...It’s an evil spirit that acts like a human by day, observes the sounds of death at night and inhabits in large trees near cemeteries. When it stole corpses
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...ple who see the Padfoot die of fright, and at other times it is an omen of death. If a person attempts to beat off the Padfoot, the creature will attack and
...the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, of Danby, speaks of the Padfoot as a precursor of death; as sometimes visible, sometimes invisible, but ever and anon padding light
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...ruary 23, a 25-year-old woman named Patricia Docker was found strangled to death in a doorway in Glasgow. The previous night she had been out partying at a
...Ballroom. The following day she was found in an old building, strangled to death with her own stockings. Witnesses said that they saw the victim leaving the
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...personality. Since then, the two were never seen apart. After its master's death, it is said that Matsukaze ran off and was never seen again.
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...ls asleep on the job after drinking, the Poleki might even strangle him to death. To win the favor of the polevik one could place two eggs and a cock in a d
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...visits are feared by many because it is usually believed to be an omen of death. Either the eldest child or the ill member of the house they knocked upon w
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...s traditionally believed that a person could become a ''vrykolakas'' after death due to a sacrilegious way of life, an excommunication, or a burial in uncon
...uspected body as soon as possible, so that the it may be freed from living death and its victims may be safe.
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imminent death.
certain death. Hellhounds commonly live
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...impse corresponds in action, appearance, character, birthdate, and time of death to a human that lives in our world. If a human travels to the Realm of the
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...ather on the highway at midnight to lure young men and dance them to their death. In Serbia they were maidens cursed by God; in Bulgaria they were known as
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...hat those who hear the sound of the Caoineag’s mourning are doomed to face death or great sorrow.
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...world, they often suffer at the capricious whims of their male lovers. In death they become strong.
...Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0874211794
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...etched, and forcing them to the ground. It would then maul the traveler to death or change its weight, crushing him. Sometimes it would stand on its hind le
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Eurystheus was greatly angered to find that Heracles had managed to escape death on the previous two labours, and so decided to spend more time thinking up
...e doing), is a key player in the myth discussing the origin of Scorpio and death of Orion, and so has an association with this area of sky. The direction of
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...e local inhabitants of its master's village, especially after the master's death.
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...y then established their vast underground cities. When the inland sea (now Death Valley) which connected the ocean in ancient times dried up, they had no wa
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...k mythology]], '''Thanatos''', meaning "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: [[Mors]]), as well as a minor figure in Greek mythology.
...ded in chaining Thanatos up with his own shackles, thereby prohibiting the death of any mortal. Eventually Ares released Thanatos and handed Sisyphus over
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...lived in the forest, highly respected in Germanic society and after their death the people kept honouring them at their graves. Their spirits still haunt t
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On October 13, 1972, Mullin went out and battered a homeless man to death with a baseball bat. He was to claim that the victim was Jonah from the Bib
...Mary Guilfoyle, 24, whom Mullin picked up hitch-hiking. He stabbed her to death, sliced open her stomach and dumped her corpse at the side of the road. He
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...ed Air traffic controller who had taken up wildlife photography. After his death in 1980, a reel of Super 8 film showing the creature was allegedly found am
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...the forest, like burning down trees or indiscriminately putting animals to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for life, both t
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...Rose for Mary'' (2003) suggested that DeSalvo was not responsible for her death. For example, DeSalvo confessed to sexually penetrating her, yet the foren
* ''A Death in Belmont'' Sebastian Junger ISBN 0393059804
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...Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-87421-179-4
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...t impossible for her to wear anything below her waste. Her age and time of death are unknown.
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...reature emerged into the open, where all of the people hacked the beast to death.
The monster sighed as it bled to death, and to this day the moaning winds of the region are still attributed to th
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...fulfill the promise to set the ghost free, he/she will meet with a tragic death.
'''Diao Si Gui''' 吊死鬼- Ghost of people who were hanged to death in an execution or suicide, often appearing as being hanged by a rope and w
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...ources of evils. In some texts, '''Ker''' is the single goddess of violent death(Kêr or Kêres Danatoio).
...ii. 326) pronounces to be muriai, and may be a natural, sudden, or violent death. (Od. xi. 171, &c., 398, &c.) Epidemic diseases are sometimes personified a
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...er she believed she was eternally damned and could no longer die a natural death.
...k'', the main character's surname is Cotard, reflecting his obsession with death and the deterioration of his body.
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...a coma. For three years, Gaura carried her unconscious twin, until Ganga's death in 1952 at Bangalore's Victoria Hospital. Thirty minutes later, Gaura compl
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...one of the members of pagan trinity together with thunder god Perkūnas and death god Peckols. He was also depicted on the Flag of Widewuto as as a young, me
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...of faery land, whose touch causes an incurable illness, leading to certain death. Not even Biddy Early, the greatest of the fairy doctors, could cure his st
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...fs, the soul of a dead person will stay on the earth for 40 days after the death. When the ties aren't released after 40 days, the body is said to jump out
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...ough Paullus' brain / It rushed, nor stayed; for in the wound itself / Was death...".
