Savagery (redirected from savageness)

Savagery

Apache Indians

once fierce fighting tribe of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 123]

bandersnatch

imaginary wild animal of great ferocity. [Br. Lit.: “Jabberwocky” in Through the Looking-Glass]

berserkers

ancient Norse warriors; assumed attributes of bears in battle. [Norse Myth.: Leach, 137]

Comanche Indians

warlike tribe of American West. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 607]

Crommyonian sow

ravager of the Corinthian countryside. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 237]

Erymanthian boar

ravaged Arcadian countryside until capture by Hercules. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 523]

Huns

Mongolian invaders of western Europe until 453. [Eur. Hist.: Espy, 167]

Magua

a renegade Huron who scalps white men. [Am. Lit.: The Pathfinder, Magill I, 715–717]

mares of Diomedes

lived on human flesh; their capture was Hercules’ eighth labor. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Hall, 149]

Taras Bulba

savage yet strangely devoted Cossack leader. [Russ. Lit.: Tarns Bulba, Walsh Modern, 77]

Tartars

13th-century rapacious hordes of Genghis Khan. [Medieval Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1064]

tiger

aims at annihilating mankind. [Animal Symbolism: Mercatante, 55]

Vandals

5th-century sackers of Rome and its art. [Ital. Hist.: Espy, 168]