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The Keeper Wants to Build a Zoo in Another World, so He Tames Monsters: In Chapter 5, Ikuhara discovers, befriends, and learns to command a full colony of fluffy al-mi'rajs.Interspecies Reviewers: The intro of the anime has a cameo of a non-sapient al-mi'raj hopping along next to a waterfall.
See also unicorn, a horse with one horn, and the jackalope, a rabbit with antlers likely also inspired by rabbits infected with the Shope papilloma virus. This often goes hand-in-hand with the vorpal bunny archetype and may or may not come as a surprise to whomever encounters a mi'raj. Yet just as easily the mi'raj's expected weakness is inverted and the creature lives up to the myth. The mi'raj's horn is a fearsome weapon, but the mi'raj itself is a poor wielder better suited for detecting hostility and running away timely. The result of these two popular renditions is a creature that is principally treated as being as dangerous as a Cute Slime Mook. In Dragon Quest, the two primary variants of the mi'raj are grey and purple with a golden horn, more bunny than hare, and lack an intimidation factor. It's a yellow hare with a single black horn and a temper, but it's also no more than a starter enemy. Dungeons and Dragons's take on the mi'raj largely follows the mythological details. And from there, the al-mi'raj made it into the Eastern RPG space with its inclusion in Dragon Quest III in 1988. In 1981, Dungeons & Dragons picked up the al-mi'raj in the first edition of the Fiend Folio.
The Unicorn, which covers the mi'raj in "Other unicorns in Muslim literature". Today's popularity of the mi'raj kickstarted with the 1950 karkadann-centric paper Studies in Muslim Iconography I. The immediate real-world inspiration most likely were rabbits infected with the Shope papilloma virus, which typically prompts the growth of keratinous carcinomas on the infected individual's head. As such, the mi'raj is theorized to be mythologically derived from the karkadann. This is a trait shared with the karkadann, a one-horned creature described in both older and more works. The intent of the reward is unclear, because the creature terrifies other animals away on sight. He did and among his rewards from the grateful people was a mi'raj, a horned hare. Once, he visited Jazirat al-Tinnin, an island in the Indian Ocean, and was asked by the population to kill the tinnin that was terrorizing them. It is unknown why the mi'raj has this name.Īs far as surviving documentation goes, the mi'raj has its origin in a myth regarding Alexander the Great, as written down in Aja'ib al-Makhluqat wa Ghara'ib al-Mawjudat. "Mi'rāj" means "ladder" in Arabic, but has religious connotations that favor "ascension" as translation. The default mythological depiction is a yellow hare with a single, foot-long, black, and twisted horn comparable in silhouette to that of a unicorn, while the modern fantasy look favors an all-white rabbit with a smaller horn that is white or a similar unobtrusive color. horn rabbit, needle rabbit, and bunnicorn, is a creature that resembles a rabbit with a horn on their head. Also, other romanizations of "معراج" are possible. Mi'raj (معراج), also known as al-mi'raj, note "Al" means "the" and isn't actually part of the name. Gods and mythical figures can also count under this trope.
Examples of older works that show these creatures or depictions that were rare in media at the time of the work's release but not that obscure now are also allowed. Similar to its sister trope Seldom-Seen Species, it's a Cyclic Trope by nature, though possibly not quite to the same extent.Įxamples of this trope should be creatures of myth or folklore that are still seldom seen in media these days, or at least the depiction shown. This also applies to other kinds of made-up creatures, such as cryptids (Ever heard of the New Jersey Mantis Man?), or depictions of famous creatures that are either more accurate (such as a siren being depicted as a half-bird woman rather than being an alternative name for mermaid, which most people would call harpies), or borrow from a different depiction than popular culture (there is some Greek art of a two-headed Cerberus, and a hermaphroditic hag called as a Lamia, a name more used for Snake People these days, and werewolves turning into vampires when dying).
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