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The Bhuta or '''Prét''' is the evil ghost of a man who died an untimely death like execution, accident, or suicide or leaded an unholy or immoral life. T
They are also said to enter a human body and make sicken it until death.
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...efforts to kill his son Prahlada (a devotee of Vishnu) and his subsequent death at the hands of [[Narasimha]]. His tale depicts the futility of desiring po
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...have been in poor health when the midwife left, causing suspicion when his death was announced a day or two later. The child Thomas has no gravestone, a mat
...by the sixteenth Earl that the entrance had been bricked up after Thomas's death.
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...murders, sometimes at the behest of a secret [[cult]] called "The Hand of Death" Lucas would recant his confessions, saying he made such statements only t
...year-old Tallahassee, Florida, resident Ada Johnson, and received a second death sentence; on appeal, however, both sentences were commuted to life in priso
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After the death of the body, the ghost-man goes to ''Ipo-oku'', "the Land of the Dead" (''I
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...In earlier times the bodach was more formidable; the bodach glas foretells death in Walter Scott's Waverley (1814).
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This was granted. After his death he became the dragon Apalala and made his home in a pond in Udhyana (an old
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...described as an evil wizard (strigon) or shaman, then a vampire after his death.
Generally the kudlak was most dangerous after death when he become a vampire, and steps were taken to prevent the return of suc
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When the hounds were seen hovering on a house, it would foretell death or misfortune to its inhabitants.
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...rtedly included headache and bloodshot eyes, followed by delirium and then death. Parker never identified the source or nature of its poison, but hypothesiz
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...a''' (Sanskrit: होलिका) was a demoness in Hindu mythology who was burnt to death with help of God Brahma by Prahlad. She was the sister of King [[Hiranyakas
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...sity of the Ngarl creatures have been told to result in the gruesome firey death of sleeping, cornered or anyone else not able to move out of the fireball's
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...usually asks the well-known tribute to him - the soul which often includes death also - after Devil has done something for the squire, the man has to drown
...known the way to the Hell and have been going there once a week. After the death they were usually hidden away in tombs so the Devil could not come and take
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*In yet another myth, it is used as a poison, bringing instant death to anyone who touches it.
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...known as Yomotsu-hisame (泉津日狭女) considered as symbols of the corruption of death.
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...od of Death. Film Noir buff. Was called Gwynfor "white lord of ecstasy and death" by Sage, 2nd hand has been seen when he killed Siun (Goblin) after Kitto h
The death toll in ''A Stroke of Midnight'' includes:
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...ein are not so popular as in Wales, however, as they predict misfortune or death. They announce the doom of a miner by knocking three times distinctly, and
...Bohemia, the Wichtlein have been seen in great numbers. They announce the death of a miner by knocking three times, and when any misfortune is about to hap
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...with poison arrows. Stepping on an Abatwa by accident is also said to be a death sentence.
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...the carbuncle from the vouivre, a crime which is frequently punishable by death or madness.
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...of Ireland'' she grew restless and carried them away to other worlds, for death does not destroy her power.
...were feasting in his banquet hall and most of his people were starving to death. The country despised Eugene and would not listen to him when he was suppos
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...omics title ''Toe Tags'' with a six-issue miniseries titled ''The Death of Death''. Based on an unused script that Romero had previously written as a sequel
# ''Toe Tags'' #1-6 (''The Death of Death''; DC Comics), 2004 - 2005
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...himself, it forewarned of death, and if he was weeping it was said to be a death in the family. If he was laughing, good times could be expected, and if he
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...'members' of the gang. This would lead to hundreds of people receiving the death penalty for only a few thefts in total. The reason of the law enforcers and
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...y [[spirituality|spiritual]] and experiential, beyond this world, or after death. This article is about current generic and widely held or reported concepts
**by having died and then been sent back to this life ([[near-death experience]]s)
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He apparently left her money in his will - perhaps he signed his own death warrant via this bequest because Marie's funds were getting rather low. Her
...back." Convicted, Marie Becker was sent to prison for life, there being no death penalty in Belgium at that time. She died in prison sometime during World W
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...Tsunsdi. It is considered back luck to see them and is always a portent of death. However, twins can see them and frequently speak with them.
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...on those who wronged it while it was still living or caused the creature’s death. Although there have been some accounts of this creature being benevolent
...enant doesn’t interact with the living. If cornered, it will fight to the death. It knows that, wherever the traitor hides, it will find them eventually a
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The underlying idea of eluding death by means of arcane study and black magic can be traced to Middle Eastern fo
...f a powerful dark wizard or a demon, ''Koschei the Deathless'', who evades death by having his fiery soul placed in the eye of a magical needle. The needle
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...Their heads touch the sky, their "terror is awesome" and their "glance is death".
