A mountain’s child, a river’s slave, I skip the lake to find my grave. What am I?

This ancient monstrous beast from the book of Job has become a term meaning anything that is bulky or oversized.

Often seen in the middle of the night, I can also send an ball into flight. What am I?

I glow in the dark, but I am not a lamp, I can guide sailors home through the cold and the damp. I am born in a nebula, giant and bright, And I live in the sky as a diamond of light. I’m the center of worlds, yet I travel alone, And I make up the shapes of the stories you've known.

It’s a small, thin streak or fragment of something like smoke, hair, cloud, or a smelly toot