...one awake in the cold Christmas night, pondering the mysteries of life and death. This poem featured the first painting by Jenny Nyström of this traditiona
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...s a Finnish hard-rock band, who became famous internationally in year 2006 after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, Greece, though in Finland th
* Lordi first appeared after the formation of the trio: Lordi (vocals), Amen (guitar) and G-Stealer (bas
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...elationship with Moldavia: he spent several years there after his father’s death; he left with his presumed cousin Ştefan (Stephen the Great) to Transylvan
'''The life of Vlad III'''
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...time. Manson was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. He is serving a life sentence but will be up for parole in 2007 at the age of 73. Manson has alw
==Early life==
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...wider view is established. Thus, when the Biblical principle that blood is life is found among the Yorubas of the west coast of Africa, the parallel is int
...d upon some particular experience, but the reason given, that the Angel of Death walks about openly in time of plague, and sneaks near the houses at other t
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...v Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter", a name given to him by the Russian public after the character in the popular American film [[Silence of the Lambs]], which
*[[Beverley Allitt]] - an ''[[Angel of Death]]''; Paediatric nurse who killed four patients and injured at least nine ot
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Early life
A few days after his birth, the baby was adopted by Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz, a Jewish cou
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..., riding his black buffalo. Garuda noticed that the gaze of the Master of Death briefly fell upon the bird, but then he continued on his way into the abode
Since a mere glance from Lord Yama presages death, Garuda's heart was filled with pity for the tiny bird. He gently picked i
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...d as an unhappy monster, a symbol of the 'terrible mother'; the monster of death bringing extreme bad luck and the perversion of the intellect, womanhood, a
...nscription on a stele in the Great Sphinx dates it from one thousand years after the carving of the Sphinx, It was erected in 1400 BC, probably by Thutmose
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...often been hypothesized, although there is currently no solid evidence of life there at present. Some scientists have theorized that there is evidence of
...rowing scientific knowledge snuffed out any remaining hope for intelligent life on that cold and inhospitable world. All along, however, a number of indivi
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...person can be revived by a in '''[[Necromancer|Bogor]]''' or '''Mambo'''. After resurrection, it has no will of its own, but remains under the control of t
...(LD50 of 1mg), it is said to be able to leave a person in a state of near-death for several days, while the person continues to be conscious. The second po
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...urls a bucket of blood into the poor resident's face. This is a portent of death.
...et, and appears mostly in the Undercity section of Vagrant Story|Lea Mondé after you defeat him in the Wine Cellars.
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Although mummification existed in other cultures, [[Immortality|eternal life]] was the main focus of all Ancient Egyptians, which meant preserving the b
...the nose with hooks, then discarded. It was also drained through the nose after being liquefied with the same hooks.
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...happily adopt for himself. He objected to the labelling of what he saw as life's most worthwhile and enjoyable activities as "sinful".
...e left by his father. Throughout this period, he maintained a vigorous sex life, which was largely conducted with prostitutes and girls he picked up at loc
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Another factor influencing political life was the means of succession to the Wallachian throne. The throne was heredi
On receiving news of Vlad Dracul’s death the Turks released Vlad III and supported him as their own candidate for th
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...age of Borley, Essex, England, which gained a reputation for being haunted after a series of residents reported unsettling phenomena.
...ch by the Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull in 1862, and he moved in a year after being named rector of the parish. The large brick building was built in a s
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...ommon but not required. Dead are buried in conical tombs immediately after death and buried with hands crossed.
...only in their caste system, but also in various taboos affecting everyday life. Some of these, such as those on exogamy or on insulting or offending men o
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...0s. The television program Freaky Links staged a similar photo, giving new life to the "Thunderbird Photograph" legend. The image is said to depict six wes
...visit from Thunderbird, never forget that it ended long days of hunger and death. For on the prairie near their village are big, round stones that the grand
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...ere over. The boulder was said to be “always moist’, because it contained “life substance’. The Cailleach Beara is ever-renewing and passes through many
...inland. When she is finished, her plaid is white and snow covers the land. After throwing away this, her symbol of fertility and authority, the Cailleach he
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The names of the four yugas of time—Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali—are named after “dice throws” from a game of dice popular during the Vedic period. Thei
.... But he rejected her advances because his guru had told him to never lust after another man’s wife. He prayed to Agni who returned him home safely.
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...liot Place, Blackheath from 1881 until he was dismissed shortly before his death in 1888.
