.... 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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==Life==
...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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...to death becomes an itsumaden, which haunts whoever refused to feed it in life, crying ''Itsumademo! Itsumademo!''; "How long, how long?", how long will I
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==Early Life==
...and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" by his classmates. However, shortly after graduating from high school, one of Mullin's best friends was killed in a c
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...y [[spirituality|spiritual]] and experiential, beyond this world, or after death. This article is about current generic and widely held or reported concepts
**by having died and then been sent back to this life ([[near-death experience]]s)
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...thology, '''Mictlantecuhtli''' ("lord of Mictlan") was the skeletal god of death who ruled over Mictlan, the underworld, with his wife, Mictlancihuatl.
...alth and abundance, alluding to the close symbolic links between death and life.[2]
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==Early life==
...tions imposed when Robinson was released on probation from a Missouri jail after being convicted of forging signatures on some documents. But he started com
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...moan and that there would be half-seen movements in the darkness. And yet, after I had been frog-marched into the [[graveyard]], I should feel a thrill of f
.... Seeing one's own ghostly double or [[doppelgänger]] is a related omen of death.
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==Life==
It is claimed that on their death they bequeathed five plots of land to the village, known as the Bread and C
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...kenstein]]'' introduced a new variant of undead, the dead brought back to "life" by science, though Frankenstein's creature bears some similarity to a [[go
...g an intangible physical body that often mirrors the one the spirit had in life.
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==Early Life==
...to rape them and cut their throats, and usually dismembered their corpses after killing them. Most of the corpses were found with signs of [[Torture murder
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==Early life==
...September 1, 1995, Bernardo was convicted of the murders and sentenced to life in prison. Later, Bernardo was also declared a "Dangerous Offender", virtua
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...t snake with the head of a parrot, lord of rivers and protector of aquatic life
#[[Luison]], a dog-like human, lord of death and protector of cemeteries
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...Texas) is a convicted [[serial killer]] awaiting execution on California's death row.
==Early life==
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...try Lee for murder in the second degree. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the benefit of parole.
Currently Lee resides on death row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
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...ourse of several nights, continually draining the individual’s blood until death occurs from blood loss and sickness. If lucky, the victim is only dead. H
...hat the dhampir has a weak, gelatinous skeleton. Therefore, the dhampir’s life will be short and filled with discomfort and pain.
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...death like execution, accident, or suicide or leaded an unholy or immoral life. This kind of reincarnation does not arise out of birth from a womb, etc, b
They are also said to enter a human body and make sicken it until death.
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The victim was usually a relative who had caused their [[death]], or not properly observed the burial ceremonies, or who kept the deceased
Female vampires could return, lead a normal life and even marry but would exhaust the husband, as if it were an [[Incubus (d
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...k mythology]], '''Thanatos''', meaning "death") was the personification of death (Roman equivalent: [[Mors]]), as well as a minor figure in Greek mythology.
...ded in chaining Thanatos up with his own shackles, thereby prohibiting the death of any mortal. Eventually Ares released Thanatos and handed Sisyphus over
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*Animated human skeletons are known to be personified death in Western culture since the Middle Ages.
*Death as one of the biblical Four horsemen of the [[Apocalypse]] has been depict
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...struggle for life. Hindley later told police that Brady had found the shoe after burying the boy, and had burnt it in their home in Hattersley, Manchester.
...fore she herself was taken into custody. Brady then strangled the child to death with a piece of white string, before burying his body. Hindley stood above
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The two men drove around night after night, searching for their victim – always within the parameters set by M
...an end, and pulled on the rope whilst the terrified child pleaded for his life. Morss was fulfilling his evil fantasy of looking into a blonde boy's eyes
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