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...l world, often guided there by a [[psychopomp]]. [[Death (personification)|Death]] itself may also be seen as personified entity, also belonging to the real
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...he Kali temples of Kerala. The story is also known as "Darika vadham", or "death of Darika".
In the story, Brahma granted immunity from death at the hands of any man to two of the fiercest Asuras (or demons) Darika an
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'''Ankou''' is a [[Death (personification)|personification of death]] mainly in Breton mythology.
...II, Zasalamel's first unlockable weapon is named Ankou. As Zasalamel seeks death, this is a fitting name.
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...r, come back from the grave. The Undead exist in a state between life and death, a limbo of eternal torment that can only be relieved by the lifeforce of t
...n a state (a limbo, if you will) between full-fledged life and everlasting death. Essentially, the Undead is a reanimated corpse, devoid of a soul.
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...agalog word for ghost, comes from the Spanish word ''muerto'', which means death. The Tagalog word for being visited by a multo is ''minumulto'', or ''dinad
...venge, it may return because of in improper burial or an unusually violent death or suicide. The ghost may be seeking a replacement so that it can live agai
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...rrible and overpowering effect on all who heard it. It generally foreboded death or fearful disaster. Sightings always occurred near crossroads or near a ri
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...''Ah Puch''' (Alternatively '''Ahpuch''' or '''Hun ahau''') was the God of death and King of Metnal, the underworld.
...ans and Central Americans believe that an owl's screeches signify imminent death, as the following saying, in local Spanish, indicates:
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...e end of the universe, including its secondary creator Brahma but they are death-defying or imperishable personalities. The only eternal being is Shiva (acc
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She is a winter goddess of darkness and death, and guardian to king arthur’s body.
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...murder]]ers who kill their victims by slowly [[torture|torturing]] them to death over a prolonged period of time. It is often a practice of [[serial killers
...the victim to a secluded place. There, the killer will put the victim to death by slow [[torture]], sometimes in very grisly ways.
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...l over the country. They searched his locker, and found painting depicting death and gore. After his arrest, Staniak readily confessed to the six murders, a
He was sentenced to death upon his conviction, but it was later overturned when he was ruled insane.
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...of them established between 1300-1800AD, claim this as a grand honoring of death, with symbolic altars dedicated to deceased loved ones. The craftsmanship o
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...red Scottish deerhound whose preternatural appearances are said to presage death to members of the Macdonald clan in the south Morar districts where the tra
...oncern the hound’s appearances to Morar MacDonalds who are on the point of death. One typical tradition concerns ‘an old Highland lady who lived in Glasgo
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...ting.jpg|thumb|250px|A criminal suspened in a gibbet and left to starve to death.]]
...f the criminal in a metal cage until they starved. It was a very prolonged death. One of the last cases of live gibbeting in England was in the 17th-century
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*If a sheep give birth to three black lambs, there will be a death in the family. (STRACKERJAN, Vol. I, P. 24.)
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Intulo is reviled by the tribes of S.Africa as the cause of death and mortality among mankind and is treated as such. To see the blue-headed
...f creation! Let every man, and every beast, both tame and wild, succumb to death!''
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...ion -aeth; meaning "skeleton, a thing of mere flesh and bone"; "spectre", "death-portent", "wraith".
The cyhyraeth is the disembodied moaning voice that sounds before a person's death. There are no sightings associated withe the creature, however the legend o
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*by dying a violent death such as murder, drowning, or any other unsavory death or leaving a corpse mutilated or unburied.
Ekimmus were said to be the bringer of misfortune and death to its victims and their households. Its howling in the night warned the li
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...ay see the "bullroarer" and live, and all women are obliged, under pain of death, to say that they believe Oro to be a powerful Orisha, and to act up to tha
...a country Oro is manipulated by the Ogboni Society. Criminals condemned to death are sometimes given to Oro, in which case they are ordinarily never seen ag
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'''Galla''' are the seven demons who guard Ereshkigal, the goddess of death and gloom in Kur, the Sumerian underworld.
...lover, celebrating instead of mourning her departure, she cast the eye of death on him. He was delivered into the demons' hands:
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...Death in Hell, was a demonic unicorn called Vassago, used for the Diva of Death in her hellwars.
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...erana. Luison was said to be the lord of the night and was associated with death.
fetid odor of death and decay. So frightening and repulsive was his appearance that his mere pr
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...cs of smallpox and cholera. They are the souls of those who died a violent death. Their greatest pleasure is to materialize by the bedside of a dying person
...re in life, will now haunt the house that was formerly theirs. Sacrifices, death dances, and festivals are all attempted to appease the Tase. If they do app
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...ly during death. Hantu Raya will resemble the look of its owner ever after death and go roaming. People seeing him will assume that the deceased has been br
...nded by its master, even to harm his enemies. It can also possess or cause death to other people if so ordered.
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...d expression means a painful death, a peaceful expression means a peaceful death.
...an the elf enchants. She plots to murder her captor, even knowing that his death will only pull her deeper under his spell.
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'''Djall''' is a god of evil and death in Albanian mythology.
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...n April 27, 1998 by a three-judge panel in Lubukpakam. He was sentenced to death by firing squad, and executed shortly after the sentence was handed down.
...c.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/84093.stm Indonesian sorcerer sentenced to death] ''BBC News Online'' 27 April, 1998
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lamp oil intended as offerings, he was sent to Hell after his death, and his body was burned away.
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...had been sexually obsessed with elderly women ever since his own mother's death, began his criminal career by molesting and robbing them at random. He was
...having an affair with; he attempted suicide afterward, and was found, near death, by police officers lying near the body of his victim, Joan Violet Sinclair
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She is a winter goddess of darkness and death to Arthur's lord of summer, and guardian to king Arthur's body being one of
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...flies off to the land of dead spirits where it announces that the original death has been avenged.
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In Buddhist cosmology, Mara personifies unskillfulness, the "death" of the spiritual life. He is a tempter, distracting humans from practicing
...u-mara, or Mara as death, in the sense of the ceaseless round of birth and death.
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...the bamboo flooring of provincial houses, then they lick certain people to death.
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...''', spirits of the living. While a living goieza had definite form, after death the spirit was released as a hupia and went to live in a remote earthly par
...e/200103.html#ref22 Maria Poviones-Bishop. The Bat and the Guava: Life and Death in the Taíno Worldview]
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...and it is in the valley of the Thessalian river Pineios where she met her death at the hands of [[Aristaeus]], son of the god [[Apollo]] and the nymph Cyre
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Leonski confessed to the crimes and was convicted and sentenced to death at an American military court on November 4, 1942. He was hanged at --Hentr
*The 1986 film ''Death of a Soldier'' is based on Leonski.
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...s the form of a beautiful woman, to lure some unsuspecting passerby to his death or perhaps to madness. Sometimes she appears as a tall, handsome creole wom
...und in the dark wood until he either falls into a ravine or a river to his death or gets attacked by wild hogs.
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The '''Mongolian Death Worm''' is a cryptid reported to exist in the Gobi Desert. It is generally
The death worm is so feared among the people of Mongolia that many consider the mere
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...large dog. Malicious, violent men are often said to become pricolici after death, in order to continue harming other humans.
An infant suckling after being weaned will become a pricolici after death and will torment his/her relatives, especially the mother.
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...aged to dispatch this monster as well, by decapitating it. Upon seeing the death of his brother, Sumbha went after the Devi in a rage, but was ultimately cl
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...nto its eyes would force a person to approach the monster. In some stories death only follows if the person attempts to chase away the Shriker pacing him. W
...the peculiar shrill yell with which it warns the hearer of the approaching death of some near relative or dear friend.
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...aged to dispatch this monster as well, by decapitating it. Upon seeing the death of his brother, Sumbha went after the Devi in a rage, but was ultimately cl
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...daro''' is the the bad part or soul-substance of a man which remains after death as a ghost opposed to They are different from the figona or spirits which
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...Krishna, was destined to be killed by Krishna. In an attempt to avoid his death, Kamsa sent a series of demons to Gokula, where Krishna was staying with hi
...eeth fell. Soon, Krishna's arm suddenly started expanding. Keshi choked to death, as sweat flowed from his body, his eyes rolled and he struggled kicking hi
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...estigation, an innocent man was arrested and [torture murder|torture]]d to death for Onoprienko's crimes.
..., 1999, but because of Ukraine's intention to join the European Union, the death sentence was commuted to life in prison.
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...were drawn towards the pleasant notes, the shadhahvar would stomp them to death.
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...revenge-driven, chronically ill and engaging in repeated cycles of birth, death and reincarnation.
...as malevolent ogbanje had sickle cell disease (SCD); while 68 families had death-related names.
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*From Orcus' association with death and the underworld, his name came to be used for demons and other underworl
...puter game NetHack as a demon prince found in Gehennom who holds a wand of death. As an enemy of Satan and a king of the underworld, he is leader of one of
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...owers, he wrought great havoc in the Kaurava army. In particular after the death of Jayadratha, when the battle continued on past sunset, his powers were at
...ling him. This is considered to be the turning point of the war. After his death, the Pandava counselor Krishna smiled, as he considered the war to have bee
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..., apartments, and its own crematorium. He was captured in 1895 and wrote a death-row memoir in which he claimed a total of 27 murder victims, including men,
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...it., and then takes her form. The prince of course knew nothing about the death of O Toyo and so he loved the false O Toyo. But then he fell ill and began
...ment. But the cat is the animal most consistent in seeking revenge for its death.
