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bone devil
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nalfeshnee
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pit fiend
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juiblex
jubilex
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yeenoghu
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orcus
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geryon
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dispater
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baalzebub
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asmodeus
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demogorgon
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athame
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babelfish
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bug
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*centaur
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cockatrice
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creeping 42
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Cray
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Deep Thought
9328,110
Douglas Adams
13112,7
*dragon
13537,10
Eddie
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*elemental
15109,6
Ford Perfect
Ford Prefect
15441,20
*giant
giant humanoid
16490,6
gnome*
gnomish wizard
16854,14
gold
gold piece
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*golem
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gremlin
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grid bug
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gunyoki
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heisenbug
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hobbit
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hobgoblin
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humanoid
21568,5
human
archeologist
barbarian
cave*man
elf
healer
knight
*priest*
rogue
samurai
tourist
valkyrie
wizard
21854,7
imp
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jabberwock
vorpal*
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kabuto
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katana
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*kobold*
23841,5
koto
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leprechaun
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leocrotta
leu*otta
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*lich
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medusa
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mind flayer
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mithril*
26800,6
mumak*
giant mumak
27159,8
*naga*
27644,4
*ooze
*pudding
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orcrist
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osaku
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PDP-*
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piercer
30134,8
Prostetnik Vogon Jeltz
30578,13
quantum mechanic
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quadruped
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rust monster
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sake
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sasquatch
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shito
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snickersnee
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*soldier
sergeant
lieutenant
captain
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tanko
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tengu
32976,7
towel
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast Of Traal
33394,16
tsurugi
34498,6
*unicorn
unicorn horn
34840,20
*UNIX*
35973,16
VAX
37082,9
vogon
vogon lord
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wakizashi
39021,2
walking disk drive
39143,15
*long worm
worm tooth
crysknife
40197,7
wizard of yendor
40567,10
xan
41182,12
ya
41843,2
yeti
41966,3
yugake
42151,3
yumi
42343,4
*zombie
42567,5
zruty
42842,2
.
42944,0
		...  It came to the edge of the fire and the light  faded as
		if a  cloud had  bent over it.  Then  with a rush it  leaped
		the fissure.  The flames roared up to greet it, and wreathed
		about  it; and a black smoke swirled in the air. Its stream-
		ing  mane kindled,  and blazed behind it.  In its right hand
		was a  blade like a stabbing tongue of fire;  in its left it
		held a whip of many thongs.
		'Ai, ai!'  wailed Legolas. 'A Balrog!  A Balrog is come!'
			   [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
		Horned devils lack any real special abilities,  though  they
		are quite difficult to kill.
		The incubus and succubus are male and female versions of the
		same  demon, one who lies with a human for its own purposes,
		usually to the detriment of the mortals who  are  unwise  in
		their dealings with them.
		These female-seeming devils  attack hand to hand  and poison
		their unwary victims as well.
		The marilith, a type V demon, has a torso shaped  like  that
		of  a human female, and the lower body of a great snake.  It
		has multiple arms, and can freely attack with all  of  them.
		Since it is intelligent enough to use weapons, this means it
		can cause great damage.
		Barbed devils lack any real special abilities,  though  they
		are quite difficult to kill.
		The vrock is one of the weaker forms of demon, being only  a
		type  I.   It  resembles a cross between a human being and a
		vulture and does physical damage by biting and by using  the
		claws on both its arms and feet.
		``Hezrou'' is the common name for the type II demon.  It  is
		among the weaker of demons, but still quite formidable.
		Bone devils attack with weapons and with a great hooked tail
		which causes a loss of strength to those they sting.
		Not only do these demons, which are of type IV, do  physical
