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The story was later made into several films and a song by Donovan, among other references. A is also featured in Bram Stoker’s novel The Lair of the White Worm. The main character, Adam Salton, purchases one to independently hunt snakes. Another mongoose features in the denouement of the Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of… Continue reading Banded Mongoose

“There were Arkhamers trapped there, too, in their huge old scow of a ship. And when the water rationing got tight, there were people that said the Arkhamers shouldn’t have any—said that if it was the other way ‘round, they wouldn’t give us any. And so when the Arkhamers sent one of their daughters for… Continue reading Banded Mongoose

She slithered up on top of his head, barbels and graspers extended to full length, pulsing slowly in predatory greens and reds. Her tendrils slithered through his hair and coiled about his throat, fading in and out of phase. He placed his fingertips on her slick-resilient hide to restrain her. The last thing he needed… Continue reading Banded Mongoose

The instance and static methods are similar, but with the obvious difference that an instance method is associated with a particular record and has access to the current object. Query helpers allow you to extend mongoose’s chainable query builder API (for example, allowing you to add a query “byName” in addition to the find(), findOne()… Continue reading Banded Mongoose