...was murdered. Recent research shows that between the Kelly murder and his death, he had been involved as legal representation in a court case. Inspector Fr
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...ed iron rod into the skull which reduce its size to that of a small child. Life and obedience are breathed into the tokoloshe by means of a secret powder b
Whatever means are used to create a tokoloshe, the price includes the death of a relative within a year. The witch keeps the tokoloshe docile by cuttin
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...n some of God's wisdom and power. One of these powers was the creation of life. No matter how holy a person became, however, the being they created would
...rd "emet" from the golem's forehead to make the Hebrew word "met", meaning death. (According to legend, the Golem of Prague's remains are stored in a coffin
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...nches tall, and did the work usually associated with a [[golem]]. However, after a short time, the homunculus turned on its creator and ran away. The recipe
...e semen ejaculated by hanged men (during the last convulsive spasms before death) fell to the ground, and its roots vaguely resemble a human form to varying
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...influencers can stop the hearts of goats and hamsters long enough to cause death. According to Ronson, on the personal instructions of Donald Rumsfeld post
...lness in world figures, such as [[George W. Bush]]'s loss of consciousness after [[choking]] on a [[pretzel]] in January, [[2002]], have been ascribed to ps
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...ened to be wearing at the time of burial, and the creature itself reeks of death and grave dirt. The Vampire’s eyes are fiery red, and the creature’s e
...usly, the Vampire bears a striking resemblance to the individual it was in life. The creature tends to be gaunt and wiry in build, belying the Vampire’s
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...man has no specific appearance. He is sometimes equated with specific real-life persons, such as serial killer [[Albert Fish]]. The term ''bogeyman'' is al
...role in the springtime ceremonies. The figure is the symbol of winter and death, so in Sechseläuten ceremony in the City of Zürich, where a figure of the
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...named Gaius Cassius Longinus, one of the conspirators responsible for the death of Gaius Julius Caesar. Another "Longinus" is credited with the authorship
.... At the time some were skeptical, but others were convinced. In any case, after much digging in the cathedral, Peter Bartholomew took a hand and, in a few
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...e to reach a trance-like experience that transcends the worlds of life and death, to achieve the power over reality in the form of written language.
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.... While ''Dracula'' is famous today (due in large part to its 20th century life on film), it was not an important or famous work for Victorian readers, bei
Shakespearian actor and friend of Stoker's Sir Henry Irving was a real-life inspiration for the character of Dracula, tailor-made to his dramatic prese
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...nathon, Jonathon, hear me!" It can be inferred that this scene was cut out after Mrs. Stoker filed a lawsuit against F.W. Murnau.
...uerade, featured a clan of vampires known as Nosferatu, which were modeled after Schreck. They are lead by Dædalus, portrayed by Jeff Kober.
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...become a credible cause for disease, sickness in animals, bad luck, sudden death, impotence and other such misfortunes. Witchcraft of a more benign and soci
...the devil, and he comes to them in the dead man's likeness, as if he from death arises, but she cannot cause that to happen, the dead to arise through her
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...t 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 conjuring, mat
...d granted ten percent of the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim to remain after the flood as demons, to try to lead the human race astray (through idolatr
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...erience to write the short story ''The Mangler''. The campus period in his life is readily evident in the second part of ''Hearts in Atlantis''.
After finishing his university studies with a Bachelor of Arts in English and obt
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...azel's teachings created such iniquity that [[God]] decided to destroy all life on Earth with a great flood, sparing only Noah, Noah's family, and seven pa
...e goat for Azazel free shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water; after that he may reenter the camp" (16:26).
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...Showing good behaviour in prison, he was released on parole in April 1992, after having served slightly more than three years. Upon releasing Dutroux, the p
After his release, he was able to convince a psychiatrist that he was disabled, r
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...d in later editions. "Sadism" was taken from what Krafft-Ebing knew of the life and writings of the De Sade (important parts of Sade's work, such as ''The
...though not grounded in formal research and sometimes far removed from real-life sadomasochism, strongly influenced popular views of the subject in the mid-
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...water-resistant coat similar to a seal, they are ideally suited to marine life, though still retain the unmistakable Drop Bear physique of four legs, broa
...laws and teeth in a frenzy of violence. Once the victim has been mauled to death, the dropbear will then eat its fill and move on to a new tree, leaving the
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...corded. Full-sized famous men could be elevated to the rank of elves after death, such as the petty king Olaf Geirstad-Elf. The smith hero [[Völundr]] is i
...ncestors, we might assume that it had to do with the ancestor cult and the life force of the family.
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...most stories, however, Anansi is a crafty and cunning trickster who makes life more enjoyable for himself (or more difficult for others) by fooling humans
...longs to the Guede family of loa.The Guede family represent the concept of death and fertility.It's for this reason that many people call Anansi a Guede Lwa
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...; Yer. Shek. 49b) or, in the older [[Haggadah]], [[Samael]] ("the angel of death"), who kills by his deadly poison, and is called "chief of the devils". O
...ter rebelled against God, headed by [[Lucifer]] (who became known as Satan after his rebellion against God). And later the 200 angels known as the Grigori,
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...f anxiety, including the routine tension and stress that appear throughout life.
...thoughts, impulses, or images are not simply excessive worries about real-life problems
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Earth, associated with Death. Goblins are also associated with fire, or have the ability to create said
...at they (Kobolds and Wichtlein) just imitate the miners to fool them. As a death companion he is sometimes accused to cause underground fires or warn for th
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...rrection Day (''yaum-ul-qiyama'') is to deceive Adam's children (mankind). After that, he will be put into the fires of Hell along with those whom he has de
...humankind. In essence ha-satan has no power unless humans do evil things. After God points out Job's piety, ha-satan asks for permission to test the faith
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...panied by a guardian angel (Y26.4, 55.1), which acts as a guide throughout life. They originally patrolled the boundaries of the ramparts of heaven (Bd6.3,
...soul has to strive for and emulate, and ultimately becomes one with after death (Y16.7, 26.7, 26.11, 71.23, Yt22.39) (See Dhalla, History of Zoroastrianism
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...eres of life, the Azaka govern agriculture, the Ghede govern the sphere of death and fertility. In Dominican Vodou, there is also an Agua Dulce or "Sweet Wa
..., or the "met tet", may or may not be the most active spirit in a person's life in Haitian belief.