		damage  with  their  claws and bite, but they are capable of
		using magic as well.
		Ice devils  are  large  semi-insectoid  creatures,  who  are
		equally  at home in the fires of Hell and the cold of Limbo,
		and who can cause the traveller to feel the latter with just
		a touch of their tail.
		Pit fiends are among the more powerful of devils, capable of
		attacking  twice with weapons as well as grabbing and crush-
		ing the life out of  those  unwary  enough  to  enter  their
		domains.
		Little is known about the Faceless Lord,  even  the  correct
		spelling  of  his name.  He does not have a physical form as
		we know it, and those who have peered into his  realm  claim
		he  is  a  slime-like  creature who swallows other creatures
		alive, spits acidic secretions, and causes  disease  in  his
		victims which can be almost instantly fatal.
		Yeenoghu, the demon lord of gnolls,  still  exists  although
		all his followers have been wiped off the face of the earth.
		He casts magic projectiles at those close to him, and a mere
		gaze  into  his  piercing  eyes  may  hopelessly confuse the
		battle-weary adventurer.
		Orcus, Prince of the Undead, has a rams head  and  a  poison
		stinger.   He is most feared, though, for his powerful magic
		abilities.  His wand causes death to those he chooses.
		Geryon is an arch-devil sometimes  called  the  Wild  Beast,
		attacking  with  his claws and poison sting.  His ranking in
		Hell is rumored to be quite low.
		Dispater is an arch-devil who rules the city of Dis.  He  is
		a powerful mage.
		Baalzebub has been known as the lord of the flies.  His bite
		drips  poison,  and a mere glance into his eyes can stun the
		hapless invader of his realm.
		It is said that Asmodeus is the overlord over all  of  hell.
		His  appearance,  unlike  many  other  demons and devils, is
		human apart from his horns and tail.  He  can  freeze  flesh
		with a touch.
		Demogorgon, the prince of demons, wallows in filth  and  can
		spread  a quickly fatal illness to his victims while rending
		them.  He is a mighty spellcaster, and he can drain the life
		of mortals with a touch of his tail.
		The  consecrated ritual knife of  a Wiccan  initiate (one of
		four  basic  tools,  together  with the  wand,  chalice  and
		pentacle).   Traditionally, the  athame  is  a double-edged,
		black-handled,  cross-hilted   dagger  of  between  six  and
		eighteen inches length.
	      "The Babel fish," said The Hitch  Hiker's Guide  to  the  Galaxy
	      quietly,  "is  small,  yellow  and  leech-like, and probably the
	      oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave  energy  not
	      from  its  carrier  but  from  those around  it.  It absorbs all
	      unconscious mental frequencies  from this  brainwave  energy  to
	      nourish  itself  with.  It then  excretes  into  the mind of its
	      carrier a telepathic matrix formed  by  combining the  conscious
	      thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech
	      centres of the brain which  has  supplied  them.  The  practical
	      upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear
	      you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of
	      language.  The  speech  patterns  you actually  hear  decode the
	      brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel
	      fish.
	      [...] 
	      "Meanwhile, the poor Babel  fish, by  effectively  removing  all
	      barriers  to communication between different races and cultures,
	      has caused more and bloddier wars  than  anything  else  in  the
	      history of creation."
	      [ The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams ]
	      n. An unwanted  and  unintended  property of a  program or piece
	      of hardware, esp. one that causes it to malfunction.  Antonym of
	      {feature}.   Examples: "There's a bug  in the editor:  it writes
	      things out backwards." "The system crashed because of a hardware
	      bug."   "Fred is a winner, but he has a few bugs" (i.e., Fred is
	      a good guy, but he has a few personality problems).
	      [ The Jargon File, version 3.0.0 ]
		Of all the monsters put together by  the  Greek  imagination
		the  Centaurs (Kentauroi) constituted a class in themselves.
		Despite a strong streak  of  sensuality  in  their  make-up,
		their  normal  behaviour  was  moral, and they took a kindly
		thought of man's welfare. The attempted outrage of Nessos on
		Deianeira,  and  that  of the whole tribe of Centaurs on the
		Lapith women,  are more than offset  by the  hospitality  of
		Pholos and  by  the  wisdom of Cheiron,  physician, prophet,
		lyrist,  and the instructor of Achilles.  Further,  the Cen-
		taurs  were  peculiar in that their nature, which united the
		body of a horse with the trunk and head of a  man,  involved
		an  unthinkable  duplication  of  vital organs and important
		members.  So grotesque a combination seems almost  un-Greek.
		These  strange creatures  were said to live in the caves and
		clefts of the mountains, myths associating  them  especially
		with the hills of Thessaly and the range of Erymanthos.
			     [ Mythology of all races, Vol. 1, pp. 270-271 ]
		Once in a great while, when the positions of the  stars  are
		just right, a seven-year-old rooster will lay an egg.  Then,
		along will come a snake, to coil around the egg, or a  toad,
		to  squat  upon  the  egg, keeping it warm and helping it to
		hatch.  When it hatches, out comes a creature called  basil-
		isk, or cockatrice, the most deadly of all creatures. A sin-
		gle glance from its yellow, piercing toad's eyes  will  kill
		both man  and beast.  Its power of destruction is said to be
		so great that sometimes simply to hear its  hiss  can  prove
		fatal.  Its  breath is so venomous  that it causes all vege-
		tation to wither.
	