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...and a monstrous, hairy face. "When he looks at someone, it is the look of death."[2]In various sources, his face is like that of the coiled entrails of men
As his death approaches, and Gilgamesh is oppressed with his own mortality, the gods rem
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...t symbolizes wisdom, justice and rectitude. It appears before the birth or death of a sage and is a creature of great stature and respect. It has such care
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...Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0874211794
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...om.au/20030201/news/002.shtml] He was convicted of murder and sentenced to death on 28 November 1963, by the Perth Supreme Court. He was executed at Fremant
* John Button, who was jailed for 10 years for manslaughterin the death of his girlfriend, a conviction that was quashed in 2002 after evidence pro
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...as they prefer to use hit-and-run tactics whenever possible. Quasits, and Death Quasits, are also found in some roguelike games such as Moria, Angband and
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...eath god" or "God of Death") is a term to describe the personification of death in Japanese modern culture.
...t often). However, Shinigami may also be used more loosely to refer to any death deity.
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'''Desghidorah''' (also known as '''Death Ghidorah''') is a kaiju creature battled by Mothra in the 1996 film ''Rebir
[[Image:Death_ghidora.jpg|thumb|Death Ghidora vs Mothra]]
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...: it would be logical to assume that animals have a soul if they transcend death. Some theoricians argue that spectral animals are only residues i.e capture
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...is ''surman suuhun'' "into Surma's mouth", as if the victim was mauled to death by Surma.
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Abcán was said to have a bronze boat with a tin sail.In the story of the death of the goddess, Ruad, Abcán is the dwarf that ferries her from the other w
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The Boky Hound is said to howl whenever there is a death in the family.
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...arshana Chakra (discus). Before dying, the Asura requested a boon that his death anniversary should be celebrated by all people on earth. This day is celebr
...ted a boon from his mother, Satyabhama, that everyone should celebrate his death with colorful light. Thus this day is celebrated as the first day of Diwali
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...''ghosts' mountain''), is both the place where young virgin go after their death and the gathering place for mountain witches who were said to fly there on
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...the latter accusing the former of dragging their heels and not taking the death of a homosexual man seriously enough.
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...drive their enemies in other traps or an area which can allow them to rain death on anyone caught inside. They generally kill foes for food but are know to
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...Alpine pastures and buried it at the foot of a linden tree. To avenge the death of her friend, she summon all good men to the battlefield of Noshiq.
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...her away by appearing as his double, which was considered to be ominous of death.
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The drumming sound of the so-called"[[drums of death]]" is believed to herald the deaths of the heads of the Ogilvy Clan, the Ea
...impending in the family. The last time he was heard was shortly before the death of the last Countess (the Earl's former wife); and that is why Lord Airlie
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...ly invisible, though they sometimes appear as a light or fire prior to the death of someone.
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...it followed. In other stories seeing the creature is an omen of impending death or bad luck.
The Gytrash is usually a feared creature, due to its association with death, but it can also be benevolent, guiding lost travelers to the right road. I
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...thology, '''Mictlantecuhtli''' ("lord of Mictlan") was the skeletal god of death who ruled over Mictlan, the underworld, with his wife, Mictlancihuatl.
...tility, health and abundance, alluding to the close symbolic links between death and life.[2]
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...f age is called an Abiku as well as the spirit, or spirits, who caused his death.
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But Kognor, The god of death, Was angered by his ways, And so, He intervened. He possessed a young farmb
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...codiles with him. Once in the swamps, however, Panzram shot all six men to death, hacked them up and fed them to the crocodiles.
...trying to rob him. He also raped and killed two small boys, beating one to death with a rock and strangling the other with a belt.
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..., yet it is popularly believed that to touch him, even by accident, causes death.
...gainst Egungun is punished with death, and women are forbidden, on pain of death, to laugh at him, speak disrespectingly of him, or say he is not one who ha
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...wrong way, les lavandières de la nuit would break his arm or strike him to death.
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After his death he was deified as '''Fatuus''', and a small cult formed around his person i
...f Picus and Canens. He was then revered as the god '''Fatuus''' after his death, worshipped in a sacred forest outside what is now Tivoli, Italy, but had b
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If you whistle, and La Chusa returns the call, according to the myth death is near. You would know she was near from the sounds of her huge wings beat
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...paña is an announcer of death, its one mission is to visit the homes where death is due.
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...ease, the person who died first was labeled to be the cause of the group's death. Another belief was that if a person's name was not removed from his burial
...nother lesser known ability of the Nachzehrer is the power it had to bring death by causing its shadow to fall upon someone. Those hunting the Nachzehrer in
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...e divine fire combined with shattering lightning. Five years following her death, Pipa Jing would finally be revived once again after Daji gathered the esse
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...the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep. It is suggested by some that he will destr
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..., a man that follows the laws of the admapu can also become a Pillan after death.
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...Falelima there was a powerful devil who had a long tooth. After Nifoloa's death the tooth grew longer and ultimately grew under the Earth to all parts of t
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.... Seeing one's own ghostly double or [[doppelgänger]] is a related omen of death.
...world, they often suffer at the capricious whims of their male lovers. In death they become strong. Goryō are vengeance ghosts from the aristocratic class
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...ing's Harry Potter.Hagrid's pet Hippogriff,named Buckbeak,was sentenced to death because of its damage done to Draco Malfoy,one of the story's antagonist.
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...of a living person who is experiencing a crisis--such as an accident or a death--is seen or heard.
...red. Most of these crisis apparitions occur at a moment of great crisis or death when a person is in some form of danger or pain. The person in crisis is n
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...en notice too late that she is not a natural woman and are then stomped to death. Other stories and traditions describe the sighting of Deer Woman to be a s
...in). All are females who at times, function as sirens leading men to their death.
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Up until the Civil War, the major cause of death in America was tuberculosis, an airborne disease for which there was no kno
In some cases, all of the exhumed remains were burned to ward off the death of family members. Sometimes the bones were rearranged. Heads and leg bones
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According to Pamela Allardice, they were feared more greatly than death itself. She describes Alû as "a horrid phantom of a leprous man with an ar
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...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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...the forest, like burning down trees or indiscriminately putting animals to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for life, both t
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...Rose for Mary'' (2003) suggested that DeSalvo was not responsible for her death. For example, DeSalvo confessed to sexually penetrating her, yet the foren
* ''A Death in Belmont'' Sebastian Junger ISBN 0393059804
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...Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-87421-179-4
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...t impossible for her to wear anything below her waste. Her age and time of death are unknown.
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...reature emerged into the open, where all of the people hacked the beast to death.
The monster sighed as it bled to death, and to this day the moaning winds of the region are still attributed to th
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...fulfill the promise to set the ghost free, he/she will meet with a tragic death.
'''Diao Si Gui''' 吊死鬼- Ghost of people who were hanged to death in an execution or suicide, often appearing as being hanged by a rope and w
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...ources of evils. In some texts, '''Ker''' is the single goddess of violent death(Kêr or Kêres Danatoio).
...ii. 326) pronounces to be muriai, and may be a natural, sudden, or violent death. (Od. xi. 171, &c., 398, &c.) Epidemic diseases are sometimes personified a
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...er she believed she was eternally damned and could no longer die a natural death.
...k'', the main character's surname is Cotard, reflecting his obsession with death and the deterioration of his body.
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...a coma. For three years, Gaura carried her unconscious twin, until Ganga's death in 1952 at Bangalore's Victoria Hospital. Thirty minutes later, Gaura compl
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...one of the members of pagan trinity together with thunder god Perkūnas and death god Peckols. He was also depicted on the Flag of Widewuto as as a young, me
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...of faery land, whose touch causes an incurable illness, leading to certain death. Not even Biddy Early, the greatest of the fairy doctors, could cure his st
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...fs, the soul of a dead person will stay on the earth for 40 days after the death. When the ties aren't released after 40 days, the body is said to jump out
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...ough Paullus' brain / It rushed, nor stayed; for in the wound itself / Was death...".
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...efforts to kill his son Prahlada (a devotee of Vishnu) and his subsequent death at the hands of [[Narasimha]]. His tale depicts the futility of desiring po
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...have been in poor health when the midwife left, causing suspicion when his death was announced a day or two later. The child Thomas has no gravestone, a mat
...by the sixteenth Earl that the entrance had been bricked up after Thomas's death.
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...murders, sometimes at the behest of a secret [[cult]] called "The Hand of Death" Lucas would recant his confessions, saying he made such statements only t
...year-old Tallahassee, Florida, resident Ada Johnson, and received a second death sentence; on appeal, however, both sentences were commuted to life in priso
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After the death of the body, the ghost-man goes to ''Ipo-oku'', "the Land of the Dead" (''I
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...In earlier times the bodach was more formidable; the bodach glas foretells death in Walter Scott's Waverley (1814).