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...k in a rotating dome, a gunstalk containing a projected energy weapon (or "death ray"), and a telescoping [[robot]] arm. Usually, the arm is fitted with a d
...pposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us? Bye bye!" The Daleks generally make up for their lack of mobility with
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...ed the Enmyo Jizo Kyo, but this was likely written in the Edo period, long after the tengu's image was established. At least one early story in the ''Konjak
...ghosts of priests, nuns, ordinary men, and ordinary women, all of whom in life possessed excessive pride. The god introduces the notion that not all tengu
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...'" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature,
...in alliance with the Blacks. This exile, which lasted the rest of Dante's life, shows its influence in many parts of the Comedy, from prophecies of Dante'
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...higher prelate), with the express permission of the local bishop, and only after a careful medical examination to exclude the possibility of mental illness.
Popular interest in exorcism boomed after release of the horror movie ''The Exorcist'' in 1973 and ''The Exorcism of
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...ater in The Two Towers, Merry and Pippin are presented with meat by an orc after a fight occurred in which the Uruk-hai killed several orcs; the narration i
...ers. Other versions (including notes made both early and late in Tolkien's life) have Orcs as 'parodies' or false-creations of Morgoth's that are animated
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...demons. Hauntings are usually related to a specific place or tragic way of death.
...turned from her vacation. There are no records of any further infestations after that.
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...nger for sailors was not the creature itself, but the whirlpool it created after quickly descending back into the ocean. However, Pontoppidan also described
...the following an army of lesser fish, and for this reason, fishermen plumb after his resting place ... Gradually, Kraken ascends to the surface, and when he
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...riginal sense of the word ''troll'' appears to have lived on for some time after the Old Norse literature was documented. This can be seen in terms such as
...ightning bolts to kill them. Though Mjolnir was supposed to return to Thor after throwing, these hammers could later be found in the earth (actually Stone A
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...pressible, and certain 'psychological' schools—spiritual schools following after Carl Jung, and philosophical schools derived from Husserl—concern themsel
...but these faiths generally hold that [[righteousness]] is possible during life. Christian mystics seek this state, variously, through intense prayer, asc
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*'''Ba’atun''' - vicious, white-winged primate-like creatures that find death and destruction as their constant companions. Their origin is surrounded in
...of achieving their goals. They are horrible conquerors, subjugating other life forms ruthlessly, and causing pain wherever they go. Their lack of individu
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After having been set the task, Hercules went to [[Eleusis]] to be initiated into
Cerberus’ three heads relate to the threefold symbol of the baser forces of life. They represent the past, the present and the time yet to come.
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...mple. More arrests followed throughout France, and later throughout Europe after Pope Clement V annulled the French process and began papal proceedings.
...years were seized and executed by French authorities as relapsed heretics after proclaiming their and the Order's innocence. Other Templars in France face
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...ong I was carried headlong, and at sunset I fell in Lemnos, and but little life was in me" relates the fall of [[Hephaestus]] from Olympus in the 'Iliad''
...[[Eos]] rises; he reflects in his glances the rays of the sun— he the pale death of the Saracens, Nicephorus the ruler."'' [http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/20A/
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*Shinigami - the "god of death", the Japanese name for the Western Grim Reaper
*Tsukumogami - inanimate objects that come to life after a hundred years
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Some believe that the dragon may have had a real-life counterpart from which the legends around the world arose — typically
...n myth Marduk, of the same period, conquers [[Tiamat]], the “mother of all life” portrayed as a serpentine dragon of the sea. But Marduk was only the la
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...ald DeFeo, Jr. had shot and killed six members of his family at the house. After 28 days, the Lutzes left the house, claiming to have been terrorized by par
...November, and asked if this changed their opinion about wanting to buy it. After discussing the matter, they decided that it was not an issue.
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...allucinations that would hinder the defendant's ability to elude detection after committing multiple murders, make this defense extremely difficult.
...ght. For example, [[Jeffrey Dahmer]] murdered his second victim nine years after his first, but his last eight victims were murdered in a span of just seven
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...otive suddenly derailed and turned over. Four team members were crushed to death under the cars and another half dozen seriously injured. The expedition was
...cheat and steal (our film and supplies) and turn the porters against us." After criminal charges were filed against him, a Congolese court ordered Agnagna
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...were women earning income as prostitutes. Most victims' throats were slit, after which the bodies were mutilated. The removal of internal organs from three
...ller terrorizing the residents of Whitechapel, nicknamed "Jack the Ripper" after the signature on a postcard received by the Central News Agency. Although t
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