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In Christian mythology, Casper was one of the three wise men who travelled from the east to pay homage to the baby Jesus.
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In Quecha mythology, Cavillaca was a goddess loved by Coniraya.
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In Chinese mythology, Ch'ang-O is the graceful moth-eyebrowed maiden goddess of the moon and immortality. The dispenser of life magic.
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Chemosh was the god of the Moabites.
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In Slav mythology, Chernobog was the Black god of death, the adversary of the White god Byelobog.
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In Chibcha mythology, Chia is the moon-goddess.
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In Chibcha mythology, Chibchacum was the god of farmers and merchants.
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In English folk-lore, the Chichevache was a monster that fed on obedient wives. It was reported to be a thin and emancipated creature, unlike it's fat and well fed rival the Bicorn that fed on men bullied and commanded by their wives.
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In Curra mythology, Chipiripa is the rain god.
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In Chinese mythology, Chun-T'i is a goddess of war. She who is capable of miraculous feats and she who excels in the magic arts.
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In Tinneh mythology, Chutsain is an evil spirit personifying death.
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The Cockatrice is a fictious creature said to be hatched from a cock's egg by a serpent. It is an ugly creature with a crested head, glittering eyes, a barbed tongue and a serpents tail. Mention is made of the Cockatrice in several passages of the bible. It probably has as its origin the hermaphroditic fowl - a crowing hen - which is known to occur in nature. In 1474 a Basel cock was sentenced to death for laying an egg!
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In Quecha mythology, Coniraya is the creator of all things and the founder of agriculture. He came to earth as a beggar, fell in love with the goddess Cavillaca and secretly impregnated her by turning some of his sperm into fruit which she ate. Cavillaca later turned herself and her child into stone at the shame of mothering the child of a beggar.
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In Thracian mythology, Cotys was the moon-goddess. She is listed as one of the demons in mediaeval Christian texts.
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The crescent and hand is an Islamic amulet for protection against misfortune.
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A crucifix is a Christian image, often worn as an amulet, comprising an image of Christ on the cross. As an amulet the crucifix offers the wearer Christ's protection against evil. As a rule the figures on the most ancient crucifixes were not carved, but were engraved on gold, silver, or iron crosses. At a later period they were painted on wood, and it is only in the 9th century, in the pontificate of Leo III, that the figure of Christ appears carved upon the cross in bass-relief.
Originally the body was represented clothed in a tunic reaching to the feet; afterwards the clothing was removed with the exception of a cloth round the loins. Until the llth century Christ is represented alive; since that period he has been represented as dead. In the earlier crucifixes, also, the number of nails by which Christ is fixed to the cross is four, one through each hand and each foot, while in the more modern ones one foot is laid above the other and a single nail driven through both. Many crucifixes bear also the superscription in an abbreviated form, and accessory symbols and figures.
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In Inca mythology, Cupay (or Supay) was a death-god whose speciality was to snatch babies at the moment of birth. His attentions could be warded off by sacrificing live children to him.
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In Anglo-Saxon Christian mythology, the Curse of Eve was the pain that women must endure during childbirth in retribution for Eve's sin.
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