		There is, however, one  creature  which  can  withstand  the
		basilisk's deadly gaze, and this is the weasel. No one knows
		why this is so, but although the fierce weasel can slay  the
		basilisk, it will itself be killed in the struggle.  Perhaps
		the weasel knows the basilisk's fatal weakness:  if it  ever
		sees  its own reflection in a mirror it will perish instant-
		ly.  But even a dead basilisk is dangerous, for  it is  said
		that merely touching its lifeless body can cause a person to
		sicken and die.
		[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)
		  and other sources ]
	      These are the incarnations of The Answer (although nobody
	      knows the question). Eating the dead body of one gives
	      you a short, but insightful glimpse on the answer, thereby
	      greatly increasing your experience in life. However the
	      shock will cause your vision to blur temporarily.
	      :cray: /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of
	      supercomputers designed by Cray Research. 2.Any supercomputer at
	      all.  3. The {canonical} {number-crunching} machine.

	      The term is actually the lowercased last name of Seymour Cray, a
	      noted computer architect and co-founder of the company. Numerous
	      vivid legends surround him, some true and some admittedly invented
	      by Cray Research brass to shape their corporate culture and image.
	      [ The Jargon File, version 3.0.0 ]
	      "O people waiting in the Shadow of Deep Thought!" he cried  out.
	      "Honoured Descendants of Vroomfondel and Majikthise,the Greatest
	      and Most Truly Interesting Pundits the Universe has  ever  known
	      ... The Time of Waiting is over!"
	      [...] 
	      "Seven and a half million years our  race  has waited  for  this
	      Great  and  Hopefully Enlightening Day!" cried the cheer leader.
	      "The Day of the Answer!"
	      [...] 
	      "The time is nearly upon us," said one, and Arthur was surprised
	      to see a word suddenly materialize in thin air just by the man's
	      neck. The word was Loonquawl, and it flashed a couple  of  times
	      and then disappeared again. Before Arthur was able to assimilate
	      this the other man spoke and the word  Phouchg  appeared by  his
	      neck.
 
	      "Seventy-five thousand generations ago, our ancestors  set  this
	      program in motion," the second man said,"and in all that time we
	      will be the first to hear the computer speak."
 
	      "An awesome prospect, Phouchg," agreed the first man, and Arthur
	      suddenly   realized   that  he  was  watching  a recording  with
	      subtitles.
 
	      "We are the ones who will hear," said Phouchg,"the answer to the
	      great question of Life ...!"
 
	      "The Universe ...!" said Loonquawl.
 
	      "And Everything ...!"
 
	      "Shhh," said Loonquawl with  a  slight  gesture, "I  think  Deep
	      Thought is preparing to speak!"
 
	      There was a  moment's expectant  pause whilst panels slowly came
	      to life on the front of  the  console. Lights flashed on and off
	      experimentally and settled down into a businesslike  pattern.  A
	      soft low hum came from the communication channel.
 
	      "Good morning," said Deep Thought at last.
 
	      "Er ... Good morning, O Deep Thought," said Loonquawl nervously,
	      "do you have ... er, that is ..."
 
	      "An answer for you?" interrupted Deep Thought majestically."Yes.
	      I have."
 
	      The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been
	      in vain.
 
	      "There really is one?" breathed Phouchg.
 
	      "There really is one," confirmed Deep Thought.
 
	      "To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the  Universe and
	      Everything?"
 
	      "Yes."
 
	      Both of the men had been trained for this moment,their lives had
	      been  a  preparation  for it, they had been selected at birth as
	      those who would witness the  answer,  but  even  so  they  found
	      themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
 
	      "And you're ready to give it to us?" urged Loonquawl.
 
	      "I am."
 
	      "Now?"
 
	      "Now," said Deep Thought.
 
	      They both licked their dry lips.
 
	      "Though I don't think," added Deep Thought,"that you're going to
	      like it."
 
	      "Doesn't matter!" said Phouchg. "We must know it! Now!"
 
	      "Now?" inquired Deep Thought.
 
	      "Yes! Now ..."
 
	      "Alright," said the computer and settled into silence again. The
	      two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
 
	      "You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought.
 
	      "Tell us!"
 
	      "Alright," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the  Great Question
	      ..."
 
	      "Yes ...!"
 
	      "Of Life, the Universe and Everything ..." said Deep Thought.
 
	      "Yes ...!"
 
	      "Is ..." said Deep Thought, and paused.
 
	      "Yes ...!"
 
	      "Is ..."
 
	      "Yes ...!!!...?"
 
	      "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

	      [ The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams ]
	      Note to the real Douglas Adams: should you really ever read
	      this text, please do not get upset about how you and your
	      characters are represented in this work, but rather remember
	      that it was you (yes, *you*) who started all this stuff!
	      "All IMNSHO, constructive comments by e-mail, flame and
	      murder threats to /dev/null, don't bother with flames,
	      I'm fire resistant."
		In the West  the dragon was  the  natural  enemy   of   man.
		Although  preferring  to live in bleak and desolate regions,
		whenever it was seen among men it left in its wake a   trail
		of   destruction   and disease. Yet any attempt to slay this
		beast was a perilous undertaking. For the dragon's assailant
		had  to  contend not  only  with clouds of  sulphurous fumes
		pouring from its fire-breathing nostrils, but also with  the
		thrashings  of  its  tail,  the  most   deadly  part  of its
		serpent-like body.
		[Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)]
	      "Hi there! This is Eddie your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling
	      just  great  guys,  and  I know I'm just going to get a bundle of
	      kicks out of any programme you care to run through me."
 
	      Arthur looked inquiringly at Trillian. She motioned him  to  come
	      on in but keep quiet.
 
	      "Computer,"  said  Zaphod,  "tell  us  again  what  our   present
	      trajectory is."
 
