...d as beautiful, winged guardians. Later they became fierce, filthy, winged monsters who had characteristics of a bird and a woman, similar to that of the early
...neus, at whose residence the Argonauts arrived while he was plagued by the monsters.
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Bovey, Alixe <i>Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts. </i>The British Library; London, En
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...ons, they were playmates of young [[Persephone]] and were changed into the monsters of lore by Demeter for failing to intervene when Persephone was abducted ([
...evil monsters, as she as shown near Warlock in the first issue. The evil monsters are generally shown in crowds and indistinguishable in most panels, however
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...nd of attacks, the one directed by nonphysical entities and the one led by human beings. The latter are possible through great mental powers and/or out-of-b
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...ircumstances, the children are treated as '''vermin''' rather, than fellow human beings; and infanticide is seen as a means of cleansing cities; although su
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...s each), cunning, strong and demonic. But in other respects Aži Dahaka has human qualities, and is never a mere animal.
...ahaka into Zahak, a human king with snakes on his shoulders who feasted on human brains. As foretold in a vision years earlier, the tyrant king Zahak was ev
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...s each), cunning, strong and demonic. But in other respects Aži Dahaka has human qualities, and is never a mere animal.
...ahaka into Zahak, a human king with snakes on his shoulders who feasted on human brains. As foretold in a vision years earlier, the tyrant king Zahak was ev
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...beings clad in red with gnashing teeth, sharp claws and with a thirst for human blood. They would hover over the battlefield and search for dying and wound
...ields where they collect the souls of the deceased warriors. As psychopump monsters, they were believed to appear at the last moment to take the soul of the dy
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...e Bodhar) drawn by six black horses and whips them with his whip made of a human spinal cord .
...llahan is the embodied spirit of a celtic god, [[Crom Dubh]], who demanded human sacrifices each year. The worship of Crom Dubh continued in Ireland until t
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...]] or some sort of [[mutant]] hybrid, perhaps one created as a result of a human experiment and escaped. Some have pointed out its resemblance to the descri
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...y and legends of many different cultures include mythological creatures of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. "'''Giant'''" is the English w
...eanstalk have formed our modern perception of giants as stupid and violent monsters, frequently said to eat humans, and especially children. However, in some m
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...usually let her heads rearing up out of the chasm, gapping dolphins or any human or animal that would venture in the surroundings.
[[Category:Sea and lake monsters]]
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...the sludge at the workshop by the pathologist Keith Simpson revealed three human gallstones and a pair of false teeth.
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...ery close to Clendenin, West Virginia when what they described as a "brown human shape with wings" lifted off from behind nearby trees and flew over their h
...: Dawn of Sorrow'', Mothman is one of three hidden [[cryptozoology]]-based monsters, appearing as a furry black heart-shaped creature with wings and large eyes
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...m.gif|thumb|right|Artist's impression of a Grigori or "fallen one" and his human bride.]]
...he tutelage went 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
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...rce of his name, and Redcap periodically redyes his cap by drenching it in human blood.
*Red caps (aka powries) are also some of the monsters in R.A. Salvatore's ''DemonWars'' series.
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..., allowing the resurrected zombie to retain most, if not all of its former human intelligence and memories, as well as acquiring various supernatural powers
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...mic picaresque story of a dog who somehow remembers his previous life as a human being. Rumbo, one of the characters from ''Fluke'' also turns up in ''The M
...o is drawn into a blackly comic plot involving fed-up and underappreciated monsters. (The book's tagline was "Demons today are a sorry lot".) No one believes i
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...tes somewhat like salmiakki and makes giant squid unattractive for general human consumption.
...y also derive from giant squid sightings. Eyewitness accounts of other sea monsters like the sea serpent are also thought to be mistaken interpretations of gia
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...e fact that they said they could not identify any other of the prehistoric monsters which I showed them...The natives do not consider it to be an unnatural thi
...lling people in his country. The creatures are said to feed on decomposing human flesh, digging up bodies if they are not buried to sufficient depth.
