...erpretation of the [[Devil]] being associated with the serpent who tempted Adam and Eve, thus gave a snake-like dragon connotations of evil. Generally spea
...the "King of Dragons." He is generally described as a large, dark gray or black dragon with a mythril hide, who can often stand on two legs.
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...nding desert); so this etymology could also explain the nickname "Egyptian black arts". However, this theory may be just an example of folk etymology.
Black powder may have been an important invention of Chinese alchemists. Describe
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...e dog (preferably white) was starved for several days and then tied with a black thread to the root around which a trench had been cut. The owner threw a pi
...tempt to create a human, but the Mandrake got thrown away when God created Adam from dust.
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...went, would be incapable of running the world; Manson "would scratch [the black man's] fuzzy head and kick him in the butt and tell him to go pick the cott
...street a wallet he apparently obtained in the LaBianca house; he "wanted a black person to pick it up and use the credit cards so that the people, the estab
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The root was to be picked before dawn on a Friday morning by a black dog, then washed and "fed" with milk and honey and, in some prescriptions,
...niversity of Giessen during the 18th century, was to take an egg laid by a black hen, poke a tiny hole through the shell, replace a bean-sized portion of th
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...Boniface VIII and who wished to preserve Florence's independence, and the Black Guelphs, who favored the Pope's control of Florence. Dante was among the W
...the Styx in his skiff. On the way they are accosted by Filippo Argenti, a Black Guelph from a prominent family. (Cantos VII and VIII)
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