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Invisibility Abaris magic arrow made him invisible. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 1] confers this power. [Rom. Folklore: Brewer Dictionary,15]
invisible spirit plays tricks on the castaways. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare The Tempest] cat vanishes at will; grin the last feature to go. [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland] put in mouth, renders bearer invisible. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 67–68] supposed to be invisible to anyone unworthy of his post. [Dan. Lit.: Andersen “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in Andersen’s Fairy Tales] makes bearer invisible. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 406] severed hand of hanged man renders bearer invisible. [Western Folklore: Leach, 477] confers this power. [Gk. Folklore: Brewer, Dictionary, 497] six-foot rabbit invisible to everyone but the play’s protagonist. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 444] effective if drunk with proper invocations. [Medieval Folklore: Boland, 43] (Griffin) character made invisible by chemicals. [Br. Lit.: Invisible Man] golden helmet makes wearer invisible. [Span. Lit.: Don Quixote] made him invisible when he killed Medusa. [Gk. Myth.: Metamorphoses] when ring becomes green, Reynard is invisible. [Medieval Lit.: Reynard the Fox] golden helmet that allowed its wearer to assume any form or even become invisible. [Ger. Opera: Wagner The Ring of the Nibelung] cloak taken from the Nibelungs by Siegfried grants the wearer invisibility and strength. [Ger. Lit.: Nibelungenlied] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Its invisibility, and the mystery which was attached to it, made this organization doubly terrible. Lloyd warmed to the talk in his nervous, jerky fashion, and was soon interrogating the physical properties and possibilities of invisibility. His way of ignoring people whose presence inconvenienced him actually gave them, if they were sensitive to it, a feeling of invisibility, of nonexistence. |
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