The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

Maggie Stiefvater’s The Scorpio Races tells the story of countless trainers who race to convert majestic beasts of the ocean into mindless machines for entertainment and profit. To be more specific, the races are composed of catching and selling the horse-like beasts as soon as they mysteriously emerge from the sea. They’re then trained using tactics that cause them panic and pain, in attempt to break them of their own free will. These creatures are strong and fierce; far too powerful for a mere human to bond with as if it were a horse. They’re larger, stronger, faster, smarter, and much more bloodthirsty than typical horses. That’s why, despite the cruel training they endure, they’re still able to remain as wild as when they were first caught.…

Above, a bright summer moon provided unlimited visibility. Suddenly, just a few feet offshore, the surface parted with a swelling roar of angry water as a serpentine head reared high, swaying from side to side and leering with great red eyes” (Moffet 3). Since Bear Lake Valley was developed, stories of the Bear Lake Monster have circulated campfires, fishing boats, and cabin living rooms. These stories bring communities together. The people of Bear Lake bond over stories of the monster because…

The sound of footsteps going down the creaky wooden staircase echoed through the strangely silent house of the Tristessens. Between the walls, pestilence and death hung in the air like a thick smog, choking everyone inside. The only disturbance to the stagnant, silent atmosphere was the occasional cough rattling through the lungs of the man, Galen, who seemed much older than he was, and his children moving about the house to care for him. “Jackson, could you please get me the water? Bring it…

his privy thoughts and in his mind set inwardly to the queen as he was as seeming outward to God” (Malory 113). Though Arthur knows the affair is real, he challenges any knight who dares to speak of the affair, demonstrating the power of denial and what we are willing to sacrifice to protect an ideal or a person. Arthur’s pride is a warning to us all. The fact that the story of Arthur is left uncompleted allows the legend to remain timeless and applicable to future generations, as Arthur is not…

account of a lake monster was report-ed in the sixth century. Some say the Vikings were the first to ask about the creatures. Their mythology tells of “Water Horses” in the lochs of Scotland. In 1934 the word about the loch ness monster began to spread when a respected scientific writer Rupert Gould published a book called “The Loch Ness Monster and Others”. When the very first photograph of Nessie was taken researchers began to use modern equipment to search the Loch for the monster. During…

Cindy’s mother was the first woman mayor in Puttingneg. While we continued standing outside the library, James, the librarian's son, smirked and said, “Do you know about the Shadow Snatchers?” We all shook our heads. I had never heard of the Shadow Snatchers. “Well,” James said, “my grandfather used to tell me the story of a mystical legend of people called the "Shadow Snatchers before bedtime.” I was intrigued, so we urged James to tell us the story. The Shadow Snatchers were a…

So, there was added an episode with the cow in the forest, with the spoons in Van Tassel’s home, or Katrina’s story on the porch before Ichabod left. In return, it wasn’t shown how Ichabod Crane helped inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow: “He assisted the farmers occasionally in the lighter labors of their farms, helped to make hay, mended the fences, took the horses to water, drove the cows from pasture, and cut wood for the winter fire” (Baym 968). In the story Irving doesn’t tell us what was the…

their many raids, and fragments of burnt timber which have been excavated on the site appear to support this story. The remains include a small section of one wall belonging to the keep, an earth mound and traces of a probable fishpond. Leaving Cotherstone, we cross the rivers Balder and Tees and continue uphill to Percy Myre Rock. From the summit of this cliff there are wonderful views of Teesdale; to the left, the spire of St Cuthbert’s Church rises high above the rooftops of Cotherstone;…

Blue and, we get down because it being too high to cross. Another wagon capsized at the encampment. . No injury to persons or property." The next day his party "crossed the Blue soon in the morning. “The crossing was initially a ford; Red Bridge was constructed in 1859. This picturesque area was a favorite campsite near the Independence Crossing of the Big Blue River. The spring originates in an unusual rock formation and falls over a rock ledge into a pool below. Emigrants carved their names in…

In the line “The horses are coming so you better run” (Florence and the Machine, Line 9), there’s an allusion to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. These figures are depicted in the last book of the Bible, Revelation (Catholic Bible, Revelation 6:2-8). In the Catholic religion, Revelation is seen as a prophecy of some fearsome judgment on the world (Kevin Johnson 105). The protagonist in “Dog Days Are Over” lives in intense fear of her judgment, symbolized by the looming arrival of horses. As…