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  • ==Early Life== ...the killings, Ridgway was arrested on suspicion of murder for four deaths after DNA evidence linked him to multiple victims. The four victims named in the
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  • ...d as a wandering spirit from a being no longer living, having survived the death of the body yet maintaining the mind and consciousness. ...g has for obvious reasons been strongly linked with the very occurrence of life. A similar significance has been attributed to human blood. ''Spirit'' in t
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  • ...ot. Heracles could do nothing to aid his friends as the poison drained the life from both their bodies.
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  • ...out these horses, yet most people are afraid to pass a place they frequent after it is dark. ...o was told by a wise woman if he ever let it see the water it would be the death of him. For years it was a faithful horse, but one day he brought it in sig
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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 In the book, Louis does feed on mortals early in his life as a vampire. When Lestat first takes him hunting, he feeds on a slave. La
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  • ...h by the state of Florida in 1992. She ultimately received five additional death sentences. She was put to death via lethal injection in 2002.
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  • ''Meritursas'' means octopus in Finnish, named after Iku-Turso. However, it is more common to see the alternative ''Mustekala'' ...ge, or alternatively, the bearded one), ''Tuonen härkä'' (the ox of Tuoni, Death), ''tuhatpää'' (thousand-headed), ''tuhatsarvi'' (thousand-horned). It wa
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  • ...ing invisible arrows or beating its prey to death with a club. The Baykok, after paralyzing or killing its prey, then devours the liver of its victim. ...h the Baykok occasionally uses a heavy war club to bludgeon its victims to death, the creature prefers a bow that fires invisible arrows, which are tipped w
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  • According to the legend, 16 years after his death, Jure would arise from his grave by night and terrorise the village. The vi ...ed to pierce its heart again, but the stick could not penetrate its flesh. After some exorcism prayers, the most valient of them, Stipan Milašić, took a s
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  • In the 9th century ''Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick'' the deity is called Cenn Cruach, and his cult image cons Jocelin's 12th centure ''Life and Acts of St. Patrick'' tells much the same story. Here the god is called
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  • ...hue found work in the shop of one James Crookshanks; Zona met him not long after his arrival in town. The two fell in love and soon married, despite objecti ...Knapp had been treating her for "female trouble" for two weeks before her death, but whether she was pregnant or not is unknown.
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  • ...By assuming the gorgoneion, Perseus put on as a mask the power of life and death personified by Medusa, the cosmic queen. ...y, blood taken from the left side of a Gorgon could bring the dead back to life, yet blood taken from the right side was an instantly fatal poison. [[Athe
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  • ...s guards, is on temporary loan to Meredith after the recent attempt on her life. The powers that they stir up affect some serious changes in the land of fa ...Raven, ''The Killing Frost'', second in command. Was revealed that started life as Jacqual Frosti, Jack Frost, etc, is prejudiced against [[Seelie]] Court
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  • [[Image:John Wayne Gacy 2.jpg|thumb|John Wayne Gacy's 1968 'mugshot' after being arrested on charges of sodomy]] == Life ==
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  • ...es to arrange a bargain with Zeus to exchange Chiron's immortality for the life of Prometheus who had been chained to a rock and left to die for his transg ...and wondered how such a little thing as an arrow could have caused so much death and destruction. In that instant, he let slip the arrow from his hand and i
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  • ==Early life== ...lled six college girls in this way, and would often go hunting for victims after arguing with his mother, a domineering woman who had emotionally abused him
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  • ...are sometimes depicted as vampiric, although are more commonly feeding on life force, rather than blood. Unlike vampires however, light is commonly descri ...''Shades'', a shade is a teenage/young soul taken by a darker world before death, and then experimented on, turning the soul into a shade.
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  • ...selected ''Joseph Paul'' in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels and ''Franklin'' after US founding father, Benjamin Franklin. ...mmending them on their verdict, claiming that if he had not been given the death penalty, he would probably escape again.