	      "A real pleasure feller," it burbled, "we are currently in  orbit
	      at an altitude of three hundred miles around the legendary planet
	      of Magrathea."
 
	      "Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer  to
	      speak my weight."
 
	      "I can do that for you, sure," enthused  the  computer,  punching
	      out  more  tickertape.  "I  can  even  work  out  you personality
	      problems to ten decimal places if it will help."

		      [ The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams]
		Elementals are manifestations of the  basic  nature  of  the
		universe.   There  are four known forms of elementals:  air,
		fire, water, and earth.  Some mystics  have  postulated  the
		necessity  for  a fifth type, the spirit elemental, but none
		have ever been encountered, at least on this  plane  of  ex-
		istence.
	      By a curious coincidence,  None  at  all  is  exactly  how  much
	      suspicion  the ape-descendant  Arthur  Dent  had that one of his
	      closest friends was not descended from an ape, but was  in  fact
	      from  a  small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from
	      Guildford as he usually claimed.
 
	      Arthur Dent had never, ever suspected this.
 
	      This friend of his had first arrived on the planet some  fifteen
	      Earth  years previously, and he had worked hard to blend himself
	      into Earth society - with, it must be said,  some  success.  For
	      instance he had spent those fifteen years pretending to be an out
	      of work actor, which was plausible enough.
 
	      He had made one careless blunder though,because he had skimped a
	      bit on his preparatory research. The information he had gathered
	      had  led him to  choose the name "Ford Prefect" [sic]  as  being
	      inconspicuous.

	      [ The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams]
		Giants have always walked the earth, though they are rare in
		these times.  They range in size from  little over nine feet
		to a towering twenty feet or more.  The larger ones use huge
		boulders as weapons, hurling them over large distances.  All
		types of giants share a love for men  -  roasted, boiled, or
		fried.  Their table manners are legendary.
		...  And then a gnome came by,  carrying a bundle,   an  old
		fellow three times  as large as an imp  and wearing  clothes
		of a sort, especially a hat.  And he was  clearly   just  as
		frightened   as  the  imps  though  he could not go so fast.
		Ramon Alonzo saw that there must be some great trouble  that
		was  vexing  magical  things;   and,  since gnomes speak the
		language of men, and will answer if spoken  to  gently,   he
		raised  his  hat,   and  asked  of the gnome  his name.  The
		gnome did not  stop  his  hasty  shuffle  a  moment   as  he
		answered 'Alaraba' and grabbed the rim of his hat but forgot
		to doff it.
		'What is the trouble, Alaraba?' said Ramon Alonzo.
		'White magic. Run!' said the gnome ...
				[ The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany. ]
		A metal of characteristic yellow colour, the  most  precious
		metal  used as a common commercial medium of exchange.  Sym-
		bol, Au; at.  no. 79; at. wt. 197.2.  It is the most  malle-
		able  and  ductile  of  all metals, and very heavy (sp. gr.,
		19.3).  It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and  most
		corrosive  agents,  and therefore well suited for its use in
		coin and jewelry.
				[ Webster's New International Dictionary
				  of the English Language, Second Edition ]
		These creatures, not quite living but not  really  nonliving
		either,   are   created from inanimate materials by powerful
		mages or priests.
		The  gremlin is a highly  intelligent and  completely   evil
		creature.   It lives to torment  other creatures and will go
		to great lengths to inflict pain or cause injury.
		These  electrically based creatures are  not native  to this
		universe.  They  appear to come from a world  whose  laws of
		motion are radically different from ours.
		The samurai's last meal  before battle.  It was usually made
		up of cooked chestnuts, dried seaweed, and sake.
	      :heisenbug:
	      /hi:'zen-buhg/ [from Heisenberg's Uncertainty
	      Principle in quantum physics] n. A bug that disappears or alters
	      its behavior when one attempts to probe or isolate it.(This usage
	      is not even particularly fanciful; the use of a debugger sometimes
	      alters a program's operating environment significantly enough
	      that buggy code, such as that which relies on the values of
	      uninitialized memory, behaves quite differently.)  Antonym of
	      {Bohr bug}; see also {mandelbug}, {schroedinbug}.  In C,
	      nine out of ten heisenbugs result from uninitialized auto
	      variables, {fandango on core} phenomena (esp. lossage related
	      to corruption of the malloc {arena}) or errors that {smash
	      the stack}.
	      [ The Jargon File, version 3.0.0 ]
		Hobbits  are  an unobtrusive  but very ancient people,  more
		numerous formerly than they are today;  for they love  peace
		and quiet and good tilled earth:  a  well-ordered and  well-
		farmed countryside  was their favourite haunt.  They  do not
		and  did  not  understand  or like machines more complicated
		than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a handloom,  although
		they  were skillful with tools.  Even  in ancient days  they
		were, as a rule, shy of "the Big Folk", as they call us, and
		now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find.
			   [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
		Hobgoblin. Used by the  Puritans  and  in  later  times  for
		wicked  goblin  spirits,  as in Bunyan's 'Hobgoblin nor foul
		friend', but its more correct use is for the friendly  spir-
		its  of  the brownie type.  In 'A midsummer night's dream' a
		fairy says to Shakespeare's Puck:
			Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck,
			You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
			Are you not he?
		and obviously Puck would not wish to be called  a  hobgoblin
		if that was an ill-omened word.
		Hobgoblins are on the whole, good-humoured and ready  to  be
		helpful,  but fond of practical joking, and like most of the
		fairies rather nasty people to annoy. Boggarts hover on  the
		verge of hobgoblindom.  Bogles are just over the edge.
		One Hob mentioned by Henderson, was Hob Headless who haunted
		the  road  between Hurworth and Neasham, but could not cross
		the little river Kent, which flowed into the  Tess.  He  was
		exorcised  and  laid under a large stone by the roadside for
		ninety-nine years and a day. If anyone was so unwary  as  to
		sit  on  that stone, he would be unable to quit it for ever.
		The ninety-nine years is nearly up, so trouble may  soon  be
		heard of on the road between Hurworth and Neasham.
			     [ Katharine Briggs, A  dictionary  of Fairies ]
		Humanoids  are all approximately  the size of a human,   and
		may  be  mistaken for one  at a distance.  They  are usually
		of a tribal  nature, and will  fiercely defend their  lairs.
		Usually   hostile, they  may even band  together to raid and
		pillage human settlements.
		These strange creatures live mostly on the  surface  of  the
		earth, gathering together in societies of various forms, but
		occasionally a stray will descend into the depths and commit
		mayhem  among  the  dungeon  residents who, naturally, often
		resent the intrusion of such beasts.  They  are  capable  of
		using  weapons  and  magic,  and it is even rumored that the
		Wizard of Yendor is a member of this species.
		 ... imps ... little creatures of two feet high  that  could
		gambol and jump prodigiously; ...
				 [ The Charwoman's Shadow, by Lord Dunsany ]
	
