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The word 'mas­cot' orig­i­nates from the French term 'mas­cotte' which means lucky charm. This was used to de­scribe any­thing that brought luck to a house­hold. The word was first recorded in 1867 and pop­u­larised by a French com­poser Ed­mond Au­dran who wrote the opera La mas­cotte, per­formed in De­cem­ber 1880. The word en­tered the Eng­lish ...

Often the choice of mas­cot re­flects the de­sired qual­ity; a typ­i­cal ex­am­ple of this is the "fight­ing spirit," in which a com­pet­i­tive na­ture is per­son­i­fied by war­riors or preda­toryan­i­mals. Mas­cots may also sym­bol­ize a local or re­gional trait, such as the Ne­braska Corn­huskers' mas­cot, Her­bie Husker: a styl­ized ver­sion of ...

Mas­cots or ad­ver­tis­ing char­ac­ters are very com­mon in the cor­po­rate world. Rec­og­niz­able mas­cots in­clude Chester Chee­tah, Kee­bler Elf, the Fruit of the Loom Guys, Mickey Mouse, Pizza Pizza Guy for Lit­tle Cae­sars, Rocky the Elf, the Coca-Cola Bear, the NBC Pea­cock, and the NRA's Eddie Eagle. These char­ac­ters are typ­i­cally known ...

Amer­i­can high schools, col­leges, and even mid­dle and el­e­men­tary schools typ­i­cally have mas­cots. Many col­lege and uni­ver­sity mas­cots started out as live an­i­mals such as bull­dogs and bears, which at­tended sport­ing events. Today mas­cots are usu­ally rep­re­sented by an­i­mated char­ac­ters, cam­pus sculp­tures, and cos­tumed stu­de...

The mas­cots that are used for the Sum­mer and Win­ter Olympic games are fic­tional char­ac­ters, typ­i­cally a human fig­ure or an an­i­mal na­tive to the coun­try to which is hold­ing that year's Olympic Games. The mas­cots are used to en­tice an au­di­ence and bring joy and ex­cite­ment to the Olympics fes­tiv­i­ties. Sam and Sey­more D. Fair fr...

Yuru-chara

In Japan, many mu­nic­i­pal­i­ties have mas­cots, which are known as Yuru-chara (Japan­ese: ゆるキャラ Hep­burn: yuru kyara). Yuru-chara is also used to refer to mas­cots cre­ated by busi­nesses to pro­mote their products.

NASA mascot

Camilla Corona SDO is the mis­sion mas­cot for NASA's Solar Dy­nam­ics Ob­ser­va­tory(SDO) and as­sists the mis­sion with Ed­u­ca­tion and Pub­lic Out­reach (EPO).

Military mascots

Mas­cots are also pop­u­lar in mil­i­tary units. For ex­am­ple, the United States Ma­rine Corps uses the Eng­lish Bull­dog as its mas­cot, while the United States Army uses the mule, the United States Navy uses the goat, and the United States Air Force uses the Gyr­fal­con. The goat in the Royal Welsh is of­fi­cially not a mas­cot but a rank­ing sol­dier. Lance Cor­po­ral William Wind­sor re­tired on 20 May 2009, and a re­place­ment is ex­pected in June. Sev­eral reg­i­ments of the British Ar...

Some bands, par­tic­u­larly in the heavy metal genre use band mas­cots to pro­mote their music. The mas­cots are usu­ally found on album cov­ers or mer­chan­dise such as band T-shirts, but can also make ap­pear­ances in live shows or music videos. A fa­mous ex­am­ple of a band mas­cot is Eddie of the Eng­lish heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Eddie is ...