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  • ...lade, but the weapon was too blunt, so Brady strangled the crying chlld to death with a piece of string before burying his body, face down, in a shallow gra ...arrangement was different. Myra drove off on her own to select a child for death. She chose a blonde-haired, blue eyed boy, just 4 days passed his 12th birt
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  • ...n's Ravens, appears. He announces that the Queen never sent the Sluagh out after Meredith, and that in fact the Queen meant her no harm. As prove of this he ...s. Cel, previously his mother's sole heir, makes several attempts upon her life. It is in order to gain support that Merry makes alliances with others such
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  • ...e linked by King Arthur and the role that each of them had in his life and death. [[Category:Celtic mythology]] [[Category:death]]
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  • ...e crawled from its belly. Raiko and his retainers claim total victory only after having made sure every last one is slain. Raiko was wielding a sword named ...In this tale the Tsuchigumo is captured by Raiko. He vows to save Raiko's life three times. In the end he keeps his word. The last time he rescues Raiko h
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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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  • ...llows as a means of exacting vengeance on its master for its predecessor's death. ...). The account is quoted by D. A. Mackenzie in SCOTTISH FOLK LORE AND FOLK LIFE.
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  • ...maniu''' or atai which is an animal counterpart to a person with which his life is bound up. ...which have many characteristics typical of shapeshifter tales, such as any death or injury affecting both forms at once.
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  • ...e biography with [[supernatural]] tales of incidents involving the saint's life from less reliable sources. More than 130 sources have been identified for ...itude of people with them. Thus was the city of Rome delivered from double death, that was from the culture and worshipping of false idols, and from the ven
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  • *Touching the serpent or even looking at it, or a glance from it, can cause death. ...ss. Sisiutl masks were often hinged, allowing the serpent ends to simulate life-like serpentine writhing movements. Sisiutl masks were decorated with fleck
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  • On the contrary the Irish [[Leanan Sidhe]] is more favourably regarded, as a life giving spirit, the inspiration of poets, but both names mean the ''fairy sw ...a Lhiannan wants a man, she doesn’t draw his blood off, but she sucks his life force instead.
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  • *After the Angelus parents do not allow their children to play outside the house d ...ver utter a word or a sound for in this occasion it may actually save your life.
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  • ...ly shown either impaled on Shiva's trident, or in skeletal form as Bhringi after submitting to Shiva, who drained his blood during the conflict. ...woman who is like a mother unto me, let that be the hour appointed for my death.
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  • ...ties that the Mummy possessed in life (like magic) are usually retained in death. Many of the Mummy’s abilities depend on who the Mummy was in life. For example, the Mummy of a pharaoh or high priest may be able to assume
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  • ...sanity plea was rejected by a jury, and he was sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms in 1992 (a 16th was later added for the 16th murder). He was murdered ...d Hicks over to his house after picking up the 19 year-old hitchhiker, and after drinks, he killed him because he "didn't want him to leave".
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  • ...who put a spear through Christ's side. The novel tells his life before and after the event, from a pagan son of a member of Roman nobility, through him bein ...The Requiem'', Longinus is rumored to have been transformed into a vampire after piercing Christ's side and founded one of the vampire covenants, the ''Lanc
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  • ...they could be defeated by calling their name; this, in fact, would be the death of them. ...o all the versions listed here, and many if not all of them were developed after the Christianizing of the Northern countries, as were similar stories of fa
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  • ...ruction, Life out of Death. The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal. It is also an emblem of immortality. Its e ...ing Herraud gives a small lindorm as a gift to his daughter Þóra Town-Hart after which it grows into a large serpent which encircles the girl's bower and bi
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  • ...the Questing Beast had been borne of a human woman, a princess who lusted after her own brother. She slept with a devil who had promised to make the boy lo ...worldly pursuits, and he finally slays the creature during the Grail Quest after he, Percival and Galahad have chased it into a lake. The Questing Beast app
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  • ==Early Life== ...gedly because of something a psychic told her, she ended the relationship. After this rejection, Knowles went on a murderous spree across northern Florida.
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  • ==Life== ...ainst it as it was believed that the operation would certainly lead to the death of at least one of the twins. He notes that these twins were the first to b
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  • ...sochistic themes. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Rice was born and spent most of her early life in New Orleans, Louisiana, which forms the background against which most of
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  • ==Early life== ..., three days before his 21st birthday in 1995, but they separated not long after, although they had to wait four years before obtaining a divorce as Huntley
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  • ...rth by flood. Afterwards, Manabush was unable to bring his brother back to life, so Moqwaio became ruler of the underworld. Moqwaio is portrayed as a good ...ncluded to give him for a companion his twin brother, whom they brought to life and called Naq'pote (which signifies an expert marksman). He was formed lik
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  • ...the Shedeem were the offspring of Adam. After he had eaten of the Tree of life, Adam was excommunicated for one hundred and thirty years. "In all those ye ...ind: they eat and drink; they marry and have children; they are subject to death. it may be added, they have the power of assuming any form they please.
