...ppears only to miners and prospectors indicates that the apparition may in fact have some sort of motive. The lantern in its chest and its choice of witne
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...sts. The x-ray displayed that the skull was smashed by a strong blow. This fact made some experts conclude that the skeleton is a Nimerigar. However, a mor
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...g liquid through its own small pores. The liquid on most specimens does in fact resemble blood, but can also be light pink, yellow, orange or beige in colo
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...d there is no mention in any legends of its having wings, or even legs. In fact, most Turkish (and later, Islamic) sources describe dragons as gigantic sna
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This snake is in fact known to modern science as ''Ithycyphus perineti'', it does have V-shaped h
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...on of mythical creatures attempts to show that there may be some basis for fact in several legendary animals. With a strong emphasis on the Oriental region
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...spins the cloth of life for the child, but weeps at the fate of some. The fact that the cloth can, to a degree, weave itself, indicates a higher power tha
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...ity a Renaissance book which was printed at Rouen and not widely known, in fact little is know about Rahovart himself. In Durzel's undated account, which p
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Jyubokko are not like all other trees, and in fact if a jyubokko is cut, it will bleed red blood like a human. However, they
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...es '''ekimmus''' attach themselves to any living person, regardless of the fact they had been acquainted with the dead one or not.
...ain [[taboo]]s, like not to eat ox meat. This theory is also upheld by the fact that the Assyrians believed the Ekimmu could walk through doors and walls,
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...arbh uisge is not prone to assail those unlucky enough to encounter it. In fact, it generally refuses to interfere, even when trespassers come into its hab
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Despite the fact that the Grand Guignol has fallen into relative obscurity, it has had a pro
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...nt at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories''. The legend is often included as fact on lists of unexplained disappearances.
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...fluence in imbuing Mangindusa with more powers than he used to possess. In fact, the creation of the world and of human beings is said to have been the han
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...ally non-existent unless the evidence advanced under the banner of similar fact evidence was properly admissible".
...ther than murder (for which Rosemary West was actually on trial). "Similar fact" evidence is only valid when comparing the same offences (ie if Rosemary We
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In fact, the "cotton mold" Saprolegnia will sometimes infect fish, causing tufts of
...relate that the authenticity of their stories has never been questioned—in fact, they're willing to bet it's never even been suspected.
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...simov's Annotated Paradise Lost, Isaac Asimov theorized that Abdiel was in fact a representation of Milton himself. In Cyder, Ambrose Philips refers to Mil
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...ortunately, this is a perpetuated myth since the source of the story is in fact The Weekly World News. There is a reward for humane capture of a living Bes
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...1849 the Scot professor Goodsir in Edinburgh also concluded that it was in fact just that large species of shark. It is worth noting, however, that the lar
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...onkey, or weasel. It may also fly about as a ball of lightning or fire (in fact, the demon may be an attempt to explain the phenomenon of ball lightning).
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...gow''' (1760-1780) is a woman of American folklore, but nonetheless was in fact a real person.
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roots until the tree falls. In fact, according to the myth the only way to successfully escape from an Ao Ao is
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..."sent out" by its owner refuses to free the body that it has attacked. In fact it goes a step further by causing more suffering to the victim. At this sta
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...in belief and ritual; the worship of these deities is limited only by the fact that they are inseparably identified with a specific locality." Nymphs are
..._ref-Rose1959">[[#_note-Rose1959|Rose (1959, p. 173)]]</span> states, "the fact is that all these names are simply feminine adjectives, agreeing with the s
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...(renunciate.) So, fearing for her son’s life, she consented despite the fact that she had hoped he would marry and have a family. Then Shankara uttere
Despite the fact that Shankara was an opponent in philosophical debates with the Buddhists o
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...e soil of the locale, but it is unclear who investigated this and how this fact was established.
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...ix feet in length and close to 250 pounds) is harmless to humans and is in fact critically endangered.
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...reflection of sun upon the water, but as I approached, I could see that in fact it was an enormous monster, 80 meters in length at least, with large, thick
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...s, reluctance to sleep and exceptional gluttony. As an adult (which was in fact rare, as nearly all changelings were thought to die in early childhood) it
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...rom Navarre, because there is no historical account of such Lord. Only the fact that the delegates of Mundaka were attributed with the formal privilege of
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...head to kill people in order to prevent an earthquake (and he claimed the fact that there had not been an earthquake recently was due to his handiwork).
...the trial focused on whether he was sane and culpable of his actions. The fact that he had covered his tracks and shown premeditation in some of his crime
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Due to the fact that young men are the cause of her death, the churel always drinks from yo
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...enstein or another one of the same species, the latter is supported by the fact this Baragon was smaller than the original.
