Related styles exaggerate real life in a whimsical, eccentric, quirky or fanciful way, sometimes. Sinuous lines, intricate decoration, and both fanciful and naturalistic motifs characterized the rococo style. Douglas is imaginative, fanciful, and occasionally meditative on the state of the world. Some of the more fanciful interpretations of its meaning are classic examples of pseudoarchaeology. Many are decorated with abstract motifs and some with dolphins or fanciful marine creatures. Many descriptions are very mundane, and an equal number are fanciful or strange. Malloy published a pamphlet in which he concocted fanciful histories of genital piercings in particular. Magical powers were sometimes rooted in the ninja's own efforts to disseminate fanciful information. It was said that the scenes in Saigon were fanciful or imagined. Some of these disguises bordered on the fanciful. They also made die cutting into fanciful and unique shapes easier. Parties feature self-made and more fanciful costumes and occasional masks. There is a tendency for translations of Japanese names to be somewhat fanciful. Scholars wrote histories of prehistoric migrations which were sometimes valuable but often also fanciful. Each chapter typically begins with an etymology for the saint's name, "often entirely fanciful".