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  • ...oron did not die from his fall but remained lame and blind in consequence. After this, he wandered lonely through the Aleian field, avoiding the paths of me ...rom this instance of Bellerophon being unconsciously the bearer of his own death warrant, the expression "Bellerophontic letters" arose, to describe any spe
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  • ...used it in place of an arrowhead to kill his brother. Gluskap fell to his death, but he summoned his own magic and was reborn again. Believing that it was Gluskap had fashioned the fishes from dirt. Then he breathed life into them to populate the rivers and the sea. The first few fishes that he
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  • ...by the male buffalo. Stricken by grief, the she buffalo chose to go to her death on the funeral pyre prepared for her husband. Before that took place howeve ...slain by a male. Not seeing women as a threat that might ever imperil his life, he was confident that such a boon would effectively grant him invincibilit
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  • ...e initial attack, there will be other factors contributing to the cause of death and so break the chain of causation. Subject to the local statute of limita ...hin the definition of murder and so rejects the idea of a single mandatory life sentence. For those interested, the Report also lists all the main European
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  • ...are either reconsumed into the miasmatic form or escape to some monstrous life elsewhere. ...ed [[satyr]]-like being. A changed worshiper is also endowed with immortal life.
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  • ..., an apparition of a living or once-living being, possibly as a portent of death). ...s considered to be a double of an existing person and omen of his imminent death.
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  • ==Early life and crimes== ...t I stripped her naked. How she did kick—bite and scratch. I choked her to death, then cut her in small pieces so I could take my meat to my rooms. Cook and
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  • ...va. Vayu or the Lord of the wind is an example of an important deva. Also, Death is personified as the deva Yama. ...blows; from fear of Him the sun rises; from fear of Him Agni and Indra and Death, the fifth, run." In actuality, Brahman is the only Ultimate Reality, and a
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  • ...sts of people who have met a violent or tragic death. They like a peaceful life, and they can wreak destructive vengeance on people who annoy them. Origina
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  • ...hter's hand in marriage to whoever rid them of the beast. Legend says that after marrying the princess the knight settled in Lyminster and his gravestone, t ...oy, called Jim Pulk or Jim Puttock, said in some versions to be from Wick, after the Mayor of Arundel offered a reward. He killed the dragon by cooking it a
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  • ...ences, Serling suffered from nightmares and flashbacks for the rest of his life. Though he was rather short (5'4") and slight, Serling was also a noted bo ...d at least five packs of cigarettes a day, which likely contributed to his death in 1975.
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  • ...emit a radioactive heat beam from his mouth called his uranium heat beam, after exposure to Godzilla and a radioactive waste disposal site. Rodan is also s ...in Kitamatsu along with a swarm of prehistoric insects called Meganulons. After devouring several people and reducing Sasebo to ruins, one Rodan is maimed
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  • ...case sparked massive public outrage, contributed to the suspension of the death penalty in Britain in 1965 (it was later abolished outright). The case rema ==Early life==
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  • ...monster or demoness. Hecate sent Empusa to harass travelers. It scared to death or ate anybody that travelled along the paths or roads it inhabited. ...from Aristophanes Frogs 294; Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 1094; Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana 2.4 & 4.25; Suidas s.v. Empusa) :
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  • Morrigan is associated with sovereignty, prophecy, war, and death on the battlefield. She is generally considered a war deity comparable with ...or the Disir also appear as crows and were worshipped as goddess of war or death.
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  • ...Kroll's family moved to North Rhine-Westphalia. He began killing in 1955, after his mother died. Around 1960, Kroll went to Duisburg to find work as a toil * February 8, 1955 - Irmgard Strehl, 19, rape d and stabbed to death. Her disemboweled body was found in a barn in Lüdinghausen
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  • ...e two boys should be detained for "very, very many years to come". Shortly after the trial, Lord Taylor of Gosforth, the Lord Chief Justice, ordered that th ...002 the position of Home Secretary lost its power to set minimum terms for life sentences entirely).
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  • ...ch based on rumor, for sexual cruelty led to the term "sadism" being named after him. == Life ==
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  • ...are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence (气/氣qì) from their victims. ...d when a person's soul fails to leave the deceased's body, due to improper death, suicide, or just wanting to cause trouble.
