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  2. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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    This custom seems to have been to avoid bad luck, particularly when setting off on a voyage. Similarly, the burial of an old boot or shoe by the lintel of the back door of a house seems to have had a similar intention. [citation needed] In Ireland and Great Britain, magpies are traditionally thought to bring bad luck.

  3. List of game engine recreations - Wikipedia

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    Game engine recreation is a type of video game engine remastering process wherein a new game engine is written from scratch as a clone of the original with the full ability to read the original game's data files.

  4. Monkey D. Luffy - Wikipedia

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    This devil fruit is thought to be called the Gum-Gum fruit due to the world government's propaganda. [36] [37] Granting him a rubber-like body, his powers make him immune to electric attacks and most blunt forces, but he is susceptible to attacks made with a sharp object or weapon (eg. sword, spear). His rubber devil fruit powers grant him the ...

  5. Devil's wheel - Wikipedia

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    A Devil's wheel is a rotating circular platform upon which riders sit or lie. It begins by spinning slowly and increases its speed to make riders slide off the platform. Spectators stand around the platform, and the announcers often offer some satirical commentary. Riders who slide off the platform usually hit a cushioned wall.

  6. Solanum linnaeanum - Wikipedia

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    Solanum linnaeanum is a nightshade species known as devil's apple and, in some places where it is introduced, apple of Sodom. The latter name is also used for other nightshades and entirely different plants elsewhere, in particular the poisonous milkweed Calotropis procera .

  7. Harpagophytum - Wikipedia

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    Harpagophytum (/ ˌ h ɑːr p ə ˈ ɡ ɒ f ɪ t ə m / HAR-pə-GOF-it-əm), also called grapple plant, wood spider, and most commonly devil's claw, is a genus of plants in the sesame family, native to southern Africa. Plants of the genus owe their common name "devil's claw" to the peculiar appearance of their hooked fruit.

  8. Deal with the Devil - Wikipedia

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    The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid. [10] Notable supposed deals with the devil were struck between the 15th and 18th centuries. The motif lives on among musicians until the 20th century: Johann Georg Faust (1466/80–1541), whose life was the origin of the Faust legend. [11]

  9. Bottle dynamo - Wikipedia

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    Dismantled bottle dynamo. Left: Housing with internal permanent magnet rotating through the friction wheel. Right: Induction coil. A bottle dynamo or sidewall dynamo is a small electrical generator for bicycles employed to power a bicycle's lights.