...mph from below. Unfortunately, the Baragon suit was unavailable due to the fact it was on loan to the people working on the Ultraman TV series. Baragon was
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...rch at the Smithsonian Institution has demonstrated that the quagga was in fact not a separate species at all, but diverged from the extremely variable pla
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The fact that many people didn't agree with the Pennsylvania Game Commission ruling
...stralia Issue #58 November-December 08 Bigfoot: Science Fiction or Science Fact? Pages 16 -19 Teacher’s Guide pages 4-6.''</ref>
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In Queensland, the sightings of min lights are so common in fact that the town of Boulia has even attempted to build a tourist industry on t
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...when the police decided wrongly that the killer was insane; Kürten was, in fact, declared to be sane. Regardless, profiling of suspects was carried out in
...y of sexual pleasure. The number of stab wounds differed due to the simple fact it took longer to achieve climax. It was the sight of blood that was integr
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...the man who was destined to slay the demon, and Fūlād-zereh, who knew this fact, was understandably anxious to find and kill the hero (pp. 303, 305). At th
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...troughout the Likouala swamps. It was also Blancou who first mentioned the fact that an Emela-Ntouka kills elephants, buffalo's or hippo's when disturbed[3
A popular theory is that the mysterious monster is in fact a surviving ceratopsian. Proponents of this theory believe that the Republi
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...rs'' by Wilfrid Blunt (ASIN B0006BVCT6) states that ''bandersnatch'' is in fact a rock hyrax, which is only dangerous when it is frumious.
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Mackal believes that the creature is in fact a large male elephant seal that wandered up the Mississippi River into Whit
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Not all of these spirits were necessarily malevolent; in fact, many stories exist that indicate at the very least that Fossegrim were ent
...o carry off people, they could be defeated by calling their name; this, in fact, would be the death of them.
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''Tennin'' can fly, a fact generally indicated in art by their colored or feathered kimonos, called ''
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...communitv at large; yet, from. the analogy of other peoples, and from the fact that it is death for a woman to see the instrument which produces the voice
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As a matter of fact, on the very same night as the attack on the guard, two of the creatures we
...countered a creature that the locals call the "Cement Monster", due to the fact that it is said to live near an old cement factory in Lucerne Valley.
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...d cartilage at the buttocks and shared no pelvic bone or spinal tissue; in fact their join was so flexible that one could lie down while the other stood. M
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...otec tribes of Oaxaca as they represented a gateway to the underworld. The fact that many bat species lived in caves meant that they were associated with t
...wn had come and Hunahpú did so by poking his head out of the tube. But, in fact, it was not yet dawn and one of the bats took the opportunity to swoop down
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...hers say that you can break her spell by looking at her feet, which are in fact hooves. Once she is recognized for what she is, she runs away.
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Cementing his reputation as a power to be reckoned with, was the fact that the emperor's generals would often call upon his strength in war. Ador
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...rm-like appendage and a more developed arm with three fingers. Despite the fact that the head of her twin was embedded deep within her abdomen, Betty Lou w
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...ting relatives. The first accounts of apparitions date back to antiquity.{{Fact|date=October 2007}}
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...e Statement of Randolph Carter]]" (1920). It is a theory that Carter is in fact one of Lovecraft's alter egos because he shares similar ideals and, like Lo
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...ter towed out to sea. The alleged incident was reported 38 years after the fact to Dr. A. Krempf.
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...ers to save Earth. However, it is soon found out that the monsters were in fact controlled by the Xiliens all along.
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...according to Hyginus' Astronomy. Hercules is just to the east of Draco. In fact, some cartographers draw the figure of Hercules with one foot resting on th
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...manoid extraterrestrials that visit Earth. They derive their name from the fact that they resemble the Scandinavians.
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...r weakness on land (though an aboleth is always a fierce opponent) and the fact that they would rather enjoy themselves than waste time subduing feeble cre
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...is referred to by the Paridoners as "The Bloody Jack Killings" due to the fact that for many years Paridon thought the killings were the work of a madman.
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...e’s original, neither Caliban nor Sycorax are native to the island, but in fact came to be exiled there in much the same way as Prospero and Miranda, is of
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...ende is a Spanish word for a supernatural creature (commonly a goblin). In fact, because of such striking similarities, some suspect that the Maya’s beli
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...ly to have it grow back again. This does not happen in the book at all. In fact it happens to Gabrielle, Lestat's mother, in the next book ''The Vampire Le
Another small difference is the fact that vampires cry tears of blood in the books; in the film Louis cries regu
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...the car. They knew that they were taking Danniel for his last journey. In fact, they stopped at the home of Brett Tyler’s father to pick up a garden for
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...r voices, are seductive), or even as mermaids (half woman, half fish). The fact that in some languages (such as Spanish, French, Italian, Polish or Portugu
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The fact that many of these sídhe have been found to be ancient burial mounds has c
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...st has always been the burden of the Pellinores, and all Pellinores are in fact trained for the hunt from birth (a training which does not seem to extend m
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...was "history". Legend is distinguished from the genre of chronicle by the fact that legends apply structures that reveal a moral definition to events, pro
...legends is irrelevant because, whether the story told is true or not, the fact that the story is being told at all allows scholars to use it as commentary
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The mere fact that crocodilians are called 'buru' may not however be very significant, si
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Belief is quite strong in oni, and in fact as recently as the last century government officials sent a formal letter t
...es Hundred Beast Sentai Gaoranger - The creatures known as the Aurg are in fact Oni in origin.
