writing on the floor
f       Fire ammunition from quiver
F       Followed by direction, fight a monster (even if you don't sense it)
g       Followed by direction, move until you are near something
G       Followed by direction, same as control-direction
h       Go west 1 space (if number_pad is on, display help message)
H       Go west until you are on top of something
^H      Go west until you are near something
i       Show your inventory
I       Inventory specific item types
j       Go south 1 space (or if number_pad is on, jump to another location)
J       Go south until you are on top of something
^J      Go south until you are near something
k       Go north 1 space (or if number_pad is on, kick something)
K       Go north until you are on top of something (if number_pad, list kills)
^K      Go north until you are near something
l       Go east 1 space (or if number_pad is on, loot a box on the floor)
L       Go east until you are on top of something
^L      Go east until you are near something
m       Followed by direction, move without picking anything up
M       Followed by direction, move a distance without picking anything up
n       Go southeast 1 space
N       Go southeast until you are on something (if number_pad, name an object)
^N      Go southeast until you are near something
o       Open a door
O       Set options (O? explains options)
p       Pay your shopping bill/Shopkeeper services
P       Put on an accessory (ring, amulet, etc)
q       Quaff (drink) something (potion, water, etc)
Q       Select ammunition for quiver
r       Read a scroll or spell book
R       Remove an accessory (ring, amulet, etc)
s       Search for traps and secret doors
S       Save the game
t       Throw something
T       Take off one piece of armor
u       Go northeast 1 space (or if number_pad is on, untrap something)
U       Go northeast until you are on top of something
^U      Go northeast until you are near something
v       Show version
V       Show long version and game history
w       Wield (put in use) a weapon
W       Wear a piece of armor
x       Swap wielded and secondary weapons
X       List known spells
y       Go northwest 1 space
Y       Go northwest until you are on top of something
^Y      Go northwest until you are near something
z       Zap a wand
Z       Zap (cast) a spell
<       Go up a staircase
>       Go down a staircase
/       Show what type of thing a symbol corresponds to
?       Give a help message
&       Tell what a command does
`       Access the menusystem
!       Do a shell escape (only if defined)
\       Show what object types have been discovered
_       Travel via a shortest-path algorithm to a point on the map 
.       Rest one move while doing nothing
        Rest one move while doing nothing (if rest_on_space option is on)
:       Look at what is on the floor
;       Show what type of thing a map symbol on the level corresponds to
,       Pick up things at the current location
@       Toggle the pickup option on/off
)       Show the weapon currently wielded
*       Show all equipment in use (combination of the ),[,=,",( commands)
[       Show the armor currently worn
=       Show the ring(s) currently worn
"       Show the amulet currently worn
(       Show the tools currently in use
$       Count your gold
+       List known spells
#       Perform an extended command
M-?     Display extended command help (if the platform allows this)
M-2     Toggle two-weapon combat (unless number_pad is enabled)
M-a     Adjust inventory letters
M-b     Steal
M-c     Talk to someone
M-d     Dip an object into something
M-e     Class special effect
M-f     Force a lock
M-i     Invoke an object's special powers
M-j     Jump to another location
M-k     Advance or check weapons skills
M-l     Loot a box on the floor
M-m     Use a monster's special ability
M-n     Name an item or type of object
M-o     Offer a sacrifice to the gods
M-p     Pray to the gods for help
M-q     Quit
M-r     Rub a lamp
M-s     Sit down
M-t     Use techniques
M-u     Untrap something (trap, door, or chest)
M-v     Print compile time options for this version of NetHack
M-w     Wipe off your face
M-y     Polymorph yourself
SLASH'EM History file for release 0.0.7

Behold, mortal, the origins of SLASH'EM...

Jay Fenlason wrote the original Hack with help from Kenny Woodland,
Mike Thome, and Jon Payne.

Andries Brouwer did a major re-write, transforming Hack into a very different
game, and published (at least) three versions (1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.0.3) for
UNIX(tm) machines to the Usenet.

Don G. Kneller ported Hack 1.0.3 to Microsoft(tm) C and MS-DOS(tm), producing
PC HACK 1.01e, added support for DEC Rainbow graphics in version 1.03g, and
went on to produce at least four more versions (3.0, 3.2, 3.51, and 3.6).

R. Black ported PC HACK 3.51 to Lattice(tm) C and the Atari 520/1040ST,
producing ST Hack 1.03.

Mike Stephenson merged these various versions back together, incorporating
many of the added features, and produced NetHack version 1.4.  He then
coordinated a cast of thousands in enhancing and debugging NetHack 1.4 and
released NetHack versions 2.2 and 2.3.
 
Later, Mike coordinated a major rewrite of the game, heading a team which
included Ken Arromdee, Jean-Christophe Collet, Steve Creps, Eric Hendrickson,
Izchak Miller, Eric S. Raymond, John Rupley, Mike Threepoint, and Janet Walz,
to produce NetHack 3.0c.  The same group subsequently released ten patch-
level revisions and updates of 3.0.

NetHack 3.0 was ported to the Atari by Eric R. Smith, to OS/2 by Timo
Hakulinen, and to VMS by David Gentzel.  The three of them and Kevin Darcy
later joined the main development team to produce subsequent revisions of
3.0.

Olaf Seibert ported NetHack 2.3 and 3.0 to the Amiga.  Norm Meluch, Stephen
Spackman and Pierre Martineau designed overlay code for PC NetHack 3.0.
Johnny Lee ported NetHack 3.0 to the Macintosh.  Along with various other
Dungeoneers, they continued to enhance the PC, Macintosh, and Amiga ports
through the later revisions of 3.0.

A scant one month before the next major version  release  of Nethack,  two  
adventurous souls undertook their own modification to the sacred Nethack
formula. Tom Proudfoot and  Yuval  released Nethack++,   which  was rapidly
renamed Nethack--,  containeing new monsters,  items and other miscellaneous
modifications.
 
Headed by Mike Stephenson and coordinated by Izchak Miller and Janet Walz,
the development team which now included Ken Arromdee, David Cohrs,
Jean-Christophe Collet, Kevin Darcy, Matt Day, Timo Hakulinen, Steve Linhart,
Dean Luick, Pat Rankin, Eric Raymond, and Eric Smith undertook a radical
revision of 3.0.  They re-structured the game's design, and re-wrote major
parts of the code.  They added multiple dungeons, a new display, special
individual character quests, a new endgame and many other new features, and
produced NetHack 3.1.

Ken Lorber, Gregg Wonderly and Greg Olson, with help from Richard Addison,
Mike Passaretti, and Olaf Seibert, developed NetHack 3.1 for the Amiga.

Norm Meluch and Kevin Smolkowski, with help from Carl Schelin, Stephen
Spackman, Steve VanDevender, and Paul Winner, ported NetHack 3.1 to the PC.

Jon Watte and Hao-yang Wang, with help from Ross Brown, Mike Engber, David
Hairston, Michael Hamel, Jonathan Handler, Johnny Lee, Tim Lennan, Rob Menke,
and Andy Swanson developed NetHack 3.1 for the Macintosh, porting it for
MPW.  Building on their development, Barton House added a Think C port.  

Timo Hakulinen ported NetHack 3.1 to OS/2.  Eric Smith ported NetHack 3.1
to the Atari.  Pat Rankin, with help from Joshua Delahunty, is responsible
for the VMS version of NetHack 3.1.  Michael Allison ported NetHack 3.1 to
Windows NT.

Dean Luick, with help from David Cohrs, developed NetHack 3.1 for X11.
Warwick Allison added in the "tiled" version of the game and generated most
of the individual tiles for NetHack 3.2.

Time passed,  and Nethack-- was ported to 3.11 by Chris.

Stephen White then released his own  modification  known  as Nethack  Plus,
which  contained  new  character classes.  Unbeknownst to the world at large,
Tom Proudfoot  took  this  source and combined it with his Nethack--.
Stephen White went on to add weapon skills,  which were eventually integrated
into  the  next version of Nethack,  and other features.

In February 1996,  Tom Proudfoot released SLASH V1.  Including part of
Stephen White's Nethack Plus and his  own  Nethack--, leaving  unmentioned
his own slew of further modifications,  this is perhaps the best known of
the Nethack modifications.  Six versions of this,  ending with SLASH V6,
are known to exist.

The 3.2 development team, comprised of: Michael Allison; Ken Arromdee; David
Cohrs; Jessie Collet; Steve Creps; Kevin Darcy; Timo Hakulinen; Steve
Linhart; Dean Luick; Pat Rankin; Eric Smith; Mike Stephenson; Janet Walz; and
Paul Winner, released version 3.2 in April of 1996.

Version 3.2 marks the tenth anniversary of the formation of the development
team.  In a testament to their dedication to the game, all thirteen members
of the original development team remained on the team at the start of work
on the current release.  During the interval between the release of 3.1.3
and 3.2, one of the founding members of the development team, Dr. Izchak
Miller, passed away.  This release of the game is dedicated to him by the
development and porting teams.

Version 3.2 proved to be more stable than previous versions.  Many bugs
were fixed, abuses eliminated, and game features tuned for better game
play.

SLASH V6 was picked up by Enrico Horn managed to synchronize it  with the
3.2 source.  The new SLASH 4.1.2 was released as far back as November 1996
went through at least 4 editlevels (E5, E6, E7)  with  the  latest  version
being 4.1.2E8,  synchronized with Nethack 3.2.2 and the Blackmarket option
available,  released in June 1997.

Nathan La began the arduous task of drawing  tiles  for  the SLASH monsters.

Kentaro Shirakata ported SLASH 4.1.2E8 to Unix.

Lief Clennon ported SLASH 4.1.2E8 to OS/2.

Romain Dolbeau ported SLASH 4.1.2E8 to Macintosh.

Warren Cheung combined SLASH 4.1.2 and Wizard Patch to  create SLASH'EM 0.1
in November 1997.  Several revisions including new spells and other minor
additions have led to SLASH'EM  0.0.3. Steven Uy has generously made
additional modifications.

Dirk  Schoenberger has continued updating the SLASH/SLASH'EM monster tiles.
He has also ported SLASH'EM to Linux.

Lief Clennon ported SLASH'EM to OS/2 EMX.

Kevin Hugo ported SLASH'EM to Macintosh,  and has also contributed
additional changes and improvements.

Robin Johnson finished arduous task of drawing tiles for the SLASH'EM
monsters.  He has also contributed many more new tiles.

Kevin later joined the DevTeam and incorporated the best of these ideas
in NetHack 3.3.

JNetHack (the Japanese version of NetHack) has been around since at least
1994, developed by Issei Numata and others. The GTK interface was written
for this variant and released in 1999.

Mitsuhiro Itakura headed a team which began the process of redrawing the
NetHack tiles in 8-bit color at 32x32 pixels.

The final update to 3.2 was the bug fix release 3.2.3, which was released
simultaneously with 3.3.0 in December 1999 just in time for the Year 2000.

The 3.3 development team, consisting of Michael Allison, Ken Arromdee,
David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Steve Creps, Kevin Darcy, Timo Hakulinen,
Kevin Hugo, Steve Linhart, Ken Lorber, Dean Luick, Pat Rankin, Eric Smith,
Mike Stephenson, Janet Walz, and Paul Winner, released 3.3.0 in
December 1999 and 3.3.1 in August of 2000.

Version 3.3 offered many firsts. It was the first version to separate race
and profession. The Elf class was removed in preference to an elf race,
and the races of dwarves, gnomes, and orcs made their first appearance in
the game alongside the familiar human race.  Monk and Ranger roles joined
Archeologists, Barbarians, Cavemen, Healers, Knights, Priests, Rogues,
Samurai, Tourists, Valkyries and of course, Wizards.  It was also the first
version to allow you to ride a steed, and was the first version to have a
publicly available web-site listing all the bugs that had been discovered.
Despite that constantly growing bug list, 3.3 proved stable enough to last
for more than a year and a half.

Warren Cheung combined SLASH'EM 0.0.5E7F1 and NetHack 3.3 to create
SLASH'EM 0.0.6 and maintained the DOS and Microsoft Windows ports.

J. Ali Harlow incorporated the GTK interface and Mitsuhiro Itakura's 32x32
tileset into SLASH'EM 0.0.6 and maintained the UNIX port of SLASH'EM 0.0.6.
Peter Makholm maintained the Debian package.

Paul Hurtley maintained the MAC port of SLASH'EM 0.0.6.

The 3.4 development team initially consisted of Michael Allison, Ken Arromdee,
David Cohrs, Jessie Collet, Kevin Hugo, Ken Lorber, Dean Luick, Pat Rankin,
Mike Stephenson, Janet Walz, and Paul Winner, with Warwick Allison joining
just before the release of NetHack 3.4.0 in March 2002.

As with version 3.3, various people contributed to the game as a whole as
well as supporting ports on the different platforms that NetHack runs on:

Pat Rankin maintained 3.4 for VMS.

Michael Allison maintained NetHack 3.4 for the MS-DOS platform.
Paul Winner and Yitzhak Sapir provided encouragement.

Dean Luick, Mark Modrall, and Kevin Hugo maintained and enhanced the
Macintosh port of 3.4.

Michael Allison, David Cohrs, Alex Kompel, Dion Nicolaas, and Yitzhak Sapir
maintained and enhanced 3.4 for the Microsoft Windows platform. Alex Kompel
contributed a new graphical interface for the Windows port. Alex Kompel also
contributed a Windows CE port for 3.4.1.

Ron Van Iwaarden maintained 3.4 for OS/2.

Janne Salmijarvi and Teemu Suikki maintained and enhanced the
Amiga port of 3.4 after Janne Salmijarvi resurrected it for 3.3.1.

Christian `Marvin' Bressler maintained 3.4 for the Atari after he
resurrected it for 3.3.1.

Warren Cheung, Christian Cooper, J. Ali Harlow, Paul Hurtley, Pekka Rousu
and Darshan Shaligram combined SLASH'EM 0.0.6E5F2 and Nethack 3.4
to create SLASH'EM 0.0.7

The Slash'EM home page is at http://www.slashem.org/.

