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Pierogies? Rasputin? Or Anastasia ?

I don't know if you're allowed to make multiple guesses for each figure... :)

Eric Taysom

1. Azhdaya is the demonic version of Zmaj, a dragon. It is over one hundred years old. Usually they have an odd number of heads, rarely two. They spit fire, have a terrible roar and have an evil look on their faces. They live in caves or mountains, from which they escape, then cause eruptions or hailstorms and devour humans and cattle. They were so well known in Slavic Pagan, European and Baltic folklore that Christianity adopted it as perfect image for devil - being greedy and hungry all the time as well as being extremely hostile to all living beings. In Serbia it is thought that St. George killed an Azhdaya. (3 headed hydra?) 2.Odin In Scandinavian mythology, the supreme god and creator, god of victory and the dead, married to Freya (Frigga) and usually represented as a one-eyed old man of great wisdom. He is said to have won the runes for humankind by hanging himself for nine nights and days on the world tree Yggdrasil (because of which he is god of the hanged); he gave one eye to Mimir, guardian of the well of wisdom, in exchange for poetic inspiration. 3. Snow Queen (The little robber girl and Gerda) While traveling in the carriage Gerda is captured by robbers. Her life is spared when a little robber girl demands to have Gerda as a playmate. They ride together to the robbers' castle, where the girl's pet doves tell Gerda that they saw Kai when he was carried away by the Snow Queen in the direction of Lapland. The captive reindeer Bae tells her that he knows how to get to Lapland since it is his home. also the bowl they are standing on is like the queen's shattered glass that gets in the boys eye. 4. ace of spades queen Morgan le Fay - a powerful sorceress and the greatest student of Merlin. Although always depicted as a practitioner of magic, over time her character became more malevolent until she began to be portrayed as a witch who was taught the black arts by Merlin OR Hecate Hecate served as the dark patron of magic, sorcery, the night, the moon, souls, and necromancy. To Titanes Perses and Asteria, Hecate was the sole child, and it was from her parents that she was granted control over heaven, earth, and the ocean. While wielding flamed torches, Hecate aided Demeter in finding Persephone. Upon the reuniting of mother and daughter, she served as minister to Persephone and ally to Hades. In Greek vase paintings, Hades was typically depicted as a woman wielding double torches. Like Artemis, Hecate was occasionally adorned in a knee-long maiden’s skirt and hunting boots. She was also commonly characterized in triple form as a patron of crossroads in statuary depictions. 5. Dead King Rasputin - Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин), or better known as his surname Rasputin, is the main antagonist of Don Bluth's ninth animated feature film Anastasia. He is loosely based on the real-life Russian psychic of the same name, but in the film, he is depicted as a far more malevolent being of black magic than the real-life Rasputin, though the two share the common title of "Mad Monk". He is Anastasia and Dimitri's arch-nemesis and Bartok's former master in the film. OR Hades Hades is highly regarded as being unswayed by the cries of prayer and mercy of the ancient Greeks, which came with his job as the ruler of the dead. 6. Smiling cat - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures - The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. 7. Man in chains "Marya Morevna" In a tale also known as "The Death of Koschei the Deathless", Ivan Tsarevitch encounters Koschei chained in his wife's (Marya Morevna's) dungeon. He releases and revives Koschei, but Koschei abducts Marya. Ivan goes to rescue Marya several times, but Koschei's swift horse allows him to easily catch up with the escaping lovers; each time the magical horse informs Koschei that he will be able to carry out several activities first and still be able to catch up. After the third unsuccessful escape, Koschei cuts up Ivan and throws his parts into the sea in a barrel. Ivan is revived with the aid of the water of life. He seeks Baba Yaga for a suitably swift horse. After trials he steals a horse and rescues Marya. 0r Heracles Hercules was a demigod and eventually became the god of strength his physical might being unmatched and he was well know for overcoming any obstacle put in his path so when he was bound by the chains the part of his legend about overcoming the impossible activated and his strength out grew that of the chains 8. The reluctant dragon (knight) A Boy is caught in the middle with St. George insisting that he must battle the dragon, and the dragon solidly refusing to raise so much as a single claw against anyone, let alone St. George. All three put their heads together and formulate a plan to satisfy the battle-monger villagers while sparing both the life of the dragon and St. George's reputation. (also the movie dragonheart is loosly based on this book) and or that the word "Desdichado" on the shield is a reference to Ivanhoe, in which Wilfred of Ivanhoe used the same shield in a tournament Ivanhoe For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events. Scott drew together the apparently opposing themes of historical reality and chivalric romance, social realism and high adventure, past and present. 9. man in castle What Lies Beneath the historic Transylvanian castle that may have once imprisoned Vlad the Impaler — likely inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula 10. Genie The Genie, who has cosmic powers, is indebted to Aladdin and has granted him three wishes OR Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate 11. Dorothy's House in a Tornado the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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