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In Maori mythology, Waitiri is a goddess who descended to earth, married a human and taught man how to fish with barbs.
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Walpurgisnacht is the German festival celebrated on May the 1st. It is the time when the witches of Central Europe rendezvous in the Harz Mountains, circling around the bare peak of the Brocken plotting evil. The festival is named after Saint Walburga.
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In Balinese mythology, Waruna is the god of oceans, sea, rain and water who rules the west and is married to Durga.
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In Javanese mythology, Watu Gunung was a king who unwittingly married his own mother.
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In Abaluia mythology, Wele, also known as Isaiwa and Khakaba was the creator. He built himself a house on stilts and then created the sun and moon as twins with equal radiance. However, the sun and moon fought, with the sun splattering the moon with mud to reduce his brightness. Wele intervened, and gave the sun the day to rule and the moon the night. He then made stars, clouds, lightning, rain, frost, the earth, plants, animals and finally the first man and woman, Mwambu and Sela.
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In Chinese mythology, Wen Jang was the god of literature. He was originally a scholar and administrator who lived around the eighth century, but disappeared during a battle and was assumed to have been taken to heaven. He was represented as a dwarf with a demon's face and supervised everyone involved with literature, especially writers, students and stationers. He had two attendants: Tien Long who was deaf and Ti Ya who was mute.
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In the French mythology of Normandy, white ladies were ghosts of women who lurked in ravines, fords and bridges where they challemnged passing men to dance with them. Those travellers who refused or were rude, were thrown into ditches or patches of brambles so as to teach them a lesson in manners.
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In Australian Aborigine mythology, the Whowie is the most terrible creature in existence. twenty feet long with six legs and the head of a frog and a tail. He would attack and devour anything that came his way.
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In Australian mythology, Woo was a strange man like creature with a single arm formed from two arms and a single leg formed from two legs. He was an expert marksman and adept at balance.
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