charms "Against a dwarf" (Old English: Ƿið dƿeorh) are contained within the Lacnunga, which seek to heal an afflicted person by ridding them of a dwarf. The...
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A dwarf (pl. dwarfs or dwarves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history. They are...
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interpreted as referring to a person selling vegetables, likely garlics. The term is also used to refer to beings such as the dwarf which is the focus of the...
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derives from an exemplar in the Mercian dialect. Other texts include: Against a dwarf Cockayne, O. (ed.). 1864–66. Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft...
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Dwarfism is a condition of people and animals marked by unusually small size or short stature. In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of...
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Dwarf-tossing, also called midget-tossing, is a pub/bar attraction or activity in which people with dwarfism, wearing special padded clothing or Velcro...
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also a protective runic amulet against a dwarf, and more generally to the Anglo-Saxon charms Against a Dwarf, one of which even contains a male and a female...
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Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy programme created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, consisting of a sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988...
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A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: in an Earth-sized volume, it packs...
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Dwarfs are fictional dwarfs in the 1812 fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm and other renditions and adaptations. The Seven Dwarfs live in a tiny...
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Red Dwarf is a British comedy TV series which primarily comprises twelve series and a feature-length special of a television science fiction sitcom that...
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and hairy, with steel paws, but with holes, so it can't take anything. Sleep paralysis Against a Dwarf Batibat Lietuvēns More (folklore) v t e v t e...
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Nine likeliest dwarf planets and dates of discovery A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough...
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Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars. Their...
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A dwarf cat (sometimes nicknamed a sausage cat) is a domestic cat with dwarfism due to rare genetic mutations that cause a disproportionate feline body...
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Bede's Death Song is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede. It is, by far, the Old...
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Several dwarfs over the course of history were employed as court dwarfs. They were owned and traded amongst people of the court, and delivered as gifts...
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most commonly kept as a pet. Other hamster species commonly kept as pets are the three species of dwarf hamster, Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)...
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Red Dwarf: The Promised Land is a 2020 British science-fiction comedy television special and the thirteenth instalment of the British science-fiction...
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anonymous Old English poem. It is composed of 677 lines and is for the most part a translation and adaptation of the Latin poem De Ave Phoenice attributed to...
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believe that the dwarf is some sort of disease (perhaps one that involves a fever). Against a Wen This charm is supposed to rid a person of a wen, which is...
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September 4, 2001), better known professionally as Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, was an American entertainer. He appeared numerous times on The Howard Stern...
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A red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence. Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of fusing star in the Milky Way, at least in...
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poem is a product of the period of declining vitality of the runic script in Anglo-Saxon England after the Christianization of the 7th century. A large...
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and the bile from a cow's stomach left in a brass bowl for nine days – was tested in vitro and found to be as effective against methicillin-resistant...
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Snow White (2025 film) (redirect from Waiting on a Wish)
White, is a 2025 American musical fantasy film that is a live-action reimagining of Walt Disney's 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, itself...
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List of Overlord characters (section Dwarf Kingdom)
spare the rest of his family. A race of mole-like demi-humans who inhabit the Azerlisia Mountains and wage war against the Dwarf Kingdom. After Ainz interferes...
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Guthlac A and Guthlac B are a pair of Old English poems written in celebration of the deeds and death of Saint Guthlac of Croyland, a popular Mercian...
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This is a list of characters from the TV sitcom Red Dwarf. ^n Season IX is officially titled "Back to Earth", with the numbering being retconned later...
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The Panther is a 74-line alliterative poem written in the Old English language which uses the image of a panther as an allegory for Christ's death and...
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