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This was granted. After his death he became the dragon Apalala and made his home in a pond in Udhyana (an old
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...described as an evil wizard (strigon) or shaman, then a vampire after his death.
Generally the kudlak was most dangerous after death when he become a vampire, and steps were taken to prevent the return of suc
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When the hounds were seen hovering on a house, it would foretell death or misfortune to its inhabitants.
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...rtedly included headache and bloodshot eyes, followed by delirium and then death. Parker never identified the source or nature of its poison, but hypothesiz
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...a''' (Sanskrit: होलिका) was a demoness in Hindu mythology who was burnt to death with help of God Brahma by Prahlad. She was the sister of King [[Hiranyakas
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...sity of the Ngarl creatures have been told to result in the gruesome firey death of sleeping, cornered or anyone else not able to move out of the fireball's
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...usually asks the well-known tribute to him - the soul which often includes death also - after Devil has done something for the squire, the man has to drown
...known the way to the Hell and have been going there once a week. After the death they were usually hidden away in tombs so the Devil could not come and take
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*In yet another myth, it is used as a poison, bringing instant death to anyone who touches it.
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...known as Yomotsu-hisame (泉津日狭女) considered as symbols of the corruption of death.
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...od of Death. Film Noir buff. Was called Gwynfor "white lord of ecstasy and death" by Sage, 2nd hand has been seen when he killed Siun (Goblin) after Kitto h
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...ein are not so popular as in Wales, however, as they predict misfortune or death. They announce the doom of a miner by knocking three times distinctly, and
...Bohemia, the Wichtlein have been seen in great numbers. They announce the death of a miner by knocking three times, and when any misfortune is about to hap
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...with poison arrows. Stepping on an Abatwa by accident is also said to be a death sentence.
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...the carbuncle from the vouivre, a crime which is frequently punishable by death or madness.
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...of Ireland'' she grew restless and carried them away to other worlds, for death does not destroy her power.
...were feasting in his banquet hall and most of his people were starving to death. The country despised Eugene and would not listen to him when he was suppos
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...omics title ''Toe Tags'' with a six-issue miniseries titled ''The Death of Death''. Based on an unused script that Romero had previously written as a sequel
# ''Toe Tags'' #1-6 (''The Death of Death''; DC Comics), 2004 - 2005
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...himself, it forewarned of death, and if he was weeping it was said to be a death in the family. If he was laughing, good times could be expected, and if he
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...'members' of the gang. This would lead to hundreds of people receiving the death penalty for only a few thefts in total. The reason of the law enforcers and
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...y [[spirituality|spiritual]] and experiential, beyond this world, or after death. This article is about current generic and widely held or reported concepts
**by having died and then been sent back to this life ([[near-death experience]]s)
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He apparently left her money in his will - perhaps he signed his own death warrant via this bequest because Marie's funds were getting rather low. Her
...back." Convicted, Marie Becker was sent to prison for life, there being no death penalty in Belgium at that time. She died in prison sometime during World W
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...Tsunsdi. It is considered back luck to see them and is always a portent of death. However, twins can see them and frequently speak with them.
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...on those who wronged it while it was still living or caused the creature’s death. Although there have been some accounts of this creature being benevolent
...enant doesn’t interact with the living. If cornered, it will fight to the death. It knows that, wherever the traitor hides, it will find them eventually a
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The underlying idea of eluding death by means of arcane study and black magic can be traced to Middle Eastern fo
...f a powerful dark wizard or a demon, ''Koschei the Deathless'', who evades death by having his fiery soul placed in the eye of a magical needle. The needle
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...Their heads touch the sky, their "terror is awesome" and their "glance is death".
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...Texas) is a convicted [[serial killer]] awaiting execution on California's death row.
...n victim was a 79-year-old woman whom he sexually assaulted and stabbed to death during a burglary of her home on June 28th, 1984. On March 17, 1985 Ramirez
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...died, it is not possible to know if they were in Camden at the time of her death.
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'''Shony''' was a death bringing demon who reigned in the waters of the North Sea in the folklore o
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...the forest, like burning down trees or indiscriminately putting animals to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for life, both t
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*Animated human skeletons are known to be personified death in Western culture since the Middle Ages.
*Death as one of the biblical Four horsemen of the [[Apocalypse]] has been depict
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...do promise so.’ Then said the Pech ‘You must know that I wish for my son’s death, though I dinna like to take his life myself.
...quest; but, as he had promised, he caused the lad to be immediately put to death. When the auld man saw his son was dead, he started up wi’ a great stend,
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...Toltec mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]] [[Category:Death]]
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...tyr play ''Cyclops'' the minor god Silenus claims to have dealt Enceladus' death blow, but this was perhaps intended by the author as a vain drunken boast,
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...cumb to panics. At the end of the tale, Monkey tricked him that led to his death.
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...te direction (the backward feet are found in ancient traditions to signify death, entry into the land of no return). Even thought it was difficult she was f
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...ks changed his plea. He was found guilty and [[death sentence|sentenced to death]]. His last words were: "Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will
*US death metal band Macabre named a song after the serial killer, “The Vampire of
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...between Oak Street and Milton Street of Chicago's Little Italy (known as "Death Corner"). In March 1911, he reportedly murdered four people within a 72-hou
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It is also said that a person allowed to starve to death becomes an itsumaden, which haunts whoever refused to feed it in life, cryi
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...Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0874211794
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They are Welsh phantom dogs seen as a death portent.
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...family, whose spirit appears to give warning of an approaching disaster or death.
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Centuries after his death, Edward the Confessor was assigned a coat of arms containing five golden ma
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...o again the suspicion that to see a Galley Trot was an omen of approaching death.
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...cal damage. Because his skull was never closed, he wore a helmet until his death.
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Mari-Morgans may lure men to their death by their own sylphic beauty, or with glimpses of underwater gardens with bu
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The case stirred much discussion in Germany, not only about the death penalty but also about the correct approach towards mentally ill offenders,
*American death metal band Macabre have made two songs about him: "Fritz Haarmann, the Butc
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...King of Goblins, Merry's ally. Was ally of Merry's father previous to his death.
* ''Rhys/Cromm Cruach'' - Raven, former God of Death. Film Noir buff. See [[Crom Cruach]].
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...rth, wants to cause trouble, or died unjustly and wishes to avenge its own death. It wanders the place of its burial, unable to find rest, terrorizing passe
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...brother's death that threw him into depression and cursed him to long for death. The movie makes Lestat seem older than he really is, but in the book Louis
...to kill Lestat she "rapes" him, by feeding on him while he is bleeding to death from multiple wounds she inflicted. Afterward she shows signs of the mind
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...hen pleaded guilty in Harrisonville, Missouri and did not receive a second death sentence from a Missouri court. Robinson could be the first person executed
...e-mail. Whoever this person may be, he/she is a suspect for murder in the death of 56 women (so far) contacted through the Internet.
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...y by José E. Marco (1877-1963) who claimed to have discovered it in 1913), death penalty will be imposed to those who will kill this bird.
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...es of the sea Vourukasha a tree and two birds who are immortal and without death. Every year a thousand new branches spring up from that tree and all kinds
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...make the spirit obedient. The ghost-dog is then used as weapon to scare to death the enemies of the dog's master. Inugami are, by any account, terrible and
...as an inugami. The spirit did as she wished, but in return for its painful death it haunted the old woman.
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...nd biology, '''infanticide''' is the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant (pre-pubescent child) of a given species, by members of the sa
...dren and the children of other unwanted groups are targeted by government 'death squads'. In these circumstances, the children are treated as '''vermin''' r
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*Bourget, Steve: ''Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture'', Austin, University o
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...ho is a virtuous demon. Vrinda curses Vishnu for his part in her husband's death; the curse is broken when Parvati plants three seeds in Vrinda's ashes whic
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...o foul-smelling that to breathe in its presence brings disease and instant death, spreading plague and rot across the land.
...were known to overwhelm people, trap them underground, and torture them to death.
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...e when she left her skin and sprinkling it with salt, for she will burn to death once they try to put it back on.
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*Death Trance
*Death Dream
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...the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat human corpses. Jikininki are preta of the 26th class in
...r custom, no one of us may remain in this village during the night after a death has taken place. We make the proper offerings and prayers; -- then we go aw
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...l, making him vomit black shadow matter. it formed into Kognor, the god of death. the one possessing Rhadeil's body. Rhadeil's corpse shrunk down to a child
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"The judge, in passing sentence of death, remarked how calm Lee's demeanour had been throughout the trial.
...Parliament he could not expect a man to 'twice face the pangs of imminent death'.
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...systems. Some of his specialties were in sixth sense training and Chi Ma (Death Touch) training. After several years of extensive training Su Kong became t
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...use while dancing the [[sidhe]], feed upon them, sucking their blood until death.
...the shieling, and found the bloodless bodies of his companions, sucked to death by the dreadful baobhan sith.
