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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MARCH 9, 2014

Hi light

2 Have you heard or read stories about dragons, unicorns and elves? When you break your tooth, do you wait for the tooth fairy to leave a present under your pillow? Well, did you know that these creatures are mythical that is they exist in legend, in stories passed down from our great-grandparents to us and are widely held beliefs that are false. Let’s take a look at some of the popular mythical creatures.

Are you a fan of Tinkerbell? Or do you believe in the tooth fairy? A fairy is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore and considered a form of spirit. Fairies are generally described as human in appearance and having magical powers. In modern culture they are often depicted as young, sometimes winged, humanoids (resembling humans) of small stature (height).

However, originally they were depicted quite differently: tall, radiant and angelic beings. Tiny fairies of one kind or another have been recorded for centuries. Unlike Santa’s elves there are few details of the tooth fairy’s appearance that are consistent in various versions of the myth. The tooth fairy is believed to look like Tinkerbell with wings and a wand. But some people think of the tooth fairy as a bunny rabbit or a flying ballerina. The tooth fairy folklore states that when a child loses a baby tooth, if he or she places it beneath the bed pillow, the tooth fairy will visit while the child sleeps, replacing the lost tooth with a small payment. But just like other mythical creatures, their image throughout centuries has varied as well.

The unicorn is a legendary animal that has been described as a beast with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead.

The unicorn is usually shown as a horse but it originally had a goat beard, lion’s tail, and split hooves.

According to legend, it was considered impossible to capture a unicorn except by using harsh methods. The horn was said to be able to neutralise poison. The unicorn first came to be known during the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300–1700 BC). In European folklore, the unicorn is often depicted as a white horse-like or goat-like animal with a long horn and cloven hooves (sometimes a goat’s beard). In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace. In some books the horn of the unicorn is said to have the power to make poisoned water drinkable and to heal sickness. Thus, with time the legend and the image of the unicorn kept changing.

Have you seen the Little Mermaid? Or dressed up as a mermaid for a fancy dress party? The mermaid is a legendary aquatic (relating to water) creature with the upper body of a female-human and the tail of a fish. These exotic looking creatures have been discussed since at least 5000 BC and in British folklore are considered to be a forewarning of doom or disaster. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia. Mermaids are sometimes associated with dangerous events such as floods, storms and shipwrecks and drowning. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same tradition), they can be caring and generous, halping humans and showering them with blessings. Mermaids have been a popular subject of movies in recent centuries, such as the well-known fairy tale The Little Mermaid.

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MARCH 9, 2014

3 You must have read about or seen elves helping Santa Claus pack his gifts during Christmas time. An elf is a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. Early elves were a race with magical skills, capable of either helping or hindering (keep from doing something) humans. In English literature of the Elizabethan era, ‘elves’ were confused with fairies. Like fairies, elves were said to be magical, tiny shape-shifters. English male elves were described as looking like little old men, though elf maidens were invariably young and beautiful. Like men of the time, elves lived in kingdoms forests, meadows, or hollowed-out tree trunks.

Each generation seems to have their own use for elves in their stories.

Many images of elves depict them as industrious workers (for example Santa Claus’ toy-making elves). Folklore, like language and culture, is constantly evolving, and elves will likely always be with us, in one form or another.

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Hi light

Have you seen dragons, the big lizard-like orange creatures emitting smoke in movies or in Chinese New Year celebrations?

A dragon is a mythological representation of a reptile. In ancient times, dragons were mostly seen as snakes, but since the Middle Ages, it has become common to depict them with legs, resembling a lizard. Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body like a huge lizard, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs and able to emit fire from their mouths.

Some dragons have bat-like wings growing from its back. Like most mythical creatures, the legends about dragons also vary greatly worldwide. While in some folklore dragons are depicted as evil, damaging and monstrous in others such as East Asian legends dragons are considered to have spiritual significance and are held in deep regard. In East Asian cultures, dragons are still associated with wisdom, wells, rain and rivers and are believed to have some sort of magic and supernatural power.

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Activity

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Create Your Own Clothespin Ayesha Mehmood shows you how to create your own animated creature using a few wooden clothespins. You can play with it or use it to hang your paintings or even clothes.

