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$"How now? a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!"
     -William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, 4
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$"The Parts Septentrionall are with these Sp'ryts Much haunted..
About the places where they dig for Oare. The Greekes and Germans 
call them Cobali."
	-Heywood, Hierarch. ix. 568, circa 1635

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$"The latter lived in the country, and before his house there was an oak, 
in which there was a lair of snakes. His servants killed the snakes, but 
Melampus gathered wood and burnt the reptiles, and reared the young ones. 
And when the young were full grown, they stood beside him at each of his 
shoulders as he slept, and they purged his ears with their tongues. He 
started up in a great fright, but understood the voices of the birds flying 
overhead, and from what he learned from them he foretold to men what should come to pass."
	-Apollodurus (apocryphal), Library and Epitome, 1.9.11. circa 150 BC.
	Sir James George Frazer, translator
	 
"A snake, with mottles rare,
Surveyed my chamber floor,
In feature as the worm before,
But ringed with power."	
	-Emily Dickinson, "In Winter In My Room"

"That country was then ruled by Antaeus, son of Poseidon, who used to 
kill strangers by forcing them to wrestle. Being forced to wrestle with 
him, Hercules hugged him, lifted him aloft, broke and killed him; for 
when he touched earth so it was that he waxed stronger, wherefore some 
said that he was a son of Earth."
	-Apollodorus (apocryphal), _Library and Epitome_, 2.5.11, circa 150 BC.
	Sir James George Frazer, translator.

A comical figure full of life and laughter.  It looks very happy to see you... but is there a slightly malicious cast to its features?  Is that red facepaint or something altogether less pleasant?  Join in the fun, and maybe you'll find out!

A comical figure full of life and laughter.  It looks very happy to see you... but is there a slightly malicious cast to its features?  Is that red facepaint or something altogether less pleasant?
"All the world loves a clown."
	-Cole Porter, "Be a Clown".  1948.

"Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!"
	-Guybrush Threepwood, _The Secret of Monkey Island_

"Then he descended softly and beckoned to Nuth.  But the gnoles had
watched him through knavish holes that they bore in trunks of the
trees, and the unearthly silence gave way, as it were with a grace, 
to the rapid screams of Tonker as they picked him up from behind -- screams
that came faster and faster until they were incoherent.  And where they took 
him it is not good to ask, and what they did with him I shall not say."
	-Lord Dunsanay, "How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Art Upon the Gnoles". 
	1912.

"The Parts Septentrionall are with these Sp'ryts Much haunted..
About the places where they dig for Oare. The Greekes and Germans 
call them Cobali."
	-Heywood, Hierarch. ix. 568, circa 1635

"How now? a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!"
     -William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, 4