			   - - - - - - - - - -

From time to time, some depraved individual out there in netland sends a
particularly intriguing modification to help out with the game.  The Gods of
the Dungeon sometimes make note of the names of the worst of these miscreants
in this, the list of Dungeoneers:

    Adam Aronow               Izchak Miller             Mike Stephenson
    Alex Kompel               J. Ali Harlow             Norm Meluch
    Andreas Dorn              Janet Walz                Olaf Seibert
    Andy Church               Janne Salmijarvi          Pasi Kallinen
    Andy Swanson              Jean-Christophe Collet    Pat Rankin
    Ari Huttunen              Jochen Erwied             Paul Winner
    Barton House              John Kallen               Pierre Martineau
    Benson I. Margulies       John Rupley               Ralf Brown
    Bill Dyer                 John S. Bien              Ray Chason
    Boudewijn Waijers         Johnny Lee                Richard Addison
    Bruce Cox                 Jon W{tte                 Richard Beigel
    Bruce Holloway            Jonathan Handler          Richard P. Hughey
    Bruce Mewborne            Joshua Delahunty          Rob Menke
    Carl Schelin              Keizo Yamamoto            Robin Johnson
    Chris Russo               Ken Arnold                Roderick Schertler
    David Cohrs               Ken Arromdee              Roland McGrath
    David Damerell            Ken Lorber                Ron Van Iwaarden
    David Gentzel             Ken Washikita             Ronnen Miller
    David Hairston            Kevin Darcy               Ross Brown
    Dean Luick                Kevin Hugo                Sascha Wostmann
    Del Lamb                  Kevin Sitze               Scott Bigham
    Deron Meranda             Kevin Smolkowski          Scott R. Turner
    Dion Nicolaas             Kevin Sweet               Stephen Spackman
    Dylan O'Donnell           Lars Huttar               Stephen White
    Eric Backus               Malcolm Ryan              Steve Creps
    Eric Hendrickson          Mark Gooderum             Steve Linhart
    Eric R. Smith             Mark Modrall              Steve VanDevender
    Eric S. Raymond           Marvin Bressler           Teemu Suikki
    Erik Andersen             Matthew Day               Tim Lennan
    Frederick Roeber          Merlyn LeRoy              Timo Hakulinen
    Gil Neiger                Michael Allison           Tom Almy
    Greg Laskin               Michael Feir              Tom West
    Greg Olson                Michael Hamel             Warren Cheung
    Gregg Wonderly            Michael Sokolov           Warwick Allison
    Hao-yang Wang             Mike Engber               Yitzhak Sapir
    Helge Hafting             Mike Gallop               
    Irina Rempt-Drijfhout     Mike Passaretti           

Boolean options not under specific compile flags (with default values in []):
(You can learn which options exist in your version by checking your current
option setting, which is reached via the 'O' cmd.)

autodig        dig if moving and wielding digging tool            [FALSE]
autopickup     automatically pick up objects you move over        [TRUE]
autoquiver     when firing with an empty quiver, select some
               suitable inventory weapon to fill the quiver       [FALSE]
BIOS           allow the use of IBM ROM BIOS calls                [FALSE]
cmdassist      give help for errors on direction & other commands [TRUE]
confirm        ask before hitting tame or peaceful monsters       [TRUE]
DECgraphics    use DEC/VT line-drawing characters for the dungeon [FALSE]
disclose       offer information at the end of the game           [TRUE]
eight_bit_tty  send 8-bit characters straight to terminal         [FALSE]
extmenu        use a menu for selecting extended commands (#)     [FALSE]
fixinv         try to retain the same letter for the same object  [TRUE]
help           print all available info when using the / command  [TRUE]
IBMgraphics    use IBM extended characters for the dungeon        [FALSE]
ignintr        ignore interrupt signal, including breaks          [FALSE]
legacy         print introductory message                         [TRUE]
lit_corridor   show a dark corridor as lit if in sight            [FALSE]
lootabc        use a/b/c rather than o/i/b when looting           [FALSE]
mail           enable the mail daemon                             [TRUE]
null           allow nulls to be sent to your terminal            [TRUE]
               try turning this option off (forcing NetHack to use its own
               delay code) if moving objects seem to teleport across rooms
number_pad     use the number keys to move instead of yuhjklbn    [FALSE]
perm_invent    keep inventory in a permanent window               [FALSE]
pickup_thrown  autopickup things you threw                        [TRUE]
prayconfirm    use confirmation prompt when #pray command issued  [TRUE]
pushweapon     when wielding a new weapon, put your previously
               wielded weapon into the secondary weapon slot      [FALSE]
rawio          allow the use of raw I/O                           [FALSE]
rest_on_space  count the space bar as a rest character            [FALSE]
safe_pet       prevent you from (knowingly) attacking your pet(s) [TRUE]
showrace       show yourself by your race rather than by role     [FALSE]
silent         don't use your terminal's bell sound               [TRUE]
sortpack       group similar kinds of objects in inventory        [TRUE]
sound          enable messages about what your character hears    [TRUE]
               (note: this has nothing to do with your computer's audio
               capabilities, and the game resets it periodically)
sparkle        display sparkly effect for resisted magical        [TRUE]
               attacks (e.g. fire attack on fire-resistant monster)
standout       use standout mode for --More-- on messages         [FALSE]
time           display elapsed game time, in moves                [FALSE]
tombstone      print tombstone when you die                       [TRUE]
toptenwin      print topten in a window rather than stdout        [FALSE]
travel         enable the command to travel to a map location via [TRUE]
               a shortest-path algorithm, usually invoked by '_'.
verbose        print more commentary during the game              [TRUE]



There are further boolean options controlled by compilation flags.

Boolean option if INSURANCE was set at compile time:
checkpoint save game state after each level change, for possible  [TRUE]
           recovery after program crash

Boolean option if NEWS was set at compile time:
news       print any news from game administrator on startup      [TRUE]

Boolean option if MFLOPPY was set at compile time:
checkspace check free disk space before writing files to disk     [TRUE]

Boolean option if EXP_ON_BOTL was set at compile time:
showexp    display your accumulated experience points             [FALSE]

Boolean option if SCORE_ON_BOTL was set at compile time:
showscore  display your approximate accumulated score             [FALSE]

Boolean option if SHOW_DMG was set at compile time:
showdmg    display damage inflicted/received on message line      [FALSE]

Boolean options if SHOW_WEIGHT was set at compile time:
invweight  display weights of items in inventory in braces        [FALSE]
showweight display total weight in inventory on bottom line       [FALSE]

Boolean options if TEXTCOLOR was set at compile time:
color      use different colors for objects on screen   [TRUE for micros]
hilite_pet display pets in a highlighted manner                   [FALSE]

Boolean option if TEXTCOLOR and MENU_COLOR were set at compile time:
menucolors use different colors for menus               [TRUE for micros]

Boolean option if TIMED_DELAY was set at compile time (tty interface only):
timed_delay    on unix and VMS, use a timer instead of sending    [TRUE]
               extra screen output when attempting to pause for
               display effect.  on MSDOS without the termcap
               lib, whether or not to pause for visual effect.    

Boolean options if KEEP_SAVE was set at compile time:
keep_savefile  keep save file after restore                       [FALSE]

Boolean option if USE_TILES was set at compile time (MSDOS protected mode only):
preload_tiles  control whether tiles get pre-loaded into RAM at the
               start of the game.  Doing so enhances performance
               of the tile graphics, but uses more memory.        [TRUE]

Any Boolean option can be negated by prefixing it with a '!' or 'no'.


Compound options are written as option_name:option_value.

Compound options which can be set during the game are:

boulder       override the default boulder symbol with another default: [`]
disclose      the types of information you want offered at the end of the
              game  [ni na nv ng nc]
fruit         the name of a fruit you enjoy eating  [slime mold]
              (basically a whimsy which NetHack uses from time to time).
menustyle     user interface for selection of multiple objects:
              Traditional -- one object at a time prompting;
              Combination -- prompt for classes of interest, then menu;
              Partial     -- skip class prompt, use menu of all objects;
              Full        -- menu for classes of interest, then object menu;
              only the first letter ('T','C','P','F') matters; 'N' (None)
              is a synonym for 'T', as is boolean style negation  [Full]
packorder     a list of default symbols for kinds of objects that gives the
              order in which your pack will be displayed  [")[%?+!=/(*`0_]
              (If you specify only some kinds of items, the others from the
              default order will be appended to the end.)
pickup_burden when you pick up an item that exceeds this encumberance
              level (Unburdened, Burdened, streSsed, straiNed, overTaxed,
              or overLoaded), you will be asked if you want to continue. [S]
pickup_types  a list of default symbols for kinds of objects to autopickup
              when that option is on  [all]
runmode       controls how often the map window is updated when performing
              multi-step movement (various running modes or travel command):
              teleport -- don't update map until movement stops;
              run      -- periodically update map (interval is seven steps);
              walk     -- update map after every step;
              crawl    -- like walk, but delay after making each step.
              (This only affects screen display, not actual movement.)  [run]
scores        the parts of the score list you wish to see when the game ends
              You choose a combination of top scores, scores around the top
              scores, and all of your own scores.  [!own/3 top/2 around]
suppress_alert disable various version-specific warnings about changes
              in game play or the user interface, such as notification given
              for engravings that reading is now done via 'r.'
              (e.g., use suppress_alert:0.0.7 to stop that and any other
              notifications added in that version or earlier) default: [(none)]
tileset       the name of a predefined (with TILESET=) tileset to use.  This
              option may be negated (eg., !tileset) or set to an emty value
              to disable tiles.  If the windowing port does not support the
              named tileset then a suitable alternative will be used.
              [depends on windowing port]

Compound options which may be set only on startup are:

align      Your starting alignment (align:lawful, align:neutral,
           or align:chaotic).  You may specify just the first letter.  [RANDOM]
catname    the name of your first cat  [NONE]
dogname    the name of your first dog  [NONE]
dungeon    a list of symbols to be used in place of the default ones for
           drawing the dungeon.
           The symbols are subjected to a fair amount of processing, so
           that you can use C-style escapes such as \n or \081 as well as
           indicate control characters by ^x or meta characters by \Mx.
           As usual, \ can force the next character to be taken literally.
           Since many of the default symbols are overloaded, they are
           given here by name instead of symbol, with some added notes:
           stone                               (solid rock, normally ' ')
           vwall hwall tlcorn trcorn blcorn brcorn      (room boundaries)
           crwall tuwall tdwall tlwall trwall (wallified maze characters)
           nodoor vodoor hodoor      (no, vertical, horizontal open door)
           vcdoor hcdoor               (vertical, horizontal closed door)
           ironbars tree room darkcorr litcorr
           upstair dnstair upladder dnladder
           altar grave throne sink toilet fountain pool ice lava
           vodbridge hodbridge     (vertical, horizontal open drawbridge)
           vcdbridge hcdbridge   (vertical, horizontal closed drawbridge)
           air cloud water
           default:  \ |--------||.-|++##.##<><>_|\\##{}.}..##\ #}
effects    like dungeon, but for special effects symbols
           vbeam hbeam lslant rslant                  (generic zap beams)
           digbeam flashbeam      (special beams for digging and cameras)
           boomleft boomright                                (boomerangs)
           ss1 ss2 ss3 ss4                           (shielding sequence)
           sw_topl, sw_topm, sw_topr,                  (swallow, top row)
           sw_midl, sw_midr,            (swallow, middle row [no center])
           sw_botl, sw_botm, sw_botr                (swallow, bottom row)
           mextl mextm mextr           (magical explosion matrix top row)
           mexml mexmm mexmr        (magical explosion matrix middle row)
           mexbl mexbm mexbr        (magical explosion matrix bottom row)
           fextl fextm fextr              (fire explosion matrix top row)
           fexml fexmm fexmr           (fire explosion matrix middle row)
           fexbl fexbm fexbr           (fire explosion matrix bottom row)
           cextl cextm cextr              (cold explosion matrix top row)
           cexml cexmm cexmr           (cold explosion matrix middle row)
           cexbl cexbm cexbr           (cold explosion matrix bottom row)
           dextl dextm dextr             (death explosion matrix top row)
           dexml dexmm dexmr          (death explosion matrix middle row)
           dexbl dexbm dexbr          (death explosion matrix bottom row)
           lextl lextm lextr         (lightning explosion matrix top row)
           lexml lexmm lexmr      (lightning explosion matrix middle row)
           lexbl lexbm lexbr      (lightning explosion matrix bottom row)
           pextl pextm pextr            (poison explosion matrix top row)
           pexml pexmm pexmr         (poison explosion matrix middle row)
           pexbl pexbm pexbr         (poison explosion matrix bottom row)
           aextl aextm aextr              (acid explosion matrix top row)
           aexml aexmm aexmr           (acid explosion matrix middle row)
           aexbl aexbm aexbr           (acid explosion matrix bottom row)
           default:  |-\\/*!)(0#@*/-\\||\\-//-\\|\ |\\-//-\\|\ |\\-//-\\|\ |\\-/
	            /-\\|\ |\\-//-\\|\ |\\-//-\\|\ |\\-//-\\|\ |\\-/
gender     Your starting gender (gender:male or gender:female).
           You may specify just the first letter.  Although you can
           still denote your gender using the "male" and "female"
           options, the "gender" option will take precedence.  [RANDOM]
horsename  the name of your first horse  [NONE]
ghoulname  the name of your first ghoul  [NONE]
menucolor  Set colors for menus. (menucolor:"regex_string"=color)
           If boolean option ``menucolors'' is true, menus will be shown
           with different colors.
           For example, setting ``menucolor:" blessed "=green'' shows
           all lines in a menu with the text " blessed " in green.
           The string is matched using regular expressions.
           Valid values for the color are black, red, green, brown, blue,
           magenta, cyan, gray, orange, lightgreen, yellow, lightblue,
           lightmagenta, lightcyan and white.
           You can define menucolor as many times as you wish; those
           defined later will take precedence.
           Setting menucolor has effect only if TEXTCOLOR and MENU_COLOR
           were set at compile time.  [NONE]
menu_*     create single character accelerators for menu commands.  Below
           is a list of all commands.  Each is followed by a list of window-
           ports that implement them:  'x' is X11, 't' is tty, 'g' is Gem,
           'a' is Amiga.
           menu_deselect_all  deselect all items in a menu [-](gxta)
           menu_deselect_page deselect all items on this page of a menu [\](gta)
           menu_first_page    jump to the first page in a menu [^](gta)
           menu_invert_all    invert all items in a menu [@](gxta)
           menu_invert_page   invert all items on this page of a menu [~](gta)
           menu_last_page     jump to the last page in a menu [|](gta)
           menu_next_page     goto the next menu page [>](gta)
           menu_previous_page goto the previous menu page [<](gta)
           menu_search        search for a menu item [:](gxa)
           menu_select_all    select all items in a menu [.](gxta)
           menu_select_page   select all items on this page of a menu [,](gta)
monsters   like dungeon, but for monster symbols
           default:  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
                     ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ@\ \\&;:~]
msghistory number of top line messages to save [20]
name       the name of your character  [obtained by asking the system or
           the player]
objects    like dungeon, but for object symbols
           default:  ])[="(%!?+/$*`0_.
pettype    your preferred type of pet (cat or dog), if your character
           class uses both types; or none for no pet  [RANDOM]
race       Your starting race (e.g., race:Human, race:Elf).  [RANDOM]
role       Your starting role (e.g., role:Barbarian, role:Valk).
           Although you can specify just the first letter(s), it will
           choose only the first role it finds that matches; thus, it
           is recommended that you spell out as much of the role name
           as possible.  You can also still denote your role by
           appending it to the "name" option (e.g., name:Vic-V), but the
           "role" option will take precedence.  [RANDOM]
traps      like dungeon, but for trap symbols
           arrow_trap dart_trap falling_rock_trap squeaky_board
           bear_trap land_mine rolling_boulder_trap sleeping_gas_trap
           rust_trap fire_trap pit spiked_pit hole trap_door
           teleportation_trap level_teleporter magic_portal web statue_trap
           magic_trap anti_magic_trap polymorph_trap
           default:  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"^^^^
windowtype windowing system to be used  [depends on operating system]
wolfname   the name of your first wolf  [NONE]

Compound option if TTY_GRAPHICS was set at compile time:
msg_window the type of message window to use:
           single      -- One message at a time
           full        -- Full window with all saved top line messages
           reverse     -- Same as full, but messages printed most-recent-first
           combination -- Two single messages, then as full
           default:  single

Some sample options lists are:
!autopickup,!tombstone,name:Gandalf,scores:own/3 top/2 around
female,nonews,dogname:Rover,dungeon: |--------||.-|++.##<><>_\\#{}.}..## #}
rest_on_space,!verbose,menustyle:traditional
Debug-Mode Quick Reference:

^C  ==  increase AC
^E  ==  detect secret doors and traps.
^F  ==  do magic mapping.
^G  ==  create monster.
^I  ==  identify items in pack.
^J  ==  go up an experience level
^N  ==  toggle invulnerability
^O  ==  tell locations of special levels.
^T  ==  do intra-level teleport.
^V  ==  do trans-level teleport.
^W  ==  make wish.
^X  ==  show attributes including intrinsic attributes.

#levelchange == change experience level
#lightsources == show mobile light sources
#monpolycontrol == control monster polymorphs
#panic == panic test
#polyself == polymorph self
#seenv == show seen vectors
#stats == show memory statistics
#timeout == look at timeout queue
#vision == show vision array
#wmode == show wall modes

Read Your Fortune
  For 50 zorkmids, the gypsy will draw a random card.  If your
  card is a suited card, you get a special fortune.  Trump cards
  each have specific effects, good or bad.

  There is no skill involved with this service; however, the
  most useful effects have an extra cost that can be only paid
  by credit.  For this reason, you may want to play the other
  games first to win enough credit for a good outcome.


Three-Card Monte
  "Let me show you the easiest game to win.  I've got these three
  cards: the ace of swords, two of swords, and three of swords.
  Watch me shuffle them in front of you.  Are you looking carefully?
  Good.  Now can you tell me which one is the ace?  That's right!
  Wasn't that easy?  Would you like to win some credit?  Just
  place a bet, and if you can pick the ace again, I'll pay your
  bet."

  Actually, it doesn't matter how carefully you watch the gypsy --
  by using slight of hand, she can control whether you win or lose.
  Your chances of winning may increase or decrease as you continue
  to play the game, depending upon whether the gypsy thinks you are
  "hooked" on the game.


