Gods, Judeo-Christian (see also Jesus) 38, 41, 43, 53-55, 57, 70, 87, 91, 94, 153, 163, 173, 177, 179, 184, 226, 230
Gods, Hindu 135, 145, 150, 206
Gods, Hindu 135, 145, 150, 206
106, 108, 125, 134-135, 145, 174-175, 182, 189, 225, 227-228
Gods, assorted (see also individual listings) 12-15, 18, 52, 83, 92, 94-96, 98-100, 102-104, 106-107, 117, 129, 135, 137, 153-154, 167, 174, 182, 184, 188, 194, 200-201, 206, 223-225, 227-228, 230, 233, 236-237, 257
Goldilocks 118
Gorgo (see Hecate)
Gorgon/Gorgons 132, 138, 158
Graces, the 125-126, 128, 137
Graves, Robert 126, 165
Grendel 25-28, 32, 104
Grendel, Mother of 26, 28, 31-32, 104, 158
Grey, Lady on the (see also Death, Gods of ) 44, 50-51
H Hades 50, 97, 107, 189, 224
Hall, Lyta 130, 132, 138-139, 165, 174, 182 Harker, Joey 82, 87, 90, 156, 187-190, 193-194, 196 Hazel (see Foxglove and Hazel)
Hecate 125-126, 128, 131, 137-138, 145, 165-166
Hel 50
Hel 50
226, 230, 248
hell-mouth 153
hell-mouth 153
211, 213-214, 216-218, 221
Higgler, Mrs. 135, 166-167
Hippolyta (see also Hall, Lyta or Titania) 105, 130
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the (see also Douglas Adams) 82, 89, 162 Holmes, Sherlock 16-17, 203, 234-235
Hrothgar 25-26, 104
I Indigo, Lady 155-156, 165, 188 Innsmouth 202-203
Islington, the Angel 97, 188-189, 196 Ishtar 97, 100, 107-108, 225-226
J
Jesus (see also Gods, Judeo-Christian) 37, 43, 53, 231-232 Judeo-Christian (see Christianity and myth, Judeo-Christian)
K Kabbalah 85, 92
Kalī 135, 145, 150
Kincaid, Unity 104-105
Kindley Ones, The (see also Fates and Furies) 139, 156, 159, 174, 182
L Lamia/lamia 139, 142, 144, 147, 152 Laura (American Gods) 150, 151 Larissa (see Thessaly) 100, 137, 139, 165
Lamia (see also Lilith) 139, 142, 144, 147, 152
Lamia (see also Lilith) 139, 142, 144, 147, 152
171, 215, 222
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 215, 222
The Chronicles of Narnia 35, 36, 38, 40, 43-46
Lilim, the 57, 134, 142, 153, 156-160, 165, 166, 174, 195
Lilith 49, 53, 54-63, 131, 134, 151-153, 159
Loki 94, 96, 102, 103, 105, 106, 108, 174, 175, 182, 228
London Below 97, 184, 191, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217
Lovecraft, H.P. (see also Cthulhu) 13, 62, 98, 106, 202, 203, 204, 205, 207, 234-5 Lucifer 52, 54-55, 60, 62, 94, 102, 107-108, 187-188, 225-226, 230, 248 Luther, Martin 146-147, 149-150, 154-156, 164
Lyesmith, Low Key (see Loki) 94, 182
M Mab (see Titania)
MacDonald, George 17, 18, 49-63
magic, concepts of 85, 86, 141, 143-145, 147, 151, 154-155, 157, 160, 167-168, 200, 208, 250
Maiden-Mother-Crone (see also Triple Goddess) 126-131, 133, 135, 138-139, 150, 161, 174
Malleus Maleficarum 142-144, 146-148, 152-160, 162-163, 165, 168 Matrix, The 137, 195, 198, 236
Mayhew, Richard 88, 89, 90, 184, 213, 216, 221
Middle-earth 83, 170
Mildred, Mordred, Cynthia (see also Triple Goddess) 127-131, 248 Milton, John 53, 54, 55, 103, 226, 230
Paradise Lost 53, 54, 230
mirrors 18, 173-174, 177, 181, 183-184, 186, 194-196, 208, 210, 236 MirrorMask, the 195. 196
Moon, Drawing Down the 131, 165-167
Morpheus (see Dream) 52, 85, 98, 107, 182-83, 217-221
Mormo (see also Hecate) 131, 138-39, 166
Moriarty, Professor (see also Holmes, Sherlock and Doyle, Arthur Conan) 203, 234-235
Morrígan, the 56, 107, 125, 127-128, 132, 135, 145, 170
Mother, Other 156-159, 165, 181, 183, 187, 195, 210-211
