: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
Death, nothing other, did he crave.
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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.
[[Category:Death]]
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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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Due to the fact that young men are the cause of her death, the churel always drinks from young men, beginning with the one she loved
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