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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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  • ...ions'' ('''Am-heh''' in Egyptian), ''Eater of hearts'', and ''Greatness of Death''. ...rnal restlessness. The Egyptians believed the body was the key to eternal life (hence mummification); with the body devoured the afterlife would be misera
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  • ...oth]] corresponding to the Sephirot ''Netzach'' in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. "Netzach is the openness of natural love. The Harab Serapel are the Ravens of Death who reject even their own. The outer form is Theumiel, 'The Fouled Substanc
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  • ...son could become a ''vrykolakas'' after death due to a sacrilegious way of life, an excommunication, or a burial in unconsecrated ground, but especially by Some believed that a werewolf itself could become a powerful vampire after being killed, and would retain the wolf-like fangs, hairy palms, and glowin
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  • ...The creature was given life by being allowed to suck the vital essence or life force from its creator's sexual organs. It was then placed into the sea to ...he soul of a dead person, which became restless because the breach of some death taboo. It scared game away from the vicinity. Thus, the shaman had to help
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  • ...taking of life too, in what is seen as a great and eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. He sometimes carries a bow. ...th an erect phallus. The phallus is itself a symbol of the power to create life. Another symbol of his sexual prowess and virility is the occasional presen
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  • ...οῖρα) literally means a part or portion, and by extension one's portion in life or destiny and as a personification "the deity who assigns to every man his * '''Clotho''' ('kləʊθəʊ, Greek Κλωθώ — "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equivalent was ''Nona'', (the
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  • ...men were murdered in their apartments, strangled with articles of clothing after being sexually assaulted. Without any sign of forced entry into their dwell ...unrelated crimes of robbery and sexual offences. DeSalvo was sentenced to life in prison in 1967. He was murdered six years later in the prison infirmary.
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  • ...sts, so they will have what they need to survive and move on to their next life. ...ly, the Hungry Ghost Festival became an important part of Chinese Buddhist life.
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  • :"In all his life, to whatsoever wight. * John Milton (1626), On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough, verse vi
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  • ...years, the myths surrounding John 'Babbacombe' Lee's story have taken on a life of their own. "The judge, in passing sentence of death, remarked how calm Lee's demeanour had been throughout the trial.
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  • ...erit will be rewarded good future lives, or even revival in their previous life. Men or women who committed misdeeds will be sentenced to torture and/or mi ...nt in Naraka, the nether world, situated somewhere in the southern region. After this time they may return to Earth in new bodies.
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  • The underlying idea of eluding death by means of arcane study and black magic can be traced to Middle Eastern fo ...f a powerful dark wizard or a demon, ''Koschei the Deathless'', who evades death by having his fiery soul placed in the eye of a magical needle. The needle
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  • ...ward, and the left hand downward; the position of the hands means life and death, or creation and destruction.
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  • ...e churel always drinks from young men, beginning with the one she loved in life. She keeps them enthralled, draining them of their vitality, until they pre
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  • ...or animal forms, possess or bewitch people, and even cause bodily harm or death. However, a shikigami is also very dangerous for its summoner. A shikigami ...igami. One character in some versions is a shikigami of Akari that took a life of its own.
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  • ...hich relates infantide to the killng of an infant in the first year of its life to by its mother. More usually, and in in criminology, it includes various ...dren and the children of other unwanted groups are targeted by government 'death squads'. In these circumstances, the children are treated as '''vermin''' r
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  • ...journalist and atheist dissenter, William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and her father, left to care for Mary and her older half-sister, ...who would always be, despite disillusionment and tragedy, the love of her life. Percy, too, was more than satisfied with his new partner in these first ye
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  • ...is victims. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Yorkshire ==Early life==
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  • ...that the "wild man" was a prince who'd been sold into slavery as a child. After reaching Texas, he and a companion had escaped, but the companion had died from exposure after a few years. It's said that the Wild Man of the Navidad was eventually sold
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  • ...ources of evils. In some texts, '''Ker''' is the single goddess of violent death(Kêr or Kêres Danatoio). ...ii. 326) pronounces to be muriai, and may be a natural, sudden, or violent death. (Od. xi. 171, &c., 398, &c.) Epidemic diseases are sometimes personified a
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  • ...ot the screenplay used in the eventual film version. The story is somewhat after the fashion of [[Nigel Kneale]], whose [[Quatermass]] stories had influence ...arge part the story of a police investigation, albeit by a policeman whose life is overshadowed by a supernatural presence. ''The Spear'' deals with a neo-
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  • ...ollowing a ruling by the judge that all statements made by Jane before her death, which incriminated Edmund, were hearsay and therefore inadmissible as evid ...last groans of her life as she lay dying and people avoided Kidbrook Lane after dark until finally the lane was built upon and Jane disappeared.
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  • ...Raven, ''The Killing Frost'', second in command. Was revealed that started life as Jacqual Frosti, Jack Frost, etc, is prejudiced against [[Seelie]] Court ...sy and death" by Sage, 2nd hand has been seen when he killed Siun (Goblin) after Kitto hacked Siun to pieces. In Merry's dream, it is shown that Rhys will g
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  • ...orers. The coroner established that each of the victims had been hacked to death with a machete-like weapon [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,910481 ...en, was the real killer. Corona was convicted again and returned to prison after the strategy failed to persuade the court that he was innocent [http://www.
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  • ...d waiting for him and nothing wrong. Neighbors, who try to tell Mak of the death of his wife and to warn him that he is living with her ghost, meet with gri After discovering her husband's leaving, Nak pursues him. Mak sees his wife's gho
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  • ...on), Leanan Sidhe is an opposite of her Manx counterpart Lhiannan Sidhe, a life-giving spirit inspiring artists, mostly poets and musicians. ...of Ireland'' she grew restless and carried them away to other worlds, for death does not destroy her power.
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  • ...why Onam is celebrated by wearing new clothes and resolving to lead a new life of truth, piety, love, and humility.
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  • ...rth, wants to cause trouble, or died unjustly and wishes to avenge its own death. It wanders the place of its burial, unable to find rest, terrorizing passe ...etimes it only seeks justice and the punishment of those who wronged it in life, but at other times it is a simple killer. Its appearances are linked to th
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  • ...the killings, Ridgway was arrested on suspicion of murder for four deaths after DNA evidence linked him to multiple victims. The four victims named in the ...ated that his lawyers were closing a plea bargain that would spare him the death penalty in return for his confession to a number of the Green River murders
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  • ...ed in New York City, and attended Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. After quitting university, he began shooting mostly short films and commercials. ...[[Stephen King]], an anthology of tongue-in-cheek tales that were modeled after 1950s horror comics.
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