...liot Place, Blackheath from 1881 until he was dismissed shortly before his death in 1888.
...was murdered. Recent research shows that between the Kelly murder and his death, he had been involved as legal representation in a court case. Inspector Fr
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...ed iron rod into the skull which reduce its size to that of a small child. Life and obedience are breathed into the tokoloshe by means of a secret powder b
Whatever means are used to create a tokoloshe, the price includes the death of a relative within a year. The witch keeps the tokoloshe docile by cuttin
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...n some of God's wisdom and power. One of these powers was the creation of life. No matter how holy a person became, however, the being they created would
...rd "emet" from the golem's forehead to make the Hebrew word "met", meaning death. (According to legend, the Golem of Prague's remains are stored in a coffin
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...nches tall, and did the work usually associated with a [[golem]]. However, after a short time, the homunculus turned on its creator and ran away. The recipe
...e semen ejaculated by hanged men (during the last convulsive spasms before death) fell to the ground, and its roots vaguely resemble a human form to varying
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...influencers can stop the hearts of goats and hamsters long enough to cause death. According to Ronson, on the personal instructions of Donald Rumsfeld post
...lness in world figures, such as [[George W. Bush]]'s loss of consciousness after [[choking]] on a [[pretzel]] in January, [[2002]], have been ascribed to ps
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...ened to be wearing at the time of burial, and the creature itself reeks of death and grave dirt. The Vampire’s eyes are fiery red, and the creature’s e
...usly, the Vampire bears a striking resemblance to the individual it was in life. The creature tends to be gaunt and wiry in build, belying the Vampire’s
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...man has no specific appearance. He is sometimes equated with specific real-life persons, such as serial killer [[Albert Fish]]. The term ''bogeyman'' is al
...role in the springtime ceremonies. The figure is the symbol of winter and death, so in Sechseläuten ceremony in the City of Zürich, where a figure of the
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...named Gaius Cassius Longinus, one of the conspirators responsible for the death of Gaius Julius Caesar. Another "Longinus" is credited with the authorship
.... At the time some were skeptical, but others were convinced. In any case, after much digging in the cathedral, Peter Bartholomew took a hand and, in a few
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...e to reach a trance-like experience that transcends the worlds of life and death, to achieve the power over reality in the form of written language.
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.... While ''Dracula'' is famous today (due in large part to its 20th century life on film), it was not an important or famous work for Victorian readers, bei
Shakespearian actor and friend of Stoker's Sir Henry Irving was a real-life inspiration for the character of Dracula, tailor-made to his dramatic prese
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...nathon, Jonathon, hear me!" It can be inferred that this scene was cut out after Mrs. Stoker filed a lawsuit against F.W. Murnau.
...uerade, featured a clan of vampires known as Nosferatu, which were modeled after Schreck. They are lead by Dædalus, portrayed by Jeff Kober.
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...become a credible cause for disease, sickness in animals, bad luck, sudden death, impotence and other such misfortunes. Witchcraft of a more benign and soci
...the devil, and he comes to them in the dead man's likeness, as if he from death arises, but she cannot cause that to happen, the dead to arise through her
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...t on for a few centuries, but soon the angels pined for the human females. After lusting, the fallen angels instructed the women in magic and conjuring, mat
...d granted ten percent of the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim to remain after the flood as demons, to try to lead the human race astray (through idolatr
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...erience to write the short story ''The Mangler''. The campus period in his life is readily evident in the second part of ''Hearts in Atlantis''.
After finishing his university studies with a Bachelor of Arts in English and obt
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...azel's teachings created such iniquity that [[God]] decided to destroy all life on Earth with a great flood, sparing only Noah, Noah's family, and seven pa
...e goat for Azazel free shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may reenter the camp" (16:26).
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...Showing good behaviour in prison, he was released on parole in April 1992, after having served slightly more than three years. Upon releasing Dutroux, the p
After his release, he was able to convince a psychiatrist that he was disabled, r
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...d in later editions. "Sadism" was taken from what Krafft-Ebing knew of the life and writings of the De Sade (important parts of Sade's work, such as ''The
...though not grounded in formal research and sometimes far removed from real-life sadomasochism, strongly influenced popular views of the subject in the mid-
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...water-resistant coat similar to a seal, they are ideally suited to marine life, though still retain the unmistakable Drop Bear physique of four legs, broa
...laws and teeth in a frenzy of violence. Once the victim has been mauled to death, the dropbear will then eat its fill and move on to a new tree, leaving the
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...corded. Full-sized famous men could be elevated to the rank of elves after death, such as the petty king Olaf Geirstad-Elf. The smith hero [[Völundr]] is i
...ncestors, we might assume that it had to do with the ancestor cult and the life force of the family.
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...most stories, however, Anansi is a crafty and cunning trickster who makes life more enjoyable for himself (or more difficult for others) by fooling humans
...longs to the Guede family of loa.The Guede family represent the concept of death and fertility.It's for this reason that many people call Anansi a Guede Lwa
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