myth, Assyrian/Assyro-Babylonian 57-58, 97, 225
myth, definitions of/ concepts of 13, 16, 18-19, 24, 29, 33, 35-36, 45-46, 49, 56, 62,64, 66-68, 70-72, 74, 76-78, 95, 97, 103, 137, 173-174, 180, 186, 192, myth, Greek 13, 32, 35-36, 45, 50, 66, 95, 96-98, 103, 107, 125, 137-139, 175, 223-224, 227, 231, 236, 248, 251
myth, Hebrew 85, 92, 230
myth, Judeo-Christian 55, 57, 62, 91, 186, 226,
myth, Norse 13, 25, 50, 66, 94, 103, 125, 145, 182, 189, 194, 225, 227,
N Nada 54,220
Nancy, Fat Charlie 104, 106, 135, 174, 183 Nancy, Mr. 203
Narnia 17, 36-38, 41-44, 46-47, 166, 208, 215 Necrophilia 155
Neo-Pagan 126, 142, 143, 144, 165, 167 Nicholas, Saint 231, 233, 234
Norns, the (see Fates) 125, 127, 128, 134 Norse (language) 23, 103
Nuala 99, 139
O Odd 182, 189, 194
Odin 13, 56, 94, 96, 103, 108, 134-135, 174, 225, 227
Old English (see also Ango-Saxon) 22-25, 28, 33, 103, 104, 144, 185 Old Ones, Great (see Lovecraft, Cthulhu, Elder Gods) 98, 203, 234-236 Orpheus (see also Dream and Gods, Greek) 97, 98, 105, 107, 175, 180, 182
P Pagan (see also Neo-Pagan) 24, 29, 50 Pevensie children (see Lewis and Narnia) 36, 215 Pevensie, Susan 17, 35-45, 47, 215
Poppins, Mary 43, 51
Pratchett, Terry 107, 133, 137, 162-164, 168, 187-188, 197 Prefect, Ford 82, 87, 89
Princess, the (“Snow, Glass, Apples”) 89, 110-114, 154, 155 Prose Edda 56, 106, 186
Q
Queen (“Snow, Glass, Apples”) 110-114, 123, 154-155, 165 Queen, Witch (see Lilim) 59, 134, 139, 159-161
R
Ragnarök 194, 225
S Sandman, the (see also Dream) 52, 55-56, 64-65, 72-74, 78, 79, 103, 107-108, 128, 136, 138-140, 170, 180, 240, 247-248, 252,
Sandman, The (original D.C. series) 180, 247-248
Shadow (see also American GodsAmerican Gods 183, 188, 190, 192, 194, 200-201, 227-228
Silmarillion, the 96, 107, 160, 166, 187
Shakespeare 45, 97, 99, 125, 137, 141, 248
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 99, 125, 180
Macbeth 125, 126, 128, 137-138, 166-167, 248, 251
The Tempest 248
Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar, 11, 107, 201-202
Snow White (see Princess and “Snow, Glass, Apples”) 110-111, 113-114, 123, 142, 154-156
Spenser, Edmund 99,
The Faerie Queene 99, 158
Spider 135, 166, 167, 174, 196
Susan 17, 35-47
Swamp Thing 128, 134, 139
succubus (see also lamia and Lilith) 146, 152, 213
T TARDIS 74, 75, 76, 78
Thessaly/Larissa 100, 108, 131, 133, 137-139, 165-166
Thor 13, 94, 96, 174-175
Titania 99-100
Titania 99-100
160, 166, 170, 186-187, 195, 208-209, 253-255
“On Fairy Stories” 208-209
“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” 16, 23, 25, 32
The Hobbit 23-25, 63, 253
The Lord of the Rings 23-25, 86, 93
The Unfinished Tales 156
U
Una, Lady (of Stormhold) 105, 161
V Vagina Dentata (see also consumption and appetite) 151-155 Valar (see also Tolkien) 96, 107, 160, 166, 187
Valinor, Two Trees of 166, 187
vampire (see also Princess) 31, 123, 142, 152-156, 192 vampirism 59-60 111-113, 152, 155-156, 165-166 Vess, Charles 134, 136, 139
W Wednesday (see also Odin) 103, 105, 150, 174, 183, 200-201, 203, 227-228 witch/witches 18, 39, 44, 100, 110-114, 125-126, 128, 131-139, 141-168, 179, 195, 205, 248
witches (in Macbeth) 125-126, 128, 138, 248
Wonderland (see also Alice) 184, 208
X
Xena 102
Y
Yvaine 160-161
Z
Zoryas, the 134, 139, 150, 157, 192, 200-201
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