...was probably a high-ranking shaman or leader, found in an impressive Moche burial ground, near Chiclayo, in Peru.
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...sources, the Enfield protected the bodies of fallen chieftains for proper burial.
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...ly a relative who had caused their [[death]], or not properly observed the burial ceremonies, or who kept the deceased's possessions instead of destroying th
...l in the mouth, over the eyes, ears and between the fingers at the time of burial. They also placed hawthorn in the corpse's sock or drove a hawthorn stake t
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Before the lapse of the thirty year period following burial, the vampire can be destroyed in its grave by such means as driving a stake
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*aking sure that the cloth of its burial garments do not touch the lips of the corpse.
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...ete task or promise, or take revenge, it may return because of in improper burial or an unusually violent death or suicide. The ghost may be seeking a replac
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...nimal and sometimes evil spirits that most frequently inhabit churches and burial grounds.
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Nine days after burial, the ustrel claws its way out of its grave. It then finds a herd of cattle
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...d unjustly and wishes to avenge its own death. It wanders the place of its burial, unable to find rest, terrorizing passersby.
...-eye was to find the corpse of the person it once was and give it a proper burial. This would cause the spirit to end its quest for vengeance and move on. At
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On certain nights, nightmarchers are said to come forth from their burial sites to march out to past battles or to other sacred places. Anyone living
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...to these classes of criminal. Gibbeting also denied the criminal a decent burial which was a punishment in itself in those days (16th-18th centuries)."
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...rom around 20,000 years ago. (Older skeletons show no signs of deliberate 'burial', and as such lack clear evidence of the materialization of ritual.)
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...'' after death due to a sacrilegious way of life, an excommunication, or a burial in unconsecrated ground, but especially by eating the meat of a sheep which
...rism for they believe a vampire will reveal itself after 40 days since the burial.
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...l yards away just by its smell alone. The Revenant is usually wearing its burial shroud or whatever clothes it was wearing when the individual was interred,
...r instance, a man is murdered on the street for no apparent reason. After burial, he rises again from the grave as one of the living dead to avenge himself
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...the bodies of victims by uncrossing them. Victims also are given different burial rites.
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...the form of a body wrapped in a coffin cloth. The legend originated from a burial ritual in Islam where the body was covered with a white coffin cloth known
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* Fixing an iron nail at each of the four corners of the burial site.
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...het Samuel, at the demand of King Saul of Israel. After Samuel's death and burial with due mourning ceremonies in Ramah, Saul had driven all necromancers and
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:relative attending the burial and walking around the grave for three times. One of them should be carryin
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...to rise from the grave, so their transformation had to take place prior to burial.
..., transformation had to occur before burial, an added incentive for prompt burial.
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