Rolling and wheeled creatures in fiction and legend

Legends and speculative fiction reveal a longstanding human fascination with rolling and wheeled creatures. Such creatures appear in mythologies from Europe,^[1] Japan,^[2] pre-Columbian Mexico,^[3] the United States, and Australia,^[4] and in numerous modern works.

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