...r, come back from the grave. The Undead exist in a state between life and death, a limbo of eternal torment that can only be relieved by the lifeforce of t
...n a state (a limbo, if you will) between full-fledged life and everlasting death. Essentially, the Undead is a reanimated corpse, devoid of a soul.
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...cs of smallpox and cholera. They are the souls of those who died a violent death. Their greatest pleasure is to materialize by the bedside of a dying person
...that crosses their path for the misfortunes they themselves endured during life.
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==Life==
...t impossible for her to wear anything below her waste. Her age and time of death are unknown.
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==Life==
...a coma. For three years, Gaura carried her unconscious twin, until Ganga's death in 1952 at Bangalore's Victoria Hospital. Thirty minutes later, Gaura compl
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...ry. They searched his locker, and found painting depicting death and gore. After his arrest, Staniak readily confessed to the six murders, as well as an add
...was later overturned when he was ruled insane. He was instead sentenced to life in an asylum.
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...''Ah Puch''' (Alternatively '''Ahpuch''' or '''Hun ahau''') was the God of death and King of Metnal, the underworld.
...ans and Central Americans believe that an owl's screeches signify imminent death, as the following saying, in local Spanish, indicates:
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'''Ankou''' is a [[Death (personification)|personification of death]] mainly in Breton mythology.
...II, Zasalamel's first unlockable weapon is named Ankou. As Zasalamel seeks death, this is a fitting name.
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...derive from PIE *men-, "to think". Cognates include Ancient Greek menos ("life, vigor") and Avestan mainyu, "spirit".
[[Category:Death deities]]
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...murder]]ers who kill their victims by slowly [[torture|torturing]] them to death over a prolonged period of time. It is often a practice of [[serial killers
...the victim to a secluded place. There, the killer will put the victim to death by slow [[torture]], sometimes in very grisly ways.
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==Life==
...cal damage. Because his skull was never closed, he wore a helmet until his death.
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...al life. He is a tempter, distracting humans from practicing the spiritual life by making the mundane alluring or the negative seem positive.
...u-mara, or Mara as death, in the sense of the ceaseless round of birth and death.
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...''', spirits of the living. While a living goieza had definite form, after death the spirit was released as a hupia and went to live in a remote earthly par
...ere feared and said to seduce women and kidnap people who ventured outside after dark. Hupias were also associated with bats and said to hide or sleep durin
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==Life==
...pecialties were in sixth sense training and Chi Ma (Death Touch) training. After several years of extensive training Su Kong became the first Grandmaster of
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==Early life==
...the latter accusing the former of dragging their heels and not taking the death of a homosexual man seriously enough.
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==Early Life==
...y, at least in comparison to those of many other serial killers. His early life was not without some trauma, however; a thin and sickly child, he became a
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==Early Life==
..., however, that he had killed six prostitutes in Austria in the first year after his release.
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While imprisoned, Panzram wrote an articulate autobiography about his life and his descent into crime. Many of the claims he made in it are unverified
==Early life==
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...ay see the "bullroarer" and live, and all women are obliged, under pain of death, to say that they believe Oro to be a powerful Orisha, and to act up to tha
...a country Oro is manipulated by the Ogboni Society. Criminals condemned to death are sometimes given to Oro, in which case they are ordinarily never seen ag
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...ght to be completely or nearly incorporial, "wind" spirits that sucked the life out of children and the sleeping.
*by dying a violent death such as murder, drowning, or any other unsavory death or leaving a corpse mutilated or unburied.
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...had been sexually obsessed with elderly women ever since his own mother's death, began his criminal career by molesting and robbing them at random. He was
...having an affair with; he attempted suicide afterward, and was found, near death, by police officers lying near the body of his victim, Joan Violet Sinclair
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.... People seeing him will assume that the deceased has been brought back to life. It will search for food and new owner at night and goes around haunting pe
...nded by its master, even to harm his enemies. It can also possess or cause death to other people if so ordered.
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==Early life==
...n Neuruppin near Berlin in 1863. Not a great deal is known about his early life, except that he was something of a [[sadism|sadist]] who soon picked up a n
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...ather on the highway at midnight to lure young men and dance them to their death. In Serbia they were maidens cursed by God; in Bulgaria they were known as
...rls who have died on their wedding days, who almost snatch away the hero's life-breath, but must disappear at the break of dawn. These wilis have been adap
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...large dog. Malicious, violent men are often said to become pricolici after death, in order to continue harming other humans.
An infant suckling after being weaned will become a pricolici after death and will torment his/her relatives, especially the mother.
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...rewolf]] or, more commonly, the spirit of a wicked person who came back to life to terrorize the living.
