...after birth, and were not baptized. Since they were not given a Christian burial, they could not go to Heaven but were forced instead to roam the earth unti
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...as unusual, as traditionally the job of washing and preparing the body for burial would be undertaken by the women of the community. Nevertheless, Shue dress
===Burial===
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* White burial kimono
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Luison habitat was limited exclusively to cemeteries, burial grounds or other locations similarly tied in with the concept of death,
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...orpse on a hawthorn stake or by slashing the tendon below the knees before burial.
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...uth ful of needle like fangs and teeth. The creature may be dressed in its burial shroud, or it is dressed in the tattered remains of the clothing it was bur
...eceased's coffin against the threshold while carrying the deceased out for burial. This supposedly knocks any misfortune clinging to the coffin off, so evil
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...is burials in what is now known as the Serapeum, an underground complex of burial chambers at Saqqara for the sacred bulls, a site used through the rest of E
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...he casket awaits the clergy before proceeding into the cemetery for proper burial, ''lych'' being a word meaning body or corpse derived from Old English. Cog
...n a phylactery, usually hidden in some vast fortress, is suggestive of the burial practices of ancient Egypt.
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The fact that many of these sídhe have been found to be ancient burial mounds has contributed to the theory that the aos sí are the distant ances
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some days after the burial you may hear about sunset a
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...y teaching them to hop on their own feet back to their hometown for proper burial. Taoist priests would transport the corpses only at night and would ring be
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*Burial
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...death. Another belief was that if a person's name was not removed from his burial clothing, that person would be a candidate for becoming a Nachzehrer.
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...hods described for killing estries were conventional, it was believed that burial alone would not prevent an estrie from returning: it must have its mouth pa
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* White clothing - Yurei are usually dressed in white, signifying the white burial kimono used in Edo period funeral rituals. In Shinto, white is a color of r
...r hair long and wore it pinned up, and it was let down for the funeral and burial.
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Grendel and his mother are both haunters and guardians of a burial mound in marshland, and are given an aquatic aspect to match - brimwylf, fo
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...ught to be at the hands of Marc Dutroux, until Fourniret led police to her burial site on his estate in France.
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...ling the contract, in February of 1888. She received a traditional Burmese burial in a Washington, D.C. cemetery. Shortly afterwards, the family disappeared.
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...which literally means “eating.” This involves the Vampire chewing on its burial shroud and feeding on its own flesh (which has to be very painful). Once i
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...Hindley photographed themselves in sadomasochistic acts, as well as at the burial sites of several of their victims.
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