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...ge, or alternatively, the bearded one), ''Tuonen härkä'' (the ox of Tuoni, Death), ''tuhatpää'' (thousand-headed), ''tuhatsarvi'' (thousand-horned). It wa
...father of diseases with Loviatar, the blind daughter of Tuoni, the god of death. The Scandinavian giants thurs had the ability to shoot arrows which caused
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...]]s and reared in intention to harm an enemy, causing disease, madness or death. This kind of activity is also called ''Saka''.and once dressed can be dire
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Convicted of murder, Grossman was sentenced to death. Before his sentence could be carried out, he hanged himself in his cell, h
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...by Set, symbolic of the lunar month, and the new moon, the bull was put to death with a great ceremony.
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...m with a painting of the animal, made by her nephew and shortly before his death in 1912, Dahlberg donated the painting to a local museum. During an exhibit
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...ao (秦 叔寶), Cheng Zhijie (程 知節) and Yuchi Jingde (尉遲 敬德). Their souls after death are said to possess the body of the new heroes of Tang Dynasty and Liao Dyn
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...ter being unfilial to his parents, he was recast as an Ox head demon after death.
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#[[Luison]], a dog-like human, lord of death and protector of cemeteries
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...s the creature’s prey with fear, making them easier to subdue. The prey’s death is slow and extremely painful, the Adlet’s strong, bone-crushing jaws red
...sually flee. However, if this is not the case, prepare for a fight to the death.
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...during their lives, are destined to becomes instrument of evil (jumbie) in death. This phenonemon is widely believed in by people in the English-speaking Ca
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Currently Lee resides on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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...ombies, skeletons, and ghouls. Regarding ghosts, the spirit lives on after death, forming an intangible physical body that often mirrors the one the spirit
...he undead as a means to deconstruct the binary opposition between life and death.
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.... Other sources refer to the rakshasas as children of the Vedic goddess of death, Nirriti, and her consort Nirrita.
...owers, he wrought great havoc in the Kaurava army. In particular after the death of Jayadratha, when the battle continued on past sunset, his powers were at
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...the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death (and beyond).
...so far as to make them drunk in order to save his good friend Admetus from death.
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...ourse of several nights, continually draining the individual’s blood until death occurs from blood loss and sickness. If lucky, the victim is only dead. H
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...attacks in 2005 and in October 2008. Some of these attacks resulted in the death and hospitalization of some adults and a few children.
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...[2] or voice mimicry[1] to lure trespassers onto the trestle to meet their death before an oncoming train. Other stories claim the monster jumps down from t
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The victim was usually a relative who had caused their [[death]], or not properly observed the burial ceremonies, or who kept the deceased
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...Heracles wrapped his great arms around the lions neck and strangled it to death. Once the huge monster was dead, Heracles set about skinning the beast, but
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...lieve that contacting such a spirit can cause illness (Ghost Sickness), or death. It is also believed that a chindi can be used to cause harm upon someone e
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...ne of the [[undead]], a creature that was once human but now exists beyond death without a soul, doomed to kill and feed on the living for its own sustenanc
...rrifying yet is that, no matter how badly the Craquehhe was injured before death, it will walk and seek out living prey all the same. The Craquehhe has bee
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...tially a nocturnal spectre, and its appearance is regarded as a portent of death. Its Welsh form is confined to the sea-coast parishes, and on the Norfolk c
...in Dgèrnésiais). His appearance, usually in the Clos du Valle, foretells death of the viewer or someone close to him. There are also numerous other unnam
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...d or scared, it may coil around their nose and mouth, attempting to induce death by suffocation. Ittan momen enjoy flying and being worn, but only by those
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This exotic creature is blamed for the death of at least seven people and several animals, including livestock. The kill
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:Her hand is a net, her embrace is death
...in their cribs or in the womb. Thus she was responsible for sudden infant death syndrome and miscarriage. She preyed on adults, too, bringing disease, ster
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...ions'' ('''Am-heh''' in Egyptian), ''Eater of hearts'', and ''Greatness of Death''.
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"Netzach is the openness of natural love. The Harab Serapel are the Ravens of Death who reject even their own. The outer form is Theumiel, 'The Fouled Substanc
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...often coming to earth to harvest souls of decrepit humans and animals near death.
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...e linked by King Arthur and the role that each of them had in his life and death.
[[Category:Celtic mythology]] [[Category:death]]
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Morrigan is associated with sovereignty, prophecy, war, and death on the battlefield. She is generally considered a war deity comparable with
...or the Disir also appear as crows and were worshipped as goddess of war or death.
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..., including leading peasants astray, making them sick, or tickling them to death. He is also known to hide the axes of woodchoppers.
...ould lure them back to their caves, where they would tickle them almost to death.</blockquote>
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...ise of a warrior who told him he came from a land where old age, sickness, death, decay, and falsehood were unknown (the [[Underworld|Otherworld]] was also
...teways to the [[Underworld|Otherworlds]], where the soul journeys to after death. Manannán is the guardian of these gateways between the worlds. He is the
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* John Milton (1626), On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, verse vi
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...l them under the waves. There the monster drowns them or strangles them to death.
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...lka could die in her arms, and in some versions her laugh could also cause death (compare with the [[Irish mythology|Irish]] [[banshee]]). She corresponds t
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...ked her with a machete, striking her in the stomach. As the mother bled to death, she cursed Melissa by saying that from then on she would have to avenge al
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Most at risk of becoming one of these demons after death were thought to be midwives, old maids, unmarried mothers, pregnant women w
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The writhing death throes of the Linton Worm supposedly created the curious topography of the
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...rtraying a pack of [[ghost|spectral]] hounds riding in the air foretelling death or disaster.
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...rom women who had laboring sickness (meroyan) as a result of suffering the death of their children and who themselves died afterwards.
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...''Bean Sidhe''' ("woman of the mounds") is a spirit or fairy who presage a death by wailing. She is popularly known as the '''Banshee'''.
...g which corresponds to the triple aspects of the Celtic goddess of war and death, namely Badhbh, Macha and Mor-Rioghain.
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...ts them out of shame and because if a family member is responsible for the death of a tlahuelpuchi the curse will be passed down to them. The curse cannot b
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...ward, and the left hand downward; the position of the hands means life and death, or creation and destruction.
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...or animal forms, possess or bewitch people, and even cause bodily harm or death. However, a shikigami is also very dangerous for its summoner. A shikigami
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...orrèd shears", someone on Earth died. Her Roman equivalent was ''Mors'' ('Death').
...853, xx. 477, xxi. 101, xxiv. 132.) At Delphi, only the Fates of Birth and Death were revered. In Athens, Aphrodite, who had an earlier, pre-Olympic existen
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...serrated blade, but it didn't work, so Brady strangled the crying child to death with a piece of string, and buried his body in a shallow grave. His body wa
...fore she herself was taken into custody. Brady then strangled the child to death with a piece of white string, before burying his body. Hindley stood above
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..., an apparition of a living or once-living being, possibly as a portent of death).
...s considered to be a double of an existing person and omen of his imminent death.
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*'''Erinyes''' - A fallen angel that delivers death from her fiery bow.
*'''Ice Devil (Gelugon)''' - Insectile horror promising a cold death.
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<blockquote>The ichneumon is known for its willingness to fight to the death with the snake. To do this, it first covers itself with several coats of mu
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...who ruled over the land of Zahr-gīāh. However, shortly after his master’s death, Fūlād-zereh, who had fallen in love with the queen, usurped the throne b
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...' is a kind of [[banshee]] who calls men to the Nile, most likely to their death.
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...he coroner for the South Manchester district, with concerns about the high death rate among Shipman's patients (in particular the large number of cremation
...e. The last person to see her alive had been Shipman, who later signed her death certificate.
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...isorder. Records indicate that Pope Julius II ordered the child starved to death. The rumor of The Monster spread across Europe accompanied by dozens of woo
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...ors, but does so ruthlessly, using invisible arrows or beating its prey to death with a club. The Baykok, after paralyzing or killing its prey, then devours
...h the Baykok occasionally uses a heavy war club to bludgeon its victims to death, the creature prefers a bow that fires invisible arrows, which are tipped w
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...Knapp had been treating her for "female trouble" for two weeks before her death, but whether she was pregnant or not is unknown.
Zona's parents were soon informed of her death. Mary Jane Heaster is reported to have said that "the devil has killed her"
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...ollowing a ruling by the judge that all statements made by Jane before her death, which incriminated Edmund, were hearsay and therefore inadmissible as evid
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...ver the wicked spirits and the chaotic forces of nature. His companion was Death.
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...eased prophet 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 necro
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...ollowing an extensive search, the body of Marie-Dolores Rambla, stabbed to death, was found in some bushes. Ranucci was arrested since he was in a car acci
...ucci guilty before his case was even brought to the court. He received the death penalty. But other facts point to Fourniret's possible involvement in the c
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...orers. The coroner established that each of the victims had been hacked to death with a machete-like weapon [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,910481
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...meant to escape the ill will of those wrongfully slain by a murderer after death.
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The Cu Sith was feared as a harbinger of death and would appear to bear away the soul of a person to the afterlife.
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...ind: they eat and drink; they marry and have children; they are subject to death. it may be added, they have the power of assuming any form they please.
...art in the events during the battle of Armageddon that led to her mother's death. During the latter part of the series Mazikeen was engaged in an (apparentl
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...n that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them." Lev. 2
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...er Eastern European countries. They were frequently blamed as the cause of death in cases of epidemics.