Ninety-Nine
  After placing a bet, you and the gypsy are each dealt three cards.
  You alternate turns with the gypsy in which you must play one card
  from your hand, adjust a total depending on the card you played,
  and then draw a new card.  The object of the game is to force your
  opponent to play a card that makes the total less than zero or more
  than niney-nine.  The effects of the cards upon the total are as
  follows:
    Ace           Adds 1 to the total.
    2 through 10  Adds the card's value to the total.
    Jack, Queen   Subtracts 10 from the total.
    King          Raises the total to 99.  Always safe to play.
    Fool          Raises the total to 100.  Always loses.
    Other trumps  No change to the total.  Always safe to play.
  You are the first to play.  If there are no more cards left to draw
  from, you win.


Yendorian Tarocchi
  This game is still under construction, and will be released in
  a future version.

  Tarot cards originated for the purpose of playing Tarocchi, an
  Italian trick-based card game.  (Their use in fortunetelling
  and the occult began much later.)  Tarocchi has been adapted
  and renamed by other cultures: Tarot (France), Tarok (Danish),
  Troccas (Switzerland), and so on.


Pawn Gems
  You can sell valuable gems to gypsies for credit.


About the Cards
Our deck of playing cards is derived from several different European
card systems.  The Italian card system is the oldest, believed to be
imported from India, Persia, or Arabia circa 1370.  (Note that although
playing cards were invented in China, scholarly evidence indicates
that they had no direct influence on European cards.  Also, cards did
not appear in Europe until long after Marco Polo or the Crusades, so
it is unlikely that they were introduced by these travellers.)  Tarot
cards were invented during the 15th century for the purpose of playing
trick-taking card games.  They were not associated with Gypsies or the
occult until the 18th century.  Finally, there is the French card system,
which has been widely adopted by the English-speaking world.

The deck can be divided into two parts.  There are 52 "suited" cards
that are very similar to the familiar French system (4 suits with 13 ranks);
in a Tarot deck, these are called the "minor arcana".  The other part
of the deck are the "trump" cards, which are called the "major arcana" in
a Tarot deck.

Our suits are named "swords", "wands", "shields", and "rings".  These
are assigned by matching the Tarot suits to their closest equivalent
NetHack object.  Interestingly, there are two "offensive" suits (swords,
wands), two "defensive" suits (shields, rings), two "ordinary" suits
(swords, shields), and two "magical" suits (wands, rings).


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boulder
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bow
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bell of opening
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blindfold
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* blob
gelatinous cube
ooze
* ooze
* slime
25812,17
*pudding
26782,23
bone devil
27713,2
book of the dead
candelabrum*
*candle
27829,9
bottle
* bottle
28286,20
brigit
28895,11
~stormbringer
*broadsword
29514,5
bugbear
29653,21
bugle
30810,9
byakhee
31101,5
*camaxtli
31389,7
candy bar
31793,18
s*d*g*r* cat
32869,15
*cat
kitten
33823,11
cave*man
human cave*man
34396,13
*centaur
35114,17
centipede
36113,11
*erberus
kerberos
36680,7
chameleon
37085,11
*haro*n
37739,7
chest
large box
38125,19
chih*sung*tzu
39221,1
*hromatic *ragon
tiamat
39242,16
~elven cloak
~oilskin cloak
*cloak*
40213,12
cloud*
40929,7
cobra
41199,16
cockatrice
basilisk
42079,23
chickatrice
43284,4
pyrolisk
43469,4
cornuthaum
43712,19
couatl
44661,10
coyote
45264,2
cram*
45360,6
*crocodile
45703,5
croesus
kroisos
creosote
45964,8
crom
46404,10
crossbow*
46885,6
crystal ball
47098,5
ct*ul*u
kt*ul*u
cht*ul*u
kht*ul*u
47366,18
curse*
48266,12
cwn*n
48864,8
cyclops
49327,31
~sting
*dagger
50582,10
dark one
50986,8
deep* one
51424,9
demogorgon
51979,4
demon
52200,9
*deva
52712,8
planetar
53164,3
solar
53350,4
dingo
53597,4
disenchanter
53815,1
dispater
53889,2
djinn*
53968,8
~hachi
~slasher
~sirius
*dog
pup*
54456,6
shadow wolf
54780,4
mist wolf
55017,5
*drum*
55309,7
~trap*door
*door
doorway
55679,11
doppelganger
56132,27
~komodo*
*dragon
*xoth
57354,18
dumathoin
58361,6
~dwarf ??m*
dwarf*
dwar* cave*man
58732,21
earendil
elwing
59970,15
earth
60876,2
eel
giant eel
60951,9
egg
61442,7
elbereth
61825,20
electric eel
62568,5
*elemental
62859,5
~elf ??m*
~elf* cl*
*elf*
elvenking
63162,19
elf* cl*
elv* cl*
64224,10
emerald
64786,18
erinys
erinyes
65251,2
ettin
65378,2
excalibur
65503,14
expensive camera
66298,11
eye of the aethiopica
66930,8
father dagon
mother hydra
67363,8
fauchard
67837,6
eyes of the overworld
68170,6
figurine*
68532,11
fire vampire
69152,3
floating eye
69308,7
flesh golem
*frank*n*st*n*
69707,21
*flute
70855,5
fog cloud
71053,8
fountain
71198,15
fox
71697,22
*fung*
72939,21
*gargoyle
74115,14
gas spore*
74856,7
*garlic
75252,20
geryon
76392,3
*ghost
76544,10
ghoul*
77113,16
*giant
giant humanoid
78018,6
gila*
78369,8
komodo*
78881,22
glaive
80328,7
deep gnome
80763,14
~gnome ??m*
gnome*
gnomish wizard
gnom* cave*man
81657,28
goblin
83170,10
god
goddess
83698,13
gold
gold piece
zorkmid
84484,9
gold golem
84948,10
~gold golem
~flesh golem
*golem
85514,18
grave
86530,5
grayswandir
86735,6
*grease
87093,3
*green glass
silver ring
87232,21
gremlin
87878,13
grid bug
88535,13
lightning bug
arc bug
spark bug
89234,2
gug
89359,5
guisarme
89634,6
gunyoki
90003,2
hachi
90114,8
*harp
90592,22
halberd
91804,12
healer
* healer
attendant
doctor
physician
92565,20
heart of ahriman
93700,19
hell hound*
94821,8
hermes
95285,15
hezrou
96197,2
hippocrates
96313,11
hobbit
96911,10
hobgoblin
97503,23
holy water
98750,22
hom*nculus
99880,13
*hook
100539,9
~unicorn horn
*horn
101019,9
horned devil
101410,2
~horsem*
*horse
101500,8
*horsem*
rider*
death
famine
pestilence
war
hunger
101909,26
huan*ti
103299,5
hu*h*eto*l
minion of huhetotl
103601,6
humanoid
103934,5
human
chieftain
guard
ninja
nurse
page
ronin
shopkeeper
student
thug
warrior
*watch*
player
104196,7
hunter
104601,9
ice devil
104950,4
ice mag*
105153,9
imp
105679,13
incubus
succubus
106329,4
*iron ball
*iron chain
106538,11
ishtar
107120,7
issek
107487,13
izchak
108237,19
jabberwock
vorpal*
109427,20
jackal
110047,13
jade*
110771,10
jaguar
111345,4
jellyfish
111563,5
juiblex
jubilex
111740,6
kabuto
112082,19
kamadan
113226,5
katana
113511,3
ki-rin
113678,4
king arthur
*arthur
113897,23
knife
stiletto
115097,15
knight
* knight
115697,10
~kobold ??m*
*kobold*
116048,5
*kop*
116317,28
kos
117974,6
koto
118289,1
kraken
118307,8
*lady
offler
118765,30
*lamp
120080,15
lance
120772,14
leash
121550,9
lembas*
122082,18
lemba*
123105,17
lemure
124132,1
leocrotta
leu*otta
124174,7
leprechaun
124562,18
lethe
sparkling water
125564,4
*lich
125793,18
lichen
126919,7
~* of light
* light
127278,3
gecko
iguana
lizard
127404,9
loki
127931,14
*longbow of diana
128733,2
looking glass
mirror
128870,13
lord carnarvon
129320,8
lord sato
129782,3
lord surt*
129960,9
lug
lugh
130441,8
lurker*
130914,3
lycanthrope
were*
human were*
*were
131070,17
lynx
132063,6
magic marker
132385,2
magic mirror of merlin
132463,3
mail d*emon
132640,2
ma*annan*
132730,7
manes
133095,2
mangler
133170,8
marduk
133500,10
marilith
134066,5
mars
134318,7
master assassin
134715,19
master key of thievery
135618,5
master of thieves
135901,11
mastodon
136525,14
meat*
huge chunk of meat
137250,5
medusa
137419,22
melon
138612,10
mercury
139143,3
migo*
mi-go*
139298,7
*mimic
139689,6
*mind flayer
140033,6
mine*
140367,12
minotaur
141083,9
mit*ra*
141580,16
*mithril*
142428,6
*mitre of holiness
142763,4
mjollnir
143009,14
~slime mold
*mold
143849,6
mol?ch
144182,16
moradin
145018,7
mongbat
145451,12
monk
* monk
grand master
master kaen
145908,37
monkey
147678,15
mumak*
148580,8
*mummy
149036,14
mummy wrapping
149778,15
*naga*
*naja*
150618,4
naginata
150859,18
nalfeshnee
151806,2
nalzok
151924,7
neanderthal*
152327,3
neferet
neferet the green
152506,7
newt
152916,13
ninja-to
153359,1
*nkia
*n'kai
153383,5
*norn
153696,14
nunchaku
154446,1
*nymph
154465,23
odin
155755,22
ogre*
156974,16
oilskin cloak
157873,9
oilskin sack
158388,9
olog-hai
158879,13
oracle
delphi
p*thia
159673,9
orange
pear
160152,11
pyrolisk
160777,13
*orb of detection
161538,4
orb of fate
161755,7
goblin king
orcrist
162155,9
orcus
162657,3
~orc ??m*
~orcish barbarian
~orcish ranger
~orcish rogue
~orcish wizard
orc*
* orc
162834,15
orion
sirius
163676,19
osaku
164638,1
owlbear
164684,6
panther
164997,9
pelias
165316,18
phase spider
166320,18
pick*ax*
167334,5
*piercer
167517,8
piranha
167924,8
pit
spiked pit
168349,10
pit fiend
168928,4
pixie*
fairy
fairies
169115,5
platinum yendorian express card
169350,7
pony
169740,14
*portal
170373,6
poseido*n
170713,17
*potion*
171637,12
priest*
* priest*
acolyte
172302,16
prisoner
173252,15
ptah
173611,9
*purple worm
174088,6
quadruped
174419,5
quantum mechanic
174710,2
quasit
174826,2
quest
174946,13
quetzalcoatl
175679,13
quit*
176468,8
raijin
raiden
176814,1
ranger
* ranger
176835,14
ranseur
177662,10
rat
* rat
178298,13
raven
178957,7
*ring
ring of *
179363,9
robe
179795,11
rock
180382,21
rock mole
181590,6
rogue
* rogue
181932,11
rothe
182559,3
Ruggo
?nome king
182701,8
*royal jelly
183157,14
rust monster
183728,3
*saber
*sabre
183869,14
saddle
184277,9
sake
184545,1
salamander
184566,7
samurai
* samurai
184917,11
sandestin
185580,31
sasquatch
186919,18
*sceptre of might
187998,6
scimitar
188301,5
scorpio*
188556,5
scorpius
188830,6
*scroll
scroll *
189185,18
shad*
189989,4
shaman karnov
190182,3
shan*lai*ching
190337,5
shark
190595,15
shito
191375,1
*shoggoth
*shuggoth
191403,16
shrieker
192303,7
silver
192712,6
skeleton
193010,4
slasher
193253,17
slime mold
194231,10
smaug
194791,8
sling
195243,11
*snake
serpent
water moccasin
python
pit viper
195780,24
snickersnee
197178,6
sokoban
197394,5
*soldier
sergeant
lieutenant
captain
197611,8
*spear
javelin
198071,18
*spellbook*
199102,16
giant spider
*spider
199986,10
shelob
200416,8
spell
200890,14
*spore
*sphere
201687,4
~*aesculapius
*staff
201867,18
*staff of aesculapius
202955,5
stair*
203226,20
star vampire
204259,5
~statue trap
statue*
204558,17
sting
205572,12
stormbringer
206192,49
susano*o
208746,6
tanko
209051,1
tengu
209109,7
thorin
209501,3
thoth
209697,19
thoth*amon
210755,5
*throne
211007,16
tiger
211672,12
tin
tin of *
tinning kit
212170,8
tin opener
212506,20
titan
213437,11
touch*stone
214031,2
tourist
* tourist
214103,18
towel
215066,20
*tower
216144,7
trap*door
216551,8
trapper
217007,5
tree
217310,13
tripe
tripe ration
217738,10
*troll
218330,15
*tsurugi of muramasa
219153,5
~*muramasa
tsurugi
219458,6
twoflower
guide
219767,23
tyr
220782,14
*hulk
221590,5
*unicorn
unicorn horn
221860,26
uruk*hai
223275,10
valkyrie
* valkyrie
223795,13
vampire
vampire bat
vampire lord
224440,5
venus
224712,11
vlad*
225322,9
*vortex
vortices
225867,6
voulge
226208,6
vrock
226584,4
wakizashi
226778,2
wand of *
*wand
226891,10
warg
227468,17
~mjollnir
war*hammer
228316,13
water
229068,11
web
229363,3
*wight
229467,9
~gnomish wizard
wizard
* wizard
apprentice
229961,8
rodney
wizard of yendor
230422,10
wolf
*wolf
*wolf cub
231002,5
woodchuck
231255,13
worm
long worm
long worm tail
worm tooth
crysknife
231886,6
wraith
nazgul
232218,17
wumpus
233184,6
xan
233498,12
xorn
234123,5
ya
234388,2
yeenoghu
234499,5
yeti
234764,15
*yugake
235635,3
yumi
235820,4
*zombie
236029,5
zruty
236273,2
.
236366,0
	Abbathor is the sole evil dwarven god, the great master of the
	greed and avarice that plagues so many of that otherwise noble
	race. He is a hunched, twisted creature, warped by his own
	greeds, jealousies, and desires. Like many other deities, his
	name is often invoked by followers of other gods to keep him away
	from one's treasure.
	For it had been long apparent to Count Landulf that nothing
	could be done with his seventh son Thomas, except to make him
	an Abbot or something of that kind.  Born in 1226, he had from
	childhood a mysterious objection to becoming a predatory eagle,
	or even to taking an ordinary interest in falconry or tilting
	or any other gentlemanly pursuits.  He was a large and heavy and
	quiet boy, and phenomenally silent, scarcely opening his mouth
	except to say suddenly to his schoolmaster in an explosive
	manner, "What is God?"  The answer is not recorded but it is
	probable that the asker went on worrying out answers for himself.
		[ The Runaway Abbot, by G. K. Chesterton ]
	Aerdrie  Faenya is the elven goddess of air and weather. As a rain-
	bringer, she is revered as a source of fertility.  She is, however,
	perceived as a somewhat distant  goddess, and the fact that she  is
	also revered by some aarakocra slightly diminishes the  strength of
	elven  devotion to  her (as does  her definite  neutral tendency in
	alignment). The goddess  herself takes  delight in  the freedom  of
	the skies, the music  of wind instruments,  and (sometimes)  fairly
	severe and  violent thunderstorms. She is  friendly to all  avians,
	aarakocra, ki-rin, and lammasu.
					 [ Monster Mythology, by TSR inc. ]
	A short studded or spiked club attached to a cord allowing
	it to be drawn back to the wielder after having been thrown.
	It should not be confused with the atlatl, which is a device
	used to throw spears for longer distances.
	An Aleax,  according to the  AD&D Fiend Folio,  is a  creature that
	looks exactly  like the character, and  is sent  by the character's
	god to  punish alignment violations. Obviously  - and  luckily - in
	Nethack this is not the case.
	Altars are of three types:
	1.  In Temples.  These are for Sacrifices [...].  The stone
	top will have grooves for blood, and the whole will be covered
	with _dry brown stains of a troubling kind_ from former
	Sacrifices.
	[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]

