Legendary Animals is a scholarly construct within folklore studies that denotes a category of mythical creatures whose attributed characteristics and purported behaviors transcend natural biological limitations, thereby serving as symbolic embodiments of cultural values, fears, or environmental phenomena in the narrative traditions of tall tales.
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King Solomon's Ring. New Light on Animal Ways
M. M. Nice, Konrad Lorenz, Marjorie Wilson · Bird-Banding · 1952 · 138 citations
Meat in ancient Greece : sacrificial, sacred or secular ?
Gunnel Ekroth · Food and History · 2007 · 75 citations
The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
Michelle Breckon · Reference Reviews · 2015 · 49 citations
The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia. A Study in the Ecology of Belief
Åke Hultkrantz, Esther Jacobson, Hans G. Kippenberg et al. · Numen · 1994 · 29 citations
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- MMM. M. Nice
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1 publications · 138 citations
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Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Wageningen, Netherlands
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1 publications
12 citations
University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany
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1 publications
12 citations
Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research
Donji grad, Croatia
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Kent State University
Kent, United States
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49 citations
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
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- University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE)
Repository · 1 publications · 13 citations
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- Archaeological Journal
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- Numen
1 publications · 29 citations
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- Folklore
1 publications · 26 citations
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- Food and History
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