Vampire Legends and Myths

Author: Roxanne Hellman

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

ISBN: 9781448860425

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Page: 255

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Poenari Castle A ruined castle in Demon In folklore, religion, and superstition, a supernatural being in the form of a ... architecture, and literature under the influence of Classical Greek and Roman models in the 14th16th centuries.

Urban Legends of the New Testament

Author: David A. Croteau

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

ISBN: 9781433680120

Category: Religion

Page: 272

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In the first place, denying this contradicts the Bible (see John 5:2; 19:13, 17, 20; 20:16; Acts 21:40; 22:2; 26:14; Rev 9:11; 16:16). Acts 26:14 says, “And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the ...

Urban Legends of Church History

Author: John Adair

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

ISBN: 9781433649844

Category: Religion

Page: 320

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That would seem to contradict the assurances of Jesus that the Spirit would always be with us (John 14:16). While the church has seen her share ... Consider the first century bishop of the church at Rome, Clement (c. 35–99), who wrote, ...

Urban Legends of the Old Testament

Author: David A. Croteau

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

ISBN: 9781433648335

Category: Religion

Page: 288

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Survivors from the nations will then stream to Zion to worship the Lord (Isa 2:2–4; Zech 14:16). ... commentary with a detailed explanation of text and helpful summary of how Christians through the centuries have identified Gog.

Urban Legends

Author: Carrie E. Benes

Publisher: Penn State Press

ISBN: 9780271037660

Category: History

Page: 294

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The chronicle purports to have been written in the 1180s by one Ricordano, a member of the prominent Florentine Malispini family, but recent scholarship has shown that the chronicle is more likely a mid-fourteenth-century compilation ...

Urban Legends

Author: Peter L'Official

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 9780674246485

Category: Social Science

Page: 288

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See NYCMA, Box 175, Memo from Anthony Gliedman to Patti Harris, December 16, 1980. 13. Ibid. 14. ... Bellion discusses these stories in the context of a similarly (likely) apocryphal story regarding George Washington's misperception at ...

The Dog Encyclopedia

The Dog Encyclopedia

Author: DK

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

ISBN: 9781409350026

Category: Pets

Page: 362

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The Aztecs (14th16th century) buried pottery figures of dogs with their dead and probably used dogs as sacrifices in religious ... CANINE MYTHS AND LEGENDS Dogs both faithful and frightening have featured in classical myths, legends, ...

Development and Structure of an Urban System

Author: J. L. Jain

Publisher: Mittal Publications

ISBN: 8170995523

Category: Cities and towns

Page: 222

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... whole of the 14th century . ( b ) Independent Muslim Malwa under Ghuris and Khalkis - 15th and the first half of 16th century . ... Its early history is , there- fore , shrouded in myths and legends . No factual information is ...

Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends

Author: Jody Enders

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 9780226207889

Category: History

Page: 355

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The phrase vehementes animorum perturbationes appears in a sixteenth-century Latin translation of Poetics 1449b. ... ed., Black Legend, introduction and chap. 1; and Parker's revision of this aspect of it, Philip II, 20–23. 8. HTB, 14– ...