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*Heikegani - crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ur
*Jikininki - ghosts that eat human corpses
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...ken to be Yggdrasil although it is not explicitly identified as such) as a human sacrifice to himself, who remains alive as a divinity. He suffers the pain
...ot, and to regenerate it from the wounds caused by the various animals and monsters that feed from it. There are also two swans that drink from the well, and t
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...birds belonged to a special tribe whose members were able to shapeshift to human form by tilting back their beak as if it were only a mask, and by removing
...to such an event. Families of thunderbirds who kept to themselves but wore human form were said to have lived along the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Th
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...e to fully comprehend it, and the beast’s sheer size is enough to make the human heart stop. The Wendigo is a hideous, abhorrent beast. Its gigantic maw i
...l that one can see is the terrible yellow glow). They are far larger than human eyes, and are said to roll about in blood. It has massive, pawlike hands t
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...rch took note of the telltale cave but the men refused to believe anything human could live in it. Frustrated and in a frenetic quest for justice, the towns
...Beans' previously overlooked cave in Bannane Head. The cave was rife with human remains, having been the scene of hundreds of murders and cannibalistic act
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Some would appear to look as a normal human being while others had a hideous green phosphorescent glow with serrated te
* In the MMORPG "Ragnarok Online", monsters known as Munaks, Bonguns, and Hyeguns were heavily based on the jiāngshī
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...ng powerful animal-like qualities or conversely, an impressive animal with human qualities.
...e Nagas, that contained their amazing powers, would be given freely to any human that the Naga had developed a great fondness for.
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...ry creature, usually described as a nocturnal bird of ill omen that fed on human flesh and blood, like a [[vampire]].
...uiley, Rosemary Ellen ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters'']
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...ost of a woman or man who initiates a post-death love affair with a living human.
...istinction between yūrei and obake in his seminal "Yokaidangi (Lectures on Monsters)." He claimed that yūrei haunt a particular person, while obake haunt a p
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...and romanticism. In this example, an historical anatomical painting of the human arm by Girolamo Fabrici (1537-1619) tastefully examines the themes of roman
...lete body from various organic parts, then stimulated the functions of the human system in it. Subsequent visual interpretations of the story have included
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...the alchemist [[Paracelsus]]. He once claimed that he had created a false human being that he referred to as the homunculus. The creature was to have stood
...spasms before death) fell to the ground, and its roots vaguely resemble a human form to varying degrees.
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...ll. These physical descriptions are compiled from a large database on grey-human contacts. In some cases, the subject may recall only one physical character
...ribed as large, sunken or deeply set, far apart or distended more than the human, and slightly slanted as Oriental or Mongoloid. No ear lobes or apertures o
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*the '''''Androsphinx''''', the typical lion with a human face/head;
The Assyrian sphinx looked quite different from the Egyptian one. It had a human head, wings, and the parts of a bull and a lion. Sometimes it had five legs
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...y create hurricane-like winds that darken the sky and blow down houses. A human being is so small compared to a Garuḍa that a man can hide in the plumage
...lings with people. On some occasions Garuḍa kings have had romances with human women in this form.
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...]]s from [[folklore]] and [[mythology]]. One of the game's more prominent monsters are the various races of '''[[Demon (Dungeons & Dragons)|demons]]''', '''[[
*'''Shadow Eft''' - a race of psionic monsters that dwell between worlds, subsisting on psychic residue (Complete Psionic)
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.... It is said that they mimic human actions in their sardonic way, twisting human rituals and culture to show the worst aspects. In recent depictions Goblins
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...green body. Witnesses described the creature's head as having bulging, non-human eyes and as either being shaped like a heart/an Ace of Spades, or as having
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...race. Metallic dragons are often able to shapechange into small animals or human forms, and use this ability to secretly help or watch over humans. Dragons
...]. The most commonly heard of are in the humanoid races, particularly with human and elves. Any combination is possible, however, even with [[Devil (Dungeon
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...tions. They generally describe a 7 to 10 feet (2 to 3 meter) tall, ape- or human-like bipedal creature, broad-shouldered and of a strong build. Aside from t
Enormous human-like footprints attributed to this creature gave rise to the name "Bigfoot"
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...o defend itself by expelling poisonous fumes that are capable of killing a human
...the Gila monster, one of the very few poisonous lizards in the world. Gila monsters also have "fat" tails that closely resemble those in illustrations and repo
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...ve branches (bifid) which gives the plant a rough resemblance to that of a human monster form.
...ally speaking, the female mandrake carries forked that look like a pair of human legs, whereas the male has only a single root. In the old Herbals we find t
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...f a horned demon (excluding ''Final Fantasy IV''). In most games, Ifrit is human-like, but in others, he is based off of a beast, such as being feline-like
*"Efreet" is one of the monsters defeated by Dark Shneider in the anime "Bastard".
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...ed in the name of Quetzalcoatl, and representations of the god became more human. They influenced the Toltec, and the Toltec rulers began to use the name of
...animal sacrifices, and in other traditions Quetzalcoatl was said to oppose human sacrifice.
