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Alternate Spellings: 

If you're not finding information on your monster, there may be alternate spellings for it.  This is especially true for the Scandinavian monsters. For example:

• Draugen are also known as Draugr or Draug; also Aptrganga or Aptrgangr 
• Mare are also known as Mara, Mahr, Mahrt, Mart
• Nokken are also known as Nykkjen or Nicker​

To find alternate spellings, search the Internet using your monster's name and its primary quality (if you know that) as your search terms. For example, Mare + nightmares.

 Helpful call numbers for print books:  

• 200.3-- this is the Dewey Decimal (DD) number for general information on religions of the world
• 291.13-- this DD number is especially helpful-- it's the number for books on non-Christian world religions, especially from ancient times
• 398.2-- this is the general Dewey Decimal number for mythology and folklore.

Go browse any of these sections of our books! FYI, we've also set aside a select sampling of print books on a small book cart, near the big tables where we had our introductory library session.