Often depicted as a winged deer, the peryton is said to have the head, neck, forelegs and antlers of a stag, combined with the plumage, wings and hindquarters of a large bird, although some interpretations portray the peryton as a deer in all but coloration and bird's wings.

The connection of this, if any, to the peryton is unclear.

* A peryton closely matching Borges's original description is a minor villain in The Cinnabar Box, a fantasy novel by Ilil Arbel.

* The peryton, as stated before, is included among the bestiary of the game Dungeons and Dragons.

* An obscure role-playing game is also called " Peryton " and has a design for the monster that is similar to the Dungeons and Dragons peryton, but with bat's wings.

* A peryton is referred to in The Sword of the Lictor, a book in The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe.

* The peryton is included in the " Monsters of the Mind " subsection in the trading card game Weird and Wild Creatures.

* A murderous peryton named Orfeo is a major villain in the fantasy novel Whiskey and Water by Elizabeth Bear.

Artist's impression of a peryton.

The peryton has appeared in contemporary fantasy fiction and video games, following its appearance in the first edition Monster Manual from the popular role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.

* In a Donald Duck comic, " Mythological Menagerie ," Donald Duck uses cardboard wings to disguise a normal deer as a peryton to trick Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

As a free-lance investigator, the fictional detective is responsible to no one but himself and his client.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside but with robot-like internal mechanics.

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Hercule Poirot (; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

Obviously as a fictional character he ’ s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.

In the fictional world of Ghosts of Albion, Queen Bodicea is one of three Ghosts who once were mystical protectors of Albion and assists the current protectors with advice and knowledge.

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

It is puzzling to the occidental mind ( to mine at least ) to assign `` sacredness '' to animal, insect, and plant life.

The intranasal instillation of a fluid suspension of infectious agent in an anesthetized animal is far different from exposure, through natural respiration, to aerosolized organisms.

There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen, which is then secreted in the milk.

We can escape from such a difficulty by ruling out the animal as not constituting a trial, but such a solution is not always satisfactory.

The result is that I included 70 animal names, but Swadesh only 4 ; ;

The attempt failed: the animal is now dead.

All living creatures from the lowest form of insect or animal life evidence the power of creativity, if it is only to reproduce a form like their own.

While man shares this procreative function with all his predecessors in the evolutionary process, he is the only animal with a true non-instinctive and conscious creative ability.

Sir Julian Huxley in his book Uniqueness Of Man makes the novel point that just as man is unique in being the only animal which requires a long period of infancy and childhood under family protection, so is he the only animal who has a long period after the decline of his procreativity.

There are some passages in the writings of Irenaeus where the image of God and the similitude are sharply distinguished, so most notably in the statement: `` If the ( Holy ) Spirit is absent from the soul, such a man is indeed of an animal nature ; ;

Man is at once a gregarious animal and a form-creating being.

Each illustration features an animal from the animal kingdom ( A is for alligator, B is for butterfly, etc.

An affinity between the amphibians and the teleost fish is the multi-folded structure of the teeth and the paired supra-occipital bones at the back of the head, both features not found elsewhere in the animal kingdom.