		An 'imp' is an off-shoot or cutting.  Thus an 'ymp tree' was
		a grafted tree, or one grown from a cutting, not from seed.
		'Imp' properly means a small devil, an off-shoot  of  Satan,
		but  the distinction between goblins or bogles and imps from
		hell is hard to make, and many in the  Celtic  countries  as
		well as the English Puritans regarded all fairies as devils.
		The fairies of tradition often hover  uneasily  between  the
		ghostly and the diabolic state.
			       [ Katharine Briggs, A Dictionary of Fairies ]
		"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
		  The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
		Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
		  The frumious Bandersnatch!"
		
		He took his vorpal sword in hand;
		  Long time the manxome foe he sought --
		So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
		  And stood awhile in thought.
		
		And, as in uffish thought he stood,
		  The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
		Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
		  And burbled as it came!

		One, two! One, two! And through and through
		  The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
		He left it dead, and with its head
		  He went galumphing back.
					[ Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll ]
		A samurai helmet.
		The katana is a long,  single-edged  samurai  sword  with  a
		slightly curved blade.  Its long handle is designed to allow
		it to be wielded with either one or two hands.
		The race of kobolds are reputed to be an artificial creation
		of a master wizard (demi-god?).  They are about 3' tall with
		a vaguely dog-like face.  They bear a violent dislike of the
		Elven race, and  will go out  of their way to  cause trouble
		for Elves at any time.
		A Japanese harp.
		The Irish Leprechaun is the Faeries' shoemaker and is  known
		under  various names  in different parts of Ireland:  Cluri-
		caune in Cork, Lurican in Kerry, Lurikeen in Kildare and Lu-
		rigadaun  in  Tipperary.  Although he works for the Faeries,
		the Leprechaun is not of the same species.  He is small, has
		dark  skin  and wears strange clothes.  His nature has some-
		thing of the manic-depressive about it:  first he  is  quite
		happy, whistling merrily as he nails a sole on to a shoe;  a
		few minutes later, he is sullen and  morose,  drunk  on  his
		home-made heather ale.  The Leprechaun's two great loves are
		tobacco and whiskey, and he is a first-rate con-man,  impos-
		sible  to  out-fox.  No  one, no matter how clever, has ever
		managed to cheat him out of his hidden pot of  gold  or  his
		magic shilling.  At the last minute he always thinks of some
		way to divert his captor's attention  and  vanishes  in  the
		twinkling  of  an eye.
				     [ A Field Guide to the Little People
				       by Nancy Arrowsmith & George Moorse ]
		...the leucrocotta, a wild beast of extraordinary swiftness,
		the size of the wild ass, with the legs of a Stag, the neck,
		tail, and breast of a lion,  the head of a badger,  a cloven
		hoof, the mouth slit up as far as the ears,  and one contin-
		uous bone  instead of  teeth;  it is said,  too,  that  this
		animal can imitate the human voice.
			       [ Curious Creatures in Zoology, John Ashton ]
		Once in a great  while, an evil master wizard or priest will
		manage through use of great magics to extend his or her life
		far beyond the normal  span of a human.  The usual effect of
		this is to transform the human, over time, into an undead of
		great magical power.  A Lich  hates life in any form; even a
		touch from one of these  creatures will cause a numbing cold
		in the victim.  They all possess the capability to use magic.
		This hideous  creature from  ancient Greek myth was the doom
		of many a valiant adventurer.  It is said that one gaze from
		its eyes  could turn a man to stone.  One bite from the nest
		of  snakes which  crown its head could  cause instant death.
		The only  way to kill this  monstrosity is to turn its  gaze
		back upon itself.
		This creature has a humanoid  body, but has tentacles around
		its covered mouth and only three long fingers  on each hand.
		Mind flayers are  telepathic, and love to devour intelligent
		beings, especially humans.  If they hit their victim  with a
		tentacle,  the mind flayer  will  slowly  drain  it  of  all
		intelligence, eventually killing the victim.
		_Mithril_!   All folk  desired it.  It could be  beaten like