	To every man upon this earth
	Death cometh soon or late;
	And how can man die better
	Than facing fearful odds
	For the ashes of his fathers
	And the temples of his gods?
		[ Lays of Ancient Rome, by Thomas B. Macaulay ]
	The Shinto sun goddess, Amaterasu Omikami is the central
	figure of Shintoism and the ancestral deity of the imperial
	house.  One of the daughters of the primordial god Izanagi
	and said to be his favourite offspring, she was born from
	his left eye.
		[ Encyclopedia of Gods, by Michael Jordan ]
	"Tree sap," Wu explained, "often flows over insects and traps
	them.  The insects are then perfectly preserved within the
	fossil.  One finds all kinds of insects in amber - including
	biting insects that have sucked blood from larger animals."
		[ Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton ]
	Get thee hence, nor come again,
	Mix not memory with doubt,
	Pass, thou deathlike type of pain,
	Pass and cease to move about!
	'Tis the blot upon the brain
	That will show itself without.
		...
	For, Maud, so tender and true,
	As long as my life endures
	I feel I shall owe you a debt,
	That I never can hope to pay;
	And if ever I should forget
	That I owe this debt to you
	And for your sweet sake to yours;
	O then, what then shall I say? -
	If ever I should forget,
	May God make me more wretched
	Than ever I have been yet!
		[ Maud, And Other Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ]
	"The complete Amulet can keep off all the things that make
	people unhappy -- jealousy, bad temper, pride, disagreeableness,
	greediness, selfishness, laziness.  Evil spirits, people called
	them when the Amulet was made.  Don't you think it would be nice
	to have it?"
	"Very," said the children, quite without enthusiasm.
	"And it can give you strength and courage."
	"That's better," said Cyril.
	"And virtue."
	"I suppose it's nice to have that," said Jane, but not with much
	interest.
	"And it can give you your heart's desire."
	"Now you're talking," said Robert.
		[ The Story of the Amulet, by Edith Nesbit ]
	This mysterious talisman is the object of your quest.  It is
	said to possess powers which mere mortals can scarcely
	comprehend, let alone utilize.  The gods will grant the gift of
	immortality to the adventurer who can deliver it from the
	depths of Moloch's Sanctum and offer it on the appropriate high
	altar on the Astral Plane.
	He answered and said unto them, he that soweth the good seed
	is the Son of man; the field is the world, and the good seed
	are the children of the kingdom; but the weeds are the
	children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the
	devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers
	are the angels.  As therefore the weeds are gathered and
	burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
	[...]  So shall it be at the end of the world; the angels
	shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
	and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be
	wailing and gnashing of teeth.
		[ The Gospel According to Matthew, 13:37-42, 49-50 ]
	An Egyptian god of war and a great hunter, few gods can match
	his fury.  Unlike many gods of war, he is a force for good.
	The wrath of Anhur is slow to come, but it is inescapable
	once earned.  Anhur is a mighty figure with four arms.  He
	is often seen with a powerful lance that requires both of
	his right arms to wield and which is tipped with a fragment
	of the sun.  He is married to Mehut, a lion-headed goddess.
	The twin city of Ankh-Morpork, foremost of all the cities
	bounding the Circle Sea, was as a matter of course the home
	of a large number of gangs, thieves' guilds, syndicates and
	similar organisations.  This was one of the reasons for its
	wealth.  Most of the humbler folk on the widdershin side of
	the river, in Morpork's mazy alleys, supplemented their
	meagre incomes by filling some small role for one or other
	of the competing gangs.
		[ The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett ]
	A primordial Babylonian-Akkadian deity, Anshar is mentioned
	in the Babylonian creation epic _Enuma Elish_ as one of a
	pair of offspring (with Kishar) of Lahmu and Lahamu.  Anshar
	is linked with heaven while Kishar is identified with earth.
		[ Encyclopedia of Gods, by Michael Jordan ]
	This giant variety of the ordinary ant will fight just as
	fiercely as its small, distant cousin.  Various varieties
	exist, and they are known and feared for their relentless
	persecution of their victims.
	Anu was the Babylonian god of the heavens, the monarch of
	the north star.  He was the oldest of the Babylonian gods,
	the father of all gods, and the ruler of heaven and destiny.
	Anu features strongly in the _atiku_ festival in
	Babylon, Uruk and other cities.
	The most highly evolved of all the primates, as shown by
	all their anatomical characters and particularly the
	development of the brain.  Both arboreal and terrestrial,
	the apes have the forelimbs much better developed than
	the hind limbs.  Tail entirely absent.  Growth is slow
	and sexual maturity reached at quite an advanced age.
	[ A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa by Dorst ]

	Aldo the gorilla had a plan.  It was a good plan.  It was
	right.  He knew it.  He smacked his lips in anticipation as
	he thought of it.  Yes.  Apes should be strong.  Apes should
	be masters.  Apes should be proud.  Apes should make the
	Earth shake when they walked.  Apes should _rule_ the Earth.
		[ Battle for the Planet of the Apes,
			by David Gerrold ]
	Four-handed, tailless,  mammal of  the  order of  Primates, of  the
	sub-order  of _Anthropoidea_,  which of  all  mammals most  closely
	resembles man (both in appearance and in behaviour).
			  [ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ]
	NEWTONIAN, adj.  Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe
	invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall
	to the ground, but was unable to say why.  His successors
	and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say
	when.
		[ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
	Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. [...] 
	So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, 
	and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried 
	treasure, and X never, ever, marks the spot.
		[ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ]
	Archons are the predominant inhabitants of the heavens.
	However unusual their appearance, they are not generally
	evil.  They are beings at peace with themselves and their
	surroundings.

	Archons are the primary  inhabitants of the Seven Heavens. The five
	varieties of archon (Lantern, Hound,  Warden, Sword, and Tome) have
	wholly different appearances.  The various types look like  spheres
	of  light,   dog-faced  humanoids,   bear-like  humanoids,   winged
	humanoids,  and hawk-like humanoids respectively. Although there is
	a distinct  hierarchy among the varieties,  there is  no rivalry or
	jealousy  there.  Each  has  his   role  to  fulfil  and   that  is
	recognition enough for an archon.
	However strange  and frightening  their  appearance, archons  never
	seem evil. Rather, they appear  as beings at peace  with themselves
	and their environment.
					[ Monstrous Compendium 8, by TSR inc. ]
	Arioch, the patron demon of Elric's ancestors; one of the most
	powerful of all the Dukes of Hell, who was called Knight of
	the Swords, Lord of the Seven Darks, Lord of the Higher Hell
	and many more names besides.
		[ Elric of Melnibone, by Michael Moorcock ]
	I shot an arrow into the air,
	It fell to earth, I knew not where;
	For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
	Could not follow it in its flight.

	I breathed a song into the air,
	It fell to earth, I knew not where;
	For who has sight so keen and strong
	That it can follow the flight of song?

	Long, long afterward, in an oak
	I found the arrow still unbroke;
	And the song, from beginning to end,
	I found again in the heart of a friend.
		[ The Arrow and the Song,
		  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
	Arkenstone, Heart of the Mountain, property of the King
	under the Mountain, is the most valued jewel that the
	dwarves possess. It shines white light that can guide
	your steps in the darkness, and carrying it is said
	to increase your carrying capacity. When invoked it
	will reveal the gold around you.
	Ashikaga Takauji was a daimyo of the Minamoto clan who
	joined forces with the Go-Daigo to defeat the Hojo armies.
	Later when Go-Daigo attempted to reduce the powers of the
	samurai clans he rebelled against him.  He defeated Go-
	Daigo and established the emperor Komyo on the throne.
	Go-Daigo eventually escaped and established another
	government in the town of Yoshino.  This period of dual
	governments was known as the Nambokucho.
	[ Samurai - The Story of a Warrior Tradition, by Cook ]
	On July 8, 1336,  he and his samurai entered Kyoto, forced Go-Daigo
	to retire,  after which  he seized  power himself  and installed  a
	puppet prince on the throne  (the current Japanese  imperial family
	are  the   descendants  of  this   puppet  emperor  that   Ashikaga
	installed).

	Go-Daigo escaped,  though, wouldn't  admit to  have been  defeated,
	and  opened a new "capital"  in Yoshino (south of  Kyoto), where he
	and few  of his  descendants claimed  to be  running a  government,
	known as  the "Southern Court". The  period between  1337 and 1392,
	when Japan was ruled by two courts, is known as the Nambokucho.

	That "government" disappeared, naturally, after a  few generations,
	and Ashikaga's  Muromachi regime lasted for  a long  time. The last
	Ashikaga daimyo in power was the 14th descendant of Takauji.
	This small,  inoffensive-looking snake shares the feared power
	of petrification with its distant relatives the cockatrice and
	basilisk. Just one touch from its blunt snout  can render  one
	motionless for all eternity.
		[ The New Bestiary, Wizard Endlebrook ]
	In 1927, zoologist Ernst Bartels was in his home near the 
	Tjidjenkol River in Java when he heard a strange cry louder than 
	the other night sounds, a cry like "a-hool."
	Bartels heard the sound twice more before the origin of the cries 
	moved off into the night. Bartels soon remembered a local legend 
	of the ahool or athol, a type of huge bat reputed to live in 
	the area.

	Locals described the bat as the size of a small child, with 
	an 11-12 foot wingspan. The athol was supposedly covered in 
	grayish fur and had a face similar to that of a monkey or a man. 
	At times, it was seen sitting on the forest floor, with its wings 
	folded beside it; it was also reputed to have feet which pointed
	backwards. During the day (like all bats, it was nocturnal), the 
	athol's refuge was supposedly a cave somewhere near a waterfall, 
	although at night it would fly over the river's surface in
	search of fish.

		[ "A Belfry of Crypto-bats." by Shuker, Dr. Karl P.N. 
		Fortean Studies 1, pp. 235-245. ]
	It is said that Asmodeus is the overlord over all  of  hell.
	His  appearance,  unlike  many  other  demons and devils, is
	human apart from his horns and tail.  He  can  freeze  flesh
	with a touch.
	The consecrated ritual knife of a Wiccan initiate (one of
	four basic tools, together with the wand, chalice and
	pentacle).  Traditionally, the athame is a double-edged,
	black-handled, cross-hilted dagger of between six and
	eighteen inches length.
	Athene was the offspring of Zeus, and without a mother.  She
	sprang forth from his head completely armed.  Her favourite
	bird was the owl, and the plant sacred to her is the olive.
		[ Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch ]
	Athena, the  Greek goddess of war and peace, the peaceful arts, and
	wisdom.  Patron defender of many Greek cities, Athens in particular
	(then called Pallas Athena),  she is a major  goddess of the  Greek
	pantheon  and, according to Hesiod, the daughter  of Metis (Wisdom)
	and Zeus, born fully  armed from his head. A goddess of  battle and
	allegedly  a snake  goddess,  she is  a deity  who also  stands for
	discipline against  the more unruly conduct  of such  as Hermes and
	Poseidon.
	Her  symbol is the Aegis,  the skin of  a sacrificial  goat. She is
	also associated with ship-building and domestic crafts.
			  [ after the Encyclopedia of Gods, by Michael Jordan ]
	A mundane salamander, harmless.
	"Now, this third handkerchief," Mein Herr proceeded, "has also
	four edges, which you can trace continuously round and round:
	all you need do is to join its four edges to the four edges of
	the opening.  The Purse is then complete, and its outer
	surface--"
	"I see!" Lady Muriel eagerly interrupted.  "Its outer surface
	will be continuous with its inner surface!  But it will take
	time. I'll sew it up after tea."  She laid aside the bag, and
	resumed her cup of tea.  "But why do you call it Fortunatus's
	Purse, Mein Herr?"
	The dear old man beamed upon her, with a jolly smile, looking
	more exactly like the Professor than ever.  "Don't you see,
	my child--I should say Miladi?  Whatever is inside that Purse,
	is outside it; and whatever is outside it, is inside it.  So
	you have all the wealth of the world in that leetle Purse!"
		[ Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, by Lewis Carroll ]
	The "lord of the flies" is a translation of the Hebrew
	Ba'alzevuv (Beelzebub in Greek).  It has been suggested that
	it was a mistranslation of a mistransliterated word which
	gave us this pungent and suggestive name of the Devil, a
	devil whose name suggests that he is devoted to decay,
	destruction, demoralization, hysteria and panic...
		[ Notes on _Lord of the Flies_, by E. L. Epstein ]
	...  It came to the edge of the fire and the light faded as
	if a cloud had bent over it.  Then with a rush it leaped
	the fissure.  The flames roared up to greet it, and wreathed
	about it; and a black smoke swirled in the air.  Its streaming
	mane kindled, and blazed behind it.  In its right hand
	was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire; in its left it
	held a whip of many thongs.
	'Ai, ai!' wailed Legolas.  'A Balrog!  A Balrog is come!'
		   [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	Extinct rhinos include a variety of forms, the most
	spectacular being _Baluchitherium_ from the Oligocene of
	Asia, which is the largest known land mammal.  Its body, 18
	feet high at the shoulder and carried on massive limbs,
	allowed the 4-foot-long head to browse on the higher branches
	of trees.  Though not as enormous, the titanotheres of the
	early Tertiary were also large perissodactyls, _Brontotherium_
	of the Oligocene being 8 feet high at the shoulder.
		[ Prehistoric Animals, by Barry Cox ]
	He took another step and she cocked her right wrist in
	viciously.  She heard the spring click.  Weight slapped into
	her hand.
	"Here!" she shrieked hysterically, and brought her arm up in
	a hard sweep, meaning to gut him, leaving him to blunder
	around the room with his intestines hanging out in steaming
	loops.  Instead he roared laughter, hands on his hips,
	flaming face cocked back, squeezing and contorting with great
	good humor.
	"Oh, my dear!" he cried, and went off into another gale of
	laughter.
	She looked stupidly down at her hand.  It held a firm yellow
	banana with a blue and white Chiquita sticker on it.  She
	dropped it, horrified, to the carpet, where it became a
	sickly yellow grin, miming Flagg's own.
	"You'll tell," he whispered.  "Oh yes indeed you will."
	And Dayna knew he was right.
		[ The Stand, by Stephen King ]
	They dressed alike -- in buckskin boots, leathern breeks and
	deerskin shirts, with broad girdles that held axes and short
	swords; and they were all gaunt and scarred and hard-eyed;
	sinewy and taciturn.
	They were wild men, of a sort, yet there was still a wide
	gulf between them and the Cimmerian.  They were sons of
	civilization, reverted to a semi-barbarism.  He was a
	barbarian of a thousand generations of barbarians.  They had
	acquired stealth and craft, but he had been born to these
	things.  He excelled them even in lithe economy of motion.
	They were wolves, but he was a tiger.
		[ Conan - The Warrior, by Robert E. Howard ]
	Hrun the  Barbarian crept  soundlessly along  the corridors,  which
	were lit  with a  light so  violet that  it was  almost black.  his
	earlier  confusion was  gone. This was obviously  a magical temple,
	and that explained everything.
	   ...
	Observe Hrun,  as he leaps  cat-footed across  a suspicious  tunnel
	mouth. Even in this violet light his skin gleams  coppery. There is
	much  gold about his person, in  the form of anklets and wristlets,
	but otherwise  he is naked except  for a  leopardskin loincloth. He
	took  that in the  steaming forests  of Howondaland,  after killing
	its owner with his teeth.
	In his right hand  he carried the magical black sword  Kring, which
	was  forged  from a  thunderbolt  and has  a  soul  but suffers  no
	scabbard. Hrun  had  stolen it  only  three  days before  from  the
	impregnable  palace  of the  Archmandrite of  B'Ituni,  and  he was
	already regretting it. It was beginning to get on his nerves.
	"I tell you  it went down that last  passage on the  right," hissed
	Kring in a voice like the scrape of a blade over stone.
	"Be silent!"
	"All I said was -"
	"Shut up!"
				[ The colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ]
	Barbed devils lack any real special abilities, though they
	are quite difficult to kill.
	A bat, flitting in the darkness outside, took the wrong turn
	as it made its nightly rounds and came in through the window
	which had been left healthfully open.  It then proceeded to
	circle the room in the aimless fat-headed fashion habitual
	with bats, who are notoriously among the less intellectually
	gifted of God's creatures.  Show me a bat, says the old
	proverb, and I will show you something that ought to be in
	some kind of a home.
		[ A Pelican at Blandings, by P. G. Wodehouse ]
	In Fantasyland these are remarkable in that they seldom or
	never wear out and are suitable for riding or walking in
	without the need of Socks.  Boots never pinch, rub, or get
	stones in them; nor do nails stick upwards into the feet from
	the soles.  They are customarily mid-calf length or knee-high,
	slip on and off easily and never smell of feet.  Unfortunately,
	the formula for making this splendid footwear is a closely
	guarded secret, possibly derived from nonhumans (see Dwarfs,
	Elves, and Gnomes).
	[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
	I worked the lever well under, and stretched my back; the end
	of the stone rose up, and I kicked the fulcrum under.  Then,
	when I was going to bear down, I remembered there was
	something to get out from below; when I let go of the lever,
	the stone would fall again.  I sat down to think, on the root
	of the oak tree; and, seeing it stand about the ground, I saw
	my way.  It was lucky I had brought a longer lever.  It would
	just reach to wedge under the oak root.
	Bearing it down so far would have been easy for a heavy man,
	but was a hard fight for me.  But this time I meant to do it
	if it killed me, because I knew it could be done.  Twice I
	got it nearly there, and twice the weight bore it up again;
	but when I flung myself on it the third time, I heard in my
	ears the sea-sound of Poseidon.  Then I knew this time I
	would do it; and so I did.
		[ The King Must Die, by Mary Renault ]
	"Stand to it, my hearts of gold," said the old bowman as he
	passed from knot to knot.  "By my hilt! we are in luck this
	journey.  Bear in mind the old saying of the Company."
	"What is that, Aylward?" cried several, leaning on their bows
	and laughing at him.
	"'Tis the master-bowyer's rede: 'Every bow well bent.  Every
	shaft well sent.  Every stave well nocked.  Every string well
	locked.'  There, with that jingle in his head, a bracer on
	his left hand, a shooting glove on his right, and a
	farthing's-worth of wax in his girdle, what more doth a
	bowman need?"
	"It would not be amiss," said Hordle John, "if under his
	girdle he had four farthings'-worth of wine."
		[ The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ]
	A peasant pole-arm, the bec de corbin's crow-beak blade 
	was designed to puncture the heavy plate armor common to 
	upper-class warriors. In this weapon the beak is the major 
	feature. This is backed by a flat hammer head or clawed head, 
	with a short and bladelike spike at the opposite end.

