In the first story from  Cosmicomics , Captain Vhd Vhd's  (vood vood's)  crew rows out to meet it by the Zinc Cliffs.
In a poem from  Gypsy Ballads , this entity abducts a boy from a forge before the arrival of "gypsies, bronze and dream." A "comical history" of this entity was written by the real-life writer Cyrano de Bergerac. In the first story from  Cosmicomics , Captain Vhd Vhd's  (vood vood's)  crew rows out to meet it by the Zinc Cliffs. Alongside Death, this entity appears as a woodcutter to foretell the deaths of Leonardo and the Groom in  Blood Wedding . (*)  Astolfo takes Elijah's chariot to recover Orlando's wits from this entity in  Orlando Furioso . It makes up the first sphere of Dante's  Paradiso  before the poet goes to Mercury. For 10 points, name this waxing-and-waning celestial body.
In a poem from  Gypsy Ballads , this entity abducts a boy from a forge before the arrival of "gypsies, bronze and dream.
the Earth's  Moon  [or  Luna ] 