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...was probably a high-ranking shaman or leader, found in an impressive Moche burial ground, near Chiclayo, in Peru.

...sources, the Enfield protected the bodies of fallen chieftains for proper burial.

...ly a relative who had caused their [[death]], or not properly observed the burial ceremonies, or who kept the deceased's possessions instead of destroying th ...l in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial. They also placed hawthorn in the corpse's sock or drove a hawthorn stake t

Before the lapse of the thirty year period following burial, the vampire can be destroyed in its grave by such means as driving a stake

*aking sure that the cloth of its burial garments do not touch the lips of the corpse.

...ete task or promise, or take revenge, it may return because of in improper burial or an unusually violent death or suicide. The ghost may be seeking a replac

...nimal and sometimes evil spirits that most frequently inhabit churches and burial grounds.

Nine days after burial, the ustrel claws its way out of its grave. It then finds a herd of cattle

...d unjustly and wishes to avenge its own death. It wanders the place of its burial, unable to find rest, terrorizing passersby. ...-eye was to find the corpse of the person it once was and give it a proper burial. This would cause the spirit to end its quest for vengeance and move on. At

On certain nights, nightmarchers are said to come forth from their burial sites to march out to past battles or to other sacred places. Anyone living

...to these classes of criminal. Gibbeting also denied the criminal a decent burial which was a punishment in itself in those days (16th-18th centuries)."

...rom around 20,000 years ago. (Older skeletons show no signs of deliberate 'burial', and as such lack clear evidence of the materialization of ritual.)

...'' after death due to a sacrilegious way of life, an excommunication, or a burial in unconsecrated ground, but especially by eating the meat of a sheep which ...rism for they believe a vampire will reveal itself after 40 days since the burial.

...l yards away just by its smell alone. The Revenant is usually wearing its burial shroud or whatever clothes it was wearing when the individual was interred, ...r instance, a man is murdered on the street for no apparent reason. After burial, he rises again from the grave as one of the living dead to avenge himself

...the bodies of victims by uncrossing them. Victims also are given different burial rites.

...the form of a body wrapped in a coffin cloth. The legend originated from a burial ritual in Islam where the body was covered with a white coffin cloth known

* Fixing an iron nail at each of the four corners of the burial site.

...het Samuel, at the demand of King Saul of Israel. After Samuel's death and burial with due mourning ceremonies in Ramah, Saul had driven all necromancers and

:relative attending the burial and walking around the grave for three times. One of them should be carryin

...to rise from the grave, so their transformation had to take place prior to burial. ..., transformation had to occur before burial, an added incentive for prompt burial.

...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

...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===

* White burial kimono

Luison habitat was limited exclusively to cemeteries, burial grounds or other locations similarly tied in with the concept of death,

...orpse on a hawthorn stake or by slashing the tendon below the knees before burial.

...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

...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

...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.

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

some days after the burial you may hear about sunset a

...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

*Burial

...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.

...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

* 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.

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

...ught to be at the hands of Marc Dutroux, until Fourniret led police to her burial site on his estate in France.

...ling the contract, in February of 1888. She received a traditional Burmese burial in a Washington, D.C. cemetery. Shortly afterwards, the family disappeared.

...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

...Hindley photographed themselves in sadomasochistic acts, as well as at the burial sites of several of their victims.

...f extreme heat. Inside the caves were several ancient, but neatly arranged burial sites, and in them the skeletal remains of a strange people.

...f the [[Undead]] (known to the Egyptians as the ''kamarupa''), clad in its burial clothes, and wander about at night in search of its own food, in the form o *Ikram, Salima. ''Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt''. Great Britain: Pearson Education Limited. Copyright ©2

..., "Изба смерти" ("Hut of Death", sketch, 1905), an artistic expression of burial traditions of Ancient Slavs]]

...y early settlers. The Triangle also has been known to house several Indian burial grounds, as well as significant sites used by both natives and colonists du

He had his dwellings in the burial mounds on the farm, hence the now somewhat archaic Swedish names tomtebisse

...in the temple at Per-Bast that dead (and mummified) cats were brought for burial. Over 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bast's temple at Per-Bast

...ch as the tribes in the Amazon, where favored methods include abandonment, burial alive, smothering, strangulation and suffocation with leaves. (See for ins

...e Lairre, condemned to wander restlessly as her spirit searched for a holy burial ground. The wall writings were her pleas for help. Despite an enormous amou ...ver three years revealed nothing further. The bones were given a Christian burial in Liston churchyard, after the parish of Borley refused to allow the cerem

...eing conceived on certain days, irregular death, excommunication, improper burial rituals etc. Preventative measures included: placing a crucifix in the coff ...lly a relative who had caused their death, or hadn't properly observed the burial ceremonies, or who kept the deceased's possessions instead of destroying th

* It was believed that if a strigo was not destroyed within seven years after burial, then on the seventh year it would no longer have to dwell in its own grave

Some draugr were able to leave their dwelling place, the burial mound, and visit the living during the night. Such visits were universally

...em laying around. Now that the plan was in order, it was time for the mock burial to begin. ...rew it through the floor at him also. Thus his display was successful, the burial they'd staged went well, and those who had come to mourn his mother's passi

...human flesh and inked in human blood and contain ancient incantations and burial rites. The cover is wrinkly and brown, with something resembling a face on

...he river, dressed in a long white robe, the way they had dressed Maria for burial. On many a dark night they saw her walk the river bank and cry for her chil

...shroud or whatever clothing the body happened to be wearing at the time of burial, and the creature itself reeks of death and grave dirt. The Vampire’s ey ...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

:That in crossways and floods have burial,

...lleach is not just a goddess of destruction. Various mountains, lakes, and burial cairns in both Ireland and Scotland were said to have been created by her w

Archaeologists found a papyrus in the burial of Nany (NAH-nee), a woman in her seventies. She was a chantress, or ritual

...sidence of the "[[Sidhe]]," as well as of the dead, was accessible through burial mounds. These mounds opened at two times during the year, making the beginn

...hackled bones were reportedly uncovered when this was done. After a proper burial, the hauntings ceased.

...own book features characters that die and are buried at an ancient Indian burial ground. The customer comments that the book sounds like ''Pet Sematary'' (

*A. P. Bender, Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews Connected with Death, Burial, and Mourning, in Jew. Quart. Rev. vi. 317, 664 et seq. K. L. B.

...''Pet Sematary'', the eponymous graveyard marks the path to another, older burial ground, which in centuries past had been cursed by the Wendigo. Any corpse

...is referred to as "an eater" by an undertaker], suggesting cremation or [[burial]] is too "nasty".