	This giant variety of its useful normal cousin normally
	appears in small groups, looking for raw material to produce
	the royal jelly needed to feed their queen.  On rare
	occasions, one may stumble upon a bee-hive, in which the
	queen bee is being well provided for, and guarded against
	intruders.
	[ The Creator ] has an inordinate fondness for beetles.
		[ attributed to biologist J.B.S. Haldane ]

	The common name for the insects with wings shaped like
	shields (_Coleoptera_), one of the ten sub-species into
	which the insects are divided.  They are characterized by
	the shields (the front pair of wings) under which the back
	wings are folded.
		[ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ]
	The beholder (A.K.A the eye tyrant, the sphere of many eyes) 
	is most frequently found deep underground, although infrequently 
	it will lair in desolate wilderness.  The globular body of this 
	monster is supported by levitation, and it floats slowly about 
	as it wills.  Atop the sphere are ten eyestalks, while in its 
	central area are a great eleventh eye and a large mouth filled 
	with pointed teeth.  Each of the eyes is said to have a different
	magical property, all of which are deadly or malicious.  The 
	beholder is hateful, tricky, and avaricious and is known to have 
	a fondness for both traps and artifacts.
		[ Adapted by Ben Lehman from Monstrous Manual, by TSR, Inc. ]
	"A bell, book and candle job."
	The Bursar sighed.  "We tried that, Archchancellor."
	The Archchancellor leaned towards him.
	"Eh?" he said.
	"I _said_, we tried that Archchancellor," said the Bursar loudly,
	directing his voice at the old man's ear.  "After dinner, you
	remember?  We used Humptemper's _Names of the Ants_ and rang Old
	Tom."*
	"Did we, indeed.  Worked, did it?"
	"_No_, Archchancellor."

	* Old Tom was the single cracked bronze bell in the University
	bell tower.
		[ Eric, by Terry Pratchett ]
	The blindfolding was performed by binding a piece of the
	yellowish linen whereof those of the Amahagger who condescended
	to wear anything in particular made their dresses tightly round
	the eyes.  This linen I afterwards discovered was taken from the
	tombs, and was not, as I had first supposed, of native
	manufacture.  The bandage was then knotted at the back of the
	head, and finally brought down again and the ends bound under
	the chin to prevent its slipping.  Ustane was, by the way, also
	blindfolded, I do not know why, unless it was from fear that she
	should impart the secrets of the route to us.
		[ She, by H. Rider Haggard ]
	On this particular day Blind Io, by dint of constant vigilance
	the chief of the gods, sat with his chin on his hand
	and looked at the gaming board on the red marble table in
	front of him.  Blind Io had got his name because, where his
	eye sockets should have been, there were nothing but two
	areas of blank skin.  His eyes, of which he had an impressively
	large number, led a semi-independent life of their
	own.  Several were currently hovering above the table.
		[ The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett ]
	These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing more than
	puddles of slime, but they both live and move, feeding on
	metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer to
	supplement their diet.

	But we were not on a station platform.  We were on the track ahead
	as the nightmare, plastic column of fetid black iridescence oozed
	tightly onward through its fifteen-foot sinus, gathering unholy
	speed and driving before it a spiral, re-thickening cloud of the
	pallid abyss vapor.  It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster
	than any subway train -- a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic
	bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes
	forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the
	tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic
	penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its
	kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.
		[ At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
	   " It's all very fine," said the Puddin' gloomily, " singing about
	the joys of being penguins and pirates, but how'd you like to be a
	Puddin' and be eaten all day long? "
	   And in a very gruff voice he sang as follows :--
	      " O, who would be a puddin',
		  A puddin' in a pot,
		A puddin' which is stood on
		  A fire which is hot ?
		O sad indeed the lot
		Of puddin's in a pot.
	...
	      " But as I am a puddin',
		  A puddin' in a pot,
		I hope you get the stomachache
		  For eatin' me a lot.
		I hope you get it hot,
		  You puddin'-eatin' lot ! "
	   " Very well sung, Albert," said Bill encouragingly, " though you're
	a trifle husky in your undertones, which is no doubt due to the gravy
	in your innards.  However, as a reward for bein' a bright little
	feller we shall have a slice of you all round before turnin' in for
	the night."
	[ The Magic Pudding: The Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum. Norman Lindsay ]
	Bone devils attack with weapons and with a great hooked tail
	which causes a loss of strength to those they sting.
	Faustus: Come on Mephistopheles.  What shall we do?
	Mephistopheles: Nay, I know not.  We shall be cursed with bell,
	book, and candle.
	Faustus: How?  Bell, book, and candle, candle, book, and bell,
	Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.
	Anon you shall hear a hog grunt, a calf bleat, and an ass bray,
	Because it is Saint Peter's holy day.
	(Enter all the Friars to sing the dirge)
		[ Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, by Christopher Marlowe ]
	For half a buck, a vial of luck
		Or a bottle of nifty breaks
	Or a flask of joy, or Myrna Loy
		For luncheon with sirloin steaks.
	
	Pour out a mug from this old jug,
		And you'll never get wet in rains.
	I've bottles of grins and racetrack wins
		And lotions to ease your pains.
	
	Here's bottles of imps and wet-pack shrimps
		From a sea unknown to man,
	And an elixir to banish fear,
		And the sap from the pipes of Pan.
	
	With the powdered horn of the unicorn
		You can win yourself a mate;
	With the rish hobnob; or get a job --
		It's yours at a lowered rate.
		[ Shottle Bop, by Theodore Sturgeon ]
	Brigit (Brigid, Bride, Banfile), which means the Exalted One,
	was the Celtic (continental European and Irish) fertility
	goddess.  She was originally celebrated on February first in
	the festival of Imbolc, which coincided with the beginning
	of lactation in ewes and was regarded in Scotland as the date
	on which Brigit deposed the blue-faced hag of winter.  The
	Christian calendar adopted the same date for the Feast of St.
	Brigit.  There is no record that a Christian saint ever
	actually existed, but in Irish mythology she became the
	midwife to the Virgin Mary.
		[ Encyclopedia of Gods, by Michael Jordan ]
	Bring me my broadsword
	And clear understanding.
	Bring me my cross of gold,
	As a talisman.
		[ "Broadsword" (refrain) by Ian Anderson ]
	Bugbears are relatives of goblins, although they tend to be
	larger and more hairy.  They are aggressive carnivores and
	sometimes kill just for the treasure their victims may be
	carrying.

	Bugbears are giant, hairy  cousins of goblins who frequent the same
	areas  as  their smaller  relatives.  Bugbears are  large and  very
	muscular, standing 7' tall.  Their hides range from light yellow to
	yellow brown  and their  thick coarse  hair varies  in colour  from
	brown  to  brick  red.  Though  vaguely   humanoid  in  appearance,
	bugbears seem to contain the  blood of some large  carnivore. Their
	eyes recall  those of  some savage  bestial animal, being  greenish
	white with  red pupils, while their  ears are  wedge shaped, rising
	from the  top of  their heads. A  bugbear's mouth  is full of  long
	sharp fangs.
	Bugbears have two main goals  in life: survival and  treasure. They
	are  superb  carnivores,  winnowing  out  the   weak  and  careless
	adventurer, monster, and animal. Goblins  are always on  their toes
	when  bugbears are present, for  the weak or  stupid quickly end up
	in the stewpot.
		[ Monstrous Manual, by TSR, Inc. ]
	'I read you by your bugle horn
	And by your palfrey good,
	I read you for a Ranger sworn
	To keep the King's green-wood.'
	'A Ranger, Lady, winds his horn,
	And 'tis at peep of light;
	His blast is heard at merry morn,
	And mine at dead of night.'
		[ Brignall Banks, by Sir Walter Scott ]
	A creature of the stars, this bat like being can be summoned
	across the vast interstellar gulfs to serve magicians and
	dark powers.  It is said that they will seize those who 
	summon them and cannot best them and carry them off to whatever
	terrible fate awaits them on other worlds.
	A classical Mesoamerican Aztec god, also known as Mixcoatl-
	Camaxtli (the Cloud Serpent), Camaxtli is the god of war.  He
	is also a deity of hunting and fire who received human
	sacrifice of captured prisoners.  According to tradition, the
	sun god Tezcatlipoca transformed himself into Mixcoatl-Camaxtli
	to make fire by twirling the sacred fire sticks.
		[ Encyclopedia of Gods, by Michael Jordan ]
	Only once a year, on his birthday, did Charlie Bucket ever
	get to taste a bit of chocolate.  The whole family saved up
	their money for that special occasion, and when the great
	day arrived, Charlie was always presented with one small
	chocolate bar to eat all by himself.  And each time he
	received it, on those marvelous birthday mornings, he would
	place it carefully in a small wooden box that he owned, and
	treasure it as though it were a bar of solid gold; and for
	the next few days, he would allow himself only to look at it,
	but never to touch it.  Then at last, when he could stand it
	no longer, he would peel back a tiny bit of the paper
	wrapping at one corner to expose a tiny bit of chocolate, and
	then he would take a tiny nibble - just enough to allow the
	lovely sweet taste to spread out slowly over his tongue.  The
	next day, he would take another tiny nibble, and so on, and
	so on.  And in this way, Charlie would make his ten-cent bar
	of birthday chocolate last him for more than a month.
		[ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl ]
	Imagine a sealed container, so perfectly constructed that no
	physical influence can pass either inwards or outwards across its
	walls.  Imagine that inside the container is a cat, and also a
	device that can be triggered by some quantum event.  If that event
	takes place, then the device smashes a phial containing cyanide and
	the cat is killed.  If the event does not take place, the cat lives
	on.  In Schroedinger's original version, the quantum event was the
	decay of a radioactive atom.  ...  To the outside observer, the cat
	is indeed in a linear combination of being alive and dead, and only
	when the container is finally opened would the cat's state vector
	collapse into one or the other.  On the other hand, to a (suitably
	protected) observer inside the container, the cat's state-vector
	would have collapsed much earlier, and the outside observer's
	linear combination has no relevance.
		[ The Emperor's New Mind, by Roger Penrose ]
	Well-known quadruped domestic animal from the family of
	predatory felines (_Felis ochreata domestica_), with a thick,
	soft pelt; often kept as a pet.  Various folklores have the
	cat associated with magic and the gods of ancient Egypt.

	So Ulthar went to sleep in vain anger; and when the people
	awakened at dawn - behold!  Every cat was back at his
	accustomed hearth!  Large and small, black, grey, striped,
	yellow and white, none was missing.  Very sleek and fat did
	the cats appear, and sonorous with purring content.
		[ The Cats of Ulthar, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
	Now it was light enough to leave.  Moon-Watcher picked up
	the shriveled corpse and dragged it after him as he bent
	under the low overhang of the cave.  Once outside, he
	threw the body over his shoulder and stood upright - the
	only animal in all this world able to do so.
	Among his kind, Moon-Watcher was almost a giant.  He was
	nearly five feet high, and though badly undernourished
	weighed over a hundred pounds.  His hairy, muscular body
	was halfway between ape and man, but his head was already
	much nearer to man than ape.  The forehead was low, and
	there were ridges over the eye sockets, yet he unmistakably
	held in his genes the promise of humanity.
		[ 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke ]
	Of all the monsters put together by the Greek imagination
	the Centaurs (Kentauroi) constituted a class in themselves.
	Despite a strong streak of sensuality, in their make-up,
	their normal behaviour was moral, and they took a kindly
	thought of man's welfare.  The attempted outrage of Nessos on
	Deianeira, and that of the whole tribe of Centaurs on the
	Lapith women, are more than offset by the hospitality of
	Pholos and by the wisdom of Cheiron, physician, prophet,
	lyrist, and the instructor of Achilles.  Further, the
	Centaurs were peculiar in that their nature, which united the
	body of a horse with the trunk and head of a man, involved
	an unthinkable duplication of vital organs and important
	members.  So grotesque a combination seems almost un-Greek.
	These strange creatures were said to live in the caves and
	clefts of the mountains, myths associating them especially
	with the hills of Thessaly and the range of Erymanthos.
		 [ Mythology of all races, Vol. 1, pp. 270-271 ]
	I observed here, what I had often seen before, that certain
	districts abound in centipedes.  Here they have light
	reddish bodies and blue legs; great myriapedes are seen
	crawling every where.  Although they do no harm, they excite
	in man a feeling of loathing.  Perhaps our appearance
	produces a similar feeling in the elephant and other large
	animals.  Where they have been much disturbed, they
	certainly look upon us with great distrust, as the horrid
	biped that ruins their peace.
		[ Travels and Researches in South Africa,
			by Dr. David Livingstone ]
	Cerberus, (or Kerberos in Greek), was the three-headed dog
	that guarded the Gates of Hell.  He allowed any dead to enter,
	and likewise prevented them all from ever leaving.  He was
	bested only twice:  once when Orpheus put him to sleep by
	playing bewitching music on his lyre, and the other time when
	Hercules confronted him and took him to the world of the
	living (as his twelfth and last labor).
	Name of a family (_Chameleonidae_) and race (_Chameleo_) of
	scaly lizards, especially the _Chameleo vulgaris_ species,
	with a short neck, claws, a grasping tail, a long, extendible
	tongue and mutually independent moving eyes.  When it is
	scared or angry, it inflates itself and its transparent skin
	shows its blood:  the skin first appears greenish, then
	gradually changes color until it is a spotted red.  The final
	color depends on the background color as well, hence the
	(figurative) implication of unreliability.  [Capitalized:]
	a constellation of the southern hemisphere (Chameleo).
		[ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ]
	When an ancient Greek died, his soul went to the nether world:
	the Hades.  To reach the nether world, the souls had to cross
	the river Styx, the river that separated the living from the
	dead.  The Styx could be crossed by ferry, whose shabby ferry-
	man, advanced in age, was called Charon.  The deceased's next-
	of-kin would place a coin under his tongue, to pay the ferry-
	man.
	Dantes rapidly cleared away the earth around the chest.  Soon
	the center lock appeared, then the handles at each end, all
	delicately wrought in the manner of that period when art made
	precious even the basest of metals.  He took the chest by the
	two handles and tried to lift it, but it was impossible.  He
	tried to open it; it was locked.  He inserted the sharp end
	of his pickaxe between the chest and the lid and pushed down
	on the handle.  The lid creaked, then flew open.
	Dantes was seized with a sort of giddy fever.  He cocked his
	gun and placed it beside him.  The he closed his eyes like a
	child, opened them and stood dumbfounded.
	The chest was divided into three compartments.  In the first
	were shining gold coins.  In the second, unpolished gold
	ingots packed in orderly stacks.  From the third compartment,
	which was half full, Dantes picked up handfuls of diamonds,
	pearls and rubies.  As they fell through his fingers in a
	glittering cascade, they gave forth the sound of hail beating
	against the windowpanes.
		[ The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas ]
	A Chinese rain god.
	Tiamat is said to be the mother of evil dragonkind.  She is
	extremely vain.
	Avaricious,  supremely vain,  and  profoundly Lawful  Evil,  Tiamat
	proclaims  herself  the   creator  of  all  evil  dragonkind,   and
	certainly many evil dragons  revere her as their creator and patron
	deity.  She  infests the  uppermost  of  the  Nine  Hells with  her
	consorts,  each a  Great Wyrm  of different  colour -  one red, one
	white, one green, one blue, and one black.
	Tiamat's Avatar appears  as a gigantic five-headed dragon with  one
	head of  each of  the chromatic  (evil) dragon  types. Each  head's
	colour  runs the length  of the  neck and into  the forepart of het
	body  as stripes,  gradually blending  to  three  stripes of  grey,
	blue-green,  and  purple  over her  back  and  hind-quarters,  then
	merging into a muddy dark  brown tail. Her underbelly and  legs are
	greenish white fading into her upper body colours.
		 [ Monster Mythology, by TSR inc. ]
	Cloaks are the universal outer garb of everyone who is not a
	Barbarian.  It is hard to see why.  They are open in front
	and require you at most times to use one hand to hold them
	shut.  On horseback they leave the shirt-sleeved arms and
	most of the torso exposed to wind and Weather.  The OMTs
	[ Official Management Terms ] for Cloaks well express their
	difficulties.  They are constantly _swirling and dripping_
	and becoming _heavy with water_ in rainy Weather, _entangling
	with trees_ or _swords_, or needing to be _pulled close
	around her/his shivering body_.  This seems to suggest they
	are less than practical for anyone on an arduous Tour.
		[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
	I wandered lonely as a cloud
	That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
	When all at once I saw a crowd,
	A host, of golden daffodils;
	Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
	Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
		[ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, by William Wordsworth ]
	Darzee and his wife only cowered down in the nest without
	answering, for from the thick grass at the foot of the bush
	there came a low hiss -- a horrid cold sound that made
	Rikki-tikki jump back two clear feet.  Then inch by inch out of
	the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big
	black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.
	When he had lifted one-third of himself clear of the ground,
	he stayed balancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion-tuft
	balances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with the
	wicked snake's eyes that never change their expression,
	whatever the snake may be thinking of.
	'Who is Nag?' said he.  '_I_ am Nag.  The great God Brahm put
	his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his
	hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept.  Look, and be
	afraid!'
		[ Rikki-tikki-tavi, by Rudyard Kipling ]
	Once in a great while, when the positions of the stars are
	just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg.  Then,
	along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a toad,
	to squat upon the egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
	hatch.  When it hatches, out comes a creature called basilisk,
	or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures.  A single
	glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes will kill both
	man and beast.  Its power of destruction is said to be so
	great that sometimes simply to hear its hiss can prove fatal.
	Its breath is so venomous that it causes all vegetation
	to wither.