*'''strigoi vii''' are live witches who will become vampires after death.
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...e the ‘lost souls’ of children that were not baptized or christened before death. It is said that they are destined to wander the earth eternally while prac
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...rimes, admitting to a total of twenty-eight murders. In order to avoid the death penalty, he agreed to plead guilty. Kearney was charged with 21 counts of [
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...ings and depicted at least once on the Bayeux Tapestry at King Harold II's death.
* In the scene depicting Harold's death, a man immediately in front of him is shown flying a gold/red/white dragon
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...le of supporting the universe. You are called Kala-Bhairava, for even Time-Death is terrified of you." He ordered him to chastise Brahma, promising him in r
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...anity, but he was found guilty on eight counts of murder. He asked for the death penalty but, with capital punishment suspended at that time, he instead rec
*American death-grind metal band Macabre wrote a song about Edmund Kemper on their 1993 alb
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...ind was savage. He saw life as "the Savage Garden", filled with beauty and death.
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...— the foot salvaged and released him from the recurrent cycle of birth and death. That is why Onam is celebrated by wearing new clothes and resolving to lea
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...tic) to further sedate her. As a consequence of the drugs, Tammy choked to death on her own vomit.
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...h by the state of Florida in 1992. She ultimately received five additional death sentences.
She was put to death via lethal injection in 2002.
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...ird will guide the greedy miner off a cliff, causing them to fall to their death. In some other interpretations, the Alicanto will help human miners that it
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Camazotz is formed from the Kʼicheʼ words ''kame'', meaning "death", and ''sotz'', meaning "bat".
For Mesomarican mythology, Camazotz represents a number of things including death, nighttime, and sacrifice. Caves were culturally important to the Zapotec t
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*It was said that the crocotta would lure dogs to their death by imitating the sound of a man in distress. When the dogs heard the cry th
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...ated that his lawyers were closing a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty in return for his confession to a number of the Green River murders
...d murderer of 48 people should be spared execution in a state that has the death penalty and imposes it on people who have killed far fewer victims. Deputy
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...erleth who attempted to categorize and expand the mythos after Lovecraft's death.
...oke, propagating among the writers of his circle and wearing thin upon his death. Derleth seems to have not understood this and believed that Lovecraft want
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...patron of pregnant women, she was also linked to childbirth, marriage and death. Her role is similar to Lakhsmi, a Hindu goddess.
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...counter with the vanishing hitchhiker occurred on the anniversary of their death.
...e ghost has made similar attempts to return, usually on the anniversary of death in automobile accident. Often, too, the ghost leaves some item such as a sc
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...he was dead, the unnamed soldier stabs him; the water was an indicator of death. The phenomenon of blood and water was considered a miracle by Origen, but
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...een dipped into the poisonous blood of the Hydra, it gave him an agonizing death. Pholus also had the same fate, when one of the poisonous arrows fell from
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...the means to care for them) in the woods or in other remote places, where death was almost certain to befall them.
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There are various versions of Python's birth and death at the hands of Apollo. In the earliest, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, little
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...o was told by a wise woman if he ever let it see the water it would be the death of him. For years it was a faithful horse, but one day he brought it in sig
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...this promise when one of his colleagues steals The Eternal Light after his death.
...creatures that are created when a technological vampire drains a victim to death, or, in the Manga, where a vampire drains the blood of someone who is not a
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...by any weapon, nor by any human being or animal. Grant me that I not meet death from any entity, living or nonliving. Grant me, further, that I not be kill
...eaded by Anuhrada and thousands of other demons "were led to the valley of death (yamalayam) by the lion produced from the body of man-lion" avatara. The sa
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...the morpheme "-mór" from "muire, mora" ("sea") or from "mor, mar" (terror, death). His educated opinion leaves the conclusions of Zimmer fomóiri > fo-mór
...llowers. Ireland is said to have been empty for thirty years following the death of Partholon's people, but Nemed and his followers encountered the Fomorian
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...ael''' is one of the seven Archangels and also believed to be the Angel of Death.
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...who is dead. During the reign of Tiberius (A.D. 14-37), the news of Pan's death came to one Thamus, a sailor on his way to Italy by way of the island of Pa
Despite the declaration of his death, however, Pan is widely worshiped by Neopagans and [[Wicca|Wiccans]] today,
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* Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth has a song titled "Releasing Surtr's Fire"
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...lade, but the weapon was too blunt, so Brady strangled the crying chlld to death with a piece of string before burying his body, face down, in a shallow gra
...arrangement was different. Myra drove off on her own to select a child for death. She chose a blonde-haired, blue eyed boy, just 4 days passed his 12th birt
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...By assuming the gorgoneion, Perseus put on as a mask the power of life and death personified by Medusa, the cosmic queen.
...rks of art with a wonderfully handsome face, wrapped in the calm repose of death.
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.... These includes “crisis apparitions “ where the vision coincided with the death or endangerment of the person seen, “collective apparitions” where the
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*'''Marzanna''' - This winter hag is the personification of death and winter.
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...ed to defeat the Gigantes. Heracles slew not only Alcyoneus, but dealt the death blow to the Gigantes who had been wounded by the Olympians.
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*Touching the serpent or even looking at it, or a glance from it, can cause death.
...ld be a great warrior. When the child became the man he received a special death-bringing canoe with which he could fight with the world. Each end of the ca
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According to the legend, 16 years after his death, Jure would arise from his grave by night and terrorise the village. The vi
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On 30 December 1816, shortly after Harriet's death, Percy and Mary were married, now with Godwin's blessing. Their attempts to
...from place to place first in England and then in Italy. Mary suffered the death of her infant daughter Clara outside Venice, after which her young son Will
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...may never be known if he committed more than two [[murder]]s. Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under puzzling circumstances, between 1947 and 1957
..., usually selecting graphic verses from the [[Old Testament]] dealing with death, murder and [[divine retribution]]. At the age of 10, Gein experienced an e
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*Väki of death (kalman väki) means ghosts and spirits, but also magical power that can be
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...od of Death. Film Noir buff. Was called Gwynfor "white lord of ecstasy and death" by Sage, 2nd hand has been seen when he killed Siun (Goblin) after Kitto h
...King of Goblins, Merry's ally. Was ally of Merry's father previous to his death.
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The death penalty was abolished just one month after Brady and Hindley were arrested.
...soner Linda Calvey recently told the ''The Daily Mirror'' that, before her death in November 2002, Hindley confessed their killing of a young female hitch-h
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Despite modern conotations of death as "evil", Hades was actually more altruistically inclined in mythology. Ha
:"Do not speak soothingly to me of death, glorious Odysseus. I should choose to serve as the hireling of another, r
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...ch were malevolently inclined towards humans and represented the powers of death and entropy.
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*Gygax, Gary. ''Sea of Death'' (New Infinities, 1987).
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...od of Death. Film Noir buff. Was called Gwynfor "white lord of ecstasy and death" by Sage, 2nd hand has been seen when he killed Siun (Goblin) after Kitto h
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...to see a basilisk and survive. Looking at it, according to legend, brings death. The basilisk was depicted in a few illuminated manuscripts in the Middle A
...k's mortal stare. To the medieval Christians it represented sin and sudden death.
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...rushed to a hospital, where Nadir died. "Juraci knew at once that it meant death for her too. She just looked at me and smiled. She was not afraid and not n
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*His nobility is further reflected in the story of his death as Chiron sacrificed his life, allowing humanity to obtain the use of fire.
...and wondered how such a little thing as an arrow could have caused so much death and destruction. In that instant, he let slip the arrow from his hand and i
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...collecting storms in the heavens; now foretelling to a hero his impending death;
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...n homicides. The jury found him guilty of nine murders because no cause of death could be determined for two of them, as nothing was found of them but bones
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...che and the development of civilization as a whole, the personification of Death as a living, sentient entity is a concept that has existed in all known soc
In the United States death is usually shown as a skeletal figure wearing a midnight black gown with a
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...''Shades'', a shade is a teenage/young soul taken by a darker world before death, and then experimented on, turning the soul into a shade.
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...mans. In one aspect she even takes the role of the Banshee, wailing at the death of important people.
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...r mala of skulls shows she is the Tibetan form of Kali, she who transforms death to life, wrath to auspiciousness.
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...and call. They will obey each and every single command, even if it means death. This ability is present in folklore, but isn’t commonly mentioned.
...ould continue to infect the countryside with the Vampire’s evil, spreading death and pestilence wherever they went.
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...gotten Realms setting it is even milked to make an exotic cheese known as "Death Cheese" in reference to its deadly glare. Catoblepas is *Monster in My Pock
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* Marut — Seek out those who would cheat death
* Death slaad
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* ''Rhys/Cromm Cruach'' - Raven, former God of Death and film noir buff. See [[Crom Cruach]].
The death toll in ''A Caress of Twilight'' includes:
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...'s body, and it died immediately. The creature's body was embalmed and its death celebrated.
...pot, and cut it in two. The creature died at once. It was embalmed and its death was celebrated with fifes and drums and dancing.