Step 1

Supplies needed:

Step 2

•Wooden Clothespin •Pipe cleaner •Marker •Pencil •Glue Stick

First take a wooden clothespin and paint it the color you want. Since we are making a crocodile, we are going to use green paint.

Take a green pipe cleaner, make three small loops and twist them together.

Step 3 Apply the same steps on another green pipe cleaner.

Step 4 Bend the pipe cleaners and glue them on the clothespin.

Your clothespin creature is now ready.

Step 5 Make crocodile eyes with a marker or paper.

Want to watch a video guide for this?

Log onto Toffeetv.com and check out the activities section!

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Get your weekly dose of the unusual and funny news from across the globe!

Chasing lights One man has combined his twin loves of being lazy and creating fun activities for his cat to create the best life hack we’ve seen in a while. We all know the terrible feeling of getting up off the sofa, bed or floor and turning the light off right before sleeping, and never feeling like getting up or gathering the energy in order to turn it off. Well this guy came up with a great solution. All you’ll need is a cat and a laser pen.

As an online site user, CresidentBob posted a video displaying his new and efficient technique of turning the lights off. He stays in bed and shines a laser onto the light switch when he just can’t bring himself to get up and go over to the switch himself. His pet cat then does the rest of the work for him as it gets attracted to the light and turns it off. Hats off to the world’s laziest cat owner. METRO.CO.UK

Tortoise on wheels Septimus the tortoise is back on the move after his front legs were replaced with wheels from a model aeroplane. He may not be a jetsetter yet but he can certainly move around now. The pet – described by his owner Darren Strand as ‘sprightly and sociable’ – can resume the social whirl thanks to vet Ben Trimmer, who attached the artificial legs for the tortoise. “It was the first time he had put front wheels on a tortoise as he had only done back wheels before,” said property developer and pet owner Strand, 49, of Gosport, Hampshire. Septimus, serves as a cautionary tale for anyone who has wished they could hibernate through the winter. He hid in a corner of the garden and – when he surfaced in April last year – his front feet had been chewed by rats and needed to be removed.”‘His legs were full of maggots,” recalled Strand’s daughter Tabbie, 13. The reptile has taken to his wheels. “On cut grass he’s really fast,” Strand added. METRO.CO.UK

World wide weird

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Toy story

With a relationship stretching back 60 years, you might have thought they would have been married earlier. But Mr and Mrs Potato Head have finally had their marriage captured on film in one photographer’s attempt to explain his profession to his son. Chris Thornton said three-year-old Cole would always ask if he was off to take pictures at a wedding – but didn’t understand what one was. “I thought I’d try to shoot one he’d be really interested in,” said the 34-year-old, from Leeds. So he staged a wedding using the characters from Cole’s favourite film – Toy Story. The resulting pictures show the happy couple celebrating their special day with Woody, Buzz and other favourites from the Disney Pixar film. “Since then, Cole’s actually got his own little camera and did take some shots at a recent wedding I was invited to,” Thornton added.

Amazing idea isn’t it? METRO.CO.UK

Largest Ferrero Rocher A chip shop owner with a chocolate obsession has created the world’s largest deep-fried Ferrero Rocher.

John Clarkson was inspired to make the divine five kilogramme treat after a normal-sized batch proved a surprise hit with customers at the ‘Mister Eaters chippy’ in Preston, Lancashire. The massive chocolate is 10 times the size of a normal Ferrero Rocher and contains more than 25,000 calories. “We sourced a secret Ferrero Rocher recipe from America to allow us to make a large quantity and then form it into a large ball,” his wife Corinne Clarkson told a local newspaper. “Making the ball was not hard but other steps along the way were more challenging. The fryers had to be filled to maximum capacity to keep the ball floating and we had to use oversized equipment at every stage.

We have the giant on display and it is creating a lot of interest,” she continued. The couple has previously deep-fried mince pies at Christmas. With their super-sized treats being a big hit we cannot wait to see what they whip up next. METRO.CO.UK

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Did you know?

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Word Origins Photography The word ‘photography’ comes from the Greek word ‘photos’ which is derived from the word ‘phos’ meaning light. A combination of the Greek words photos and graphe (meaning representation by means of lines or drawing) results in the formation of the word photography. Combining the two Greek words the definition of photography is drawing with light. Though it is certain that the word originated from these roots, there has been a lot of debate surrounding who coined this term. Hercules Florence, a French painter and inventor living in Campinas, Brazil, used the French form of the word, photographie, in private notes which a Brazilian photography historian believes were written in 1834.