	There is, however, one creature which can withstand the
	basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel.  No one knows
	why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay the
	basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle.  Perhaps
	the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness:  if it ever
	sees its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instantly.
	But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for it is said that
	merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
	sicken and die.
		[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
			and other sources ]
	This beastie is the recently-hatched broodling of a cockatrice, a
	creature feared by adventurers great and small for its petrifying
	peck.  
		[ The New Bestiary, Wizard Endlebrook ]
	A single glance from this red-feathered cockatrice  can cause even
	the bravest adventurer to burst into flames, their flesh withering
	and blackening and curling beneath the creature's baleful gaze.
		[ The New Bestiary, Wizard Endlebrook ]
	He was dressed in a flowing gown with fur tippets which had
	the signs of the zodiac embroidered over it, with various
	cabalistic signs, such as triangles with eyes in them, queer
	crosses, leaves of trees, bones of birds and animals, and a
	planetarium whose stars shone like bits of looking-glass with
	the sun on them.  He had a pointed hat like a dunce's cap, or
	like the headgear worn by ladies of that time, except that
	the ladies were accustomed to have a bit of veil floating
	from the top of it.
		[ The Once and Future King, by T.H. White ]

		"A wizard!" Dooley exclaimed, astounded.
		"At your service, sirs," said the wizard.  "How
	perceptive of you to notice.  I suppose my hat rather gives me
	away.  Something of a beacon, I don't doubt."  His hat was
	pretty much that, tall and cone-shaped with stars and crescent
	moons all over it.  All in all, it couldn't have been more
	wizardish.
		[ The Elfin Ship, James P. Blaylock ]
	A mythical feathered serpent.  The couatl are very rare.
	The couatl  are feathered serpents of myth and lore. It is believed
	that  they are  distant relatives  of dragons,  though this remains
	unproven.  So rare  as to be  considered legendary,  the couatl are
	some  of the  most beautiful creatures  in existence.  A couatl has
	the body of  a long serpent and  feathered wings the colour of  the
	rainbow. Occasionally  sent as  messengers from  the gods to  their
	erring servants,  a couatl  will always  seek to  punish those  who
	deserve it.
		[ 2nd ed. Monstrous Compendium, by TSR, Inc. ]
	This carnivore is known for its voracious appetite and
	inflated view of its own intelligence.
	If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don't
	know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely,
	is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining,
	being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing
	exercise.  It was made by the Lake-men for long journeys.
		[ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	A big animal with the appearance of a lizard, constituting
	an order of the reptiles (_Loricata_ or _Crocodylia_), the
	crocodile is a large, dangerous predator native to tropical
	and subtropical climes.  It spends most of its time in large
	bodies of water.
	Croesus (in Greek: Kroisos), the wealthy last king of Lydia;
	his empire was destroyed when he attacked Cyrus in 549, after
	the Oracle of Delphi (q.v.) had told him:  "if you attack the
	Persians, you will destroy a mighty empire".  Herodotus
	relates of his legendary conversation with Solon of Athens,
	who impressed upon him that being rich does not imply being
	happy and that no one should be considered fortunate before
	his death.
	Warily Conan scanned his surroundings, all of his senses alert
	for signs of possible danger.  Off in the distance, he could
	see the familiar shapes of the Camp of the Duali tribe.
	Suddenly, the hairs on his neck stand on end as he detects the
	aura of evil magic in the air.  Without thought, he readies
	his weapon, and mutters under his breath:
	"By Crom, there will be blood spilt today."

	[ Conan the Avenger by Robert E. Howard, Bjorn Nyberg, and
	  L. Sprague de Camp ]
	"God save thee, ancient Mariner!
	From the fiends, that plague thee thus! -
	Why look'st thou so?" - With my cross-bow
	I shot the Albatross.
		[ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor
		  Coleridge ]
	You look into one of these and see _vapours swirling like
	clouds_.  These shortly clear away to show a sort of video
	without sound of something that is going to happen to you
	soon.  It is seldom good news.
	[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
	"The Thing cannot be described -- there is no language for such
	abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch
	contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order.  A
	mountain walked or stumbled.  God!... the Thing of the idols,
	the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awakened to claim
	his own.  The stars were right again... great Cthulhu was
	loose again, and ravening for delight."
		[ The Call of Cthulhu, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
	
	The exact origins of Cthulhu are lost to time, but it is
	known that in aeons long past a race of space faring
	beings came to this world and Cthulhu was amongst their
	number as the high priest who interceded between them
	and the dark gods they worshipped.  Whether Cthulhu is
	a long lived individual or a title of office, is not
	known, but a creature bearing this name lives on,
	trapped in eternal slumber in the ruins of his great
	city. 
	Curses are longstanding ill-wishings which, in Fantasyland,
	often manifest as semisentient.  They have to be broken or
	dispelled.  The method varies according to the type and
	origin of the Curse:
	[...]
	4.  Curses on Rings and Swords.  You have problems.  Rings
	have to be returned whence they came, preferably at over a
	thousand degrees Fahrenheit, and the Curse means you won't
	want to do this.  Swords usually resist all attempts to
	raise their Curses.  Your best source is to hide the Sword
	or give it to someone you dislike.
	[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
	A pack of snow-white, red-eared spectral hounds which
	sometimes took part in the kidnappings and raids the
	inhabitants of the underworld sometimes make on this world
	(the Wild Hunt).  They are associated in Wales with the sounds
	of migrating wild geese, and are said to be leading the souls
	of the damned to hell.  The phantom chase is usually heard or
	seen in midwinter and is accompanied by a howling wind.
		[ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]
	And after he had milked his cattle swiftly,
	he again took hold of two of my men
	and had them as his supper.
	Then I went, with a tub of red wine,
	to stand before the Cyclops, saying:
	"A drop of wine after all this human meat,
	so you can taste the delicious wine
	that is stored in our ship, Cyclops."
	He took the tub and emptied it.
	He appreciated the priceless wine that much
	that he promptly asked me for a second tub.
	"Give it", he said, "and give me your name as well".
			...
	Thrice I filled the tub,
	and after the wine had clouded his mind,
	I said to him, in a tone as sweet as honey:
	"You have asked my name, Cyclops?  Well,
	my name is very well known.  I'll give it to you,
	if you give me the gift you promised me as a guest.
	My name is Nobody.  All call me thus:
	my father and my mother and my friends."
	Ruthlessly he answered to this:
	"Nobody, I will eat you last of all;
	your host of friends will completely precede you.
	That will be my present to you, my friend."
	And after these words he fell down backwards,
	restrained by the all-restrainer Hupnos.
	His monstrous neck slid into the dust;
	the red wine squirted from his throat;
	the drunk vomited lumps of human flesh.
		[ The Odyssey, (chapter Epsilon), by Homer ]
	Is this a dagger which I see before me,
	The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
	I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
	Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
	To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
	A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
	Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
	I see thee yet, in form as palpable
	As this which now I draw.
		[ Macbeth, by William Shakespeare ]
	... But he ruled rather by force and fear, if they might
	avail; and those who perceived his shadow spreading over the
	world called him the Dark Lord and named him the Enemy; and
	he gathered again under his government all the evil things of
	the days of Morgoth that remained on earth or beneath it,
	and the Orcs were at his command and multiplied like flies.
	Thus the Black Years began ...
		[ The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	For eighty thousand years Pth'thya-l'yi had lived in Y'ha-nthlei,
	and thither she had gone back after Obed Marsh was dead. 
	Y'ha-nthlei was not destroyed when the upper-earth men shot death
	into the sea.  It was hurt, but not destroyed.  The Deep Ones 
	could never be destroyed, even though the palaeogean magic of the
	forgotten Old Ones might sometimes check them.  For the present 
	they would rest; but some day, if they remembered, they would 
	rise again for the tribute Great Cthulhu craved.
		[ The Shadow Over Innsmouth, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
	Demogorgon, the prince of demons, wallows in filth and can
	spread a quickly fatal illness to his victims while rending
	them.  He is a mighty spellcaster, and he can drain the life
	of mortals with a touch of his tail.
	It is often very hard to discover what any given Demon looks
	like, apart from a general impression of large size, huge
	fangs, staring eyes, many limbs, and an odd color; but all
	accounts agree that Demons are very powerful, very Magic (in
	a nonhuman manner), and made of some substance that can squeeze
	through a keyhole yet not be pierced with a Sword.  This makes
	them difficult to deal with, even on the rare occasions when
	they are friendly.
	[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
	Devas are the descendants of plane-touched aasimon.  They have
	feathery wings that may be vestigial or functional.
	Movanic devas are the most frequently seen by mortals. Their
	milky skin and slender build distinguishes them from the
	dark and muscular monadic devas.  The latter are rarely encountered
	except in the inner planes. It is said they are able to breathe
	elements other than air.
		[ adapted from Aasimar, by David Roberts and Brynn ]
	These Aasimar seldom associate with mortals.  Planetars are
	hairless and tall, with green-tinted skin and a wild psionic talent.
		[ adapted from Aasimar, by David Roberts and Brynn ]
	Solars are near to powers in status, and their children like
	demipowers.  Their hair and skin is metallic.  Solars stay aloof
	from mortals, but may command them with an irresistable voice.
		[ adapted from Aasimar, by David Roberts and Brynn ]
	A wolflike wild dog, Canis dingo, of Australia, having a
	reddish- or yellowish-brown coat, believed to have been
	introduced by the aborigines.
	[Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language]
	Ask not, what your magic can do to it. Ask what it can do to your magic.
	Dispater is an arch-devil who rules the city of Dis.  He is
	a powerful mage.
	The djinn are genies from the elemental plane of Air.  There,
	among their kind, they have their own societies.  They are
	sometimes encountered on earth and may even be summoned here
	to perform some service for powerful wizards.  The wizards
	often leave them about for later service, safely tucked away
	in a flask or lamp.  Once in a while, such a tool is found by
	a lucky rogue, and some djinn are known to be so grateful
	when released that they might grant their rescuer a wish.
	A domestic animal, the _tame dog_ (_Canis familiaris_), of
	which numerous breeds exist.  The male is called a dog,
	while the female is called a bitch.  Because of its known
	loyalty to man and gentleness with children, it is the
	world's most popular domestic animal.  It can easily be
	trained to perform various tasks.
	This evil creature (_canis tenebrous_)  lurks in the darker, more
	sinister corners of the world. Its bite is known for its chilling
	effect upon humanoid flesh, and it is not a tameable animal.
	[ The New Bestiary, Wizard Endlebrook ]
	This hazy canine  (_canis precipitous_) is  thought to  have a good
	heart hiding somewhere within its green, silky hide. Unfortunately,
	the  beast is  usually ravenous,  as its diet  of mist is  not very
	filling, at least compared to human flesh.
	[ The New Bestiary, Wizard Endlebrook ]
	Many travelers have seen the drums of the great apes, and
	some have heard the sounds of their beating and the noise of
	the wild, weird revelry of these first lords of the jungle,
	but Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, is, doubtless, the only human
	being who ever joined in the fierce, mad, intoxicating revel
	of the Dum-Dum.
		[ Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs ]
	Through me you pass into the city of woe:
	Through me you pass into eternal pain:
	Through me among the people lost for aye.
	Justice the founder of my fabric mov'd:
	To rear me was the task of power divine,
	Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
	Before me things create were none, save things
	Eternal, and eternal I endure.
	All hope abandon ye who enter here.
		[ The Inferno, from The Divine Comedy of Dante
			Alighieri, translated by H.F. Cary ]
	"Then we can only give thanks that this is Antarctica, where
	there is not one, single, solitary, living thing for it to
	imitate, except these animals in camp."