...more easily. Sometimes, like a [[vampire]], the Aufhocker would drain the life of people that it attacked, leaving them weak, exhausted, and unable to def
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...nd start afresh. She gave him a lethal dose of Digitalis, collected on his life insurance and used the cash to open a smart dress shop. Later on, in Novemb
He apparently left her money in his will - perhaps he signed his own death warrant via this bequest because Marie's funds were getting rather low. Her
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...patron of pregnant women, she was also linked to childbirth, marriage and death. Her role is similar to Lakhsmi, a Hindu goddess.
...Dēkla takes care of the children, and Kārta is in-charge with the adult's life. The three goddesses were called the three Laimas since they have similar d
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...ls to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for life, both this one and the one to follow.
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...Bratkovychi. Another family of five and two witnesses were killed not long after in the same village. When police imposed a security cordon around Bratkovyc
...estigation, an innocent man was arrested and [torture murder|torture]]d to death for Onoprienko's crimes.
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...and a monstrous, hairy face. "When he looks at someone, it is the look of death."[2]In various sources, his face is like that of the coiled entrails of men
..."Enkidu," Gilgamesh vows, "since a man cannot pass beyond the final end of life, I want to set off into the mountains, to establish my renown there."[4]
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...tence, it damns the unfortunate individual to become a Vampire after their death. Thus, the Vampire propagates its own kind.
...ong time. In ancient times, people recognized that blood is the source of life. To take another’s blood was to absorb the other individual’s strength
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==Life==
...lla. Lauther put her on his show and hired a woman to help her father look after the little star, now known as ''the Little Hairy Girl''. Percilla's father
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...a''' (Sanskrit: होलिका) was a demoness in Hindu mythology who was burnt to death with help of God Brahma by Prahlad. She was the sister of King [[Hiranyakas
...various attempts to kill Prahlad. During a particular attempt on Prahlad's life, King Hiranyakashyapu called upon his sister Holika for help. Holika had a
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...t looked at me and smiled. She was not afraid and not nervous. Ten minutes after Nadir died, Juraci also died." The twins were buried in a white coffin on A
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...skulls shows she is the Tibetan form of Kali, she who transforms death to life, wrath to auspiciousness.
...), the power of rejuvenation and long life through obtaining the elixir of life by way of an alchemical process;
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...with poison arrows. Stepping on an Abatwa by accident is also said to be a death sentence.
In real life, the Abatwa are an aboriginal African people also known as Twa, Bushmen or
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...[The Vampire Chronicles]]'' novels written by [[Anne Rice]]. He began his life as a mortal man, and later became a vampire. He is the narrator and also p
Perhaps the most pivotal moment in his mortal life was when he was nearly killed by a pack of wolves he was hunting in mountai
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...er, the earth, sought the boon from Vishnu that her son should have a long life, and that he should be all powerful. Vishnu readily granted these boons.
...arshana Chakra (discus). Before dying, the Asura requested a boon that his death anniversary should be celebrated by all people on earth. This day is celebr
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...vanced state of decay, but still somewhat recognizable to those it knew in life. The creature has sunken eyes, which glow a fiery red in the darkness. It
...on those who wronged it while it was still living or caused the creature’s death. Although there have been some accounts of this creature being benevolent
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...eath god" or "God of Death") is a term to describe the personification of death in Japanese modern culture.
...t often). However, Shinigami may also be used more loosely to refer to any death deity.
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'''Shony''' was a death bringing demon who reigned in the waters of the North Sea in the folklore o
...If by chance a drowning man was given help, Shony would take the rescuer's life and leave the drowning person to die on his own.
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...ls to death or fouling the rivers could find themselves married to her for life, both this one and the one to follow.
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...rant, was as plenty then as it’s now. This art o’ theirs was muckle sought after by the other folk that lived in the kintry; but they never would let out th
...must know that I wish for my son’s death, though I dinna like to take his life myself.
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It is named after Jules Cotard (1840–1889), a French neurologist who first described the co
...er she believed she was eternally damned and could no longer die a natural death.
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...the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death (and beyond).
...Aisa'''), whose name meant ''She who cannot be turned'', cut the thread of life.
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==Life==
...ained a close friendship with the bearded lady Grace Gilbert until Grace's death in 1924.
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After being convicted of several minor crimes, he was sentenced to two years in a
Soon after they became a couple, Brady and Hindley began to plan a series of bank robb
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==Life==
...small boy with his equally hairy father, in Paris in 1873. After Adrien's death, Fedor became a ward of the Russian government, who appointed a man named N
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Toole claimed to have committed his first [[murder]] at the age of 14. After being propositioned for sex by a traveling salesman, he ran over the salesm
...murders, sometimes at the behest of a secret [[cult]] called "The Hand of Death" Lucas would recant his confessions, saying he made such statements only t
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...efforts to kill his son Prahlada (a devotee of Vishnu) and his subsequent death at the hands of [[Narasimha]]. His tale depicts the futility of desiring po
...devotee of Vishnu, while the second is to take three births as his enemy. After serving either of these sentences, they can re-attain their stature at Vaik
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