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...Primary, the girls' school, and had got along well with them, although in fact she had gone to visit family back in Grimsby. Shortly after Holly and Jessi
...ting guidelines. An added complication into the vetting procedures was the fact that Huntley had applied for the caretaker's job under the name of Ian Nixo
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...ons. Da Liu reports that his master said that his longevity "is due to the fact that I performed the exercises every day - regularly, correctly, and with s
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...ore would not have been considered to be interrupting prescription, but in fact interrupted prescription.
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...chael fights against from Greece and Persia are also spiritual beings. The fact that these spirits are given names in reference to location (Greece and Per
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...the others since they have an air of an older tradition in the country. In fact, the areas in which they speak of Sugaar appear encompassed, fragmented and
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...l-child that Kamsa had killed mistaking her as the child of Devaki, was in fact the daughter of Yashoda, Krishna's foster-mother. Infuriated n upohearing t
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...to have seen mysterious lights high up in the castle. This is despite the fact the upper floors in the castle had gone.
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...he follows the victim home and slays them in their own doorway, due to the fact that "kirei" , Japanese for 'pretty,' is a near homophone of "kire", the im
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...nunnos" because of the depiction of an antlered god below the name and the fact that in Gaulish, ''carnon'' or ''cernon'' means "antler" or "horn" (Delmarr
...ve interpreted as meditative or shamanic, although it may only reflect the fact that the Celts squatted on the ground when hunting.
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...ngs, many scientists believe it to be highly probable that the beast is in fact real. It is known to target animals and sometimes even people, often around
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...ures. Tuheita, an early ancestor who drowned, became a taniwha despite the fact that he had no prior dealings with the mythical beasts. Sometimes relations
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...emies and drain out their lifeforce. Because of his great strength and the fact that he drains the very life of his foes, breaking the grip is nearly impos
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...been used in this sentence instead. Such plural grammatical forms are in fact found in cases where ''Elohim'' has semantically plural reference (not refe
The meaning of Elohim is further complicated by the fact that it is used to describe the spirit of the dead prophet Samuel, raised b
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...ered by illiterate rural immigrants, a high level of superstition, and the fact that much of the population slept in the streets and on roofs well within t
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...the only monsters Godzilla did not kill. This is believed to be due to the fact that all three monsters had aided Godzilla in the Showa series. It wasn't s
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...arrying the same secondary position in the pantheons of each culture. This fact reveals them to be the same deity with different names due to different lan
...ip of all such spirits was gradually rejected as immoral, and many were in fact considered malevolent and dangerous.
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Although referred to as "fire", St. Elmo's fire is, in fact, plasma. The electric field around the object in question causes ionization
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The Blemmyes were, in fact, a nomadic Nubian tribe described in Roman histories of the later empire. F
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...s. Aristophanes in Frogs [indicates this]. [It is called] Empousa from the fact that it moves on one leg (heni podizein), i.e. that its other leg is bronze
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...or "sea" with the character of "Buddhist monk," is possibly related to the fact that the Umibozu is said to have a large, round head, resembling the shaven
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...n, Little Godzilla a.k.a.; Godzilla Junior. This is most likely due to the fact that Godzilla Junior is the only baby version of Godzilla featured during t
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...many of the ancient texts mention benevolent Kumihos assisting humans. In fact many of the older texts make more frequent mention of wicked humans trickin
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What appeared to be a third leg dangling from the pubis was in fact a composite of two legs, having eight toes, two heels, and two tibiae and f
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Jiang shi are sometimes called Chinese vampires by Westerners, despite the fact that unlike vampires, most jiang shi usually have no self-awareness, consci
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...ty. Additionally, it is also considered a custom among some to whisper the fact of their visit, to that shrine, while requesting the faithful attendant to
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...ní language is Kuarahy Jára, literally "Owner of the Sun", in spite of the fact that he is said to be a primarily nocturnal creature. In some parts of Arge
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.... Pirry also described Garavito's conditions in prison and comments on the fact that, due to good behavior, he could probably apply for early release withi
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...and non-migratory birds, as well as manatees, sturgeon and alligators. In fact, it is known as ‘The Little Amazon,’ due to the plethora of wildlife an
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...the ability to shoot arrows which caused diseases in people. This and the fact that thurs resembles Tursas gives credence to the idea that they may be rel
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events . in fact,” he continued, . “I don’t know how people will tolerate their public
...imit to the stories that developed. The hoax continued into the 1870s. The fact that government surveyors declared half of the lake and the valley to be in
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...ese once again are derived from the castration complex. It is a remarkable fact that however frightening they may be in themselves, they nevertheless serve
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...of a bear ... I have not a very clear recollection of the ears beyond the fact that they were small, and the tail, if any, was very small and practically
...wn to raid sheep herds and rip sheep apart with their lion like fangs. The fact that the Nandi Tribe likens it to a primate strengthens the giant baboon th
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