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  • ...first film, Mothra has been depicted in various stages of the lepidopteran life cycle: Mothra's mammoth egg is decoratively colored in blue and yellow wave ...colored wings. Mothra's life cycle—particularly the tendency of an imago's death to coincide with its larvae hatching—echoes that of the Phoenix, resembli
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  • ...was in all likelihood innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced to death." [http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510032000] ...of author Sarah L. Knox, "as one of the world's worst serial killers, even after the debunking of the majority of his confessions by the Attorney General of
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  • ...rld War II. He is suspected of killing more than sixty victims during his life. ==Early life==
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  • Usually a dhampir would wait until there was a death in a village. ...nce fear, grief and superstition took hold in a village following a recent death, the dhampir would "come to the rescue
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  • ...at living creatures in the hope of obtaining their life-force for himself. After being confined to an asylum, he considers eating a human hospital orderly, ...this promise when one of his colleagues steals The Eternal Light after his death.
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  • ...from all the plants in the world and is explicitely tied to the "Water of Life." Together with the great fish [[Karn]], the Simurgh protect the Tree of Ma ...flames (much like the phoenix). The simurgh is associated with the Tree of Life and present in many old tales of the creation. He is benevolent, protective
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  • ...or: he taketh awaie monie out of everie kings house, and carrieth it backe after 1200. yeares, if he be commanded, he is a horssestealer, he is thought to b ...or: he taketh awaie monie out of everie kings house, and carrieth it backe after 1200 yeares, if he be commanded, he is a horssestealer, he is thought to be
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  • After his film ''Nightbreed'', which was widely considered to be a flop, Barker r ...The Vein'', ''Dread'', ''Son of Celluloid'', ''Revelations'' ''The Life of Death'', ''Rawhead Rex'' and ''The Yattering and Jack''; and Dark Horse Comics' '
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  • ...their souls travel to the plane that closest matches their perspective in life, to be reincarnated as a new being. * Marut — Seek out those who would cheat death
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  • ...business, Neilson became obsessed with the discipline and routine of army life. He had relished his statutory national service when he was a teenager and, In 1974, Neilson targeted a sub-Post Office in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. After tying up the sub-postmaster's 18 year old son, he confronted the sub-postma
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  • ...ishers have printed many books entitled ''Necronomicon'' since Lovecraft's death. <br>''And with strange æons death may die.''
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  • ...ed States between 1974 and 1978. His total number of victims is unknown. After over a decade of vigorous denials, Bundy eventually confessed to over 30 mu ...many of his victims, in addition to mutilating and molesting their bodies after their deaths.
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  • ...ggle all of the living body of its victim down into its stomach. But then, after some more time, the Yara-ma-yha-who drinks water and spits up its victim, w ...ff to some distance where it then sits and watches its victim for signs of life. But the creature will then eventually need to seek a bush and fall asleep.
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  • ...fair a dame, the darling of her prince's heart, to die suddenly, bitten to death by a cat! Then the cat, having scratched out a grave under the verandah, bu ...to the imp's tyranny, while his guards slept helplessly around him. Night after night this was repeated, until at last three of the Prince's councillors de
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  • ...the inspiration for Destoroyah, since both go through four stages in their life cycles. Like Hedorah, Destoroyah is a composite life form formed from trillions of near-microscopic organisms and thus possesses
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  • ==Early life== ...l at school, but failed the entrance exam for the Moscow State University. After finishing national service in 1960, he moved to Rodionovo-Nesvetayevsky and
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  • ...erleth who attempted to categorize and expand the mythos after Lovecraft's death. During the latter part of Lovecraft's life, there was much borrowing of story elements among the authors of the "Lovec
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  • ...counter with the vanishing hitchhiker occurred on the anniversary of their death. ...elieved, were localised variations, while 'C' was supposed to have started life as a separate ghost story which at some stage became conflated with the ori
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  • ...''Bean Sidhe''' ("woman of the mounds") is a spirit or fairy who presage a death by wailing. She is popularly known as the '''Banshee'''. ...g which corresponds to the triple aspects of the Celtic goddess of war and death, namely Badhbh, Macha and Mor-Rioghain.
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  • ...er Eastern European countries. They were frequently blamed as the cause of death in cases of epidemics. *'''strigoi vii''' are live witches who will become vampires after death.