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...bout one minute. "Unquestionably, the figure in outline was exactly like a human being, walking upright and stopping occasionally to pull at some dwarf rhod
...w a dark shape moving near his camp. The next day, Whillans observed a few human like footprints in the snow, and that evening, he asserted that with binocu
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.... In the novel, an old Japanese author trying to fathom the darker side of human nature while he is besieged by scandal, is told about Gilles de Rais.
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...wearing: Troll women in particular were often too elegantly dressed to be human women moving around in the forest.
...travel on the winds, such as the wind-troll Ysätters-Kajsa, or sneak into human homes. Sometimes you could only hear them speak, shout and make noise, or t
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...no longer have to dwell in its own grave and could pass as a normal mortal human. According to one source, the strigoi also then loses his need to prey upon
...uiley, Rosemary Ellen ''The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters'']
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...riminal law, '''murder''' is the crime of causing the [[death]] of another human being, without lawful excuse, and with intent to kill or with an intent to
...rred when the defendant commits an act that shows depraved indifference to human life, or (in federal court and those states that apply the felony murder ru
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...t. In the end Rokuemon was defeated and Kincho died from his wounds, but a human friend of Kincho's erected a shrine in his honor which is still visited tod
...as a raccoon. Also, Korean MMORPG Ragnarok Online, there are raccoon-like monsters called "smokey" that wear a leaf on their heads and have the ability to dis
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...cient Egypt]]ians also believed in demonic like monsters that devoured the human soul, while it traveled towards afterlife, although, certainly demons per s
...mons over the human beings that they inhabit, and he is able to free these human victims by commanding and casting out the demons, by binding them, and for
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...wells, rain, and rivers. In some cultures, they are said to be capable of human speech.
...s unlikely, however, that these finds alone prompted the legends of flying monsters, but may have served to reinforce them.<br>
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...uctural golem", a creature supposedly created by the merging of a vengeful human spirit and an average dwelling.
...to make a golem, though it substituted rags instead of clay and required a human host to function. Another DC hero, the Monolith, is a golem.
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...ght be. It is a temptation to suppose they might be the fabulous Loch Ness monsters, now observed for the first time in their underwater activities!"</blockquo
...and other reputed lake monsters. This theory would cover sightings of lake monsters on land, during which the creature supposedly waddled into the lake upon be
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...ion of certain types of [[fairy]], which may or may not have originated as human souls.
*[[Will-o'-Wisp|Will O' Wisps]] are monsters in the [[Dungeons and Dragons]] game. They use their flickering light to lu
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...sm|polytheistic]] religions, the politics of Hell can be as complicated as human politics. Many [[Hellenic polytheism|Hellenistic Neopagans]] believe in [[T
...Japanese]] religions. The ruler of Hell has to deal with politics, just as human rulers do. Hell is the subject of many folk stories and [[manga]]. In many
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...g, but not necessarily in other sources. In Tolkien's writing, Orcs are of human shape, but smaller than Men, ugly, and filthy. In a private letter, Tolkien
Orcs eat all manner of flesh, including human. In Chapter II of The Two Towers, Grishnákh, an Orc from Mordor, claims th
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...wing of a cock can also kill a basilisk. This weakness also affects other monsters like faeries, ghosts or vampires that are supposed to appear in the night a
...d become a snake with the head of a cock, and sometimes with the head of a human. Geoffrey Chaucer featured a '''basilicok''' (as he called it) in his ''[[C
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...ah likely spawned [[Gnoph-Keh]], [[Rhan-Tegoth]], and [[Voorm]]. Though no human cult worships this being, Aphoom-Zhah is revered by the [[gnophkeh]] and th
...rature|1934]]). In the story, Atlach-Nacha is the reluctant recipient of a human sacrifice given to it by the toad-god [[Tsathoggua]].
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...y is questionable. The Templar idols were variously described as having a human skull for a head, as having two faces, as a cat-like creature or alternatel
...llus, as a friendly four-legged, multi-eyed animal-god, not a demonic half-human hermaphrodite.
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...ark upon imaginary adventures in which they battle many kinds of fictional monsters, gather treasure, interact with each other, and earn experience points, bec
...& Dragons)|elf]], [[gnome]], [[halfling]], [[half-orc]], [[half-elf]], or human and available classes are Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Pa
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...nd/or the ability to physically transform. Some cultures have myths of non-human vampires, such as [[demon]]s or animals like bats, dogs, and spiders. Vampi
...rally refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood. The historical practice of vampirism can generally be considered a
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*Ressler, Robert K. and Schachtman, Thomas. ''Whoever Fights Monsters''. St. Martins Mass Market Paper, 1994. ISBN 0312950446
*Vronsky, Peter. ''Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters''. The Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Group, 2004. ISBN 0-425-19640-2
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...d of these appeals was rejected, Hindley appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.
