...l. His breath was venom, falling like blight on vegetable, and with deadly disease on animal life."
...tronsay - the island where kelp was first burned in Orkney - with a deadly disease known as ''Mortasheen''.
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...ning their essence and converting it to wealth. Pi Xiu also guards against disease caused by these same evil spirits.
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...remain for the rest of their lives. In 1923, Judith fell gravely ill with "disease of the brain and lungs". Helen remained well at first, but soon developed a
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...oating them with [[anthrax]], and so Sekhmet was also seen as a bringer of disease, to be prayed to so as to cure such ills by placating her. The name "Sekhme
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...tinguished between the souls of people who died normal deaths (of old age, disease, etc), heroic deaths (e.g. in battle, sacrifice or during childbirth), or n
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...h epidemic sickness, such as whenever a group of people died from the same disease, the person who died first was labeled to be the cause of the group's death
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...lieve that those whose blood the Penanggalan feeds upon contract a wasting disease that is almost inescapably fatal.
...radition, Penanggalan's entrail discharge, in addition to being caustic or disease carrying, spoils the earth where it drops in quantity, causing the growth o
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.... The expedition was unsuccessful, and furthermore suffered greatly due to disease and skirmishes with natives; of the 20 members of de Loys' group, only four
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...e, the Craquehhe may be capable of spreading a virulent, highly contagious disease when it attacks. This plague will kill any who may have survived the reven
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...efore spilling hot water on the ground, or else grave retribution, such as disease, accidents or killed livestock, was to be expected. Vættir had their own m
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...], '''Annwn''' was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where disease is absent and food is ever-abundant.
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...it transpired that the brownie believed clothing unhealthy and a cause of disease so, again, left in a huff.
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...and suck blood from innocent victims, steal properties from others, cause disease etc. In some indigenous communities the position of the Nagual is an integr
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...where she is taken up by a huge wave to disappear into the Ocean. The skin disease mentioned in most of the myths about Nyai Loro Kidul might possibly refer t
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...lieve that those whose blood the Penanggalan feeds upon contract a wasting disease that is almost inescapably fatal.
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...id=1175430197&sr=11-1 Homayun Sidky, ''Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs, and Disease. An Anthropological Study of the European Witch-Hunts.'']
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...mned to die by the fangs of the Vampire. The creature can kill by causing disease to sweep through a given area, or it can spread misery by raping virginal y
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...luding gambling, love, [[divination]], cursing one's enemies, treatment of disease, employment, and [[necromancy]]. As in many other folk religious, magical,
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...ents being interpreted as prophecies. His breath was also believed to cure disease, and his presence to bless those around with virility, and so he was given
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...ed in film and vampires, the undead existence is passed on like a curse or disease. With [[liches]], the [[necromancy]] powers of undead are sought after by
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