		copper, and polished like glass;  and the Dwarves could make
		of it  a metal,  light and yet harder  than tempered  steel.
		Its beauty was like to that of common silver, but the beauty
		of _mithril_ did not tarnish  or grow dim.
			   [ The Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
		the Mumak of Harad was indeed  a beast of vast bulk, and
		the like of him  does not walk now in Middle-Earth;  his kin
		that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth
		and  majesty.   On he came, ... his great legs  like  trees,
		enormous sail-like ears spread out, long snout upraised like
		a huge serpent  about to strike,  his small red eyes raging.
		His upturned hornlike tusks ... dripped with blood.
				       [ The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
		The naga is a mystical creature with the body of a snake and
		the head of a man or woman.  They will fiercely  protect the
		territory they consider their own.  Some nagas can be forced
		to serve as a guardian by a spell caster of great power.
		These giant amoeboid creatures look like nothing  more  than
		puddles  of  slime,  but they both live and move, feeding on
		metal or wood as well as the occasional dungeon explorer  to
		supplement their diet.
		The  Great Goblin  gave a truly awful howl of  rage when  he
		looked  at  it,  and  all his soldiers  gnashed their teeth,
		clashed their shields,  and stamped.  They knew the sword at
		once.  It had killed hundreds of goblins in  its time,  when
		the  fair elves of Gondolin hunted them in the hills or  did
		battle  before  their  walls.  They  had called it  Orcrist,
		Goblin-cleaver, but the goblins called it simply Biter. They
		hated it and hated worse any one that carried it.
					   [ The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
		The osaku is a small tool for picking locks.
	      :PDP-10:
	      [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that
	      made timesharing real. It looms large in hacker folklore because
	      of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing
	      facilities and research labs,including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford,
	      and CMU.  Some aspects of the instruction set (most notably the
	      bit-field instructions) are still considered unsurpassed. The 10
	      was eventually eclipsed by the VAX machines (descendants of the
	      PDP-11) when DEC recognized that the 10 and VAX product lines were
	      competing with each other and decided to concentrate its software
	      development effort on the more profitable VAX. The machine was
	      finally dropped from DEC's line in 1983,following the failure of
	      the Jupiter Project at DEC to build a viable new model.  (Some
	      attempts by other companies to market clones came to nothing;see
	      {Foonly} and {Mars}.)  This event spelled the doom of
	      {{ITS}} and the technical cultures that had spawned the original
	      Jargon File, but by mid-1991 it had become something of a badge of
	      honorable old-timerhood among hackers to have cut one's teeth on a
	      PDP-10.  See {{TOPS-10}}, {{ITS}}, {AOS}, {BLT}, {DDT},
	      {DPB}, {EXCH}, {HAKMEM}, {JFCL}, {LDB}, {pop},
	      {push}, {Appendix A}.
	      [ The Jargon File, version 3.0.0 ]
		Ye Piercer doth look like unto  a  stalactyte,  and  hangeth
		from  the  roofs of caves and caverns.  Unto the height of a
		man, and thicker than a man's thigh do  they  grow,  and  in
		groups  do they hang.  If a creature doth pass beneath them,
		they will by its heat and noise perceive it, and  fall  upon
		it  to kill and devour it, though in any other way they move
		but exceeding slow.
						   [ the Bestiary of Xygag ]
	      Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was not a pleasant sight, even  for other
	      Vogons.  His  highly  domed nose  rose  high above a small piggy
	      forehead.His dark green rubbery skin was thick enough for him to
	      play the game of Vogon Civil Service politics, and play it well,
	      and waterproof enough for him  to  survive indefinitely  at  sea
	      depths of up to a thousand feet with no ill effects.
	      Not that he ever went swimming of course.His busy schedule would
	      not allow it.
	      [...] 
	      Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz was a fairly typical Vogon in that he was
	      thoroughly vile. Also, he did not like hitch hikers.

