...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.
|align="center"|<small> Lightning, drowning and disease<br>Floods<br>Droughts Rain<br>Goggle Eyed<br>Fangs</small>
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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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