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...spider. After a battle, Raiko splits her open. Even after the Tsuchigumo's death, several thousand spiders the size of human infants are said to have crawle
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...led by Mark Prothero, were closing a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty in return for his confession to a number of the Green River murders
...d murderer of 48 people should be spared execution in a state that has the death penalty and imposes it on people who have killed far fewer victims. Deputy
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...erproof membrane, but, once the membrane is pierced, liquid floods out and death is usually not far off for the aboleth. With the exception of the gained da
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...llows as a means of exacting vengeance on its master for its predecessor's death.
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...which have many characteristics typical of shapeshifter tales, such as any death or injury affecting both forms at once.
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The death-dealing chaos of the '''Berzerks''' in action relates to the dark, wild sid
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...ur-like growth to appear on the body. A heavy infection will result in the death of the fish, and as the fungus continues to grow afterwards, dead fish that
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...with a working silver one and he was reinstated as king. Balor, the god of death, then killed him. However, Dian Cecht's son Miach was dissatisfied with the
...d age when they leave the Otherworld; that they were baptised before their death.
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...d Dorothy had already drowned. Possibly due to the traumatic nature of her death, Dorothy is reportedly still haunting the second floor of the hotel where s
.... The first sighting of a Dorothy's figure was reported very soon after he death by her best friend, Bertie Mathews, whose parents managed the hotel at the
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...this pulled as evidence. He was found guilty on March 13 and sentenced to death.
...in, who had visited Gacy in prison and corresponded with him until Allin's death in 1993; the painting is in the possession of Allin's brother and bassist,
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===Death===
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...l, and that he had complied with the order because he had been "scared to death" of them.
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...tence, it damns the unfortunate individual to become a Vampire after their death. Thus, the Vampire propagates its own kind.
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*If you cut a Balete tree, for if you do, you will be given death as a punishment for you have destroyed the place where the fairies and the
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...ual arousal and orgasm through stabbing and slashing women and children to death. Despite evidence linking Chikatilo to this first killing, a young man, Ale
...ity to perform. He would achieve orgasm only when he stabbed the victim to death. The child victims were of both gender s, and Chikatilo would lure them awa
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...Consequently, he was convicted through forensic evidence and sentenced to death. Haigh was executed by hanging on August 10, 1949.
...s for the jury to find Haigh guilty. Mr Justice Humphries sentenced him to death.
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...taken. A misstep outside the magical protective circle could mean instant death for the conjuretors.
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...small boy with his equally hairy father, in Paris in 1873. After Adrien's death, Fedor became a ward of the Russian government, who appointed a man named N
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...nt together at their home in Tampa. Their long romance ended with Emmitt's death in 1995. Percilla herself passed away in her sleep in February 2001.
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...eir genitalia cut off, hands and feet severed and were allowed to bleed to death, and the women and children, after watching the men die, were burned alive.
...ily of vampires in the play. Sawney talks about his life leading up to his death.
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They fled to the Philippines after Daniel's death, but by the time they returned to Britain, Daniel's body had been found, an
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..., Shumba and Nishumba, obtained a boon from Brahma that assured them that death would never befall them, save by the hands of a woman. These two Asuras we
...led by the asura generals Chanda and Munda. They also suffered defeat and death the hands of Durga who summoned into existence the goddess Chamunda to dest
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...ically indicate the supernatural women of Ireland who announce an oncoming death by their wailing and keening. Her counterpart in Scottish mythology is the
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...oint it would grow heavier to the point of discomfort, exhaustion, or even death.
...of church bells could drive off Kludde and save the victim from a gruesome death.
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* Mario Bava's 1971 film, Twitch of the Death Nerve (aka Carnage), written by Bava, Giuseppe Zaccariello and Filippo Otto
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...it is "wondrously large" and interprets the noise and subsequent gruesome death by its own offspring as a symbol of impious churchgoers who disturb the san
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...after death, being narrated by a [[ghost]] whose investigation of his own death results in the destruction of his illusions about his life.
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*[[near-death experience]]s
* [[Out-of-body experience]]s (OBEs) and [[near-death experience]]s (NDEs)
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...gagged her on July 26, 1974, while stealing her belongings. She choked to death on her gag.
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...deep pools in the bottom of a lake, and that the creatures were stoned to death and the pools filled in. By the time Stonor had arrived the creatures were
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...was in all likelihood innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced to death." [http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510032000]
...George W. Bush, and Lucas died in prison of natural causes. Though Lucas's death seemed to have removed the possibility of resolution in many instances, the
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...ge:Izbasmerti.jpg|thumb|right|[[Nicholas Roerich]], "Изба смерти" ("Hut of Death", sketch, 1905), an artistic expression of burial traditions of Ancient Sl
...In the end, Baba Yaga is turned into a crow. Similarly, Prince Ivan in The Death of Koschei the Deathless is aided against her by animals whom he has spared
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...ties that the Mummy possessed in life (like magic) are usually retained in death.
...hese were the parts of the body that decayed the quickest after a person’s death, so their removal was imperative. The slitter (the embalmer who made the i
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...d to be the wisest wizard to ever live. On hearing that he is to be put to death to solve the demolishing of the walls, the boy dismisses the knowledge of t
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...taking of life too, in what is seen as a great and eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. He sometimes carries a bow.
...iving life to the Horned God as he goes through the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
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...holds in his hands a brush and a book listing every soul and the allotted death date for every life. Ox-Head and Horse-Face, the fearsome guardians of hell
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...violent or tragic events in the building's past such as murder, accidental death, or suicide — sometimes in the recent or ancient past. Amongst many cultu
...ounds, feelings of dread, illness, and the sudden, apparently inexplicable death of all the occupants, can be attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning. Sympt
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...dday sun, gaining her the title ''Lady of Flame''. Indeed it was said that death and destruction were [[balsam]] for her heart, and hot desert winds were be
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...tched the soldiers in a fiery embrace with a wild grimace, burning them to death. This led to the term "sardonic grin."
...him in his sleep and pulled the plug in his ankle, whereupon Talos bled to death (Argonautica 4.1638).
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...rom this instance of Bellerophon being unconsciously the bearer of his own death warrant, the expression "Bellerophontic letters" arose, to describe any spe
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...among the constellations. Zeus consented and, as a memorial to the hero's death, added the Scorpion to the heavens as well.
...h, but was crushed beneath the hunter's feet when he thrashed about in his death throes. All three were then put into the sky by Zeus so that their story wo
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...mmending them on their verdict, claiming that if he had not been given the death penalty, he would probably escape again.
...been tried in several states and, in Missouri in 1997, he was sentenced to death.
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...used it in place of an arrowhead to kill his brother. Gluskap fell to his death, but he summoned his own magic and was reborn again. Believing that it was
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...Pukwudgies were known to lure people to cliffs and push them off to their death. They use ball of lights to entice new victims in the woods so they may kid
...killed him while other claim he became discouraged and depressed about the death of his sons, but Maushop disappears from the Wampanoags mythology.
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...ao (秦 叔寶), Cheng Zhijie (程 知節) and Yuchi Jingde (尉遲 敬德). Their souls after death are said to possess the body of the new heroes of Tang Dynasty and Liao Dyn
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It is claimed that on their death they bequeathed five plots of land to the village, known as the Bread and C
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...mes accomplished the task, according to some accounts, by stoning Argus to death, or according to others, by sending him to sleep by the sweetness of his pl
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...s talking about "other selves" he was trying to appeal his [[death penalty|death sentence]].) Later, friends and acquaintances would remember a handsome, ar
...in the early hours of Super Bowl Sunday in January 1978, he bludgeoned to death two sleeping women, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, and seriously wounded tw
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...aked during the mid-16th century, and was virtually gone by 1658. With the death of the wife of György Rákóczi II (Zsófia Báthory), they died out in 16
...ived, she apparently kept her activities to a moderate level, but upon his death any restraints he may have imposed on her (or she on herself) were complete
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*Gygax, Gary. ''Sea of Death'' (New Infinities, 1987).
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...ts generally follow a life-fertility-death cycle for Cernunnos, though his death is now usually set at Samhain, the Gaelic New Year Festival usually taking
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...re is said to possess a distinctly human form said to be either hel-blar ("death black") or, conversely, na-folr ("corpse-pale"). In other tellings, the dra
...he night. Such visits were universally horrible events, and often ended in death for one or more of the living, and warranted the exhumation of the draugrs
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...ggurath is the name of a French progressive rock band as well as a Mexican death metal band.
Some versions of Altars of Madness by Floridian death metal band Morbid Angel have an illustration of three demons ravaging a fem
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...e creatures are malicious, outright attacking people or acting as omens of death, but they can also guide or protect lost travellers and children. Sometimes
...forbidding aspect that no one dare venture to pass them, and that it means death to shout at them. In some places the spectral dog is named "Shuck" and is s
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...e initial attack, there will be other factors contributing to the cause of death and so break the chain of causation. Subject to the local statute of limita
Specific statutory instances of situations where death is caused are:
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==His Death==
After Dahmer's death and subsequent legal proceedings regarding the study of his brain were over
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...ce the abominable forest creature catches them, he usually tickles them to death.
