...It’s an evil spirit that acts like a human by day, observes the sounds of death at night and inhabits in large trees near cemeteries. When it stole corpses
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...ple who see the Padfoot die of fright, and at other times it is an omen of death. If a person attempts to beat off the Padfoot, the creature will attack and
...the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, of Danby, speaks of the Padfoot as a precursor of death; as sometimes visible, sometimes invisible, but ever and anon padding light
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...ruary 23, a 25-year-old woman named Patricia Docker was found strangled to death in a doorway in Glasgow. The previous night she had been out partying at a
...Ballroom. The following day she was found in an old building, strangled to death with her own stockings. Witnesses said that they saw the victim leaving the
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...personality. Since then, the two were never seen apart. After its master's death, it is said that Matsukaze ran off and was never seen again.
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...ls asleep on the job after drinking, the Poleki might even strangle him to death. To win the favor of the polevik one could place two eggs and a cock in a d
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...visits are feared by many because it is usually believed to be an omen of death. Either the eldest child or the ill member of the house they knocked upon w
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...s traditionally believed that a person could become a ''vrykolakas'' after death due to a sacrilegious way of life, an excommunication, or a burial in uncon
...uspected body as soon as possible, so that the it may be freed from living death and its victims may be safe.
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imminent death.
certain death. Hellhounds commonly live
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...impse corresponds in action, appearance, character, birthdate, and time of death to a human that lives in our world. If a human travels to the Realm of the
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...ather on the highway at midnight to lure young men and dance them to their death. In Serbia they were maidens cursed by God; in Bulgaria they were known as
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...hat those who hear the sound of the Caoineag’s mourning are doomed to face death or great sorrow.
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...world, they often suffer at the capricious whims of their male lovers. In death they become strong.
...Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0874211794
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...etched, and forcing them to the ground. It would then maul the traveler to death or change its weight, crushing him. Sometimes it would stand on its hind le
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Eurystheus was greatly angered to find that Heracles had managed to escape death on the previous two labours, and so decided to spend more time thinking up
...e doing), is a key player in the myth discussing the origin of Scorpio and death of Orion, and so has an association with this area of sky. The direction of
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...e local inhabitants of its master's village, especially after the master's death.
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...y then established their vast underground cities. When the inland sea (now Death Valley) which connected the ocean in ancient times dried up, they had no wa
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...k mythology]], '''Thanatos''', meaning "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: [[Mors]]), as well as a minor figure in Greek mythology.
...ded in chaining Thanatos up with his own shackles, thereby prohibiting the death of any mortal. Eventually Ares released Thanatos and handed Sisyphus over
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...lived in the forest, highly respected in Germanic society and after their death the people kept honouring them at their graves. Their spirits still haunt t
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On October 13, 1972, Mullin went out and battered a homeless man to death with a baseball bat. He was to claim that the victim was Jonah from the Bib
...Mary Guilfoyle, 24, whom Mullin picked up hitch-hiking. He stabbed her to death, sliced open her stomach and dumped her corpse at the side of the road. He
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...ed Air traffic controller who had taken up wildlife photography. After his death in 1980, a reel of Super 8 film showing the creature was allegedly found am
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