	"Us," Blair giggled. "It can imitate us. Dogs can't make four
	hundred miles to the sea; there's no food. There aren't any
	skua gulls to imitate at this season. There aren't any
	penguins this far inland. There's nothing that can reach the
	sea from this point - except us. We've got brains. We can do
	it. Don't you see - it's got to imitate us - it's got to be one
	of us - that's the only way it can fly an airplane - fly a plane
	for two hours, and rule - be - all Earth's inhabitants. A world
	for the taking - if it imitates us!
		[ Who Goes There?, by John W. Campbell ]

 	Xander: Let go!  I have to kill the demon bot!
 	Xander Double (grabbing the gun): Anya, get out of the way.
 	Buffy: Xander!
 	Xander Double: That's all right, Buffy.  I have him.
 	Xander: No, Buffy, I'm me.  Help me!
 	Anya: My gun, he's got my gun.
 	Riley: You own a gun?
 	Buffy: Xander, gun holding Xander, give it to me.
 	Anya: Buffy, which one's real?
 	Xander: I am.
 	Xander Double: No, _I_ am.
 	    [ Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 5.03, "The Replacement" ]
	In the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man.  Although
	preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it
	was seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction
	and disease.  Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous
	undertaking.  For the dragon's assailant had to contend
	not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire
	breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail,
	the most deadly part of its serpent-like body.
	[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]

	"One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a
	dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter.  It's
	not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think.
	Dragons have no masters.  The question is always the same, with
	a dragon:  will he talk to you or will he eat you?  If you can
	count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why
	then you're a dragonlord."
		[ The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin ]
	Dumathoin of the Keeper of Secrets Under the Mountain, the god of
	mining, discovery, and exploration.  He is called the Silent
	Keeper, for he never speaks, but may guide his most devoted
	followers and worshippers through fate and happenstance to the
	richest veins of ore and the greatest treasures. His symbol is a
	faceted gem set against a mountainous silhouette.
	Dwarfs have faces like men (ugly men, with wrinkled, leathery
	skins), but are generally either flat-footed, duck-footed, or
	have feet pointing backwards.  They are of the earth, earthy,
	living in the darkest of caverns and venturing forth only
	with the cloaks by which they can make themselves invisible,
	and others disguised as toads.  Miners often come across them,
	and sometimes establish reasonably close relations with them.
	... The miners of Cornwall were always delighted to hear a
	bucca busily mining away, for all dwarfs have an infallible
	nose for precious metals.
	Among other things, dwarfs are rightly valued for their skill
	as blacksmiths and jewellers: they made Odin his famous spear
	Gungnir, and Thor his hammer; for Freya they designed a
	magnificent necklace, and for Frey a golden boar.  And in their
	spare time they are excellent bakers.  Ironically, despite
	their odd feet, they are particularly fond of dancing.  They
	can also see into the future, and consequently are excellent
	meteorologists.  They can be free with presents to people
	they like, and a dwarvish gift is likely to turn to gold in
	the hand.  But on the whole they are a snappish lot.
		[ The Immortals, by Derek and Julia Parker ]
	In after days, when because of the triumph of Morgoth Elves and
	Men became estranged, as he most wished, those of the Elven-race
	that lived still in Middle-earth waned and faded, and Men usurped
	the sunlight.  Then the Quendi wandered in the lonely places of the
	great lands and the isles, and took to the moonlight and the
	starlight, and to the woods and the caves, becoming as shadows
	and memories, save those who ever and anon set sail into the West
	and vanished from Middle-earth.  But in the dawn of years Elves
	and Men were allies and held themselves akin, and there were some
	among Men that learned the wisdom of the Eldar, and became great
	and valiant among the captains of the Noldor.  And in the glory
	and beauty of the Elves, and in their fate, full share had the
	offspring of elf and mortal, Earendil, and Elwing, and Elrond
	their child.
		[ The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	Mostly Harmless.
		[ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams ]
	The behaviour of eels in fresh water extends the air of
	mystery surrounding them.  They move freely into muddy, silty
	bottoms of lakes, lying buried in the daylight hours in summer.
	[...]  Eels are voracious carnivores, feeding mainly at
	night and consuming a wide variety of fishes and invertebrate
	creatures.  Contrary to earlier thinking, eels seek living
	rather than dead creatures and are not habitual eaters of
	carrion.
		[ Freshwater Fishes of Canada, by Scott and Crossman ]
	But I asked why not keep it and let the hen sit on it till it
	hatched, and then we could see what would come out of it.
	"Nothing good, I'm certain of that," Mom said.  "It would
	probably be something horrible.  But just remember, if it's a
	crocodile or a dragon or something like that, I won't have it
	in my house for one minute."
		[ The Enormous Egg, by Oliver Butterworth ]
	... Even as they stepped over the threshold a single clear
	voice rose in song.

		A Elbereth Gilthoniel,
		silivren penna miriel
		o menel aglar elenath!
		Na-chaered palan-diriel
		o galadhremmin ennorath,
		Fanuilos, le linnathon
		nef aear, si nef aearon!

	Frodo halted for a moment, looking back.  Elrond was in his
	chair and the fire was on his face like summer-light upon the
	trees.  Near him sat the Lady Arwen.  [...]
	He stood still enchanted, while the sweet syllables of the
	elvish song fell like clear jewels of blended word and melody.
	"It is a song to Elbereth," said Bilbo.  "They will sing that,
	and other songs of the Blessed Realm, many times tonight.
	Come on!"
	   [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	South-American fish (_Gymnotus electricus_), living in fresh
	water.  Shaped like a serpent, it can grow up to 2 metres.
	This eel is known for its electrical organ which enables it
	to paralyse creatures up to the size of a horse.
	   [ Van Dale's Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal ]
	Elementals are manifestations of the basic nature of the
	universe.  There are four known forms of elementals:  air, fire,
	water, and earth.  Some mystics have postulated the necessity
	for a fifth type, the spirit elemental, but none have ever
	been encountered, at least on this plane of existence.
	The Elves sat round the fire upon the grass or upon the sawn
	rings of old trunks.  Some went to and fro bearing cups and
	pouring drinks; others brought food on heaped plates and
	dishes.
	"This is poor fare," they said to the hobbits; "for we are
	lodging in the greenwood far from our halls.  If ever you are
	our guests at home, we will treat you better."
	"It seems to me good enough for a birthday-party," said Frodo.
	Pippin afterwards recalled little of either food or drink, for
	his mind was filled with the light upon the elf-faces, and the
	sound of voices so various and so beautiful that he felt in a
	waking dream.  [...]
	Sam could never describe in words, nor picture clearly to
	himself, what he felt or thought that night, though it remained
	in his memory as one of the chief events of his life.  The
	nearest he ever got was to say: "Well, sir, if I could grow
	apples like that, I would call myself a gardener.  But it was
	the singing that went to my heart, if you know what I mean."
	   [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	The Elves next unwrapped and gave to each of the Company the 
	clothes they had brought.  For each they had provided a hood 
	and cloak, made according to his size, of the light but warm 
	silken stuff that the Galadrim wove.  It was hard to say of 
	what colour they were: grey with the hue of twilight under 
	the trees they seemed to be; and yet if they were moved, 
	or set in another light, they were green as shadowed leaves,
	or brown as fallow fields by night, dusk-silver as water under 
	the stars.
		[ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	'Put off that mask of burning gold
	With emerald eyes.'
	'O no, my dear, you make so bold
	To find if hearts be wild and wise,
	And yet not cold.'

	'I would but find what's there to find,
	Love or deceit.'
	'It was the mask engaged your mind,
	And after set your heart to beat,
	Not what's behind.'

	'But lest you are my enemy,
	I must enquire.'
	'O no, my dear, let all that be;
	What matter, so there is but fire
	In you, in me?'
		[ The Mask, by W.B. Yeats ]
	These female-seeming devils named after the Furies of mythology
	attack hand to hand and poison their unwary victims as well.
	The two-headed giant, or ettin, is a vicious and unpredictable
	hunter that stalks by night and eats any meat it can catch.
	At first only its tip was visible, but then it rose, straight,
	proud, all that was noble and great and wondrous.  The tip of
	the blade pointed toward the moon, as if it would cleave it
	in two.  The blade itself gleamed like a beacon in the night.
	There was no light source for the sword to be reflecting
	from, for the moon had darted behind a cloud in fear.  The
	sword was glowing from the intensity of its strength and
	power and knowledge that it was justice incarnate, and that
	after a slumber of uncounted years its time had again come.
	After the blade broke the surface, the hilt was visible, and
	holding the sword was a single strong, yet feminine hand,
	wearing several rings that bore jewels sparkling with the
	blue-green color of the ocean.
		[ Knight Life, by Peter David ]
	There was a time when Rincewind had quite liked the iconoscope.
	He believed, against all experience, that the world was
	fundamentally understandable, and that if he could only equip
	himself with the right mental toolbox he could take the back off
	and see how it worked.  He was, of course, dead wrong.  The
	iconoscope didn't take pictures by letting light fall onto
	specially treated paper, as he had surmised, but by the far
	simpler method of imprisoning a small demon with a good eye for
	colour and a speedy hand with a paintbrush.  He had been very
	upset to find that out.
		[ The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett ]
	This is a powerful amulet of ESP.  In addition to its standard
	powers, it regenerates the energy of anyone who carries
	it, allowing them to cast spells more often.  It also reduces
	any spell damage to the person who carries it by half, and
	protects from magic missiles.  Finally, when invoked it has
	the power to instantly open a portal to any other area of the
	dungeon, allowing its invoker to travel quickly between
	areas.
	"Yield up enough sacrifices an' savage knick-knacks an' 
	harbourage in the taown when they wanted it, an' they'd let 
	well enough alone. Wudn't bother no strangers as might bear
	tales aoutside - that is, withaout they got pryin'. All in
	the band of the faithful - Order o' Dagon - an' the children
	shud never die, but go back to the Mother Hydra an' Father 
	Dagon what we all come from once ... Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ..."
		[ The Shadow Over Innsmouth, by H.P. Lovecraft ]
	This weapon is a development of the scythe or sickle. Set 
	upon a long pole, the curving blade of a fauchard can be 
	used for both cutting and thrusting. The weapon offers little 
	in the way of parrying or catching/holding and has no provision 
	for dismounting opponents, though it is quite useful for crippling 
	their mounts.
	... and finally there is "the Eyes of the Overworld".  This
	obscure artifact pushes the wearer's view sense into the
	"overworld" -- another name for a segment of the Astral Plane.
	Usually, there is nothing to be seen.  However, the wearer
	is also able to look back and see the area around herself,
	much like looking on a map.  Why anyone would want to ...
	Then it appeared in Paris at just about the time that Paris
	was full of Carlists who had to get out of Spain.  One of
	them must have brought it with him, but, whoever he was, it's
	likely he knew nothing about its real value.  It had been --
	no doubt as a precaution during the Carlist trouble in Spain
	-- painted or enameled over to look like nothing more than a
	fairly interesting black statuette.  And in that disguise,
	sir, it was, you might say, kicked around Paris for seventy
	years by private owners and dealers too stupid to see what
	it was under the skin.
		[ The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett ]
	A swirling cloud of bright, burning motes, the fire vampire
	descends upon its victim and easily burns them to death once
	they are in its deadly embrace.
	Floating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs
	which drift about the dungeon.  Though not dangerous in and
	of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at
	their large eye in combat is widely feared.  Many are the
	tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by
	its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other
	creature that lurked around nearby.
	With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected
	the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark
	of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.  It was
	already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against
	the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the
	glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow
	eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive
	motion agitated its limbs.

	How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how
	delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I
	had endeavoured to form?  His limbs were in proportion, and I
	had selected his features as beautiful.  Beautiful!--Great God! 
	His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and
	arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and
	flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances
	only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that
	seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in
	which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight
	black lips.
		[ Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ]
	With this thou canst do mighty deeds
	And change men's passions for thy needs:
	A man's despair with joy allay,
	Turn bachelors old to lovers gay.
		[ The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ]
	The fog comes
	on little cat feet.

	It sits looking
	over harbor and city
	on silent haunches
	and then moves on.
		 [ Fog, by Carl Sandburg ]
	Rest! This little Fountain runs
	Thus for aye: -- It never stays
	For the look of summer suns,
	Nor the cold of winter days.
	Whose'er shall wander near,
	When the Syrian heat is worst,
	Let him hither come, nor fear
	Lest he may not slake his thirst:
	He will find this little river
	Running still, as bright as ever.
	Let him drink, and onward hie,
	Bearing but in thought, that I,
	Erotas, bade the Naiad fall,
	And thank the great god Pan for all!
		[ For a Fountain, by Bryan Waller Procter ]
	One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he
	came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been
	trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst,"
	quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and
	just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he
	jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried
	after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked
	away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
		[ Aesop's Fables ]

	Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat
	and went to visit his wife. He said, "I'm going to my wife's
	room."  But her father would not let him go in.
	"I was so sure you thoroughly hated her," he said, "that I gave
	her to your friend. Isn't her younger sister more attractive? Take
	her instead."
	Samson said to them, "This time I have a right to get even with
	the Philistines; I will really harm them." So he went out and
	caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He
	then fastened a torch to every pair of tails, lit the torches and
	let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines.
		[ Judges 15:1-5, NIV ]
	Fungi, division of simple plants that lack chlorophyll, true
	stems, roots, and leaves.  Unlike algae, fungi cannot
	photosynthesize, and live as parasites or saprophytes.  The
	division comprises the slime molds and true fungi.  True
	fungi are multicellular (with the exception of yeasts); the
	body of most true fungi consists of slender cottony
	filaments, or hyphae.  All fungi are capable of asexual
	reproduction by cell division, budding, fragmentation, or
	spores.  Those that reproduce sexually alternate a sexual
	generation (gametophyte) with a spore-producing one.  The
	four classes of true fungi are the algaelike fungi (e.g.,
	black bread mold and downy mildew), sac fungi (e.g., yeasts,
	powdery mildews, truffles, and blue and green molds such as
	Penicillium), basidium fungi (e.g., mushrooms and puffballs)
	and imperfect fungi (e.g., species that cause athlete's foot
	and ringworm).  Fungi help decompose organic matter (important
	in soil renewal); are valuable as a source of antibiotics,
	vitamins, and various chemicals; and for their role in
	fermentation, e.g., in bread and alcoholic beverage
	production.
		[ The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia ]
	And so it came to pass that while Man ruled on Earth, the
	gargoyles waited, lurking, hidden from the light.  Reborn
	every 600 years in Man's reckoning of time, the gargoyles
	joined battle against Man to gain dominion over the Earth.

