...tattoos with this style and there are books showing art focused on hannya masks.
[[Category: Masks]]
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...he original film, Leatherface is never seen without one of his human-flesh masks on, the reason being either disfigurement or psychological issues. He diffe
Leatherface wears different masks that define his personality; the Killing Mask, Grandmother Mask and Pretty
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Strangely, dogu are reminiscent of spacenauts wearing masks and spacesuits. Viatcheslaw Zaitsev was the first to promote this theory pu
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...with the Land Otter Men', as well as Pamela Rae Huteson's ''Transformation Masks'' with the 'Kushtaka Den'; and Garth Stein's ''Raven Stole the Moon''. Harr
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...mers wear during the Krokus night a thick fur suit and scary wooden-carved masks known as Larven. A proper Krampus Larve must of course have large horns, an
...th them. Considerable effort goes into the manufacture of the hand-crafted masks, as many younger adults in rural communities engage competitively in the Kr
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*''Occidental Mythology: The Masks of God'' by Campbell, Joseph (1964. New York: Penguin Group. ISBN 0-14-0043
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...e kachinas are personified by costumed men--never women--wearing elaborate masks with headdresses, or as carved and painted dolls. In either incarnation, th
...umans. This led to the kachina cults of men, who now dress in costumes and masks and dance at Hopi ceremonies. Another myth tells how kachinas stored the su
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On New Year's Eve, after a ritual Shinto ceremony to purify the Namahage masks, selected local men turn into monsters for a night. Disappearing into the m
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...when danced in fire-light. Artifacts commonly adorned with Sisiutl include masks, “flying" props, power boards (dance boards), totem poles, clubs, knives,
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...people in Mali “become” hyenas by imitating the animals behaviour through masks and roleplays. These are evocative of the hyenas' reviled habits, and may a
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...UFO witnesses. Their faces are white, hairless, plastic-like and might be masks hiding their real nature. John Keel, a paranormalist, pretends he had deali
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...d this has become the name of her entourage, as well as the name of animal masks worn in parades and festivals in the mountainous regions of Austria. In the
...holidays and festivals (such as the Carnival Fastnacht). The wooden animal masks made for the festivals are today called Perchten. In the Pongau region of A
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...sk, which would not be especially unusual, as people with colds often wear masks for the sake of others in Japan. When she encounters someone (primarily chi
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...device, it will snap closed. The head, since it is located between the two masks, will be impaled by the nails, killing the victim. This device was used on
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...ongers" were reportedly causing the terror. "It seems a group of people in masks are terrorizing people," the Statesman newspaper quoted an unidentified pol
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...as well. The Balts kept snakes as household pets. As Gimbutas points out, masks with staring eyes are portrayed in Paleolithic cave art. Very likely, the g
...death masks" of the shaft graves should probably more aptly be called life masks. In Paleolithic art, the dancer, who puts on a reindeer head with staring e
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In ancient Greece, ovens and kiln doors were embellished with Gorgon masks to frighten away children who could hurt themselves.
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...k about when hearing this name, is - "the monsters". Indeed, they all wear masks and costumes, that are made individually for each memeber of the band by th
The design of the masks changes gradually with each new album Lordi present leaving the basic idea
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...his time at Smith's Grove, he takes up the hobby of creating papier-mâché masks, which he wears constantly. Michael's (Tyler Mane) motives for coming after
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...e female ''[[Oni (Japanese folklore)|oni]]'' represented by ''[[hannya]]'' masks. Other examples of human transformations or humanoid yōkai are the ''[[ro
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