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  2. List of urban legends - Wikipedia

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    An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture.

  3. Banty Raids - Wikipedia

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    A curmudgeon old rooster expels a young, pint-sized (bantam, aka "banty") rooster — who fancies himself as a hip beatnik and ladies' man — from the barnyard after repeatedly disturbing the peace with rock music. The banty, after regaining his senses (and shooting his guitar), sees the neighboring barnyard is full of hens and is immediately ...

  4. Basilisk - Wikipedia

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    According to the popular urban legend, it was a terrifying creature, described as a rooster, snake or turkey, with a snake's tail and the eyes of a frog. [10] [11] It guarded hidden treasures in the Warsaw's Old Town underground and killed intruders with its eyes. It died outwitted by a young journeyman who went underground carrying a mirror in ...

  5. 76-year-old woman pecked to death by own rooster while ...

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    A 76-year-old Australian woman was pecked to death by her own rooster, according to a report in the Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology journal.

  6. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  7. The Surprising Origins of 'Break a Leg'—and Why Performers ...

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    'Break a Leg' Meaning Despite sounding like something out of a medical drama, "break a leg" is actually a way to wish someone good luck, especially before they step into the spotlight.

  8. Cockfighting - Wikipedia

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    In some regional variations, the birds are equipped with either metal spurs (called gaffs) or knives, tied to the leg in the area where the bird's natural spur has been partially removed. A cockspur is a bracelet (often made of leather) with a curved, sharp spike which is attached to the leg of the bird. The spikes typically range in length ...

  9. Cultural references to chickens - Wikipedia

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    Pictures of chickens are found on Greek red figure and black-figure pottery. In Ancient Greece, chickens were still rare and were rather prestigious food for symposia. [6] Delos seems to have been a center of chicken breeding. "About 3200 BC chickens were common in Sindh. After the attacks of the Aria people, these fowls spread from Sindh to ...