* The Monsters Of The Moors John Deane Potter-Ballantine Books-1967
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...e fiction story is a story about human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its science content."
...' thoughts and feelings about the laws of the universe, time, reality, and human invention are unusual and tend toward [[existentialism|existential]] re-int
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...are made of a bonded polycarbide material that was dubbed dalekanium by a human in ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth'' (1964).
...Dalek creature, separated from its casing, attacks and severely injures a human soldier.
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Typical Halloween costumes have traditionally been monsters such as [[Vampire]]s, [[ghost]]s, [[witch]]es, and [[devil]]s. In 19th-cent
...also meant the beginning of Winter, which the Celts often associated with human death. The Celts also believed that on October 31 (the night before the new
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...he game. It does not have rebirthing abilities (though it can revive other monsters) but does have some powerful fire attacks.
...ged husband, Roger. It is revealed that Laura is an "immortal phoenix" in human form and is nearly at the end of her 100-year lifespan, as she is granted i
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...disorder is fear of contamination; some sufferers may fear the presence of human body secretion such as saliva, sweat, tears or mucus, or excretions such as
...s funded by the National Institutes of Health have found a mutation in the human serotonin transporter gene, hSERT, in unrelated families with OCD. Moreover
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...on in pre-state societies. The eating of an animal which previously ate a human is not considered an act of cannibalism.
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...ans anyway). However, it is said that the player controlled characters are human and that their deaths are often graphic- following the gore and violence th
...of the creatures in finished ''Devil May Cry'' were original planned to be monsters created from a new kind of virus.
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...ns a place for the physical body ''in and of itself'' as part of a "whole" human being's spiritual existence.
[[Category:Human Monsters]][[Category:Demons]][[Category:Witches and warlocks]][[Category:Mythology,
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...bode. Varuthini soon became pregnant and nine months later gave birth to a human child that not only looked like the Brahmin but possessed his soul as well.
...ion of the cosmos after the pralaya period was over. When his family takes human form on earth, they further taint the hearts and minds of mankind to bring
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...a garlic necklace. It is entirely possible that Stoker is aluding that the monsters of folklore still existed even after the coming of science, that was though
...ays Dracula in this reinvigoration of the 1930s and 1940s Universal Horror monsters which also featured new versions of the '''Frankenstein Monster''' and '''T
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...skin and drain its victim’s blood. However, the creature usually appears human under normal circumstances, unless in a state of bloodlust or angered in so
...rave, its first victims will be its family and loved ones. At times, when human prey is scarce or unavailable, the revenant will prey upon wild animals and
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...caverns, where the portal is located. Swann warns that Sarge is no longer human and that Campbell has gone to find him.
...he chaingun is also makes its first appearance in a Martian Buddy cabinet. Monsters start to teleport in the base, beginning where the growth taking over the b
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...Spanish) or "The Ice Maiden", some archaeologists believe that she was a [[human sacrifice]] to the Inca mountain god [[Apus]].
...ound with her (nicknamed "Conan") was also discovered, with tattoos of two monsters resembling [[griffin]]s decorating his chest and three partially obliterate
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*Koontz's protagonists often arm themselves with guns to combat the various monsters and madmen that they deal with, and Koontz aims to provide accurate details
** a noble dog of near-human intelligence (and, sometimes with paranormal powers)
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...m-microcosm belief central to the hermetic philosophy. In other words, the human body (the microcosm) is affected by the exterior world (the macrocosm), whi
...rtality, liberation. As such it focuses its efforts on transumation of the human body: from mortal to immortal. Many are the traditional stories of alchemis
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...g Heeled Jack, including that he was an extraterrestrial entity with a non-human appearance and features, (e.g., retro-reflective red eyes, or phosphorus br
* Cohen, Daniel. ''The Encyclopedia of Monsters''. Dodd Mead, 1982. ISBN 0-396-09051-6.
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...George Lusk, of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, included a preserved human kidney. Mainly because of the extraordinarily brutal character of the murde
...e Committee on 16 October 1888. Lusk opened a small box to discover half a human kidney, later said by a doctor to have been preserved in "spirits of wine"
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