	In each coming, the gargoyles were nearly destroyed by Men
	who flourished in greater numbers.  Now it has been so many
	hundreds of years that it seems the ancient statues and
	paintings of gargoyles are just products of Man's
	imagination.  In this year, with Man's thoughts turned toward
	the many ills he has brought among himself, Man has forgotten
	his most ancient adversary, the gargoyles.
	[ Excerpt from the opening narration to the movie
		_Gargoyles_, written by Stephen and Elinor Karpf ]
		Gas spores are a vaguely intelligent fungal growth that has
	evolved to strongly resemble the Beholder.  If they are struck 
	with  any amount of force they will explode violently.  Gas spores 
	tend to grow in groups, and legends have been written about the 
	destruction caused by foolish adventurers who touched a
	single one.
		[ Adapted by Ben Lehman from Monstrous Manual, by TSR, Inc. ]
	1 November - All day long we have travelled, and at a good
	speed.  The horses seem to know that they are being kindly
	treated, for they go willingly their full stage at best
	speed.  We have now had so many changes and find the same
	thing so constantly that we are encouraged to think that the
	journey will be an easy one.  Dr. Van Helsing is laconic, he
	tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays
	them well to make the exchange of horses.  We get hot soup,
	or coffee, or tea, and off we go.  It is a lovely country.
	Full of beauties of all imaginable kinds, and the people are
	brave, and strong, and simple, and seem full of nice
	qualities.  They are very, very superstitious.  In the first
	house where we stopped, when the woman who served us saw the
	scar on my forehead, she crossed herself and put out two
	fingers towards me, to keep off the evil eye.  I believe they
	went to the trouble of putting an extra amount of garlic into
	our food, and I can't abide garlic.  Ever since then I have
	taken care not to take off my hat or veil, and so have
	escaped their suspicions.
		[ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]
	Geryon is an arch-devil sometimes called the Wild Beast,
	attacking with his claws and poison sting.  His ranking in
	Hell is rumored to be quite low.
	And now the souls of the dead who had gone below came swarming
	up from Erebus -- fresh brides, unmarried youths, old men
	with life's long suffering behind them, tender young girls
	still nursing this first anguish in their hearts, and a great
	throng of warriors killed in battle, their spear-wounds gaping
	yet and all their armour stained with blood.  From this
	multitude of souls, as they fluttered to and fro by the
	trench, there came a moaning that was horrible to hear.
	Panic drained the blood from my cheeks.
		 [ The Odyssey, (chapter Lambda), by Homer ]
	The forces of the gloom know each other, and are strangely
	balanced by each other.  Teeth and claws fear what they cannot
	grasp.  Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious appetites, hunger
	in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails and jaws which
	have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out
	uneasily the impassive spectral forms straying beneath a
	shroud, erect in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem
	to them to live with a dead and terrible life.  These
	brutalities, which are only matter, entertain a confused fear
	of having to deal with the immense obscurity condensed into an
	unknown being.  A black figure barring the way stops the wild
	beast short.  That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates
	and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the
	ferocious fear the sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter
	a ghoul.
		[ Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo ]
	Giants have always walked the earth, though they are rare in
	these times.  They range in size from little over nine feet
	to a towering twenty feet or more.  The larger ones use huge
	boulders as weapons, hurling them over large distances.  All
	types of giants share a love for men - roasted, boiled, or
	fried.  Their table manners are legendary.
	[Gila monsters] are stout-bodied lizards with short legs and a short,
	fat tail. They're covered with bright irregular markings, usually
	pink, yellow or white, against black or brown scales. They are shy,
	retiring creatures unless they're provoked. Then they can be
	dangerous because they secrete a neurotoxin -- a poison that
	destroys nerve tissue -- from their salivary glands. In humans,
	their bite can result in severe pain and even death.
	    [Expedition Guide -- American Museum of Natural History]
	The people of Komodo call this animal "ora." Elsewhere it is known
	as the Komodo Island monitor or more popularly, the Komodo dragon.
	Oras can reach 10 feet in length and weigh 300 pounds or more --
	particularly after a meal. They are the top predators in their
	habitat, feeding on wild boar, deer, water buffalo, dogs, goats,
	rats, snakes, birds, other oras, and -- once in a great while --
	humans. They hunt by ambush, hiding in the scrub brush along trails
	and in the tall grass of the savannas. Despite their lumbering
	appearance, oras can move with alarming speed when they want to,
	lunging from their hiding places and sprinting toward their
	startled victims. They can't sustain a long chase, but often all
	they need to subdue their prey is one bite. Oras carry poisonous
	bacteria in their mouths so even if they don't immediately catch
	their prey, the attack is often fatal. Using their long forked
	tongues (oras and other monitor lizards are closely related to
	snakes), they track the scent of their prey as the wounded animal
	slowly weakens from the infected bite -- a process that can take
	several days. When the victim can no longer flee, the ora moves
	in for the kill. Oras are voracious eaters. They devour every bit
	of their prey -- bones, fur, hooves -- ripping off huge chunks with
	their razor-sharp serrated teeth and swallowing the pieces whole.
	    [Expedition Guide -- American Museum of Natural History]
	The glaive is a knife-bladed spear. It has the thrusting 
	function of the spear, and the secondary cutting function of 
	the convex blade of the knife. The weapon was rapidly enlarged 
	in the blade in order to give it a greater cutting function as 
	well as a cleaving attack. As with a spear or fauchard, however, 
	it is not overly effective at holding opponents back, nor does 
	it have the piercing or dismounting capabilities.
	Far beneath the surface of the earth dwell the Svirfneblin, or Deep
	Gnomes. Small parties of these demihumans roam the Underdark's mazes
	of small passageways searching for gemstones. They are said to dwell
	in great cities consisting of a closely connected series of tunnels,
	buildings, and caverns in which up to a thousand of these diminutive
	creatures live. They keep the location of these hidden cities secret
	in order to protect them from their deadly foes, the kuo-toa, Drow,
	and mind flayers.
	Svirfneblin are slightly smaller than rock gnomes, but their thin,
	wiry, gnarled frames are just as strong. Their skin is rock-colored,
	usually medium brown to brownish gray, and their eyes are gray. Male
	svirfneblin are completely bald; female deep gnomes have stringy gray
	hair. The average svirfneblin life span is 250 years.
		[ The Underdark, by Mike Drees and Albert Foster ]
	...  And then a gnome came by, carrying a bundle, an old
	fellow three times as large as an imp and wearing clothes of
	a sort, especially a hat.  And he was clearly just as frightened
	as the imps though he could not go so fast.  Ramon Alonzo
	saw that there must be some great trouble that was vexing
	magical things; and, since gnomes speak the language of men, and
	will answer if spoken to gently, he raised his hat, and asked
	of the gnome his name.  The gnome did not stop his hasty
	shuffle a moment as he answered 'Alaraba' and grabbed the rim
	of his hat but forgot to doff it.
	'What is the trouble, Alaraba?'  said Ramon Alonzo.
	'White magic.  Run!'  said the gnome ..
		 [ The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany ]
 
 	"Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as
 	they crossed the lawn.
 	"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron,
 	bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little
 	Santa Clauses with fishing rods..."
 	There was a violent scuffling noise, the peony bush shuddered,
 	and Ron straightened up.  "This is a gnome," he said grimly.
 	"Geroff me! Gerroff me!" squealed the gnome.
 	It was certainly nothing like Santa Claus.  It was small and
 	leathery looking, with a large, knobby, bald head exactly like
 	a potato.  Ron held it at arm's length as it kicked out at him
 	with its horny little feet; he grasped it around the ankles
 	and turned it upside down.
 	  [ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J. K. Rowling ]
	Now goblins are cruel, wicked, and bad-hearted.  They make
	no beautiful things, but they make many clever ones.  They
	can tunnel and mine as well as any but the most skilled
	dwarves, when they take the trouble, though they are usually
	untidy and dirty.  Hammers, axes, swords, daggers, pickaxes,
	tongs, and also instruments of torture, they make very well,
	or get other people to make to their design, prisoners and
	slaves that have to work till they die for want of air and
	light.
		 [ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	Goddesses and Gods operate in ones, threesomes, or whole
	pantheons of nine or more (see Religion).  Most of them claim
	to have made the world, and this is indeed a likely claim in
	the case of threesomes or pantheons:  Fantasyland does have
	the air of having been made by a committee.  But all Goddesses
	and Gods, whether they say they made the world or not, have
	very detailed short-term plans for it which they are determined
	to carry out.  Consequently they tend to push people into the
	required actions by the use of coincidence or Prophecy, or just
	by narrowing down your available choices of what to do next:
	if a deity is pushing you, things will go miserably badly until
	there is only one choice left to you.
	[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]
	A metal of characteristic yellow colour, the most precious
	metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange.  Symbol,
	Au; at. no. 79; at. wt. 197.2.  It is the most malleable
	and ductile of all metals, and very heavy (sp. gr., 19.3).
	It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most
	corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in
	coin and jewelry.
		 [ Webster's New International Dictionary
		  of the English Language, Second Edition ]
	The bellows he set away from the fire, and gathered all the tools
	wherewith he wrought into a silver chest; and with a sponge wiped
	he his face and his two hands withal, and his mighty neck and
	shaggy breast, and put upon him a tunic, and grasped a stout staff,
	and went forth halting; but there moved swiftly to support their
	lord handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids.
	In them is understanding in their hearts, and in them speech and
	strength, and they know cunning handiwork by gift of the immortal
	gods.
		[ The Iliad, by Homer ]
	"The original story harks back, so they say, to the sixteenth
	century.  Using long-lost formulas from the Kabbala, a rabbi is
	said to have made an artificial man -- the so-called Golem -- to
	help ring the bells in the Synagogue and for all kinds of other
	menial work.
	"But he hadn't made a full man, and it was animated by some sort
	of vegetable half-life.  What life it had, too, so the story
	runs, was only derived from the magic charm placed behind its
	teeth each day, that drew down to itself what was known as the
	`free sidereal strength of the universe.'
	"One evening, before evening prayers, the rabbi forgot to take
	the charm out of the Golem's mouth, and it fell into a frenzy.
	It raged through the dark streets, smashing everything in its
	path, until the rabbi caught up with it, removed the charm, and
	destroyed it.  Then the Golem collapsed, lifeless.  All that was
	left of it was a small clay image, which you can still see in
	the Old Synagogue." ...
		[ The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink ]
	"Who'd care to dig 'em," said the old, old man,
	"Those six feet marked in chalk?
	Much I talk, more I walk;
	Time I were buried," said the old, old man.
		[ Three Songs to the Same Tune, by W.B. Yeats ]
	Why had I been wearing Grayswandir?  Would another weapon have
	affected a Logrus-ghost as strongly?  Had it really been my
	father, then, who had brought me here?  And had he felt I might
	need the extra edge his weapon could provide?  I wanted to
	think so, to believe that he had been more than a Pattern-ghost.
		[ Knight of Shadows, by Roger Zelazny ]
	ANOINT, v.t.  To grease a king or other great functionary
	already sufficiently slippery.
		[ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
	Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
		Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?
	Give them me.
		No.
	Give them me. Give them me.
		No.
	Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
	Lie in the mud and howl for them.
		Goblin, why do you love them so?
	They are better than stars or water,
	Better than voices of winds that sing.
	Better than any man's fair daughter,
	Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
		Hush, I stole them out of the moon.
	Give me your beads, I desire them.
		No.
	I will howl in a deep lagoon
	For your green glass beads, I love them so.
	Give them me. Give them.
		No.
		[ Overheard On A Saltmarsh, by Harold Monro ]
	The gremlin is a highly intelligent and completely evil
	creature.  It lives to torment other creatures and will go
	to great lengths to inflict pain or cause injury.

	Suddenly, Wilson thought about war, about the newspaper
	stories which recounted the alleged existence of creatures in
	the sky who plagued the Allied pilots in their duties.  They
	called them gremlins, he remembered.  Were there, actually,
	such beings?  Did they, truly, exist up here, never falling,
	riding on the wind, apparently of bulk and weight, yet
	impervious to gravity?
	He was thinking that when the man appeared again.
		[ Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, by Richard Matheson ]
	These electronically based creatures are not native to this
	universe.  They appear to come from a world whose laws of
	motion are radically different from ours.

	Tron looked to his mate and pilot.  "I'm going to check on
	the beam connection, Yori.  You two can keep a watch out for
	grid bugs."  Tron paced forward along the slender catwalk
	that still seemed awfully insubstantial to Flynn, though he
	knew it to be amazingly sturdy.  He gazed after Tron, asking
	himself what in the world a grid bug was, and hoping that the
	beam connection -- to which he'd given no thought whatsoever
	until this moment -- was healthy and sound."
		[ Tron, novel by Brian Daley, story by Steven Lisberger ]
	"What was that?" cried Buck, rubbing his numb and tingling arm.
	"Nature's revenge for bug zappers," replied his companion.
	These foul creatures dwell in the endless darkness of the 
	Gulf of N'Kai, scavenging the bones of whatever luckless
	intruders have stumbled into it.  It is suspected that they
	may be some warped form of ghoul, but few have survived
	seeing them so information is scarce.
	Medieval peasants discovered that their pruning hooks made 
	reasonably effective pole arms. The result: the guisarme. 
	It is furnished with a sharp cutting edge along its convex 
	side, with a reverse spike to hook. The spike can be used 
	to penetrate armor when the weapon is swung, and the curved 
	hook provides an ample means of pulling horsemen to the ground.
	The samurai's last meal before battle.  It was usually made
	up of cooked chestnuts, dried seaweed, and sake.
	Hachi was a dog that went with his master, a professor, to
	the Shibuya train station every morning.  In the afternoon,
	when his master was to return from work Hachi would be there
	waiting.  One day his master died at the office, and did not
	return.  For over ten years Hachi returned to the station
	every afternoon to wait for his master.  When Hachi died a
	statue was erected on the station platform in his honor.  It
	is said to bring you luck if you touch his statue.
	A triangular stringed instrument, often Magic.  Even when not
	Magic, a Harp is surprisingly portable and tough and can be
	carried everywhere on the back of the Bard or Harper in all
	weathers.  A Harp seldom goes out of tune and never warps.
	Its strings break only in very rare instances, usually
	because the Harper is sulking or crossed in love.  This is
	just as well as no one seems to make or sell spare strings.
		[ The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, by Diana Wynne Jones ]

	After breakfast was over, the ogre called out: "Wife, wife,
	bring me my golden harp."  So she brought it and put it on
	the table before him.  Then he said: "Sing!" and the golden
	harp sang most beautifully.  And it went on singing till the
	ogre fell asleep, and commenced to snore like thunder.
	Then Jack lifted up the copper-lid very quietly and got down
	like a mouse and crept on hands and knees till he came to the
	table, when up he crawled, caught hold of the golden harp and
	dashed with it towards the door.  But the harp called out
	quite loud: "Master!  Master!" and the ogre woke up just in
	time to see Jack running off with his harp.
		[ Jack and the Beanstalk, from English Fairy Tales,
		  by Joseph Jacobs ]
	This form of a pole axe is seen as a convex-headed broad axe 
	in early examples, but the head is set at a convenient angle, 
	considering the point where the blade is most likely to impact 
	upon an enemy. This alone makes it quite distinct from an 
	ordinary long-hafted axe. The whole weapon reaches 8 feet in length, 
	and is nearly always topped with a long spear point and backed by 
	a spike, which was often angled or hooked slightly downward. 
	The spear point is, of course, designed to keep opponents at bay 
	and deliver a thrusting attack (this proves quite useless when 
	opposing mounted knights armed with lances). The opposing spike was 
	for penetration of heavy plate armor, with a secondary function as a 
	hook for dismounting opponents. 
	I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health,
	and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according
	to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this
	stipulation -- to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear
	to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve
	his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the
	same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if
	they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and
	that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction,
	I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those
	of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath
	according to the law of medicine, but to none others.  I will
	follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and
	judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain
	from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.  [...]
		[ Hippocrates' Oath, translated by Francis Adams ]

	PHYSICIAN, n.  One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our
	dogs when well.
		[ The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce ]
	The other three drew in their breath sharply, and the dark,
	powerful man who stood at the head of the sarcophagus whispered:
	"The Heart of Ahriman!"  The other lifted a quick hand
	for silence.  Somewhere a dog began howling dolefully, and a
	stealthy step padded outside the barred and bolted door. ...
	But none looked aside from the mummy case over which the man
	in the ermine-trimmed robe was now moving the great flaming
	jewel, while he muttered an incantation that was old when
	Atlantis sank.  The glare of the gem dazzled their eyes, so
	that they could not be sure what they saw; but with a
	splintering crash, the carven lid of the sarcophagus burst
	outward as if from some irresistible pressure applied from
	within and the four men, bending eagerly forward, saw the
	occupant -- a huddled, withered, wizened shape, with dried
	brown limbs like dead wood showing through moldering bandages.
	"Bring that thing back?" muttered the small dark man who
	stood on the right, with a short, sardonic laugh.  "It is
	ready to crumble at a touch.  We are fools ---"
		[ Conan The Conqueror, by Robert E. Howard ]
	Hell hounds are fire-breathing canines from another plane of
	existence brought here in the service of evil beings.  A hell
	hound resembles a large hound with rust-red or red-brown fur,
	and red, glowing eyes.  The markings, teeth, and tongue are
	soot black.  It stands two to three feet high at the shoulder
	and has a distinct odour of smoke and sulphur.  The baying
	sounds it makes have an eerie, hollow tone that sends a shiver
	through any who hear them.
	Messenger and herald of the Olympians.  Being required to do
	a great deal of travelling and speaking in public, he became
	the god of eloquence, travellers, merchants, and thieves.  He
	was one of the most energetic of the Greek gods, a
	Machiavellian character full of trickery and sexual vigour.
	Like other Greek gods, he is endowed with not-inconsiderable
	sexual prowess which he directs towards countryside nymphs.
	He is a god of boundaries, guardian of graves and patron deity
	of shepherds.  He is usually depicted as a handsome young
	man wearing winged golden sandals and holding a magical
	herald's staff consisting of intertwined serpents, the
	kerykeion.  He is reputedly the only being able to find his way
	to the underworld ferry of Charon and back again.  He is said
	to have invented, among other things, the lyre, Pan's Pipes,
	numbers, the alphabet, weights and measures, and sacrificing.
	"Hezrou" is the common name for the type II demon.  It is
	among the weaker of demons, but still quite formidable.
	Greek physician, recognized as the father of medicine.  He
	is believed to have been born on the island of Cos, to have
	studied under his father, a physician, to have traveled for
	some time, perhaps studying in Athens, and to have then
	returned to practice, teach, and write at Cos.  The
	Hippocratic or Coan school that formed around him was of
	enormous importance in separating medicine from superstition
	and philosophic speculation, placing it on a strictly
	scientific plane based on objective observation and critical
	deductive reasoning.
		[ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ]
	Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more
	numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace
	and quiet and good tilled earth:  a well-ordered and well-
	farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.  They do not
	and did not understand or like machines more complicated
	than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a handloom, although
	they were skillful with tools.  Even in ancient days they
	were, as a rule, shy of "the Big Folk", as they call us, and
	now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.
		[ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
	Hobgoblin.  Used by the Puritans and in later times for
	wicked goblin spirits, as in Bunyan's "Hobgoblin nor foul
	friend", but its more correct use is 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