The story is considered by some to be an early account of the activity of a poltergeist, a mischievous spirit that makes noises unexplainable except by supernatural causes.

We especially refer to the apparently autonomous and intelligent, chaotically mercurial and mischievous machine elves encountered in the trance state, strange teachers whose marvelous singing makes intricate toys out of the air and out of their own continually transforming body geometries.

Mixyezpitellik's relationship with Ultraman also mirrors that between Mxyzptlk and Superman ; while to Superman, Mxyzptlk is merely a mischievous annoyance who rarely makes a great impact upon him, Ultraman finds himself terrified by Mixyezpitellik's power and is thus made to act as his agent.

One mischievous toddler, Sylvester, labeled Sly, makes repeated attempts to escape the " Kinder " lab and one night, he actually succeeds.

The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.

Tigger is always filled with great energy and optimism, and though always well-meaning, he can also be mischievous, and his actions have sometimes led to chaos and trouble for himself and his friends.

On the western coast, he writes, the red jacket is covered by a frieze one, and in Ulster the creature wears a cocked hat, and when he is up to anything unusually mischievous, he leaps on to a wall and spins, balancing himself on the point of the hat with his heels in the air.

As a child, Rupert was at times badly behaved, " fiery, mischievous, and passionate " and earned himself the nickname Robert le Diable, or " Rupert The Devil ".

Many mythological boys have frequently been represented in various arts, e. g. Venus ' often mischievous son Cupid, himself a young god of love which he ' inflicts ' on humans by shooting his arrows ; in some style periods even multiplied as naked little boys called putti.

Drawn by Charles Grigg, Splodge himself was the last of the goblins, a mischievous one who would play sneaky, nasty tricks on the animals of the woods, but they usually had the last laugh at the end.

Clouseau, who has arrived in the village near Dreyfus's castle but has been denied entry into the castle by a mischievous drawbridge, eventually infiltrates Dreyfus's castle hideout disguised as a dentist, intoxicates Dreyfus ( and himself ) with nitrous oxide, and pulls one of Dreyfus's healthy teeth.

Andy was at first a mischievous cub, whose blustery father is frequently trying to prove himself as a good role model.

The composer himself conducted the premiere at a special convocation held by the University on January 4, 1881, to the chagrin ( and mischievous delight ) of many of the academics in the audience.

A mischievous small yellow creature initially invisible until covered in yellow " scunge ", who occasionally returns in further episodes, still covered in yellow scunge and therefore visible, and causes Berk further annoyance.

In any case, the characters in this family group, are represented and recreated in the stop of this day as a cartoon family that travels with all his luggage and kitchen utensils to prepare food anywhere in the path and is usually represented with its most picturesque or characteristic things, including the flamboyant grandmother, daughter ready to get married in white but with visible signs of pregnancy and mischievous children ( usually characterized adults ) who are in trouble their nannies.

Though honest and good natured, he is weak willed and often taken advantage of by the offbeat and mischievous tenants who live with him.

Spielberg felt Drew Barrymore had the right imagination for mischievous young Gertie after she impressed him with a story that she led a punk rock band.

The birds bring Melampous a vulture who tells him that Phylakos chased Iphiklos with a knife, presumably because Iphiklos had seen Phylakos do something mischievous.

The mischievous god Loki tricked Andvari into giving him the Andvaranaut.

Mitchum's cynical, mischievous attitude through his career had led him to shrug off fame as a fluke.

While his elder brother was a serious and thoughtful child, Alexander was mischievous and extroverted ; he smoked cigarettes made from schoolboys ' blotting paper, set fire to the games room in the palace, and once almost killed his younger brother Paul while walking him at full speed in a cart designed for children.

In 1978, Davison's performance as the youthfully mischievous Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small made him a household name.

Following Galerius ' death, Maximinus was no longer constrained ; he enthusiastically took up renewed persecutions in the eastern territories under his control, encouraging petitions against Christians, one of which, addressed to him and to Constantine and Licinius, is preserved in a stone inscription at Arycanda in Lycia, " to request that the Christians, who have long been disloyal and still persist in the same mischievous intent, should at last be put down and not be suffered by any absurd novelty to offend against the honour due to the gods.

* The Wickersham Brothers – Three mischievous monkeys who steal Horton's clover from him.

Jack assigns Lock, Shock and Barrel, a trio of mischievous children, to abduct Santa and bring him back to Halloween Town.

We have from him that which is new and not mischievous … that which is founded … upon the natural expression of a people ’ s musical nature.

Soup is a well-meaning, but mischievous schemer, constantly coming up with elaborate plans that invariably land him and his pal Rob in trouble.

Ben is shy at first, but Rachel transforms him into a mischievous prankster.

Little is known about him beyond his great power and mischievous nature.

Wallace earned his nickname, " Herman ," early in life when Lake Hill Speedway promoter Bob Miller made note of Wallace's boisterous behavior when taking up for his father, likening him to the mischievous cartoon character Herman the German.

