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Wendigo:The Flesh eating monster of Native American Legend

This Cannibal monster hunts during the coldest time of the year, travelling with the snow to terrorise humans with its insatiable hunger. Armed with sharp claws and teeth and capable of running with incredible speed, the Wendigo is a lesson in excess and a manifestation of the anxieties that emerge in the harsh realities of Winter - And how to survive it. The Wendigo is a mythological creature or evil spirit from the folkloreof the First Nations Algoquian tribes based in the northern forests of Nova Scotia, the East Coast of Canada and Great Lakes Region of Canada and the United States.  The wendigo is described as a monster with some characteristics of a human or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. Its influence is said to invoke acts of murder, insatiable greed,cannibalism and cultural taboos against such behaviours. The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones...

Medusa: Victim or Villian?

With her dramatic Sepentine gaze and powerful petrifying gaze, Medusa had been a prominant figure of literature and art for thousands of years. One of the three Gorgon sisters, she's been worshiped and feared in almost equal measure. Medusa once served as a symbol of protection, but became a sign of vice and seduction. In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid ( Metamorphoses  4.770), Medusa was originally a ravishingly beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," but because Posiedon had raped her in Athena's temple, the enraged Athena transformed Medusa's beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Minerva (Athena) as just and well earned. Coins of the reign of Seleucus   I Nicator of Syria, (312–280 BC) In most versions of the story...

The Chimaera Mythology Became Reality

The impossible Three headed monster of Greek Mythology, The Chimaera may have started off as a fantasy, but today the word Chimaera can used to refer anything that is impossible. This includes the real-life, interspecie animals, humans have successfully created. Watch to find out how Myth directly influenced science,not only in language but how we approach the possibility of an interspecies in the future.

Dracula: The First Modern Vampire

Ever wondered why we seem to be fascinated by Vampires? Arguably the most recognizable Blood Sucker in History. Watch this Video to understand how Vampires First came to know to the world.

Mystery Manuscript

Today was good. It went pretty well.But I must say that reading comics always relaxing for a bit. I love reading comics. Apart from reading comics I even help my mom din her works. I even cooked. That's a great thing for me. I have also started writing my book. And its really getting tough day by day. I am running out of ideas for the book. Anyways, while I was going through youtube, I found something interesting and that is about a book called THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT . It is known as the world's most mysterious Book. Deep inside Yale's Beinecke rare book and manuscript lirary lies a 240 page tome.Recently carbon dated to around 1420, its pages feature around looping handwriting and hand drawn images seemingky stolen from a dream. Its one of the biggest mysteries because no one can figure out what it says.

B.Tech Memories

                                  Throwback Memories Its been exactly a year since we had our farewell. Graduation farewell is one of the most beautiful memories which anyone can have. Even I had those beautiful memories. Of course our faculty: our gurus. In this pandemic situation it is because of these memories which bring smile instantly                                                                                                                   Friendship never dies......