The elemental characters — harrowing earth giants, an elegant water horse, fluttering wind spirit and a spunky fire salamander — were unlike any creatures that character animator Bill Schwab ...

Of course, beloved characters from the ... snow-loving salamander. He may be little, but he’s full of spunk. This little animal is actually a fire spirit, who controls some of the fires in ...

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In the first century AD, Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder threw a salamander into a fire. He wanted to see if it could indeed not only survive the flames, but extinguish them, as Aristotle had ...