Sung in a pastiche of both Calabrese and English, " Pepino the Italian Mouse " tells the humorous tale of a mischievous mouse who lives within the walls of a man's kitchen and who comes out at night to eat cheese, drink wine, frighten Lou's girlfriend when she comes over ... and befriends the cat, sent out to catch him.

* Eze and Duke: A mischievous hippo and kangaroo, they are Ryan's friends at the zoo who try to make him go " wild ".

Worden was a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, " displaying a mischievous glee as she frightened him with human hairballs and wicked-looking Victorian surgical tools, only to disarm him with her antic laugh " and appeared in numerous PBS, BBC and cable television documentaries ( including an episode of Errol Morris ' show First Person ) as well as NPR's " Fresh Air with Terry Gross " on the museum's behalf.

Yanukovych reacted angrily to Tyhypko's move, calling him a " mischievous cat ".

And therefore think him as a serpent's egg / Which hatch'd, would, as his kind grow mischievous ;/ And kill him in the shell.

He has always been interested in stories and legends, and his fertile mind and mischievous spirit put him in many unpredictable situations, like believing fairies turned Ferny into a bug, trying to hatch a supposed dragon's egg, using the Salmon of Knowledge to pass the school exam, and even trying to capture the legendary Fir Darrig.

* Dorrie and the Birthday Eggs, 1971-On an errand to buy some eggs for the Big Witch's birthday cake, Dorrie runs into the mischievous Thinnever Vetch, who steals Dorrie's galosh.

The element name comes from a mischievous sprite of German miner's mythology, Nickel ( similar to Old Nick ), that personified the fact that copper-nickel ores resisted refinement into copper.

The second-person narrative passages develop into a fairly cohesive novel that puts its two protagonists on the track of an international book-fraud conspiracy, a mischievous translator, a reclusive novelist, a collapsing publishing house, and several repressive governments.

The film's final shot – that of the train speeding into a tunnel during a romantic assignation onboard – is a famous bit of self-conscious Freudian symbolism reflecting Hitchcock's mischievous sense of humor.

* Alom-bag-winno-sis or Alom-begwi-no-sis-a mischievous, dwarfish race of men upsets canoes, that can increase or decrease body size at will ; they also own a pot which can transform a few kernels of maize into a huge quantity ; seeing one supposedly foretells a death by drowning

In the 1951 Disney animated film, Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is depicted as an intelligent yet mischievous character that sometimes helps Alice and sometimes gets her into trouble, and thus could be classified as a " Disney Villain.

In Scottish folklore, faeries are often divided into the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, the Seelie being the faeries benevolently inclined towards humans and the Unseelie being the malevolent or mischievous faeries.

He developed the character of Harlequin into a mischievous magician.

The word ' useful ,' therefore, is incorporated into the act in contradistinction to mischievous or immoral.

Consistent with Japanese folklore, the tanuki ( Japanese Raccoon Dogs, Nyctereutes procyonoides ) are portrayed as a highly sociable, mischievous species, able to use " illusion science " to transform into almost anything, but too fun-loving and too fond of tasty treats to be a real threat – unlike the kitsune ( foxes ) and other shapeshifters.

Elsewhere, the other Mogwai hatch into " gremlins ", mischievous reptilian creatures with sharp teeth and claws.

However, it was discovered that their physiology was unstable, and under " certain circumstances ", alluding to the three rules that were given in the film, mogwai would change into creatures that the novel referred to as " mischievous ".

Horton is ambushed by a group of mischievous monkeys, the Wickersham Brothers (" Monkey Around ") who steal the clover and give it to an eagle, Vlad Vladikoff, who drops it into a large patch of identical clovers (" Chasing the Whos ").

Flavors of blues, psychedelia, and Krautrock all come into play, resulting in a musically mischievous and remarkably forward-thinking collection.

He is one of the primary protagonists and has moved over the course of the series from his beginnings as a mischievous farm lad into the role of a powerful, shrewd and successful general and commander of armies despite his dissolute and irreverent approach to life.

One pupil, Mary Tilford, is mischievous, disobedient and untruthful, and often leads the other girls into trouble.

She has a playful, mischievous personality, delighting in baiting the Doctor and getting into trouble.

But the mischievous gleam that would now and again pop into Roth's eyes when telling stories really never went away.

It defined a useful invention as one that is not “ frivolous or injurious to the well-being, good policy, or sound morals of society .” Specifically, " he word ‘ useful ’ … is incorporated into the law in contradistinction to mischievous or immoral.

" He especially disapproved of another clause in the same bill forbidding the importation of Irish cattle into England, a mischievous measure promoted by the Duke of Buckingham, and he opposed again the bill brought in with that object in January 1667.

When old enough, John was enrolled at Ellesmere College where his mischievous streak became quickly apparent through pranks and dares ; once, while in the sanatorium with mumps, he slipped a laxative into the matron's tea.