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...Texas) is a convicted [[serial killer]] awaiting execution on California's death row.
...n victim was a 79-year-old woman whom he sexually assaulted and stabbed to death during a burglary of her home on June 28th, 1984. On March 17, 1985 Ramirez
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...died, it is not possible to know if they were in Camden at the time of her death.
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'''Shony''' was a death bringing demon who reigned in the waters of the North Sea in the folklore o
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...the forest, like burning down trees or indiscriminately putting animals to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for life, both t
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*Animated human skeletons are known to be personified death in Western culture since the Middle Ages.
*Death as one of the biblical Four horsemen of the [[Apocalypse]] has been depict
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...do promise so.’ Then said the Pech ‘You must know that I wish for my son’s death, though I dinna like to take his life myself.
...quest; but, as he had promised, he caused the lad to be immediately put to death. When the auld man saw his son was dead, he started up wi’ a great stend,
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...Toltec mythology]] [[Category:Psychopomps]] [[Category:Animal]] [[Category:Death]]
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...tyr play ''Cyclops'' the minor god Silenus claims to have dealt Enceladus' death blow, but this was perhaps intended by the author as a vain drunken boast,
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...cumb to panics. At the end of the tale, Monkey tricked him that led to his death.
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...te direction (the backward feet are found in ancient traditions to signify death, entry into the land of no return). Even thought it was difficult she was f
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...ks changed his plea. He was found guilty and [[death sentence|sentenced to death]]. His last words were: "Tell me, after my head has been chopped off, will
*US death metal band Macabre named a song after the serial killer, “The Vampire of
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...between Oak Street and Milton Street of Chicago's Little Italy (known as "Death Corner"). In March 1911, he reportedly murdered four people within a 72-hou
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It is also said that a person allowed to starve to death becomes an itsumaden, which haunts whoever refused to feed it in life, cryi
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...Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experiences in Japanese Death Legends, Utah State University Press, 1994. ISBN 0874211794
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They are Welsh phantom dogs seen as a death portent.
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...family, whose spirit appears to give warning of an approaching disaster or death.
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...o again the suspicion that to see a Galley Trot was an omen of approaching death.
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...cal damage. Because his skull was never closed, he wore a helmet until his death.
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Mari-Morgans may lure men to their death by their own sylphic beauty, or with glimpses of underwater gardens with bu
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The case stirred much discussion in Germany, not only about the death penalty but also about the correct approach towards mentally ill offenders,
*American death metal band Macabre have made two songs about him: "Fritz Haarmann, the Butc
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...King of Goblins, Merry's ally. Was ally of Merry's father previous to his death.
* ''Rhys/Cromm Cruach'' - Raven, former God of Death. Film Noir buff. See [[Crom Cruach]].
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...rth, wants to cause trouble, or died unjustly and wishes to avenge its own death. It wanders the place of its burial, unable to find rest, terrorizing passe
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...brother's death that threw him into depression and cursed him to long for death. The movie makes Lestat seem older than he really is, but in the book Louis
...to kill Lestat she "rapes" him, by feeding on him while he is bleeding to death from multiple wounds she inflicted. Afterward she shows signs of the mind
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...hen pleaded guilty in Harrisonville, Missouri and did not receive a second death sentence from a Missouri court. Robinson could be the first person executed
...e-mail. Whoever this person may be, he/she is a suspect for murder in the death of 56 women (so far) contacted through the Internet.
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...y by José E. Marco (1877-1963) who claimed to have discovered it in 1913), death penalty will be imposed to those who will kill this bird.
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...es of the sea Vourukasha a tree and two birds who are immortal and without death. Every year a thousand new branches spring up from that tree and all kinds
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...make the spirit obedient. The ghost-dog is then used as weapon to scare to death the enemies of the dog's master. Inugami are, by any account, terrible and
...as an inugami. The spirit did as she wished, but in return for its painful death it haunted the old woman.
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...nd biology, '''infanticide''' is the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant (pre-pubescent child) of a given species, by members of the sa
...dren and the children of other unwanted groups are targeted by government 'death squads'. In these circumstances, the children are treated as '''vermin''' r
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*Bourget, Steve: ''Sex, Death, and Sacrifice in Moche Religion and Visual Culture'', Austin, University o
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...ho is a virtuous demon. Vrinda curses Vishnu for his part in her husband's death; the curse is broken when Parvati plants three seeds in Vrinda's ashes whic
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...o foul-smelling that to breathe in its presence brings disease and instant death, spreading plague and rot across the land.
...were known to overwhelm people, trap them underground, and torture them to death.
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