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...t I stripped her naked. How she did kick—bite and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms. Cook and
...days. The jury found him to be sane and guilty, and the judge ordered the death sentence.
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Victoria, Texas and lived in Refugio and Victoria Counties until his death in 1884.
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Lévi's version of magic became a great success, especially after his death. That Spiritualism was popular on both sides of the Atlantic from the 1850s
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...menacing; the snow woman of Niigata Prefecture causes people to freeze to death and tears the livers out of living children, in Iwate and Miyagi she can pu
...that terrible night. He had been greatly frightened also by the old man's death; but he said nothing about the vision of the woman in white. As soon as he
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...he cyclic Nature of the Universe: creation out of destruction, Life out of Death. The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle o
...eates all matter) and symbolizes continuous renewal, the cycle of life and death, and harmony of opposites. It keeps the cosmic waters under control, and is
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...rily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom''. (King James Version)
...figure of the doomed sinner, forced to wander without the hope of rest in death till the millennium, impressed itself upon the popular imagination, mainly
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*In 1988, in response to increased reports of livestock death and sightings of the Beast, the Ministry of Agriculture ordered the Royal M
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...itude of people with them. Thus was the city of Rome delivered from double death, that was from the culture and worshipping of false idols, and from the ven
...his light, and great earthquaving of the earth was, when our Lord suffered death and passion in the tree of the cross, then believed he in Jesu Christ. Some
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...cestors, snakes, and the ghosts of people who have met a violent or tragic death. They like a peaceful life, and they can wreak destructive vengeance on peo
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...the lake monster scared the Tatar-Mongol army that headed for Novgorod to death in the 13th century. Batu Khan stopped the troops on the sides of Lake Bros
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...hey are often associated with an individual family line, as a harbinger of death. When one of these ghosts is seen it indicates that someone in the family i
...the battlements. Unable to endure her suffering, she threw herself to her death from the tower. The ghost of the White Lady has been seen a number of times
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...an everyday behavior which is not an expression of a biologically fixated death instinct, but the consequence of a life without being really alive.
...n the Armin Meiwes case, the victim gave his consent to the mutilation and death inflicted upon him.
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...d waiting for him and nothing wrong. Neighbors, who try to tell Mak of the death of his wife and to warn him that he is living with her ghost, meet with gri
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...n £7,500 criminal compensation from the government. The trauma of Bulger's death led to the collapse of his parents' marriage. Ralph and Denise Bulger have
...n with rubble, in hopes that a passing train would hit Bulger and make his death appear to be an accident involving a careless boy and a train. Two days lat
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*Adramelech is also the name of a death metal band from Finland. [http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=2426]
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...children. This "Boney-Thing" might have been one of the important skeletal death gods of the Classic Period depicted dancing on Maya ceramics. The way of th
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...Elmo's fire is also mentioned in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ''Chronicle of a Death Foretold''. "The moon was high in the sky and the air was clear, and at the
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...case sparked massive public outrage, contributed to the suspension of the death penalty in Britain in 1965 (it was later abolished outright). The case rema
...nce feared. By the time he reached puberty, he already associated sex with death, dominance and violent aggression, rendering impotent unless in complete co
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...monster or demoness. Hecate sent Empusa to harass travelers. It scared to death or ate anybody that travelled along the paths or roads it inhabited.
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In the form of the child it predicts someone's death, but in the form of the animal, it predicts cattle disease. Generally it is
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* February 8, 1955 - Irmgard Strehl, 19, rape d and stabbed to death. Her disemboweled body was found in a barn in Lüdinghausen
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[[Category:Greek mythology]] [[Category:Death]]
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...ishers have printed many books entitled ''Necronomicon'' since Lovecraft's death.
<br>''And with strange æons death may die.''
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...ained a close friendship with the bearded lady Grace Gilbert until Grace's death in 1924.
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...d when a person's soul fails to leave the deceased's body, due to improper death, suicide, or just wanting to cause trouble.
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...va. Vayu or the Lord of the wind is an example of an important deva. Also, Death is personified as the deva Yama.
...blows; from fear of Him the sun rises; from fear of Him Agni and Indra and Death, the fifth, run." In actuality, Brahman is the only Ultimate Reality, and a
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...he soul of a dead person, which became restless because the breach of some death taboo. It scared game away from the vicinity. Thus, the shaman had to help
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...In 1936 he was appointed ''médecin d'état-civil'' with authority to write death certificates. The same year, he was briefly institutionalized for kleptoman
Petiot was placed on death row at La Santé prison. He continued to claim that he was innocent and tha
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Usually a dhampir would wait until there was a death in a village.
...nce fear, grief and superstition took hold in a village following a recent death, the dhampir would "come to the rescue
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...King of Goblins, Merry's ally. Was ally of Merry's father previous to his death.
...hen tortured by the goblins; was called Gwynfor "white lord of ecstasy and death" by Sage, 2nd hand has been seen when he killed Siun (Goblin) after Kitto h
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...eth in its huge beak. It had a reputation for capsizing canoes and causing death to anyone who merely looked at it.
...xplore it in spite of the dangers. When he returned he was on the verge of death. He had a great wound in his chest. He recounted how a strange huge bird wi
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...his early release, some arguing that he would deserve life in jail or the death penalty, forms of legal punishment that are currently not applicable in Col
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Death takes you with this spell.
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...the spirits of greedy, selfish or impious individuals who are cursed after death to seek out and eat human corpses. They do this at night, scavenging for ne
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...es with them. Tawhaki and Karihi kill all the Ponaturi, in revenge for the death of Hema, but the mullet escapes by leaping again and again until it gets ba
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...the battlements. Unable to endure her suffering, she threw herself to her death from the tower. The ghost of the White Lady has been seen a number of times
...he lake by her husband on their wedding night. Variations on her method of death include being bricked up in a cave and hanging herself in the kitchen.
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...tion'' (2002), which picks up three years after ''H20'', retcons Michael's death, establishing that the man Laurie decapitated was a paramedic whom Michael
...mself, until finally meeting Michael Myers in person, which results in his death.
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A friendship between the two realms is retained long after Pwyll's death; in the fourth branch, Pryderi, Pwyll's son and lord of Dyfed has received
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...d at least five packs of cigarettes a day, which likely contributed to his death in 1975.
Subsequent to his death, Serling has had the peculiar feature of also apparently having 'authored'
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If the live victim has still been successful in feigning death, the Yara-ma-yha-who may then also walk off to some distance where it then
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...criminally insane which burned down in the fall of 1960, resulting in the death of all of the staff and most of the patients. however 10-20 inmates were un
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...nd then lead him to a dangerous area of the mountain where he falls to his death and allows her to feed.
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...meaning 'evil beings'. In Hinduism and Buddhism, Mara determines fates of death and desire that tether people to an unending cycle of reincarnation and suf
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...forge the magic sword [[Tyrfing]], the dwarves cursed it so it would bring death to Svafrlami and cause three evil deeds. In ''[[Ynglingatal]]'' it is told
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...colored wings. Mothra's life cycle—particularly the tendency of an imago's death to coincide with its larvae hatching—echoes that of the Phoenix, resembli
...ce rid of Godzilla in imago form, and twice Godzilla has fought her to the death only later to be bested by her newborn larvae.
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More than two centuries after the death of Carl Linnaeus (the ‘father of taxonomies’), it is hard to consider t
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...t the dead would become restless if their burial was postponed after their death. The chiang-shih were not known to rise from the grave, so their transforma
The chiang-shih would arise from people who died a violent death, including suicide. Improper burial procedures such as a long postponement
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...ical interests all his life (especially with the possibility of life after death), and he kept in close contact with leading British psychical researchers.
...sion on me, as Margarete Petrautzki had died recently, and her illness and death had greatly affected me."'' Amazed by this, he started researching such voi
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...ARGUMENT FROM TIME YOU ANSWER YOU ARE ON A TIME LIMIT IF POLICE OR TRICKS DEATH''
...nformed that Lesley's body had been found, laid the blame for his sister's death squarely on the considerable publicity garnered by the kidnap.
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...re her prey but not kill them. They pursue wrong doers relentlessly, until death, often driving them to suicide. They would extend their torments into the u
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...of beating flax. When this sound grew especially loud, it was a portant of death or misfortune.
...stones hard by the castle, and there he was wrapped in lead and boiled to death in a great cauldron.
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...eres of life, the Azaka govern agriculture, the Ghede govern the sphere of death and fertility. Each of the lwa is associated with a particular Roman Cathol
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...ding the thread, and he stumbled upon the sleeping Minotaur. He beat it to death and led the others back to the entrance by following the thread.
...On the way back, Theseus abandoned Ariane on Naxos Island and provoked the death of his father, Egeus, because he forgot to put a white sail on his boat. Se
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==Death==
...Street 4: The Dream Master'' by being tossed into his boiler and burnt to death.
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* [[Seductress Ghosts]] - The ghost of a woman or man who initiates a post-death love affair with a living human.