Johann von Maedler, a Berlin astronomer, is credited in a 1932 German history of photography as having used it in an article published on February 25, 1839 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung. Both of these claims are now widely reported but apparently neither has ever been independently confirmed as beyond reasonable doubt. Credit has traditionally been given to Sir John Herschel both for coining the word and for introducing it to the public. His uses of it have long been amply documented and accepted as settled facts. Despite the debate surrounding who coined the word it is believed to have originated from the Greek words and means similar to its earlier definition, a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused on to a light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally.

How to say ‘photo’ in different languages Belarussian

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Manhoyak

Catalan

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Imatge

Croation

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Slika

Czech

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Obrazek

Danish

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Billede

Dutch

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Afbeelding

Finnish

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Kuva

German

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Bild

Haitian-creole

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Foto

Hungarian

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Kep

Italian

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Immagine

Malay

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Gambar

Portugese

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Quadro

Romanian

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Imagine

Spanish

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Imagen

Turkish

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Resim

Cool facts Starwberries aren’t really berries.

The average apple contains around 130 calories.

India is the world’s largest producer of bananas, producing nearly 22 million tonnes in 2007.

Humans use many different methods for gathering food which include farming, hunting, gardening, foraging and fishing.

Humans eat meat from a number of different animals; common examples include meat from chickens, cows and sheep. Other food products that come from animals include milk, eggs and honey.

Although humans are omnivores (eating both plants and animals), many people choose not to eat meat and fish, they are known as vegetarians.

People who don’t eat or use any products made from animals (including eggs, dairy products and honey) are known as vegans.

Food for human consumption is typically made from plants and animals but we also eat other products such as fungus (mushrooms).

Cooking is an important part of food preparation that involves applying heat. In most cases this transforms the chemical make-up of food, altering its texture, flavour, nutritional properties and appearance.

Various cooking methods include boiling, simmering, steaming, sautéing, pan frying and deep-frying.

Around 70 million people suffer from food poisoning every year. Careful food storage, temperature control and preparation are necessary to avoid potentially dangerous bacteria, toxins and viruses.

Around 8% of children and 2% of adults have some kind of food allergy, this occurs when the body’s immune system incorrectly assumes a certain food protein is harmful and attacks it. Common examples of food allergies include reactions to peanuts and shellfish.

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Fun & games

Crossword

How carefully did you read this week’s issue of HiFive? If you think you are upto the task, try to solve our special crossword. The answers are all over HiFive! Put on your thinking caps, it is time to put the old noggin to work!

Across 2. The ------------- fairy folklore states that when a child loses a baby tooth, if he or she places it beneath the bed pillow, the tooth fairy will visit while the child sleeps, replacing the lost tooth with a small payment.

5. The average ----------- contains around 130 calories.

7. People who don’t eat or use any products made from ------------ are known as vegans.

9. Humans eat ---------- from a number of different animals.

13. Although humans are omnivores (eating both plants and animals), many people choose not to eat meat and fish, they are known as. Although humans are omnivores (eating both plants and animals), many people choose not to eat meat and fish, they are known as vegetarians.

15. According to legend, it was considered impossible to capture a -----------except by using harsh methods.

16. A dragon is a mythological representation of a ------------.

18. India is the world’s largest producer of --------------, producing nearly 22 million tonnes in 2007.

19. The unicorn is a legendary animal that has been described as a beast with a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its ------------.

20. The mermaid has a tail of a ------------.

Down 1. Many images of elves depict them as industrious ------------.

3. Cooking is an important part of food preparation that involves applying -------------.

4. The mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the upper body of a female ------------.

6. Food for human consumption is typically made from ---------- and animals but we also eat other products such as fungus (mushrooms).

8. Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body like a huge --------------, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs and able to emit fire from their mouths.

10. Starwberries aren’t really -----------.

11. A ----------- is a type of mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore and considered a form of spirit.

12. English male -------------- were described as looking like little old men.

14. Various cooking methods include boiling, ----------------, steaming, sautéing, pan frying and deep-frying.

17. Humans use many different methods for gathering food which include farming, hunting, ------------, foraging and fishing.

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