The story of Korak's youth and growth to manhood was told in the fourth novel, The Son of Tarzan, in which he returned to Africa and lived in the jungle, taking for the first time the name Korak ("Killer" in the language of the Great Apes). Most references to him were as "Korak the Killer".
by Snapper2001 October 30, 2020
Johnny Weissmuller (2 June 1904 – 20 January 1984) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor, best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.
Johnny Weissmuller's real name was Pieter Johann Weissmuller. He popularised the Tarzan yell and made it memorable. He was also one of the prototype 'celebutantes' of the 1930s-60s, because he initially had no experience in acting whatsoever.
by Snapper2001 July 06, 2018
Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes.
In the invented language, Mangani (meaning "great-ape") is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied (with modifications) to humans. The Mangani are represented as the apes who foster and raise Tarzan.
by Snapper2001 October 01, 2018
Pussyfoot is a cute girl who has appeared in some Warner Bros. merchandising, and has been featured in various Warner Bros. productions.
by Snapper2001 December 22, 2023
Queen La (Tarzan) is a character in Edgar Rice Burroughs's series of Tarzan novels, the queen and high priestess of Opar, a lost city located deep in the jungles of Africa.
Queen La (Tarzan) first appeared in the second Tarzan novel, The Return of Tarzan (1913), and reappeared in the fifth, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916), the ninth, Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1923), and the fourteenth, Tarzan the Invincible (1930). She is also mentioned in the juvenile Tarzan story Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins, with Jad-Bal-Ja, the Golden Lion (1936), the events of which occur between Tarzan and the Golden Lion and Tarzan the Invincible.
by Snapper2001 October 01, 2018
In Slavic mythology, notsnitsa (Belarusian: начніца, romanized: načnica,1 Polish: nocnica, płaczka,234 Bulgarian: горска майка, ношно, romanized: gorska majka, nošno, Serbian: шумска маjка, бабице, ноћнице, romanized: šumska majka, babice, noćnice,5 Croatian: mrake, vidine, Slovene: nočnine, mračnine, Ukrainian: нічниця, romanized: nichnytsia,6 Russian: ночница, romanized: nochnitsa7), often referred in plural, is a nightmare spirit or demon that torments people and especially children at night.
Other names for notsnitsa in East Slavic languages include kriksy, plaksy, plachky, plaksivicy, kriksy-varaksy, kriksy-plaksy, night hag, night maiden.7
by Snapper2001 October 02, 2022
Roroa is a colloquial Kenyan word for ‘talking’, which comes from a mixed Swahili-English pidgin called Sheng.
Johnny Weissmuller’s portrayal of Tarzan, itself a distinctive character in his own right, did not do as much Roroa as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s original character of the same name.
by Snapper2001 April 10, 2022