From Deutsche Volksmärchen, 1800.

"Strange forgotten dynasties," from This Simian World by Clarence Day, 1920.

To this day, this is the only known reference to the "Krikketekrakkle."  "There was once a king who was a deuce of a king, and he was afraid of nothing in the wide world by a Krikketekrakkle."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1878.

"He feeds on generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen and paté de foie gras."  From Fortnightly Philistine, 1900.

From En Mocassins by Arthur Guindon, 1920.

From The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri, 1916.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton, 1903.

This is Marquette's Monster, a.k.a. Lennipinja or Man-Cat of the Peorias and Illinois, a.k.a. Micibisi of the Northern tribes.  The Chippewa name is Michibichi, the spirit panther "god of the waters" or "the manito of the waters and the fishes."  The Shawnese clan name is "Manetuwi Msi-pessi," a "'celestial tiger,' i.e. a meteor or shooting star.  The manetuwi msi-pessi lives in water only, and is visible not as an animal, but as a shooting star.  But the activities of this manito are not confined to the water.  He corresponds to the 'Fire Dragon' of other mythologies; and when they see a meteor, the old Miamis say that it is Lennipinja going from one sea to another" (Indiana and the Indianans by Jacon Piatt Dunn, 1919).

From Le Monde Moderne, 1895.

From Queer Patients by M. Oston, 1911.

From Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lucy Etheldred Broadwood and Lewis Carroll, 1921.

From How to Paint by A. S. Aloe Company, 1894.

"The vision of Elliott's distempered fancy."  From The Black Pirate or the Phantom Ship, 1848.

"The battle of Achmet with the dreadful monster of the lake," from Mazeppa or the Wild Horse of the Ukraine by Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa, 1850.

"The Japanese mermaid, from a sketch by Dr. Phillips, U.S.N.," from Harper's Weekly, 1860.