	      [ The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams ]
		These creatures are not native to this universe;  they  seem
		to have strangely derived powers, and unknown motives.
		The woodlands and other regions  are inhabited by multitudes
		of four-legged creatures  which cannot be simply classified.
		They might not have fiery breath  or deadly stings,  but ad-
		venturers  have  nevertheless  met their end  numerous times
		due to the claws, hooves, or bites of such animals.
		These strange creatures live on a   diet  of  metals.   They
		will  turn  a  suit  of  armour into so much useless  rusted
		scrap in no time at all.
		Japanese rice wine.
		An ape-like humanoid  native to densely forested  mountains,
		the sasquatch is  also known as "bigfoot".   Normally benign
		and rarely seen,  this creature is reputed to be  a relative
		of the ferocious yeti.
		A Japanese stabbing knife.
		Ah, never shall I forget the cry, 
		    or the shriek that shrieked he,
		As I gnashed my teeth, and from my sheath
		    I drew my Snickersnee!
		--Koko, Lord high executioner of Titipu
				     [ The Mikado, by Sir W.S. Gilbert ]
		The soldiers  of Yendor are  well-trained in the art of war,
		many  trained by  the Wizard himself.  Some say the soldiers
		are explorers  who were  unfortunate enough  to be captured,
		and  put under the Wizard's spell.  Those who have  survived
		encounters  with  soldiers   say  they  travel  together  in
		platoons,  and are fierce fighters.  Because of the  load of
		their  combat gear,  however,  one can usually run away from
		them, and doing so is considered a wise thing.
		Samurai plate armor of the Yamato period (AD 300 - 710).
		The tengu was the  most  troublesome  creature  of  Japanese
		legend.   Part  bird  and part man, with red beak for a nose
		and flashing eyes, the tengu was notorious for  stirring  up
		feuds  and  prolonging  enmity between families. Indeed, the
		belligerent tengus were supposed to have  been  man's  first
		instructors in the use of arms.
		[Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)]
	      A towel, it says, is about the most massively  useful  thing  an
	      interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical
	      value-you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across
	      the cold moons of Jaglan Beta;you can lie on it on the brilliant
	      marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the  heady  sea
	      vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so
	      redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it  to  sail a  mini
	      raft  down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-
	      hand-combat;wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or
	      to  avoid  the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a
	      mindboggingly stupid animal,it assumes that if you can't see it,
	      it  can't see  you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can
	      wave your towel in emergencies as  a  distress  signal,  and  of
	      course  dry  yourself off  with it if it still seems to be clean
	      enough.
	      [ The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams ]
		The tsurugi,  also known  as  the long samurai sword,  is an
		extremely  sharp,  two-handed blade favored  by the samurai.
		It  is made of hardened steel,  and is manufactured  using a
		special  process, causing it  to never rust.  The tsurugi is
		rumored  to  be  so  sharp  that  it  can  occasionally  cut
		opponents in half!
		Men have always sought the elusive unicorn, for  the  single
		twisted  horn  which projected from its forehead was thought
		to be a powerful talisman.  It was said that the unicorn had
		simply  to  dip  the tip of its horn in a muddy pool for the
		water to become pure.  Men also believed that to  drink from
		this horn was a protection against all sickness, and that if
		the horn was ground to a powder it would act as an  antidote
		to all poisons.  Less than 200 years ago in France, the horn
		of a unicorn was used in a ceremony to test the  royal  food
		for poison.
	
		Although only the size of a small horse, the  unicorn  is  a
		very  fierce  beast,  capable  of killing an elephant with a
		single thrust from its horn.  Its  fleetness  of  foot  also
		makes  this solitary creature difficult to capture. However,
		it can be tamed and captured by a maiden. Made gentle by the
		sight  of a virgin, the unicorn can be lured to lay its head
		in her lap, and in this docile mood, the maiden  may  secure
		it with a golden rope.
		[Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library)]
	      :UNIX:: /yoo'niks/ [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on
	      Multics"] n. (also `Unix') An interactive time-sharing system
	      invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics
	      project,originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7.
	      Dennis Ritchie the inventor of C,is considered a co-author of the
	      system.  The turning point in UNIX's history came when it was
	      reimplemented almost entirely in C during 1972--1974, making it the
	      first source-portable OS.  UNIX subsequently underwent mutations
	      and expansions at the hands of many different people,resulting in
	      a uniquely flexible and developer-friendly environment. By 1991,
	      UNIX had become the most widely used multiuser general-purpose
	      operating system in the world.Many people consider this the most
	      important victory yet of hackerdom over industry opposition (but
	      see {UNIX weenie} and {UNIX conspiracy} for an opposing point
	      of view).  See {Version 7}, {BSD}, {USG UNIX}.
	      [ The Jargon File, version 3.0.0 ]
	      :VAX: /vaks/ n. 1. [from Virtual Address eXtension] The most
	      successful minicomputer design in industry history, possibly
	      excepting its immediate ancestor, the PDP-11.Between its release
	      in 1978 and its eclipse by {killer micro}s after about 1986, the
	      VAX was probably the hacker's favorite machine of them all, esp.
	      after the 1982 release of 4.2 BSD UNIX (see {BSD}).  Esp.
	      noted for its large,assembler-programmer-friendly instruction set
	      --- an asset that became a liability after the RISC revolution.
	      [ The Jargon File, version 3.0.0 ]
	      [...] Billions of years ago
	      when the Vogons had first crawled out of the  sluggish  primeval
	      seas  of  Vogsphere,  and  had  lain panting  and heaving on the
	      planet's virgin shores...when the first rays of the bright young
	      Vogsol  sun had shone across them that morning, it was as if the
	      forces of evolution ad simply given up on them there  and  then,
	      had  turned aside in disgust and written them off as an ugly and
	      unfortunate mistake. They never evolved again; they should never
	      have survived.
	      [...] 
	      Meanwhile, the natural forces on the planet  Vogsphere had  been
	      working  overtime  to  make  up  for their earlier blunder. They
	      brought forth scintillating jewelled scuttling crabs, which  the
	      Vogons  ate,  smashing  their  shells  with  iron mallets;  tall
	      aspiring trees with breathtaking slenderness and colour which the
	      Vogons  cut down and burned the crab meat with; elegant gazelle-
	      like creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the  Vogons
	      would  catch  and  sit on. They were no use as transport because
	      their backs would snap instantly, but the  Vogons  sat  on  them
	      anyway.