...that are examples of unfullfilled earthly hungers being carried over post-death. They are different from other classifications of yūrei due to their whol
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...nent member of the group, as he is their High Priest. He currently lies in death-like sleep in the sunken city of [[R'lyeh]] somewhere in the Southeast Paci
...lhu seeks no reward for serving their "god" such as eternal paradise after death. They serve only to bring the Great Clearing Off and will no doubt be serve
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...be the patron of lost souls (and consequently orphans). Rather than god of death, he had become god of dying, and consequently funeral arrangements. It was
...to those of Anubis. Thus the true visage of the jackal-headed god was as a death-mask to behold; in some sense Anubis may be thought of as a speaker for the
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...sed at the sight of their struggles. Finally, Rader would strangle them to death and masturbate to ejaculation onto the corpse.
...did indeed have a serial killer at large. A poem was enclosed entitled "Oh Death to Nancy". In 1979 he sent two identical packages, one to an intended victi
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...ature. For many years natives would push a virgin off the waterfall to her death to appease the beast. This tradition is acted out every year by actors as a
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...e where the gjenganger had pinched them, and this often led to disease and death for the afflicted person. The pinch was often administered when the person
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...ttle with Grendel's mother, who is eventually killed by Beowulf. After her death, Beowulf finds Grendel's corpse and removes the head, keeping it as a troph
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...he pile of straw on fire, burning out the snakes. They were deadly even in death, "killing people and horses with their stink". However, the gigantic two-he
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..., riding his black buffalo. Garuda noticed that the gaze of the Master of Death briefly fell upon the bird, but then he continued on his way into the abode
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...sochistic themes. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002.
...nnounced her plans to leave New Orleans. She cited living alone since the death of her husband and her son's moving out of state as the reasons. "Simplifyi
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*'''Gray yroll''' - Having been nearly energy drained to death by undead creatures, these emaciated trolls forge strong ties to negative e
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...s of Ireland) she grew restless and carried them away to other worlds, for death does not destroy her power.
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Some later British legends ascribe the creature's death to King Arthur or to Percival (Peredur's name in the Arthurian legend).
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...d as a wandering spirit from a being no longer living, having survived the death of the body yet maintaining the mind and consciousness.
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...woman who is like a mother unto me, let that be the hour appointed for my death.
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...fair a dame, the darling of her prince's heart, to die suddenly, bitten to death by a cat! Then the cat, having scratched out a grave under the verandah, bu
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...or becoming encantados themselves, and inflict illness, insanity, and even death.
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...home and an asylum, there were also more common things like the so-called "death-watch ticking" on the windows or doors when somebody died.
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...ventually managed to set Biollante aflame as Biollante seemingly burned to death. However, we learn that Biollante is immortal and can dissolve into energy
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...Death. Death's violent birth changes her bottom half into that of a snake. Death's first act is to rape his Mother, thus conceiving the terrible hellhounds
...as a cormorant, he perches himself atop the Tree of Life, and there plots death for man. He sees Adam and Eve for the first time, the natural king and quee
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...Longinus was the famed spear that King Krichevskoy once wielded before his death. In the game, Longinus stays in the corner of one of the rooms of the castl
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...calendar, the giver of maize corn to mankind, and sometimes as a symbol of death and resurrection. Quetzalcoatl was also the patron of the priests and the t
...g drunk and sleeping with a celibate priestess, and then burned himself to death out of remorse.
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...odzilla monster to have been introduced in the main movie series but whose death is only shown in another media.
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|[[Undead (Dungeons & Dragons)|Undead]], Abyssal ascension, escape from death
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...they could be defeated by calling their name; this, in fact, would be the death of them.
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...ideal love, the world will be their tormentor, and they will die a lonely death.
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...elled Retz). He was an intelligent child, learning fluent Latin. After the death of his parents c.1415, Gilles was put under the tutelage of his godfather,
...he fact that two of several previous marriage schemes were thwarted by the death of the intended bride.
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...es by [[Laurell K. Hamilton]] features a character, Rhys, who was once the death deity Cromm Cruach.
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...en and young children. Like a banshee who appears at a birth rather than a death, the Penanggalan perches on the roofs of houses where women are in labour,
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...some beliefs, a ghost may be the personality of a person after his or her death, and not directly tied to the soul or spirit. Every culture in the world ca
...by unfinished business, such as a victim seeking justice or revenge after death. Criminals sometimes supposedly linger to avoid Purgatory or Hell. It is so
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[[Image:Johnsdeath.jpg|left|thumb|250px|An artist's drawing of John Bell's death, originally published in 1894. In the foreground one can see a couple of me
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...to utter the doggerel rhyme "Kümmelbrot, unser Tod!" ("Caraway bread, our death!").
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...hat dwarfs may have originated as nature spirits or beings associated with death, or as a mixture of concepts.
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...body. The sources do not say for what crimes they, too, were sentenced to death.
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...anger of a friend or relative is considered very bad luck, often heralding death or serious illness of the doppelganger's original. In Norse mythology, a va
...ve, where do inhabit / The shadows of all forms that think and live / Till death unite them and they part no more...."
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...ictims. In other cases, however, a victim of a cruel, untimely, or violent death was susceptible to becoming a vampire. Most of the European vampire myths
...rn with a caul, teeth, or tail, being conceived on certain days, irregular death, excommunication, improper burial rituals etc. Preventative measures includ
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...by the male buffalo. Stricken by grief, the she buffalo chose to go to her death on the funeral pyre prepared for her husband. Before that took place howeve
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...an increase of the chance of outbreak of disease — for example, the Black Death, which is spread by the rats’ fleas.
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...prostitutes with the supposed aphrodisiac spanish fly, he was sentenced to death for sodomy and said poisoning in the same year but was able to flee to Ital
...d and imprisoned in the dungeon of Vincennes. He successfully appealed his death sentence in 1778, but remained imprisoned under the ''lettre de cachet''. H
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:'' The death-fires danced at night;''
...fically within graveyards where it was believed the lights were an omen of death or coming tragedy and would mark the route of a future funeral, from the vi
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...ry that like repels like, it is highly likely that the Vampire, reeking of death and decay (overall, not just the revenant’s breath), will be utterly repu
...y to cast a reflection. In fact, the Vampire in folklore is able to cause death to any human that falls within the creature’s shadow.
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*[[Beverley Allitt]] - an ''[[Angel of Death]]''; Paediatric nurse who killed four patients and injured at least nine ot
*[[Harold Shipman]] AKA "Dr Death" - British doctor convicted of 15 murders; a later inquiry stated he had ki
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*[[Mongolian Death Worm]]
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...dragged naked into the snow and doused with cold water until they froze to death.
...sentenced and executed. Of those tried, only Katarina Beneczky escaped the death sentence, exonerated by her fellow defendants and also by the testimony of
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.../~mccurtain_2/genietips/tip1.html American Superstitions and Beliefs about Death]
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...hire and north-west Surrey) and specifically the Great Park ever since his death. Further details have entered local folklore from supposed sightings. He ap
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...es throughout Norrath, but tend to lean more toward evil ways: necromancy, death and destruction. The Dark Elves have a skin tone of dark blue and also are
...-born elves cannot truly know death of the body" they can still experience death of the spirit, which transforms them into utterly evil and ultimately self-
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...d appearance was in the sequel, ''Friday the 13th Part 2'' (1981). Jason's death as a boy is retconned in this film, and he exacts revenge on the girl who d
.... Tommy eventually lures Jason back to the lake that supposedly caused his death as a boy. Chained to a boulder on the lake floor, Jason is left to die.
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...not to pull the clothes that way, or she’d strip him, and he would get his death of cold.” “Why, it’s you that are stripping me,” replied the Ogress
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...(LD50 of 1mg), it is said to be able to leave a person in a state of near-death for several days, while the person continues to be conscious. The second po
...utate soon after. In others, however, the condition is only acquired after death.
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According to the post-Avestan texts, following the death of Jam i Xšed (Jamshid), Dahag gained kingly rule. Another late Zoroastria
...ers the well-preserved body of a holy man. A voice informs him his time of death is upon him. At first, it would appear that such an unclimactic end for Ale
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...ers the well-preserved body of a holy man. A voice informs him his time of death is upon him. At first, it would appear that such an unclimactic end for Ale
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...ffered by the Mayor of Arundel rather than the King of Sussex. The Dragons death is both by poison and axe when the Dragon is weakened, but the Hero survive
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...t, trying to set it on fire and when that didn't work, baking the puppy to death in an oven." [http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9796419/detail.html]
...who is of Russian descent, orders a squirrel, which she promptly stabs to death with a fork.
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...represented: The evil inclination (Yetzer HaRa), Satan, or the [[Angel of Death]]. Others have suggested that the serpent was a phallic symbol. According t
...mud also states that the Evil Inclination (''Yetzer ha-Ra''), the Angel of Death and Satan are identical.
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...skrit word 'kala' meaning 'time' - time in this form being a euphemism for death - or 'devourer of time.' It also means 'black' or 'black female,' in contra
...s that in the end she will kill everyone as no one can avoid her as mortal death. The other 2 hands (usually the right) are in blessing, which means her ini
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...im. Godzilla then destroyed Super Mechagodzilla as retribution for Rodan's death.
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...the first track on the album ''[[wikipedia:Whoracle]]'' by Swedish Melodic Death Metal band [[wikipedia:In Flames]].
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