When Dante and Virgil passed from the first circle of Hell into the second, they encountered Minos. He sat at the entrance as a judge rather than a monster, examining the dead with his tail coiled around himself. Once he decided which circle a soul was bound for, he would unwind his tail and wrap it around the spirits one by one, sending them down.
"Get out of the way, it's my turn!" a child shouted from outside the window.
"No, you didn't queue up!" another child said. "It's my turn!"
Then came the sounds of scuffling. Rather than breaking up the fight, the other children shouted and egged them on.
Pomona had no desire even to look out the window and continued reading the book on the table.
The flat Severus rented in London faced the orphanage park. There were not only small animals for the children to interact with, but also an especially popular slide. It was a concrete elephant whose long trunk had been worn smooth, and during the summer holidays, children from the neighborhood all came here.
The children's parents had adopted an ostrich strategy. One or two adults watched over the children while everyone else went about their own business. So, as usual, the dispute over the slide ended when an adult intervened. The same thing would happen again, perhaps four or five times a day.
In The Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship encountered the Balrog while passing through Morea, the dwarven kingdom. It was because of the Balrog that the dwarves had been forced to abandon their kingdom, and Gandalf the Grey was dragged into the depths of the earth during his battle with it.
The Golden Bough once wrote: among the many taboos that the Ancient Roman priest Dialis had to observe