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  • ...hey are often associated with an individual family line, as a harbinger of death. When one of these ghosts is seen it indicates that someone in the family i ...ee tucked under her arm, her head! She is dressed in her old wedding gown. After she looks around sadly, she realizes her husband has not returned for her,
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  • ...ching adulthood Zeus managed to force his father to disgorge his siblings. After their release the six younger gods, along with allies they managed to gathe Despite modern conotations of death as "evil", Hades was actually more altruistically inclined in mythology. Ha
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  • ...che and the development of civilization as a whole, the personification of Death as a living, sentient entity is a concept that has existed in all known soc In the United States death is usually shown as a skeletal figure wearing a midnight black gown with a
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  • '''Seduced by Moonlight''' begins shortly after the events of ''[[A Caress of Twilight]]''. Kurag, Goblin King, is insistin ...also a potent artifact in its own right. It was known as the ''happy ever after'' ring as it permitted sidhe to find their perfect mates.
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  • ...ture is believed to have originally been a princess of the moon. Tiring of life in the heavens, this lunar maiden descended on a snowfall to investigate th ...menacing; the snow woman of Niigata Prefecture causes people to freeze to death and tears the livers out of living children, in Iwate and Miyagi she can pu
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  • ...eres of life, the Azaka govern agriculture, the Ghede govern the sphere of death and fertility. Each of the lwa is associated with a particular Roman Cathol
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  • ...orn on American soil, fearing the continuous assassination attempts on her life thinly disguised as duels, flees the [[Unseelie]] Court in a final act of ...In the books, Jefferson gave the [[Unseelie]] and [[Seelie]] courts asylum after the European courts exiled them - however, as a caveat, Jefferson said that
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  • [[Erzsébet Báthory|Elizabeth Báthory]], (in Nádasdy, after the marriage) was born in 1560. Hungarian countess, she’s worldwide known Various legends about her life, including the idea that she bathed in or drank the blood of servant girls,
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  • ...violent or tragic events in the building's past such as murder, accidental death, or suicide — sometimes in the recent or ancient past. Amongst many cultu ...ounds, feelings of dread, illness, and the sudden, apparently inexplicable death of all the occupants, can be attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning. Sympt
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  • ...nd to local news outlets, boasting of the crimes and knowledge of details. After a long hiatus, these letters resumed in 2004. ...wife are the parents of 2 adult children, Brian and Kerri. Both were born after the BTK murders started.
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  • ...may never be known if he committed more than two [[murder]]s. Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under puzzling circumstances, between 1947 and 1957 ...ty, Augusta became increasingly strict, once dousing him in scalding water after she caught him masturbating in the bathtub.
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  • ...ts generally follow a life-fertility-death cycle for Cernunnos, though his death is now usually set at Samhain, the Gaelic New Year Festival usually taking
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  • == Early life == ...couple were informed that she would not be able to have children. Shortly after this, his wife returned to a teacher-training course. When she completed th
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  • ...ry that like repels like, it is highly likely that the Vampire, reeking of death and decay (overall, not just the revenant’s breath), will be utterly repu ...s, werewolves, sorcerers, witches, giants, and those that live a “charmed” life. When a sorcerer’s familiar is injured or dies by a silver bullet, the c
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  • ...or becoming encantados themselves, and inflict illness, insanity, and even death. ...the dolphin men that she refused to marry anyone else for the rest of her life and became an old spinster.
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  • ...to see a basilisk and survive. Looking at it, according to legend, brings death. The basilisk was depicted in a few illuminated manuscripts in the Middle A ...k's mortal stare. To the medieval Christians it represented sin and sudden death.
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  • ...Consequently, he was convicted through forensic evidence and sentenced to death. Haigh was executed by hanging on August 10, 1949. ==Early life==
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  • ...le] in Latvia. It was first mentioned in chronicles in the late 1680s, and after some time it gained the fame as a unlucky, haunted place. ...opular excursion place, where people go in winter to experience real manor life and a taste of baron's supper by candlelight.
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  • ...Zero to destroy Tokyo. They were challenged by Godzilla and Anguirus, and after a long fight the two space monsters were driven away. ...their god, Megalon, in a battle against Godzilla and the robot Jet Jaguar. After receiving a broken arm at the hands of Jet Jaguar, Gigan fled to space, lea
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