	      [ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ] 
		The samurai  warrior  traditionally  wears  two  swords; the
		wakizashi is the shorter of the two.  See also katana.
	      :walking drives: n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk
	      drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing
	      machine}s.  Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular
	      momentum;the combination of a misaligned spindle or worn bearings
	      and stick-slip interactions with the floor could cause them to
	      `walk' across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a couple
	      of millimeters at a time.  There is a legend about a drive that
	      walked over to the only door to the computer room and jammed it
	      shut; the staff had to cut a hole in the wall in order to get at
	      it!  Walking could also be induced by certain patterns of drive
	      access(a fast seek across the whole width of the disk,followed by
	      a slow seek in the other direction).  Some bands of old-time
	      hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that
	      would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.
	      [ The Jargon File, version 3.0.0 ]
		[The crysknife] is manufactured in two forms from teeth tak-
		en  from dead sandworms.  The two forms are "fixed" and "un-
		fixed." An unfixed  knife  requires  proximity  to  a  human
		body's  electrical  field  to prevent disintegration.  Fixed
		knives are treated for storage.  All are about  20  centime-
		ters long.
						  [ Dune, by Frank Herbert ]
		No  one knows how old this mighty wizard is,  or from whence
		he came.  It is known that,  having lived a span far greater
		than any normal man's, he grew weary of lesser mortals;  and
		so, spurning all human company,  he forsook the dwellings of
		men  and  went to live in the depths of the  Earth.  He took
		with him the dreadful artifact, the Book of the Dead,  which
		is said to hold great power indeed. Many have sought to find
		the  wizard and  his treasure,  but none have found  him and
		lived to tell the tale.  Woe be to the incautious adventurer
		who disturbs this mighty sorcerer!
		They sent their friend the mosquito [xan] ahead of  them  to
		find  out  what lay ahead.  "Since you are the one who sucks
		the blood of men walking along paths," they told the mosqui-
		to,  "go  and  sting the men of Xibalba."  The mosquito flew
		down the dark road to the Underworld.  Entering the house of
		the Lords of Death, he stung the first person that he saw...
	
		The mosquito stung this man as well, and when he yelled, the
		man  next  to him asked, "Gathered Blood, what's wrong?"  So
		he flew along the row stinging all the seated men  until  he
		knew the names of all twelve.
				[ Popul Vuh, as translated by Ralph Nelson ]
		The arrow  of  choice of the samurai,  ya  are  made of very
		straight bamboo, and are  tipped  with hardened steel.
		An ape-like humanoid  native to inaccessible  mountain tops,
		the yeti is also known as "the abominable snowman".  Whether
		or not the title "man" is appropriate remains unknown.
		Japanese leather archery gloves.  Gloves made for use  while
		practicing had thumbs reinforced with horn.  Those worn into
		battle had thumbs reinforced with a double layer of leather.
		The samurai is highly  trained  with a special type  of bow,
		the yumi.  Like the  ya, the yumi  is  made of bamboo.  With
		the yumi-ya, the bow and arrow, the samurai is an  extremely
		accurate and deadly warrior.
		The zombi...  is a soulless human corpse,  still  dead,  but
		taken   from  the  grave  and  endowed  by  sorcery  with  a
		mechanical semblance of life, --  it is a dead body which is
		made to walk and act and move as if it were alive.
							  [ W. B. Seabrook ]
		The zruty are  wild and gigantic beings,  living in the wil-
		dernesses of the Tatra mountains.
