...f time. Currently this state is called ''sleep paralysis'', but in the old belief the subject had been ''hagridden''.
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Belief in the [[Hell]] wain as the wagon in which were borne the souls of the dead
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Regions where belief in psychic vampires is common include Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa,
Some North American Indian cultures, such as the Hopi, also share this belief.
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Arising mainly in the Heian period, the belief was that the spirits of powerful lords, especially those who have been mart
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...in his way; but doubly so the unfortunate who attempts to mount him in the belief that he is an ordinary steed, for after a fiery gallop he will be precipita
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...y surprise or force. Dusii continue to play a role in the magico-religious belief systems of Gaul and Francia as a type of incubus in early-medieval paganism
...y, was converted to Christianity by Welsh missionaries. His vita records a belief among his fellow Picards in northwest Gaul that the dusi, called maones in
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...eneration’s acceptance of these stories as being literally true, and their belief in aitu, are markedly less pronounced than that of their elders. Neverthele
A common belief holds that when an aitu enters a living body, it does so through the armpit
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...e word huma in the Persian language stands for a fabulous bird. There is a belief that if the huma bird sits for a moment on someone's head it is a sign that
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...n 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 clothing, that
It was the belief in Bavaria that the Nachzehrer could be created if an individual was born w
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According to the belief of the early people, eclipse occurs when the Minokawa swallows the sun. It
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Sickle cell anaemia might have contributed to this belief, as the inheritance of the disease within families may have led people to c
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...word which has been used over the years to describe a number of different belief systems in a number of contexts. People claiming to be Satanists, or outsid
...Vey rejects the Black Mass, [[Zoosadism|cruelty to animals]], or a literal belief in (or worship of) Satan, instead considering Satan as the human instinct w
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==Afterlife as a belief==
...ultures past and present, have contained some belief in an afterlife. This belief is usually manifested in a [[religion]], as it pertains to phenomena beyond
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...]], [[legend]]s, [[oral history]], proverbs, jokes, [[superstition|popular belief]]s current among a particular population, comprising the [[oral tradition]]
...nt the authentic spirit, tradition, and identity of the German people; the belief that there can be such authenticity is one of the tenets of the romantic na
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*The first reference to the sea serpent may be the belief of Native Americans, predating western settlement of the area, that an evil
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...ch some scholars believe may be evidence of syncretism of a ''fiery lake'' belief, from an as yet unidentified elsewhere. In still another version, Ammut at
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:"It is a popular belief that most of the dead, those who have lived bad lives or who have been exco
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