...vil War, the major cause of death in America was tuberculosis, an airborne disease for which there was no known cure.
...rnal organs and feed the ashes to family members in an attempt to ward the disease off.
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...f a sample of 100 children described as malevolent ogbanje had sickle cell disease (SCD); while 68 families had death-related names.
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...s surmised that it was most likely an escaped hyena or a canid affected by disease.
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The keukegen is a disease spirit which lives in damp, dark places and causes people in the house to g
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...snake or dragon. Ajatar is said to be the mother of the devil. She spreads disease and pestilence, any that look at her become ill, and she suckles serpents.
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Gualicho were not worshipped but feared. They were blamed for every disease or calamity, and all evil happenings were said to be caused by them. Gualic
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Tlaloc’s underworld included those killed by lightning, drowning and disease.
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...d inscribed on gnostic gems, and amulets for protection against poison and disease, that date from the first century onward.
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...g missing." The clutch, or even the merest touch of Alû would give one the disease.
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...revengeful demon found in Ilocano folklore that causes the fatal nocturnal disease known as “bangungot” (nightmares).
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...they knocked upon will die. Visits usually occurred after an outbreak of a disease. To ward off the kumakatok, residences of Luzon and Visayas painted white c
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...eing erected during the height of plagues or mass outbreaks of poverty and disease. Icons such as Christian crosses, and other elaborate decorations usually m
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...mbodied souls of dead men and women who are both vampires and spreaders of disease.
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...re might be a turtle or some mutant experiment from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center before noting that Larry Penny, the East Hampton Natural Resources D
...from the nearby government animal testing facility, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
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...it. "two-mouthed woman") is a woman afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms her into a yokai.
...hisake-onna and the yama-uba, women afflicted with a curse or supernatural disease that transforms them into yokai. The supernatural nature of the women in th
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...beast prescribed that its own image be used as a talisman to ward off the disease, and since then the hakutaku has been worshipped as a guardian spirit of he
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...redicts someone's death, but in the form of the animal, it predicts cattle disease. Generally it is believed that Drekavac can not be killed or pass on until
...ulture's scalp, the face of a drekavac is oily and hairless. The filth and disease of its carrion diet slip off its blood-slick skin. Recently Drekavac got an
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...size of the rat population comes an increase of the chance of outbreak of disease — for example, the Black Death, which is spread by the rats’ fleas.
* In Lars von Trier's film Epidemic, the rat king is an omen for the upcoming disease.
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...utral evil. A night hag has an array of magical powers, and can trasmit a disease called "demon fevor" by biting a victim. Night hags are also able to torme
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...Ganapathi by offering green grass. Nandi was then relieved of his dreaded disease. His health improved and by the grace of Parvathi he was redeemed.
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...The [[Lamme]] ([[Lamashtu]]), the [[Lammea]] ([[Labasu]]), who cause disease in the body.<br>
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...e used as [[familiar]]s and reared in intention to harm an enemy, causing disease, madness or death. This kind of activity is also called ''Saka''.and once d
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...r lover of plague in the Ruwenzori rather than surviving in exile from the disease and the lover.
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...nken and blue where the gjenganger had pinched them, and this often led to disease and death for the afflicted person. The pinch was often administered when t
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...5, Lupo died in prison from an AIDS related illness. He had contracted the disease shortly before his killing spree and he claimed that finding this out was w
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...in Monstrous.com states that it might be a degenerated tribe affected by a disease known as hypertrichosis universalis, causing hair as long as 10 to 15 inche
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...against the stump. Poison, suffocation, extreme cold, aging, drowning, or disease cannot kill the Vampire, as the creature is already dead. The only substan
====Disease====
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...mare''; Old English ''mare'' ("[[goblin]]", "incubus"); Latin ''morbus'' ("disease") and Latin ''mors'' ("a corpse").
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...e-people have spit, or done what is worse, it is attacked by some grievous disease which can only be cured by giving it to eat a handful of St. John’s wort,
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...drinking vessels, are not subject, they say, to convulsions or to the holy disease [epilepsy]. Indeed, they are immune even to poisons if, either before or af
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Ekimmus are extremely vengeful toward the living. They may cause disease and inspire criminal behavior in the living. Sometimes '''ekimmus''' attach
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...onic plague, Chagas disease, dengue fever, filariasis, leishmaniasis, Lyme disease, malaria, rabies, sleeping sickness, St. Louis encephalitis, tularemia, typ
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Miengu are said to cure disease and act as intermediaries between worshippers and the world of spirits. For
...st regions, victory in the pirogue races, and protection from epidemics of disease.
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Other people believe that if modern medicine can’t cure a certain disease then the illness may be caused by a Nuno’s curse. In this case, the victi
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Attacks of the disease can be triggered by drugs (e.g., barbiturates, alcohol, sulfa drugs, oral c
...uch as lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma or Sjogren's disease.
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...infant death syndrome and miscarriage. She preyed on adults, too, bringing disease, sterility, nightmare, not to mention sucking blood from young men.
...rarily picked. Lamashtu's less lurid exploits include poisoning water with disease, spreading nightmares, killing plants, and causing tetanus and fever.
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...der her servants to skin him alive if he would fail to find a cure for her disease.
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...es. Gentlemen take a dose of this snake so that they will never have heart disease or illnesses of the belly. The snakes of Bigsnake country are green, or yel
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...into a vile liquid so foul-smelling that to breathe in its presence brings disease and instant death, spreading plague and rot across the land.
...o a liquid giving out a rancid, putrid stench, which smote with contagious disease
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Aboleths do not die of age, and so live on indefinitely barring violence or disease.
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...l. His breath was venom, falling like blight on vegetable, and with deadly disease on animal life."
...tronsay - the island where kelp was first burned in Orkney - with a deadly disease known as ''Mortasheen''.
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...ning their essence and converting it to wealth. Pi Xiu also guards against disease caused by these same evil spirits.
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...remain for the rest of their lives. In 1923, Judith fell gravely ill with "disease of the brain and lungs". Helen remained well at first, but soon developed a
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...oating them with [[anthrax]], and so Sekhmet was also seen as a bringer of disease, to be prayed to so as to cure such ills by placating her. The name "Sekhme
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...tinguished between the souls of people who died normal deaths (of old age, disease, etc), heroic deaths (e.g. in battle, sacrifice or during childbirth), or n
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...h epidemic sickness, such as whenever a group of people died from the same disease, the person who died first was labeled to be the cause of the group's death
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...lieve that those whose blood the Penanggalan feeds upon contract a wasting disease that is almost inescapably fatal.
...radition, Penanggalan's entrail discharge, in addition to being caustic or disease carrying, spoils the earth where it drops in quantity, causing the growth o
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.... The expedition was unsuccessful, and furthermore suffered greatly due to disease and skirmishes with natives; of the 20 members of de Loys' group, only four
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...e, the Craquehhe may be capable of spreading a virulent, highly contagious disease when it attacks. This plague will kill any who may have survived the reven
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...efore spilling hot water on the ground, or else grave retribution, such as disease, accidents or killed livestock, was to be expected. Vættir had their own m
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